grimmoired | CHAPTER FIVE ; TRIAL

The Story Continues...
CHAPTER 5 - WEEK 523 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.

Throughout today's trial, cookies and cakes will be served as your trial snacks, along with hot cocoa...served in sippycups.

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Is smelling it enough?

[ It was in a stomach. ]

[ okay good point ]

If the smell is obscured by the stomach acid of the swan, then it will obscure the taste too. Have you ever wanted to eat something that doesn't smell good?

Durians are delicious.

[but smell like death]

I don't want him to lick it, but we need to find another way.

[ And as to answer his question. She points to Shirasu. ]

I tested his cooking.

[ Want... is a strong word for why she tested it, though. ]

[MMM THAT IS A STRONG RESUME, Kyouka but--]

I can actually break down the components of whatever I'm tasting, if that helps at all...

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If it will help, I won't stop you.

[ She wants to find the guilty more than anything else, after all. ]

I... am worried there is not much left in the vial.

I'll try to only take a really small piece of whatever's in there, then.

[SO WHERE IS THAT VIAL]

NO.

[ Just

No ]

[... Hm.

Sanji is not sure how to get around this Zelos-sized roadblock]

It's just a small taste...

If you put that thing anywhere near your mouth I'm going to smack it out of your hands, and then I'm going to smack you.

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... Fine.

But if we don't get any leads, I'm trying it later!

[YOU CAN'T STOP HIM, HUSBAND]

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[ what ]

What?

I dunno, it's just something I developed over the years.

[FUCK ONE PIECE]

That's..... fascinating.

[ it's said with the voice of a person who definitely wants to test this out but also knows they definitely should not test it out right now ]

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[ HE JUST GIVES KYOUKA A LOOK THAT'S LIKE...BETWEEN SYMPATHETIC AND HORRIFIED.

but he'll look at sanji ]

I won't stop you, but...I can't heal people if they don't have any injuries, I think. I learned that when Eichi's heart stopped. So if you're poisoned because of it...I won't be able to do anything.

-- HIS HEART DID WHAT?

[OOPS SURPRISE??]

[HE GOT BETTER

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE KEPT FROM SANJI

Eichi gives Waver a pointed look, and scoots away, he's busy]

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[ BLINK ]

It stopped for a few minutes. The week when no one died. I was called to heal him, but I was unable to.

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Putting aside that that's the strangest thing I've ever heard, I do hope you don't do anything that will put your life at risk. I won't be able to take it, you know?