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trusthell2016-03-19 12:00 pm
kingmakereffect) wrote in trusthell2016-03-19 12:00 pm
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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It's not important.
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[Her voice is oddly kind this time. The first case she'd hardly known Kamui, in the second she wasn't a big fan of Caren anyway, but this time she's a little kinder, yes.
Yato's a god first and foremost in her mind. Gods have the right to kill who they want. Those who don't believe are fated to be worse off than those that do; it's just how her current society works.]
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Now that I'm going to be... going, you're probably gonna be the one with the most skills to kill people, you know? It's... a weird thing to think about, personally. I hope it doesn't weigh you down.
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I can't say I forgive you, but....
We'll get out of here. I want this bloodshed to end.
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Gods were only ever meant to support humans. You guys will save each other through your own means.
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It won't. It'll make everyone think I have a higher chance of it, and if there's anything else like this that happens again I'll need an airtight alibi, but I'm going to keep protecting people with these skills like I always have.
[Though... if that means killing someone someday, then it may come to that. But she'll keep that to later.]
Is there anything you'd like me to burn in your honor, God of Fortune? [Yes, she's keeping it.] Or what do you do for your dead? I'll do it with Mion too.
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[... hers tend to be stone-based. but she try something special for him.]
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[ Then it can also kind of be Mion's altar as well. ]
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Consider it done then.
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[Mouri doesn't hate Yato, he just dismisses everything because he knows it's senseless to try to beat down some sense if that person doesn't want to listen. Now that Yato is a bit more vulnerable may as well say what he wants to say]
You can't erase in one moment the kindness and love people felt for you during these three weeks. Believe it or not, it's not so simple. People are going to inherently believe in the goodness you have because what is what they have seen. You murdered Sonozaki-san but that doesn't make you stop being friends of some people here.
We may not have talked much but I could see there was certain sincerity in all that. I'll never approve what you did, but I'm not going to label you a monster for that. A monster isn't defined as easily as you wish.
There's simply nothing else to be done. Why you did it or how you did it doesn't matter now, but you do matter. Surely you see it now.
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