Trial 2-4: Turnabo-
HOLD IT!
SD here, along with Lime, on some semi-official business.
So, as part of a giant fandom-wide story promotional stunt deal, blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada, etc.-etc.-etc., some of our good friends (including some of AFoFD's alumni) are writing SYOCs of their own, and we'd appreciate it if you were to take some time to go over and support them too! They need the feedback to keep on writing too.
Without further ado, here are the people we'd like you to help out:
Climbing to Hope - A Dingus With Sweet Shades (Matthew Tanner's creator)
"My name is Nicholas White. My brother and I are members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Special Unit; a highly confidential counter-terrorism team. I'm still just a student, of Hope's Peak Academy. Something is going on behind the scenes, here. Something fishy. I don't like it. I am Nicholas White, and I'm here to solve this."
Trapped in a spiralling world of confusion and despair, seventeen SHSL students (or shall we say, ex-students) of Hope's Peak Academy must deal with their manaical host, the outside interference continually trying to break in, and each other. But that's not the only plot going on at the moment - in the background, a sinister plot is brewing, and the heroes of the story may not quite be who they appear to be...Now comes with 100% more leg space - why have the Mutual Killing Game in an airship when you can have it in a whole goddamn city?
Safe Haven - CaptainQuackin (Hideki Kenta's creator)
"In the midst of The Tragedy the symbol of Hope worldwide has fallen. The Future Foundation's HQ has been over run with despair, soon shutting down and ceasing to function. A mastermind decided that it would be fun to use the Shattered Hope to forge more Despair... In this destroyed Safe Haven, will it bring the Downfall of the world?"
Set in the AFoFD continuity (yes, you heard that right), the Ultimate students this time around find themselves in the not-actually-so-safe-haven, also known as the ruined Future Foundation main headquarters - or at least, one of them. In any case, Monokuma returns to subject them to even more torture than ever, with the assistance of a few...associates. Will Juniper Everett, the Ultimate Barista, find a way out of this perennial madness? Featuring art drawn by none other than our 'official' artist, Khronovision (Ashley's creator)!
Dawn Rider - CrimsonSkyTamer (...not exactly anyone's creator)
"My name is Nicol di Avantia, and I am one of the talents on board the Dawn Rider. Sixteen of us went in. But none of us may exit alive."
Basically, an amnesiac gets stuck on a boat with about sixteen other psychos- I mean students. Chaos and mild hilarity ensue, as long as you ignore the seriousness of the outcome - whoever wins this Mutual Killing Game, if they even make it to the end, will lead the world away from Despair. But that's not the most important thing right now. What is the answer to the question: "Who am I?" The famed origin story of our ghost beb Rin (Lime's OC) and amnesiac inventor Ayumu (my OC), if anyone's interested. Features a protagonist whose narration is written by none other than yours truly. Beware the lolicons.
We'd really, really like it if you'd spare some time to go check them out as well! Thank you so much for your attention, and I hope they also get the attention their fics deserve.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming: Whodunnit? A.k.a AFoFD. Cheers!
Trial 2-4: Turnabout Deception
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Ashley: I can see the connection!
Break!
"..."
I didn't have to say anything else. The interface reflected what I had inferred, and frankly, I didn't have to courage to look anywhere but it.
Two pairs of glasses glinted in the light, as both of their owners adjusted them on their face.
"Interesting." Tien stated in a low voice. "I take it you have the means to back up your claim?"
"Yes...Do tell." Matthew murmured. "I mean, you gotta have some reason to think that the shard of glass came from eyewear, right?"
"Well…" I tapped my forehead. "There...wasn't anything else in Xiang's room that was remotely made of glass. I don't think Xiang had gone anywhere else outside, and even then, why would there only be a single shard of glass in his scarf?"
"That's true…" Nico was deep in thought. "There weren't any injuries to Xiang's neck, was there?"
"Not that I could find any of." Hideki crossed his arms. "And before you ask, allow me to back it up with the pictures I took."
Swiping to the right, Hideki opened up the contents of his Electro-ID's camera. A close up of Xiang's upper body, minus his scarf, was brought to the forefront.
"I don't see any injuries...I think." His good eye blinked. "Maybe there's one right there in-"
"The side of the neck…" Sasha thumbed their - Xiang's - scarf. "Like where I cut myself."
