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Final Thoughts Heading Into Chapter 4 Trial
I'm trying to figure out exactly what is going on with the fun house set up, since that is pretty clearly tied to what happened in the murder. I think the important clues are the following: the handle that fell off the grape door in the tower, the loop in the string tied to Nekomaru, and the fact the compass turned 180 degrees while Kazuichi was in the elevator to one building to the next. So...what does this all mean?

I'm guessing the loop was tied to the doorknob that was pulled off. Did Nekomaru attach the loop to the door, start running and smash into the pillar? I don't think that makes sense. Why couldn't he just run into the pillar normally if he was trying to bring it down on top of himself? I think he might've been suspended from it and then fell, somehow? I don't quite understand how, but I think it is pretty clear that grape house is on top of strawberry house (or vice versa) based on how Nagito went from one to the next by using the hatch in the Final Dead room. so maybe Nekomaru was hanging from the knob, it broke, and he fell on top of that one pillar to his death?

What I absolutely do not understand is what it means that the compass went 180 degrees when going from one building to the next. Why did the elevator rotate? If the houses are on top of each other...shouldn't it be going up and down and not just rotating?

Also...is this case a suicide? Maybe an assisted suicide? I don't know how Nekomaru would've orchestrated all this by himself. The fake hammer murder weapon is also weird. If it was a suicide wouldn't he want everyone to know about it?

But then what the hell was with Nagito pointing out how the cases paralleled each other? That was something I figured out after case 2 but case 3 really drove that point home. He even pointed out case 4 was a suicide for people who didn't play the first game. WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHAT DOES IT MEAN??!?!

I feel like I'm slowly circling the drain of insanity trying to figure this one out. Is this obvious and I'm an idiot? The last couple of cases I had mostly figured out by the time the trial started so this is uncharted territory for me this game.

But if it wasn't suicide then who is the killer? The only one I can think of is Gundham, but that seems out of character for him and also I don't really have clues pointing that direction. It would need to be one of the boys because the set up was clearly meant to implicate the girls and Nagito traveling from one house to the next kind of points at them since they were in the house you shouldn't have been able to kill Nekomaru from (and thus HAVE to be the place the killer came from). Gundham is just kinda the odd man out of those four since he is the only one that doesn't help or provide testimony in some way.

JOIN ME NEXT TIME AS SUPRAK SLOWLY RAMBLES TO HIMSELF RATHER THAN ADMITTING HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!

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