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[optimistical]

If Retrospec gives you an item that you suspect is a murder weapon, what do you do with it? Should it be turned into the police or do you just keep it somewhere...? And what if you accidentally already got your fingerprints all over it...?

... hypothetically asking.

Comments

[nachetanya]

Why did you kill someone?

[optimistical]

I didn't kill anyone!

[compendiem]

I've got some of those. Just wipe the blood and prints off. Good as new.

[optimistical]

You just keep potential murder weapons around?!

And isn't it illegal to clean up evidence like that?

[redarm]

what makes you so sure its a murder weapon?

[optimistical]

There was crusted blood on it.

A lot of it.

[glaciers]

Put it back.


Have you murdered somebody?

[optimistical]

Why is that the first thing everyone keeps asking...?

If I actually did murder someone, why would I put up a post like this? Isn't that pretty much admitting to it?

[spes_phthisica]

well, it's a murder in another world, right?
I mean, I have a weapon from them which I'm pretty sure has been used to kill a lot of people, but since it was in like in the 1860s or something it's kind of hard to see how that would be relevant to the police (-｡-;
if they don't actually have an open case related to it I don't know what they're supposed to do with it

[optimistical]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but it feels weird to keep it? Even if it's from another world and the police can't do anything about it, it doesn't seem right to just have it laying around my apartment.

I could put it back in the mailbox but I'm a little afraid of what would happen if I give it back to Retrospec...

[thisloveisjustice]

Hypothetically speaking, we can put things back in the mailbox. That would be the simple solution.

But please, do not give it to the police. Any crime that might have been committed with this hypothetical possible murder weapon before it was given to you by Retrospec is completely outside their jurisdiction anyway. It would just confuse the non-app police.

If someone was curious about said hypothetical maybe murder weapon and wants to determine if it really was used in a violent fashion, I happen to be a CSI and can examine it for them.

[optimistical]

Can you really inspect it?

[falsepretentious]

You can feel free to hand it over to the police.

If you'd like to get arrested.

[optimistical]

I'd prefer not to be arrested, to be honest...

But I guess I should just put it back in the mailbox, huh?

[spiritoso]

What?? What do you mean you have a murder weapon?

[optimistical]

I went to pick up an item from the mailbox and when I pulled it out, it turned out to be a bloody knife.

I know that I shouldn't jump to conclusions but that really doesn't look good.

[odasaku]

If you want to get arrested.

[optimistical]

I suppose going to the police station with a bloody knife would probably just get me arrested, huh...?

[servileness]

First, what did your mail ticket say the item was?

Second, you do know there's no way anyone is going to think this is hypothetical.

[optimistical]

It just said that it was a dirty knife. I didn't think it was anything else until I actually already took it out of the mailbox.

And yeah, I know. I figured I'd give it a try anyway...

[drydrown]

And what in the world did our police force do to deserve someone doing that to them? The majority of the police force isn't on the app, and as such...well, you're going to confuse them at best, and at worst they're going to assume that you murdered someone here and you're delusional about it.

I can confirm that anything that happens in other dimensions entirely is completely out of the local law enforcement's jurisdiction, if it comforts you any.

[optimistical]

That makes sense. I figured that there was nothing the police here could do about something in another universe...

But then should I leave it with an officer who is on the app or do I just put it back in the mailbox?

[sotenbori]

drop it in the river

[optimistical]

Wait, really?

[dulynoted]

You do realize there are police officers on this network.

[ Right? ]

[optimistical]

Yeah, that’s part of the reason why I made this network post. I don’t know any of the officers personally so I figured that maybe I can ask them broadly like this?

[foeyay]

display it!

[optimistical]

... do you mean like display it somewhere in my apartment like a decorative vase?

[coinflipped]

maybe not tell the entire world you have it would be a good start?

[optimistical]

In hindsight, this does seem like a pretty bad post but I really do need some advice on what to do with it.

[evidentiary]

You put it back in the mailbox.

[optimistical]

That does seem to be what most people are telling me to do...

Do you want to see it first, Kyouko?

[hauhra]

Well, for starters, I wouldn't be posting about it all over a public network.

But that aside, that all depends. Since it sounds like it's something from your memories, having been sent to you by Retrospec, then you can't really be arrested from a crime you committed in your past life, can you?

Not unless Retrospec is trying to frame you for something.

[ AT LEAST, he hopes not ]

[optimistical]

Well, the strange thing is that I’m pretty sure that this item doesn’t belong to me.

And it’s not a cause where I just don’t remember doing the act or anything like that. I distinctly remember that I found this knife (or a very similar one) with a body.

[frostythehitman]

depends
was it used to murder someone in recolle
or was it used to murder someone in one of your otherworld/pastlife/whatever memories?

[optimistical]

It was used to murder someone in the other world I was from, but I don’t know who it belonged to or who used it.

[originallutece]

What was the object in question?

[optimistical]

It was a kitchen knife.

[steadycourse]

Why would you receive a murder weapon?!

[He only has that One Memory of Naegi, but he didn't look like someone that would murder anyone!]

[optimistical]

[ ah.......... naegi knows that they're from the same world but does ishida not know what happened at hope's peak? ]

Kiyotaka, has anyone told you yet about what happened in Hope's Peak?