Take Responsibility.

[antitrust]

And when the door at the bottom of those stairs unlocks and it swings open gently of its own accord, allowing everyone back down into the courtroom, there are decidedly fewer of them than there were just a few days ago. The change in the podium circle is massive this time; Dio, Logan, Marty, Yuuri, Hibiki and Mordecai have all joined the ranks of the deceased, their podiums adorned with black cloth and greyscale photographs. Furthermore, the mass of shadows in the pit at the center seems agitated again, shifting and breaching upward toward the glass if one looks at it long enough. It's been something of a bad week, to put it gently. Not that it's evident from the Conductor's behavior; as usual, the proceedings are being watched from behind that panel of translucent glass behind podium 30, and he'll speak as soon as everyone has found their place in the circle. His words are a bit more rapid than usual; he seems interested in this one. "Temporal, Lucent, Vivacious and Universal...all four of them have been taken from you. Does whomever is responsible for this really deserve your compassion? There can be no hesitation; you should offer no mercy. It's you against the guilty. Take control of your fate, and hold them responsible." Thirteen Participants remain. You've lost five people this week, and eight since the last investigation; we'll see how many more you lose today.

Comments

[sunsong]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure those two didn't try to kill one another or anythin' like that...

[icysemblance]

I definitely don't think either of them is the type. Hibiki wouldn't hurt a fly.

[sunsong]

And Yuuri wouldn't have done this shit, either. Hell, he...offered to let me go back to his world, if it was possible, when all this was over. He's not the sort of person to throw all that shit away in a fit of passion or somethin'.

[openterrain]

And there's no way either of them could have pulled off something like that. Hibiki was just a normal girl and Yuuri couldn't even use a sword properly.

[sunsong]

Really? I never asked him about anythin' like that, but all the same...I don't think he'd ever kill except in self-defense or defendin' someone else. So...

[openterrain]

I saw him in the dojo once. He said Logan was teaching him but sucked pretty bad at it.

[sunsong]

He could have remembered some fightin' skills since then, I guess, but...yeah, not relevant.