CW: blood. Vomit

Not again!

This can't be happening again!

Two of us are gone now!

Why?

Whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhyehyehywhywhy!!

"There, there. Just let it out," Ichigo rubbed my back as I continued vomiting in the nearest trash can after Toshino grabbed it as soon as I started.

"Damn, two gone," Toshino muttered from outside.

I shivered and wiped my mouth.

"I'm ok," I said.

"That's good," Ichigo sighed.

"Oi! Can we come in now?" Amy asked.

Toshino looked over his shoulder.

"He's ok. They can all come in now," Ichigo said as I got up.

Toshino let them in.

"J-Jun is dead? Two a-are dead now," Hirohito said.

"Damn who would even have the heart to kill two of us," Robin muttered.

"I can't imagine killing one person, let alone two," Sora said.

Everyone more or less has the same reaction.

"Hoohoo~ you done? Can I finally give you the Monkomi File?" Monkomi asked, appearing out of nowhere.

"Fine! Do what you want," Toshiaki groaned.

"Okie dokie then!" Monkomi handed us all the Monkomi File.

I took a look at it.

>Victim name: Jun Nishu

>COD: slit throat

>TOD: 12:47 almost 12:48

>Height: 5'9

>Weight: 170 lbs

The victim appears to have a crush windpipe before the split on their throat happened. They also seem to have a couple of old bruises that they had for a long time. There also seems to have a bump on there head, not enough to knock out. Hands are stabbed and their side also appears to be stabbed. Seemed to be a part of a struggle

I looked up from the File.

So many injuries. But it seems like the slit throat was what caused his death, I thought.

Did Jun and the culprit had a fight? Most likely since Jun was pretty violent due to the motive.

[Monkomi File #2 has been added to your Truth Bullets]

"Looks like the file showed us the injuries that Jun suffered. We don't really need to check the body," Amy sighed.

"Not true. We still need to check in case the File missed something," Robin pointed out.

I walked up to Jun's corpse.

His mouth is being covered by a pastel blue ribbon like a handkerchief wrapped around him.

It looked like the same one that Ichigo trapped him in.

[Pastel blue ribbon has been added to your Truth Bullets]

"Hmm, seems like his headband is wrapped around his neck. Probably the culprit's idea to hide the fatal injury. Hmmph, sucks to be them because the File told us that he died from a slit throat," Toshino explained.

!

"Yeah...you're right. But why put him up on the wheel like that?" I asked.

"M-maybe they c-couldn't just leave h-him on the f-floor like that," Hirohito suggested.

"Well whatever the reason is, I'm sure that the wheel is a clue to figuring out who the culprit is," Sora explained.

[Spinning wheel has been added to your Truth Bullets]

"I don't think we can investigate the corpse anymore," Toshiaki sighed.

"Wait what's that?" Sora asked and went to a corner that I didn't pay attention to.

She went over and picked up something.

Upon further inspection, it was a large hammer and it had blood on it.

Is this the murder weapon used to kill Kazuno? I thought.

"A hammer? What about it?" Toshino asked.

"Don't you see? It's evidence! This could be the potential murder weapon that killed Kazuno!" Sora pointed out.

"Can I see it?" Toshino asked, holding his hand towards it.

Sora handed him the hammer.

Toshino stared at it before throwing it behind him.

Thud!

"F*CK! What the f*ck! Who threw this?" Yuki exclaimed.

Guess he was behind him.

"Wh-what was that f-for?" Hirohito asked.

"Do you really think the murder weapon would be that simple to find? Obviously the culprit spend a while to set Jun's body up but with Kazuno, it only took a few seconds since she died instantly. Considering how hard the hammer fell behind me, it would have took a while to kill Kazuno," Toshino explained.

"So are you saying that it's not the murder weapon? Then what's the blood doing on it?" Sora asked.

All he did was shrugged.

"You tell me," he said and glanced at me.

[Hammer has been added to your Truth Bullets]

[Toshino's experiment has been added to your Truth Bullets]

"Now what?" Sora asked.

"I s-supposed that w-we can figure out h-how he got s-stabbed," Hirohito said.

"Like this?" Toshino pointed to a box on the table.

I took a look inside to see...

Throwing knives...

"Is that how Jun got stabbed?" Sora asked.

