Part 47: Super High-school Level Update #43

Phase 9 (2) (Youtube via Polsy)



You heard it too, didn’t you, Naegi-kun? That person’s... carelessness...

Is she saying... something someone just said was strange?

You all know what it is.



Evidence Bullet: Celes' testimony
...has the same blue jersey as Fujisaki was carrying?





YOU'VE GOT THAT WRONG!









Wait a second, Oowada-kun! What you said just now... was strange...!



...Aa? What was strange about it?



I mean... when Celes-san told her story earlier...



He was stuffing a jersey into a sports bag.
It seemed as if he was heading to do some training.



She didn’t say anything about the jersey’s color. So, how did you know...



...that the jersey Fujisaki-san wore was blue?



W...what are you saying... you bastard...!!



Oy, Celes. What color was Fujisaki’s jersey?



It certainly was... blue...



Did you tell this to anyone else before the school trial began?



I only told it to you, Naegi-kun.



In that case, when did you find out, Oowada? The fact that Chihiro Fujisaki’s jersey is blue...



T...that’s...!



H...he probably... found that jersey during the investigation...



No, that can’t be right...
We started the investigation after the bag and jersey were already disposed of.



So, he probably found out...



Because he saw Chi-tan before she died! That’s the only way, right?!



Chi-tan... do you mean Fujisaki-chan...?



Well, what’s your answer!? Did you or did you not see her jersey?



I... saw it accidentally... yesterday evening.
That kid... I saw him walking down the hallway with it...



...No, that’s also not possible. I mean, according to Celes-san’s testimony...



She stuffed that jersey into the bag looking like she was in a hurry... It was almost as if she was hiding something.
And then... she left without saying another word.



Fujisaki-san stuffed the jersey into the bag after Celes-san told him it was sticking out.
That means that if you saw him accidentally, you wouldn’t be able to tell the color of the jersey inside his bag.



U...gugu...!!



...you just dug your own grave, didn’t you?



Was that your plan all along? Is that why you said what you did?
That lie about how if we thought about Chihiro Fujisaki’s jersey’s special characteristics we’ll be able to figure out who he was meeting with...



...I see. So she was bluffing?
Your true goal was to get a slip of the tongue out of someone?



That’s why you said you knew who the culprit is. You tried to get them restless...



That’s right, but...



I was after Oowada-kun from the very beginning. I already knew he was the suspicious one!



Why... why did you think Oowada-kun was suspicious?

This is my big translation failure. This bit of evidence is subtle as hell in the original Japanese, which is why it slipped my mind when I started translating the game. Rest assured, it’s all fixed now. In fact, it’s been fixed since before the previous update, when I did a retroactive stealth edit of many updates going back to the beginning of this LP earlier this week. If you’re a new reader, rest assure this clue was present.

How did I figure that out?



His words changed / He acted strange / Because I hate Oowada-kun

Yeah, the player is asked a multiple-choice question from Kirigiri's point of view. Note the lack of Naegi's "I got it!" face when you choose correctly.



...........



The reason I thought Oowada-kun was suspicious...



Oowada-kun. You always subconsciously use different words when talking about males and females...
When you speak about girls, you say “that girl”, but for boys, you use “that kid”...
After the murder, you started referring to Chihiro Fujisaki as “that kid”.
That’s when it occurred to me that you may already knew Chihiro Fujisaki was male...

In Japanese, Mondo uses “ano onna” (“that girl”) for women (which is why it’s always been translated that way in this LP), and “aitsu”, which is a slightly-rude genderless third person pronoun, for men. I originally translated “aitsu” differently depending on the tone of the entire sentence, and I still do -- in some cases “that bastard” is much more appropriate, and I don’t think he would refer to Monobear as a “kid” -- but I have now changed the vast majority of it to fit this clue.



Y...you really noticed such a tiny change in behavior...!?



Is she a witch? She’s such a terrifying woman, isn’t she!!



No, it’s not me who is terrifying...



