"What are you talking about, Tsumugi?" She looked at all of us. "Angie was conducting a ritual. What if the student came back to life and killed her?" Kaito had this horrified look on his face.

"Kaito, I think you need some fresh air." I said. He nodded and walked outside. "Alright, let's check the Monokuma File."

I turned it on and read it aloud for everyone to hear. "The victim was Angie Yonoga, the Ultimate Artist. The body was found in the Ultimate Artist's lab. The time of death is approximately two in the morning. The cause of death was a stab wound in the back of the head. The forehead also had laceration."

"It gave the time of death this time." Maki said. "It was at 2:00am and everyone should've been sleeping. We can't rely on testimonies for this case." Shuichi said.

"I can't investigate Angie's body." I looked at Himiko. She looked distressed. I knelt down in front of her. "And you won't have to. You can investigate somewhere else, okay?"

She didn't answer. "If you think you're so great, why don't you use your 'magic' to revive Angie?!" Miu yelled.

"Stop with the comments! Resurrecting Angie is clearly impossible!" Kiibo scolded.

"We can't say that for certainty." We all looked at Kiyo. "Of course, resurrecting her is impossible, but I know a way to talk to the dead." I remembered the Caged Child. "You mean the Caged Child seance?" I asked. He nodded.

I was concerned. How do we know that this isn't as dangerous as the resurrection ritual. "Shuichi, Maki, you guys investigate here. Kiyo, if you wish to perform the Caged Child seance, be sure to ask someone to help. I don't want anyone to be alone." Everyone nodded. "What will you be doing?" I looked down at Himiko. "I'll help with outside investigations."

"Well, for the seance, I will need a completely dark room." Kiyo said. "How about the empty rooms on the fourth floor?" Himiko suggested. Himiko, Kokichi, Kiibo, Tenko, and I helped Kiyo set up the seance in the middle empty room. "Are you sure this is going to work?" I asked. Kiyo nodded. "There's no way it couldn't."

I sighed and stood up. "Actually... I'm going to go back to Angie's lab." Tenko grabbed my arm. "Take this." She took off her necklace and handed it to me. "It might get caught while we're doing it." I nodded and walked away.

I was getting weird chills from being in that room.

I went back to Angie's lab and talked to Shuichi. "Have you investigated the body yet?" He shook his head. "We've been asking everyone questions."

I knelt down next to Angie's body. "Well, there does seem to be a laceration on her forehead." I said, elevating her head with my hand. I felt like vomiting. I don't know what made this case different from the others. Everything was just surrounded by unsettling energy. "The stab at the back of her neck seems to be... three inches in." I said, tilting Angie's head gently. "So she was attacked from behind."

Maki nodded. "It was probably a sneak attack." I turned Angie's head again. "But the injury in her forehead and the stab wound in her neck seem like they were made by a different weapon." I said. "Did the culprit switch weapons midway?" Maki put her finger on her chin. "It's possible..."

I put my hand under Angie and I felt something sticky, but not sticky enough to stick onto my hand. I pulled it out from under her. "Duct tape?" I showed it to Shuichi. "It seems to have a little bit of Angie's hair stuck to it." I put it to the side and continued feeling around Angie's body. "Nothing seems to be missing, so there was no motive of stealing." I muttered. I looked at my hands and clothes. They were clean, so the blood was dry.

"This is the Necronomicon." Shuichi said, holding it up. Him and Maki opened it and read the instructions to see what Angie was trying to do. "After making the effigies, burn the Necronomicon to ashes." Shuichi read aloud. "Ashes? But it looks pretty intact." I said.

Shuichi continued reading. "Use caution. Be mindful of the carbon monoxide. Sprinkle the ashes on the effigy and repeat the name of the deceased three times. Then close your eyes and wait. After a while, you should feel a light tap on your back. If so, that means the ritual was a success."

I looked down at Angie. "I think it was a bit harder than a light tap." I remembered Angie's position when we came in. "It didn't look like she was pushed from the back either." I stood up and examined the wax figures.

