A Murder? ...Or Suicide? Pt. 2

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"Are you talking about the locked room problem?", Makoto asked

"Hina...if you really are the killer, explain it. How did you create that locked room?", Kyoko said

"W-Well... Th-That doesn't matter! Just cuz I'm guilty, that means I have to tell you everything"!?

"No, it doesn't. But the fact that you won't tell us concerns me".

"Surely you're not- do you honestly think Hina didn't actually killer her"?

"And if we do?", you retorted

"Impossible. She switched out the mixtures. She's the culprit. There's no way you both can doubt this".

"Oh, I doubt this alright. And let me tell you why. Leaving such a clear clue like a footprint, it's just way to obvious and way to easy".

"She's right. It makes it look like you wanted people to suspect you", Kyoko said

"Th-That was... I was just...nervous! So I-I didn't notice I'd left a footprint"!

"...You didn't notice"?

"Y-Yeah! That's just how it was. What can I do"?

"Listen, Hina... Could you go into a bit more detail? Tell us more about when you switched the poison and the protein".

"H-How come! That doesn't matter"!

"Hina...please, I'd like to know, too", Makoto said

"F-Fine...".

"...Waste your time if you like. It's clear that Hina is the culprit. There's nobody else to suspect. Nobody else could have possibly done it...", Byakuya said

"Go ahead, Hina. Start from the moment you arrived at the chem lab", Kyoko said

"W-Well... Right away I went to section C, and got the poison".

"And is that when you spilled the powder in front of the part of the shelf"?

"Y-Yeah...when I opened the bottle, I dropped it like an idiot".

"I see. Okay then, go on".

"So then I moved to section A and got the protein powder. and that's where I switched them. Once I was done with that...I took the protein can that had the poison in it and left the room. But I accidentally put the bottle filled with protein powder back on the wrong shelf. And because of that, everything I did got found out. And...that's it".

"Wait wait wait. Hold up", you said. "You said that you had gotten the poison, which was in section C, and then moved to section A to get the protein. Right? So what you're saying is that you went from section C to section A. Am I hearing that correctly"?

"Y-Yeah...".

"But that doesn't make any sense".

"What doesn't make any sense?", Byakuya said

"The diagram that Makoto brought to me, there were no footprints that indicated that Hina moved from section C to section A. The footprints are only in front of section A. So that contradicts what Hina just said. Seriously... I thought you outta the rest of us would point something out like that", you said with your arms crossed

"Wh-"!?

"Then...maybe she moved in some weird direction on purpose to disguise her movements...?", Hiro guessed

"No, that can't be it. Remember what Hina just said?", Makoto said

"Ah-"!

"What the-? Hina, what's the meaning of this!?", Byakuya said

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