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Anon-kun posits the theory, <span class="mu-s">"Maybe it didn't have to be a girl who was behind stealing the chocolate. Angela could have stolen it for her boyfriend."</span>
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You hold up a hand, and point at Angela and Pen. "Hold on, I think I might have something here. So Pen, that nerdy lookin' boy with the glasses, he's going out with Angela, that red-headed hottie, ya dig?"
"I dig?" Peppa asks, confused.
>Common Knowledge! PEN SUTAPA and ANGELA CAPELLI
<span class="mu-i">Pen's into anime, Angela's into dramas. They watch anime dramas together! After hitting it off during a dating game held by Peppa and Cocoa at Dream Land, the two are smitten with each other and inspire disgust in onlookers with their cutesy shenannigans!</span>
"Glad to hear! So what if <span class="mu-i">he</span> asked her to steal your chocolate and your clothes and whatsits!"
Peppa thinks for a bit, frowning. "Why tho?"
You raise a finger as you go to explain, and come up short. "...hmm. Why indeed."
Peppa nods. "I've been wondering over what the culprit's motives must be, and if it is Pen and Angela working together, it doesn't make sense. Say the motive was to sell my stuff for money, how much is my chocolate to someone else worth to them? If the motive was envy, what do I have with my Valentines Chocolate that the happy couple doesn't? And now, say it was perversion on Pen's part, would his girlfriend go along with it?"
...those are excellent questions, the kind that answer themselves. You cross out some of your notes, and sheepishly ask Peppa to continue the reel.
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(I've been doing some thinking, and from how I've had it planned out, the Inspecter just listening to Peppa's flashback and commentating and taking notes... it didn't seem very fun. So I have decided, the POV characters of flashbacks get to be the PC for the time being, and you get to slightly alter the course of the story with their decisions, even though some denouements are set in stone. And from what Kato, QM of Tuffle Quest, has told me, some of the decisions I had originally outlined for characters to make didn't gel with "good sense.")
As the history class continues, Peppa frets over what to do about her chocolate. Videl said she would help, but also, her earnest advice to be careful using power lest she cause collateral damage rings in her head. She also has commitments to follow up on and things to look into that may reveal information less immediately but more peaceably. She also has to talk with Izumi to get an idea of what's up, the chocolate thing is big, but so is her cousin.