Ace Fans, Have Hope, The Episode Is 50 Minutes Long So Teruko Can Reveal Eden As The Culprit.

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!

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yeah uh.... heres my guy.... ha...

I'm sorry fellow ace fans for contributing to the angst!! I had to!!!

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idk if this guy can ever find peace :')

SPOILERS FOR DRDT

I am gonna say straight up that I didn't like this conclusion for ace but oh well that's just Danganronpa lol

But I seriously think this shouldn't have been NEARLY 4 HOURS OF A TRIAL 😭😭😭

The timeline of chapter 2 DRDT

Kinda like my previous post, this is gonna be like another information dump of everything siginficant leading up to arei's death

Day 1 (Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6)

This is not day 1 of the entire chapter, but episodes 3 (end of it), 4, 5, and 6

Morning (8 am - 12 pm):

The triple fight in the cafteria, where Nico and Ace start their "rivalry" and Arei's rope is placed into storage

David here makes the suggestion to share secrets (J is first to reveal Charles's secret on David's suggestion)

Arei's trauma dump occurs at the playground, with her and Eden having a falling out

Teruko reveals Rose's secret, Nico also asks to paint with Rose

Noon (12 pm):

Ace antagonizes Nico and Nico threatens to kill Ace

David reveals Nico's secret

Afternoon (past 12 pm):

Hu and David comfort Nico in the relaxation room, Hu and Teruko refuse to say their secrets to David

J and Arturo are seen together, with J unsuccessfully trying to escape Arturo with Teruko

Revealed in ep 10: Eden takes Arturo away from J for a while to reveal Arturo's secret, Eden and Arei reconcile (The letter has to be made after this point, and with it being implied that the previous alibis from the trials can be invalid, the list opens back up to either be eden, arturo, or a third party

Evening: ?? - Teruko was resting

Either in the afternoon or evening, Nico stole the turpentine from Rose (Definitely after noon is all we know)

Nighttime (10 pm - 8 am):

Teruko meets with Eden in the dress up room and are alerted by a "BANG" sound to the gym, stumbling upon the "bda" of Ace with Nico holding a bloodied wire

The gym is closed from this point

Nico's location is unknown

Levi exits his room into the hallway after hearing Ace's shouting (Check the F1 map to see everyone's rooms in relation to one another, also note the walls aren't sound proof)

Ace passes out shortly after, with Eden left in charge of him (supposedly)

Day 2 (Episode 7)

Morning (8 am - 12 pm): ?? - Teruko was sleeping

Revealed by MonoTV: J had tried to enter the gym but was rejected

Noon (12 pm):

Argument in cafeteria over incident night prior; This is the last time the audience and a majority of others will see Arei alive, who is silent

MonoTV opens the gym back up for Rose and Teruko

Rose mentions the grippy tape is missing, having last seen it last yesterday (No one could have accessed the gym from 10 pm to 12 pm the next day). Rose then excuses herself to go sleep

Afternoon (past 12 pm): ?? - Skipped over

Evening:

Teruko, Charles, and Whit are in the computer lab; There is a dent in the wall (Had to have been made either between start of chapter 2 until now as Teruko didn't visit the computer lab regularly)

Teruko, Charles, and Whit all move to the kitchen, David enters from an unknown place, tired, and then is redirected to the relaxation room by Whit

Teruko and Veronika are then in the movie screening room

Revealed in ep 11: Ace was in the fitness room, then overhears Arei and David talking in the relaxation room - This is the latest that Arei had been seen alive now

Alibis from 7:30 pm to 10 pm (confirmed during ch 10) (tho these may no longer be relevant to the case)

J and Arturo were together completely (as confirmed by J)

Eden and Hu both were doing dishes in the kitchen from 7-10 pm

Whit and Charles were together

Teruko and Veronica were in the movie screening room

Rose was alone asleep in her room, likely asleep since noon

Levi was alone doing laundry

Nico was "wandering around" supposedly on the first floor, as he does confirm seeing David go down the elevator around that time

Ace was in the fitness room alone, overhearing the conversation in the relaxation room

David and Arei both arrived at the relaxation room at this time, with David having come from the kitchen and Arei somewhere else

