trusthell | Take Responsibility.

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.

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[ Shirazu is a little unnerved when he moves to stand at his podium, having realized that he's an island in the courtroom, standing between Caren and Mion's portraits. ]

I investigated Miodori's room with Black and Aqua-san. It was really messy and we didn't find the key anywhere. It's possible that somebody took her key.

Messy how? Did it look like someone tore it up lookin' for something?

Her stuff was everywhere. It didn't look like there was a fight in there, though.

That's strange.

I thought so, too. There was absolutely no blood in her room, either. Just a huge mess.

Why would someone take her key? I mean, that's a pretty useless thing to take, unless they were trying to get something from her room too.

...I searched all the pockets of her clothes and found nothing in them.

[So Mion apparently no longer had the key to her room...? Why did they even take it?]

Then somebody probably took it...

Most likely to get the Kingmaker to active rule....four I think?

Edited 2016-03-19 18:07 (UTC)

[ Yato's back in his ceremonial robes; the casual yukata is a bit... too casual for this. Also rather drafty. ]

Miodori... that's a cute nickname.

... Anyway, more importantly, I guess she's not the type to be that messy, huh? It totally ruins the image of a high school girl.

I don't know about that. All kids can be pretty messy.

Well, Mion's a lot of fun, but she's got her own sense of responsibility! I guess I don't picture her room as being the type to be a total wreck.

I guess. Either way, she wouldn'tve left the door open and hid her key, so someone must've been in there.

I came up with it during our speed date. [ But that's irrelevant right now, let's move on. ]

She didn't seem the messy type at all. I think the killer took her key and went through her stuff.

Hmm... well, why would they do something like that?

Maybe there was something they needed from there?

A high school girl's room is like her sanctuary, so it must've been pretty important! Although I guess it's hard to say if anything's missing, huh.

Not unless we're planning on giving the whole room a pat down for whatever they've got!

[Might be difficult, considering how some of them aren't even human.]

Even if they did take something, they might not even have it on them anyway, so why don't we save the pat-downs for when we know we have something we're looking for?

Like what? The murder weapon or something? [ Did Mion even own a sword? ]

Maybe she got somethin' of theirs outta the machine.

At this rate both can be possible. That blasted machine tends to spit out horrible weapons at us whenever it likes, doesn't it?

That'd make sense. I was kinda thinking that they knocked her out, and then took her key to get the sword from her room so they could kill her with it, but that doesn't seem likely... [ He's just throwing whatever comes to mind out there. He's not good at this stuff. ]

If they were plannin' it anyway, they could've just got a knife from the kitchen beforehand. Or anything else, there's a lotta ways to kill someone without a sword.

If they weren't planning on killing her... Who exactly would carry a sword around? It's not inconspicuous.

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