"Possibly," I muttered.

"I found something!" I heard Robin exclaimed.

He was at the corner, holding the trash can.

"D-did someone vomit in th-there?" Hirohito asked.

"None of your business who vomited. What did you want to show us?" Toshino asked.

"Have you noticed that there is blood mixed in with the vomit? And when you shake it," Robin proceeded to shake the trash can.

"You can hear something in there. Like metal scratching against each other," he explained.

"So there must be throwing knives in there. Which makes it the murder weapon for Jun's death," I concluded.

"Wait a minute! I have some missing knives here!" Ichigo exclaimed.

I turned around to see her holding the box of knives.

"Wait what?" Toshino asked.

Ichigo nodded.

"When I first arrived to my lab, I counted the knives and I had a total of fifteen. Now I have twelve," she explained.

"I see. So that definitely hits the spot on Jun's murder weapon. If only we knew what was Kazuno's was," I muttered.

[Throwing Knives has been added to your Truth Bullets]

[Trash Can has been added to your Truth Bullets]

"I think that's all we could find in here," Robin sighed.

"Hey e-everyone. I umm might have found something," Kana motioned towards us.

She pointed to a potted plant, not that far from Ichigo's lab.

"Ok? What's a potted plant have to do with this case?" Toshino asked.

"It's not the plant. It's what I found in it," Kana ducked down to grab the pot and turned it upside down to dump out the dirt.

Out came...

"Kazuno's sweater!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah...looks like the culprit hid it inside the pot. Look there's even blood on the sleeve," she held it up for us to see.

"Hmm but how was her sweater used in order to get the blood on there," Robin muttered.

Well at least we know where her sweater is, I thought.

[Sweater has been added to your Truth Bullets]

"I found some string!" Yuki announced.

"String?" Toshino asked.

"In the ceiling," he explained.

He was appeared to be holding onto air until I squinted to see that he was indeed holding some string.

"What's string doing there inside the ceiling?" Toshino asked.

"I dunno," Yuki shrugged.

"It must be connected to someplace," I muttered.

But where exactly? I wondered.

[String has been added to your Truth Bullets]

"Hoohoo~ so that's where that went!" Monkomi popped out of nowhere.

I didn't flinch at him since I was started to get used to him appearing out of nowhere. Everyone was getting used to it.

It's still always a surprise though.

"What do you mean 'that's where it went'?" Toshino asked.

"From the vault of weapons! I forgot to mention that in your labs, there is a secret passage to enter in the vault so you can get a weapon," Monkomi explained.

"And you're telling us this now?!" Toshino asked sharply.

All Monkomi did was shrug before disappearing.

"Should we find go look for this vault of weapons?" Sora asked.

"Possibly," Robin muttered.

"Hey guys! I found something that you might want to check out!" Toshiaki shouted.

We went back to the lab to see him pointing to a doorway next to the computer desk.

"That must be it!" Robin said.

"I even found some really dangerous weapons in there," Toshiaki explained.

Maybe...we can find the murder weapon for Kazuno! I thought.

The vault didn't look much.

It did have a variety of weapons in different areas.

"Hmm very thin string," Sora muttered as she approached a small blue box.

"Hey take a look at this! The spears and baseball bats look all crooked," Toshiaki explained.

"Someone must have took something from there. Was there anything in between the spears and the bats?" Sora asked.

"Who knows. Who knows," Robin replied.

[Array of spears and baseball bats has been added to your Truth Bullets]

Ding Dong~

"Hoohoo~ time's up! Investigation time is over. Everyone head to the courtyard and wait for me to begin the trial," Monkomi's voice could be heard from the speakers.

...

"I-I guess it's t-time," Hirohito said.

"Time to go through hell again," Toshino yawned.

We all walked to the courtyard.

Waiting for Monkomi to open Hell's Gate again.

Waiting to see which one of us dies because of their sins.

Waiting for it to be all over.

Two of us in our group has died.

Two...

One of us has to go.

One...

Why?

Why do we have to suffer?

Once someone is dead...

T H E Y C A N N E V E R C O M E B A C K

A/N: I feel like I always put an ominous message at the end of each investigation before the trial.

Are you all excited for it?

I know I am!

Hope you enjoy it -Flare