I still think Mollymauk was essentially correct about the hint. The people who could have qualified as the adult or mentor in a pair - Lalli, Beauregard, Sagihara, Manwol, Otome, Byleth, and Ichinose. I think; this is perhaps equally as arbitrary as Lalli's age cutoffs, but I'm going based more on personality than age. Adora and Rupert are adults by certain metrics, but I wouldn't consider a pairing between them and any of the children on the list comparable to a mother and baby. Rupert is fairly soft and Adora is fairly naive.
We can rule out Manwol for obvious reasons. I know Beauregard well enough to feel confident ruling her out. Lalli strikes me as overly cautious and not prone to working with an accomplice. So that leaves Sagihara, Otome, Byleth, and Ichinose that I would consider.
If Lila was involved, her accomplice was Sagihara, Lalli, or Beauregard. The others were in the same group as her. Sagihara was injured, but I don't know that that would have stopped him, especially if he had an accomplice. Also, he claimed to only have had earned two vouchers in his entire time here, which strikes me as suspicious. But he probably did not vote for Kaoruko, so if he does not talk to his dorm head or do extra credit, I suppose that tracks.
If Otome, Ichinose, or Byleth were the adult figure in a pair, their partner would likely be Denji, Leo, or perhaps Kaine, but this again stretches the mother and baby goose metaphor for me. So. . . I wound up putting my vote for Denji, because he was the most likely fit to me for a variety of potential killers, and had those suspicious injuries. We do know something was treated in the health center. Between those three ladies, I could not tell you any reason to suspect one over another, except that I'm not sure I can picture Ichinose, ah, biting Lan Wanji's hand. Otome and Byleth are a little more. . . well, anyway. The use of a sword and the mentor metaphor fits Byleth better, the treatment in the health center Otome, save that she may have had her own supplies. And Ichinose's vouchers were accounted for; that thing she bought was pretty expensive, and she was uninjured completely.
However, I cannot shake that on Friday she started sharing her theories with me that the murderers were fulfilling their extra credit and that their goal was winning the Dorm Wars, except when I pointed out we know of no particular prize for winning besides the pocket dimension, she conceded the point. So I had my eye on her during trial, to some degree.
A large number of assumptions are made here, but. . . even so. I would have my eye on a pair of Sagihara and Lila, or Denji and one of those three women.
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I still think Mollymauk was essentially correct about the hint. The people who could have qualified as the adult or mentor in a pair - Lalli, Beauregard, Sagihara, Manwol, Otome, Byleth, and Ichinose. I think; this is perhaps equally as arbitrary as Lalli's age cutoffs, but I'm going based more on personality than age. Adora and Rupert are adults by certain metrics, but I wouldn't consider a pairing between them and any of the children on the list comparable to a mother and baby. Rupert is fairly soft and Adora is fairly naive.
We can rule out Manwol for obvious reasons. I know Beauregard well enough to feel confident ruling her out. Lalli strikes me as overly cautious and not prone to working with an accomplice. So that leaves Sagihara, Otome, Byleth, and Ichinose that I would consider.
If Lila was involved, her accomplice was Sagihara, Lalli, or Beauregard. The others were in the same group as her. Sagihara was injured, but I don't know that that would have stopped him, especially if he had an accomplice. Also, he claimed to only have had earned two vouchers in his entire time here, which strikes me as suspicious. But he probably did not vote for Kaoruko, so if he does not talk to his dorm head or do extra credit, I suppose that tracks.
If Otome, Ichinose, or Byleth were the adult figure in a pair, their partner would likely be Denji, Leo, or perhaps Kaine, but this again stretches the mother and baby goose metaphor for me. So. . . I wound up putting my vote for Denji, because he was the most likely fit to me for a variety of potential killers, and had those suspicious injuries. We do know something was treated in the health center. Between those three ladies, I could not tell you any reason to suspect one over another, except that I'm not sure I can picture Ichinose, ah, biting Lan Wanji's hand. Otome and Byleth are a little more. . . well, anyway. The use of a sword and the mentor metaphor fits Byleth better, the treatment in the health center Otome, save that she may have had her own supplies. And Ichinose's vouchers were accounted for; that thing she bought was pretty expensive, and she was uninjured completely.
However, I cannot shake that on Friday she started sharing her theories with me that the murderers were fulfilling their extra credit and that their goal was winning the Dorm Wars, except when I pointed out we know of no particular prize for winning besides the pocket dimension, she conceded the point. So I had my eye on her during trial, to some degree.
A large number of assumptions are made here, but. . . even so. I would have my eye on a pair of Sagihara and Lila, or Denji and one of those three women.