- ☠ PUNISHMENT NO. 2 ⇒ VIRGIN OF NUREMBERG ✂ VIDEO

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

Hibana has a puzzle for all of you.

[she pauses, smoothing down her hair for a moment and fixing the camera so that it is perfectly straight before continuing.]

A man goes into a restaurant and orders the abalone. He takes one bite and then kills himself.

[yep. that was her puzzle. she is calm and blinking at the screen for a moment before nodding.]

Explain.

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Comments

[hunted-by-fbi.livejournal.com]

Cyanide. Maybe th' cook was his wife an' to get the insurance money, she made it look like an accident.

Another could be he's just allergic to fish.

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

Hibana apologizes, mister.

Neither of your guesses were correct.

[hunted-by-fbi.livejournal.com]

Huh, a bit morbid a subject, I gather but tha's neither here nor there.

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

It's just a riddle.

[hunted-by-fbi.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression tha' riddles didn't have right or wrong answers. Guess this breaks th' norm, don't it.

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

Mister, you must not answer a lot of riddles.

There is always a right answer.

[hunted-by-fbi.livejournal.com]

Never cared to try until now. I'm done.

[Yeah, he's not very patient with word games.]

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

Already?

But mister, you were close.

[hunted-by-fbi.livejournal.com]

A'right. Let's take a look at those words again. The man goes into a restaurant 'n' orders the abalone. He takes a bite then kills himself. Sounds like suicide t' me 'cuz abalone is expensive. It was so good that it was t' die for. [And there was some sarcasm to that.]

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

It was very expensive. But the man wasn't a pauper.

[hunted-by-fbi.livejournal.com]

That ain't sayin' that he was. It could be many things but one stands out. He could've said to himself a while back tha' the last thing he wanted to do before he dies was t' try the abalone. Tends t' happen with th' best of us. Maybe there wasn't a reason at all.

[always1truth.livejournal.com]

Can we ask questions to help get the answer?

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[always1truth.livejournal.com]

Had the man ever been to the restaurant before?

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

No.

[always1truth.livejournal.com]

...did he go there specifically for the abalone?

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

Yes~

[always1truth.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. Abalone is a type of seafood.

[he thinks for a second] If he went in specifically for that then it might have been a bet-no, I can't imagine a bet someone would kill them self over... maybe-

Had he just returned from somewhere?

[blondefuse.livejournal.com]

[She thinks on it for a minute or 10, before switching on the feed]

Alright, maybe a long shot, but 'ey, gotta try; how about this;

The man was..lets say, in a ship that was wrecked on a desert island. When there was no food left, another passenger brought what he said was abalone but was really part of the man's wife, who had just happened to 'ave died in the wreck. The man suspects somethin' fishy, so when they finally return ta civilization, he orders abalone, realizes that what he ate before was actually his dearly beloved and departed, and kills himself.

Am I close..?

[stfuhomework.livejournal.com]

...Where have you heard this riddle before, miss?

[blondefuse.livejournal.com]

[She actually looks suprised]

Why, was that right..?

[one-eyed-zero.livejournal.com]

He's just doing the rest of the world a favor and kicking himself out with a bang.