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After interrogating every member present, Freed held up his chart. In the first column after the first box, everyone's names were written in alphabetical order. In the first box of the second column, the word Time was written. The chart, now filled out, had various times for everyone - some with more than one time in their box - and in the third column labeled Place various locations were scribbled. The fourth column was left blank.
"I'm going to read this out to everyone to verify that we have the correct information," Freed said, passing the chart around for everyone to read. "We will start with Bickslow, who says that at exactly 11:24, he followed Evergreen up to the S-Class board to choose a mission a few minutes after Evergreen had left for upstairs. Because he was upstairs with Evergreen at the same time, it's unlikely he's the murderer no matter how crazy he may act. Although, he and Evergreen may have worked together, and for this," Freed continued, "I will write that while he is a suspect, he is an unlikely one." Leaning down on the table with the paper, he wrote Stretch to Suspect: Upstairs at same time as Evergreen in the fourth box on the row with Bickslow's name.
"Yeah! Ya heard that, Ever?" Bickslow said. "I'm a... 'Stretch to Suspect!'"
"Now Cana was drunk, so we had to rely on other's testimonies for her," Freed said. "At about 11:10-11:20, Cana went upstairs to the bathroom, returning at 11:23. Because she could have used the downstairs bathroom, she disappeared for a short time, and she was drunk, I have labeled her as a Prime Suspect."
Next to Cana's name in the fourth box, he wrote Prime Suspect: Drunk, near office, vanished. Cana hiccuped, swaying on her feet.
"According to Wendy, Carla, and Happy, Wendy asked Carla to follow Cana around 11:18 so that Cana wouldn't pass out or so that Cana actually goes to the bathroom. Carla said that she returned right before Cana saying she was unable to locate her. Carla is not a prime suspect as she would need a weapon - the sword here is unused and too heavy for her - so even though she was upstairs, by herself, and could not find Cana - which is very suspicious, I think that Carla is a Stretch to Suspect." Freed wrote this down on Carla's row along with No weapons.
Freed's accusations and the filling out of the chart continued with Droy (A stretch to suspect as he had been downstairs) and Elfman (Completely innocent as he fainted). Erza was next - she was labeled a Prime Suspect: Near office, as she had visited the infirmary for bandages after the Natsu/Gray fight at 11:20-11:25, but the setback was that she had no way to kill Makarov, seeing as swords were not an option.
"Evergreen left for upstairs - the S-Class board, as she disagreed with Laxus' job - at 11:15. Bickslow followed nine minutes later, meaning she had almost ten minutes by herself when she could have killed the Master," Levy said as she read the chart, Freed standing behind her.
"Hey! Who wrote that?!" Evergreen snarled. "Was it you, Freed Justine? I thought we were on a team!"
"You accused Bickslow, earlier," Freed replied mildly. "And we are only stating the facts."
Evergreen huffed as she crossed her arms.
"Anyway, I think we should label Evergreen a Prime Suspect, because she was upstairs and was gone for a long time," Levy said as she wrote down said words. At this, Evergreen turned her glare from Freed to Levy.
Next was Freed (Stretch to Suspect as he was downstairs in the library for a book on runes). Then was Gajeel - he was labeled a Prime Suspect because he'd been upstairs. Gray was a Prime Suspect because at 11:24 he had gone to the infirmary - on the opposite side of the S-Class board - upstairs. Happy was a Stretch to Suspect as he had no weapon, although at 11:48 he had flown upstairs to to S-Class board, as from a dare from Carla he was supposed to snatch one without being caught. He had been - from Wendy. Jet was considered a Stretch to Suspect as well - he'd been at the library, downstairs, looking for a book for Levy at 11:41. He'd returned around 11:46-11:50.
Around 11:50, probably earlier, Juvia had gone upstairs to the infirmary. Her reason - "Gray-sama was bleeding through his bandages so Juvia offered to get some more for him. Gray-sama insisted that Juvia didn't have to but Juvia went anyway."
Levy replied as she stared at the chart, "Juvia is considered a Prime Suspect, then." Juvia didn't object.
Then there was Laxus. At 11:11-11:15, Laxus had gone upstairs to pick a mission from his team. However, Laxus' job hadn't satisfied his team, which had ended up with every single S-Class mission and every member of the Thunder God Tribe going up to the S-Class board at one point or another for a job.
Now, all four of them wished they hadn't even thought about taking a request.
"Prime Suspect," Levy said as she wrote the words for Laxus's fourth and last box. "Near office."
They moved onto Levy, who Freed fairly ruled as a Prime Suspect as she had gone upstairs to search for Pantherlily. Then Lissana, who was a Prime Suspect as she had also gone upstairs, to look for a hangover cure for Elfman in the infirmary. Lucy was a Prime Suspect. At 11:05-11:10, she had gone to and returned from the guild's downstairs library. Usually, they would consider her a Stretch to Suspect, but as she had spirits she could have summoned to do the deed for her, they labeled her one of their top suspects.
