grimmoired | CHAPTER 1: TRIAL

The Story Continues...
CHAPTER 1 - WEEK 134 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 Tiger at the head of the table, a glass-covered rose near her right hand.

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

Throughout today's trial, the snow continues to fall as it has all week, though it's gentle and soft. Instead of tea and crumpets, today's snack bar includes the makings for s'mores, including sharp metal skewers. A fire could be built, should anyone have anything flammable. Additionally, every now and then, the howls of a group of wolves will penetrate the silence that occasionally falls on the the group...and sometimes even in the heat of the moment.

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[dutifully raises hand]

What's a Minotaur?

It's a half-bull and half-man monster. They're not exactly very friendly.

Oh, I see. [THANKS NICO-KUN always a pal] Do you think there would be anything else in there with it? Or would it kill any other creatures?

Usually the minotaur would be found by itself. It's a vicious creature and that's why he was confined to the center of the labyrinth after he was born and grew up. And why this minotaur's probably in the center of the hedge maze. It didn't seem that interested in Soo-won's body, but it chased after 2B and then chased all of us out of there.

[Dazai is the reason Yasu and Nico can't deal with humans tbh]

Hm... do you think it could've been the one to kill Soo-won-kun? [It doesn't sound like the type of creature to slit throats, but as has been well established, Yasusada knows nothing about many things]

[Tell him about it.]

No way. Um. His body would have been more mangled if he had, I'm pretty sure. Minotaurs also have really big horns.

A humanoid with the head of a bull. There's a myth about a minotaur guarding a maze and killing anyone who entered.

Was it hiding something important in there?

If I remember right, the king just locked it in there because he didn't want to be reminded that the queen fucked a bull once.

[.............]

why?

Because men are jealous and hate it when their wives have sex with people or animals that aren't then. This isn't exactly the time for a sex talk.

You're the one that brought it up!

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Well I regret listening to this conversation.

[ covers varian's ears. ]

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There are many aspects of Greek Mythology that aren't very savory, but Dazai has found a way to make them sound even worse.

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I'm not wrong.

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[sighs]

Well, that's one way of summarizing it.

I can't retell the whole myth, we're on a time limit.

Something I don't want to deal with again.

Did you defeat it?

[He's assuming they would've said something if they had, but hey, can't hurt to ask]

[oh dear]

Others have answered for me, but it's a popular monster from Greek mythology. I suppose here, in the world where stories are real, they're living, breathing monsters.

[nod nod]

[...]

What's "Greek"?

[I'm sorry]

Relating back to the country of Greece, it's people and its traditions.

[it's fine, Akechi has accepted his role as a walking encyclopedia]

Oh, okay.

[He... doesn't know anything about the country of Greece, either, but at least he senses that now isn't the time for a geography lesson. SMALL MIRACLES.]

This story doesn't have anything to do with the shoe story, does it? [From the last trial, he means.]

No, it doesn't. Although their points of origin are similar. The earliest known stories of Cinderella emerged from Greece.