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...Ah. One thing.

Asuka told us that one of the hidden achievements, from what he could see, is "killing after being frequently voted for."

[ he'll pull up the icon, which is the homos one. ]

I don't trust him, but he seemed frank. So if we did find Shouki's killer, they could... theoretically tell us what the other one is. Or at least confirm whether Asuka is lying.

[ so it's still something, he thinks. ]

[ hello? ]

What do you mean from what he could see? [ squints at the icon. ] Can killers see them when they unlocked them?

... I don't him well, but as far as I can tell everybody from Hell doesn't have a reason to pretend. So you may have a point there. If we had literally any suspects.

[thinks on this.]

If that one about multiple people from a team committing murders applied to me and my team, then I couldn't see it. But also, it wouldn't have just involved me.

Maybe he had an item that let him take a sneak peak? Or a secret correspondence with the dead told him.

Or he's just trying to get voted for so he can be with his terrible friends.

[live francy.]

I guess any of those can be possible. Haru's right, we'd have to have an idea who Scaramouche's killer was and see if they had a clue about the hidden achievement.

What did we even have on that case? Some fabric? Bits of black plastic?

He had egg on his shoe and the knife matched his wound, but otherwise... the most we can figure is a fight in the ferris wheel.

The person would have been injured then, a good amount since there was so much mixed blood over the crime scenes from what was said.

[ Wow... ]

And since we never force people to strip or anything, we would've missed it. Plus there's a bunch of people who just came back from those adventures, so. We could have overlooked anything.

We'd need to consider those who went on trips as part of the suspect list, yes...

[ ... ]

Arguing for strip check would be difficult to begin with. So many were against it the first time.

[ ONE OF THEM WAS HIM. YOU, TOO. ]

[ HE KNOWS. ]

I do still think it's weird and invasive but it should be a thing if we really have a suspect narrowed down. So maybe we ought to rethink our strategy for getting people to agree in those instances.

I don't disagree. [ WHO LIKES STRIPPING. ] It's unfortunate that we can't come up with suspect lists faster and earlier. Checking even a list of five can take a lot of time if we want to do it thoroughly.

[ the constraints of trial.... ]

If we go by the fabric, then it's probably Dante, Mizuki, Tama, or Kate.

[ BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS DEAD OR WAS OOC OUT ]

There's also the broken phone. Rin brought up that someone could've taken Shouki's, to cover for theirs being gone.

I see... That would make sense. Then we would have had to ask everyone to unlock their phones to prove that it's theirs. What a hassle.

I imagine they would have gotten a replacement by now, too. Belongings disappear, likely back to their owners.

We should've just pinged Shouki in trial again.

[ 100 times. ]

I don't think it's a good lead at this point...

... Can you imagine getting caught because you swap phones and people start pinging your victim's number?

[ THAT WOULD BE SO FUNNY ]

I wish I'd thought of it then. It'd have been a fitting way to find his killer...

[ DESPITE HIMSELF.. HE IS A LITTLE AMUSED..... ]

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...I think yours is hard to compare to. It'd be easier to tell with Matsuno, since the "Short on Hands" achievement would've just been his.

[ also we don't get mail on weekends ]

Yeah, I'm not confident my word counts for much on this because it was probably more than just me involved.

...Should we try to ask Totty, then?

[Looking sour about it but if it's for the plot then needs must]

...We just had a big conversation about what a liar he is, so...

[ still kind of hoping to find the missing killer but. you know. who knows if that'll happen. totty's an option. ]

He would have much less reason to lie about that, though. Everyone could already remember that he investigated the rink with you, and it wouldn't implicate him as not being possessed.

But you're right. He can't be trusted. Not completely.

It's not about logic, I just don't like him.

....

Fair.

[ he nods ]

I asked if he could see any achievements that we couldn't. He told me he could, for the Reaper's Game one.

I'd rather confirm with Shouki's killer, given everything.

I wonder if an anonymous back-and-forth would work, in the case they wish to keep themselves hidden... We as a whole benefit from knowing which achievements we have accomplished so we don't try them again.

[ IDK ]

Right. The more we know, the less we stand a chance of falling behind. That's why we were always trying to solve things in the Reaper's Game, even after Saturdays.

[ it was helpful even if it was so much fucking thinking ]

If anyone finds and can speak for them, that would be fine.