Against All Odds || Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu x Fem!Reader

Trial of Togami's Death Part 3

"What the fuck are you talking about!?" Fuyuhiko hissed. "You just confessed to everything!"

Nagito shook his head. "I confessed to planning it. I never confessed to killing him."

"I..." you began. "Fuyuhiko... He's right. If he murdered Byakuya, he would've used the knife he hid. But he said he and Byakuya had a scuffle, so he could've dropped it. And there was no blood on the knife."

Fuyuhiko narrowed his eyes. "What the fuck...? So, what? You're just gonna defend the motherfucker?"

"Yeah, I am." You snapped.

"Y-Y/n... I-is right..." Mikan hummed. "Based on the entry wounds on Byakuya's body...  T-the actual murder weapon should be roughly five mm in diameter..."

"Five mm in diameter?" Ibuki repeated. "That's like, waaaayy skinnier than the knife!"

"Hey!" Fuyuhiko yelled, clenching his fist as he glared at Mikan. "That better be true! If you screwed up, I'll sell your fuckin' ass to a whorehouse!"

"EEAKK!" she shrieked. "N-not a whorehouse!!"

"I was right!" You snapped. "You don't know how to act like a human being!"

Fuyuhiko opened his mouth to respond before he blinked and looked way silently.

Everyone fell silent and you shook your head with a sigh. "Moving... swiftly on. There's a way that the murder may not have occurred under the table."

"No," Gundham firmly replied. "There's no doubt that it happened under the table."

"Chiaki...?" You hummed.

The girl nodded. "I think you're saying... where Byakuya got stabbed, and where the killer did the stabbing may be two different places, correct?"

"I don't understand at all!" Ibuki announced.

"Heeh," Nagito chuckled. "Y/n, you look like you're onto something."

"R-really?" Teruteru stammered. "B-but it sounds like a riddle!"

"Well, it's pretty simple, actually," You began. "I noticed the floorboards in the old building are full of gaps, and there was no carpet beneath the table. If they stuck the weapon through one of the gaps, they could've stabbed Byakuya to death."

Nagito crossed his arms. "If so, that means the killer was able to get beneath the floorboards. If so...from where? And how?"

"Hey, Gundham..." Hajime started. "You dropped your earring in the dining hall, right?"

Gundham narrowed his eyes. "Are you referring to the Hell Hound earrring?"

Hajime nodded. "About that earring... you dropped it beneath the floorboards, right? If so, you must've found a way beneath the floorboards during the investigation!"

"So..." Peko started. "Gundham knows how to get under the floorboards..."

"Kehehe... Gundham chuckled. It's understandable. After all, you fools only view the world through eyes of glass-"

"Enough with the beautiful mind shit," You interrupted. "How did you get under the floor?"

Gundham glared at you for a moment before speaking. "The answer was in the storage room!"

Peko blinked. "So, you can access the under-area of the floor through the storage room."

"That has to be how the killer did it!" Chiaki chimed. 

"hmm..." Teruteru sighed. "Are you sure? You say they went under the floorboards from the storage room, but that means they would have had to leave the party, right? And I was in the kitchen the entire time."

"So whoever wasn't at the party is the killer! So that means Fuyuhiko is the one who did it!" Hiyoko accused.

"Judging from the pictures I took at the party before she blackout... it has to be him," Mahiru added.