CLASS TRIAL: IN SESSION!
"Ahem, let's begin with a simple explanation of the class trial!" Monokuma said. "During the trial, you'll present your arguments on who the culprit is, and you'll vote for whodunnit. Vote correctly, and only the blackened will be punished. But if you pick the wrong person... I'll punish everyone BESIDES the blackened, and that person will be able to leave this school! Oh, and, refusing to vote for someone will result in your death, so you better vote for someone! Now, LET'S GET IT STARTED!"
"Man... it definitely feels weird being back here..." Eunji sighed.
"I know!" Monokuma yelled. "Miss special idol here, skipping class trial and stuff!"
"Shut the fuck up, I wasn't talking to you." Eunji replied.
"So... let's begin with what we know." Yeeun said. "Which, admittedly, isn't a lot."
Yeah... this is gonna be a hard one...
-NON-STOP DEBATE!-
-START!-
"So, Hirokazu died." Naomori said.
"Yeah." Kaori sighed.
"But what of?" The herbalist asked.
"Uh, didn't you pay attention during the investigation?" Izumi asked.
"Huh?" Naomori said.
"It was poison, you nimwit." The hacker replied.
CONSENT!
IZUMI&EUNJI
"I agree with that!"
-BREAK!-
"Yeah, Naomori, it was poison." Eunji said. "Miyumi made that pretty clear."
"Sorry. My mind was elsewhere." The herbalist said.
"So, what about the time of death?" Kaori asked.
Another thing we know...
SELECT A TRUTH BULLET!
SELECTED – Miyumi's Estimation Time
"Here's my answer!"
"He died at around 11 PM." Eunji said. "Miyumi herself said so."
"Right... but still... it just feels a little off..." Kaori said. "Are we sure he died there?"
"My results have never been wrong." The detective stated. "Why suddenly doubt me now?"
"I-I mean... you were found with the body..." The dancer said.
Kaori...
-NON-STOP DEBATE!-
-START!-
"What...?" Miyumi said.
"That is correct." Naomori said. "Miss Takahashi here WAS found with the body!"
"T-That doesn't mean anything!" Miyumi replied.
"Does it, though?" Kaori asked. "I mean, who else could it have been?"
"But I believe it's too soon to be calling her the culprit." Yeeun said. "After all, why would Miyumi kill Hirokazu anyways?"
"I dunno..." Kaori said. "But it has to be her, right?"
"I mean, yeah, right?" Naomori said.
"But the body discovery announcement played when she found him." Yeeun said.
CONSENT!
YEEUN&EUNJI
"I agree with that!"
-BREAK!-
"Yeeun's right, the body discovery announcement played after Miyumi found the body." Eunji said.
"Okay...?" Kaori said.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Naomori asked.
"Hey, Monokuma!" Eunji said. "In the part of three or more students finding the body, does that include the blackened?"
"The school regulatiosn state that when three or more students find a body, the body discovery announcement will play!" Monokuma replied.
"Good lord, what fucking help Monokuma is for this case..." Eunji facepalmed.
"Hold on..." Miyumi said. "When three or more STUDENTS."
"Huh?" Eunji replied.
"STUDENTS." Miyumi emphasized. "Don't you recall? Once the culprit kills, they are no longer a student, they are a blackened."
"Oh... that's right!" Eunji said. "So that means there's no way-"
"Get into rhythm!"
ARGUE!
KAORI
"But that doesn't exactly disprove anything, does it?" Kaori said.
"What do you mean?" Eunji asked.
"I'll explain it to you..." Kaori replied.
-REBUTTAL SHOWDOWN!-
-TRUTH BLADES!-
-START!-
"Does the regulations really disprove Miyumi being the culprit?"
"Couldn't she just have found Hirokazu right after someone else did?"
"And there was like, a delay or something!"
ADVANCE!
"But Monokuma said the body discovery only plays when three or more people find it."
"At exactly three, it would play."
"Miyumi was the third."
"But how do we even know Miyumi was the third?"
"W-What if... there was nobody on the fourth floor to begin with?"
"W-What if Miyumi was by herself!?"
"I'LL CUT DOWN YOUR WORDS!"
-BREAK!-
"Miyumi herself said that she heard someone up in the fourth floor." Eunji said. "That's what lead to her finding Hirokazu!"