"What is it with you people and talking about self-harm?" Ataru cut in. "Seriously, do we really have to put another CW into this?"
"What?" was the general response of everyone present, including me.
"It was an accident…" mumbled Sasha, "And you shouldn't make fun of CWs…"
"What is he talking about, though?" asked Hideki.
"Long story."
"Anyways." I broke in. "Other than the cut we've established to have come from this specific shard of glass, there aren't any other injuries or signs that anything else glass could have impacted him."
"No other cuts, no bruises...nothing." Johan swiveled the picture to face him, and me by proxy, since I was on his left. "If the glass shard hadn't been brought up, I don't think I would have known it existed."
"Then it had to be coming from a pair of glasses!" Sasha insisted. "In fact, I think I know how a shard of glass from those glasses ended up in Xiang's scarf!"
==Select!==
1. In a struggle
2. By accident
3. Hisoka Higami
4. Not actually from glasses
Sasha: I've got it! Everything makes sense now!
"I suppose that the most likely explanation is that the glasses were broken in a fight. Xiang was more than capable of defending himself, after all - it's not a stretch to say that he at least got one good swing in before succumbing to the poison."
"Oh? Well, if it indeed comes from our glasses…"
Tien slammed a fist down on the podium. "How do we both still have our pairs of glasses intact and in one piece?"
"...You have spares." Maya deadpanned.
She visibly flinched and gasped, before composing herself. "That may erstwhile be true, but are you sure just because they're the only thing in our general vicinity, it automatically makes us any more guilty?"
"If you have anything else that may provide us with an explanation, I should hope you present it now, Ms. Phuong." Faen intoned.
"How about this, then?" She brought up something with her Electro-ID.
==Select!==
1. Bottle
2. Snowglobe
3. Mirror
4. Syringe
Tien: Logically speaking, it was this.
"...Where did you find that?" Hideki raised his visible eyebrow.
"The men's changing room." Tien explained, rotating the screen so that all of us could see the truth bullet. "I found this tucked away neatly in a corner of the male changing rooms when I went there earlier."
Jackie pondered out loud, "You think it's ze reason for Xiang's neck injury?"
"Hypothetically so." Tien peered at her oddly. "I'm surprised at your lack of fervour in defending Matthew."
"Well, moi, for one, believe he's completely innocent. Besides, ze night of ze murder, I can personally vouch that Matthew was in my room all night."
Beat.
"...Too much information, Jackie." Matthew groaned.
==Nonstop Debate!==
Weak points are in italics, break points are in both bold and italics.
==Begin!==
Ammunition loaded: Papers in Pool, Washing Machine, Labcoat, Piece of Paper
Tien: In any case, this syringe likely proves one thing.
Tien: The murderer had to have access to the male changing rooms, and therefore, would most likely be male.
Lucille: But zhey also found a knife in the female changing rooms...
Johan: How could that have happened? Was there an accomplice?
Maya: No, you dolt. Accomplices don't get any benefits - only one person gets to graduate.
Sasha: Well, one or both could have been planted during the investigation, when both doors were unlocked…
Nico: Why would the killer do that?
Sasha: Beats me. Throw us off, I guess.
Hideki: How are we supposed to tell what was planted and what's not, then?
Hideki: Unless anyone has access to the cameras?
Jackie: He's right - zhere's no way to tell!
==Counter!==
Nico: Hold up! It's my time to get lucky! (Fired: Knife)
"Actually…I might have an idea."
Nico tapped on the screen. "Tien, could you bring up that syringe again?"
"Of course." Doing just that, she asked, "Why?"
Placing the holographic picture of the knife Jackie had taken side-by-side with the picture of the syringe, Nico proceeded to stare at the both of them.
Moments passed.
"...Are you okay?" I queried, a little bit puzzled.
"I am...But I've just realized what I was staring at these two things for."
"Get on with it, then." Maya snorted. "We don't have all day."
"I do."
She turned towards the giggling bear. "Shut your face, grandm-"
"Why is the syringe completely dry?"
Maya paused mid-insult. "What?"
"The knife is moist and wet - looks like it was washed very recently, while the syringe doesn't have any water on it." Nico explained.
Hideki scratched his chin. "So you think that the knife was planted after the syringe, making the killer male?"
"No, that's not my point...The syringe is dry." She zoomed in on the small instrument. "No signs of liquid, or any bloodstain marks. Nothing to indicate the needle was used - the syringe is completely dry."
