INVESTIGATION 1

[umbralant]

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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[umbralant]

[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.]

[inordertobelieve]

[ 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.]

[umbralant]

[Sadly no, but what greets Mikami is--

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

[inordertobelieve]

[ 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? ]

[umbralant]

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

But nope, nothing off about it besides that!]

[inordertobelieve]

[ 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. ]

[umbralant]

[Mikami didn't deserve any of this. The good thing is that he will find nothing else that stands out while he's conducting that perimeter check, even though there's still that thing that remains suspended from the railing of the clock tower's observation deck because no one took it down yet. Look, bottle candleholders are more important.

Either way, it turns out you can see it from quite a distance!]