Togami froze, staring at the space with the missing bottles of poison should have been. He hadn't actually expected to find anything out of place in this section of the cabinet, not when he'd been looking for a drug to knock people unconscious.

Why were bottles of poison missing now? Poison didn't seem to figure into this case at all, not that he could see. Three people had fallen unconscious, and the victim had been hit over the head – no one had died of poison.

Not yet, at least. There had only been one victim so far, after all, and every murderer was allowed a maximum of two deaths. The poison might be part of a plot that hadn't yet come into play.

Or even worse – it might not have been taken by Hagakure's murderer at all. Just because the killings had occurred one at a time up until now, it didn't mean that things had to continue that way. Someone might have taken the poison in order to set up their own murder plot, only to be forestalled by Hagakure's death.

Although that didn't explain why anyone would need three entire bottles of the poison. From what Togami could tell, it looked like the missing poison was one he'd looked at before – the one that he'd been discussing with Naegi just before the other students had entered the chemistry lab to confront them. He couldn't confirm for certain, though, because the three bottles seemed to have been the entire stock of that particular poison. Could that have been why the culprit took all three bottles – to prevent anyone from knowing exactly what it was they'd taken?

If so, he had to admit, that wasn't a terrible plan. He tried to think back to what the label had said, but the specifics of how the poison worked eluded him. It hadn't been anything he recognized, he knew that much. It must have been some bizarre new poison the mastermind had concocted.

But whatever someone might intend to use this poison for, he knew he couldn't afford to get too caught up in it now. There were too many mysteries left unsolved with the death that had already occurred, and he couldn't waste his investigation time on hypotheticals. He would just have to keep this poison in mind for the future, as he carried on with the rest of his search.

Of course, that left the issue of where else to look. Togami frowned as he left the chemistry lab, considering his options. Nothing else immediately came to mind – but the murder had occurred on the first floor. It made sense that other clues might be located there, as well.

As he returned to the dormitory half of the first floor, Togami stepped through the gate just in time to see Ogami and Asahina exit the cafeteria.

"So you aren't even making an effort at contributing, are you?" he asked, drawing the girls' attention sharply to him. "Is that an indication of guilt, or have you just decided to wallow in your uselessness?"

Asahina glared at him, but the expression didn't have her usual energy. It looked like the effects of whatever had knocked her unconscious might be lingering. "I wasn't feeling great, especially since I missed breakfast. I thought it might help to get my blood sugar up, so that I won't be lightheaded all through the class trial."

"I doubt we would have noticed," Togami said, rolling his eyes.

"Actually, it wasn't as much of a waste of time as you seem to think," Ogami said. "We found something interesting in the kitchen."

Togami's eyebrows shot up. "I assume you're talking about something more relevant than a new type of donut?"

"I would say so." Ogami held up a small plastic bag, containing several pieces of broken brown glass. None of them were large enough to identify – but Togami had only seen a bottle that color in one other place.

"That's one of the bottles of poison from the chemistry lab," Togami said, grabbing the bag from Ogami to examine it more closely. He looked up, narrowing his eyes at the two girls. "You said you found this in the kitchen?"

"The pieces were in the trashcan there," Ogami said, nodding.

Togami's stomach roiled at the thought of someone bringing a bottle of poison into the kitchen, surrounded by the food they all ate. Had it been there this morning, when he'd made coffee? He couldn't be sure – it wasn't as though he went around examining garbage as a matter of course. He knew that he couldn't have consumed anything that had been contaminated, or else he would be dead – but maybe he'd only escaped by a narrow margin.

"Then it seems that we should all limit our meals to food stored in unopened containers," Togami said, carefully pocketing the bag of broken glass. "At least until we can identify what happened to the contents of the jar."

"Yeah, we already figured that." Asahina scowled. "Tampering with the food supply would be really terrible – we could all starve!"

"Don't be melodramatic," Togami told her. "The point of the game is to get away with murder, not just to cause mayhem. Sabotaging the entire stockpile of food would hurt the culprit as much as the rest of us, and there wouldn't be a way for them to benefit from it. No one would have any reason to do that."

"That assumes someone would do it for the sake of winning," Ogami said.

Togami frowned at her. "What other reason is there?"

Before she could answer, Jill's voice called out, "Welcome back, White Knight! Couldn't stay away, huh?"

Togami scowled as she came running around the corner from the storage room. "I thought I told you to do something useful."

"You sure did, darling!" Jill beamed at him. "It was so sweet of you to give me a nice masterful order like that! Mm, I'll be thinking about that one all night long!"

Asahina and Ogami looked at him with rather disturbed expressions. "Uh… what exactly did you tell her to do?" Asahina asked slowly. "Or maybe I don't want to know."

He rolled his eyes. "I told her to look for anything suspicious that had been moved in the storage room."

"And you bet I did, baby," Jill said. "

"What – you've examined the entire storage room? Already?" Togami asked, making his skepticism clear.

"Of course not, that would be boring!" Jill said brightly. "Who'd want to go around looking at a lot of crap that no one's touched?"

"So you abandoned your task without finding anything." Togami hadn't expected much else, but that didn't stop him from glowering at her in disapproval.

"Aw, darling, don't be like that," Jill said, not looking at all quelled by his displeasure. "I can't find something if it's been taken away, can I?"

"What do you mean by that?" Togami asked, folding his arms.

"Oh, you know – there was a big empty space where a thing used to be," Jill said. "About this big." She sketched a square that looked about two feet by two feet.

"What was it?" Togami prompted.

"Sorry, baby, but the only psychic powers I've got are the ones connecting me to you!" Jill said, laughing. "It wasn't there anymore, so I've got no idea."

"Well, that was a colossal waste of time." Togami sighed, thinking over the complete lack of useful evidence he'd found. "I hope Naegi has had better luck."