[CONTINUE + 3] week 1 || act: indict

[foundationmods]

[Saturday dawns, bright and early again. No one comes to the Inn, but you feel compelled to go to the Core anyway.

It's as if you're forced to. As if....it's inescapable.

You make the walk past everything, until you are directly in the Core, where some kind of whitish, rainbow-gleaming liquid can be seen below.

In this area, you are led to a wider platform that is still open to the liquid before, with the handrails in place - where there are some seats around, and a familiar face waiting to speak with you.

This...for all of you, it is a familiar sight.

It is a trial location.

You are here to find the killer...and convict one of your own, in a murder that makes no sense.

But you have no choice.

You can only forge ahead....and try to find out the truth.]

VICTIM: YOSHI NANASE
ACT: VOTE

Comments

[ugly_split_ends]

I see... I'll have to find more creative ways to insult you, then.

[soupervillain]

I look forward to it!

[ugly_split_ends]

...You're stacking masochism on your low-tier kinks now?!

[soupervillain]

Hey! My kinks are all mid-tier and up!! And if you're around to do creative insults at me, it'll mean you're not dead! So... keep being that!

[ugly_split_ends]

Wrong. Even if you try to say most are mid-tier, the ones at the bottom will just make the tower lopsided until it falls.

...Don't t-try to tell me you'd care if I died, again.

[soupervillain]

Okay, I won't tell you!

[ugly_split_ends]

Good... I l-like it when people don't lie to my f-face...

[soupervillain]

But if I don't tell you, isn't that a lie by omission?

[ugly_split_ends]

W-What?

[soupervillain]

You told me not to tell you I'd care, right? But I would care. So by not saying that, I'd kind of be lying anyway.

[ugly_split_ends]

No you wouldn't!!

[soupervillain]

Don't tell me what I wouldn't! There's only one mind-reader here, and he's dead! So shut your mean person mouth!

[ugly_split_ends]

T-There's only ever been one bully here, and it's you! You don't really care... you're just trying to hurt me by making me think you care! I'm not that stupid and I won't be fooled by someone as idiotic as you!!

[soupervillain]

Hey.

[ Giovanni's voice is suddenly coldly serious. ]

I'm a lot of things. I'm a criminal. I'm an exceptionally skilled knitter. I might be a murderer. But I am not a bully. And unless the whatever-it-is starts possessing me to bring down the weak instead of protecting them, I never will be.

[ugly_split_ends]

Y-You totally are! Y-You're just trying to delude yourself by telling yourself 'Oh, I'm just being kind to the freak!' The result is the same!

[soupervillain]

You know what? You go ahead and think whatever you want.

[ Somehow, this moment has gotten to him more than all the previous insults and furry accusations Fukawa's hurled. He turns away. ]

[ugly_split_ends]

...

[She'll just sigh... in relief? Maybe... maybe not...]

[le_mat]

Fukawa-san, that was too far.

[ugly_split_ends]

Y-You're one to talk! You do the exact same thing!

[le_mat]

Yeah, and I can take having my honor insulted better than Gio can. The guy clearly takes his brand of 'evil' really seriously. You're being a bully.

[ugly_split_ends]

W-What the hell... so I'm supposed to tell him: "Oh! I'm sorry Mr. Yiff! Obviously I'm just too much of a loser to take it seriously when you try to hurt me by b-being 'kind' to me?"

Y-You're the same... I i-insulated myself to being scorned and hated and being bullied l-long ago... so you found a new way by attacking me with your 'kindness'... and I'm supposed to fall for it?!

[homeecspacecop]

Can you just shut up? People here care about you, stop telling them they're being delusional.

[ugly_split_ends]

...

[homeecspacecop]

Giovanni isn't a bully, he's a really sincere person. I know it's hard to believe, I don't even really believe it myself, but stop bullying him for being kind!

[ugly_split_ends]

...He's hurt me.