Considering The Dev Said Chapter 2 Will Be Quite Long, And It Been Abouuutttt 1 And A Half Hours Of New

Considering the Dev said chapter 2 will be quite long, and it been abouuutttt 1 and a half hours of new content so far, I’d so we’ve got time for a NEW culprit and for Ace to be innocent! : D

Luckily, we can ignore the following as him just being silly;

- Easedropping Arei and David conversation, which makes him look terribly suspicious if we believe someone other than Eden wrote the note to lure Arei out (and would therefore need to have listened in to Arturo, Eden and Arei convo)

- Also to add, Ace only reveals he overheard this conversation LATE into the trial, just to annoy David. Ace is set as someone who withholds evidence.

- following, some unknown person was apparently following Eden. Ace has been set up as quite sneaky, as per the above

- Aces stole Levi sports band just so Levi couldn’t use it. This makes him stealing the tape used in his attempted murder seem more plausible- he originally could have done it out of complete spite, as an impulsive “hey look thing on the ground, mine know screw Nico”. This helps get around how bloody odd it is that either Eden or Ace would, in the few seconds able, chose to steal a role of tape.

- As one of the four people involved with Nico attempt on… his own life… Ace could have been aware of the contraption used against it, and attempted to replicate it to frame Nico. To recap, the only people who COULD understand Nico murder method are: Nico, Ace, Eden, and Terko, as they are the only people who witnessed or were involved in Nico attempt on Ace’s life.

- Ace put himself forward for guard duty, which would have given him the opportunity to mess with evidence

- He is the last confirmed person, other than David, to see Arei alive

- He has the opportunity to steal the fish at any point, but particularly he could have done it immediately after Arei and David conversation - he was in the right place after all!

Wow what a lot of red herring guys! Amazing stuff

There’s a lot you can learn about it, trust me

As much as I don't really like Ace, I can't help but feel sorry for poor guy. He's been almost murdered and almost no-one mentions it. If it wasn't important to the trial no-one would even bring it up. Every time he talks about it everyone dismisses it and tells him to shut up. No-one ever wondered if he's okay, how his neck's doing etc. And now he's being accused of fucking murder simply because he was at the previous scene of the crime in which he was the victim. Yes, he's a jerk, but he still deserves at least a bit of compassion for getting nearly killed and mildly injured.

we are reaching levels of tsundere that shouldn't even be possible

Ace fans, have hope, the episode is 50 minutes long so Teruko can reveal Eden as the culprit.

Just remembering that her expression doesn't mean anything, Shuichi didn't have a sad expression at the end of Kaede's closing argument.

Clues that point to Eden being the culprit:

The tape

The method being strangely similar to a clock

She was messing with Teruko's clothes, and then Charles found a ball of clothes during the investigation

In the same scene, she got nervous when talking about her conversation with Arei to Teruko

She told Teruko to wait right before they discovered the body

She was missing in episode 7 and only appeared at the end (when the body was discovered)

She doesn’t have an alibi for the time of the murder

If I forgot anything, feel free to let me know!

Something about Ace’s defence about not being the killer kinda stinks - notice the similarities between these two lines?

Both times he says “commit a murder of my own”

- once during the trail to testify his innocence and that he WOULDNT commit a murder

- after Nicos attempt on his life, where he says he WOULD commit a murder.

It may be nothing, but it’s such oddly specific wording.

Ace baby I love you please stop looking suspicious.

I’m getting quite concerned he may be the killer, considering the trial is getting quite bloated in length, and that narratively, does Teroko need to learn to distrust her friends AGAIN? She just had the revelation with Rose about how important it is to believe in others, would it be make sense narratively for her to immediately unlearn this by the end of Chapter 2, with no real character progression? If Eden is the killer, that’s what would happen.

Worst, the key detail about him being briefly awoken during Nicos murder attempt means he could have knowledge of the mechanism and the sports tape. I still think it’s unrealistic Ace would grab the tape while bleeding all over the place - but then why would Eden grab it, did she plot this murder then and there? Unless you had a motive in mind, there would be no good reason to steal tape.

This all reeks and I’m scared for my boy Ace :/