"Wh-!?" Leon gasped. "What the hell are you talking about?! I-It's just a coincidence! It's just a bunch of random squiggles that happen to look like my name!"
"No, it's not random at all." Began Kirigiri. "She wrote that message on the wall behind her as she was leaning up against it. In that position, she couldn't move to write normally, and had to write upside down, as it were. And as a result, when you look at it standing in front of her, it ends up getting flipped. Try it for yourself if you want. Write something sitting like her, and the letters will be inverted."
"Th-That sounds like one hell of a stretch to me…!" Stammered Leon before getting angry. "I'm the killer?! You can't just go and say shit like that!"
"If you're not the killer, then why did you try to destroy the evidence?" Kirigiri asked suddenly.
"…Huh?" Gasped Leon. Kirigiri turned to face me again.
"You know what I'm talking about, right Naegi?" She asked me. "The evidence tried to get rid of?"
The evidence Leon tried to get rid of? It's that thing I found on the ground in front of the incinerator…
"You mean the burnt shirt piece I found laying on the ground by the incinerator, right?" I asked as I showed everyone a picture of it on my e-Handbook.
"As the killer stabbed Maizono, they must have gotten some of her blood on them." Kirigiri assumed. "And to dispose of the shirt covered in the victim's blood, they threw it into the incinerator."
"But one piece burned off and got left behind." Added Celeste.
"And the killer didn't notice. If they had, they most certainty would have panicked." Said Kirigiri. "Isn't that right, Leon?"
Leon didn't respond. All he did was stammer. Sakura spoke next.
"But is one scrap of fabric enough to conclude that Leon is guilty?" She asked.
"Yeah…" Agreed Chihiro. "I mean, Leon's not the only one wearing a white button-up…"
"Th-That's right!" Proclaimed Leon. "There are plenty of other people here with shirts like mine! With just that one little charred piece, there's no way you can say for sure who it belongs to!"
"You're right. That alone isn't enough." I said. "But there are some other points that may reveal the truth…"
"…Are you finally starting to understand?" Asked Kirigiri. "The answers to all the riddles are right here."
"Yeah, I think so…" I agreed. "If we look closely at how the shirt was disposed of, we should be able to figure out who the killer is."
"O-Oh, yeah… That's a good point. I think I know what you're gonna say…" Began Leon. "You can't reach the incinerator without opening the gate in front of the trash room, right? And obviously you wouldn't be able to hot to the switch to turn it on, either. You'd need the key to get in. And the one with the key was… The person cleaning duty! So the killer had to be whoever was in charge of taking care of the trash! Right!?"
"Hahaha. Interesting…" Laughed Yamada before he realized that Leon was looking at him sternly. "…Gweh!?"
"Yeah! You have the key to the trash room, don't you, Yamada?" Asked Leon. Yamada began sweating.
"Well… You see…" He stammered nervously.
"Don't bother!" Leon exclaimed. "Whoever was on cleaning duty must've had the key to the trash room, right?"
"So the only one wh-who could get to the in-ncinerator was the p-person in charge of the t-trash?"
"And you'd have to get close to the incinerator in order to destroy the-" Began Leon. I stopped him there.
"Hold on!" I yelled. "I think I know how someone could dispose of the evidence without using the trash room key!"
"But if you can't get past the gate, you couldn't possibly turn on the incinerator, could you?" Asked Sakura. I shook my head.
"Yes, you could. If you used this." I explained as I took out my e-Handbook and revealed the photo of the shattered crystal ball I found.
"What is it, some kinda glass ball?" Asked Mondo. "It's busted to hell…"
"Actually, it was supposed to be a crystal ball." Explained Hagakure nervously. "But, uh…"
"But… How would you use it?" Asked Chihiro.
"The killer simply took aim at the incinerator switch and threw the ball through a gap in the gate." I explained. "All they had to do was hit that switch, and the incinerator would come to life."
"Someone threw that…" Stammered Yamada in shock. "Through a gap in the gate!?"
"Remember what you said before, Yamada?" I asked. "You said that the incinerator wasn't on the last time you were there. You had the key, so the only way the incinerator could have been turned on without his knowledge was because the killer was able to open the switch without opening the gate. Once they gotten the incinerator going, all they had to do was ball up the shirt and toss it in!"
"H-Hey, come on!" Exclaimed Leon. "What the hell is this?"
"All you have to do is look at the scene to know that the killer never actually went into the trash room." Said Kirigiri. "The shards of broken glass, the incinerator left running, the piece of shirt that escaped the fire… If the killer had been on cleaning duty, the evidence would have been taken care of much more thoroughly."
"W-Wait, no!" Leon protested. "Just hold on!"
"But the distance from the gate to the incinerator has to be at least… Thirty feet, right?" Asked Chihiro. "The pinpoint accuracy you'd need to throw a glass ball that far and hit something that small… Could someone really do that?"
"Th-That's right!" Exclaimed Leon. "There's no way! It'd be impossible!"
"Difficult? Absolutely. Impossible? I don't think so." I said. "Because the killer is the Ultimate Baseball Star. Isn't that right, Leon!?"
"D-Do you have any idea how stupid you sound right now!?" He protested.
"A target thirty feet away would surely be a little challenge for the Ultimate Baseball Star." Celeste pointed out.
"Y-Y-Y-You can't be serious!" Stammered Leon. "I…! I…! I'm not the killer! These goddamn shit-for-brains have got it all wrong, I'm telling you!"
"You still won't admit it?" Asked Kirigiri. "Okay then. Naegi, go ahead and review the incident one more time to make his crime perfectly clear. And with that, we can end this…"
"Listen to me!" Exclaimed Leon. "What the hell do you mean, end this?!"
"Say what you want, Leon." I began. "But all the questions have been answered, and the truth has been revealed. Now here's what happened…!"