Ace, David, and Arei seem to be the only people on the second floor during the evening hours

Nighttime (10 pm - 8 am): ?? - Teruko was asleep

Arei's death occured during this time frame (or after she and David finished meeting from the relaxation room)

The trash can has all the trash accumulated from all of day 2 (from 10 pm of Day 1 to Arei's body discovery)

Rose's painting stuff

Thrown out grippy tape

Jugs from the gym, missing handles

Utensils and incense

The torn up letter

Day 3 (Episodes 7 and 8)

Morning (8 am - 12 pm):

This is the motive reveal, which is at exactly 8 am, and everyone is present except Arei, who MonoTV reveals to know is already dead

The body is discovered around at this time at the playground

The investigation also takes within the morning

Things with clear(-ish) time frames

With all that being, there are specific actions and items that have an exact time frame

Arei's death - post meeting with David during the evening of Day 2 to 8 am of Day 3

David is likely the last one to see her alive, and since he's clearly not the killer (just an asshole lol), the killer got to her afterwards. The killer was present at the meeting the next morning at 8 am.

The letter - After 10 pm Day 1 -> 8 am Day 3

The timeframe of which the letter is made/forged happens after Arei and Eden make up all the way back in Day 1 afternoon. The killer/writer could have made it at any time, but for it to be in the trash can, it had to be placed there during Day 2, as MonoTV last cleaned it "two nights" ago, which means after the Nico and Ace incident. It could be placed in the early hours of Day 2 to early hours of Day 3.

Accessing the gym - After 12 pm Day 2 -> 8 am Day 3

The gym could only have been accessed from noon, after MonoTV finished cleaning. Anything taken from the gym had to be taken in this time frame and then put into the trash.

The relaxation room - 8 am -> 10 pm

As explained by MonoTV the relaxation room is open from 8 am to 10 pm, making it closed all nighttime. Meaning that anything used in Arei's murder from the relaxation room (The water/fish) could only be accessed in this time frame.

The cracked wall of the computer lab - Start of chapter 2 - evening of Day 2

This one has no solid time frame excpet at any point before Teruko entered the computer lab during the evening hours of Day 2. Teruko never went to the computer lab prior to that, so it's not a lot to go off of

Arei's rope - After the morning of Day 1

Anyone could have access to Arei's rope starting from the morning of Day 1

Anyway hoepfully that's everything!! Just use this as a refresher if you need to and it's always possible I forgot something :>

Spoilers for Chapter 2 Episode 14 and discussion of the Eden Culprit theory below!

I completely understand why people don't like the Culprit!Eden theory, but I've seen a lot of people say that one of their main reasons is that Teruko would go back to square one of her arc, and that would be annoying, which I don't think is 100% accurate.

What I mean is, you can't convince me Eden would be the culprit and then not be like:

"T-teruko...Please...Don't give up because of me, okay? I know I really messed up, but I don't want my mistake to stop you from being happy. You can't go back, no matter how hard you try...But you can impact the future. So please, Teruko, keep moving forward. I know you can do it! You're so strong, stronger than me, stronger than anyone I've ever known! I'm not asking you to do it for me, but for your own sake. Even if I couldn't believe it before, there's hope. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise, okay?"

Cue MonoTV complaining about how boring this conversation is and whisking Eden away (Can you tell I was imagining what the end of the trial would look like for each culprit today?).

All this is to say that if Eden's the culprit, that doesn't completely 100% guarantee Teruko will regress to beginning of chapter 2 Teruko. It'll definitely make her have some sort of set-back, sure, but I doubt Eden would leave this trial a murderer and not have a super sweet, touching moment with Teruko about not losing hope and stuff.

Also--Teruko's whole thing is bad luck, and if she trusted one person, Eden, and really wanted Ace to be the one to murder Arei and not her...My guess is that her luck wouldn't be able to resist fucking her over again. Or maybe it'll go easy on her, just this once. You never know.

The reason for all this is because I heard someone say that everyone wanting it to be Ace so fucking badly in-universe but it just. Isn't. Was a fun idea, so I kinda took that and had a deep inner monologue about it I wanted to post. I'm not really expecting this to convince anyone or anything, but I still wanted to point it out.