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

[aleph_armed]

Until she gets what she wants, probably.

[respring]

I wonder if all witches are like this? Or if Watanuki-san is just the exception.

[ bc holy cannoli is this annoying as fuck ]

[aleph_armed]

Who knows? There's probably a pretty huge variety and every witch is unique, but in the end, they're fundamentally inhuman.

[respring]

The ones who run these sort of games, I mean. I suppose I'm thinking 'it takes a specific kind of person to do something like this.'

[aleph_armed]

...It depends on how you define "something like this". The kind of system we're in right now is definitely in "bad taste", to put it mildly, so it's not really a surprise that the one running it is like that.

[respring]

Mmm. [ a nod ] I'm finding it hard to deal with her when she acts like this, though I know it's the least of our worries during these trials...do you get what I mean? I understand your point, though.

[aleph_armed]

Ah, how she's loud and obnoxious and her voice grates at your ears? I can get that, at least. Even her own subordinates seem to be having issues with how she is.