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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[ listen he knows what the wounds he was looking for last night and didn't find would look like

whomst ]

[ NO HE HAS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT ION SORRY HE IMMEDIATELY BLURTS OUT: ]

Shirasu tried to strangle you.

[ im sorry teej hes a tattletale ]

[...

this doesn't surprise belph all things considered but he still looks so tired. ex-partner, why.]

I had my reasons.

[don't give him that you know what he's like.]

[just

dead-eyes him

YOU KNOW WHAT HIS FEELINGS WERE ON INDEPENDENT KILLS AT THIS STAGE!!]

You ended up only needing to eliminate two heroes, so really, I helped you all in the end.

[not his intent, but

it worked

out

maybe]

Uh-huh.

[ :/ ]

[listen he tried to do Something here, okay.

shirasu just gives him a little shrug.]

You ruined cats for Rebecca forever, I hope you're happy.

[this is definitely a worse offense than strangling her]

That's the part you're choosing to focus on?

[dazai??]

Everyone else will cover the 'how dare you kill people when you didn't have to' part.

Besides, Rebecca will come back to life if this all works out, but she might never be able to own a cat again.

[shirasu just kind of stares at him for a moment

and then he's turning to go pay attention to something else I'm so sorry about him.]

Concern yourself with making sure she comes back to life at all before you think about something this ridiculous.

And they were?

[ indulge him, it's the least you can do ]

This may be a discussion best saved for later, really.

[he doesn't want to out himself that hard right now he still has to deal with all of you.]

Implying we will have a later, and that this will not go sour.

[ hmmmm ]

You cared more for he than I, I know that much. Was it in the interest of a misguided balance, a personal vendetta, or something else?

A bit of all of the above?

[he'll give him that much.]

I intended to kill a hero, and you were one I didn't mind removing.

... Good to know.

[ HMM I WONDER WHAT THAT MEANS

also that doesn't mean varian's off the hook ]

And what of you, then?

Dazai has his own ideas of what greetings are acceptable.

[ when you were just cannibalized is what varian doesn't say out loud ]

Goodness, it really is a good thing that none of us can touch each other right now, isn't it?

[ ... he doesn't laugh but it's a near thing ]

We can save it for when we're done with-- whatever this is.

[ he hasn't gotten to really do anything since w1 with souji, not even when waver died! to that end, with a few easy wrist motions he just flourishes his staff through a few steps of a basic form to loosen up before this. whatever adventure of theirs will be, considering. ]

Ah, I suppose so. I think the other two might not leave much for me to get to, though.

If you're going to do that then I'm skipping the heartfelt goodbyes and going right to Waver's world, and you'll never have to see me again.

[also this is a kind of bad place to try to stab him, considering

he heals with ink]

I really have no say in the decisions that others choose to make, so really, don't let me stop you doing whatever you will.

[ it also means he has no say in what steph and veronica do

anyway every time someone talks about ion stabbing a man i just laugh softly because ion doesn't stab, silly, what would he even do it with ]

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thesettingsun - 2018-07-28 19:55 (UTC) - Expand

fonlines - 2018-07-28 20:13 (UTC) - Expand

We'll see when we get there. I wouldn't underestimate you.

But so many already have, don't you think? A little more won't do me any harm at this point.

alchemenace - 2018-07-28 20:26 (UTC) - Expand