grimmoired | PROLOGUE : TRIAL

The Story Continues...
PROLOGUE - WEEK 037 Narrators Remain ;

Wakey wakey, naughty murder children. It's a lovely Saturday, after all. Breakfast is served piping hot at its usual time and all of the evidence has been removed from the scenes of yesterday. No matter how you choose to spent your morning though, the clock will begin to chime the moment both hands reach the large, ornate twelve.

Before your eyes materializes a door...but not just any door. Unlike the door leading to the festival, this door sits primly and properly right in front of the foyer. Whether you exit the castle on your own or you feel a friendly, invisible push, you begin to walk under an arc of wisterias. Behind you, the clock continues to chime with every step you take.

By the time the time the clock strikes twelve, you've entered a beautiful garden. In front of you is a long table, 19 seats on each side. Around the garden are several glass cases containing evidence collected yesterday. As noon intensifies on the sun-shaped clock, you'll find Dragon at the head of the table, a glass-covered rose near her right hand.

Tick tock, Narrators. You have nine hours to deliberate.

Welcome to your first trial post!

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It's an ability, right?! One of those magic gift things everybody has???

[ there's no way he noticed something like this just this now????? ]

No, we're both...individuals!

[Sort?? Of???]

There's just two of us!

But like- before! Before you got magicked here!! There was only one, right!?

No, we both existed separately in our own world. I'm really sorry, I know it's confusing.

[He's trying so hard to calm Natsuo down oh god.]

We're of different time periods.

That said, we are different individuals regardless.

WHY??

[Stop haranguing his partner and that other guy.]

Why does that matter? The reasons don't concern you. Focus on the investigation.

I CAN'T FOCUS ON THE INVESTIGATION!! THERE'S TWO OF THEM!!!

TWO!!!!!!

Natsuo-kun, are you alright?

[WHY ARE WE YELLING WHY IS THIS WEIRD THEY'RE IN A MAGICAL DEATH CASTLE calm down friend]

[ Thank you for your sacrifice--

grips him by the shoulders and starts shaking. he's in like. near hysterics or something ]

TWO!!!!!!!!!!

Wah--!

[A SHAKEN POMPOM]

At least there aren't three? [is he helping]

[ --he didn't even think about that. He deathgrips Yasusada's shoulders as he looks out over everybody. ]

There aren't three, right? Any more Ions, step out right now.

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Didn't you look at the profiles?

I did! I memorized everybody's names and faces!!

[ they have the same name and same face, he had no reason to think they were different.... ]

And you just figured one person had two for no reason? Dude. Dude.

...

A woman is dead, Natsuo.

[ ugh---

No, he can't argue with that. ]

.....sorry.

Now - if you think that there being two of them has something to do with this death, carry on, but otherwise...

They could've worked together, right...? One of them does the murder while the other one creates an alibi.

[ It could work? Unless literally everybody besides Natsuo already knew there were two of them. ]

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[ Kyouka does not want this to be what leads them astray, so with alarming accuracy, she throws a crumpet straight at Natsuo's open mouth. ]

[ wait what?

there's food?????

holy shit Natsuo shuts up right away ]

Natsuo-kun... you need to calm down.

[ "Natsuo, calm the fuck down," people have been saying to him for nine days straight ]

I don't know how!!

[ what are calming techniques ]

Can you take a few deep breaths for me? On the count of five, in and out.

[ One!!! deep breath in, and then he holds his breath.

nice, peaceful, silence ]

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