[VRMMO] Chaos Doctor

"What is this?" – said Sengen to herself as she was inspecting the sticking out veins and the purple veins.

(This doesn't really look like a curse… More likely a poison?)

(…No, don't assume anything just yet.)

(In the first mystery murder trial, there were several methods that were used to kill the victim and only one was correct.)

(This maybe the same thing.)

(The poison may had been killing him, making him stop, but something else may had killed him.)

(But is there anything else?) – thought Sengen as she continued inspecting the body.)

(Some scars, but they are healed up… Weird.)

(Is that really it?)

(Just poison?)

(…No. Don't get tricked, there must had been something here!)

"?"

(What is this?) – thought Sengen as she found the traces of blood on the back of the head of the victim.

"He was bleeding?" – said Sengen as she started looking around… Before then spotting some blood on the ground.

"…Replay." – Sengen once again played the copy of the victim, which was sped up and stopped in the exact moment it had stopped walking.

"…"

(The blood isn't in front of him, but behind him?)

(I would get if he had coughed up blood, but he didn't turned around or anything!)

(…)

[Clues]

-Poisoned (Possible cause of death.)

-Blood on the back of the victim's head.

-Blood behind the victim.

"Hm…" – Sengen once approached the victim and inspected the body once again, specifically around the head.

"!"

(There!)

[Clue]

-There is a small hole in the back of the victim's head.

(Something struck him and pretty deep! It could had been the second suspected cause of death.)

(But, what struck him?)

"…"

"What is this?" – said Sengen as she found a small diamond shaped object in the back of the victim's head.

(Metal… A sharp one.)

(What is it? A bullet?)

(…No.) – thought Sengen as she looked around.

(The reaction's the people isn't as if they were startled or something.)

(3.)

(There are three people who noticed the man's death, with the shock and confusion on their faced.)

(The other people? Nothing….)

(If it was a gunshot there would had been reactions.)

(So does that mean it wasn't a gunshot?)

[Second possible cause of death – Attack with metallic projectile that struck deep into the victim's head from behind.]

"Play." – Sengen watched as the eye of the victims were twitching, before then when its head tiled, causing the copy eyes to stop in place, before then the victim fell down.

(…The poison stopped the victim in place… And then before poison killed them, this projectile had killed them?)

(The poison would look like the victim died to it, but in reality, they have died by getting shot before poison could do its job?)

"…"

"But isn't this way too easy?" – said nervous Sengen.

(The previous trials were not really easy to identity the cause of death.)

(It looked like the victim in the first trial fell down the stairs and died that way, but it turned out that the victim was already dead beforehand.)

(But now this time it looks like the cause of the death is… SIMPLE???)

(This doesn't make any sense!)

"…"

"Then again, maybe the real challenge is finding the culprit."

(12 people in total.)

(The cause of death was something piercing the head of the victim, while the poison paralyzed the victim.)

(There could be 2 culprits OR 1 culprit who did it all alone.)

(So let's start from the very start.) – thought Sengen as she pressed a button that sent the copy of the victim all the way to the start.

"First, thing first, poison."

(At the very start he was in the… Bar? A outside bar non the less.)

(He was drinking something, before then leaving the table.) – thought Sengen as she pressed the stop button and approached the table.

"…"

"Her." – Sengen watched as the woman was carrying the empty plate and the mug.

(He was drinking something; it must be it.)

(Can I check her information?)

[Windy The Bar Master]

[Owner of the bar who works both as a cook and waitress today because of some circumstances.]

(A cook and the waitress?)

(…She could had poisoned his food.)

(But is that really just that simple?)

(…Not only that, why is there so little information?!)

(In the previous tests there was way more information on the suspects!)

(Yet this time there is only THAT?!)

(What the fuck is this?!) – thought Sengen as she noticed the kitchen and looked at it through the opening… But not seeing anybody inside.

(She was the only person here.)

"What the fuck is going on?"

(Barely any information! And one of the main suspects looks guilty as-)

"!"

