The Ultimate Outlaw

The Second Murder & Trial Start

       A/N: Long one!

The next morning, Niles and Rantaro went to the cafeteria but only to get food to bring with them. Kirumi easily gave them their breakfast to go and the duo heads off to see if they could find a dead body. The two scour the first floor and find no evidence of a struggle. As they loop near the stairs to the basement, Rantaro spots a small spatter of blood and draws Niles's attention to it. Niles looks to the blood and notices that the blood goes in two directions - down the stairs and down the hall, away from the basement. The two decide to check the basement first and cautiously head down the stairs. Upon reaching the bottom of the stairs, the two find a body - Kiibo.

"I feel bad for Kiibo.. He didn't deserve this," Rantaro says, wincing.

"No he didn't. Kokichi shouldn't have roped him in but here we are. Go get the others... I'll stand watch," Niles says.

"No, come with me. People might think you had messed with the crime scene," Rantaro says.

"Ah, true," Niles says before following Rantaro back up the stairs and back to the cafeteria. When they open the doors, neither were surprised to feel the tension in the room and that there was some worry on a few faces.

"G-Good morning Niles and Rantaro. You two are late," Kaede says.

"They were actually on time but took food to go," Kirumi comments.

"Eh? Why'd you do that?" Miu asks, arching an eyebrow.

"Because we were searching for a body," Niles answers bluntly. The room freezes and goes completely dead silent at the words that fell from the Outlaw's mouth.

"...Judging from the looks on your faces, I'm going to assume you found Kiibo since he isn't here?" Shuichi manages to ask, his voice cracking a bit.

"Yeah. Bottom of the stairs to the basement," Rantaro answers. The other twelve students take a moment before getting up and following Niles and Rantaro out of the cafeteria and towards the basement. As they all reach the crime scene, the body discovery announcement goes off and they all get a notification on their MonoPads signifying that they all received the autopsy report. Maki and Tsumugi are put on guard duty this time around.

"So cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head," Kaito says. "What is it with blunt force trauma to the head? Two cases in a row now!"

"And the time of death was shortly after midnight," Kaede says afterwards.

"Hey losers- There's a bloodied arrow here," Miu says, squatting and pointing to the bloodied, and slightly broken, arrow on the ground next to Kiibo.

"An arrow? Who would have access to that..?" Himiko asks, frowning.

"That would be my arrow," Niles says, causing all eyes to look to him. He moves his cape to reveal the quiver and the bow, knowing he would now have to reveal that he is always armed.

"How intriguing, you've been armed this entire time... Keheheheheh... Able to kill any of us at a moment's notice," Korekiyo comments.

"And before miss loud mouth with anger issues tries to lay any blame on me.... I have a alibi," Niles says just as Tenko was about to open her mouth.

"And I can confirm it," Rantaro says.

"As expected since you two seem to never leave each other's sides," Tsumugi says.

"Neither Rantaro nor myself are the culprits. In fact, Kiibo wasn't the original target. The culprit tried to kill me and Rantaro last night. We were enjoying some stargazing and I barely heard the whistle of yet another shotput come flying towards us and had I not moved us, we would be dead. I shot off an arrow at our culprit in an attempt to stop them but they ran. However, we can safely rule out any females as it was a distinctive male grunt. We gave chase until the school door and then retreated," Niles says.