Thanks a lot for all the reviews! All of your theories were very interesting, thanks a lot for sharing them!

FireDusk: All right, I decided to make another chapter for this so it's better to read.

Colossal Fighter GX: The plans Reece had mentioned during the Investigation. They were ideas for dog traps.

RubyLeo: Well, I don't mind if you need a bit more time, I'm just happy that you review at all. And as soon as the Investigation started I closed the poll so you should be able to see the results.

TechniqueFantasy: Thanks a lot and that's good to know. I'm always happy when you review.

Alnoots: Thanks, I'm glad you like it. In this case the murder has to be Akira, Artyom or Ari, right?

"The question is why is there a trail of ash?" Tokaku asked and Sandrine replied "I guess, something was burnt."

"That was obvious," Vivienne said, rolling her eyes, and Sandrine started to cry again.

Marilyn glared at the blonde girl. "Don't be rude! So, what was burnt there? A very long fuse maybe?"

Reece had turned pale by now. "Simple ropes, I think."

"Ropes?" Tokaku repeated and Reece cursed under his breath. "Now I know what they did! It's just like in my plan! One of my plans was to lift the dog to the ceiling of the atelier, it was a really stupid one so I already forgot about it again. For that I had needed ropes, one end attached to the rain gutter, the other end wrapped around the dog. Damn it, if they did that with Aviana… and then burnt the rope, she would fell to her death."

This was a terrible thought, imagining the little girl hanging there completely helpless as the rope was slowly burnt away.

"B-but w-why was s-she s-shot t-then?" Jason asked.

"That probably happened before someone hanged her up," Daichi replied. "Maybe to restrain her from struggling."

"But if they shot her and then hanged her up, how could that be possible in this short amount of time?" Vivienne asked. "It was obvious that we would be alarmed when we heard the shot and ran down there!"

Just then Akira giggled, making all of us look at him in confusion. "Now I know!" he said with a little smile. "It was an alarm clock!"

"What?" Tokaku asked, now totally confused. "For what would you need an alarm clock? And we also didn't find one."

Akira shook his head. "It was on the mobile phone! My buddies finally figured it out for me. Listen, the culprit shot both the dog and Aviana without us noticing anything due to the sound suppressor. That would explain why we didn't hear two shots. Then they tied her up and started to burn down the rope. There must have been a second one leading from the window in the atelier to the window of the culprit's room so it would take some more time until it was burnt down.

Before they had installed an alarm clock at the mobile phone with the sound of a gunshot. Shortly after we heard the alarm the rope must have burnt away and Aviana fell down, breaking her neck like this. That means being at the show is no alibi at all, actually I'm sure everyone who was there is more suspicious since that person tried to create an alibi for themselves."

We were speechless, totally amazed by his sudden ideas. It was weird but somehow made sense.

Hachiku growled "Just like I said! Tokaku created her perfect alibi."

"Impossible," Vivienne objected. "Didn't you listen? The ash trail started somewhere at the boys' rooms, so it must have been one of them!"

The ones of us who had their chambers on the same side as Marilyn were Daichi, Akira, Jason, Hachiku and me. The sheer thought of climbing along the rain gutter with a rope in hand was impossible for me and I also had problems imagining the other boys doing it except for the one who loved serious sports.

"Didn't you tell me that you would love to climb here?" I asked Hachiku who glared at me. "Yeah, so what?"

"Well, you're the only one who could have done that!" As I said that I had the feeling Hachiku turned a bit pale. "What the hell? No fucking way! You think you can just fucking accuse me, you little piece of shit?!"

"Well, it is obvious that you're getting nervous now," Daichi said calmly and Hachiku turned around to glare at him. "The hell I get! You're fucking retarded!"

"I always knew you were an ass!" Marilyn said, slamming her fist on her desk. "So, you're the one who did it?!"

"No, you stupid bitch!" Hachiku yelled back. "What kind of fucking reason would I have to kill Avi, goddammit?!"

"She trusted you," Daichi replied. "She was a very easy victim, especially because of that. And I guess it's because of Monokuma's motive you wanted to kill. You have a secret you don't want anyone to know, isn't that right?"

"Just shut the hell up, shitface!"

Daichi just didn't react to the insult and looked at Monokuma. "Maybe you could tell us about the secret?" For completely unnecessary reasons the bear pulled out some glasses and looked at some papers in his paws. "Sure, I could, if my students ask me so nicely!"

"Don't you dare! I fucking kill you!" Hachiku yelled and tried to jump from his pedestal but some chains suddenly appeared and shackled him. Monokuma acted as if nothing had happened "Hachiku Yamawara's darkest secret is..."

"Stop it!" Hachiku looked completely desperate now. "It's true, I killed her. Just stop it!"