| hello, hello~! I heard a person was very impatient for the next chapter, you? yeah, just kidding, I saw that lots of you was kind of upset that our princess Sonia died! and y'know what, guess how?
- qotd; which characters do you want to spend time with? (for free time events, first comment, first served.)
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nagito's pov ::
–– a scream of agony echoed outside in a rush, widening my eyes in realization and grabbed my attention fully, putting down the tray of food down on the floor
"w-what's that..!?" mikan squealed fearfully, jumping back to the side, her eyes displayed slight fear from the scream
I smiled towards mikan and chuckled, "it was a scream, mikan. and it seems like our victim has fallen" my smile widened with thrilling excitement, standing up while rushing towards the door
"i-i know it's a scream..! but, but, but! the person... who..." she shouted out loud, pulling her hair in frustration while muttering strings of fear, it was clear who exactly died from that certain scream.
"sonia..." I mumbled, reaching towards the doorknob and opened the door wide open, viewing few ultimates rushing towards the source of the terrifying scream that occured just earlier
I knew it was a very very, veeeery bad thing... hm, I wonder how she died..?
I thought, without hesitation, walking towards the direction of it
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y/n's pov ::
–– I fluttered my eyes open, slowly turning my head towards mikan who clearly was sobbing in fear
"mikan...? urgh..." I rubbed my eyes, groaning from the peaceful slumber I had a while ago, but now, my attention was being grabbed by mikan's sobs and mutters going all around the place
"y––y/n! i-it's... it's! murder...!" mikan bursted in tears after informing that which I widened my eyes in shock, immediately standing up from the words mikan blurted out
in instance, i rushed towards the door, not realizing my injured arm that hasn't recovered much, the pain rushed towards my body, it hurted, but who the hell killed this someone!?
with that thought it mind, I ignored mikan's cries who was telling me to sit down, noticing the trail of unnoticeable dust laying on top of the path made by wood
I crouched down to see where it led to, seemingly going towards sonia's cottage, my eyes widened on the sight of people rushing in sonia's cottage in panic
listening to the shouts and calls... for sonia.
"shit! s-sonia!" i ran fastly as I can to the direction of her cottage, I could feel tears exiting my eyes, it was terrifying to even imagine someone had died over this game
especially, it was a classmate who i was trying to get close to.
"f––fuck!" I muttered, placing my hand to the bandage wrapping my injury for support, it hurt like hell, but it was uncontrollable
but soon after, I arrived right at the scene, my eyes widened in disbelief, the unfamiliar smell spread out towards the room, the scene of a dead body laid upon me
"y/n!? what are you doing here!?"
"waaah! miss soniaaaa!!!"
"eh? y/n?"
I ignored those small concerns, my attention was only on sonia's corpse, the crimson liquid was widening each second, the body of sonia nevermind was found.
her body was placed on a chair, her head hung out as her lips distanced each other from the impact, her smashed arm was swinging around while her other arm was placed on her lap, the knife thrusted on her neck roughly was the only thing that made this inconvenience
"s... so... sonia...." my lips curled into a frown, my eyes still widened from the sight, who even dared to do such cruelty to someone as pure and gentle like her..?
I fell down on my knees, not believing any single thing that I was seeing on this area, why. just why...?
why.
why.
why
why
why
why
why
why
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whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY.
those thoughts swirled my mind, losing my sanity from the sight, my throat was sore, it hurts so bad.
I can't process it, any of this.
why? why? just why her? why does someone stubbornly wanted to kill her? who's this bitch that killed her? WHO AND WHY? why? huh? why..?
why..?
can anyone answer that?
why...?
can any body answer that?
why....?
can even someone answer it?
I was lost in words, the whole world just stopped it's time, but my heart beat said otherwise, it beats even faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and––
"Y/N!? snap out of it!" I heard a familiar voice called out, my eyes widened in realization, snapping my thoughts that controlled over my sanity, that I didn't realized anything that was happening
"hajime.... sonia.... why did she..." I muttered quitely so hajime could only hear it, listening to my words, he frowned in sadness, an expression of hurt plastered his face
"I don't know... y/n... I... I wished I also know why..." he muttered back, looking at me in sadness, his hands was placed on my shoulders for support, I could feel his sadness echoing around
"but... why...?" I replied back, my mouth was slightly agape, not knowing what to say next entirely
"....I... I wish i could help you with... your questions..." hajime replied back, his glued to me, his concerns was filling his thoughts, and it was visible from his face
"......I'm sorry...." I mumbled, looking down, a tear escaped my eyes, why exactly am I crying? sonia is just someone I met, she was nothing but a classmate
"huh...? what for...?" hajime said, his tone was low, lowering down his face to see mine's, his face was twisted in confusion mixing with sadness
"....for.... not being here...." I muttered, closing my eyes shut, absolutely regretting what I had say.