"Then-?"
"Doesn't that strike you as completely off?" Nico argued. "If the syringe was completely dry, it means it was never used to stab Xiang, nor inject anything. In that case, what was it even used for?"
The rest of us paused as the information sunk in.
"Wait," I asked. "Other than Tien, did anyone even investigate the men's room?"
"Yeah, me," said Matthew. "W-Why?"
"Did you search it really thoroughly?"
"What is this about-" Tien was cut off by his answer.
"Yes, I didn't miss a single spot. I swear to God I didn't!"
"And were you in there before Tien?" I asked.
"I...don't know." Matthew turned to her. "Tien, what time did you come into the male changing rooms?"
"...We don't have watches or clocks in here, Matthew, how am I supposed to answer that-?"
"Hang on." Sasha interrupted. They turned to me. "Ashley, your log notes on the knife were dated pretty soon after Ressa took a picture of it - does that mean you were in her vicinity when she found it?"
"Well, yes, we ran in there after Jackie took the picture."
"'We'?" Hideki coughed.
"Yeah. Matthew and I- oh!"
The epiphany near-well slapped me in the face.
"Matthew was just coming out of the male changing rooms when I ran into him." I explained. "And he had been in there for quite some time, while Tien was…"
"Lam was downstairs, talking to Ashley and I in JJ's room." Sasha muttered. "I'll swear that under oath, and Ashley will back me up. Lam could not have been in the changing rooms before Tanner."
Tien adjusted her glasses. "This proves nothing. Perhaps Matthew simply didn't find the syringe when I did."
"Well…"
Eric seemed perturbed. "She did come out of the male changing rooms after I saw Ashley and the married couple leave...Maybe she was inside with Matthew, and he just didn't see her?"
"What were you watching ze male changing rooms for?" Lucille asked over the din of Matthew and Jackie rapidly denying them being married - yet.
"Hiding place from her, of course!" Eric beat his chest with an arm. "I can vouch that the mad gadfly was in the male changing rooms around the same time the others left."
"...Gadfly?" Tien chuckled lightly. "First time I've heard that term being applied to me."
"In any case, it looks like we're getting nowhere. Anyone else have any credible evidence we can take a look at?"
I pondered. Is there anything else we've missed that could be used as evidence?
==Nonstop Debate!==
Weak points are in italics, break points are in both bold and italics.
==Begin!==
Ammunition loaded: Papers in Pool, Washing Machine, Labcoat, Piece of Paper
Lucille: From what I can tell, we have no more leads to go on.
Faen: But, as much as it saddens me to say it…
Faen: We do have some suspects, unfortunately.
Maya: As much as I hate to say it, I don't really know who's more guilty here.
Johan: Well, it's either Tien, who's only connected by the glass shard and syringe...
Johan: And Hideki, who actively has poison and could have used it.
Eric: It's definitely not him, man!
Eric: ...Although I can't see Tien doing it either.
Eric: She's a bloody psycho, but I don't see why she'd kill anyone over it.
Nico: Language.
Eric: ...
Matthew: Isn't there any way to determine who's not being honest with us?
Jackie: With ze glass shard out of the way, we have no new leads to go on.
Jackie: Who are we supposed to vote for, zhen?
==Counter!==
Ashley: Wait! That's not right! (Fired: Papers in Pool)
"I don't know for sure...but here."
I brought up the stack of papers. "I don't believe anyone saw the culprit dispose of the papers."
"What do these papers have to do with anything?" Johan asked.
"Well…"
==Select!==
1. Pay It Forward
2. Papers Please
3. Piece of Paper
4. Pay-Per-View
Ashley: Gee, this must be it!
"Um…"
I thumbed the words on the paper, as the memory of where I had last seen the particular combinations of words. "Doesn't the scrap of paper look...familliar?"
Sasha squinted. "That looks like...oh. The original psych profile."
"...Original?!" Hideki fumed. "Those papers were kept under tight surveillance - how in the world did any of them even get to the bottom of the pool?!"
"Wait, what are you guys even talking about?" Nico inquired. "What papers are those?"
Hideki lowered his head. "We decided that we needed to keep JJ's papers under wraps so that no one used them to commit a murder. Since Sasha and I were the most affected by them and Tien had already done her fair share of reading we decided the three of us would preside over them."
"Why are zhose papers so important, then?"
