(Previously titled 'Never Be Back Where We Began')
Already interested in Hope's Peak Academy, or more specifically the dark secrets the school had, he already planned to investigate. Getting scouted by the school would make his job so much easier. A...
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Makoto decided to start by reading the Monokuma File [The victim was Sakura Ogami. The time of death is estimated to be around 12 noon. The body was discovered in the rec room, on the 3rd floor of the school. There is evidence of a strong blow to the victim's head. No other injuries were noted. However, it seems that at some point, the victim suffered from violent vomiting of blood.]
🎵 Morpho Knight - Traditional Japanese Version
[Hyuman]
-="Well a blow to the head could cause someone to cough up blood, but the way this is worded makes it seems as if there's more to it"=- Makoto heard a voice in his ear, but as he looked around he couldn't find the source -="If you keep looking around like that they'll think you're crazy. Relax, I planted an earpiece on you. Even if I don't need the investigation, it'd still be good to help you especially since Kyoko is also limited. And speak of the devil..."=-
Kyoko walked over to Makoto "I think the case this time might be...a challenge."
"Why's that...?"
"The only way into the rec room is the door we just came through. And that door had been jammed shut with the chair from inside the rec room. Which means the killer would have had to escape somehow, after barring the door."
"So if the door was blocked from the inside, and there was no way in or out till we broke the window... There's like...zero escape, right?"
"In other words, this is a classic locked room murder."
"L-Locked room murder...?"
"Are you curious to hear more about what a 'locked room' murder entails?"
"S-Sure, if you don't mind..."
"When you break down this type of murder mystery, there are four basic types. The first type is when the locked room is created after the actual crime is committed. This simply means that the killer commits his crime, then through some special method seals the room. This mainly involves some sort of trick involving the 'locking' of the room. Basic approaches include using a string, or simple mechanism. There are a number of variations. The second type is when the locked room already exists before the crime is committed."
"Oh...?"
"Basically, the killer uses a special contraption or tool from outside to target the victim inside. You push a switch and it fires a handgun, you shoot an arrow through a gap in the door, something like that."
-="We can fairly easily eliminate that as a possibility. There's not much in the school you could use for that, let alone the gap in the door wouldn't let much through"=-