I looked up and saw the ropes that kept the wax figures suspended in the air. "I'm guessing these are from the warehouse?" I assumed, and Shuichi nodded. "But anyone could've gotten these ropes."

"Maybe not anyone..." I muttered. I stood on top of the wax containers and climbed onto the ceiling's beams. "It was just swung up here and tied to their legs." I yelled down.

Shuichi walked up to Kaede's wax figure. "There's a katana stabbed into Kaede's chest." He observed. I jumped down and landed next to him. "I wonder why it was only her. Didn't Angie say she wanted to resurrect Rantaro?" Shuichi nodded.

Maki walked up and pulled out the katana. "Shouldn't we preserve the crime scene?" Shuichi asked. "Well, we can't do an autopsy or DNA tests, so it should be fine."

Maki examined the katana. "It's a real katana, but it's coated in gold leaf, not real gold." Gold leaf? I held out my hand and asked for the katana, and Maki handed it to me. "It's... sticky..." I muttered.

"Wasn't this in Kiyo's lab?" I asked Shuichi. He nodded. "Judging from the blood at the tip, I'm guessing this was the murder weapon." Maki said. "The edge is too crusty to cut, but it can definitely stab." I traced my finger at the edge. "You're right."

"But why get this instead of something from my lab?" Maki wondered. "Well, Kiyo's lab is not too far from here. Maybe that's why." Maki spread her arms so each of her hands were on either side of the katana. "Or maybe they needed something this size. My lab doesn't have any swords or weapons of this length."

Maki gave me back the katana. "Do you not use these kinds of weapons?" She shook her head. So each room is designed for us specifically, not just for our talents.

"We should investigate the place the katana came from." Maki suggested. We went to the Ultimate Anthropologist's Lab. I reached for the sliding lock, but noticed something. "Is this gold leaf?" I knelt down so the lock was at eye level. "So this door was used..." I pushed the sliding lock, careful not to touch the gold leaf. "So the sliding lock doesn't need much effort to move." Shuichi noticed.

"Wait, the front door was definitely locked, right?" I nodded. Maki walked over to the door. "Cylinder lock. Is there anyone other than Kokichi who could've opened it?" I thought for a moment. "Well, Monodam swallowed it, but they wouldn't interfere with the killing unless it were to give us a motive to kill." Maki faced Shuichi and I. "So Kokichi is the only one who could've opened the door?"

My eyes widened. He wouldn't, he couldn't. He didn't... Did he? Shuichi and Maki continued to question everyone else. I picked up the duct tape we found under Angie's body. "I wonder what this was for." I asked myself.

I put the duct tape in my pocket and looked at the wax containers. "She used a lot for this ritual." I said as I opened the containers. Three were empty. "I'm going to check on Kaito."

Maki and Shuichi nodded as I left. "Borrow a knife from my research lab. I don't want you just walking around alone." I nodded as Maki left. "Kaito, are you in here?" I asked, knocking at his door. He opened it, and he looked... awful.

"You know, I don't think anyone was resurrected. Why don't you come and help us investigate?" He nodded and I held his hand as I led him into the school.

I went to Kiyo's lab. "Where's Shuichi?" I asked Maki. "He went to go participate in the seance, mainly for investigation." I felt another chill down my spine. Why was I so disturbed by this?

"I-I think we should check on them." As I said that, I heard a scream. "A body has been discovered!" I put my hand over my mouth. "That sounded like Himiko!" I said. I pulled out the knife Maki told me to get. "Here." She grabbed one of the knives in my hand and we ran to the empty room they were doing the ritual in.

I burst through the door. "What- Oh my god..." There, lying on the floor, was Tenko. Himiko was staring at the body in disbelief. "H-Himiko, come here." Himiko slowly got up and pressed her head into my chest. She didn't blink, or make eye contact with anyone as she did this.

