Take Responsibility.

[wordsmithery]

The time allotted for this week's investigation passes fairly briefly, but not easily - what with the state of the body and the things that have been found, the mood is perhaps oddly sobering. Either way, eventually the elevator will be waiting for you at the exit of your floor of choice, bringing you up to the courtroom swiftly and easily. There are so few of you now. Two more portraits have joined the ranks of the dead, watching over the proceedings. Gangrel and Orihime's images watch over you with with eyes that see nothing, all colored in greyscale and set up on their places in the podium circle, black fabric draped over each setting. As always, the lectern remains empty and unaffected by what's happened here. After a while, however, once everyone has found their place in the circle, the Wordsmith can be heard addressing the group, voice audible throughout the room. "Sacrificing one to save many—that is ostensibly why Harmonious is no longer among you. Truly, that is the most pragmatic of options in a situation with no chance of victory. I may even come close to commending such a decision. But I must also wonder if the dead can be said to have been 'saved', when they have passed beyond your reach in all but mere messages. Unless you should wish to follow Harmonious and join them, hold the guilty accountable for their practicality." Eleven Apprentices remain. However many leave this place is up to you.

Comments

[acherontiastyx]

...

That's just a coincidence.

[byday]

I'm not exactly about to kill anyone. Even under circumstances like this.

[foundfate]

Probably not curry, no. But if she was killed by a friend, maybe she asked that friend to make curry for her?

[tsugomori]

...That it really does...I'm tired of it.

hand check

[firstaid]

[Evidence.... evidence... ah!]

The yellow roses! So if someone had been helping Orihime, they likely would have either helped her put up the roses or they placed them in her hands as she died if she wasn't already holding on to them.

Those roses have thorns, so there could be a chance that someone has scratches on them from the thorns still. So please, everyone, let me see your hands!

[She will in turn take off her gloves that are not ripped or torn in anyway and show her hands which are free of injury.]

[byday]

Better a wimp than a murderer.

[firstaid]

...who... who else knows how to make curry?

[She really doesn't like where this is going.]

[acherontiastyx]

...

[he just kind of clenches the shit out of the podium because fuck.]

[iaspis]

[Jasper's hands are free of injury.]

[tsugomori]

I believe you. There's no reason that you would.

[ He smiles... he's sure of that at least. ]

[feistytrader]

Stop assuming it's temporary. Even if it might be, we don't know that for certain. Your life isn't worth gambling on.

[oyashiromama]

[Yeah getting back to the evidence sounds nice.

There are no injuries on Hanyuu's hands.]

[foundfate]

[He doesn't wear gloves anyway, so!

His hands are not injured.]

[foundfate]

I do. But before you ask, I wasn't involved in any of this.

[matchbreaker]

[ Oh.

.... Honestly, yeah, it's easy to forget with the motive this week, but most everyone has things they can't afford to let go back home, can't afford to risk with their death. ]

... Well, okay.

[tsugomori]

He's just a coward, when you get right to it, avoiding such things and ignoring things like that.

[ ... is this salt... yes, it is salt... ]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . ]

Aren't you a paragon for us?

[elepe]

[...Lusamine had some black gloves that she wore for all of a week after Kira happened, but no, her hands are bare.

And are uninjured, for that matter.]

[byday]

[His hands are absolutely perfect. Both in that he's injury-free, and in that he has beautiful hands. There's some scarring from his punching a mirror in the previous weeks, but it's definitely healing.]

[firstaid]

I believe you. There's no way you would have killed Orihime. Even if we all depended on it. I just know.

[feistytrader]

I do, too. But I don't use swords.

[He almost says "just ask Gangrel or Orihime," then looks around the room for a moment. Well, guess you can't ask them.]

[matchbreaker]

[ In the room...? ]

Traditionally, wouldn't that be everyone except me and Mikazuki?

[ That's how cooking things usually go ]

[acherontiastyx]

[yep, no injuries here!]

[byday]

My moral code isn't exactly flexible.

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda's hands are free of injury! ... Also her nail are well manicured because she stole Kira's manicure set ]