Extraordinary Minds: Road to Hell

Chapter 32: Manipulation

As everyone approached their Podiums, Monodev sat back and cackled, as his guards came to his side as per usual with the trials so far.

"Well isn't this a sad sight? Only 11 of you left! I expected a double murder by this point but, YAWN! That's so cliche! Maybe in another Killing Game we may see such things. Anywayssss! Shall I proceed with the Trial-"

"We don't need your damn monologue openings, you bastard!" Riku shouted. "We already know who the fucking culprit is, and it's Raidon!"

"Well, hold on a second." Barisuta said. "I do believe Raidon is the one to have hung the body as he did, but was he the one to deal the Killing Blow?"

"I must agree here." Yumico said. "From my investigation with Mitsuko and Akira, we found what appeared to be a blunt object in the back room. A baseball bat actually. Now where exactly would the Killer have been given something like that?"

"The..Rage Room?" Riku said.

"And you'd probably know since you get so angry all the damn time." Lily said. "Makes me wonder too. Didnt Aratani have bad external wounds on her from being beaten to death?"

"Hold on a second!" Akira shouted. "May I be the one to..lead this trial?"

Kentaro shrugged. "I think we should give Akira a chance to speak and lead us here. If anything, he's partly the main reason how we survived the last two. I know I wasn't there to investigate much due to my stomach hurting pretty badly.."

"That's just an excuse to hide you could be the Killer, isn't it?" Raidon said. "However that's unlikely, as you're a small little green bean!"

"Asshole! That's my line!" Lily shouted.

"Well, then lemme ask thissss." Yutaka asked from a strange sock puppet around his hand. "Who's strong enough or angry around here to have possibly committed such a heinous crime?"

"Well, that's something I wanted to discuss. What I think we should start with is in fact the murder weapon." Akira started. "Which was in fact the Baseball Bat. However, what we also found was a bunch of knocked over mannequins with limbs missing."

"It seemed like most likely scenario, the Killer was swinging the weapon around either in a panic, or out of pure anger." Mitsuko stated.

"So if it was anger, wouldn't it make sense that the killer isn't Riku?" Kentaro asked. "His forbidden Action after all was he wasn't allowed to get angry."

"There was no forbidden action saying he couldn't get panicked by something however." Raidon said with a smirk.

"Yeah, but it's still very likely that in any case. Riku talks with his anger, not with anxiety. Motherfucker acts tough, but who knows? Maybe beneath it is a scared kid." Lily said.

"You wanna say that again, bitch?!" Riku snapped.

"Oh, sorry. Was just trying to defend you from a potential guilty verdict that might not even be true and getting us all killed. No, no. Get more angry and tell me more about how I'm saying things out my ass." Lily snarked back.

"Tch!" Riku went, before backing down.

"Pissed about how your little girl toy you stalked and harassed for self validation is dead?" Raidon smirked again. "Goodness Riku, you truly are an intriguing man.."

"The fucks that supposed to mean?!" Riku shouted.

Kioka all the while seemed very quiet. Oddly..Quiet. In normal circumstances, one could assume she did it but..Just like Kentaro.

She doesn't have the potential to do it due to how small she is.

Plus, she was angry. Scared and lost about everything...A Class Trial for another friend of hers being dead isn't what she needed.