I put my hand on the back of her head. This time, tears did fill my eyes. Tenko was so caring, I don't know why anyone would... "Is that what the sound was during the se..." Shuichi's words were drowned out by a ringing in my ear.

Everyone was talking, but their words were muffled. Two murders...? I felt like vomiting, or fainting, I-I don't know. The Monokubs appeared, but I couldn't take my eyes off Tenko. There were 5 people here, including Tenko. How did they not notice? My hands dropped from Himiko. "Y-Y/N?" She looked up, but... "Y/N!"

I leaned against the wall while sitting on the floor. "S-sorry, I don't know what came over me." I tried standing up but I fell right back down. Painkillers... where's Kokichi? I haven't taken any... Come on, Y/N, you've got this. I stood on shaky legs and looked at Tenko's body. Two murders, but only one counts. How odd.

"I can't quite see..." I said. Kiibo offered his assistance and his eyes lit up like a flashlight. "Th-thank you."

I walked into the centre of the circle and knelt down next to Tenko. I pressed two fingers on her neck and wrist. No pulse. She was dead. This wasn't a figment of my imagination.

I took a shaky breath and stood up. "Definitely dead." I tilted her head. I gently put my finger in Tenko's wound. Unlike Angie, her blood was still wet. "Three to four inches." The same stab wound as Angie. "I think they're the same culprit." I said. "They have the same wound, in the same spot. It also seems that they're in a similar position." But... Tenko was under a cage. How did...

I got up and walked over to the cloth that was off to the side. "What was this for?" Kiyo told me that it covered the cage during the seance. "Well, I guess I can see that." I held up the spot with a small splatter of blood. "So someone poked through the cloth?"

Shuichi knelt down next to me. "I don't see any." I tried moving the dog statue, but I couldn't. "How heavy is this?" I asked Shuichi. "About 175 pounds." Yep, I can see why it was hard to lift. No one person could carry it.

"If this was on top of the cage, Tenko wouldn't be able to get out easily." Maki pointed out. So it was a trap rather than a seance?

I rested my hand on the ground and felt the grains of salt under my palm. "W-wait, you continue investigating here." I said as I got up. I ran to Angie's lab and looked around. "What are you doing?" Kokichi asked. I hadn't noticed he even followed me here. I lifted different things in the lab. "Nope, not here." I mumbled.

I walked towards Angie's body and turned her over so her back was facing up. I gently put my finger into the wound in her neck. "Three to four inches." I stood up. Same as Tenko. Shuichi and Maki came in. "Have you found a murder weapon?" I asked. Shuichi shook his head. "I see."

I pulled out Tenko's necklace and stared at it. Is this... just a dream? I looked at the table in Angie's lab. Her paintbrush that she always had was on it. I took it and shoved it in my pocket. "I'm going to check out the empty rooms again." Kokichi tilted his head. "Rooms?" I nodded. "All three of them."

I went to one of the empty rooms with nothing inside. I felt the floorboards and remembered what Gonta said. "They aren't screwed down."

I lifted it and saw what was underneath. "There was a gap in the corner of each room, right?" Shuichi nodded as he walked in behind me. "Who was closest to the gap during the seance?" He thought for a moment. "I think it was Himiko."

I nodded and jumped down under the floorboards. It was dark, but it was lit enough by the candles in the room above. Maki and Shuichi followed me in, bringing a candle. I saw the broken beams that lead to the other room and saw the blood dripping from Tenko's body through the floorboard.

"A broken beam?" Shuichi noticed. It was right under Tenko's body.

Maki noticed a sickle in the corner of the room. "Easy to aim and hide." She said as she grazed her hand on the tip. It was fresh blood. "Gonta!" I called out. I heard footsteps from above us. "We're in the floor!" The floorboard was lifted.

"Ah, there you are!" We went up and out of the floor, and put the floorboard back, but with a loud thump. "Does that sound familiar?" I asked Shuichi. "Y-yeah, it was the sound that I heard in the middle of the song!" I nodded.

We went out in the hall, but it wasn't something I ever thought I'd see... again.