[For all that November is a DIRTY SWORD-BREAKER yams apparently doesn't feel like holding a grudge about it, if the way he nods at November in greeting is any indication. He looks a little tired and sad, but that's also probably not surprising.]
In the end... we couldn't figure out what happened to Chinatsu.
Indeed. We didn't even find what caused her injuries or the burn mark. As far as solving a crime goes, we did quite badly.
['Quite badly' are words that, in his opinion, doesn't include his autopsy work because that was done competently enough]
Once that rebar arrived I wondered if perhaps Chang Geng had something to do with the crime, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Other than that I currently have no theories.
[November should be able to do a better job, but his way of playing detective and finding out stuff is way too shady and sometimes deadly for it to be a good idea. Alas]
We must have. There's a single piece of information from the autopsy I concealed at the time, judging revealing it would cause more trouble than it's worth, but now I wonder if perhaps that was a miscalculation. I don't see how it may have led anywhere, though.
[Having a completely objective view of things doesn't mean he's infallible, really. While he had good reasons to avoid mentioning this, maybe it wasn't the right choice]
At the moment of her death, Chinatsu was crying. There still were tears in her eyes.
[November seems to doubt for a moment]
They could have been from pain, given how her injuries were like. Or they could have been from sorrow, having been betrayed by someone. Or perhaps impotence at having been unable to stop her demise despite presumably having tried to defend herself by moving metal around. I have been turning it in my head and I see no way of figuring that out.
Regardless, I decided not to mention it because the reactions would have been very negative. Everything else I said already made people upset someone like her was attacked like that. If I had mentioned she spent her last moments crying, that all would have been much worse.
[While he can't think with emotions, he's not completely ignorant about them. He was human once, after all. This was an educated guess of how he thinks they'd in the face of something as upsetting as that -- it did bring even November some pause, after all]
[Honestly, it makes sense. Perhaps if they'd had something, anything solid to work with, Yasusada would scold him for keeping secrets--but as it is, November's right. It wouldn't have helped.
He sighs.]
You're right... it could mean a lot of things. There's no way to know.
I doubt she even was trying to kill her opponent. The only way she would have ever done that, is by being under a compulsion. Everything she did must have been defensive.
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In the end... we couldn't figure out what happened to Chinatsu.
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['Quite badly' are words that, in his opinion, doesn't include his autopsy work because that was done competently enough]
Once that rebar arrived I wondered if perhaps Chang Geng had something to do with the crime, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Other than that I currently have no theories.
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[HE IS A SWORD he only knows how to do murders, not how to solve them.]
All I can think of is that there's something we missed.
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We must have. There's a single piece of information from the autopsy I concealed at the time, judging revealing it would cause more trouble than it's worth, but now I wonder if perhaps that was a miscalculation. I don't see how it may have led anywhere, though.
[Having a completely objective view of things doesn't mean he's infallible, really. While he had good reasons to avoid mentioning this, maybe it wasn't the right choice]
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What was it?
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[November seems to doubt for a moment]
They could have been from pain, given how her injuries were like. Or they could have been from sorrow, having been betrayed by someone. Or perhaps impotence at having been unable to stop her demise despite presumably having tried to defend herself by moving metal around. I have been turning it in my head and I see no way of figuring that out.
Regardless, I decided not to mention it because the reactions would have been very negative. Everything else I said already made people upset someone like her was attacked like that. If I had mentioned she spent her last moments crying, that all would have been much worse.
[While he can't think with emotions, he's not completely ignorant about them. He was human once, after all. This was an educated guess of how he thinks they'd in the face of something as upsetting as that -- it did bring even November some pause, after all]
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He sighs.]
You're right... it could mean a lot of things. There's no way to know.
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This failure is going to weigh in a lot of people's minds.
[Especially those Chinatsu got along the best, that's for sure!]
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...She wasn't even a combatant.
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[Chinatsu deserved better, that's for sure]