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this should probably be an investigation thread by now but i don't want to split em

[tempingforatlas]

Alright. Ritsuka is going to go to the crawlspace above the library, taking a knife from culinary with her, and see how much leverage and force she can get out of slamming the hilt of a knife down in such a small area. She's pretty familiar with both the average durability of a human skull and how, like, strong normal people are when they aren't slightly jacked from two years of near constant exercise, so she should be able to judge from a few swings whether somebody with normal strength would be able to crack a skull as badly as Aiko's with a similar method.

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There is enough space to pull her hand back and swing the knife, so theoretically it's possible, but Aiko's injury was on the back of her head, so for that to happen in the scenario Ritsuka is trying, she'd have to be side by side somebody with her head turned away for them to reach her. Basically anything is possible if you try hard enough, but also it's highly unlikely.

[tempingforatlas]

Okay. Time to cover all her bases. Ritsuka will visit the vice principal and say that she's been working with Stephanie to try a find a way to humanely remove the rats, and the crawlspaces seem like a good place to start investigating, but she's not sure if they're safe. Have there been any major accidents in the crawlspaces, particularly around the library since that's where Ritsuka wants to start?

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The vice principal is very ??? children should not be crawling around the crawlspaces, children, please,,,
It doesn't seem as if she's ever told anything about the crawlspaces, and she tells Ritsuka that the rat infestation and structural damage isn't something she needs to worry about, those are adult problems to take care of.

[tempingforatlas]

Hm. Next up, she's going to ask Chiaki and the other members of the art club if they knew where Hiro typically hung out whenever he was ditching class or club, or if they had any clues whatsoever as to his whereabouts during that time.

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Hiro is part of the science club, not art, but members of both clubs say that if they're trying to find him at any given time there's a good bet that he's in the library, taking advantage of the quiet to sleep. Usually he choses somewhere out of the way to nap, and like Maya, doesn't have a large enough presence for people to pay enough attention to them and definitely say where he was/what he was doing.

[tempingforatlas]

Whoops, my bad.

One more question: is there any period of time where Maya regularly practices, alone, in the music room? (I'm really hoping there is because if that is the case we can hopefully bring this all to a conclusion soon >.>)

[adsum]

Theoretically, yes— she's in student council and the music club, and the survivalist club uses the music clubroom on the other days, so there may be one day a week where she's alone in the room after classes, but since club schedules aren't down on paper (I don't want to be so nitpicky about club dates and force people to thread that they're in X club on X, X, and X days of the week only) it's sort of up in the air. What were you thinking for this question?

[tempingforatlas]

We discussed it in DMs, so now for my next question: if Ritsuka asks around to see if anybody else has been snooping in weird ways like she has, will she turn up anything?

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The general consensus is that nobody is weirder about snooping than Ritsuka is, haha. If there are people asking around or digging into things, it's done a lot subtler.