what kind of dumbass says that and why am I in the verge of crying? absolute garbage.
hajime sighed tiringly, he patted my back for a supportive action, standing up besides me while resuming speaking to me
"it's not your fault, after all, we're all weren't here beforehand...." he paused, then proceeded to continue his sentence, "....except, the culprit" he mumbled, his hand reaching to his chin while muttering some questions for himself
I stood up (🧍♀️) and sighed, my lips curling into a frown, avoiding eye contact away from the corpse, even though, the smell still stung on the air
"...what... what are we going to do now..?" I quitely replied, patting hajime's shoulder to grab his attention, which expectedly succeeded
"ahaha... right. we're going to investigate this! like common knowledge, I'm sure you're experienced in this or some sort." hajime said, his eyebrows furrowing while his thoughts was distracting him, still.
"...not really." I replied, looking at hajime as my nervousness stained my face, a look of disappointment, may I add.
even if I'm the ultimate genius and etcetera, I was still inexperienced on investigations and those kinds, my mind focuses on complexities, such as puzzles, questions, and murder cases
to put it simply, I concentrate more on the results, not on the results, even if I do lend a helping hand to agencies struggling to solve such complications, I don't usually arrive at the scene and psychically investigate while discovering evidences for analysis'
it's more like, the employees bring back the evidences and the results of interrogations towards eye witnesses and prime suspects that has a possibility involved on the specific crime that had sadly occured
and yet... I am not that experienced in investigations, as I'm not used on seeing corpse in daily routines, and more importantly, it's horrific to investigate one.
"...you don't..? I thought maybe... you investigated some before?" hajime raised his eyebrows in disappointment, returning his gaze to my figure besides
I huffed in disagreement, this man was looking like he's guilt tripping me intentionally...
"of course... but, I don't do psychical investigation..! it's... it's more like i... focus on the analysis for it... and more importantly, I'm not the ultimate investigator." I stated, crossing my arms, his comments did atleast lightened up my mood
although... kazuichi was still shock from the painful impact that dropped on sonia, he did had an obvious admiration and adored her beauty neitherways... so it hurted him much more that it did to the rest
but, I did had a small breakdown for sonia.. earlier.
"ah... right... sorry, sorry, I forgot about that..." he laughed awkwardly, scratching his not itchy head as a gesture of embarrassment, but smiled genuinely at me, feeling the small energy filling him up
"...well, we can't really just stand here while sonia has died..." I said slowly, having remorse on the atmosphere, hajime immediately noticed and gulped in guilt
"shit. you're right..." he murmured, putting his hand on his neck, avoiding eye contact
"exactly. so we... should atleast ask... the people first... I.. I don't want to investigate the body first..." I mumbled back, it was disgusting and miserable to investigate this neitherways
was it even normal to turn into happiness after this? I cannot be calm after what happened nor can I act like nothing just happened yesterday.
"...that's right... but, usually, we have to investigate the body first..." hajime said back, saying it in doubt, how did he convinced himself on saying that..?
it isn't as convincing as it sounds like...
"...it's not about the movies! how can you even investigate it immediately...? sonia just died and it's important to atleast calm our selves down from the shock..." I scoffed in disbelief, a part of me wanted to throw up from his disagreement
I could see a face of embarrassment from his face, he has to regret saying that shit.
"right... I guess you're right..." hajime awkwardly smiled in response, realizing how wrong his idea was
I smiled bitterly to hajime, I then approached the man who was crying loudly in the ground, while hajime was following behind, his sobs unstoppably came out, while his hands covered his face that was wet due of the tears that slid down his cheeks rushingly, his flinches comes after a while, noticing how hurt he was from the unfortunate event that laid upon the ultimate princess; his example of admiration, or... as he claims to be his love of his life
instead, the tables turned on him.
my face turned sad, it was a pity on what had happened to sonia, it impacted him so much, convincing myself to cry along with him
I couldn't feel those emotional feeling he's experiencing, I wanted to help him... but i wasn't sure if I could.
