♪ my class trial, our class trial ♫

[heroicpolonaise]

Who: Everyone + Hiro if ori wants
When: January 12th, then anytime past January 15th
Where: Common Room
What: please let's wake steph and also maybe prove miyuki innocent if he really is
Warnings: tbd

[there is no gentle way to do this on the pda.

but you know what that is perfectly fine they were doing CSI rp earlier what's one more--]

All hands, round up.

Think we've got as much as we can right now, so let's settle in and work it out -- together. Come to the usual meet-up spot as soon as you can, and we're not leaving until the perp's worked out. Bring your own joe and a wit sharp as can be, because we are in for the long haul.

Detective Akamatsu, signing out.

[...

a-anyway.

meng yao's done his best to preserve one (1) stephanie meanswell and she's currently laying on the couch in a state some may find familiar and others not at all, but she's very much alive -- if barely. have your shock and surprise, this is going to be once all evidence is collected icly. also after noah and kaede make a grave for miss vp god rest her soul.

...

hiro is allowed to be here, if he wants, if only because part of this is his sister's death and one of y'all had BETTER take care of him.

there are no snacks, no drinks unless you byoj (bring your own joe), and kaede will wait until... all or presumably all are filed in before she speaks.]

I hate to say this, but you all are easily more experienced with this than I am... Still, there's no reason to wait on this when one of our classmates has turned up dead, and another [she is assuming stephanie is theirs] is in the state that she is. I don't want to think one of us had anything to do with it, but turning away from the truth only invites more pain--

So let's lay out what we know and try not to go at each others' throats about it.

[please. even the most unbelievable, impossible happenings have roots to them, and she wants it solved -- not just for hiro's sake, who's pain is something she can barely imagine, but for stephanie and the vice principal, too.]

[links:

○ investigative miroboard
○ round up one
○ round up two

Comments

[closewithnewintown]

[zzzzzz]

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer, who has not participated in investigating on account of "he's a bitch" and also idk his back pain or something, walks in and notices Stephanie and immediately just squints.]

...

Who did that to her soul?

[Please step forward if you shattered Stephanie's soul, Lucifer would like to exchange Words.]

[adsum]

[ plops down next to Stephanie like why are my two favorite people like this, what's the point of anything anymore ]

[heroicpolonaise]

[a soul thing........ out of her depth so--]

Sorry, this is where my newness really shows... Can you explain what you mean, Lucifer-san? Just something quick'll be fine, I can pick up as we talk.

[notsosou]

[Shin is skeptical about nobody going at each other's throats given Hiro is thiiis close *fingers touching* to committing revenge, and also every other past meeting, and also canon. But he also knows it's good to get things out early so... he'll put down an opener.]

Well, guess I'll start... There was a note on the Vice Principal's desk signed by Maya, asking her to meet her there. When I got there though... she'd already been murdered.

[He'll gesture to the little miro whiteboard board setup I'm assuming is there... a series of phone camera photographs have been blown up, printed out, and taped up to it, although the picture of Maya's body has been taped up facing the board so that Hiro doesn't have to look at it. Go up and have a look yourself if you want.]

It's not clear what killed her... which usually means void death. Ahaha, I wouldn't just go ahead and assume this is the murder site.

[It's certainly the 'send a message' site, at least. Something about it feels a little too neat; there's intent to it.]

[carpevinum]

I suppose you weren't here for that. Her physical state is similar to that of another student, Narumi Ito, who I and several other students worked to save. That is, both his soul and now her soul is shattered into various pieces. Does that help to explain what I mean?

[He really doesn't expect a human to fully understand, but...]

[commences]

( going to slip his arms around shin's waist so he can peek under his arm to try and get a closer look at the whiteboard with blown up pictures that they're nowhere close to. )

There was a note... ( huh... ) Hm, did you ask VP-san about it, what did she say?

( he's only asking for the people who didn't check the network, it's nice to have confirmation to go along with shin's newly discovered detective skills. )

Tell us everything, Detective Hiyori-kun...!

( he might be smiling but in this position, hopefully shin can't see him, komaeda's feelings positive because this is shin taking charge!! woo!! )

[heroicpolonaise]

[he's correct in that, a human does not fully understand. but she'll still give an appreciative smile.]

More or less. What's important is that she can be saved, and we have the means to do it.

[closewithnewintown]

[first sign of any non-breathing movement at all is her hand flopping onto his arm and just kinda tugging it until she can use it as a pillow.]

[adsum]

[ wild glance at Lucifer like can a shattered soul do THIS??! ]

[carpevinum]

[The local demon trying to explain this like "how to put this in human terms?" and he just cannot because it requires knowledge of magic and the like.]

The problem lies in the fact that we required Hanako to do it — he ejected our souls so we could visit Narumi's and reassemble the shards. Hanako is no longer here, and hasn't been for several months, and I cannot perform any magic at this time due to the leaning tower of failures in the study hall.

