Take Responsibility.

[trustbound]

This investigation seems to have been difficult for many; while your time here hasn't been particularly easy on anyone, it's been eight straight weeks of people dying, of losing those you care about - or at least, losing those you had some sense of solidarity with. There's only about a quarter of your original number left. Either way, however, there are some things that remain constant, even if your numbers do not - the corridor down below the dorms, the way the door sounds when it unlatches, the gentle outward swing of the door. The darkened stairwell that it leads to. The courtroom. The podium circle remains in the center of the room, the spots marked out from the dead having increased in number yet again; Aligula, Hibiki, Sayaka, and Alex all have had their podiums altered, draped in black with greyscale portraits set atop them. They'll be keeping an eye on the proceedings today, for better or for worse. As always, the thirty-sixth podium remains blank. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, Jericho can be heard over the public-address system; he doesn't seem to have settled any from the investigation. "Attentive and Submerged are gone - and trust me, for at least one of them, it's better for everyone that way. Maybe you disagree with that, maybe you don't, I don't really give a fuck - and at least for the guilty party, their deaths might be their ticket out of here. So it's probably better for them, anyway. Either way, I'm pretty sure I don't need to tell you what you're here to do. Once again and as always, it's the innocent versus the guilty. Whichever side wins is mattering less and less every week, isn't it? Even so, you should still put some effort in, just to satisfy the dead - so you know what, do your best!" Nine Participants remain. However many leave here at the end of the day is up to you.

Comments

[chessturner]

Then we're going to have to grit our teeth. I'm your last hurdle...and this trial is my last hurdle.

[And Kyrie lost hers, apparently? Despite that, she still holds the crossbow up, steady and prepared to shoot at any moment to anyone who approaches]

In hindsight I should have taken your offer from Monday, about talking with you. I suppose if there was anyone who could have talked me out of this, it was you.

[matchbreaker]

I doubt it. [ Elda says that calmly, but her gaze averts a little. That stings more than she'd like to admit. ]

... I had the impossible choice between a daughter I'd made here and my family on that world that has Shihaba on it. I was paralyzed. [ She... ] Yours is a lot more simple, it's logical, to use your own wording.