yogen | network, 10/07

Well, I wouldn't want to ruin the mystery, since this network is public after all. If you'd like to disclose your murders to me in private, I don't mind. You seem to be having fun.

Here are my hints to you. Some of these will be more obvious than others.

#1: Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I’m double, I’m single,
I’m black blue and gray,
I’m read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?

#2: Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die. What am I?

#3: What can kill with only a thimbles worth; yet is around you at all times?

#4 & #5:
Two friends found side-by-side,
One in a dreamless, eternal sleep,
One with a broken heart for the fallen.

I do hope this is fun for you.

then i'll give a few hints about my own

i hate them so much
i'm glad they're dead
die die die die die die die die die die die die di

[ -- his message cuts off ]

I can see you're quite passionate. Tell me, Dito, is there anyone in this place you actually like? I don't recall you having many coveted people.

he's dead already
fucking loser lol

[ he's pretending he's not upset ]

[Squinting at his PDA... RIP to Dito's friend.]

Death is rarely permanent in this place, as I'm sure you've noticed. Perhaps he'll come back for you.

god i hope not
i want him in the fucking ground

Are you going to kill him yourself, should he return? Genuine question.

yeah
i'm still mad someone else got him first

Perhaps you'll be lucky the second time around, then. It truly is disappointing when someone snipes your kill.

tell me about it
mine got messed with this time, too
so fucking annoying

Really now? I take it the third murderer had something to do with that one. Was it after you already left the scene?

yeah
i don't think he killed anyone though
he's just a pain in the ass

Fine, since everyone and their mother thinks that people's lives are just a game, I'll play along for this. I'll try my best to break some of them down, but forgive me if I happen to stumble on some of the details- I didn't investigate too much so I'm relying more on what I've heard and taken note of from others.

[ Yeah, no- Senku took a mental health day after he heard just how many bodies were found. He loves humanity, and absolutely hates it when such casualties like this happen. Between this and everything else that happens in this school, it's been testing his patience.

After all, how long before he finds himself dead at the hands of someone else? ]

Riddle 1: The answer is "eye." It's written with three letters, they can be different colors, and it's also a palindrome, meaning it can be read forwards and backwards. I assume this has to do with Rue Ryuzaki. The real Rue Ryuzaki, since they were found with their eyes in their pocket and not where they usually are supposed to be. Whoever stole their PDA decided to have their own little clue scavenger hunt.

[If Lucifer gets a say in it, no matter Senku's opinions of him, Senku won't die at all. That's the sort of loyalty the Avatar of Pride has to give out.]

Correct. I should have known you would be looking on the network. Had I accounted for that, I might have made these a little more difficult in an effort to stump you.

How lucky of me, then. I think I prefer these over and done with, actually, so that people can get closure, if anything.

Riddle 2: Fire. Give fire enough fuel and it "lives," but if you give it a drink of water, it dies out. I'm assuming this was the body found halved in front of the doors to the courtyard, strung up burned to a crisp. I can't say they're recognizable due to how they turned out, so if you have a name, feel free to give it out.

[ In other words, Body number 1! ]

I doubt you knew them. :) Closure hardly matters.

Correct. I have no name to give. Each victim was in my way, however, and I think we all know what happens when one gets in my way.

ok edgelord

[ sometimes you have to call the devil himself an edgelord. it's fine. it's fine? it's fine. ]

I may not know them, but there are students that do. I'm sure they'd want to know what happened.

You really took your time with the set-up for saying they were in your way. In your way of what, exactly?

Riddle 3: Air, or oxygen I'm assuming. You can kill someone just by injecting them with an empty syringe. Though, this murder has more to do with lack of oxygen. For instance: crushing someone's trachea. The person strung up in front of the counselor's office.

[ Body number 9! ]

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Correct. I'm impressed with you, you know.

[He's being genuine, for what that's worth.]

It was a gift for him. I'm rather fond of that man.

