>"How about some leads, then? Know about anyone who could do this? And why is a shinigami involved to begin with? In fact, any idea what that poison was? I didn't get a good look at it before being rushed off."
>_
>You fire questions out no sooner has she finished mumbling.
>"I'll address these in a different order, if you don't mind."
>She sits down on a chair that just appeared out of nowhere... or the maid that's going back across the pool did it when you weren't watching.
>"Of the two I know, one is quite laid-back and the other is very dedicated; though I only know him through one other person and-the-fact-that-he-loves-books-enough-to-not-actually-steal-them."
>She coughs again; it's almost like her quick mumbling signifies the next one.
>"I can only tell on what I know, so perhaps the Yama herself believes the incident to be of a larger scale then normal. Or perhaps..."
>This time, you have no idea what she says after that; you're sure she just said something, but you can't hear a word.
>"As for potential culprits," Patchouli continues in a now clear voice. "I know of a couple. But one is on the border of the surface and the underground. The other is... not someone you should make accusations against simply because of her nature, if you will."
>"The poison in question I can't tell for sure, since you only described it to me and I wasn't there to see it. Plus, I'd have to refer back to one of my books; it has been a while since I've dealt in poisons and, without Koakuma here, it has been a little harder to find things."
>Su-san is becoming very dizzy after that last bit; probably too much looking around.
<[Knocks on the screen.]
<[Hey Purvis. I've seen you do this on other games before.]
<[Guess it's a habit. But you are not the parser here.
]
>...
