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[Congratulations, friends! You survived to the end. Unless you didn't, in which better luck next time. Either way, enjoy some refreshments and discuss the events of the last few days. Round 3.

On the chalkboard is a sign, reading:]

HIROSHI - 5
OSAKA - 5
MINAKO - 7

[Minako has achieved the high score.]

There are several obvious jokes I could make right now, but I think I'd rather leave those to someone else.

Subject: Souji Seta (Age 18)

Died from a single stab wound to the chest. The murder weapon was the Shichishito sword (Exhibit A), belonging to the Fey family. The weapon was still in the corpse upon the discovery of the victim. The body was found in a locked utility shed near the Aino residence after a warrant was acquired to search the premises. No fingerprints were found on the scene. Had been dead at least 48 hours before the body was discovered.

Subject: Haruhi Suzumiya (Age 16)

Died from third degree burns. Body was found in the Home Ec classroom of the Izumizaki High School. Bruises on the victim suggest she was grabbed and forced into the school’s burners (Exhibit B) by the attacker before she attempted to fight back. The victim appeared to be gripping strands of blonde hair and a kitchen pan in her hands.

Subject: Nui Harime (Age 16)

Died from a puncture wound to the neck and lacerations to the throat. Found on the steps of the Fey estate. A tripwire (Exhibit C) activated by Maya Fey caused a crossbow (Exhibit D) to fire a bolt (Exhibit E) into the victim’s neck. Claw marks suggest the victim attempted to pull the bolt out of her neck only to expedite the injury’s effect.

Subject: Chiyoko Shimamoto (Age 16)

Suffered third degree burns to her upper body. A bucket of oil (Exhibit F) fell on the subject before candles (Exhibit G) were knocked and fell on the subject. Currently at Hizumizaki Hospital in serious condition. Prognosis uncertain.

Subject: Ayumu Kasuga (Age 16)

Died from multiple stab wounds to the chest and throat. The victim fell down the stairs of the Fey estate basement, which were covered in grease. She landed on three steak knives (Exhibit H) which were set to point upward.

Subject: Hiroshi Yamane (Age 15)

Died from a single stab wound to the chest. Murder weapon was a knife (Exhibit I) found near the body upon discovery. Believed to have been killed defending Maria Ushiromiya from an attack.

Subject: Minako Aino (Age 15)

Died from asphyxiation. Suspect in the deaths of her classmates and Rosa Ushiromiya. Body was found on the Fey estate wearing a mask and a costume. Believed to have been strangled by Maya Fey.

According to the testimony of Maria Ushiromiya, the victim was operating under the name “Space Witch Venus” and responsible for the deaths of her classmates and “the Black Witch”, believed to be the girl’s nickname for her mother. No motive for crimes uncovered as of yet.

Subject: Rosa Ushiromiya (Age 35)

Died from blunt force trauma to the back of the head. Body was discovered on the Ushiromiya residence at the urging of the victim’s daughter, Maria Ushiromiya. A chain matching the contusions of the victim (Exhibit J) was uncovered at the Aino residence and is believed to be the murder weapon. Body is estimated to be around 24 hours old by the time of discovery.

Subject: Alice Margatroid (Age 16)

Died from asphyxiation. Murder weapon was the subject’s headband (Exhibit K), which was sewn into the victim’s body and her clothes. Body was found inside the Margatroid household. A small amount of smudged lipstick was found on the band as well. Fingerprints matching Minako Aino were found on the scene. The subject was dead for a few hours before her discovery.

Subject: Maya Fey (Age 16)

Found in her estate holding the body of Minako Aino following a phone call from Maria Ushiromiya. Responsible for the death of Minako Aino and a suspect in the murders of several of her classmates. However, the subject was in police custody during the estimated times of death for Alice Margatroid and Rosa Ushiromiya. Subject was unresponsive during questioning and is currently in the Hizumizaki Hospital’s Psychiatric Ward, pending further investigation.

Final Note:

Upon searching the Aino residence, multiple weapons, traps, and costumes matching other crime scenes were uncovered. As of yet, no motive for Minako Aino or Maya Fey has been established. Due to the unreliability of witness Maria Ushiromiya and the current state of Maya Fey and Chiyoko Shimamoto, police are still investigating these crimes.

