Morix: Web of Mistrust

Turnabout Abduction, Part 4

September 14

Defendant Lobby No. 5

9:30 AM

Lily Shield

I got to the courthouse early the next morning, but I couldn't stop thinking about what we didn't know about the case. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't banish it all from my memory. I wanted to know why Mukuro had been arrested for the murder despite it being so clear that she couldn't have done it. There was so much evidence to prove that she couldn't have possibly been responsible for it, but that didn't seem to matter to the police in the slightest. Which of them could possibly have such a large grudge against Mukuro that they would want to purposefully have her arrested? Mukuro was one of the sweetest people I knew, and she didn't deserve to have to deal with any of this. 

The only real possibility that I could think of was that the culprit was somehow involved with the team investigating the case. Maybe the culprit knew that they wouldn't be able to get away with the murder on their own, so they decided to cover their tracks lazily by pinning it on Mukuro. I could certainly see it as happening, but there was something about that explanation that didn't exactly sit well with me either. After all, why would the culprit be at the school either in that case? 

That was the real complication behind this case. We were able to rule out many suspects based on who should have been at the scene of the crime or not. However, since it ruled out many suspects, that left us uncertain as to who could have possibly caused all of this. It couldn't have been any of the teenagers who were trying to show James around the building. They were together the whole time. In fact, Mukuro had been with them for a long time prior to the group splitting up to handle searching for Prosecutor Wood in a more efficient way. 

It made sense for all of them to be at the scene of the crime, but they all had alibis. There were others who were at the scene too, but they either had alibis or lacked motive. Then again, everyone involved with this case lacked motive as far as I was able to tell. Nothing made the pieces come together in a way that made the culprit seem to make sense. There were too many holes in our understanding of the murder. It was frustrating, to say the least, and I had no idea how we were supposed to handle it. 

I watched as Victoria and Sky walked into the room, and a smile burst across my face. "Hey, you two," I greeted simply with a light wave. They approached me where I was sitting on the couch in the defendant lobby as I continued to speak. "I've been thinking more about who would want to pin this murder on Mukuro, but I keep coming up short. Nothing seems to make sense regarding the people who might want to claim that she was responsible."

Victoria sighed at my words. "I was thinking about that a lot too, but I couldn't come up with an explanation. Barely anybody should have been there in the first place since it was a school after hours. I don't know what motive anyone would have had to be there if they weren't a student or a teacher... That could mean that our culprit is either a student or a teacher, but I don't know what to make of that," she admitted. 

"As far as we can tell, there are two potential ways that the culprit could have been killed," Sky began. "First off involves the culprit throwing something at the glass trophy case and causing it to fall apart. That would break the shelves and send the trophy that killed the victim crashing down."

"And the other possibility would have the culprit smashing the glass before getting into the trophy case themselves and picking up the murder weapon from the wreckage," I continued. Sky nodded his agreement as I went on. "I somehow doubt that a student could have been capable of the second unless they were particularly tall, though I suppose that applies to the teachers as well. The victim was huge, so I don't know how any student was supposed to fight them off."