A truly terrifying person is... one who can kill his friends...



Gu...!!



Oowada-kun... Was it... really you?
Did you really... kill Fujisaki-san...?



I... I... I... I...





I DIDN’T KILL HIM!!
It’s all nonsense! She’s been trying to trick me and use my words against me since the beginning...
She’s treating me like I’m some kind of a criminal!?



T...That’s right! My brother will never do such things! It’s just a false accusation!!



What I have shown is certainly... weak when taken as concrete evidence.



Y...you say that so plainly...



So we’re stuck again... There aren’t any more clues left.



Heh heh heh, so it’s finally my turn...



...That’s what it’s whispering. My ghost.



Now that you mention it, you did tell me before, didn’t you? That you found some evidence regarding the culprit...!



Really!? What kind of evidence?



..............



Um, actually, when I think about it calmly, it probably has nothing to do with the case.



...What’s with the sudden loss of self-confidence? Just show us.



I...If you say so... Well...



Um... That’s it...



Hanyanya? That’s...?



It’s an Electronic Student ID Card... I found it on the floor and picked it up.

He found it on the floor somewhere? That probably means this is...



Mondo Oowada's card / My card / Chihiro Fujisaki's card





That must be Fujisaki-san’s Electronic Student ID Card. It disappeared from the crime scene, didn’t it?



Yes, it did...



So I was right!
It’s just as I thought! I was certain it was Fujisaki Chihiro-dono’s card!



So, there’s a clue about the culprit’s identity on it, right!?



...I thought there might be, but it’s broken and won’t even start up.



After the murder, the culprit probably broke it when they were getting rid of evidence.



...But, that’s strange. Those Electronic Student ID Cards can’t be destroyed that easily.



You’re absolutely right!
They’re completely waterproof and highly resistant to shock, so you can’t destroy them recklessly...



That said, this Electronic Student ID Card is broken, and so was Kuwata-kun’s card at the entrance hall.
You seem so confident... but didn’t we just see them broken left and right?



Upupu... it's really puzzling, isn't it...
Well, then. How do you think those Electronic Student ID Cards get broken?

The reason the card broke down? I can think of only one reason...



A cheat code / Hacking / The card's weak point





You told me that before, didn’t you? These Electronic Student ID Cards have a weakness...



Gah! You remembered!?



I...It did slip my tongue before, but I’m certain I never told anyone the details of that weakness!



For cards that cannot be destroyed recklessly, we found two of them in succession...



It seems like... someone found out what that weakness is, doesn’t it?



Hey, you know what it is, don’t you, Monobear? So, what is it?



Eh...? You want me to just tell you...?



In order to make this a fair trial, I think this is essential information...



But... if I tell you that... I’ll be in trouble if someone decides to try it out...



It’s okay, just tell us! I promise we won’t try anything like that!



I guess I have no choice... I’m weak to such polite requests. But don’t you try it out, okay?
Well, here’s my special testimony! My invincible Electronic Student ID Cards’ one and only weakness is...



When they’re exposed to a high temperature for a long time, they go through a thermal runaway and break down!!



...I thought so!!



...You did?



I mean, I found this Electronic Student ID Card on the floor of the sauna!





The temperature in a sauna can reach a hundred degrees celsius. Don’t you think it’s strange how you don’t get burned sitting in it?
That’s because the air surrounding your body contains evaporated sweat, and that humidity protects the skin.
By the way, when the dry air in the sauna comes in direct contact with the skin, it does get burned...
That happens when the air surrounding your body is disturbed. That’s the reason moving around in a sauna hurts.
That’s why you should always stay still and quiet inside a sauna!



I see! I learned something new today!!



It’s just useless trivia, though!





But, if the victim’s Electronic Student ID Card was discovered in the sauna...
Maybe the culprit wanted it destroyed... He aimed directly for that weakness...



That means the culprit already knew about the Electronic Student ID Cards’ weakness.



