Morix: Web of Mistrust

Turnabout Abduction, Part 2

"Let me tell you what we know so far," Detective Hayes began. "But I will admit that it isn't much in the long run...  We don't even know the victim's name yet."

"You haven't found that out?" Lily asked, her eyes going wide with surprise. "I suppose that the crime was incredibly recent, but... You would expect the victim to have something to do with the school given where he was killed."

Detective Hayes shook his head. "No... He's never associated with the school at all. We don't know who he is or where he could have come from, but he's here, and I guess that's what matters given that we're going to have to put up with that throughout the rest of the case," he replied with a shrug. 

"Start from the beginning," Victoria instructed. "We haven't heard anything aside from the fact that there's been a murder. Yuri wasn't able to tell us much more than that before she was forced to go and take care of other business."

"The victim was found in the trophy hall area of the school," Detective Hayes explained. "The glass was shattered, and the shelves were broken as a result. There was a trophy found right next to his body, and he appears to have died to a blow to the head. I can show you the crime scene in a bit, but I have to warn you right off the bat that it isn't a pretty sight... The broken glass makes it kind of precarious to navigate."

"I can only imagine," Victoria commented with a sigh and a shake of her head. "Still, there has to be a reason that Mukuro of all people was suspected. She's so nice, and I know that she wouldn't even think about hurting a fly, much less an actual human being."

"Mukuro found the body," Detective Hayes answered. "You see, she was trying to find someone who was supposed to be here. Unfortunately, she never found the person that she was looking for, and she stumbled upon the body instead. The police found that to be suspicious because of the given corner where the victim was killed."

"The trophy hall must have been away from the main chunk of rooms, so they probably found it odd that she was there at all," I assumed, looking down at the floor. I admired the patterns of dark red, blue, and green that made up to woven carpet below, figuring that it was easier to look at the floor rather than think about what had happened to the victim.

Detective Hayes nodded his confirmation. "Yeah, that's right... We don't know who the victim is though. For some reason, he isn't associated with the school in the slightest. It's confusing," he went on. "If he was somehow involved with the school, we would have already heard about the connection. He isn't a teacher here, and he wasn't wearing any forms of identification. Since the death was so recent, we don't even know if we can check records of missing people."

"That's so strange," Lily remarked with a shake of her head. "I mean, why would he be here if he wasn't associated with the school at all? I somehow doubt that he was a parent of a student. That counts as being involved with the school, doesn't it?"

"It would count, but... We don't have anything that could tie him back to the school. It's so strange," Detective Hayes asserted once again. "I'm sure that we're going to learn who he is soon enough, but until then, all we can do is wait for the evidence to come in."

"Something about this case seems fishy to me," I murmured. I didn't have any evidence about the case being strange, but I still felt as if there was something wrong just beneath the surface. There were undoubtedly a few details that we didn't understand quite yet, but it left me with a bad feeling. There had to be an explanation for everything, but how did it all come together?

"Come on," Detective Hayes suddenly said, gesturing for us to follow him. "I can take you by the crime scene. After all, I know that you're going to need to be familiar with it all if you're going to find the real culprit."