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

[happysweets]

T-that's...we don't even know if those are actually memories! T-they can't be!

[cherryblooded]

And how are you so sure about that?

[happysweets]

Because if they are memories, then that means Light is dead!

[cherryblooded]

...And you'd do anything to undo that, wouldn't you.

[He sounds a bit more sympathetic than he had been sounding.]

[happysweets]

...Oh no. Don't think that you can turn this back on Misa-Misa like that, that's not..!

[cherryblooded]

Miss Misa, it is your handwriting, and you are the most suspect person here.

I have nothing against you, and you can scream my secrets in this trial room if you want, but I'm not letting anyone die today but the culprit, no matter what their motives were.

[captainobnoxious]

Honey, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but they're definitely real memories. Remember that nasty wound I had when I got here? Got it protecting a non-immune.

[... Sigrun really doesn't want Misa to be suspect, but the leader part of her's driving this forward now.]

[happysweets]

B-but, there's no way of knowing if they all are..! It could have just...been a bad dream, right?

[notjustawriter]

......I'm sorry, Misa, but I doubt it.

[happysweets]

But...L-Light, he can't be...

[ The stress of it all is enough to make her start to cry... ]

[isafraid]

Miss Misa...

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

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

[happysweets]

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

[isafraid]

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

[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?

[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...

[captainobnoxious]

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