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

[amygdalae]

[All of you people already discussing stuff. BRUCE WILL PAUSE TO GIVE HIS BODY REPORT.]

The cause of death here, for now, seems to have been the bomb itself - there are defensive wounds on his arms, most of the being bruises. There is also another bruise at the back of his head - in both of these cases, they were both incurred before death and none of the bruises are dark enough to show that they could incur major blunt force trauma.

[tl;dr Shizaru didn't die by being hit in the head. Unlike Aqua. (RIP Aqua).]

As mentioned earlier there is a stab wound on his right shoulder, although the wound itself is non-fatal; and caught in his teeth I found this piece of fabric. [Bruce takes out from his pocket a piece of grey fabric and shows it to everyone. It's not a very large scrap and looks like it was torn off something.

Once everyone has seen it Bruce puts that down and then brings out what seems like a small mess of somewhat bloodied bandages that Bruce undoes enough so that he can hold up a slightly curved shard of glass.]

...I retrieved this from the wound on his abdomen. [You're welcome, everyone.] The curvature suggests that this was a container of sorts at some point - most likely what had been holding the contents of what caused the explosion itself.

[garudynamic]

He had fabric in his teeth? Could he have bit his attacker? I mean, guy had some crazy teeth.

[captainobnoxious]

That's why I called him sharptooth.

[...]

He's really good at the game with the ghosts, by the way. I finished putting in his name for him.

[Sharptooth.]

[cherryblooded]

How did you know it was him?

[captainobnoxious]

On the screen when you put in your name it already had an S.

... There's not exactly a lot of people left who'd go to that place for one that start with an S in either of their names, so I assumed it was him.

[Also: She sucks at Pac-Man.]

[cherryblooded]

...Do you normally put your last name in when you're putting in your high score, though? Wouldn't it be G?

[sleepingkogoro]

In Japan we usually put our family name before our given name. I have supposed the Vault here has western influences because my given name is listed first.

Shirazu-kun, being from Japan too, could just be used to inputting his family name first.

[Yep]

[garudynamic]

Finished? How so?

[captainobnoxious]

I just tapped it right in!

[She's a helpful leader.]

[garudynamic]

So he was in the middle of adding his name and just stopped? Maybe he was sneak attacked while playing?

[captainobnoxious]

Could be. I'd definitely ask someone to wait until I put in my name before I got killed, too.

[penduli]

Those were natural, by the way. [ He asked once.

...it's really weird to imagine some kid growing teeth and they're REALLY FUCKING SHARP like how do you even react, man. How do you bottle feed it. What about teething toys? Oh my god. ]

[garudynamic]

That's kinda scary... but hey, not as weird as assuming he like, filed them down for some reason.

[penduli]

"For some reason" would be the same reason that you bleach your hair, wouldn't it? To look cool.

[ ...sorry we're bringing up your fake hair again. ]

[garudynamic]

Look man, there are degrees here!

[penduli]

I've seen people wear and do some wild stuff for the sake of being trendy. There really aren't.

[isafraid]

Well there's been stranger things around here.

[He met a guy that sprouted blades all over his body once. That was an exciting evening.]

[penduli]

[ Just another Tuesday, Speedwagon. ]

It's true, but can you really imagine having a baby and you're praying it doesn't turn out like you and then it starts growing teeth and they're like a shark's? [ ... ] It's on his dad's side. His little sister doesn't have them—lucky her.

[ look at all this great knowledge he's bringing to the trial that's obviously very relevant to the case at hand... ]

[isafraid]

[Yup. Just another Tuesday

of something trying to kill him.]

Well it would... be certainly a difficult thing to adjust to, given how babies usually are. [all grabby and bitey, he's heard.] If his dad's got it then you've got some help!

[...] Biting yourself on accident would be a nightmare.

[penduli]

I asked him how biting his tongue went. The answer was exactly what you'd expect.

[ ...a lot of blood and pain. ]

[amygdalae]

There wasn't any blood on his teeth or anything, but...

[Maybe???]

[garudynamic]

...or a gag?

[Wow he obviously doesn't like even considering that]

[amygdalae]

No, it was literally caught in his teeth. I don't think it could have been a gag if that was the case.

[garudynamic]

So probably not back blow from the explosion either then?

[amygdalae]

There doesn't seem to be anything in the sauna itself that would indicate where the fabric came from.