Week Four: Trial - Kaoru

[ladyofthehouse]

[Interrogation round two!

After coming back upstairs and pulling Kaoru out of the room, she'll take him to his favorite place: the music room!]

Herr Kaoru, I know you were included in discussions about Frau Feferi.

Who told you about this?

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[souredsweet]

[NO NOT THE MUSIC ROOM. is this an intimidation interrogation tactic??

he folds his hands together, nodding once at that.]

I was, yes... As for that - most of us wished to preserve anonymity for the sake of safety, but Bakura-san has spoken of two of us... No one really came up to me and said "Feferi-san is the killer", though... Rather, it was like "who do you think is the killer?" Several of us came to the conclusion together, and we would ask others and they would add more speculation...

[like a katamari of information, basically!]

Unless you want to specifically know the people that spoke about it to me first? Or do you just mean to verify whether anyone among the suspects know...?

[ladyofthehouse]

I... merely wish to know if I have been lied to and if I'm defending the wrong person.

[She doesn't think she has been, but apparently her judgement these days is slightly off kilter.]

[souredsweet]

[he folds his hands together at that, looking a little more serious.]

Bakura-san knows. I spoke to him about it myself, so I can verify that much. Spain-san also knows, as does Apollo-san. ...But if you're defending Spain-san... I think that you're in the right this time.

[ladyofthehouse]

[Austria lets out a sigh of relief.]

I'm sure you don't want to draw attention to yourself, given your suspicion of Frau Feferi.

...but if push came to shove between the two of them would you step forward to defend Herr Spain as well?

[souredsweet]

I would rather not endanger myself, it's true, but I believe that Spain-san is innocent. So... if things come to it, I would defend Spain-san. Finding the truth is important to me...

But if someone who was told about Feferi-san is responsible for this, then... no matter who it is, I think that we should find them.

[he is really, really suspicious of Ryou right now. as much as he likes the kid, he's not going to let him skate by after killing two people.]

[ladyofthehouse]

Danke. [This trial is exhausting along with all this running around.]

I appreciate that as does Herr Spain.

I'm aware of a few more people who should be privy to this information. I was unaware that so many of you were bent on keeping your privacy.

[Austria doesn't fear Feferi's backlash. They played tiddlywinks together.]

[souredsweet]

[she gets a gold star okay

and a little mental note where kaoru goes "they are probably definitely dating"]

You don't need to thank me for it... But I apologize for that. We're all very certain that Feferi-san is the killer [WHICH ALSO MADE HIM SUSPICIOUS OF RYOU "I'M NOT SURE" BAKURA] and that would mean that she's quite a convincing actress and manipulative person. No one really wanted to risk shoving anyone else in the line of fire, just in case...

[except Ryou "OH I'M UNDER FIRE NOW TIME TO OUT RIN AND KAORU" Bakura..........]

[ladyofthehouse]

[One date does not equal dating.

She needs two. So she needs him alive, danke.]

It made sense evidence wise... I just. Wonder if there's more to things than that. [Maybe she really is an evil manipulative alien. But she's also a thriteen year old girl...]

That can be discussed at another time, however.

We should head back up stairs I think.

[souredsweet]

[he sees her plan now.]

More things to it...? [HE'S INTERESTED, but she's right, so:]

Mm, we can speak more about it later. Um... Thank you, though - and I'm sorry for not speaking to you about it directly. I trust Austria-san, so... I hope you don't mind if I come to you in the future over such things, maybe.

[ladyofthehouse]

[They've come so far... remember when she was a phantom wandering around the hallways beating him up?]

...I'd be happy to listen, Herr Nagumo.

[souredsweet]

[he never wants to go back to those dark days, even though the dark days of tutoring are terrible in an entirely new way...]

Thank you... Ah, shall we go back, then? [moseyin on over to open the door!]

[ladyofthehouse]

Ah. Ja. Danke.

[As soon as it's open she's running up the stairs!!]

[souredsweet]

[HE'S WITNESSING THE END OF THE WORLD]

[ladyofthehouse]

[IT'S SHORT DISTANCE SPRINTING-- time is of the essence here!]