The Ultimate Outlaw

An Intertwined Murder

        It wasn't too much longer when the rest of the remaining students arrived at the scene of the crime. Tenko just stood there and stared at Himiko's body, unmoving. Rantaro carefully approaches the body and squats over it, not surprised when Shuichi had come over as well. The Detective notices something in Himiko's hand and carefully removes what turns out to be a now partially blood covered note. Shuichi frowns a bit seeing that it was a note from Tenko, telling Himiko to meet her in one of these spare classrooms. He knew that Tenko didn't kill Himiko and had a feeling the look of horror and lack of movement was due to guilt.

"Wait- Where's Korekiyo?" Maki asks, snapping everyone out of the investigation mode, and snapping Tenko out of her frozen state.

"Hmm... That is odd that he isn't here... But the murder weapon also isn't here..." Rantaro frowns as he stands up right. "Did anyone see Korekiyo after leaving the virtual reality?"

"Oh, Shuichi and I saw him entering his Research Lab," Kaede answers.

"Maki, Rantaro, and Kirumi, come with me," Niles says and he starts to move towards the Anthropologist's Lab. No one made a fuss about this as it was investigation time. The group makes their way and Niles opens the door and his eye widens a bit in surprise at seeing the Research Lab in such a state of disarray. He steps further in to let the other three join him.

"What happened here? Did Himiko fight back?" Kirumi asks.

"No. From what I was able to glean from Himiko's position and the look on her face was that her attacker surprised her from behind..." Rantaro says.

"And someone definitely came after Korekiyo..." Maki says.

"And they were successful.." Niles calls out to the other three as he comes across Korekiyo's body riddled with a few crossbow bolts. The other three move over to see what Niles was talking about and they were shocked to see that Korekiyo was also dead.

Ding ding ding~! "A body has been discovered!" Monokuma's voice rings out. After the ding on the MonoPads signifying Korekiyo's body report, the other students come join the group gathered in Korekiyo's research lab.

"What the hell?? What do we do with all of this?!" Kaito asks.

"Monokuma! Question for clarity here!" Niles calls out. It wasn't too long before the black and white bear had joined the students.

"Hello students~! What question do you have for me?" Monokuma hums out.

"In the case of a double murder like this... Who's murderer are we searching for if there are two?" Shuichi asks.

"Hmmm. Well, in the case of two murderers... Only Himiko's murderer will count as the blackened since you found her body first," Monokuma answers. "Is that all?"

"Yes. That should help us with our investigation," Shuichi says with a nod. Monokuma then disappears.

"What? How does that help with this double murder??" Kaito asks, not understanding how that cleared anything up.

"And this is why you don't lead the investigations Kaito you big dumb-dumb~" Kokichi hums.

"It helps as we have to focus on Himiko's murder but we can use Korekiyo's murder to potentially figure out if one - they are connected and two - if they are, the order of events," Shuichi explains.

"Huh... I didn't think of that," Kaito says, blinking a bit.

"Might I suggest the following pairs for guarding the crime scenes - Tenko and myself to guard Himiko's, and then Kaito and perhaps either Maki or Kaede?" Kirumi prompts.