Story/Photo Studio Mystery/E1-5 (Part2)/Script

PPSh-41: 56-1... Wait for me!

Type 56-1: Stop dragging your feet...or I'm leaving you behind.

PPSh-41: But why are we running back?

Type 56-1: I simply can't believe she just died like that.

So I had to come back and see if there's something we overlooked.

[A spent casing? Oh, it's probably from the time Gr G36c fired at the lock to open the door.]

PPSh-41: Haven't you already looked through everything?

Type 56-1: What if we missed something? Stop asking questions and just come over here.

PPSh-41: Gee...

Hmm?

Type 56-1: Found something?

PPSh-41: Nyet, it's nothing, really. But was this here before?

Type 56-1: A shell? Oh, it's probably from the time Gr G36c fired at the lock to open the door.

PPSh-41: Come to think of it, it is a locked-room murder.

Type 56-1: Stop saying that... It makes my skin crawl and takes away my appetite.

Is this really the only entrance to the room?

PPSh-41: But they were all "locked-room murder" this, "locked-room murder" that just now...

And da, this room is built along the inner wall. It doesn't even have any windows and can only be accessed through this door.

Type 56-1: That's strange...

I don't believe in ghosts. As long as the culprit is a living being, there has to be a clue.

PPSh-41: The lock has been thoroughly destroyed. It's surprisingly not sturdy for a mansion that's built like a fortress.

Type 56-1: Don't be stupid. If it weren't sturdy, Gr G36c wouldn't have had to fire at it.

PPSh-41: That's a good point.

Type 56-1: Actually, I'd say this lock is even sturdier than the door. If it had been me, I would've gone for the door itself.

Judging by how robust it is, it could possibly take more than one shot to break it if the aim was even slightly off.

This was probably a security lock of the highest specs back when this mansion was built.

PPSh-41: A lock that's even sturdier than the door... That's basically putting the cart before the horse.

It's almost as if someone WANTED Gr G36c to fire at it.

Type 56-1: And if you think about it, why would they go to the trouble of launching an electronic assault on MDR?

If they'd already prepared the scene so meticulously, wouldn't it be more straightforward to simply fire at her?

Or were they trying not alert us so as to buy time for their escape?

PPSh-41: Why don't we go and ask Gr G36c?

After all, she was the first to discover the body.

We could also question her more thoroughly about the lock.

Type 56-1: I just have a feeling that something's off about this lock.

I was right next to Gr G36c back then. She'd been trying to twist it open for ages, but it wouldn't budge.

[Type 56-1 studies the broken lock carefully.]

Type 56-1: But I can't tell what exactly the problem is... You're right.

Let's head back for now.