But, how could the culprit know? Monobear just said he didn’t tell anyone, right?



This is a mystery, indeed...



What if they found by accident?



...What do you mean, by accident?



On some occasion, the culprit broke an Electronic Student ID Card in the sauna by accident.
That’s how they found out about the cards’ weakness...
And then... when they needed to destroy Chihiro Fujisaki’s card... they knew what to do.



...That’s a possibility, but who would do such a thing?
Who would bring their card into the sauna in the first place and break it...?



I think I know who that is.





Are you serious!?



There’s just one person I can think of. Someone who probably brought their Electronic Student ID Card into the sauna...



Ugu...ugugugu...!!

Someone who probably took their Electronic Student ID Card into the sauna...

It’s that person... It can be no one but them...!



CHOOSE A PERSON!

For the second time this trial.







Oowada-kun... It was you who broke his Electronic Student ID Card in the sauna, wasn’t it?



...W...w...what are you saying!?



W...WHY! WHY DO YOU THINK THAT!!



You and Ishimaru-kun had your endurance test in the sauna, didn’t you?



That evening, Oowada-kun entered the sauna without removing his clothes...



That Electronic Student ID Card... was probably in your pocket at that time, wasn’t it.
That’s how you found out, Oowada-kun... That the cards break in the sauna...



Gu...gugugu...!!



Wait, wait... My brother, killing someone...?



I WON'T ACCEPT IT! GIVE US SOME CONCRETE EVIDENCE!!



I... don’t want to believe it myself. But...

But... I know how to prove it...

Phase 10 (Youtube via Polsy)



DISCUSSION START!



Evidence Bullets: Broken Electronic Student ID Card / Asahina's testimony / Genocider Syo file / Fujisaki's Electronic Student ID Card / Card readers



If Naegi-kun’s reasoning is correct...



Oowada-kun, for a while now,



had his own Electronic Student ID Card broken...



In short, if Oowada-kun’s Electronic Student ID Card is broken...



It means the reasoning is correct.



My Electronic Student ID Card works just fine...



S...See?!



Naegi-kun’s conclusion is wrong after all!



My brother will never kill anyone!

I don’t want to believe Oowada-kun killed another person as well...

But... I know how to prove this...

The game takes the difficulty one step up now, with 5 evidence bullets at our disposal, many of them related to the cards. There's also the possibility we need to grab an evidence bullet from the discussion itself!



Evidence Bullet: Broken Electronic Student ID Card
My Electronic Student ID Card works just fine...





YOU'VE GOT THAT WRONG!









Is that Electronic Student ID Card you’re carrying really your own, Oowada-kun...?



...W...what do you mean!?



That broken card in the entrance hall...
Isn’t it really your own card...?



W...what are you trying to say...!?



I’m saying Oowada-kun replaced his card.
He replaced his own broken Electronic Student ID Card with Kuwata-kun’s...
Monobear did say something like that, didn’t he? That Kuwata-kun’s card wasn’t broken at all.



That’s right! It couldn’t have been broken just from that execution!



In short, the broken card in the entrance hall was really Oowada-kun’s Electronic Student ID Card...
And the one Oowada-kun is carrying right now is really Kuwata-kun’s Electronic Student ID Card?



But, isn’t swapping the cards against the school rules? It’s forbidden to lend the card to anyone...



Here’s my judgement on that matter...
The school rule says it’s forbidden to lend the card to another person, but is someone dead “another person”...? No, they are already nothing of the such....



This gray zone is fine! If it gets things more interesting, anything is fine by me!!
And so, I judge that swapping your card with a dead person’s is not against the school rules!



So what do you say, Oowada-kun...? If my conclusions are wrong, please tell me...?
I won’t mind... if they’re wrong...



Y...you...!



W...what’s wrong, brother? Just say it... say that he’s wrong...
That’s right... he’s wrong... it’s obvious that he’s wrong...!



There’s something decisively wrong about your reasoning somewhere!! It’s all a frame-up!!



