INVESTIGATION 5

[umbralant]

INVESTIGATION 5

It's a quiet night as the silence remains unbroken. Without the toll of the clock tower, only a choice few will be able to discern the time as the hands on all four faces remain fixed at 9:27. And yet, even those without any means of checking the time will probably get the picture: it's been four consecutive weeks of death already, so what makes this one any different? So even though the lines between days may blur and tangle together, time still marches on and deadlines continue to draw closer.

The time is ████. Is there a reason to be out in the streets right now? Maybe.

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BODY ANNOUNCEMENT

[soulspice]

[It's so early in the morning, so early it's almost obscene to have to listen to the Lady at that time. Wait, the Lady?

Indeed, that's her. She is standing in front of the clock tower with a megaphone. She takes a deep breath and raises her megaphone, addressing everyone]

It's investigation time. Oh, what did you say? It's too early in the morning for that? Oh, sorry, the clock is broken, I can't tell the time. How unfortunate for you bunch.

[Does anyone here believe for a moment she's upset about the broken clock? Yeah, she trying to deflect the real reason for her ire. You can guess very well what it really is]

All of you must investigate Dist's death right now, and I'm warning you already: if you don't come to take part of the trial in a couple hours your life is forfeit! Have I made myself clear?

[Definitely upset. The autopsy reports are provided like usual, at least]

AUTOPSY REPORT

[soulspice]

AUTOPSY FILE:

Victim: Dist the Rose
Location: Autoshop
Estimated Time of Death: ???
Wound Diagram: x

[inordertobelieve]

[ Okay, why, to be honest. Why on like... several levels.

Mikami scrambles into the hallway (from Cumore's room actually), wearing a set of gym clothes that has been re-purposed as pajamas. He's checking a pocket watch angrily, but the time is sadly not the biggest problem here. ]

The mechanic? Are you serious?

[ He's asking the world at large. ]

Of all people you had to just... Ugh.

[dominioned]

Funny how it turned out this way. [ Since he's not on body announcement duty he's just casually observing this chaos, apparently in a very good mood. Guess who kind of didn't like Dist? ]

[inordertobelieve]

[ The biggest death glare of a sleepy lawyer who didn't get a chance to even wash his face yet. ]

You mean idiotic. Congratulations on your pick of experiment victims, they're all hideous unrighteous fools.

[psychophant]

[If anyone is unfortunate enough to be passing by Dist's room, you can likely hear whatever horrific shrieking meltdown Iago is having in there. Needless to say, it's uh. It's going to be awhile before he's of any use to anyone (and stops throwing things).]

[drydrown]

[Oh, for the love of...

...Okay. Okay, it's way too early and he is the least empathetic person on the planet but he's going to be banging on the goddamn door because holy fuck, nobody needs this right now.]

Iago. We can do this the easy way or we can do it the difficult way, but this door is going to be open and you're not going to be by yourself at the end of it regardless.

[psychophant]

[Not even Cumore deserves this shitshow. But after a moment the shrieking stops and the door opens. Iago isn't even pretending to have his shit together right now and he's not properly dressed in the usual suit (just loose clothes from the opera house that he sleeps in) and he hasn't done his makeup yet. Most telling is probably that he hasn't even put the mask on yet.]

Fine. Come in.

[If it were anyone else, he wouldn't listen.]

[drydrown]

Good.

[He'll follow, anyway.

If Iago needs to leave the room for any reason later he'll go with him; Cumore is mostly just here to make sure he's capable of getting his shit together before the trial. And that he doesn't lose track of time and goes to the damn trial at all, because apparently the Lady isn't fucking around today.

So do whatever for the time being. He's just here to ensure all of that happens eventually.]

[deadlygoals]

[ Later on, he'll leave the half finished robot there outside of Iago's room. Just going to knock on it. ]

Delivery.

[ Then he's going to go. He's not good with emotions sorry. But he'll give him what Dist was last working on since it was obvious they were close. ]

[psychophant]

[Fair enough, Dazai. The less talking he has to do about this, the better. Cumore's still babysitting him, but he'll definitely take the robot in. Thanks for delivering it; he's not exactly in any state to be heading over to the autoshop right now.]