"...JJ had extensively detailed files on all of us." Tien stated. "He seemed to be keeping track of our bio data, and any interactions or any possible suspicions about us."
"But for those papers to appear there...only three people have access to those papers. And Sasha was in possession of the keycard - the ElectroID, that is."
Sasha glared. "Are you insinuating that I'm the murderer? We've been over this - I'm innocent."
"Yes." Hideki's eye shifted. "But that doesn't leave out our third associate."
All eyes followed his gaze, where they settled on the person he was staring at:
A currently-nervously-adjusting-her-labcoat Tien.
She fidgeted, before laughing an odd, breathy laugh. "Uh...Why is everyone staring at me?"
Hideki glowered. "Tien. What, exactly, did you do with JJ's papers?"
"I...I…"
Tien adjusted her glasses. "I plead the fifth."
Sasha smiled. "I opened the door for two people during the investigation - Ashley Jung and Phoung Tien Lam. The papers were still there then, so someone must have taken them while Ashley and I talked, thrown them into the pool, and bolted. And only one person fits the bill."
They froze. "Wait. But I know you were there to share those papers. I took them back afterwards too...So how did they even get in the pool?"
Tien was about to respond with a smug grin, when a new voice cut her off. "Well, duh, the answer's obvious."
Maya crossed her arms. "How did the files go from the angel of death's hands into the swimming pool? Simply put, they didn't."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"There isn't just one set of files."
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Maya: Nail on the head, I got it.
Break!
"...There are two. And one's a fake." she concluded, with a smug grin of her own.
Tien: I know you're wrong, and I'll prove it!
Maya giggled. "Looks like I've hit a nerve - I was just guessing, but that proves that I'm right."
"A guess…?"
Tien removed her glasses, before crushing them within her fingers. Dropping them to the ground, she proceeded to produce another, identical pair, and slid them onto her face.
"You're going to purely guess I forged those papers?" she scoffed. "Hah. Good luck trying to prove that."
Maya frowned. "Well, I ain't got shit on you, so-"
"Hold up."
Sasha raised a hand. "Can I take over this Crossed Swords?"
"I don't see why not. If you think you can argue stronger than Maya, go ahead and make your stand."
"Metl?"
A shrug. "Be my guest."
The orange light proceeded to shroud Tien and Sasha.
==Cross Swords!==
Usable Swords: Calling Card, Kitchen Knife File, Sasha Oryolov Files (Personal Truth Bullet)
Tien: Why would you accuse me ==/== of forgery?
Tien: What would I ever stand to gain ==/== from forging something like that?
Tien: There's no proof ==/== I ever forged anything!
Tien: You should be ==/== ashamed of yourselves!
Duel!
How strong is your will? Fight for your point!
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Progression!
Sasha: You should be ashamed ==/== of yourself, Lam!
Sasha: It's perfectly clear that ==/== you forged the profile.
Tien: You have ==/== no evidence!
Sasha: Your campaign is officially over! (Chosen sword: Sasha Oryolov files)
Break!
"I took copies of my papers, you know."
Tien gasped. "Wait, what?"
"Kenta and I both did. I wasn't about to leave the only copy of something that important accessible to two others."
Hideki nodded. "They're telling the truth. And you took photographs of your papers?"
They nodded. "Yes, of course. The moment Tien and Ashley walked into JJ's room I knew something was up. I just didn't know it would amount to this."
"Got anything to say for yourself then?" Hideki growled.
The ensuing silence was deafening.
"Yeah. I have an intrinsic need to state this 'something'." Tien's face was contorted with rage. "I am not guilty. Sasha Oryolov and Hideki Kenta are conspiring against me!" She shook her head repeatedly. "I'm innocent, I tell you! Innocentinnocentinnocentinnocent-"
Finally she stopped shaking her head. Her hair had fallen out of its do and was cascading down her back. "I won't stand for this, you insolent barbarians!"
An entire flurry of words once again erupted from Tien's stand. Her defiance was overpowering - most of us could barely stand hearing to her screams of 'innocence'.
But I had to stand strong.
"I'll initiate the Panic Talk Action."
The black shadow rose up.
...I know she's guilty. She has to be. And I think I know how to break through her lies!
==Panic Talk Action!==
([+])([+])([+]) PHUONG TIEN LAM ([+])([+])([+])
Shield x6! [6 remaining]
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Begin your assault! Fire at will!
