rita

[katzepaw]

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[overlimit]

[she shakes her head.]

No. And if that marquee is what people say it is, then the dead are also saying to leave those two alone.

[katzepaw]

. . . Ja. The lightbulb is meant to be Luxanna, right?

Riku also sounded concerned about it.

[overlimit]

Yeah. I don't know if everyone's caught on to that, or what. Hasn't been any discussion on the matter in Spring.

[katzepaw]

If I didn't know Luxanna well, and if I didn't know what I know about Yamato, I wouldn't easily be able to narrow it down to her.

[overlimit]

We don't have any decisive evidence to pin her for Crow's death. That much is true.

But... I think we've got something now. In the last trial, we got to understand a little more about the rules that force our killers to keep quiet. The fact that you, Taichi, and Yamato can speak freely about unsolved murders, and they can't, is a kind of evidence in itself.

[katzepaw]

Hmm. So if you ask her about Crow, she will just evade the question if she can? Whereas I can say, without prompting, that I did not kill him.

[overlimit]

They can deny it outright. Otome lied to my face about Lan Wangji when I confronted her a while ago.

But before Otome was cornered and definitively outed as the killer, I don't think any of her allies would have risked discussing the "Otome did it" theory, for fear of violating a rule. I remember Byleth clamming up right away when I tried to talk to her about the murders.

[katzepaw]

They can deny it and I think in some circumstances they must deny it. But I don't think they would approach you and deny it unprompted, since they all seem to want to be caught in some way.

[overlimit]

Hmm... Maybe. It makes sense if they don't want to bring up the subject, since saying the wrong thing carries the risk of violating a rule. And I don't know what the exact rules that allow them to confess are. They need to be cornered, but maybe it needs to be public?