WEEK 3 TRIAL

[foundationmods]

It was noon on Saturday.

No matter where they were, no matter what they were doing...the moment the chimes rang out through the hall, they felt a change.

The world...began to expand, as they felt themselves leaving the world they were on, and towards another, much larger world...🗈

...As always, the courtroom was there - along with the audience, watching, waiting for the entertainment before them.

The Witch - Nirrti - was there, sitting in the most important place, watching all of them with a sharp, cruel gaze, a smile of pure delight on her face.

Watanuki was also there, but he merely lounged in the back behind them, smoking a kiseru pipe in silence.
...It seemed as if he was content to watch - that he had to watch - as part of the rules of the game.

There was no music to be heard, but... perhaps on another plane, in another place, someone else heard music as they gazed upon the proceedings.

Again, their forms had changed - perhaps into something different than last time, but...still a change, no matter how dramatic or inconsequential it was.

...There was a deep silence in the room, one that no one wanted to break. It was the faint tension in the air, like the moments before a race or a competition begins.

They had found the truth last time....but now, two people had died.
Was it possible for them to find the culprit this time?
A culprit that....had...

No, it had to be.

For the sake of the dead...and the sake of them all.

Comments

[sotoshini]

But wouldn't they have needed the intent to kill them in the first place? Otherwise they would have been asleep Thursday night.

Random acts of jealousy are a thing, but the random factor doesn't really work here.

[cryosurgeon]

If they were thinking about it before, then they'd be awake. And then seeing the boys that close would've only confirmed their jealousy.

[fullbodied]

Yeah, but why not wait until Akira and Ryuji were separate?

It's either a fit of passion or... it doesn't make sense.

[sotoshini]

I don't buy it. Kuruma was on a date with Kurusu recently, so that type of premeditation doesn't make sense.

But if we're just assuming how everyone involved felt we'll go in circles. It's a waste of time unless we focus on what we can actually prove and know, like the rules of the game.

[cryosurgeon]

... you're right. But we keep running into the same problem week after week: proving who did it, even after we pin down the crime itself.

[fullbodied]

... That's true.

[improbablenotimpossible]

So it depends on what happened on their 'date'. Perhaps it ended badly and he did not take it well.

[excavated]

Is it possible that their original intention was to kill someone, but not necessarily the two of them?

[sotoshini]

Is that how the forced sleep works for victims?

[ ...legit question, he hasn't really paid much attention to trials until now. ]

[excavated]

She said with the Red that: "Culprits may kill at any time once they have decided in their heart and minds to kill. For them and their victim, they will not fall asleep like the rest on Thursday."

Followed with: "However, they may also kill before the time is up."

I think they might have chosen the latter, even if they had the intention to kill someone. Like... maybe something happened that made them change their mind. That's just my theory, though.

[anonnomnomnom]

Not if it was before the time to sleep. Wasn't it early even in the Fantasy?

[sotoshini]

[ Hmm that's a good point. ]

I guess it's impossible to tell unless we have some way to discern a timeline.