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([+])([+])([+])([+])([+])([+])
([What manner of ignoramus are you?!])
[|The kind that knows you're guilty.|])
Crack!
Shield fracture! [6 remaining]
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([+])([+])([+])([+])([+])([-/-])
([This trial is a farce! You are all conspiring against me!])
[|That's because you're guilty, Tien...Please stop denying it!|)
Break!
Shield break! [5 remaining]
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([+])([+])([+])([+])([+])([==/==])
([I am no killer! Why would you ever suspect me?])
[|All the evidence points to you as the culprit!|])
Break!
Shield break! [4 remaining]
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([==/==])([+])([+])([+])([+])([==/==])
([Sasha and Hideki are so much more suspicious than me!])
[|Maybe, because you framed them!|])
Break!
Shield break! [3 remaining]
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TEMPO UP!
NEGA TIME INITIATE!
"Woah!"
I fell backwards onto my, well, back. Rubbing my ears in pain, I stared as the magnitude of Tien's words became ever louder and all-encompassing. The shadow loomed all around me, and I was completely surrounded in the black, all-encompassing darkness…
...All-encompassing despair.
"Ashie!"
I blinked. Who was that?
"Ashie!"
From above the deafening din, I heard Nico calling out to me. "Ashie! Stay strong! I'm counteracting Tien's argument tempo with my songs!"
The reverberating bassline sounded through my ears. Slowly, the rest of the noise faded back into a dull groan, and the familiar beat of the song Nico played at the pool party began to fill my ears.
Reinvigorated, I stood up. "Thanks, Nico. Alright, I got this!"
FEVER TIME INITIATE!
ASSAULT RESUME!
([==/==])([==/==])([+])([+])([+])([==/==])
([Rebarbative fool! Have you no acumen, you asinine knaves?!])
[|...What? You don't even make sense anymore...])
Break!
Shield break! [2 remaining]
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([==/==])([==/==])([+])([+])([==/==])([==/==])
([I revealed my secret!])
[|That's not enough to prove your innocence!|])
Break!
Shield break! [1 remaining]
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(You are an imbecile! Stop accusing me!])
[|I know you're the killer, Tien!|])
Break!
Shield break! [0 remaining]
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([==/==])([==/==])([==/==])([==/==])([==/==])([==/==])
((I have no reason to kill Xiang! And you can't prove otherwise!))
Truth! Of! Your! Secret!
Ashley: Sorry, but it's all over for you!
Break!
"...You were the only one who knows what your secret is."
"True, you read it out to us that afternoon, in the fast food place."
"...But what's to say you didn't lie?"
"Please, Tien." I pleaded. "Tell us the truth. Let us still have some semblance of faith in you."
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"Du ma...The whole lot of you."
The words coalesced into a sphere, before a single pop made it disappear like a bubble, revealing Tien, who had an expression that was hard to read. "I thought I could get away with it. I was so close. But you all just had to mess my grand plan up. Well, congratulations."
She started to clap; a slow, rhythmic, sarcastic clap. "Bravo, the whole lot of you. Now I wish I'd actually picked someone to target - but if I did, this trial would have gone by so much faster. Or maybe I could have poisoned everyone-"
"Hah. As if. The moment you'd even try to kill more than two people, we'd have executed you on the spot."
She shrugged. "Fuck it all then. I failed, and that's it, so what are you guys waiting for?"
We just stood there, dumbfounded.
"Tien...why?" Nico asked, tears reforming in her eyes.
"Didn't any of you just hear Ashley?" She crossed her arms. "I lied. Simple as that. No need to overcomplicate things."
"Then, why….how?" she began to cry softly. "Why'd you-"
"Why'd you frame Kenta and I, anyway?" I turned towards the source of the voice - Sasha. "That was a really elaborate frame-up. Must've been premeditated."
"Of course it was premeditated. In fact, here." A bottle was tossed through the air.
Catching it, I turned it to see what was written on it: 'Ricin'.
Sasha and Hideki both gasped. "Ricin - that's the slow-acting poison that killed Xiang, then?" remarked Hideki.
Tien smiled. "Indeed it was. I take it you can figure out the sequence of the murder from there, then?"
"Yeah. I can," I said, readying myself for the final step.
==Climax Inference!==
Act 1:
:Although Xiang only died late last night, the murderer's plan had already been set in motion earlier that day.
