Initiative.

[trustwellness]

With your course of study officially completed, for better or worse, there isn't much left for you in the courtroom itself; the elevator will take you back down to the first floor, where you'll be left off – it won't take you any lower than that. But then again, perhaps it doesn't need to. Take some time to reorient yourself, to be grateful that you didn't die, to do whatever it is you need to do – however, if you return to the main part of the building, away from the dorms... Well. There's something waiting for you in the foyer.

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[trustwellness]

Care to tell me how you plan to do that? The dead are what they are.

[firstaid]

If they're dead... how did we receive the letters? Unless you killed them two weeks ago.

[trustwellness]

You haven't spoken to anyone but me in those two weeks, isn't that right?

[firstaid]

...that would be correct. There was... nothing from them. Just the communication with you via that board.

[trustwellness]

See?

[The smile edges a little warmer; if anything, that just makes it more unsettling.]

It can all work out, though. As long as you all meant what you said.

Isn't that what you've been after this whole time? You wanted to offer hope to the hopeless; why are you unwilling to sacrifice in the interest of achieving your wish?

[acherontiastyx]

Because one, I'm actually really fucking selfish and I want to see my own damn friends again.

Two, I don't really trust you not to make them into like. Murder puppets or something. Nothing personal. If it was a bunch of people I didn't give a shit about I'd be fine with it. But those are my fucking friends there.

[feistytrader]

[What Guzma said.]

I'd much rather find another way with the people I trust than throw my life away to you.

[trustwellness]

You really aren't understanding what I'm asking, are you?

[firstaid]

Because we want to live with them. I... I've considered giving up my life before to save my world. However, now I know dying will not make them happy. They... will be saddened at our sacrifice. No one would win.

[trustwellness]

Just remember that this choice is you or them.

[And her expression is back to being very, very cold.]

One group of people is going to die today. I'm just asking you to pick which you would prefer.

[matchbreaker]

Because, on those terms, it was never my wish.

[sportadork]

... Did you just do that for fun, or was there a reason.

[trustwellness]

Your reactions were reason enough. Kirei Kotomine explained it to you during the trial.

[elepe]

[...oh.

Oh.]

You lied to us, didn't you?

[trustwellness]

You tell me.

[oyashiromama]

...He doesn't lie, but do you? I won't accept it.

[She tries to keep herself from trembling.]

I won't.

[elepe]

[...She doesn't know what to do. To be so thrown off by this, she's...]

I believe...in what you wrote to us. What those people have said, and what they wish.

[feistytrader]

...I...

[How... The hell are they going to- come on, think, think-]

Is it possible to take soul energy from us without killing us?

[trustwellness]

That isn't an option.

[firstaid]

Is it because when the soul separates from the body, the body dies?

[trustwellness]

Mmhm. In the case of your friends, for example - their souls are severed from their bodies completely at the moment.

[firstaid]

[SHE KNEW IT.]

Their souls. Where are they? [She starts to get angry, then she remembers what she said before... happiness. hope. love. calm.]

Please, tell us.

[trustwellness]

Somewhere you can't reach them. Kirei Kotomine told you as much.

[sportadork]

Put them back.

[feistytrader]

[There has to be a solution here, there has to be something else they haven't considered-]

You were the one that said those weird gummies are important, didn't you? What do they do?