[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

[white_camellia]

...I have no doubt that he asked if you considered therapy, at least. I am fairly certain he believes all of us need it, himself included.

[Look, she may be accusing him of murder, but she doubts he would be a jerk.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

He's probably right about that, too.

[ugly_split_ends]

So?! Whether he's right or wrong isn't the issue!

[white_camellia]

So the issue is that you interpreted it negatively, even if it was not necessarily intended as such?

[ugly_split_ends]

H-How else am I supposed to interpret a person mocking me??

[white_camellia]

In the first place, why do you believe it was intended as mockery?

[ugly_split_ends]

Are you an idiot? You may as well ask "Why do you think all those bullies chanting your name and pushing you in the mud and throwing your things in the trash were just trying to mock you?"

[white_camellia]

...So you equate someone asking if you've considered therapy akin to pushing you in the mud and throwing your things in the trash?

[She just... Does not understand you at all, Fukawa.]

[ugly_split_ends]

Are you s-seriously this sheltered?! This is Bullying 101! "Oh, Fukawa, poor you! You'd be much happier off if you just did this thing that you can't do... Oh well, too bad!"

[white_camellia]

...Why would you not be able to? There are therapists in the Foundation, though admittedly they are rather difficult to find.

[ugly_split_ends]

Are we in the Foundation, right now?

[white_camellia]

We are hardly going to be on this mission forever. Certainly therapy is not available at this precise moment, but it is an option available to you, as part of the Foundation.

[ugly_split_ends]

Y-Yeah, obviously... so what?

[white_camellia]

He is bringing up an option available to you, as a member of the Foundation. How... is that mocking you?

[ugly_split_ends]

It's not available to me right now, I know it exists, and he was obviously mocking me when I felt s-sad and vulnerable. If t-that doesn't satisfy you, then just stop asking.

[white_camellia]

...Very well, then, though I do believe he intended it more as something to consider once the mission is done with than anything else.