:Using a bottle of ricin they had acquired and a marker, they deliberately pinpointed a specific cup.
:They drew a small 'X' at its bottom, and sprinkled ricin at the bottom of it.
:Afterwards, they placed it back amongst the cups in order to make it look inconspicuous.
Act 2:
:When we all arrived to the Fast Food Place to discuss the motive and took our drinks, the murderer was careful not to take the cup they had previously marked.
:Then, during the revealing of our individual secrets, they went one step further. To conceal their plan they intentionally lied about their own secret, so as to not draw any suspicion to themselves.
:They were counting on some people to not reveal their secrets, and adjusted their plan accordingly when Hideki was one of those people and Sasha revealed their father to be the Kitchen Knife Killer.
:They also made sure of their target through the marked cups - Xiang Li, the Super High School Level Soldier.
Act 3:
:Later that day, they acquired a large-size labcoat from the storage room, and a kitchen knife from the, well, kitchen.
:They knocked on the door to Xiang's room. By coincidence Xiang had been expecting Sasha and thus opened the door and let them in, whereupon they attacked him.
:Even weakened by the poison, Xiang put up a bit of a fight. He managed to break the attacker's glasses, possibly by grabbing onto them and crushing them. One shard of glass from it fell into his scarf, where it stayed unnoticed.
:However, the attacker overwhelmed him, and stabbed him twice with the knife, attempting to imitate the Kitchen Knife Killer.
Act 4:
:Laying Xiang's body on his bed, they proceeded to leave a calling card in one hand in the same way the Kitchen Knife Killer would.
:They broke a piece of wood off of Xiang's bo staff and attached it to Xiang's door to make it seem like Xiang's murder could have been a closed-room case.
:Finally, they washed the kitchen knife in the swimming pool, before hiding it in the female changing rooms.
:But what the murderer didn't know was that not only did Xiang not die from the stab wounds, he also only eventually succumbed to the poisoning making the stab wounds moot.
Act 5:
:But the murderer's plan wasn't over yet, however. The next morning, they inserted themself into JJ's room.
:Their purpose there was to gather the files related to Sasha Oryolov, the other person they were trying to frame.
:And subsequently replace those files with forgeries, typewritten in the same style to prevent anyone from figuring out they were faked.
:But including or removing some specific details in order to point the finger of guilt at them.
Act 6:
:Lastly, they disposed of the original files in the swimming pool, counting on the water to erase the ink and make it seem like it was just a bunch of papers.
:They also acquired a syringe from the Medical Room, to serve as a red herring, unaware that it would already have been proven false.
:Their zealous need to construct the perfect alibi ended up dooming themself.
Ashley: That is the chain of events that progressed these two days...
Ashley: And they could only have been instigated by the real culprit of this case...
Ashley: And that's you, isn't it? Phuong Tien Lam?
Trial 2-4 FIN
12 Students Remaining
A/N: Okay, so this time it was obvious.
PowerPlayer: Yep, Sasha's really, really unstable.
Maya is really more reasonable than normal this chapter - but of course, you can understand why.
This guy: Thanks so much! Why did you feel iffy coming in, though?
MattRichardsthe1st: Thanks so much for your reviews!
Saiynt: I guess this is farewell, then. I hope you've enjoyed the AFoFD experience for all it was worth.
CrimsonSkyTamer: (Thanking you kindly for everything, sis. - SD)
SSBFreak: Haha, thanks so much! And Faen isn't a suspect because he wasn't the one serving the drinks (it was Tien, remember…)
Asujoll: Your reasonings on the characters are all fair. That's actually the first time I've heard that critique of Sasha, but you're absolutely right. I'll keep it in mind in future writing.
SomeSnappyName: It wasn't too obvious.
Shyjoker: I've already replied to this via PM because my reply was the size of the entire review replies section.
ezmonee6: Thanks so much!
A Dingus With Sweet Shades: Noice.
HeroinOfDarkness: Welp. That's what the glass was.
Question of the Chapter: Who would you say are the most attractive members of the AFoFD cast? We did this in the AFoFD Cult Skype chat and top three were Ashley, Maya and Ataru, all of whom scored above a nine out of ten on average. Surprisingly, Ataru was the ultimate victor - and SD's celebrating like the meme he is. But what about you guys?
Aaaaand, that's about it. Have a nice weekend, guys. See you back for Tien's despairful execution, next time. Upupupupupupu!