The Ultimate Outlaw

The Ultimates' First Trial

A/N: This gonna be a long one!

The courtroom was deathly silent as no one wanted to speak up first, and not to mention, no one knew where to begin. Niles glances around the room and despite his inner desires wanting to make everyone squirm even further, he knew that this was not the time since his life was also on the line here. He looks at Rantaro, knowing that the green haired male knew how these went and gauges his body language to figure out if he should keep his mouth shut completely. But, before he could make a decision himself, Kaede decided to break the silence all of them were tiptoeing on.

"So, we should probably start with the basics yeah? As we all know, Ryoma died due to bleeding out from the two slits on his neck at 3:07PM," Kaede says.

"And where are you suggesting we go from there Kaede?" Tojo asks politely.

"Well that's an obvious one! The murder weapon, right? It was probably some sort of knife!" Kaito butts in.

"That's all we can safely assume. There was a knife missing from the knife block but it wasn't in the sink as there were no dirty dishes in the sink," Shuichi confirms.

"I can attest to that. After lunch was prepared, I thoroughly cleaned all the dishes that had been left over," Tojo says.

"So at the moment, you're the last one to see all of the knives that were there. Can you tell us which knives you used to prepare lunch?" Niles asks. He didn't think it was Tojo, but they need all the information they could get.

"I had used the chef's knife and the paring knife," the Maid answers. "Which one was missing?"

"I'm not well versed in knives but from what I remember seeing before, it was a long, thin blade with a pointed tip. About 8 inches long," Shuichi informs.

"Ah yes, that would be the slicing knife. I suppose that could be used for causing small slits on someone's neck," Tojo says, grimacing a bit at the thought.

"Okay, so we know the murder weapon and we know it's missing from the kitchen... Tojo, when did you leave the kitchen?" Rantaro hums out thoughtfully.

"Hmm... Approximately quarter past one," Tojo answers.

"Alright, so the murderer has to be someone who went to the kitchen between 1:15PM and 3:07PM," Miu says.

"Well, three people can attest to being in the cafeteria at 3PM... Tsumugi, Ange and Gonta," Shuichi hums out.

"Ah yes! Tsumugi was going to have a divine cup of tea with me as I painted her!" Angie smiles. Tsumugi blushed a bit.

"Right, I took her offer as I was surprised that she wanted to paint plain old me.," Tsumugi nods.

"Gonta? What about you?" Kaede asks, looking to the hulking male.

"Gonta was in the cafeteria to see if any bugs had come in!" Gonta answers with a happy smile.

"Oh, additionally, Gonta was already in the cafeteria before me and Angie entered," Tsumugi adds on.

"Well Shuichi, can one of them be the killer?" Kokichi asks with a head tilt. A pair of hands slam down viciously onto a podium, causing everyone to look at the source of a sound - a fired up Tenko.

"Impossible! They were in there at 3PM when that obnoxious music started! No way that Ryoma could have died in seven minutes!" Tenko bursts out. Shuichi rubs his face a bit upon Tenko's exclamation. He looks to the short purple haired male.