"..." Kaori fell silent.
"Kaori, you're acting really weird." Izumi replied. "You're not even making sense..."
"Yeah, pretty suspicious, huh?" Seungyeon smirked.
"I-I'm sorry, guys..." Kaori sighed. "My brain must be fried... I just... I'll miss Hirokazu so much..."
"You probably shouldn't be trying to lead the class trial if you can't even think straight, then." Eunji stated.
"Y-Yeah... you're right." The dancer meekly uttered.
"Well..." Miyumi said. "Where were we?"
"Hirokazu was poisoned and died." Takashi said. "He died at about 11 PM."
"So... what was he drinking, then?" Naomori asked.
I know this...
SELECT A TRUTH BULLET!
SELECTED – Kaori's Account
"Here's my answer!"
"According to Kaori, Hirokazu was an avid tea drinker." Eunji said. "So, it must have been tea!"
"Wait..." Naomori said. "It was tea?"
"So, it was poisoned tea." Yeeun replied.
"Doesn't that mean wheover gave him the tea could have killed him?" Izumi said. "So... who gave Hirokazu some tea?
"Wasn't me." Naomori said. / "Don't even look at me." Kaori said. / "How are you people still capable of this?" Miyumi groaned.
"Um, okay..." Youngjae / "Suspicious." Seungyeon / "Feel my pain." Yeeun
How is it that we're still doing this...
-MASS PANIC DEBATE!-
-START!-
"I-I mean it!" Naomori/ "What?!" Kaori / "I didn't give him any tea." Miyumi.
"Well, I didn't give him any either." Youngjae / "You're his girlfriend." Seungyeon / "I believe you." Yeeun
"I-I mean... you make his tea!" Naomori / "So?!" Kaori / "And you?" Miyumi
"So what? He leaves it out to cool!" Youngjae / "He would easily drink anything you gave him!" Seungyeon / "I didn't give him any tea, either." Yeeun
"I HEARD IT!"
-BREAK!-
"Youngjae's right." Eunji said. "Hirokazu leaves out his tea so it can cool off."
"Oh, and who told you this?" Naomori asked.
"...Youngjae himself..." Eunji replied.
"See?" Naomori said. "So, Youngjae has to be the culprit!"
"That's wrong." Kaori said. "Youngjae is right. Hirokazu always leaves his cup of tea out to let it cool off... but he's so forgetful, sometimes he doesn't get it until hours later."
"So... that gives the culprit plenty of time to poison his tea." Eunji replied.
"Okay..." Naomori said. "But... that doesn't clear up who the culprit is, then! It could any one of us!"
"Wait, he's right." Seungyeon said. "Where exactly does Hirokazu leave his tea out?"
"Kaori?" Eunji asked.
"H-He... he leaves it in his room, most of the time." Kaori replied.
"Well... that still doesn't narrow anything down." Naomori said. "He lets people in his dorm all the time!"
Shit...
"Before we get to actually finding out who killed him, there's something that's been bothering me." Takashi said. "Where did the poison come from?"
Right...
-NON-STOP DEBATE!-
-START!-
"The chemistry lab, right?" Kaori said. "I mean... that's the only place it could."
"Yeah, but Naomori has a lot of herbs in his lab!" Seungyeon said.
"WHAT?" Naomori said.
"Yeah!" The actress replied.
"Is that really so?" Yeeun asked. "So, you think he made poison?"
"That's total bullshit!" Naomori replied. "I never made poison!"
"THAT'S WRONG!"
-BREAK!-
"Pretty funny you'd blatantly lie like that, Naomori." Eunji said.
"Huh?" Naomori replied.
"See this?" Eunji replied, pulling out the bag of poison that Miyumi found. "This is poison found in your lab-"
"You're brewing up trouble!"
ARGUE!
NAOMORI
"N-No!" Naomori said. "That's not my bag at all!"
"Seriously!?" Eunji said. "You expect me to believe that?"
"It's the truth!" The herbalist remarked.
Come on, dude...
-REBUTTAL SHOWDOWN!-
-TRUTH BLADES!-
-START!-
"I have a lot of plants, yes..."
"But that doesn't mean I would make poison!"
"Come on, Eunji!"
