Definitely pair investigations should be used on Mollie, aok, and Nico, of course. I believe that if the mafia had an investigation-manipulation they could have used on this kill, they would have used it on this kill (it is so good to use it early in a small game like this, I think even if town could be 100% positive that the investigation results were manipulated). But pair investigations still give definite positive evidence.
Going from ET to Akuna Capital and then to Darksteel Citadel is very inefficient on its own. Aok meeting Meghal "halfway" at Theta Chi would be extremely inefficient, as you need to go to DSC via the red line, which aok was already at. The actual halfway point would be more like Kendall Square, which aok says was indeed where Meghal was going to on campus. It is completely implausible that Meghal would believe aok if he wanted to leave the red line to walk over to her when she was also walking to the red line. And if Meghal wasn't planning on meeting aok in the middle, then aok would have no idea where she was specifically on the route, and he certainly wouldn't be able to time it to be in front of Nico's living group.
Separately, while mafia will *occasionally* initiate beefs, it is generally bad to do so (because if we know that if one of two people is bad, we can lynch the accused the first day and the accuser the second day). Aok immediately pointed a finger at m2w, and m2w took several hours after the kill to make a response, and over an hour to respond to me when I directly gchatted her about it (mafia are also likely to take longer to respond because they need to come up with a coherent story).
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