[this just in i am officially making it canon that lucifer wants to raw the counselor. sorry to anyone who previously thought i was at all sane.]

I rarely do things without sending a message. I wonder what someone as intelligent as you thinks the message was? Should you be able to answer that, you'll have the answer to your own question.

Thanks, I guess. Mensa reached out to me once- I guess their little brainteasers paid off.

But I guess in a way, this teaches me all I need to know about the Counselor too.

[ Good to know that the counselor here is ALSO insane! If he takes bodies as presents, Senku doesn't wanna get to know him. Senku's only heard about him from meetings- he's never personally met the guy himself. Which is a good thing since it means Senku hasn't killed anyone.

also you're valid. ]

And lastly, Riddles 4 & 5: I'm sure it's referring to Elizabeth and Minato. They were found in the elevator leaning against each other. One seemingly sleeping peacefully, and the other with a gash in his chest.

This means four bodies were left. Two of which Dito killed, and two of which has an unidentified culprit as of this moment in time.

[ A message, huh? Of course it was all for some message. People kill for many things, money, power, love. This is the Avatar of Pride we're talking about, so it couldn't have been for something like greed; that's another demons' domain.

...Of course it has to be love. ]

As for deciphering messages, I assume it has to do with someone you were close to. Someone who recently passed.

[ Senku knows Clamor. He's very aware of the toll his death took on Noah, and he does recall seeing Lucifer hanging around him quite a bit with Sidney. It must have something- no. Everything to do with that. ]

I'm genuinely impressed. Well done.

I truly am disappointed in Elizabeth and Minato. I consider them my friends still. But, unfortunately, that is what happens when you cross me. It truly is a pity; my loyalties only go so far.

[Lucifer, see, is Pride. And Pride, fundamentally, believes it can never be wrong. There's a reason he very much sees himself as both the protector and the executor around here.]

My intent had been to only kill the three third-years that were directly interfering with me. But, yes, you're right — it does have to do with someone who recently passed. Vengeance, of a type.

A message that reminds others what happens should they dare to take from me what's mine.

[Lucifer's yandere arc has started.]

[ There's a lot to unpack here, and Senku is tempted to throw away the whole suitcase. There's not much reasoning with a narcissist, after all. Much less the one who embodies that of Pride. ]

Guess we both have different definitions of the word "interference."

[ Senku could only imagine what would happen if he tried to "interfere." How far does this mans loyalty truly go for him? ]

A lot of your wording can use some work, actually. People aren't things. But I'm not here to argue- I'm just here for the truth.

What do you know about the last two murders? Do you know who the culprit is, or how the timeline went?

[ Lucifer had to have run into the other culprits at some point, possibly. Time frames are real weird. We do have confirmation that the second murderer is Dito, but the third is still up in the air. ]

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[But does Senku know how those third years interfered with Lucifer is the question? No one has bothered to ask about that, have they? Your truth-seeking is off base, to him; you're missing what Lucifer sees as the bigger picture.]

I doubt my word will mean much to you, but I don't know anything about the other murders. The most I know currently is that Dito killed two people who he apparently hated, which is clearly not a difficult thing to attain, his hatred.

By my honour, I swear I know nothing about the other murderers, like how Dito did not know mine.

...Alright.

[ Yeah, he's sure it isn't hard to do such a thing either. ]

I suppose there's one other thing I don't understand: Why send this message if the one that it should actually be intended for is already dead? If it's in the name of vengeance, it doesn't make sense to just kill a group of people over it if they didn't have any involvement to begin with.

[ Noah's told him about REDACTED-kun, after all. ]

Please, just when I was so confident in your ability to figure me out.

[Somewhere, as he's writing this, Lucifer is sipping a mug of coffee, cozied up with a book in his lap, reading in between network pings. He's really taking this shit seriously, isn't he?]

Do you know, conclusively, that they didn't have involvement?

Do you think this message is intended just for that person?

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