Three are down, three are dead.

Haruhi. Rosa. Alice.

The Princess will be free of her chains soon, Hope from Pandora's box bright and innocent and so easy to be crushed by the unscrupulous. Enemies lie everywhere - the sisters, no matter which side they take, they're out of the way for now. If there are still enemies to take care of, if she's still alive at the end of the night, she'll see if she needs to drag anything out from under their skins.

Four to go. Tomosuke's message had been clear. A turncoat twice over, no fit familiar for a witch. Even a treacherous witch.

With Maria's betrayal, there's really no time to waste. Can't check on the prince, if he's gone then that's just wasted time, if he's not then that's still wasted time, if he's taken a turn for the worse and died then too bad for him, Maya's reign'll just have to kick off with a tragic star-crossed romance, it's his fault for getting in the way.

Time, time - wires strung across doorways and stairwells, ancient crossbows dredged up from the basement, sharp stakes and slippery steps in strategic places, all the traps her wild ingenuity can summon into being, and, of course, a certain upgrade for the power of Venus, purchased with the help of papa's credit card.

Mia will be back to free Maya tomorrow, so it has to be tonight.

A challenge must be issued to the worst of the demons remaining. With the power of love and beauty, she'll defend this household, and with that, she dials Nui. With Alice's cell phone, of course. She might not pick up for Minako, but she definitely will for Alice. Power of love. It's what she's got and she'll use every single tool at her disposal for the sake of her liege.

[Finally, after all those phone calls, they're all gathered outside the police station. There are some conspicuously missing members of the club, but Souji's been gone for days and Minako isn't really Minako anymore--she's Venus--and Alice wasn't able to get the message from Tomosuke, Maria supposes, and of course Maya is the one they're all trying to save from rotting in jail due to false accusations. But Maria is here and Hiroshi is here and Nui and the President and Osaka. That's enough people for a rescue mission.]

So does everyone have the things we need for the plan?

[Maria's plan being that they'd lure Mr Policeman out and steal his keys. It's a bit simplistic for a jailbreak plan, but she is only nine.]

[After Maria had shown up with Minako that morning for school as if it had been any other day, Mr Policeman had decided that instead of going to classes, Maria should spend the morning talking to him about Mamma. She'd told him that Mamma had been in a bad mood that evening and that she usually tried to sneak out when Mamma was in bad moods like that and go to visit Maya or Osaka or Minako those nights, because they'd let her sleep in her room and not tell any grown-ups that would try to take her home.

She thought Mr Policeman believed her. All that stuff she'd said was true, she'd just said it in a way that made him think she wasn't there when Space Witch Venus saved her from the Black Witch.

But after such a long time of boring questions, that had gone quite past the lunch break, Maria knew she had to go somewhere else than the school, if only for a little while. And Hiroshi still needed to be given lunch. That was it. She'd go to the convenience store and buy food for Hiroshi and feed him and talk to him while the others were in afternoon classes. Maybe she could tell him more about the Moon Princess. It didn't seem like he remembered much about her, not like Venus did, but Maria thought he'd be happy to know she was probably Maya.

Maria was, anyway.

--

After her talk with Hiroshi, Maria spends the rest of the afternoon in the clubroom, putting the finishing touches on her Apprentice Witch Chibi-Venus cloak and thinking about everything he'd said to her when she visited. Eventually, just before everyone files in to gloomily discuss what to do next, Maria makes a decision.

Next time Venus leaves her alone with Hiroshi, she's going to help him.]

[This had been a complicated day for Alice.

People were disappearing and dying. Someone had to be behind it all, and Alice was starting to put together a theory about who it was. Everything seemed to be pointing in the same direction...

Compared to all that, that conversation with Nui should have been pretty unimportant, but it was certainly occupying a lot more of her mind that evening.

So for the moment, Alice was at home, alone, sewing. Nothing complex, just touching up some old projects and fixing some damage. Some mindless activity to clear her head. However dark things had gotten, it couldn't last much longer, right? People don't just commit murder without getting caught, whoever they may be. That's just how the world works. Right?

