Morix: Web of Mistrust

Turnabout Masquerade, Part 7

November 21

Courtroom No. 6

11:15 AM

Yuri Rinko

"I believe that now would be a good time for us to do a brief evaluation on the facts of this case," Chief Prosecutor Bespoke suddenly said, and I glanced up to him with a small frown on my face. He still had that strange sharpness to his voice and posture, and it was weird seeing him so attentive. No matter how many times I saw it, I still found it weird that he was acting like this. After years of seeing him act all sleepy and lazy, this was some serious whiplash for me. "We understand now that we have a potential method for the victim's attack or murder. Even if there are many facts missing, we can use this to our advantage and start to look around for more details about what happened to Eileen Liyle at the time of the crime. Let's recap everything that we've discovered thus far so that it's fresh in our minds."

"The victim entered the building with another person around two hours before the blood pool was discovered," Victoria started. "We know that the woman in question was likely Eileen Liyle given that her physical appearance matches the description offered by the witness. Ms. Razi Lesa was the one to see all of this, and she is confident that the victim was unaware that she was accompanied by a man with white hair. She entered the agency using a key, and the man followed her inside without her consent."

"From there, something happened where a large amount of blood was spilled. That caused the large pool of crimson on the floor of the agency, and it frightened the defendant when she arrived at the scene of the crime," Prosecutor Burke continued. "She called the police as soon as she noticed what it was, but she didn't realize she was going to wind up as the suspect."

"The police thought she was responsible because of her involvement with the discovery of the blood pool, but we now have reason to believe that the man with white hair was involved. We have a theory now that he stabbed the victim using some kind of pocketknife and then hid it underneath his clothes as he attempted to make his escape," Deirdre went on. "Of course, that does leave the hole regarding what happened to the blood splatter that would have gotten on his clothes. Given how much blood there was at the scene of the crime, you would expect there to be some on the clothes of the culprit, but when the man with white hair left the agency, he was completely clean."

"If he did commit the crime, then that also leaves the question of what happened with the victim after he left," I remarked. "I mean, by the time that Lily got there, she was alone. Something must have happened when nobody was watching the agency, and that was probably when the victim decided to make their escape. Either that or the culprit returned to the scene later in the day to retrieve the body and take it with them... But then that makes you wonder about why they didn't just do that in the first place. There are all sorts of questions that we still need to answer about this case..."

"The culprit's behavior is certainly strange, but the one thing that would make it easier for us to narrow down exactly what happened revolves around if we can figure out if the victim is dead or not," Prosecutor Burke commented as she crossed her arms. "I don't think we're going to be able to say for sure what's going on until after we can find that out. It'll change how we look at the case completely due to the two different angles we've been trying to play up to this point."

"We can't exactly find that out right now though," Chief Prosecutor Bespoke said with a shake of his head. "If you ask me, we're going to need a bit more time to figure out the details of this case. We barely know anything about our victim, and that's a crucial part of figuring everything else. On top of that, we need to see if we can figure out how the man with white hair ties in with all of this. If he's really the culprit, then what business did he have with the victim? We'll be able to find the source of his strange actions from there with a bit of logic, deduction, and testimony."