Tok, tok. The notepad was starting to get dotted with black ink. Maru looked at the names of the club members for a bit before putting down his pen.

“Hm.”

The number one suspect in any given crime was the reporter of the crime, it was only logical. In this case, given the result of the situation, Maru clearly wasn’t the perpetrator. He shouldn’t be affected much even if the police become involved.

“But what if I was the perpetrator?”

Given the evidence, the perpetrator had to be a student. In addition, they were most likely to be in the acting club. If that was the case, perhaps he could try to get an understanding of what they are thinking of right now? The goal of the crime appeared to be the destruction of the props and costumes, but the only thing that managed to get burnt were the clothes. They even finished the play successfully.

The perpetrator would then start wondering why their crime failed, they’d realize that they failed because of someone called Maru.

They would probably hate him.

‘A crime with purpose. Arson isn’t easy to pull off.’

The perpetrator was deadset on their objective, enough to...