[Something he's made known, bitchily, since the day after he hexed them all.]

What I'm saying is... we may or may not be at a loss.

[mermaidcursed]

( yeah this is a shitpost but you know what's not? nene's love for her little sister. nene runs over immediately, falling to her knees beside as she checks- she's there. she's barely hanging on but she's there and she- oh god, nene's totally crying and it's like, definitely not a pretty sight and she's terrified but she's so relieved. ... nene will be sitting here with hiro for the duration of the everything, holding stephanie's hand thanks. no don't look at her crying shut up. )

[carpevinum]

[NO??????????????????????????????????????]

[heroicpolonaise]

Right, about that...

[a small look to noah, and then back to komaeda.]

The truth is, there's no way Hiyori-kun could've asked and gotten an answer for that... because Ebalon-kun and I found her body in the snow.

It seems like she'd fallen somehow, and that was... her cause of death. I'm not exactly a professional, but even I could tell that. Her limbs were, um, twisted in ways they really shouldn't be, her back too, and her head... was in the same state. Ebalon-kun mentioned that her bruising told the same story.

[so. at least one known.]

But there's something else. Her face was burned. Not beyond recognition, obviously, but it's still strange to me.

[mermaidcursed]

( SHE FUCKED UP BY TELLING HANAKO YES )

[silentabyss]

Right, and...

[Noah stands near Kaede and crosses his arms over his chest,]

None of the windows above the auditorium were shattered, though it's possible for someone to have opened them, pushed her out, and shut them, so I suppose there's that. But going back to the fire, it either wasn't magical fire, or the person who used the fire spell was too inexperienced to get it to last long. The reason I'm saying that is...

...

If it were magical fire, and done right, she wouldn't have been recognizable. We have two examples of that — Rue Ryuzaki and the mystery person who showed up in the pool in September. Which leads me to ask, did anyone discover signs of burning anywhere in the school? Ashes or a black spot on the floor, things like that? There wasn't anything like that in the snow outside.

[closewithnewintown]

[grabs arm with slightly more sense of purpose than before. now has two arm pillows. the height of luxury.]

[carpevinum]

[Sees that look and reverts from Asshole into Moderately Less Of An Asshole]

...Is Clamor here? Doesn't he have a spell for ripping souls out of people?

[He says it so ineloquently like MAYBE THERE'S A CHANCE]

[sisters]

( w-wait.. hold on a moment. )

Sorry to interrupt, but don't you think that's a little drastic for a first resort? Surely there's got to be another way...

( please y'all we do NOT need to jump to plan war flashbacks to the fourth floor first. it didn't seem like it worked so well that time, and while amami trusts clamor a lot more than [REDACTED], still... )

[suspiciousweapon]

[haha yeah guess who sure is here, being very quiet, like maybe everyone will forget he's here and a sickle if he does a real good impression of a non-magical sickle

he's not going to ignore that call out, tho, so everyone with spirit sight gets to hear him yelling from next to Noah]

Absolutely not! How many times do I have to explain that spell is too dangerous to use?! It can remove a soul from its body, sure, but it's not designed to put it back!

[commences]

Hm... would you need her to not be unrecognizable, is there a purpose it'd serve? It'd only take a few days to realize she was probably the one murdered.

( he sighs, ugh shin's his emotional support human being because komaeda paid for these dorms WHERES HIS REMBURSEMENT!?!?!? )

If she was in that state, it'd be easy to figure out who did it. ( since fire magic is really good, couldn't they weaken their magic? komaeda doesn't know about fire magic, isn't there people who take a class for that. )

I'm sure our murderer wouldn't want that.

( does shin squeak when you squeeze him. )

[suspiciousweapon]

[he can't talk to amami from across the room but he CAN give him an approving look, thank u, please continue being a voice of reason...]

[sisters]

( yes... YES!!! LOOK, THE MAGIC MAN HIMSELF SAID SO!! please do not rip anymore souls amami already has near-soul-ripping experience trauma. )

[carpevinum]

Do you know of a way to put a soul back together otherwise, Amami?

[It's a genuine question, but it comes across as curt and impolite, and that's mostly due to the fact that I promised Lucifer would be a dick this month he's in horrible amounts of pain from the aforementioned mega-hex.]

The only way I know of at this time is to physically enter the soulscape itself and fix it—

[Clamor is yelling and that makes Lucifer visibly pause, and then everyone in the immediate area will see him Processing... and then he sheepishly mutters,]

...Clamor says we can't, so we'll have to find another way.

[W H I P P E D]

[sisters]

I mean... that spell is how Ito-kun's soul ended up that way in the first place, but...

( looking at clamor. looking back at lucy. nodding furiously, even if he looks a little bit defeated about the fact. )

Right, Clamor knows best.