I crouched down besides kazuichi, patting his back for support just like how hajime did earlier, i assumed kazuichi ignored it but slowed down his cries after a few seconds I placed my hand on his back
"miss... miss... miss sonia..." he muttered, wiping his tears that still exited his eyes uncontrollably
"shhh, kazuichi... it's... going to be okay... I'm sure sonia... appreciates you after all this time..." I smiled at him, my words of idiotic comfort kills me, but I had to put on a smile to not ruin the atmosphere that's miserable
"b––but... miss sonia... miss sonia was so kind! who... which scumbag did this...!?" he shouted in agony, clenching his fists, gritting his teeth afterwards, looking up immediately
his eyes were on fire, the determination to find and punch the fuck out of the culprit inspired his feelings, I could feel that just by his outburst
hajime finally crouched down and leaned his lips to my ear, I could feel his breath touched my skin, I could feel the chills randomly filling my body
"I feel like kazuichi is really hurt by what happened to sonia..." he whispered slowly, it was very quiet, so kazuichi wouldn't hear completely, though, I doubt he even heard what I just said...
"...precisely" I whispered shortly, my eyes were still laid on kazuichi, his aura was firing up
soon after, he stood up straightly, a small water from his nose was hanging, urging to drop (disgusting, wtf did I just did)
my hand tightened it's grip on my bandaged arm, I could feel the injury touched by the bandage, the inside of my injury exposed to the bandage, feeling the soft texture, due to the fact I felt it, I cringed in disgust (help why did I even. I, idk why anymore)
hajime stood up and tried speaking to the angered kazuichi
"maybe you should calm down for a bit...?" hajime tried assuring kazuichi, realizing hajime's presence was there with me, kazuichi turned his head towards hajime and frowned, feeling displeasure from hajime's words
"how can you tell me to calm down when miss sonia was killed!?" kazuichi screamed in response, hajime flinching out of shock, his face in disbelief
"w-well.. you're right... but.. uhm..." hajime muttered the last parts, still in thought of the next sentence, I sat down, observing the condition of the ground
hopefully, I'll figure something out.
kazuichi seems to be crossing his arms, his foot stepping the ground, specifically, 27 times in 4 minutes, 31 seconds.
"...I'm sure we'll be able to find the culprit..! I promise you that, kazuichi." hajime said, this time, his determination fumed on his words, I could hear that it was genuine.
"of course! I'll find the filthy culprit and make miss sonia proud!!!" he shouted back, his face slightly displayed sadness as his determination mixed it with an energetic expression
kazuichi ran away, stomping his foot loudly, shouting his complaints to everyone, which hajime reacted with an smiling awkward face, failing successfully when assuring kazuichi
nonetheless, I feel happy he's magically more better now but, something had caught my attention
a strand of hair laying on sonia's rug, more surprisingly, it was a silver colored, I assumed it was the culprit's as we already know that sonia's hair is angelic blonde
I hummed quitely to myself, dragging my body with my left hand (←), I was too lazy to stand up and walk towards it, so the dragging option was the last one that is the one defining my actions
I was near to the strand of hair, purposefully not closing the distance due of not wanting to mess with the evidence found
hajime realized that I was gone and looked at my direction, his face was probably panicked and soon, stopped me by placing his hands on my shoulders, grabbing them to stop dragging myself
"no, you're not going to drag yourself, y/n! your injury hasn't fully recovered yet..!" hajime blurted out, his face twisted as concerned, knowing well, about my injury
"I know, I know..." I muttered back as a response, placing my hand on his hand to assure him
hajime's face reddened, his arm was more warmer due of that, and he became quiet, so I apparently ignored it
letting go of his hand, his warmth faded away as I did, now, I was focusing on the strand of hair, now inspecting closer, there was 2 (two) strands of hair... it was exceptionally smaller though.
".....what are you doing..?" hajime asked, he crouched down alongside me, looking down on the floor, not noticing the clue yet.. but!
then he finally realized the strand of hair there, also acknowledging that it was a silver colored one
"what's this...?" hajime murmured, he glared at the strand of hair in curiosity, his hand reaching to grab the strand of hair
I slapped his hand before he could grabbed it and turned my head to him, glaring at him in anger
he frowned in disappointment, sighing tiringly then proceeded to look down, I rolled my eyes in disbelief and turned back to the... 'item'
"I don't think it's really that important to just look at this hair again..." hajime stated, I can feel how weirded out he is upon seeing me, still doing an observation towards the evidence we found
"right." I muttered, my right leg (→) automatically stomped the ground which my left leg slowly copied, hajime looked up to see my face
"silver strand of hair" has been added to your truth bullets section!
a strand of hair was laid on sonia's rug, it was found on the crime scene, to add, it was silver colored... the possibility might be the culprit's hair or perhaps a possible 3rd party is involved..
