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CanaryBug And... who has two thumbs and was absolutely incorrect? THIS GUY

Hey look on the bright side. At least you've still got 2 thumbs.

ImperialOtaku Ohhhhhhhh dang! I was fine with the idea of the murderer being Chloé but I was hoping for a surprise twist, and you definitely delivered.

Well of course! I couldn't give you a boring ending like that now could I?

DC (Guest)Lol of course it's Alya that ends up being the murderer. The concept of this story is great! Keep it up!

Why thank you DC. But there's not much left to keep up I'm afraid.

Ugly-Duckling123 Alyla's the murder?!

That appears to be the case doesn't it?

Ladybug fan ReneeOkay I did not see the twist if Alya as the murderer coming that is really good

Thank you, I don't think many of you did.

KiddyCartoonFangirl Plot twist! I did wonder if it was possible for the murderer to fake death. It seems most likely that the others are dead already... I'm interested to see how this "Revolver" card works. This is so exciting! I love it!

Oh it's a fun one! That's why I saved it for last!


Murder at Agreste Mansion

Chapter 11 – Madame Rouge

"Madame Rouge?!" Marinette exclaimed in pure disbelief. "YOU are the murderer?!"

"Unexpected isn't it?" She said coyly, "None of them expected it either. Not Azure, not Skales, not even Carapace and Pintura!"

"Oh god!" Adrien said as he was hit with the realisation of what he'd done.

"Oh yes it was ever so kind of you to instruct them to stay with me Lord Noir! All defenceless and with no means of alerting you." Alya smiled sweetly at him as she spoke making the whole situation creepier. "And then you even so kind as to send two more over to me afterwards! Oh the looks on their faces as they saw all the bodies in that room. Not as good as the ones one their face when one of them got up and stabbed them."

"So that's what you did? Play dead and let them come to you?" Chloe said, "That seems like a pathetic way to do it."

"Really? Pathetic? Do you not even see how I manipulated you?!" She began laughing as she said it.

Chloe frowned in disgust, "What do you mean manipulated?"

"Well the list goes on doesn't it?" Alya said cockily, "How about when I made sure your least favourite person here was next to the first target, so you'd be so eager to accuse her. Or how about when I purposely denied you your choice of partner, so you would foolishly leave the one you do get as an easy target."

Chloe gaped in awe and disgust as she realised that it was all true, Marinette sniggered at her rival.

"Oh, don't think you weren't either Bugsworthy!" Alya began ceasing her friend's laughter, "You were obviously a tool in fuelling Honey's foolish actions, but I needed you to be rash too. I purposely left the dead partner of the person you really wanted to be the murderer out in the open, so you could jump to conclusions about her. And I had to time Skales' screams just so you'd hear them and completely ignore my body there in order to find Honey who must have been close. And it's a good job I did because if Noir hadn't gone to run after you he was close to figuring it out."

Marinette looked apologetically towards Adrien who was simply staring at Alya in awe. Chloe however was not having any of it and stood up to tackle Alya.

"HEY SIT DOWN RIGHT NOW!" Alya screamed at Chloe, "SEE THIS CARD?! REVOLVER: Point at a target and say 'Bang' to kill them. Make it clear to the target that if you say 'Bang' they are unavoidably dead."

Chloe sat back down with her hands up.

"Good!" Alya said aggressively pointing the card towards her, "And if any of you stand up again I WILL shoot."

"Madame Rouge" Adrien said, "How did you do it?"

"What do you mean?" She asked him

"How did you manage to do it all so flawlessly?" He said in complete amazement, "I never once suspected you."

"Well, I pride myself in doing things to perfection." She began not holding off for any modesty, "Veloci was easy, I put the card in a random glass by the punch bowl and filled as many glasses as I could and left them there. She really killed herself once she took the bad glass, it was only then that any of your suspects went near her glass. Of course, I had to make sure Bugsworthy got one that definitely wasn't poisoned but that wasn't hard since she was last to arrive."

"You accused me!" Chloe said as she realised what had happened, "It was never Bugsworthy, you stuck up for her by accusing me. You really planned all of that?"

"Guilty!" Alya said with a grin. "Magenta was probably the hardest, I had to plan ahead of time and ask one of the Mansion staff to turn off the lights at a specific time so that I could have an opportunity. Once it was dark I carefully walked to her and put the card by her feet and 'accidently' bump them, so she'd pick it up. Really Magenta was just a bonus, the main reason I had the lights set up was so my little assassin could get an opportunity to kill the Doctor before he went all Sherlock Holmes on us, but she got the wrong guy! But of course, as you know that ended up working even better in my favour didn't it?"

