The New Kyon
Kyon was dead. He had been killed by an assassin of unknown origin, and was killed by massive beatings to the skull. His body was damaged massively, suggesting the murderer killed in Kyon while enraged. It also suggests that the killer had a very personal grudge against Kyon. Whoever killed Kyon though somehow made themselves untraceable, for there wasn't any forensic evidence at the scene at all. There were bruise marks from fists, but they might as well have been from nothing because there was no forensic evidence from it. The only thing at the scene that was left by the killer besides the body was a rose with a note.
The note read, "I loved you, but just couldn't forgive you."
The rose was just that, a normal rose. It was bought at a florist shop nearby. This killer was both careful, yet emotionally charged. The note suggested that it was an ex-lover, but Kyon has never been in such a relationship. Therefore, the killer was clearly from the future. Who? Unknown. Impossible to find out because Mikuru has entered a catatonic state brought on by Kyon's death. To add on to that, she claims her time travel device is not functional.
This has all occurred within a time span of three days. Haruhi has fortunately not found out because she is on a trip for a week abroad. I'll have to use the remaining time to construct a replacement for Kyon until Mikuru's time travel device can be repaired. I already have analyzed Kyon's corpse for all the details I need. With my more than sufficient time, I will create a perfect replica of Kyon's physical look, while I will control it to act as closely as possible to the original Kyon. I will never fully recover Kyon's mental state, but that is unnecessary, for this is a temporary fix for a temporary problem. When we can time travel, we will have to attempt to save Kyon.
To create Kyon, I went to a facility inside the apartment. The first step was creating the mold. The core that would hold up the new Kyon would be made of metal and other machine parts that can easily replicate human life signs. I completed that task in 7 hours and 23 minutes. The second step was to create the artificial skin for the core. It was grown like plant, but much faster, and it feels like real skin. It included everything human skin had, and also had special devices in it to replicate things like sweating and hair growth. The third step was finishing touches on the body to make sure it looked human and then to program the personality for the creation. It wouldn't even be aware it wasn't Kyon, and would be an as close as possible replication of Kyon's personality. The final step was to awaken it, and test it to make sure it acted like it needed to. All the other steps combined took only 13 hours and 10 minutes to complete. Over all, it took 20 hours and 33 minutes to complete.
Once completed, it was easily placed in with Kyon's family, which also did not know of his death. They didn't know of his death because they had also been on a trip. I realize that the killer knew this section of time very well, allowing them to find a time when neither Kyon's family or Haruhi would've been around to stop or even know it occurred. This also raises the observation that the killer probably knew about Haruhi's status as a virtually omnipotent entity, so wanted to avoid her wrath by performing the killing in such a way that it would force someone like me to replace him.
While I await Mikuru to recover psychologically enough from Kyon's death to repair the device, something she claims to know how to do, I currently investigate the murder. Itsuki has had a similar mental shutdown, something I remind him along with Mikuru they will have to get over by the time Haruhi returns. The reason why is that if we act any differently, Haruhi will suspect something. To guard against what that would entail, I've forced both of them into an ultimatum. Either they get over it themselves, or I'll be forced to give both of them a powerful anti-depressant that possibly erases personality in the normal sense altogether.
While I await their decision that will have to be made by the time Haruhi returns, I've decided to put into effect special security. The killer probably won't strike again, but if she does, we need to be prepared. I know the killer is female because of three reasons. The first reason is that Kyon is a heterosexual male; making it unlikely he would have such a close relationship with another male. The second reason is that I later found out that the killer had kissed Kyon from lipstick that was undetectable with normal equipment and by normal vision. The lipstick had no DNA in it, but was definitely from a kiss, both of which suggest the killer was female. The third reason was because the killer had also seemed to have sexual reasons for killing Kyon, tying in with the first reason. This is drawn from the strangely erotic beating of Kyon in certain ways. The killer intentionally punched Kyon in the genital area multiple times, as if to punish him for something sexual. This, and other signs, like Kyon being stripped down to his underwear, suggests a sexually related motive, which confirms a sexual partner, which finally suggests that the killer was female from the first reason.
Many questions remained unanswered. Why would the killer beat Kyon to death in an alley where we found him? Was he brought there or was he killed there? If the former is true, where was he really killed? If the latter is true, why was Kyon alone in an alleyway? But the question that is the most urgent is how the killer not only beat to death Kyon, but also somehow disabled Mikuru's time travel device? This only confirms that the killer has to be from the future, and also confirms this killer is a time traveler like Mikuru. Which is all the more reason that Mikuru is not telling me anything about what her superiors are saying about the situation all the more problematic.
To add to things, the killer clearly not only knew Kyon very well, but also knew the rest of us quite well. This suggests that the killer is either someone we become very close to in the future, someone who knew Kyon well enough to know about us through him, or finally, is one of us from the future. The third option is unlikely because of each person crosses themselves out. I doubt Kyon would kill himself, and if he did he wouldn't do it in such a sexual manner. Besides, unless it is rather hard to commit suicide in the future, Kyon would easily be able to kill himself in his present time, rather than time traveling to do so. Itsuki wouldn't because Itsuki isn't homosexual, judging by magazines I've seen him read before, and therefore wouldn't have such a sexual way of killing him. He also wouldn't have the physical strength to carry out such an attack, considering that Kyon was not only overpowered quickly, but also was literally beaten to death with by the killer's bare hands.
That leaves Mikuru and me. It's impossible for me to have sexual impulses, therefore eliminating me entirely from the equation, not to mention I don't have the emotions required for this attack. That leaves Mikuru, who couldn't have killed Kyon because even her future self doesn't have the strength to carry out this attack. It would take someone far stronger to beat Kyon to death as fast as this person did, and with the power of the person's blows. They would've had to have more punching power than the average boxer to pull of something like this. It's possible that perhaps under great enough rage she could've delivered strong enough blows from the adrenalin rushing in her body, but if so how could've she have stayed awake afterwards long enough to not only disable the device of her past self, but also leave a flower and note? I eliminate Haruhi automatically because she would've simply edit Kyon out of existence if she wanted him dead or something similar unknowingly with her omnipotent power.
So that leaves the first two, which are unanswerable questions until Mikuru recovers from her catatonic state and repairs her device so she can contact her superiors about all this. This also obviously lets us at least identify the killer through time travel, if not possibly stop said killer. In the meantime, I will have to scan the town for evidence until Mikuru recovers. A very problematic situation, but not one I can fix for the time being. I can only hope that the machine I've built can fool Haruhi until I figure out the truth at least.
