grimmoired | CHAPTER 3 ; TRIAL

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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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You're all still assuming the captain was killed by the same person who killed Monika and Fitzgerald.

We can only pick one person to execute.

Correct. But as you know, that doesn't stop there from being more than one killer.

There were two this time around.

And two last week, as well as two the week Takamaki and I killed.

And we still haven't found Dave's killer.

[ which has been a constant point floating around this trial ]

Thus why Belph-san and I began to doubt that the answers regarding the number of killers could be taken at face value.

Well, when the wounds on all three of them match the same weapon...

Did we ever establish where that knife came form? I recall that Takamaki and I were allowed to request items from the Crafters to assist us in committing our crime.

Would it be so far fetched to believe the Crafters would give each culprit the same knife?

We could ask them. It's late enough in the day - perhaps they would answer?

Very well. This could be a dead end, but we'll see.

[here we are]

... When you were selected as a Blotter, Akechi, did you have to agree on who to kill with Ann? Or were you given the option of selecting separate victims by yourself?

[This is, in fact, not an accusation re: Dave, and related to this week's trial.]

We had to agree, yes. But we weren't specifically prohibited from targeting more than one person. Nor were we prohibited from committing non-Blotter murders on the side.

["on the side" murder]

So you could have, theoretically, gone after someone Ann didn't agree on murdering.

[hm.]

Theoretically. That isn't what happened, though. Soo-Won was my only victim that week.

Sure, but I'm not asking because of you.

[. . .?]

Who are you asking for?

[she shakes her head.]

No, you can figure it out on your own. It doesn't really matter, anyway. The other Blotter would have been way dead by now if I was right.