Zoostuck 3

Nope.

You review the rules you agreed on. The winner is whoever correctly identifies the murderer first, and you lose if you use your supernatural knowledge to determine the killer. It occurs to you that there was no requirement that only your first guess counts, but you cannot see a way to make use of that fact.

You could, hypothetically, use your supernatural knowledge to cheat and disqualify yourself. But this would be an unconscionable stain on your reputation. You must lose fair and square, or at least within the confines of the rules. The best you could do is provide hints and appear to do so inadvertently, but as you have no idea what actually happened here that would be rather difficult.

Hmmmm, maybe it was the phone.

Suddenly, the phone rings. This seems to startle your opponent.

Oh dammit, you're working out a hypothesis now before you realize what you're doing. Accessing this phone requires dialing 5 555 times, and it has only been done once since this universe was created. And that one time was an accident. However, that was an accident engineered by you, Fate, though you were unaware of its effects at the time. This is not actual supernatural knowledge as it merely requires knowing your capabilities and domain, and is therefore viable under the rules.

This also means that, as you are engaged in this contest, you could not be engineering this phone call and it would have to be made intentionally. However, no one would call this individual now because he is dead, pending the results of this contest. Yet, anyone who would be capable of knowing of his existence would also have the capacity to determine he was dead before phoning him.

They would have to be attempting to contact someone else. But there is no one else here... except the phone.

Oh dammit. You really don't want to do this, mostly due to the follow-up paperwork, but now that you're sure you have the answer you have to give it and that means...

"It was the phone!" your opponent suddenly blurts out.

Well, that's a relief. You inform the dead spirit that he is correct and has earned the right to return to life. There's only a few forms to fill out after losing a contest, thankfully, so you head off to do that.

You are now the phone. You shot the mysterious Nagito Komaeda with a burst of electricity on behalf of someone even more mysterious for reasons that you were never told. That person has just called you and left further instructions.

You will, of course, carry out these instructions obediently, but there's a problem. Komaeda's corpse has just gotten up and he's glaring right at you. This is not how the plan was supposed to go.

What are you going to do?