...In that case, should I summarize this case once more time from the very beginning?
Whether my conclusion is right or wrong... will be made perfectly clear...!

Climax Inference (Youtube via Polsy)





You should really watch that video up there!





Well, then, let’s start with what happened before the murder...



Last night, Celes-san found Fujisaki-san in the storage room, didn’t she?
At that time, Fujisaki-san put something in a sports bag she held...



That’s right, it was a blue jersey. Celes-san, you did see it, right?



Carrying that bag, Fujisaki-san ignored our Night Time rule and headed to a certain place.



That was the changing room. Specifically, it was the boys’ changing room.
But, how could the victim, who was a girl, enter the boys’ changing room...?



It was because she... no, he was male.
That’s why he was able to use his own Electronic Student ID Card to enter.



Fujisaki-san was meeting someone in the boys’ changing room. That “someone” is this case’s culprit!



The culprit probably took advantage of a moment Fujisaki-san wasn’t paying attention, and using a dumbbell as a weapon...



...Hit him on the head.



At that time, some blood splattered on the poster and the carpet in the boys’ changing room.



It was probably an impulsive murder... it’s just too random to have been planned ahead, isn’t it?



That’s why the culprit, in their state of confusion, took action to disguise the crime scene. First, he collected the blood-stained carpet...
...as well as the poster...



And then, the culprit carried the dead body into the girls’ changing room.
They needed a girls’ Electronic Student ID Card to enter that room, of course, but...
That doesn’t limit the culprit to being a girl.



Maizono-san’s and Enoshima-san’s cards were in the letterbox at the entrance hall, after all...
Using them, a boy could easily enter the girls’ changing room.



Then, the culprit who entered the girls’ changing room...
Used the poster and carpet they collected previously, and did a certain thing.



He exchanged the girls’ and the boys’ changing rooms... In short, he moved the crime scene!



But, that’s not how this case ended...
The case became much more complicated by the intervention of Togami-kun, who first discovered the body...



Togami-kun, who entered the crime scene...
Used the extension cord that was in the library and did a certain thing.



...That’s right, Togami-kun used the cord to crucify Fujisaki-san’s body.



In addition, Togami-kun used the victim’s blood to leave a message in the crime scene.
It’s as if he wanted to make us thing it was Genocider Syo’s doing!



And then, at the same time... Just as Togami-kun was busy faking the crime scene...
The culprit, who destroyed Fujisaki-san’s sports bag, came into the sauna room.
They wanted to destroy the last piece of evidence... that is, Fujisaki-san’s Electronic Student ID Card.



And just like they intended, that Electronic Student ID Card broke down by the heat in the sauna.
The culprit knew that would happen. They knew the cards break down in the sauna’s heat.
They knew that because their own Electronic Student ID Card was already broken down in that place.
...And that’s the entire story of this case, isn’t it?





Isn’t it? Mondo Oowada-kun!!







Gu... Guuuuu...!!



W...wait... that’s impossible...
That's right... W...where’s your proof...?



WHERE'S YOUR PROOF!? DO YOU HAVE ANY PROOF!?
If you don’t have any proof don’t try to blame it all on my brother!!



The proof that Oowada-kun is the culprit... that was already established in the last debate.

If we check something he has on him, everything... will be made clear...


Phase 11 (Youtube via Polsy)



MACHINE-GUN TALK BATTLE START!





Watch the video to see how I do!



If you don’t have any proof don’t try to blame it all on my brother!!



Evidence Bullet: Broken Electronic Student ID Card









My recording setup doesn't let me listen to the game's audio. I do these rhythm games blind. Er, deaf.



If what I’m thinking is correct...
Oowada-kun swapped his broken Electronic Student ID Card with Kuwata-kun’s.
So... let’s all present our cards...?
If we do that...



...That won’t be necessary.



...Eh?



Yeah, that’s right...



I... killed him......



Next: Revelations. Honestly!