grimmoired | CHAPTER SEVEN ; TRIAL

The Story Continues...
CHAPTER 7 - WEEK 711 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.

The garden is strangely silent and there are no snacks today...it seems as though you'll be left to your own devices.

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[JUST STAB HIM NICO!!]

... If either of them was a Blotter, they'd kill the other. [...] Reyna spent the entire time correcting our technique and giving us tips on how to get away with it.

[it was very surreal.]

[....]

Are you kidding me? [This is probably the loudest he's ever been.]

N... o...?

[...shrug.]

I wouldn't have let Kyouka do it even if she were chosen. [He's. Fuming though. Reyna you--!!!!!]

Any idea why they made a pact?

You'll have to ask Melloi. I was just... kind of the accomplice?

[I FORGOT BELPH DOESN'T CALL HIM WAVER, SHIT]

He didn't admit to being involved when I asked him. Suppose my instinct was right. [Waver continues to be useless...] I suppose I'll just ask her, actually. Thanks for the information.

[Hello, a dead person is here now-]

Reyna made him promise to live and there was a not insignificant likelihood you would have shanked him if he'd told you. Even if the pact was entirely her idea.

I would have shanked him regardless given it was how things had to go. [Other reasons. Sorry Dazai, he doesn't care in the slightest.]

Which is why he didn't tell you, because he cared about his promise to Reyna!

You're lucky he would be mad at me if I antagonized you too much.

[grrrr]

[He doesn't even respond because he has other things to focus on and finds the whole thing laughable at this point. Alas.

Actually since Dazai's here? It means someone else might show up. And so he walks off.]

[...

Well, this is awkward.]

Hello, Nico.

[YEAH. ABOUT THAT. HE JUST...GLARES???]

Why didn't you tell me?

[she 100% deserves this and she knows it - she winces]

...I wasn't sure how.

[SHE'S GOOD AT FIGHTING WITH SWORDS not with.. words..]

[He's just staring and he frowns again.]

You didn't even try. [He's...pouting maybe.] After everything...I didn't think you would trust him.

It never felt like the right time.

[Especially not after the memory she'd witnessed earlier that week.]

I shouldn't have. From the sound of things - he didn't hold up his end of our deal.

[Fair.]

...when we spoke, he didn't seem to have any kind of useful information. So no. I don't think he did either.

...

I'm sorry, Nico. I took a gamble and hurt you in the process, and I shouldn't have done that.

[...he shrugs a little.]

...didn't you trust me? [It's a small voice, uncertain and wary. He doesn't want to think that he did something to make her change her mind, but he would rather know if that's true.]

I did, and I still do.

{She says that firmly.]

...but... I was selfish, too. I wanted to protect you - and if it went wrong, I didn't want to see you subjected to an execution because of something I asked you to do.

[He shakes his head.]

It would have been better than staying here without you.

I would have come back.

[probably]

That was always the plan. ...I didn't mean to leave you for long - just long enough to do what I could to help from the other side.

[He doesn't seem like he's sure he wants to believe her immediately.]

You didn't know if you would come back though, Reyna. We never knew what the Other Side would be like even with the letters from the dead.

[She knows that - and that's why she would rather face it herself than risk seeing Nico facing it.

...perhaps wisely, she doesn't say that.]

I know. And I should have told you, I just... [...well.] I didn't want to make you worry.

But going to the Other Side without a word about it - that was worse. I know that now.

A little late for that. [He's not happy!! But...he can't be too terribly mad.]

...I didn't want to experience that ever again. And I didn't know what to do after you left, so...when I was chosen by the Crafters I didn't hesitate.

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[ why couldn't shirasu been that helpful!! god!! ]