Let The World Burn For You [Amamatsu]

5. Trial Ajourned

"You never shared where you went after you left Akamatsu alone." Tsumugi's podium moved to the centre as Keebo brought the fact up.

"Oh yeah, her Ultimate Lab isn't opened." Kokichi added the detail.

"I-I went back to my dorm, all of my current work is in there." She tried.

"Rather odd, Gokuhara and I were outside the dormitories for some fresh air during the timeframe you should have arrived, yet we were the only ones there." Kiyo's voice was calm, but the cosplayer could tell catching such a contradiction was exciting to him.

"I didn't see either of you when I came, maybe you were inside when I got there." Tsumugi tried to excuse. "I do walk pretty slow after all."

"Atua has told me to ask how long you and Gonta were outside, Kiyo." Angie spoke up.

Being used to the artist's informal way of referring to her classmates by this point in time, the anthropologist simply answered. "I cannot give you a definite answer, but I assume we would have at least seen Shirogane approaching from the entrance of the school based on our position by the dormitory building.

"I can say for certain they weren't gone for more than 40 minutes." Keebo answered.

"Great, so now we know Shirogane did it." Kokichi giggled.

"Wha!? No! I-I would never do something like that to anyone here! You're the first friends a plain girl like me has ever had, I'd never do anything to hurt you." The cosplayer began to physically sweat.

"Not to mention that it would imply that she's most likely the mastermind." Ryoma spoke for the first time that day. "It would make sense, she's a pretty unlikely suspect and she's the most distant from yo-"

"No that's wrong!" Shuichi cut off the tennis pro.

"Despite her not talking to most of us often, Shirogane hangs out with the majority of us way more often than not. She always eats with us and she's gotten into the habit of spending freetime with Yumeno." The detective brought up a statement from the redhead as proof of the latter claim, some members of the class unaware of such evidence.

"I see, then I guess I was wrong." The Ultimate Tennis Pro turned his back to the detective as he accepted the rebuttal.

"That still doesn't explain how Shirogane never ran into, or even saw, Gokuhara and Shinguji on her way back to her dorm." Keebo brought everything back on topic. "Unless someone else has any evidence that proves her innocence then she's the most suspicious."

"Wowee, is this gonna be the fastest trial in TV history?" Monokuma spoke, the monokubs chiming in with comments of their own.

"What about something Akamatsu mentioned way earlier in the dining hall?" Tenko suggested.

"Which is...?" Rantaro was utterly confused.

"Her and Shirogane passed Saihara pacing in circles by himself." She clarified, the cosplayer's podium returning to its original position while Shuichi's took its place.

"I told you, I don't remember but it most likely about Oma or Momota...maybe both!" The detective reasoned.

"There's no evidence to prove it, that's evidence against you."

"But there would be no motive for Saihara to kill Akamatsu." Keebo once again interjected. "Him and Akamatsu are probably the closest here, platonically speaking, so it would be contradictory if he had something against her."

"And we must include the fact that Akamatsu shared that her attacker had the same red eye Monokuma and the Monokubs." Korekiyo brought attention to a key fact, Shuichi's podium returning to its original place.