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Also I'm gonna take a minute here to praise the writers for that twist.

Shuichi works brilliantly as a parallel for the player. Just like Shuichi, we are with Kaede the entire time as we see the story through her eyes. Also, just like Shuichi, we see every suspicious act Kaede performs. However, once again just like Shuichi, we don't think anything of it because why would we? Why would we doubt the person we're playing as?

The signs were all there, but again like Shuichi we choose to ignore them because we don't want to accept the possibility that Kaede is the culprit. When she acted weird around the shot put balls, I just assumed she was upset about the situation they were in. When she was organizing the books, like Shuichi I assumed that she was just a go-getter who doesn't quit. When she started sweeping the floor, I took her word for it that she was just antsy about the situation, but she was more likely just really nervous about what she was about to do.

At the start of the trial she makes the comment "I will use this class trial to find the truth." That seems like an innocuous comment, but that was a borderline admission of guilt, like she was implying that she willingly chose to have a trial. Everything she said and did was a hint at what she had done, but like Shuichi I just looked the other way. I thought the writers were gonna pull another Sayaka by making Shuichi the culprit, but they instead took that kind of twist to the next logical extreme.

Bravo, writers.
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