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Ayu looked to be in thought ever since she'd spoken up about the state of her and Hiroki's mutual bindings. Up until Snow directed a question at her she hadn't bothered to look up, and even then only briefly glanced at the taller girl. "It doesn't make any sense," she muttered, looking down again.

"if you've got somethin' to say, speak [i]clearly.[/i]" Momoe chastised her. Stifling a yawn, however, her charisma lacked somewhat.

"Like I said, it doesn't make any sense. Hiroki [i]can't[/i] be the killer," she stated rather bluntly.

"Well, why not?! He could've been sneaking away every night, right under your nose!" Taka chimed in. "In fact, that's what he did, didn't he?! Just look at him! He's shaking in his boots, now that he's been caught!" he continued the assault, gripping the podium in front of him with barely-suppressed anger.

"No, he couldn't!" Ayu raised her voice at Taka, this being the first time she'd done so ever since being locked up with everyone else. "Hiroki was sleeping by the time the murder happened. I was awake the entire time through midnight," she continued, crossing her arms and looking down on the ground again. "There was no bag. No chance to grab any of those things. We're missing something in this trial. There's a piece of evidence we still don't know anything about... something that we don't know what it was used for, a missing detail..."

Ayu was mostly talking to herself, forgetting she was even in the room. Another voice cut through those mutterings. "Well, if you were awake that night, then aren't you the killer?!" Chikako shouted. "40 minutes would be plenty of time to commit murder, and the only ones with that chance were you two!"