16 [In Person] [Third Murder]

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[If you were to enter the parlor at anytime during the day you'd first see a tiny trail of blood. Fresh blood. The smell lingering in the room with it. The trail of fresh blood leads up to a body sitting in a chair, blood oozing from his forehead and knees. Eyes were closed and arms were dangling down at the sides of the chair, body limp and still.

There are no other signs on the body of any other foul play. No bruises on anywhere on the body, no marks. Nothing.]

[OOC: Yeah changed my mind and choose Oz in the end after thinking about it logiclly.]

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[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[Immediately, Aoko latches onto Kaito and buries her face in his shirt to avoid the unpleasant scene]

K-Kaito, I-I think he's dead. [obviously.]

[stalking_horse]

[He'd been in the library - going back over it, checking for any signs that may've been missed... besides the negative space of the LACK of traces. Not even a stray hair from killer or victim caught on the wall or anything.]

[The scream down the hall reshuffled his priorities, and had him in the parlor in record time - Aoko, Kaito still with her, and ...]

[Another body, sitting in one of the chairs.]

[They were keeping back - good sense, really, beyond just sparing Aoko further trauma; he walked closer to the chair carefully, minding the floor for any traces before he potentially disturbed them...although one thing sprang to mind at the layout.]

... A mafia execution? [of one sort among many, really - but no signs of struggle, no bindings....]

[nofishplz.livejournal.com]

[Yes it was pretty obvious that the guy was dead, but he wasn't about to point that out, instead he just hugged Aoko protectively, looking grim. Another murder, and again whoever was doing this changed their method of killing.

He wasn't too surprised when Hakuba showed up as quickly as he did. He looked at the body again before nodding to the detective.]

I guess we'd better get back to the room. Come on Aoko.

[He was a little worried about Hakuba, but he knew that he couldn't really help him directly on this, even though he could do the detective thing pretty well himself when he had to, because Aoko needed him and he could help Hakuba just as well by making sure she was safe so Hakuba could focus on the case.]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[Aoko nodded against Kaito- she wasn't really feeling the best now and had no objections to going back to the room.]

...

[She cast a look back at Hakuba and wondered how his health was about now- he had to have been tired.]

[stalking_horse]

[He nods to Kaito.] I have work to do here - it seems like people have noticed the noise, so I shouldn't be alone for very long. [And the killer hasn't been back at the scene of the crime that fast so far.]

[If anything, he looked less tired and more on edge, although it was, at least, a very focused on edge; he was already pulling out the Blackberry to get photographs... and with no signs of restraints or struggle, a blood sample would be next, and checking for other signs of the victim being drugged.]