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]

[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.]

[inordertobelieve]

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

[umbralant]

[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.]

[inordertobelieve]

[ ..... 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. ]

[umbralant]

[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.]

[inordertobelieve]

[ 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. ]

[umbralant]

[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.]

[inordertobelieve]

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

[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!]