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

[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]

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

[happysweets]

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

[ratingspoint]

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

Why would you ruin it with bleach?

[happysweets]

A-ah, r-right...u-um, that's just because...Misa-Misa didn't know that putting bleach on it would make the color fade out...

[ratingspoint]

Misa. You're like me. Modeling, acting...your clothes are a good amount of your livelihood.

Do you really expect me to think you wouldn't know what bleach does to clothes?

[happysweets]

T-that was a bit of a stretch, I guess, but...Misa-Misa still didn't push him! S-she definitely couldn't have!

[ratingspoint]

[...This is the stupidest question, right here, but.]

Was it an accident?

[happysweets]

It...could have been?

[uro_cyon]

You told me yourself how big of a model you were. There's no way you don't know that in your line of work.

[garudynamic]

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

[He might have been staring at it a bit]

[happysweets]

U-uwaah! You remembered?!

[penduli]

You cut a very striking figure in it, Misa. [ ...she was really cute and really noticeable. ] And it was just last night.

[happysweets]

Misa-Misa guesses she shouldn't be so surprised...

[garudynamic]

...dude, Misa you KNOW I was into you before I found out about Light. Are you that surprised.

[happysweets]

W-well, I'm flattered I was able to leave such an impression, b-but...

[isafraid]

Misa...

[Speedwagon's... having a hard time looking at you right now...]

[happysweets]

L-look, it doesn't mean anything! You still don't know how Tarrlok got down there, and you still don't know how Lynne died at all!

[garudynamic]

If you were investigating with her then there would have been no time to write anything or... whatever you did. So I'm guessing the bleach was a distraction.

[sleepingkogoro]

Eh? What does that have to do with anything?

[Mouri doesn't know the finer details of clothing washing, after all. Does he look like a man who knows about it? It's a miracle his suit is still intact despite he having to wash it by himself]

[ratingspoint]

Bleach ruins black clothes, Detective! It's really unsightly. Something a proper idol would never dream of doing.

[penduli]

[ OH MY GOD. ]

You usually only use bleach on white clothing because otherwise you'll, well. Bleach the color out of anything else.

[sleepingkogoro]

[Expression of sudden understanding]

[uro_cyon]

If you bleach dark clothing it stains it white permanently. [He would know, due to his fashion tastes.]