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They couldn’t believe their eyes.
Sofia is…dead.
She’s really dead.
Louie feels like he’s about to puke.
“Ding Dong, A Participant is dead! Please make your way to the greenhouse to begin your investigation!”
Everyone jumped at that.
Oh.
Oh No.
The trial.
If they don’t find out who it killed the princess of Enchancia, then they’ll all die.
Sofia deserves justice but that doesn’t mean they want to send someone to death like this.
“We came as soon as we heard and- oh frog!”
“Sofia?!”
“Oh god. Oh fuck!”
The other teens have come to the greenhouse and are horrified to find Sofia’s body.
“Of all the people, why does it have to be the sweetest kid here?!” Jake shouted.
“What am I going to tell King Roland?” Chloe whispers to herself.
Tilly collapsed to the floor.
Everyone rushed towards her.
“Tilly, are you okay?!”
Eclipsa frowned.
“The kids shouldn’t be here. Let’s get them back to the dorms.”
Louie steps back a bit.
“Hold on, what about the others? Kim, King, Molly and Lunella haven’t arrive yet! We don’t even know where Perry is, shouldn’t we still go look for them?” He asks.
“I- Actually you’re right, where the heck are those kids?” Stan asks.
“Sorry, It took me a while to calm Molly down.”
Kim walks in, carrying Molly, who looked like she just had a panic attack.
“What happened?” Randy asks.
“I don’t know. I just found her like this before the announcement.” Kim answers.
Molly just stares at Sofia.
Judging from her eyes, she couldn’t believe that she’s gone.
“This is really happening, huh?” Molly asks.
“Molly, are you okay?” Louie asks.
“Yeah, just a little shaken up because of-“
Molly got caught off by two people arguing.
“I didn’t do anything!” Lunella’s voice came from outside.
“Likely story, cretin!” King shouted back.
“What the heck?” Anne steps outside.
She finds Perry(?) trying to stop King and Lunella from strangling each other.
“What is going on?!”
All three of them stopped.
King quickly points to Lunella.
“Lunella-“
Nezumi appeared in front of them.
“Save the accusations for later!”
Nezumi teleported them back to the greenhouse.
“What the-?”
Nezumi cleared his throat.
“About time, I was worried that I’d have to get involved and frame one of you!” Nezumi says.
“What?”
Before anyone could ask, they get handed each of a large pad.
“This is the Nezumi File. It least some details about Sofia’s death.” Nezumi says.
“How do we know that you didn’t actually kill Sofia yourself?” Lunella asks.
“If I did want to kill you, I would have done so already.”
They all got silent.
“Well I’ll be leaving now, have fun!”
And with that, Nezumi leaves.
Whether they like it or not-
The Investigation Starts.
“First of all, Where the heck have you three been?!” Anne pointed to Molly, King, and Lunella.
Molly flinched at that and King glared at Lunella.
“Lunella was trying to kill Molly.”
…
“What.”
Did they heard that right?
“Can you repeat that?” Kim asks.
“It’s true, Lunella broke into my room and tried to kill me. I don’t know why King and Sofia were out and awake at the time but they managed to save me. We spent the entire night running around.” Molly says.
Lunella got quite.
“Lunella? Say something, please.” Varian asks.
The girl sighed.
“It’s true.”
Everyone got taken in surprise.
“Lunella?”
It was the motive, wasn’t it?
Someone in their family was in danger and Lunella had to save them.
Louie supposed he couldn’t blame her but-
Someone still died, and Louie had a feeling finding out who killed Sofia isn’t going to be easy.
Truth Spell Obtained!
Attempted Murder.
According to King, Lunella had tried to kill Molly but was stopped by King and Sofia, who were awake. It’s implied that Molly tried to run while King and Sofia were fighting Lunella.
“You do realize that you’re not allowed to investigate, right?” Kim asks.
“I know.” Lunella sighed.
“You kids aren’t allowed to investigate as well.” Stan says.
“What?!”
“But we wanna help!” King complained.
“But you don’t have to.” Wander says.
That’s when Louie decided to look around while the others are distracted.
*Urghk!*
Looking at a dead body is not easy.
He knows that detectives have to touch the body to figure out how someone died but there’s no way he’s doing that.
He just looks and hopes to see if there’s any clues.
