Kotori?!

What happened?!

Are you hurt at all?

“Everyone… Ho-Honoka is…”

Please calm down. What happened to Honoka?

“She's…”

She's?

“She's not breathing!”

WHAAAT?!

R-Really? Are you s-sure she's not just sleeping?

Kotori wouldn't be freaking out like this if she was just asleep! Call an ambulance!

“She's… She's…”

Kotori, stand back, please.

That's a good idea. We'll go check on her.

Wait…

This is…

H-Honoka is…b-bleeding…!

E-Eli!

Eli, hang in there!

F-For now take Eli over to the bed.

Wh-What should we do? Honoka is in trouble. There's so much blood.

First of all, w-we need to check her pulse. Somebody please call an ambulance!

What happened, Kotori? Why is she bleeding this much?

“Wh-What's going on?”

*Gasp* “Someone collapsed?!”

“It's H-Honoka!”

“Wh-What's all the ruckus? What happened?!”

“She's bleeding so much! This is bad!”

What?! There should be…

“She was like this when we got here! *Sob*”

Right, Umi?

*Sigh*

U-Umi is shocked speechless! *Sob*

Umi, don't just stand there! Help us save her!

…Huh? What smells so good?

Crap.

“Don't come any closer, Makiko.”

“Idiot! This is a crime scene, so you can't get close or touch anything!”

Sure, a crime scene. We came rushing over to see what was going on, but… *Sigh*

Have you figured it out, Maki?

Is there anyone who wouldn't?

What are you all doing? We have to save Honoka! There should be an AED around here somewhere!

“But Setsuna, it's already too late!”

No! We won't know unless we try. Nico, get out of the way!

Here they are. People who'll never figure it out.

You guys! How can you be so calm when Honoka is trouble?!

Are you being serious, Ayumu? You're joking…right?

How could I joke at a time like this? There's so much blood… Honoka… Why… How… *Sob* Oh, Honoka… Please, wake up.

Umm, no matter how you look at it, that's not blood, but tomato sau–

Now, now. They're putting on such an impassioned performance. Why don't we let it go just a bit longer?

Impassioned performance… *Sigh* What's with you all?

Pardon me for saying this, but the actors don't seem very fit for their roles.

Earlier, we didn't know if it was suicide or murder, but they already presumed it was murder. I mean, it was really obvious from the beginning.

I agree. Their acting seems really fake.

Ohh, now I get it. You really had me going. Can I go back to sleep in my room, now?

[Fade in/out.]

“We're in a state of emergency. Looking at the scene around us, there's no mistake. This was intentional!”

Intentional?!

“Without a doubt. And that means that there is a culprit behind this.”

Culprit?! Th-Then, wh-what should we do?

There's nobody else here besides us! We're out here on a lone island in the middle of the ocean. And besides, the exits were all locked!

[Fade in/out.]

Wow, Nico's acting is terrible, but they still haven't noticed.

I suppose they're just very…innocent.

There's innocent, and then there's being too gullible. This actually makes me worried about them.

[Fade in/out.]

“We need to carefully consider every move we make. One misstep could lead to a second, or even third, victim!”

W-We need to call an ambulance and the police! We need to tell Honoka's family and Otonokizaka, as well!

“That's right… But my phone won't connect!”

What?! Th-Then there should be a land line in the living room. If we use that…

“Ah, there is, but that won't connect, either! I think the phone lines have been cut! *Gasp* It must be the work of the culprit, I'm sure of it!”

[Fade in/out.]

If you're going to go through with this, you need to be more convincing.

They're all doing their best. Don't you think we can help them out a bit more?

Oh, Nozomi, you totally get it. Honoka really wanted to play the corpse, and worked really hard to get things set up.

Since when were you guys planning all this?

Remember when Honoka invited us to that meeting to work out the details for this training camp? Since then.

So that's why she didn't ask me to come to that meeting.

Ahaha…

“Honoka… You poor thing! We'll—no, I, the stupendous Detective Nico, swear to bring this mystery to light!”