Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

For the third time, those elevator doors at the end of the first-floor corridor open up at the end of the allotted investigation period; the ride down is, as ever, smooth and quick-moving. You're down by five. When the doors slide open, the podium circle still stands in stark contrast to that now-familiar black void of a courtroom, and once again, it's changed to reflect your losses – Caren and Mion have joined those with podiums draped in black, their framed greyscale profile portraits staring out at the rest of you. (The portrait of Pearl hasn't been removed from her room, but it seems the Kingmaker has replaced it with another; either way, her photograph is in the courtroom along with the rest.) As before, the Kingmaker waits until everyone is settled at their podiums before he speaks; he still isn't visible, but he can clearly be heard, his voice coming from everywhere and nowhere all at once. "Capable has been taken from you. I'll confirm one thing for you so no one will waste time asking – the killer wasn't me. Looks like the guilty decided to take a shot at Rule Seven after all – and whether they succeed or not is up to you." Twenty-two Survivors remain. We'll see how many the group has lost at the end of the day.

Comments

SELECTION.

[kingmakereffect]

[The Kingmaker's voice is clipped short today and his announcement is quick.]

That's enough. You know what to do by now.

Select the title of the person you believe should be held accountable for Capable's death. Majority rules.

It's time for someone to take responsibility.

1/2

[captainobnoxious]

[She'll have all her feelings back in order later, okay, but she can at least right herself for now and take his words at face value, because...]

Right, I still have to give you and Cherry a grand tour of my place. And this place isn't half as pretty as you could ever make it. It'd be stupid just to give up before you've beautified everything.

[It's an excellent reasoning as far as she's concerned, however temporary. Whereas Zagi had felt like one of her brother in arms, Mettaton's just... kind of become someone she's used to be around and would be really sad if he died so don't??]

[cherryblooded]

REGALED

Re: SELECTION.

[sleepingkogoro]

[No hesitation, as usual. He doesn't hate Yato not even a bit but he knows very well what his integrity and moral code tells him to do]

REGALED

[capyper]

[ ... The very least he can do at this point is own up to it. ]

> REGALED

[captainobnoxious]

But really, don't you ever think to do it again. It'll be hard to figure out how to honor a robot and we apparently have a lot of people who're willing to kill to leave themselves.

[notjustawriter]

REGALED

[ratingspoint]

Well, it doesn't matter now, does it.

[wokeupdead]

REGALED

[Red eyed and puffing up already.]

Re: SELECTION.

[amygdalae]

> REGALED

...I wish things didn't end this way.

[But there's nothing else left to say.]

[psychoh]

>REGALED

Re: SELECTION

[prismbloom]

....

REGALED

[garudynamic]

Someone sounds pissy.

[For all Yosuke kept his cool during the trial, he let's all his disdain out in that short comment as he taps the voting screen]

>REGALED

[captainobnoxious]

[It's a God's every right to determine who dies and who lives, so Sigrun has a brief moment where she just lets her hand hover above it.

...

Well, even gods need to take responsibility, she supposes.]

REGALED

[bloodisthicker]

>REGALED

[can't there just be one that doesn't... i don't know... make him want to stare at a wall for a while...]

[penduli]

[ My, someone's tired of watching, isn't he.

Black glances into the pit for a moment, hand unsteady for once over his podium, but--it's still a matter of needing to survive. Yato told him to, too; he expected everyone else to live on, which means... ]

REGALED

[ ...it's regretful--especially since he'd been looking forward to talking to Yato more, and making cute stuffed animals with him, and hearing more about all his impressive talents, but...

...he's not dying here. ]

[ratingspoint]

>REGALED

[...]

Yato-darling. I'll make this place beautiful for you, all right? There's not nearly enough glitter in here.

[happysweets]

...Misa-Misa appreciates you thinking about all of us like that, but...

[bloodisthicker]

...no, it really doesn't.

[capyper]

... I can't really complain if my dying legacy is glitter, honestly. [ Blood for the blood god! ... Glitter for the glitter god! ] Sorry, by the way. The show didn't really go as intended.

[isafraid]

[Well this is just too much]

The both of you.... how can you just be like that...?

[ratingspoint]

It rarely does.

[He's quiet for a moment, though, even if the smile is mostly through habit.]

...Your soul is beautiful, by the way. The color's appropriate for someone like you.

[isafraid]

> REGALED

[It's been a very long, and very terrible trial.]

[happysweets]

[ God or not, tough circumstances or not, a killer of the innocent is still someone who can't be forgiven in her eyes. That's what her gut tells her.

One day, this is all going to stop. ]

>REGALED

[ignorantly]

I'll do that. [ There's no hesitation behind his words. ]

...I'm not really good with words, but... even if you're a god of depravity, it... doesn't define what sort of person you are. A person can let that sorta thing decide who they are, but they can also say "fuck that" and decide for themselves what they want to be.