CATCH ME IF YOU CAN [2nd Investigation]

[akudamods]

When you venture outside, there is a single theme in the whispers of any person on the street.

“Shinkansen-sama, I’m so sorry... “ “Forgive us, Shinkansen-sama…” “Can’t believe they defiled Kansai Station…” “Damn you, X-Class Akudama!”

The sky is cloudless above the smog. Does this really have anything to do with you? Did everyone else wake up in the residences this morning? Or will you take the bus route up to Chuo just in case?

Comments

[intimations]

[Nothing like good night's rest of sleeping in your room and doing nothing else!! Anyways, Belial's a decently early waker so he'll exit from Room #17 to go downstairs. Assuming there isn't anything hideously conspicuous in the hospital somewhere, he's going to go and check out the Shinkansen Station to see if that long line up is still there. Or y'know, if there's a body there.]

Just tagging along here uwu

[hunterandhunted]

[With the museum instilling in Zenos that a train is absolutely being venerated as a god, he decides it's time to finally (also) investigate Shinkansen Station to see if there is any more information available, outside of its exhibit. I wonder what he'll find, well, it's Belial for now.]

[fullswingkiss]

[ Starting off the morning as any regular person would, in the hospital. He'll take the elevator down to the lobby, so let's see if anything is amiss. ]

[akudamods]

[Not unless you're creeped out by Rachel's dolls! Enjoy the remaining hand sanitizer.]

[voidseeing]

[Looks like the Shinkansen Station already has a party going on, so Gai is going to be poking around Chuo Square. It's close enough that if something DID happen at the station, there might be something to find there...]

[akudamods]

[You can certainly see the chaos on the street ahead, but the square itself is relatively peaceful!]

[osssuary]

[Starting off from the roof of the karaoke bar. I don’t know what you expected here.]

[akudamods]

[The roof is pristine. But that's not the only part of the karaoke bar...]

[your_best_friend]

[* Flowey will go and mingle around at Book Bride.]

[akudamods]

[Great! More time to read about humans! Maybe not even ones getting murdered!]

[superstructure]

[ Well, looks like the hospital is body free, so Julius is gonna go to the Biriken Mart for some food first before poking around. ]

[akudamods]

[Just like Rideaux with the bread, huh? You have the same chance.]

BODY DISCOVERY ANNOUNCEMENT

[akudamods]

Oh Bunny… Bunny!!
What’s wrong, Sharkie?!
Another murder among the X-Classes, that’s what’s wrong! It’s as wrong as can be, because the body was left right at Shinkansen Station!
Slow down. Whose body?
It was… Demon.
A demon slayed at the holy ground, huh? Is someone out there trying to play God, or what?
Well, keeping what they’re all after in mind, that person must really want to meet their maker!
We know it’s sad, but citizens, please stay away from the station until the investigation concludes - and be sure to update the Akudama Go app if you know anything about these scandalously sacrilegious events!
Don’t forget to vote for the killer, either!
Until next time!

[thefifthchild]

[...


It happened again.]

AKUDAMA GO APP

[akudamods]

[Each character investigating should submit all evidence found in threads and link to it, along with any in-character notes in a response to this comment. Anything submitted here can be referenced in trial.]

BASIC INFORMATION - Akira Fudo

[akudamods]

Akudama ID: Demon

Location: Shinkansen Station

Cause of Death: Catastrophic Brain Trauma

[your_best_friend]

[* A photo of a lamppost with blood concentrated near the top of it

* Other than where the corpse was, there was no blood. Not even cleaned. Even the elevator was similarly pristine, inside AND outside.
* There were also feathers around the corpse.]

Re: AKUDAMA GO APP

[conways_retribution]

_{[Jake's evidence is now posted.]}

The scratch marks on the cloak are either Akira's or came from someone as large and as animalistic as a Devilman. Other than that, I'm not sure how much my evidence helps.

But I won't let it go to waste.

SHINKANSEN STATION EVIDENCE

[intimations]

Found some interesting things where the body was. Enjoy.

[Attached, there are the following pictures:

1. There's a couple selfies shots of the bat wings at Akira's head, with one of them looking like they've been torn off
2. A shot of the blood pooling underneath Akira's body, which is pretty dry; also features some of the black feathers lying around the body and on top of the pool
3. A couple shots of the fur trail leading away from Akira's body and over to the entrance of the station]

Oh, I should note his body was pretty stiff too. Must've been a few hours since someone finished him off.

OUTER STATION EVIDENCE

[depleting]

[ Once again, Satsuki carefully documents the evidence she's found. Pictures include: the dented wooden pillar outside (one taken from ground level for scale, and another head on); a thin blood trail; a few clumps of fur; several black feathers; a hole where a lamppost seems to have been ripped straight from the ground; and the contents of the offering box. It doesn't seem like she has much to say about what she's found this time around, so she labels their locations and leaves it at that. ]

Hyper Zone Evidence Part I

[inspiritus]

[ Here it comes! There are pictures but also notes to go along with it for those who want that as well. ]

On the floor of the entrance to the Hyper Zone was found one bloody batlike wing; it's smaller than the meter-long wings he uses to normally fly with. There is also a trail of brown fur on the ground which leads towards deeper inside the facility and back outside.

The trail of fur lead to that odd dancing machine, which was rather damaged. Evidence of that damage first was observed by how the railing looks like something with quite a large amount of force collided with it, forcing it towards the rest of the machine. There was some odd music playing as well.

[ Perhaps there is like a recording of the music being played. Enjoy. ]

The screen mark was smashed with a heavy amount of force, but there was a portion with scoring still available; particularly a high score with the player named "Seeker" as responsible for achieving an almost perfect record of "combinations" with the song on "Expert Mode".

Nearby on a section of a wall with a sign that read "In case of Emergency break glass." there was a small compartment that had been broken into. Whatever was once in there was no longer present and all that remained were the fallen pieces of glass around it.

Once retracing my steps with the trail of brown fur, it was easy to spot two black feathers near them.

- Sephiroth

SHINKANSEN STATION

[akudamods]

[intimations]

[Welp. Not necessarily who he expected to find today but that corpse isn't going to investigate itself.

So uh, anything obvious stand out here besides all the blood and dented head? He's not gonna move it yet in case people want to take pictures and whatnot. One step at a time!!]

OUTSIDE SHINKANSEN STATION

[akudamods]

[depleting]

[ stumbles in half-awake with Starbucks absolutely no drink at all, anyways

Is there anything Satsuki would notice right away, that might distract her from whatever presumably bloody smells are coming from one investigation header up? ]

HYPER ZONE

[akudamods]

[inspiritus]

[ Okay. What's going on here at first glance? ]

KARAOKE BAR

[akudamods]

[osssuary]

[Well, he's literally here, so time to go back inside and see what he's missed??]