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]

I'm a better model than I am an actress.

[goodforsomething]

Yeah, that's kinda common.

So what's the actual deal with the book?

[happysweets]

Well, Misa-Misa guesses there's no point in hiding it anymore. She didn't think her bleach lie would be found out that quick...

It's called a Death Note. It belonged to a god of death named Gelus. ...He sacrificed himself to protect me, so, it's mine now.

[sleepingkogoro]

G-God of death...

[Of course Mouri would know about shinigamis, being from the same country and what not]

Then that notebook...does it actually give you the ability to kill without having to physically do it yourself?

[happysweets]

It does. "The human whose name is written in this note shall die." Those are the rules. "If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds, it will happen. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack."

Misa-Misa uses this to be the Second Kira. This and her special Eyes, of course, but she doesn't have those here.

[goodforsomething]

What the hell's a Kira?

[happysweets]

No point in pretending anymore. Kira is the God of the New World. He kills criminals with his own Death Note and brings justice to society! ...But he doesn't have the Eyes like me, so, in actuality, Misa-Misa is stronger than Kira is!

But Misa-Misa is content just being Kira's Eyes, of course.

[penduli]

[ ... ]

Do you kill criminals too, Misa?

[goodforsomething]

.....crazy evil Batman shit. Got it.

So what'd you kill Tarrlok and Lynne for?

[uro_cyon]

Killing people, whether their criminals or not doesn't make anyone a God. Telling yourself that is just... [ You know what, he can't even finish it.

Because it's too close to what he's done, but he's never once entertained the thought that he's anything but one man bent on a personal mission of vengeance.]

[notjustawriter]

Jesus Christ!

[happysweets]

There are lots more rules to it, too. You can make someone die by any cause you want. Even a suicide.

[notjustawriter]

That's monstrous. You can call it justice all you want, but at the end of the day, you're just a murderer.

[captainobnoxious]

[ARE YOU FOR FUCKIN REAL SHE WAS JOKING ALONG ABOUT THE NOTEBOOK AND SHIT BUT IT BELONGED TO A GOD OF DEATH???]

[happysweets]

My second guardian angel.

[captainobnoxious]

You're a hell of a girl, Misa, being protected by a god.

[That doesn't stop her from being disappointed.

... As much as she thinks she might understand. Sigrun shifts uncomfortable on her feet, looking pointedly at the center of the room instead of anyone else.]

So did you kill both of them with that book of yours?

[happysweets]

I wrote Tarrlok's name in there and said it was an accident. ...But when I went outside to check on it, I bumped into Lynne and pretended like I just saw the body, and we investigated together. But I didn't have time to write a cause of death for Lynne, so I just wrote "Lynne - Men's Sauna" and let the Death Note do the rest.

So she went all the way up there with her own two feet and died of a heart attack.

[isafraid]

It really did happen, just as we were trying to figure out...

[Speedwagon's... scared, and disappointed.

He doesn't know what to say. Except for one thing.]

You murdered them, Misa.

[prismbloom]

... A Death Note.

What do the letters on the front mean, Misa?

[happysweets]

Beats me. I don't know if it's shinigami writing or what, but I never got a chance to ask the original owner. I never even met Gelus, actually. He died to protect me.

I don't think Rem knew, either.

[prismbloom]

... He died to protect you-- how?

[happysweets]

If a shinigami writes a name in the Death Note, normally it takes the human's remaining life and it adds it to theirs. ...But if a god of death kills for the sake of another person, it does the opposite and kills the god of death.

Misa-Misa was attacked by a stalker at knifepoint. She was so scared...but Gelus, the god of death who fell in love with me...he killed that stalker and saved my life. And he left me this notebook, too, so I could help Kira, the man who avenged my parents death...

It's the most beautiful way I can think of to die.

[goodforsomething]

Of course it fuckin' did.

[isafraid]

Aah-?!

[What happened to the stripping and glitter. How did we move onto GOD OF DEATH]

You mean... that book could really...?

[pokexplorer]

[What.

This sounds like something Gabriel would talk about tbh...]