The Loveliest of Lies (Oumota)

It's the truth

[NONSTOP DEBATE.]

Tenko: Yumeno-San and I are innocent.

Himiko: [Quietly.] I didn't hurt Saihara.

Angie: But Himiko, you were the first person backstage. You could've easily spread the blood without us noticing. And Tenko, you went with her...maybe it was part of your murder plan?

Tenko: [Angrily.] You helped us set the gym up! You had just as much of an opportunity.

Kaito: [Irritated expression.] Stop squabbling! Can't any of you make a fair argument?

Angie: All right. I propose that Himiko planted the blood and Tenko knows and is covering for her.

Tenko: Th-that's...Ouma-san must be wrong! It can't be one of us! None of us were alone in the gym!

[Angie smiles saintly and clasps her hands together.

She nods balefully at him, as if signalling something.]

[Kokichi blinks.

What is she doing? He thinks.]

Angie: I know that I wasn't alone in the gym.

[Kokichi blinks again. She's lying. Badly. It has to be a trick of some kind...

He breaks her lie anyway. He has nothing else.]

Kokichi: That's wrong.

[BREAK]

Kokichi: According to Chabashira-chan's testimony, all three of you were in the gym from eight until nine. However, Chabashira-chan and Yumeno-chan briefly went to Yumeno-chan's lab, meaning that Yonaga-chan was alone in the gym for a few minutes. She would've had more than enough time to plant the blood.

[Angie's smiles brightly at him. She's just as cheerful as ever.]

Kaito: [Shocked expression.] Y-you...?

Tenko: N-no. It can't be her.

[Himiko frowns angrily.]

Himiko: Yonaga can't have murdered Saihara. Atua said that she didn't.

Angie: [She nods.] That's why I'm denying it. I didn't murder Shuichi.

Kokichi: [Quietly.] Can you prove your innocence?

Angie: Can you prove my guilt? You don't even have any real evidence. Only a vague insinuation that because I was alone in the gym this morning, it means I murdered Shuichi.

Tsumugi: [Uncertain expression.] She's right.

Miu: [Angrily.] We're back at square one again!?

Korekiyo: It seems so.

Kaito: Ouma...

Kokichi: Yes?

Kaito: [Seriously.] Are you sure that Yonaga is guilty? That she murdered Shuichi?

[Kokichi takes a deep breath and grins.]

Kokichi: Yes.

Kaito: [Determined expression.] Then we can't let her get away with it. Yonaga...you murdered Shuichi and we're gonna prove it.

Angie: ...All right.

[She smiles warmly at them.]

[Kokichi grits his teeth.

Her unwavering positivity is beginning to annoy him.]

Kaito: Ouma, we need to find something that links her directly to Shuichi's murder.