grimmoired | CHAPTER 3 ; TRIAL

The Story Continues...
CHAPTER 3 - WEEK 329 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 delightful, delectable scent of freshly brewed coffee will linger in the air though there will be no coffee present. Instead, today's trial snacks include...finger foods.

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[actually, he has something to ask—]

... Hey. Monika's ability, by process of elimination, was to breathe underwater, right? Do you know if there's anyone she might've shared her title and ability with?

. . . she shared it with me.

[ah]

Her title and her objectives. Not her gift.

... Well, the inevitable question I have is: what was her title and objective?

The Frog Prince.

Her first objective was to kiss three people. Her second was to retrieve an item stolen from one of the Narrators and return it.

... So, nothing particularly dangerous, maybe... Do you think she would've been cautious about the item retrieval?

I doubt her death has anything to do with her second objective. I had planned on assisting her with its completion.

[ Both Natsuo's and my face
he's going to riot ]

[BLAME THE CRAFTERS NOT AKECHI??]

... Do you have any idea what that item could have been?

[because

trying to steal back something sounds like an easy reason to get shanked??]

As far as I understood, it could have been anything.

[ akechi stop dropping these bombs

because when he says that, 2b can't help but bring a hand up to the side of her mouth. ]

[did monika get to kiss the android before jae-ha did

god wtf]

... she really went for it, didn't she?

She...

[ ...

this is a lot. ]

[ . . . that is a lot. and jae-ha will just quietly reach for her hand again.]

... whatever bond the two of you has real, not based out of an objective.

Don't doubt that.

...

[ she lets jae-ha take her hand, no hesitation this time. ]

[. . . . . . DID YOU SMOOCH AN AI, 2B]

[ more like the ai smooched her but. yea ]

[... Wooow he feels tired suddenly.]

So people can have more than one objective, it seems.

Yes.

If you complete your first objective, then you'll receive a second one. I presume if you complete your second, you'll receive a third. And so on and so forth.

[ ...huh ]

So there's no limit to how many objectives someone can complete, theoretically?

...from the sound of it, yes.

[Reyna looks thoughtful.]

Which is... certainly one way of gathering ink that may not necessarily involve murder.

Though the possibility of them growing exponentially in difficulty is there, but it's... good to know.

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[ 2b's attention immediately shifts over to him.

...

she just nods. ]

[and he nods right back at her]

[ 2b is actually surprised by that, but good luck picking that up from her absolute refusal to show emotion. ]

No idea. She just told me she was the Frog Prince.