fishingforcompliments | [not again] catchall for ant cabin

...If Tsurumaru left, and was attacked before we were all sealed in...

[ because that's usually when the weirdness starts, right, pre-curfew deaths are always 100% in plain sight, ]

Wouldn't we have heard or noticed something? The camp isn't that big, if there was a struggle they should have found upturned tracks or ... something.

Perhaps he made it to wherever he was going before we were all locked out, and he was locked in with his killer?

[ give her a moment, processing... ]

... Actually, by any chance... was he intending to fetch snacks from the mess hall?

I am not certain. I was conversing with some of the others when he left.

Hm.

I only ask because there were tracks leading away from the mess hall earlier. But... Sanji and I barricaded the door last night. If he stopped by before we did that, it might make sense...

[ or maybe someone can turn into a ghost, or maybe someone just super strengthed their way through the barricade. powers are bad. ]

Lili or Ookurikara were the ones to first notice how long he had been gone. They might know precisely what it was he left for, if you ask them tomorrow.

... I dunno.

In the castle, it was some magic nonsense that just made us not notice if a murder was happening. You could be awake all night, and still not see anything. So maybe it's something like that?

Really? So even if you were in the same place, before everyone mysteriously went to bed, you just... Saw everything as normal?

[ that's annoying. ]

Pretty much. Someone could theoretically break into your room and it would seem normal to you.

...... Of course it would. Since when has anything ever been easy with these games.

[ uuuuuugghhhhhh ]

Hopefully we'll get a clearer idea of how it works.

[ ... ]

Off topic, but. Akechi?

Oh, did you know him too?

Unfortunately.

[ every day she wishes she did not ]

Oh, wow, you definitely know him.

[ just from that face alone ]

Still, we might've been a little harsh on him back there- he was helpful, after all.