"Because she killed 2 people and caused a reason for us to split up" Marinette said.

"Oh, aren't you a clever little detective!" She said patronisingly. "Ms Skales was the most fun! I pulled my dagger on her almost straight away. She screamed and begged so I took the pity on only keeping her hostage until we found and killed Azure together. Then of course I waited until I heard you lot opening and closing nearby doors to finally kill the poor girl, so you'd hear her screams and then find our 'corpses'."

"So, what now?" Chloe asked, "Are you going to kill us or keep monologuing?"

"Oh, we've got a cranky one, don't we?" Alya said patronisingly, "You know what cranky babies need? A nap!"

"I am not a baby!" Chloe screamed back.

"oooooh it sounds like baby needs a long one!" Alya pointed the card at Chloe "BANG". "That'll do it!" she said with a beaming smile. Chloe frowned at Alya but followed the rules and fell back in her chair as if she had been shot in the head.

"Holy crap!" Adrien said with an expression of genuine fear on his face.

"That was a bit extreme don't you think?" Marinette said also slightly scared of her friend.

Alya's smile dropped to a completely expressionless face, "I don't like people who whine. People who I don't like get shot."

Marinette and Adrien looked at each other in fear as Alya kept the card pointed at them.

"Now this is what's going to happen" Alya told them, "I'm going to shoot you both and I'm going to win. Any objections?"

"I object!" Adrien said.

Alya pointed the card directly at him, "Why is that Lord Noir?" Adrien nervously looked at her and started to blag an answer, "Well you see you can't kill us yet because you haven't uh-" He looked behind her through the door way and subtly tipped his head to the right. She noticed his movement, "You haven't um-" He did it once more, "You need to-"

Alya frowned and snapped around and pointed the card behind her expecting to see someone behind her that Adrien was gesturing to. The second she did she was tackled to the ground by Marinette causing her to drop the card in front of her.

"NO!" She screamed.

Marinette held her down as Adrien rushed up and grabbed the card off of the ground. He picked it up and pointed it at Alya.

"It's over Madame Rouge!" He shouted triumphantly at her, "I have a revolver now and I'm not afraid to use it!"

"Aw come on!" Alya said, "I was so close, and I lose to that! It wasn't even a good trick!"

"You wasted time monologuing! It's the downfall of a villain!" Marinette said.

"Well it wouldn't have been fun to kill you immediately would it?" Alya said. "Ok fine you win, I'm arrested."

Marinette released her and she got up dusting herself off, "Well that was tonnes of fun! Thanks for a great party Adrien!"

"Alya" Marinette said putting her hand on her best friend's shoulder, "You are terrifying." Alya burst out laughing.

"Seriously Alya I was genuinely concerned you'd gone completely psychopath on us" Adrien said.

"I guess I just really got into character huh." She said smiling, "Don't worry, Madame Rouge might be insane but Alya's still your loveable, beautiful and incredibly modest best friend." The three laughed.

"Hey so if the game's over can I get up now?" Chloe asked from inside the room.

"Oh yeah!" Adrien said, "We should probably let the others know the game's over."

"I'm surprised they've kept up being dead for so long" Marinette said as they walked towards the rooms where the others were.


Author's Note:

That is the end! (Mostly! There is a bonus chapter coming tomorrow!)

I really hope you have enjoyed this story as much as I have creating it. It has been really fun to work out a way to keep a logical conclusion without making it obvious who dunnit (as that is the whole point of course).

The other highlight for me has of course been you guys! Seeing consistently large numbers of you favouriting and following this story (and my account) after every chapter has been posted has made me so happy and really motivated me to work even harder on this story and I can't thank you all enough. It's seriously mind-blowing to me how many of you there are.

A special shout out to the reviewers (especially the consistent ones) giving me feedback, questions and great theories throughout! You guys were always my favourite part of uploading a new chapter.

There will be a bonus chapter posted tomorrow which is kind of an epilogue of sorts (but basically some Adrienette fluff) and I will also be putting some of my favourite predictions left in reviews on previous chapters (including my responses to some that I would have made if not for spoilers).

Like I said, I hope you have all enjoyed and I will look forward to hopefully see some of your names pop up on my future stories.

-LinguineReturns