[ Mitsutada taps his chin, thinking back to how he didn't even sense his younger self approach at all. All tsukumogami had some level of spiritual pressure to them. ]
That's quite possible, yes.
[ If the murder was referring to player characters getting KO'd by the creeper nurses, it isn't too far off a stretch. If not, then it probably was a 'plot clue'. ]
Seems like it. The nurses tend to assault us, though. So they're probably not important.
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[It's pretty effective, since as swords, they can't exactly deny the deaths they personally caused.]
Can someone get murdered here?
[Sayo never try reaching that point. Being defeated by virtual enemies instead of real, live ones doesn't make him happy.]
Unless... it happened to those people like the nurses and doctors here? [The NPCs.]
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That's quite possible, yes.
[ If the murder was referring to player characters getting KO'd by the creeper nurses, it isn't too far off a stretch. If not, then it probably was a 'plot clue'. ]
Seems like it. The nurses tend to assault us, though. So they're probably not important.
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[If they're using NPCs to mark the important "plot clue", he could see if the victim was someone with a reasonably high rank.]
Have you seen anyone that might look like they're... in charge?