As the button clicked, the small lamp on coffin #3 lit up red.
"Ohh...!!" Q-Taro paused. "Wait, is that it?! What's that tell us?!"
"Calm yourself, Cubetaro Hamburger!" Alice said. "That is what we will now consider...!"
"G-Guess you're right..." Q-Taro muttered. "Listen... We can't use another hint... If we don't hit Midori, it'll come around to his turn...!"
"We have to prevent that!" Hayasaka said. "Gin's life is on the line...!"
"Calm down.." (Name) murmured, thinking back on what's happened so far. "This lamp tells us information. For example, the lamp's color."
"Color, huh..." Shin said.
"We saw multiple devices related to color, right?" (Name) asked.
"That's true..." Q-Taro admitted.
"Then we'll have to discuss what we can determine from the color, meow..." Gin said.
The discussion of the color meanings came to a close rather quickly. It was something they'd found earlier at the coffin control system. Blue: human, red: doll, yellow: vacant. (Name) made sure to commit the differences to memory.
"The colors must be information about the contents of the coffins, surely?" Shin inferred. "Red: doll. That means one of the Dummies is in there."
Alice happily cackled. "A good hint! For we've learned that all but Gin Ibushi will be red!! If we choose red coffins... we shall avoid hitting Gin Ibushi!"
"Zat... really it...?" Q-Taro asked. "Sara! Remember the coffin control screen again! Specifically... that message in the top-right!"
"Data Log..." Sara quietly quoted. "Blue 1, Red 6, Yellow 0."
"Ain't this a record from when the contents of the coffins was checked...?!" Q-Taro asked.
"We didn't do anything like that, meow!" Gin said.
"Maybe it records it automatically..." Shin said.
"It must be... when the game started," Sara said. "I'm guessing that note was a printout of this log. And since this says Game Start: Blue 1, Red 6, Yellow 0... That would place it at the very beginning... before Midori and the Dummies came out!"
"That means those seven had a human mixed in?" (Name) asked.
"A human among the Dummies...!" Q-Taro said.
"There's whaaaaat?!" Anzu asked.
"So who is that sneaky bastard?!" Kurumada asked furiously.
"I can't believe somethin' like that...!" Ranmaru said.
"L-Look, let's calm down for a second!" Sara stammered.
"You think we can calm down about this?!" Kurumada asked.
"Because..." Mai squeaked, "that means there's a person who's been lying and pretending to be one of the Dummies!"
"Hell, why would they even do something like that?" Ranmaru asked.
"Understood," Sara said. "Let's first make it clear who the human is...!"
At first, the discussion began with pointing fingers and a bit of brainstorming. Eventually, the topic made its way to Mai, who had been able to use the fingerprint scanner just earlier that day.
When Hinako shifted suspicion to Mai, she looked genuinely caught off guard.
"Eh...?" Mai asked. "Wait a second...! Are you suspecting me over that?!"
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anguish ; yttd
Fanfiction(Name) Hiyori had been on a mission to find their brother. In an attempt to figure out the truth about his death, they acted out as an agent for the organization "Asunaro," trying to hide their true intentions. Yet, their mission got cut short when...
