Take Responsibility.

[trustbound]

Once again, as people finish their investigations and make their way toward the door at the bottom of those stairs in the dorms, the door down there is unlocked once again. It opens as though of its own volition, with a loud clicking sound and a soft outward swing, not firmly enough to harm anyone who might be standing in the way but enough to give them some slight encouragement to move. The stairwell it leads to is once again dark, the only light coming in from the courtroom below, if it can really properly be called that. It stands as cold and unforgiving as it did last week, all concrete and steel and the podium circle in the center, surrounding the darkened pit in the middle. Nothing can be seen down there for the time being; it simply seems like a large black hole leading nowhere. Three more podiums have joined Jean's in being arranged differently from the rest; Caren, Yosuke, and Chitoge have all joined the ranks of the deceased, their podiums draped in black with their profile portraits sitting atop them, greyed-out and watching the room with unseeing eyes. The thirty-sixth podium remains empty and blank, as always. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, the public-address system comes to life once more, and after a moment Jericho's voice can be heard "Dexterous has been taken from you; seems like a lot of you were friends with her, and you all know why you're here by now and what you're supposed to do. So hopefully you guys won't be disrespectful assholes again and expect me to make you give a damn this time! Be self-centered about it all you want, just do your jobs. After all, it's in your best interests to do that. As always, do your best - I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes." Thirty-one Participants remain. However many are left at the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

SELECTION.

[trustbound]

Kind of a lot, wasn't it?

[And there's Jericho again, sounding...well, about as he always does, honestly.]

If you're satisfied with what you've found, then go ahead and put your vote in. Hold whomever you think killed Dexterous responsible for their actions.

It's either the innocent or the guilty; one side's going to die here. Do as you see fit with all that, and we'll see what happens coming out the other side.

[withabigsmile]

[She understands her position, and that she's probably going to die.]

>DEXTEROUS

[But she's still not giving up, not completely, as futile as it may be.]

[explosivecombat]

[So, before you go out - ]

I can certainly appreciate that you put so much effort into seeing your goals through, though I won't allow it at the expense of my own life. It's been an honor facing you here.

As I said to Miss Caren last week, do try not to show them despair. They haven't earned it.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, right, I just remembered.

[ Because she was more upset last week she didn't think to say but. She is from a canon where ghosts are explicitly real, so. ]

If you become a ghost feel free to haunt my room. ... Tell the mermaid that too if she's a ghost.

[destage]

> Evolutionary

[It's weirding her out that she feels...almost nothing toward this, even with Blue telling her story. It's not like it matters, does it? They want to live, and they're going to witness her die for it.

It's simple. Disgustingly simple.]

[matchbreaker]

[ This one just made her feel loopy. She isn't as righteously angry as she was last time, being as how it was just two humans killing each other. But she liked both okay and they were both young...

... almost everyone's too young here.

Still, whatever. Survival. She doesn't have any doubts. ]

> Evolutionary

[chessturner]

>EVOLUTIONARY

[zomgboom]

[Dex - please fucking just murder her why don't you? Why'd you make all these titles so hard??????]

. . . Which button am I pressing? I'm, like, not reading all of these again.

[icysemblance]

[Weiss still doesn't like this, but she feels a lot less upset about it than she was previously.]

> Evolutionary

[introspects]

> EVOLUTIONARY

[ she hates this. she really, really hates this. but there's no other choice...save one or save many.

that's what it comes down to, in the end. ]

[explosivecombat]

[He sort of wonders if the proceedings are going to be the same every week - just...someone dies, we come here, we're expected to be sad over the experiences of someone we barely know, we kill someone.

How tedious.]

>EVOLUTIONARY

[notaccurate]

[No, he's not satisfied with these results at all. But it's never the bad people who die, is it? It's always the people who deserve it the least.]

> Evolutionary

[perpend]

...If it's possible, if we get out of here... I'll find some way to tell your parents.

>EVOLUTIONARY

[sadisticwarfare]

[Well. That sure did happen, didn't it.]

>EVOLUTIONARY

[innocentloveholic]

[ ...humans are stupid. ]

>EVOLUTIONARY

[greenmamabear]

[why are kids so goddamn stupid]

>Evolutionary

[bloodisthicker]

>EVOLUTIONARY

[someone was bound to snap, huh. And it'll just keep happening until they're out or a killer gets lucky.

Ugh.]

[shuttermouse]

[ Chie hits the button immediately, no hesitation whatsoever. ...She still doesn't have a camera to photograph the upcoming execution with, this is disappointing. ]

> EVOLUTIONARY

[sleepytimegal]

[ This is all sick, but Blue's motivations remind her, she's not the only one with a family to get back to. If she looks at it like that, maybe she'll feel less of a pull in her gut when she votes. ]

>EVOLUTIONARY

[ ...Well, it was a nice thought. ]

[heritrix]

[Rin... hesitates, making her selection. But she can't afford to make the wrong choice here.]

> EVOLUTIONARY

[evilfrenzy]

[It took so much willpower to not roll his eyes at that confession. Whatever.]

> EVOLUTIONARY

[flagitate]

>EVOLUTIONARY

[ she kind of hates this, but it's useless to get upset again. ]

[brandnewday]

>Vivacious

[just to make. that point. coughs on everyone, hello.]

[blackmass]

>Evolutionary

[well, this was fun.]

[paralogical]

[ Huh. Just huh. ]

>EVOLUTIONARY