"should we talk more to the people...?" I said to hajime, offering a hand for him to stand up which he happily accepted, grabbing my hand, he jumped to stand up spontaneously
I let go of his hand, both of us awkwardly looking at each other, enjoying the silence, we realized that we were... actually staring for atleast 3 minutes...? I couldn't track down the exact minutes or anything..
as i was distracted.
hajime cleared his throat and fixed his tie, avoiding eye contact due of embarrassment, I looked to the other side in embarrassment but cleared my throat afterwards
"we... should go... to nagito.. he probably knows something.." I said to hajime, having the confidence to look at him in the eyes, he did too so it wasn't that embarrassing
"why nagito..?" hajime muttered back, I furrowed my eyebrows from his question in confusion
"are you perhaps doubting my intuition..?" I replied in a bitter tone, unintentionally, but instead it turned out like that in a wrong way.. which I felt made hajime slightly offended
"...I guess, you're right... we should go to nagito then." hajime dryly said, out atmosphere began to be... more uncomfortable, for some reasons, it feels like a more negative silence, stinging in the air
we walked towards nagito instantly, believing we can't waste any more time, we went to him, right in front of him
nagito raised his eyebrows in confusion yet intrigued, he hummed as a sign of questioning our actions, which I smiled in reply
"we want to talk, a testimony or information from you is probably... useful and––"
"so we can clear our doubts–"
"––more like, a logic assumption or perhaps your conclusions that can piece out important facts for what happened." I finished my sentence, a part of me in disbelief when hajime cutted my words out of nowhere
is he holding a grudge to me? because I sent that stupid sentence to him in the wrong way? god, I'm going to jump off a cliff soon
"... conflict between you two?" nagito hummed softly, smiling in response, trying to lightened up the mood with his brimming aura, his eyes glistened in glee from the atmosphere
"none, we're just sort of still in shock here." I replied softly in response, yes, nagito is a freak, in any ways you can possibly imagine (ik what you're thinking.), considering the fact he's been smiling in any dark and negative situations
"hm... I see, understandable" nagito replied back, his hand reaching to his chin as he made a thinking gesture, wondering something on his mind
"...yeah, so... do you have anything useful..?" hajime said in my behalf, which I nodded in agreement, both of us awaiting for his answer
"do I? well, I certainly do..." nagito said, giving us a much sly smile, tapping his cheek with his index finger
I furrowed my eyebrows, interested on his ideas and more that could be swirling on his mind
"tell us, then." I replied to him, his eyes gazing to me, accepting my word as he starts to open up his mouth, ready to tell us his ideas
"well then... I trust both of you with it! since you're all amazing ultimates unlike... me. but, talking about me is selfish of me as I am not worth your time... but! I have my own theories and conclusions that can help you create facts for the ultimate princess' sake!" he raised his hands, widening the gap of his arms while smiling cutely
I hummed in agreement, still waiting for his ideas to exit his brain
"I believe that sonia perhaps... was killed forcibly. or something like that! my theories might be incorrect since it is still my assumptions after all! she might be killed forcibly by the killer... the marks on her table says so, it seems that the culprit cornered her there, choking her as her nails curved on the table from the force from the culprit's strength... and for that, they're probably much more stronger or is trained... we can't really say it's someone who's like nekomaru or peko.. there could be someone here trained without us acknowledging it! which leads us to may possibilities to one of our hopeful hopes! as sonia may be a royal, she may or may not know how to defend herself but I believe she trust this person whose role is the culprit! so this outcome may be a... a shock to her, like a surprise attack.. since if she did fought with the culprit, any of us must've been injured but instead everyone looks flawless without no marks, scratches or injuries involved in their physical bodies." nagito blurted out, his mouth moved so much, I couldn't catch up for a small bit.
"your deduction is... interesting, indeed" I mumbled in reply to him, I could feel hajime muttering strings of confusion...
I can relate in more than any ways.
"yes! it is very intriguing, isn't it? y/n..
you're the ultimate genius and may or may not have more wisdom than an idiotic trash like me... so... I'll be giving this to you too! though... I have a few more assumptions that can help you in your investigation as you're an experienced woman!" nagito smiled, intertwining his fingers in happiness, his eyes displayed how he relies on me
I laughed awkwardly at his comments and trustful duties he's give to me as an experienced person... but... I listened again for much more questions to ask mentally to myself.
though, thinking about it... my thoughts swirled all around, my brain working all around....
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so... I end it here to hear your theories. comment atleast more than 2 or 1! if can ofc, from one evidence I'm sure it gets you thinking so why not, I added that deduction from Nagito too so you guys can think more about it :)
theories >
and, most importantly, I want to hear your suspicions too!
suspicious fellows (basically, people you suspect as the culprit) >
I'll be waiting! and if we get all the comments, I'll publish the whole investigation along with the trial that will probably take 2 weeks or 3! I'll try to make it in in one weeks and 2 weeks as the maximum.
your support gives me life so I shall exchange it with more of my hard work<3 so thank you again! and hope you enjoy this chapter. oh, and shout-outs as well (as promised)