Reason took its final bow, and the mindset of criticizing the young made the whole affair seem reasonable.
Whether it was this assessment or the explanation, it wasn't difficult to understand.
In chronological order, the final act of the whole affair should actually have been Bloodletting High School.
And that story had ended with him placing the notebook beneath the victim's head.
Taking its contents into account, it wasn't hard to deduce that, apart from Wen, who had fallen to his death, the real culprit was Eva, driven mad by jealousy.
The differences between the wounds on the chest and the face were also enough to help the investigators determine the order of the two crimes: intentional murder and desecration of a corpse.
The peculiarities of Joshua's corpse, along with the triangle between him, Salma, and Wen, could almost pin his death on Wen.
Meanwhile, the latter was already dead and could no longer offer any defense.
In fact, judging by Wen's actions when he hid the body, even if he hadn't died, he might have thought he really was the killer.
So even if the police submitted the whole affair to the Night Watchers for review, unless they came across someone sufficiently professional and responsible, or already familiar with the problem of April Fools' Day, they probably wouldn't notice anything amiss.
As for the final act he had actually experienced firsthand, the cleanup job he'd completed at the party in under ten minutes didn't conflict with this final outcome at all.
First, judging by the mission summary, the incident of being summoned to the party had ultimately been defined as a prank.
In other words, even Batters himself didn't think Joshua was really dead.
Everyone else outside the room had been nothing more than spectators, waiting to see the