Chem Lab

Chapter Thirty Three: Love is Blind

Masane, sitting at her podium, looked around before sighing.

"Well I suppose we should all say our alibis and get that out of the way."

Yumiyo nodded before speaking. "Well me and Masane were asleep until the morning announcement. I felt the warm air and told Masane. We got dressed and ran into Kutsumi before..."

Masane cleared her throat. "Before we found Kenho."

Kutsumi looked sad before speaking. "I was working on practicing makeup when Fuuko joined me. I was trying to stay busy so I could fight the cold. While we talked I practiced my makeup on her."

"Yeah kept poking me with mascara." Fuuko could not have not looked more unenthusiastic as she did while saying that.

Kougyoku sighed as she spoke up. "Well while you two played barbie, I was with Kochi in the music room. We each played an instrument."

"She was using a harp while I played the flute. However at around 5:45 I heard running through the halls. I thought I had just imagined it though."

Masane nodded, knowing all these stories worked with each other. That left Amy, Rigen and Toshika as the ones without solid alibis.

Kutsumi must have had the same thought process as she asked, "What about you three?"

Rigen scratched the back of his neck, embarrassed. "I was doing some sketches in the art room. I get pretty focused so I was in there for a while. Probably since 2 or 3."

Fuuko whistled, impressed.  "That's some serious dedication."

Amy tapped her chin, thinking. "I was playing games in the arcade.  I wanted to play as much as possible before everything went out on the fritz."

Lastly Toshika spoke. "I was using the work out room to use the barbells. Exercise means sweat which means warmth."

"Ok now we'll get back to that... let's talk about the times of death shall we?" Fuuko asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I get what you mean. They both died not even 20 minutes apart..." Kutsumi pointed out.

"Why kill two people? That's twice the risk..." Amy asked, puzzled.

"My bet isn't that they wanted to kill two people, but that they had to kill two people." Toshika thought out loud.

"Had to? Like they had no other choice?" Rigen clarified.

"Correct."

"But why?" Yumiyo asked, her head tilted.

"Well as the head boy scout,  Raou probably always had to be up super early. He... must have been cold and walked around a bit."

"Ok but what does that have to do with anything?" Rigen was stumped.

"Raou must have heard the struggle between our killer and Kenho. Although he isn't super tall and muscular,  he was bigger than most of us here. Meaning he didn't go down quietly." Masane surmised.

"Ok but how does that translate to kill another?" Fuuko asked.

"My assumption is that our killer noticed Raou. And after that... they chased him." Toshika said, serious as can be.

"That must have been the running I heard!!"

"So what? They cornered him and killed him in the pool?" Amy guessed.

"Yes... now let's talk about the murder weapons shall we?" Masane continued the discussion.

"Its quite obvious Kenho was killed from the stab in the neck. However it's also obvious he was lured there."