This is the interviews of the following investigation of the death of Kotonoha Katsura, American Amy White, And attempted murder of Makoto itou. The following is a taped recording of the students who knew the assailant and the victims alike. INTERPOL agent Johnathan Romez Presiding.

Romez: State your name.

Voice: Otome Katou

Romez: Age?

Voice: 22

Romez: Any Relation to the victim and or killer?

Voice: Yes...The victim..was a student at my old high school and so was the killer.

Romez: Did you know the other victim? The American who was shot execution style by the perp?

Voice: Perp?

Romez: Cop lingo....Just go with it!

Voice: Yes...I may have seen her once or twice..

Romez: Do you know why you're here?

Voice: They said I had to tell my side of the story.

Romez: Well...I'm all ears..But keep it simple.

Voice: Okay....I guess you could say that this all started during our first day in our first year in high school. I was placed in a part of the class a bit further away from the victim..Forgive me if I don't use his name.

Romez: It's alright

blossoms were falling in front of the school gates. The smell of sweet cherries were in the air. I was glad to be with some of my friends. Of course they were the same girls I hung out with since we were kids. But the only reason I was kinda happy was well...He was there.

Romez: You had something for the vic?

Voice: Yeah...But looking back now it now seems borderline retarded. How naive was I huh?

Romez: Continue

Voice: Well..things were fine..The girl who sat next to him was Sekai Saionji....Man I can't believe she would do that.

Romez: So that's her name?...Go else happened?

Voice:The usual thing...He'd talk to her...She would scold him for doing indecisive things. He's always get dragged everywhere by her. They were good friends since childhood. About a week into the school year I noticed something about him that kind of worried me. He was always depressed and sighing all the time. Of course I didn't know what was going on at the time, But then one my friends said something to me about him and what the rumor was spreading around about. I thought she was jut pulling my leg.

Romez: and what that be?

Voice: He had a thing for one of the girls in class.

Romez: It's natural for that to happen.

Voice: Yeah...But It shocked me when I found out about who she was...She was the quiet girl in class and some of the guy would call her an idol.

Romez: You are reffering to the Victim Kotonoha Katsura.

Voice: Yeah...Girl was a beauty in itself..Good eyes...great skin...Nice legs...and a big chest that of course roused a lot of boys. Some of the girls would get jealous of this though...Who wouldn't. She was getting the stares from some of the guys we liked.

Romez: From when I hear the reason she was quiet was the you and your clique were there as well...Do have their names?

Voice: Yeah....Minami Obuchi, Natsumi Koizumi, Kumi Mori. They were close friends of mine..And yes we did hang out together. Kumi was the one who told me about the thing between her and him.

Romez: And to my understanding this was beginning of the so called "culling" of her popularity.

Voice:..Yeah..I guess we were mean to her..The sad part was that I was the one who did most of the damage. Teasing her and taunting her with idol insults. We must have been so cruel to her, But we were teens then, We didn't know any better. The worst part of it came when I found out that she had hooked up with him..I was so angry...How dare she...I told her many times I was gonna be with him. I told him he was mine...But no...She just had to snatch him away from me.. *sigh*

Romez: You okay?

Voice...Yeah..I'm fine...

Romez: Could there be something. on your mind?

Voice: Yeah...I just wanted to say that if I ever had the chance to relive that part out...maybe we might have been...who knows.... but I knew then that I loved him...Wanted him....Needed him...I knew the guy since junior high and was never really noticed by him at all...I wanted to feel the intimate feelings I had for him.

Romez: I see...So why don't you tell me about the relation the vic had with Sekai...I was told that she was dating him.

Voice: By whom?

Romez: That's confidential..INTERPOL business only.

Voice:I see...well...Yeah....A while he had broken up with her and starting to go out with Sekai....I was again let down...Sekai....My one friend who knew about my interest in him took him away too...that when it got out of hand though. Soon after that he had an argument with Sekai about Kotonoha and She heard it all..She then started to fight..Pulling hair and biting each other..Of course he broke it up...They all got in trouble though..He got away with just one day trash duty...The two girls were given suspension for a week...I thought that was not good enough...they had to have been two week or more.

Romez: Wow...your starting to sound like a jealous housewife...Tell me did you ever think that maybe you might have been partly responsible for her death and possibly his as well?

Voice: No...No I didn't...I really didn't...that was just cause I was stupid school girl...nothing else.

Romez: Sounds like a motive if you ask me.

Voice: Are you accusing of being an accomplice?

Romez: I can assure you that's not the premise here...Just a suspicion...I am a cop you know.

Voice: I know...sorry.

Romez: It's ok...Now tell me about the American girl...How does she tie into all of this?

Voice: When I was in college I heard that she had an affair with him.

Romez: And yourself...what was your relation to this boy this..Makoto itou?

Voice: like I said...I loved him...With all my heart and soul...

Romez: And did you ever tell him how you felt.

Voice: Yes I have...Once....actually it was during a festival at our high school..I told him exactly how I felt about him...hell I even showed him.

Romez: Showed him?

Voice:..Yeah...Promise not to judge me on this but...I had sex with him when we had the confessional room. A room that was a traditional "hook up" place at the time. We had a bedspread there and people who confessed there love to one another got in the room and left as couples. I of course took him there though it was not willingly. He at first was confused but when I proved my point when I kissed him and laid on top of him he did not resist. I didn't care if he was going out with another girl...I just wanted to let him know how I felt about him. Then it happened, He had taken my virginity..and I loved every second of it....At times it felt so natural to me...To be in his arms..To feel his touch...His lips...everything was mine when we made love....I wanted it to last forever...but I knew it was only to last for such a short time...Bu after that things went to hell and fast...I overheard Kumi saying that she herself seduced him with Natsumi.... That got me livid..When Kumi was talking about how easy he was I was about to cuss her out when I heard a scream from the balcony. That's when I saw Kotonoha run away from the school I saw her from the window..Next day he was at the hospital...we all were...

Romez: So he slept with you...slept with your friends and then was at a hospital..how did that happen?

Voice: Rumor were spreading around that Kotonoha was going to kill Sekai for stealing her boyfriend. She inadvertently stabbed him in the side and he suffer moderate blood loss. Two days later I heard Kotonoha was at his house when it happened. The attempt on his life and the casualty that followed.

Romez: So your saying Kotonoha was there when the attack occurred?

Voice: Yeah...She defended him...and she lost her life for it..when we graduated we all were still quiet shocked about it...I had not heard from Sekai or him for months...By the time I was on college he was there with the American girl..They had been having an affair for two months..then as if out of nowhere she was shot in the back on the head by some crazy chick. he believed that Sekai was behind it....And it got me wondering...Why would she kill her...

Romez: I see...So she was was victim of a jealous fit...and to put your mind at ease for a while we did find the gun that killed ..The prints Matched the killer...Your friend who is still at large....You say you have not heard frim her since high school?

Voice: Yes.

Romez:..thank you for time .

Voice: Anytime....oh...and by the way....Do you know what happened to him...To Makoto.

Romez: Kazuya Minamori is now living in the states with his new job and career...Witness protection program I'm afraid...Also...I noticed you never mentioned his name untill now.

Voice:...I was hesistant about it...It took a lot of me emotionally just to get his first name out.

Romez: Well thank you for your time.

Voice: No problem. (leaves)

Romez: This is Interpol agent Johnathan Romez reporting for witness No. 254-B Otome Katou, Next to be interrogated is the said friend of Vic Makoto itou and Sekai Saionji No.253-B Sestuna Kiyoura

Over and out.