Huh. Sofia’s stomach is wrapped around with a bandage, and there’s a medkit nearby.
Did the killer do that or…did someone else find Sofia and tried to stop the bleeding?
Was this murder an accident or on purpose?
Truth Spell Obtained!
Sofia’s Stomach.
While Sofia seems to have suffered a stab wound on her stomach, there are bandages wrapped around her stomach. Unclear if the killer did this or someone found the body before the body discovery announcement and tried to stop the bleeding.
Truth Spell Obtained!
Medkit.
A medkit is found near Sofia’s body. It seems someone had found her before the body discovery announcement and tried to stop the bleeding as much as possible.
Louie decided to look at the Nezumi file to see if Sofia actually died from stab wounds.
Princess Sofia of Enchancia.
Location: Greenhouse.
Time of Death: Unknown.
Cause of Death: Blood Loss.
Other information: Suffered from multiple little stab wounds across her stomach and coughed up blood. The body was also exhausted before death.
Exhausted? Well, the other kids did say that they’ve been running around all night.
But Nezumi added that so it must be important to the case, however, why is the time of death unknown?
Truth Spell Obtained!
Nezumi File.
Lists the state of Sofia’s body and how she died.
Suddenly, someone picked him up by the hoodie.
“Hey!”
“Come on kid, let’s get you back to the dorms.” Stan says.
On their way back, Louie takes note of the fields.
There’s a bunch of blue slime and the grass kinda looked odd; like the wind was blowing in a certain direction kind of odd?
Must be where the others fought.
Truth Spell Obtained!
Battlefield.
The field is a mess. Covered in slimes and dirt. Most likely caused by King, Lunella, and Sofia.
Now that they’re in the dorms, Louie took a look at the main room.
It was also a mess.
The whole room is covered in slime, the sofas have slashes on them and everything else is scattered on the floor.
They really made a mess.
Truth Spell Updated!
Battlefields.
The fields and the main room are a mess. Covered in slimes and dirt. Most likely caused by King, Lunella, and Sofia.
“Now stay here while we investigate.” Stan says.
All the kids but Tilly grumbled.
“No complaints here.” Tilly says.
King rolled his eyes.
“Sooo…now’s a good time to give alibis, King.” Louie says.
King sighed.
“Well…”
I couldn’t really sleep after the motive.
After a while, I decided to head out of my room and go to the kitchen and get myself a drink.
But on my way there, I saw Perry and Sofia looking for medkit.
We chat for a while but then we heard a crash so we went to check it out.
We found Lunella pining Molly to the ground, trying to kill her.
We all tried to stop her.
But everything went to chaos after that.
I don’t know how but we all managed to get separated from each other.
“That’s all I know, I swear.”
Louie could believe that but-
Just how did all five of them get separated?
Truth Spell Updated!
Attempted Murder
According to King, he went to the kitchen to drink some water and found Sofia and Perry looking for a medkit. The three chat for a while until they found Lunella trying to kill Molly and tried to stop them. King doesn’t know how all of them got separated at one point.
“Wait, Sofia was looking for a medkit?” Tilly asks.
“Yeah, why?”
“There was medkit near Sofia’s body. She must have been carrying that the whole night.” Louie says.
Or did someone else carried that?
…
“Hey Molly, you’ve been awfully quite.” Louie says.
“Huh? Oh, yeah. I’m just- trying to process everything.” Molly says.
“That’s okay. I’m still having a hard time believing this is happening.” Tilly says.
Louie starts to take notice at Molly’s state.
She looks…tired. Really tired.
Her hair is a mess and there’s small bits of dirt and slime on her body.
Her hands are oddly clean, however.
She must have been hiding in the girls’ bathroom at the time.
But why would-
“Where did you even find that?!” Chloe’s voice interrupted.
The kids peeked outside and see Anne holding a bloody rake.
“It was just lying around in the greenhouse.” Anne says.
“Woah.” King says.
“…”
Truth Spell Obtained!
Bloody Rake.
Anne found a bloody rake in a greenhouse. Seems to be the murder weapon.
*Ding Dong!*
“Attention all participants, the investigation is over! It’s time to begin the trial, please head your way to the gym.”
Shoot.
He’s not ready, no one is.
But they’ll have to do it.
Otherwise, they’ll never see the light of day again.