Max was also a Prime Suspect - his magic might have created a Sand Fake. Mirajane was a Stretch to Suspect. At 11:11 or 11:15, Droy had asked if she could make some food for him ("A late night snack"). Mirajane had returned with food at 11:23. No one seemed to blame her for finding Makarov's body - instead, they said it "wasn't her fault" as "she had screamed seconds after going upstairs", which "was too short of a time" for Mirajane to kill Makarov.
At 11:05-11:10, Natsu had gone and returned from the downstairs bathroom. He was labeled Stretch to Suspect. Pantherlily disappeared, but Gajeel didn't notice until 11:26. The Iron Dragon Slayer had asked Levy to go and search for his Exceed - Levy had gone upstairs while Gajeel looked outside. They hadn't found him, although Gajeel insisted at 11:35, which was when they'd met up again, that his dragon nose might find Pantherilly, so he'd gone upstairs to search. Sure enough, a few minutes later, Gajeel returned with Pantherlily.
However, Pantherlily had been gone for almost twenty minutes without an explanation. When interrogated, Pantherlily had simply said that he'd been looking at the S-Class jobs, but anyone who went upstairs reported not seeing him. To this, Pantherlily retorted, "I'm not supposed to be up there, am I? I was hiding every time I heard a noise because I didn't want to be sent back down." For this is he was a Prime Suspect.
Finally, Freed explained Wendy. "At 11:27-11:30, Wendy used the downstairs bathroom. She claimed that at 11:49, Happy returned with a stolen S-Class job. Wendy toke the job away and returned it, coming back from 11:50-11:55. Are you sure no one has an exact time?"
"I'm sorry, I wasn't looking to see what time it was!" Wendy wailed.
Freed said, "It's fine... however, I am sorry for this, Wendy." He wrote Prime Suspect on the fourth box of the last row with Wendy's name. Then, on another sheet of paper, he started writing several times and names.
"This is a timeline of where everyone was at certain times," Freed announced. "Using this, we may be able to prove a few more people's complete innocence."
Similar to the other paper, he passed it around so that everyone got a close look:
11:00 - Alzack, Bisca, and Asuka leave guild.
11:05-11:10 - Natsu goes to and returns from downstairs bathroom. Lucy goes to and returns from the guild's library.
11:10-11:20 - Cana goes to the upstairs bathroom, drunk.
11:11-11:15 - Laxus walks upstairs to S-Class board. Mirajane heads into the kitchen. Gray and Natsu fight.
11:15 - Laxus returns with a mission. Evergreen disagrees with job and goes upstairs to choose a different job.
11:18 - Wendy asks Carla to follow Cana to the bathroom to help her out. Carla leaves.
11:20-11:25 - Carla comes back saying she couldn't find Cana. Erza heads to the upstairs infirmary to grab bandages for Natsu and Gray after fight.
11: 23 - Cana returns. Mirajane returns with food for Droy.
11: 24 - Bickslow follows Evergreen up to S-Class board. Gray goes back to the infirmary.
11: 26 - Pantherlily disappears. Gajeel and Levy split up to find him. Levy searches upstairs, Gajeel outside.
11:27-11:30 - Bickslow and Evergreen return with a mission. Wendy goes and returns from bathroom.
11:35 - Gajeel goes upstairs to smell Pantherlily upstairs. Levy returns to bar with Jet and Droy. Gray returns.
11:38-11:40 - Gajeel returns with Pantherlily. Droy runs to downstairs bathroom.
11:41 - Lissana walks to infirmary. Jet heads to library.
11:45 - Droy returns saying that he had accidentally broken a window in the bathroom. Lissana returns.
11:46-11:50 - Jet comes back. Freed heads to library for a book on runes. Juvia goes upstairs to infirmary.
11:48 - Happy flies upstairs to S-Class board.
11:49 - Happy returns; Wendy quickly takes the job away and goes upstairs to return it. Max leaves for the upstairs storage room.
11:50-11:55 - Juvia returns with bandages. Max returns with box that he gives to Mirajane. Wendy returns.
11:59 - Mirajane finds paperwork Makarov forgot and brings it up to his office; finds body.
"Levy has also made a list of everyone who is innocent, who would be hard to suspect, and the prime suspects," Freed said.
"Prime Suspects," Levy read, adjusting her reading glasses,"are Cana, drunk, near office, vanished; Evergreen, near office, gone for a long time; Erza, Gajeel, Lissana, Gray, Juvia, myself, Max, and Wendy: near office; Laxus, near office, motive; Pantherlily, near office, vanished; and Lucy, who can summon spirits to kill for her."
"Those who we labeled 'Stretch to Suspect' are: Bickslow, upstairs but at same time as others; Happy and Carla: no weapons; Droy, Freed, Jet, Natsu: downstairs; Mirajane, downstairs in kitchen. The only one that we know that could not have killed Master Makarov is-"
"Elfman! We forgot Elfman!"Mirajane exclaimed. "He's still down there, passed out on the floor!"
"Why didn't anyone try to wake him up?" Erza demanded.
"I tried earlier with a bucket of water!" Lissana said. "But he wouldn't wake up."
Moving as one, everyone ran to the stairs and railing outside of Makarov's office. They stared near the bar, where Lissana had dumped a bucket of water on Elfman's fainted body earlier, but all that was left was a small puddle and nothing to show that 'Beast Arm' Elfman was ever there.