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.

Welcome to your trial post!

Please see here for the OOC summary of events from yesterday's investigation.

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Sensei didn't do it because killing his own partner would be stupid.

[Dazai has no commentary on the rest.]

You must realize that's a poor defense, Dazai-san. There are ways to survive without a partner, even unrelated to the one that reattaches partners.

Didn't we see that with Natsuo-kun? And what about coins for the wishing well?

It's unreliable. If you have to kill someone, you'd kill literally anyone else before your own partner.

I... don't believe that's true in everyone's case.

[That's all he has to say on that.]

...There are simpler ways if you want to die.

...unless you and your partner had a falling-out.

It doesn't matter if you hate your partner's guts. It's self-preservation.

We have yet to fail to save someone left over, except in the case where there were too many.

It would be a reasonable way to attempt to gain a new partner.

...In that case, fine. Vote for me. I didn't do it, but Sensei and Evan can be paired up and you can all feel good about 'at least it wasn't somebody useful'.

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Unless you don't want to shed more blood in this game.

Suicide is generally easier than murder.

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Accusing his own partner of murder two weeks ago was stupid. Funny thing— the well put a curse on Reyna for awhile. When someone commanded her to do something she HAD to do it. Waver, suspicious of her, made her admit to whether or not she killed KNOWING she couldn't lie!

...why would you not do that?

[Dazai's more bewildered than angry now.]

If I knew that no one could lie, I'd ask everyone in this garden if they'd killed any of the victims and this trial would take less than an hour.