ADVANCE!
"But Miyumi herself said this is poison"
"Unless you're calling her a liar..."
"This has to be yours!"
"L-Look, maybe she isn't lying..."
"But you have to believe me!"
"That poison isn't mine!"
"I'LL CUT DOWN YOUR WORDS!"
-BREAK!-
"Oh yeah?" Eunji said. "If this poison isn't yours, then why didn't you let Miyumi and I investigate your lab!?"
"Glkk!" Naomori sputtered.
"So, Naomori made the poison... then he killed Hirokazu with it..." Kaori said. "Y-YOU BASTARD! I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!"
"L-Look..." Naomori said. "I-It's not me! I swear I'm not the culprit!"
"And why should we believe you!?" Eunji said.
"Heh." Seungyeon said.
"Huh?" The idol said.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahha!" The actress bursted out laughing.
"What the hell are you laughing about?" Izumi asked.
"It's just... too funny!" The actress remarked. "Naomori didn't make that poison."
"What?" Eunji replied.
"No, you know why?" Seungyeon smiled. "Because I planted the poison in his lab!"
What the fuck?
"What- why-" Naomori said. "Why would you do that?"
"Why not!?" The actress giggled once more. "You were already making a huge deal about trying to kill Izumi, you prick. I wanted to watch you fucking squirm."
"Wait... so you made the poison...?" Miyumi asked.
"Actually, I didn't!" Seungyeon said. "Eunji can back me up on this!"
Oh...
SELECT A TRUTH BULLET!
SELECTED – Seungyeon's Account
"Here's my answer!"
"Seungyeon told me that she was on the fourth floor at around 11 PM." Eunji said. "She went into the chemistry lab and found a poison vial missing."
"Wait a minute..." Miyumi said. "But...?"
I don't know what Seungyeon is doing...
But I don't like it...
-NON-STOP DEBATE!-
-START!-
"Seungyeon, you said there is poison missing..." Kaori replied. "But then... how did you get access to that poison afterwards?"
"You see, I just simply went into the library to get it!" Seungyeon replied.
"WHAT!?" The dancer said.
"But Hirokazu was dead there!" Miyumi replied. "Which means you found the body?"
"What of it?" The actress shrugs.
"Isn't it entirely possible that you're the killer, then!?" Naomori said.
"THAT'S WRONG!"
-BREAK!-
"No, Seungyeon isn't the culprit." Eunji said. "She said she got her hands on the poison after Hirokazu died."
"And you're just believing her?" Naomori asked.
"At around the time Hirokazu died, Seungyeon and I were on the fourth floor together!" Eunji said. "The library door was locked! Which means Seungyeon couldn't have possibly gotten it then!"
"But what if she got her hands on the poison before then?" Kaori asked.
"Oh please, me?" Seungyeon said. "I never spend time with Hirokazu! I would prefer to be by myself!"
"I have such a huge headache..." Takashi groaned.
"What is even going on?" Youngjae asked.
"We don't even know when the tea was poisoned." Miyumi said. "All this bickering isn't progressing anything."
"But we know where the poison came from now, don't we?" The actress remarked. "The~ chemistry~ lab!"
"Miyumi, you have to know how poisons work, right?" Youngjae asked.
"That I do." Miyumi replied.
"So then, you have to know what kind of poison Hirokazu drank and how long it took to kill him." Yeeun replied.
"You're right." The detective said.
"Well, then spill it!" The actress laughs.
"The poison was relatively fast acting. After drinking the poisoned tea, Hirokazu died within minutes." Miyumi said.
"How many minutes, to be exact?" Izumi asked.
"About 5, give or take." Miyumi said. "Not instantanous."
"So, you see!" Seungyeon replied. "I can't be the culprit! I was outside of the library at the time Hirokazu died!"
"You could have just locked him in there!" Naomori said. "This doesn't disprove anything!"
"Uh, hello, dumbass, the library door locks from the inside!" The actress said. "Which means the culprit had to be inside with him!"
"Why?" Izumi asked.
"To keep him from unlocking it and leaving himself, duh!" Seungyeon remarked.
Seungyeon... she's totally hijacking this class trial...
And she knows a lot more than she's letting on...
What is going on...?
-INTERMISSION!-
