Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

The allotted time for investigating comes to an end, and those elevator doors slide open at the end of the first-floor corridor; it's a bit of a walk down from the fifth floor, but at least the ride down is swift and smooth. To say nothing of spacious. Your numbers are running low. The podium circle, as always, stands out against the black-walled courtroom where it's encircling that pit in the center; Mettaton and Shirazu have joined the ranks of the deceased, photographs in greyscale watching the proceedings from their podiums draped in black. The Kingmaker, too, is watching all of you; as always, it isn't until everyone has settled at their podium that he speaks, his voice sounding out through the room for all to hear. "Sacrificial has been taken from you. Maybe this time the guilty party is going to actually succeed at Rule Seven - but of course, whether they manage it is still up to the rest of you." Eleven Survivors remain. How many are still standing by the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

[sleepingkogoro]

Eide-san, please!

[Mouri looks a bit green here]

[uro_cyon]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. [ He sounds like he means it, mostly.]

[amygdalae]

[Sigrun.]

And deal with the collateral damage afterwards?

[Said with the driest tone possible.]

[isafraid]

When we ever get out of here, I'd like to sleep for thirty years..

[That would be enough to work off this stress. Right?]

[captainobnoxious]

[Awww. Someone's a little sick at the thought.]

You didn't look so well when I was singing, either. How're you a detective if you have an issue with stuff like this?

[cherryblooded]

Wouldn't that be nice? Maybe sixty, in my case.

[captainobnoxious]

[........]

If... we're careful enough, then no one I care about'll be blown up. Just trolls. I think.

[sleepingkogoro]

Murders back home usually don't involve anything exploding, you know!

[Eight hundred or so murders and the number of people exploding is at a merciful number less than ten. Besides it isn't like he is in charge of seeing the crime scene when explosions do happen]

[captainobnoxious]

[She is nothing if confident in people's skills!

Even if they might've been able to kill someo wait she is slamming her hands onto her podium.]

Ladle!!

[amygdalae]

There's no being careful about it. A bomb is a bomb.

[She may

have stepped on a bit of a nerve here]

[uro_cyon]

Are you really going to just ask me like that? [ Come on Bruce.]

I got one personal item from the machine, which I traded for. A book of matches. [ Which means if he didn't get it from the machine directly, then....]

[captainobnoxious]

They should, it feels like they get solved quicker than our usuals.

[amygdalae]

[Then...]

Are you working with the Kingmaker too?

[God, why.]

[isafraid]

I'd say that by the end of all this, we'd deserve it.

[Just everyone falling asleep in a big pile.

Perfect.]

[captainobnoxious]

And bombs are useful where I'm from, but alright, alright.

[Bruce is not the man to learn from.

She'll ask Colress later.]

[isafraid]

It would be simple to chase someone from one to the other!

[uro_cyon]

That explains the bomb, possibly.

Not the device in the arcade though.

[sleepingkogoro]

...h-hey, I had been the one to suggest the ladle...

[Somebody is mumbling to himself. why are you stealing his thunder sigrun god damn it]

[uro_cyon]

[ He is actually insulted here and it shows, the first emotion he's actually shown all trial.]

No.

I would never willingly work with someone who kidnapped my sister.

[goodforsomething]

[Well, that answers that.]

Geez, what an asshole. Should've known he wouldn't cut the show short.

[captainobnoxious]

Easy peasy. You used it to grab his attention, stabbed to stun, clubbed him, and dragged him over to the sauna.

[... Easy peasy, she says.]

[captainobnoxious]

[DEAL WITH IT, MOURI. COMPLAINTS GO IN THE COMPLAINT BOX.]

[uro_cyon]

How did I activate it? It has no buttons and no wires.

[amygdalae]

[Ah...

So that's why.]

So somebody else had your phone, and you managed to get it back from them, presumably. Since its useless in here anyway, you disassembled it and used those components to build a time bomb with help from the radio.

[Is he getting any closer?]

[pokexplorer]

Remotely. You claim to have no remote, but that seems to be the only way it could be activated from what I see.