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INVESTIGATION 1

The clock strikes eight. The intermittent showers that dominated most of yesterday had, at some point during the night, escalated to a complete downpour that drenched the streets. Maybe that's why the morning might almost feel refreshing today—while it can't be said that the birds are chirping and the sun is shining brightly, the breeze is cool without being frigid while the sky is bright with the half moon.

Nevertheless. The deadline for Tuesday's motive was laid down as Friday, and amongst the pleasant earthy smell of the rain may be a tinge of something else.

Well now, how shall you spend this morning?

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[ Well, that's some knifes Mikami will never cook with again....

Alright. Are any of the pens bloody? Are the papers empty or is anything on them?

Mikami is going to go through this stuff before the book bag. And god, he hates every second of picking up wet paper. He needs a shower already. ]

[The pens are also pretty innocuous! Again, they look like they've been sitting in the rain for a bit now so.

As for the papers, well, some of the ones that ended up closer to Elliot's head might look varying shades of pink even if they're still kind of drenched with rainwater. However, sheets further off and around the feet pretty much just look like wet paper. There's no writing on any of them, regardless.]

[ Okay good, time to drop all of these off to the side and never touch them with his bare fingers again, brrrr.

Bookbag time. Let's take out the contents for examination! ]

[The bookbag contents are... more or less the same as what was found scattered around, actually! But, y'know, cleaner. There's even a couple of knives still inside and poking a tiny hole in the corner of the bag. At least a couple of random history books were saved from the water.]

[ Is this all knives in town? What did Elliot need THIS many knives for...? Questions with no answers.

Mikami definitely wants to know what the history books are about though. He'll flip through them a little, and then also give a check to the ones on the floor. ]

[There's no real rhyme or reason to the history books; they mostly seem to be ones that were just picked up out of interest and that were taken just because, why not, he's a free man and you can't stop him, etc.]

[ Well, Mikami will take whatever books have not been soaked through and bring them inside.

Are there any other objects around the body, or did we cover them all? ]

[You covered them all, Mikami! Good job!

Also because I'm great with details, I forgot to mention earlier that the bookbag has a bit of blood on it (particularly on the strap where it was pressed against the ground and closer to Elliot's head) but other than that, all the random objects are accounted for!

Are you looking anywhere else?]

Edited 2020-01-10 21:47 (UTC)

[ He's going to stick with Shin on the body end for now! ]

[Np! Although just asking: was Mikami 100% focused on the body as he made his way there or was he looking around a little bit...]

[ He was focusing on the body when walking here, but his scope was widened when picking up all the goddamn papers and thus walking around some. ]

[Alright, then he may have noticed that kind of odd, muddy patch at the edge of the stones paving the square, near where some of the benches would be.]

[ Alright, let's pick up the candle and head there. What's it's size? Color? ]

[Well, it's brown and gross, like you'd expect from mud (albeit diluted after a night of rain). However, it's what it's beside which sticks out a little more; moving closer, it can be seen that there's a football-sized hole in the grass next to the stone, kind of like someone was digging in it.]

[ ..... no. Nope. No. He can't be expected to dig in that with his own hands. Time to go back to the corpse and crab one of those knives lying around.... it's not the best digging tool, but Mikami has brought patience. Time to carefully remove dirt from the patch of earth without too much force. Don't want to damage anything. ]

[Oh my god Mikami. Fortunately(?) no matter how deep he digs or pokes or prods, he won't hit anything. It's just a weird hole in the dirt with a bunch of mud around it, basically.]

[ Huh.... Has something been dug out of this place instead of buried, then? Curious.

Now that this has happened, he will give a full perimeter check to the square, let's see if anything else at the borders has been missed. ]

[Well, if he's going around the perimeter, there is a small bush that's close to the hole that looks slightly disturbed, if Mikami wants to check it out.]

[ Well, he has the knife now to stick in there instead of his poor delicate hands. So. Let's. ]

[A person pops out of the bush saying 'knife to meet you' before promptly falling over from a stabbing--

Okay no, he just hits something that is hard and sounds like plastic! What now.]

[ Oh. Oh no. He's not getting this out with the knife alone, is he.

Mikami closes his eyes for a moment. Pictures a world in which he is already showered, in which his hands are clean again....

And then he puts the knife aside to reach into the bush for whatever he's going to find.]

[Sadly no, but what greets Mikami is--

Ironically enough, it's a muddy dustpan. So that's where that thing went.]

[ Did it have to be muddy? Did it? Did it really? Did he have to reach into mud? Did he? Why.

Anything off about the dustpan aside from it being gross? ]

[Look sometimes your dustpans just end up inexplicably muddy. You know how it goes.

But nope, nothing off about it besides that!]

[ Okay, continue perimeter check. His hands are gross. He feels gross. He's ready to touch anything else life throws his way. Determination fills him. ]

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