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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.

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God, all of you just shut up and vote for me already. I killed Mordecai because he, like, was behind the bar when I tried to sneak up on Marty and then they ran through the billiards hall. Marty threw a bunch of [bleeped for your sanity by the Beyond Corp.�]

at me, I nailed him with [glances down at Rick, uh.] my other knife and then stabbed him with the sword to, like, kill him properly before I burned the body.

Are you happy? Do you wanna do a [bleeped for your sanity by the Beyond Corp.�]

Q&A?

You haven't answered my questions, so yes.

Why two? You only need one to get caught. Why not knock Mordecai out instead of killing him? ...And why set Marty on fire?

Ugh, a

to the end. I wasn't trying to kill Mordecai, he just bled out while I was chasing Marty or whatever.

Who I burned to make this easy for you guys. Duh.

If you wanted a chance at fighting the monster, all you needed to do was kill one person.

I'm calling you a liar, Dynamic.

Yeah, I know that. Do I, like, look like I know how swords work? I'm a long range weapons person, I already told you that.

So I swung, hit way harder than I meant to, and kiiiind of didn't stop to give him medical attention while I was going after my real target, sorry.

[ 'sorry.'

goodness. ]

You successfully killed one person. So why keep going after your original target?

. . . Are you, like, not listening to me? I didn't know. I was gonna come back, patch him up and, like. Have him just tell you guys I did it.

He just died before I got to that last part.

I am listening. [ you stupid girl. ] Why didn't you change plans, and stick with the one you'd already injured?

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Yeah, so what if I do?! Shit, just...

[ Now's not the time to say something stupid like "oh, well, I totally look up to you for being a legit superhero but what the fuck." ]

You did it because you think you can win and bring them back with others' superpowers from your home, right?!

. . . Sure, let's go with that.

[IT'S WAY MORE DUMB THAN THAT, SORRY BAKUGOU.]

[ IT SERIOUSLY IS LIKE FINDING OUT SANTA CLAUS ISN'T REAL

But man, he's just going to pretend that she said he was 100% right. Because he can't completely disagree with that logic. Two lives for eleven. And the possibility of bringing everybody back afterward. ]

... Fuck.

[ He can't tell her it's a stupid plan, or that it's self-righteous or whatever, and 100% mean it. ]

You'd better fight like hell down there.

[ He's just gonna be quiet for a while now. ]

Uh, obviously.

What the hell, Tabby?! Even if you were planning to fight the monster, Mordecai is the only one who could have helped if something went wrong!

[ Damnit, damnit! Fuck this trial! ]

Didn't you learn anything last time? Dio tried something like this, too!

Uh, no. Dio, like, wanted to kill you all and turn you into vampires. I want to blow up the shadow monster so the ghosts are safe and you can bring them back.

Huge difference.

Didn't you learn anything from Logan? What happens when you fight those is that you die. Tabby. You die. That's it. We've seen game over, we've seen the end.

Logan also, like, didn't fight monsters on a weekly basis. Also he had a sword. Who brings a sword to a bomb fight?

I do fight monsters on a weekly basis, back at home, and these things aren't like anything else. They're shadows, like the ones I deal with, but there's something worse about these.

It takes a lotfor a monster to truly frighten me, but these do.

I can't be afraid of anything anymore. [SHRUG.] It's, like, not ideal or whatever but fine. There's things about killing me the Conductor probably doesn't even know.

[Weiss digs her fingernails into her palms hard enough to draw blood.]

...then let us be afraid for you, if you insist on being that reckless.

I'm the cop, remember?

I'll do the worrying for you.

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[What a mess. Well, what's done is done, really.]

Good luck down there.

I'll probably need it.

[She doesn't sound scared, that emotion has never had any place in her line ofnwork but she does sound sincere.]

[This is such a dumb boy plan god dammit Tabby]

...well, give that thing as much hell as you can. I'm sure you'll have the best chance of anyone who's had a go at it thus far.

[...but why is it always people he likes.]

[ shit taste

like her ]