Surely, this tragedy was almost over...]

[The club room was looking very empty.

Alice looked around the room, trying to suppress the dread that had been growing in the back of her mind since that night in the woods. Nui, Chiyoko, Minako, Osaka, Maria. Souji was missing, Hiroshi was missing, Maya was in jail, the girl from the other school was dead, and word was that Maria's mother was dead, too.

What the hell was going on in this town? Didn't dad move here to have a peaceful life in the countryside?]

...Do you think we should try and do something?

[She said it in a smaller voice than usual, as if someone might be listening in on them.]

The work of an agent of love is never done! You'd think that someone with Minako's grades wouldn't even be a Watson, much less the guy with the deerstalker cap, but what she lacks in academics she's always been able to compensate with drive and raw cunning. And now that drive has a little something extra.

The determination to protect a dear friend against a dangerous foe.

The sun rises on another beautiful, ridiculously hot day at the Izumizaki school. At this time of morning, happy and healthy high schoolers flock into the entrance. One of them, while hale, clearly... is not wearing the same uniform. It's the full uniform of that nice school in the city; light brown shoes, dark brown socks, brown skirt, brown sweater vest, light brown bow, white shirt. That said, the little purse is probably not an actual schoolbag. Two long strands of brown hair dangle down; the remaining substantial mass has been threaded with a steady hand through the tastefully small hole cut in the back of a deerstalker cap, the brim of which covers any childish bangs.

Is this the Haruhi Suzumiya whose hair was short beneath ribbons in ninth grade? When could she ever have heard of "makeup"? Admittedly, her eyes themselves, as brown as everything else, are the same as ever: Blinking brightly as her glance gets bored of each new sight.

"Yamane-kun. Aino-san. What a pleasure to see you all again after such a long time." It's a completely conventional, general greeting. She could go on to call them all one by one, but they have unfini... Business. She and the school have business. "I hope I'm not intruding. I just naturally have lots of questions." Lots. Already the businesslike veneer is cracking as she bounces forward on the balls of her feet.

[Magic isn't necessary in a world where science could provide so many more tangible possibilities. This is what Hiroshi believes. And if he could get Maria to see how fascinating reality could be too, all the better.

Thus, this little trip. Nothing too fancy, just a trip to the woods. Nature abounds here, after all, and with it comes the myriad of marvelous scientific discoveries that come with it. She has to be able to appreciate THAT much at least, right? Even if he can't dissuade her completely completely from this witch nonsense, at least he can plant some seeds.

...Not sure why Osaka is here, though.]

See over here, Maria. Have you noticed how the moss almost always grows on the same sides of the trees?

[Once again, it comes to this. Not that anyone present would be thinking of it this way.

On a dark night, deep in the woods behind Izumizaki, eight friends sit in a circle around a crackling fire. Holding hands, they look into the fire, its dancing shadows playing tricks on the imagination beyond the circle. Maria's established the rules, all that's left is to kick things off.]

So... on the count of three, then?

[ It's a hot Friday afternoon in June, and there's nothing particularly unusual going on in the clubroom today.

... which isn't much of an introduction, but it's the truth.

and of course, you can bet your behinds that Prez isn't going to have this. She lets the usual chatter stretch out for a little while before finally taking her place at the head of the room and slapping a hand down on the teacher's podium. ]

... alright! I--I'm callin' an official uh-- hearing...? -- m--meetin' to order! Y'hear me?

Ayumu hadn’t gone to see Nurse Bubblegum in a while, mostly out of time constraints than anything. With whatever mom was working on wrapped up, they had time to set a real appointment, which happened to land on today’s date.

Every now and then Mrs. Kasuga sat Ayumu down and tried to explain “now I don’t think that…” something something “court order, his insistence, safest I could find” something something. It all kind of went over Ayumu’s head and she had a hard time focusing. It meant she got to see all the nice people down there, so she wasn’t sure what her mom was worried about.

All in all, she’s feeling pretty good when she gets called into the office. She happily opens the door, waving her arms brightly. “Hiya Miss Bubblegum!”

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Endless June: A Higurashi PSL

Entries tagged with cycle 3

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