Taking Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And a while after that strange, dark floor is accessed, after you've had time to look things over and get some idea of what's happening...well. There won't be any sort of official announcement to tell you to get downstairs, nor will there be a personal invitation for you to do so. Instead, the doors at the end of the corridor (were they there before? You find that you don't remember. It doesn't matter anymore, though-) slide open, as they always do, and the elevator ride to the courtroom is probably the first familiar thing that's happened all day. It's smooth and quick, though it seems to take a bit longer than it usually does. And when the doors open at the end of the line, the courtroom looks different. The dark, weirdly cylindrical room is largely the same in and of itself, but the usual twenty-seven podium circle is gone; instead, there's a smaller setup in the center of the room - ten podiums total, and you'll likely find the way your spots have been distributed to be very familiar indeed. Of further notice is the balcony - there's a structure that wasn't there before in view of the courtroom, situated high above, barred-in by a railing that'd probably be at about waist-height on your average person; there's no one up there just yet, however. There are so few of you now. It seems that today there are no speeches to give; maybe the Kingmaker is absent, maybe he just doesn' have anything to say. Either way, however, the implication in the fact that you're here at all is clear. For one last time, make the guilty take responsibility.

Comments

[captainobnoxious]

Yeah, just a metal body with a monster soul inside. He used to be something I'm sworn to secrecy about.

[And so is Mouri. Mouri is also sworn to secrecy, her glance'll remind him.]

[goodforsomething]

Can you stick a needle in a soul?

[cherryblooded]

You can touch one. Don't see why not.

[goodforsomething]

Eeeeeegh. That's creepy.

[captainobnoxious]

As long as you don't have the intent to kill him or hated him in any way, you could've done almost anything to his soul and he would've been able to take a couple dozen hits.

But that's not common knowledge unless you're from his world, so it would've been a fifty-fifty chance for them. I can't see why they'd risk it, and if I find out anyone but me touched his soul, especially to do that, they're losing their hands.

[No one hurts her boyfriend except her, goddammit.]