"What the fuck!?" – said Sengen as she noticed in the trash in the kitchen, a bottle with a skull symbol on it.

(Is that a fucking poison?!)

(HEY! THE FUCK IS THIS?! ISN'T THIS WAY TOO PLAIN?! I MEAN, HELLO?!)

(A FUCKING POISON LOOKING BOTTLE IS RIGHT HERE AND SHE IS THE ONLY COOK HERE?!)

"What the fuck is this?!"

(But there is nothing in her description! The hell is that?! She doesn't have a grudge or anything!)

"…"

"Maybe it is a fake out? Like make it too obvious that it is a 'lie' kind of situation?" – said Sengen as she left the bar and looked around, before then playing once again the death video, watching as the copy walked forward… And then bumped into somebody.

"Stop." – said Sengen as she look at the spot the man bumped into somebody, before then looking around.

(Him.) – thought Sengen as she noticed one man who was walking away.

"Info."

[Gerod The Bastard]

[A gambler with not much luck to the point that he had lost a large amount of money recently against Joe.]

(A gambler! And he had lost to Joe too!)

"But fucking again, not enough fucking description!"

"The hell is going on?"

"…"

(Anyway, could he be related to the poison or the projectile?)– thought Sengen as she approached Gerod

"?"

(What is this?) – thought Sengen as she noticed that something was sticking out from the man's pocket, something large was in the man's pocket.

A golden chain was sticking out, and inside of the pocket? Something golden with a round shaped object was inside.

"What is this?"

"…"

"Rewind." – Sengen once again reminded the copy of the victim and stopped in the moment he took out something from his pocket.

"Stop."

"…"

(He took out something his pocket, something large.) – thought Sengen as she was rewinding and playing the 3d video again and again.

"…" – Sengen walked towards the victim and checked his pocket… However, there was nothing 'large' inside.

"There is nothing."

"…"

(The motion he did back then when he took out something, it looked like he opened up something with his finger, before then closing it up.)

(Maybe a pocket watch?)

(…That guy had something… Both large object.)

(Does that mean that Gerod guy stole from him?)

"…But does that make sense?"

"I mean in the context of the situation?"

(I guess when they bumped into each other, that Gerod guy had stolen the "watch?")

(But did he did anything else?) – thought Sengen as she approached Gerod and began inspecting him… However, unlike with Joe who was the victim, she couldn't really search the pockets or clothing of the suspects.

At best she could is pull a bit the clothing.

Or she could take out something from their pockets that was sticking out.

Like the golden chain that was attached to something.

"I knew it." – said Sengen as she took the object from the pocket, which was revealed to be truly a pocket watch.

"That guy robbed him."

"…"

"But… There is nothing else."

(I've even looked around; in case there was something like "discarded" weapon… But nothing.)

(…Then again… This guy didn't had any painful reaction from bumping into this guy, nor I've found any wounds….)

"…"

"This guy was only after the watch. Nothing else."

"So is that guy a red herring?"

"…"

(THIS IS WAY TOO SIMPLE CONCUSION!)

(The hell is this?!)

(I mean, I thought that maybe that guy had something like a needle coated in the poison and when the bump happened, he instantly poisoned the guy!)

(I've thought that maybe HE was the main culprit behind the poisoning instead of the bar owner… But now again the bar owner is one of the main culprits???)

"This doesn't make fucking sense." – said panicking Sengen.

(The cause of the death this time is extremely simple!)

(But this time the entire test is way fucking different???)

(Not only I'm provided with LESS information about the suspects, but there are also obvious fucking hints like that?!)

(IT WASN'T LIKE THAT BEFORE! IT WAS NOWHERE NEAR THAT POINT!)

"Seriously! The fuck is going on right now?!"

"…"

(Is this test by any chance way more difficult?)

(I mean, no matter how you see it, the difficulty right now seems like it is nowhere near two previous tests I've TOOK!)

(So maybe… This time they are just fucking playing some kind of mind games with me?!)

(…)

(Yeb… I don't fucking like it and I think I'm going crazy.)