Ivan takes out his baton, cracking it against the stone in front of him. His mind looks like it's racing, putting everything
together.
"This killer... They're worse than I could have ever imagined. They're truly vile, and an enormous threat to Rattlewater."
"Sebastian and the killer, they were associates. They spoke to one another often, long before this time. Sebastian is weak-willed and a kid. He doesn't have a killer's instinct, but he had a killer watching over him the whole time. That doesn't excuse the fact that he cleaned up after a killer countless times, but it does explain his behavior."
"The killer of course had Charlotte specifically as his target. The killer had many such targets. People society had rejected. People to be looked down upon. Charlotte was like all of them. She did good things for the poor people of Rattlewater, but in the eyes of some she was a nuisance and just another petty thief."
"The killer was searching around the upper cavern when they found a cave in the ground. Strange gasses that they must've breathed in aside, they must have gone in and seen the ice floor and the cavern below and realized that this was an opportunity for them to put a plan in motion, as long as they could get Charlotte to the right spot at the right time, they could commit the perfect crime."
"They sent a letter to Sebastian, giving him the goal and threatening him a little, knowing all the secrets kept between the two of them hang large over Sebastian's head."
"Sebastian formed a plan based on Charlotte's weakness. Sebastian would lay a magical trap in the meeting room which would leave her powerless and completely able to be moved by him at his will, and he would lure her there by provoking her pettiness. He knew that Charlotte would go after him if he got under her skin as much as he did. Charlotte was shrunk by the trap and thrown into the jewelry box. Sebastian didn't want to personally hurt Charlotte, so he didn't immediately knock her out."
"Unfortunately for Sebastian, I was in the cavern. Sebastian did not want to be seen cleaning any crime scenes so he had to come up with a way to get me to leave. This is what gave birth to that terrifying image of Charlotte he snapped."
"When Sebastian went up to the armory to get the camera, he made some funny comments about hearing noises downstairs. Sebastian of course knew that we would all figure out that Charlotte went missing at some point and he wanted an excuse to search the armory, but it was a risky decision."
"When he went back downstairs and sent me the letter, I was immediately alert and I went to the building as fast as possible, knowing that Charlotte was probably in there somewhere. My instincts increased even more when I heard the whining downstairs. I was going to flip the whole place trying to find her. Sebastian took advantage of that and snuck away just in time for six."
"It was then that Sebastian realized that he needed Charlotte to collapse to finish the job. It clearly went against Sebastian's role as the cleaner, but he was being pushed across the line in that instant. He choked her with his fingers, placed her body below the icicle, and counted down the seconds for the real killer, who had just entered the little hiding spot they found earlier."
"The killer looked through the ice and saw Charlotte lying there. They were satisfied with Sebastian's performance and dropped the icicle, right before leaving, making their way to dinner just after six."
"Sebastian threw the body in the river while using a nearby spear to make it look like she had been stabbed by a weapon. Sebastian cleaned the entire scene carefully, only leaving some blood on the chunks of ice which were formerly the icicle."
"Sebastian's constant cleaning gave him the perfect guise to be accomplice in this crime, hiding all the evidence in the meeting room."
"The true killer's power was that they could influence and shape Sebastian to be the perfect tool for them. This isn't the first time the killer has done this and on this day it should be remembered that this senseless killing of good Rattlewater citizens will stop once and for all."
"It would have been the perfect crime if not for Klifford using his skills as a bad joke teller to suss out the truth!"
"Face justice, Bennett Rodarte!!" Ivan roars, pointing the baton at Bennett.
The room falls to silence for a moment.
