Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And once the allotted time for investigating comes to a close, those elevator doors slide open at the end of the first-floor corridor, offering another of those fast, smooth rides down to that black void of a courtroom Twelve out of the original twenty-seven are dead; there are four less of you present for this trial than there were last week. That's incredibly obvious as soon as the doors slide open and the podium circle comes into view where it's encircling that dark pit in the center of the room; Norman, the King, Tarrlok, and Lynne have joined the deceased, photographs in greyscale watching the proceedings from their podiums draped in black. Of course and as always, the Kingmaker is watching too; he waits until everyone is settled at their podiums to begin speaking, though it's still impossible to tell exactly where his voice is coming from. "Assured and Perceiving have been taken from you. You guys are really getting excited, aren't you? Two people dead in one night... Whether the guilty party succeeds or not, though, is up to the rest of you." Fifteen Survivors remain. However many will be down by the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

[penduli]

[ ...he doesn't want it to be Misa, he's writing a short play for her... ]

She is an actress—I'd hope that she could act [ lie ] if it was for her job.

[garudynamic]

And we have no idea he even had one- we don't have that kinda equipment.

[captainobnoxious]

I found out this week his name's Reynir and he was a stowaway on a ship. Everything else I've dreamed about matches up too, though I'll admit that they feel a little tight together.

[Like blank spots in a week.]

What else have you dreamed about?

[notjustawriter]

Maybe what she asked for kills people on sight. If he was using the stairs when it happened....

[cherryblooded]

Oh, I know that she can act. She's been doing a good job of pretending not to despise me for a few weeks now.

[garudynamic]

WAIT what she asked for... she outright wrote 'Tarrlock somethingsomething accident' maybe that was the request?

[isafraid]

Miss Misa...

[But they're real. All of them.]

I'm sorry, Misa. Truly. The dreams are as real as can be.

[notjustawriter]

.....Maybe you're right.

[prismbloom]

... Then it may be some sort of wish-fulfillment?

[happysweets]

There's been a lot...Misa-Misa had a run-in with a pervert in her first one, and Misa-Misa had to give a job interview in another, and...and...in the third, I talked with this guy who was doing the Kira investigation with Light's dad, and...in the fourth...

A detective told Misa-Misa that Light was shot...

[garudynamic]

Who has the paper scrap?

[happysweets]

I...I won't believe it until I see it with my own eyes...

[prismbloom]

There's still one detail I'm confused about--there was dried blood on Tarrlok's body, wasn't there? If he had just fallen down the stairs, how did it get there?

[notjustawriter]

Hit his head on the way down, maybe?

Head wounds bleed a lot.

[pokexplorer]

Indeed, it may have been from coming in contact with the stairs.

[captainobnoxious]

You said that they might not all be real... but that means that you think the other ones are, don't you?

[pokexplorer]

Hmm, I suppose we can't say for certain... But we certainly cannot throw the possibility away now, especially with the Kingmaker's response.

[happysweets]

Okay, okay! Misa-Misa knows she looks really suspicious right now...b-but, she's not a murderer, she promises..! I-I'll admit it! Well, admit to some stuff, but not to killing anybody! Misa-Misa knows the reason why there's glitter at Mister Tarrlok's crime scene!

[ She looks reluctant to admit to this much, but, it seems like she doesn't have much of a choice. The tears are already streaming down her face right now from yelling at Cherry, but, she has to defend herself... ]

Misa-Misa...last night, in the laundry room after the party, she used the bleach. She got some frosting on her pretty dress that she worked so hard to sew, so she wanted to clean it...so when she touched the bottles, that must have been when the glitter got on there...after all, she touched a couple of things in there! But she didn't use the sign-out sheet...

[ Because, well, who the hell uses the sign-out sheet? ]

So when Mister Tarrlok grabbed the bottles, that must have been when he got glitter on him! But Misa-Misa, she didn't do anything like push him down the stairs or anything, Misa-Misa swears! Or move him! If she did, there'd be glitter handprints on his back or something! Misa-Misa didn't shove him, really, she didn't! I'm definitely not strong enough to push him myself! Sigrun knows, I'm not strong at all!

A-and another thing! Misa-Misa...she knows what the note in the incinerator said, too! S-she realized it when Mouri was talking about it! It was my crossword! The one from Tuesday!

[ And at that, Misa...pulls out a black notebook. There's a piece of paper sticking out of the back, and when she pulls it out, she shows it to the others and passes it around. It's her crossword, one of her own, filled out with all the answers, but what she really wants to bring everyone's attention to are the questions...

Obviously, the handwriting between the scrap and the crossword is a match. They were both written by the same person, after all. ]

Look, look! Across 8, it says Tarrlok! And down 6, it says accident! Misa-Misa wrote this herself, in her own handwriting! So the killer must be someone who didn't hand Misa-Misa a finished crossword that she gave! They probably wrote their own plans or notes or whatever on the back! And that way, if anyone found the note in the incinerator, they'd think it was Misa-Misa! S-so there! Now I'm not as suspicious anymore! Right? Right?! Misa-Misa...she's sorry she kept that from you all, about the bottles, but...Misa-Misa isn't a murderer! And there's still no way you can prove what happened to either of them if you assume I'm the culprit!

I couldn't have pushed Tarrlok, there's no way I could have killed Lynne without touching her, it's just impossible for me alone! So...so please, please believe me! Misa-Misa's innocent, she's innocent..! Please don't think I'm a murderer!

[She holds the back of black notebook up to her face and starts crying into the back of it, bawling her eyes out. She didn't want it to end like this, but, when she thinks about everything...it's finally all starting to come out.

As for the notebook itself, the silver letters on the cover are a bit hard to decipher, but, if you can make sense of them...it says ARVC-5.

Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Type 5.

In other words, a gene that causes heart attacks.]

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[isafraid]

If it's possible... then you already have.

[ratingspoint]

[...Misa. Misa, he really doesn't want to believe it's you, but...]

...You definitely wouldn't have used the bleach last night, Misa-darling.

[prismbloom]

... Mettaton is right. Tarrlok signed all of the chemicals out. Where would you have found them?

[happysweets]

E-eh?! Why not?! How do you know for sure?!

[garudynamic]

...wait, He's right! Misa wore black last night!

[He might have been staring at it a bit]

[happysweets]

What time does it say he took out the chemicals? Misa-Misa just used them before he signed them out!

[ratingspoint]

You were wearing a black dress, weren't you?

Why would you ruin it with bleach?