The transfers suspect you of murdering the student council president, and we're building a really solid case. I'm not going to pretend I haven't participated in that investigation either—I was the one who came up with the idea to homebrew luminol and pitched it to Senku, even.
But here's the thing. I honestly don't care whether or not you really did do it. You're Stephanie's friend. She might be a kid, but she's a good judge of character.
So if she trusts you, I trust you too.
I'm not going to demand that you explain the truth to me—I've always been more of a Watson than a Holmes—I'd just like to give you a warning.
I have a feeling that whatever the school will do to you if they find you guilty won't be pretty, and I'd really rather not have to put Stephanie through that, let alone get another person hurt. I'll be in your corner.
[Hastily scribbled after, in what little room remains on the page.]
Since it looks like you know our whole deal: while we've been trapped here in the school, we've been investigating the crawlspaces. The big thing is that someone dropped the body in there before everyone else arrived at the school. They had to have done it after hours. Everyone else seems pretty eager to get out of the school after six, so unless you and Maya have secretly been transfer students this whole time... I don't think either of you are our killers, for what it's worth.
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But here's the thing. I honestly don't care whether or not you really did do it. You're Stephanie's friend. She might be a kid, but she's a good judge of character.
So if she trusts you, I trust you too.
I'm not going to demand that you explain the truth to me—I've always been more of a Watson than a Holmes—I'd just like to give you a warning.
I have a feeling that whatever the school will do to you if they find you guilty won't be pretty, and I'd really rather not have to put Stephanie through that, let alone get another person hurt. I'll be in your corner.
[Hastily scribbled after, in what little room remains on the page.]
Since it looks like you know our whole deal: while we've been trapped here in the school, we've been investigating the crawlspaces. The big thing is that someone dropped the body in there before everyone else arrived at the school. They had to have done it after hours. Everyone else seems pretty eager to get out of the school after six, so unless you and Maya have secretly been transfer students this whole time... I don't think either of you are our killers, for what it's worth.
[There are some chocolate smears on the note.]