＄94-02-39-09-1-0


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[charaSet A 9005001 1 Holmes]
[charaSet B 6010000 1 Juliet]
[charaSet C 3011000 1 Aaron]
[charaSet D 3028002 1 Ann]
[charaSet E 4017000 1 Dorothy]
[charaSet F 2023000 1 Hawthorne]
[charaSet G 1020000 1 Adamska]
[charaSet H 6026000 1 Wǔ]

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＠Aaron
So, Chris was actually trying to write “mom”...?[sr]Did YOU kill him, Ann?
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＠Ann
No, I didn't.[sr]I never told Chris I was his mother.
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＠Dorothy
I was wondering why you two seemed so chummy...[sr]Now it all makes sense.
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＠Ann
That was a long time ago, Ms. Dorothy. Whatever Aaron and I had was over long before you met him.
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＠Ann
I acted as if we weren't actually related...because[sr]I thought having a family would make me weak...
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＠Holmes
We can tell from Chris's response that she is telling the truth. He died without ever knowing who his mother was.
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＠Holmes
As such, he would never have accused[sr]Ann by writing the word “mom.”
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＠Holmes
No, I believe that he simply meant to tell us that his killer was a mother, if not necessarily his own.
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＠Hawthorne
Hang on. You cannot base all of this[sr]simply on Chris's dying message!
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＠Hawthorne
A scant few letters written in the blood of a dying man leave quite a lot open to interpretation.
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＠Holmes
Hmm. I suppose you do have a point.[sr]Perhaps a victim's dying message is not sufficient proof.
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＠Holmes
Very well then, let us take a more roundabout approach. If we remove all other possible suspects via the process of elimination, I'm certain none of you will have any objections.
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＠Adamska
What do you mean by that?
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＠Holmes
Your alibis for the time of Chris's murder.
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＠Holmes
You see, the culprit had no idea that Chris broke his beloved pocket watch at the moment of his murder.
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＠Holmes
As a result, the watch stopped at precisely 11:25 p.m.
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＠Holmes
Given the circumstances of Chris's death, we know that he had time to converse with the culprit beforehand.
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＠Holmes
Even estimating conservatively, I should think the culprit was in his company for five to ten minutes prior to killing him.
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＠Holmes
This means that we can safely rule out anyone whose whereabouts around 11:25 p.m. on the night of Chris's murder are accounted for.
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＠Holmes
Let's start by winnowing down our suspect pool.[sr]The poker players at that time can be excluded.
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＠Wǔ
Does that include me?
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＠Holmes
Naturally. What's important is the fact that[sr]you can all verify each other's alibis.
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＠Wǔ
Guess that means [%1]'s alibi is solid too, since we could all hear their snoring in the next room.
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＠Holmes
That leaves six possibilities.
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＠Wǔ
Six? You mean, seven, right?[sr]Why do you automatically get a pass?
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＠Holmes
You did lock the outside doors and windows securely, did you not? If I had forced my way into Chris's room, surely you would have seen some sign of that.
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＠Wǔ
Tch, you got an answer for everything, don't you?[sr]Fine, six it is, then.
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[charaSet H 5014000 1 Cain]
[charaSet G 7028000 1 Laurie]
[charaSet D 7023000 1 Eva]
[charaSet C 2012000 1 Harriet]

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＠Holmes
Tell me, Cain, what is your alibi for that night?
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＠Cain
Laurie and I were playing hide-and-seek then,[sr]weren't we, Laurie?
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＠Laurie
Uh-huh. I snuck out of bed to hide.
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＠Cain
We got caught sometime around 11:20.
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＠Holmes
Children or not, I believe we can still take them at their word. That accounts for their whereabouts.
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＠Holmes
This brings our suspect list down to four.
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＠Holmes
Dorothy Goldie.[sr]You had motive, and you're a mother.
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＠Dorothy
It wasn't me! I didn't do it, I swear!
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＠Holmes
Indeed not.
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＠Dorothy
Huh?
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＠Cain
It's okay, Ms. Dorothy.[sr]You're the one who caught us, remember?
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＠Cain
Right around 11:20.
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＠Dorothy
Oh...right. I completely forgot about that.[sr]How silly of me.
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＠Holmes
Cain told me there was a grown-up who could verify his alibi. That was you, when you came to find Laurie.
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＠Holmes
That leaves us with three...
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？1：Juliet's got an alibi too, so it couldn't be her, right?

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＠Holmes
...Yes, that's right.[sr]She also has someone who can verify her alibi.
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＠Holmes
I wish you had waited to say that...[sr]I have a method for this, you know.
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＠Holmes
At any rate, that leaves us with two...but enough suspense. One of the two already knows she's innocent.
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＠Holmes
And that makes the other our culprit.
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？1：...Juliet? Who were you with the night Chris was killed again?

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＠Juliet
...My sister. So then...[wt 0.5][charaFace B 4][bgm BGM_EVENT_41 1.0][sr]...Oh, God...
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＠Holmes
The culprit was not inherently opposed to your families forming an alliance. She understood it as necessary for your continued survival.
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＠Holmes
That's why Cain and Laurie are both still alive.[sr]They must be, after all, for the alliance to happen.
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＠Holmes
And yet she resorted to murder not once, but twice,[sr]and at peril of compromising the whole alliance.
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＠Holmes
That is key to understanding her motive.[sr]THAT is how opposed she was to Juliet's engagement.
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＠Juliet
But...why would Mother want to kill Morris and Chris?[sr]What reason could she possibly have?
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＠Holmes
An exceedingly simple one, as it turns out.
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＠Holmes
Think. Why would she be so against your marrying either Morris or Chris, but quite content to see Cain and Laurie married?
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＠Juliet
So, you're saying it was those specific pairings she had a problem with?
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＠Holmes
Precisely. Because your true father...[wt 1.0][se ade182][sr]is Aaron Goldie.
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＠Juliet
...You can't be serious...
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＠Holmes
Wedding either Morris or Chris would have meant wedding your half brother... An incestuous marriage.
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＠Holmes
But as your mother, only she would have known that.[sr]So she had to keep that fact to herself...even if it meant resorting to murder.
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＠Eva
This can't be happening...
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＠Eva
He's lying, right, Mother?
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＠Holmes
Harriet Violet...[wt 0.5][se ade180][sr]YOU are the culprit!
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