Week 3 - Trial

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Week 3: Trial

April 20th. It was now time for the trial.

When everyone arrives at the trial room, the tribunes are already filled with townspeople. Compared to last week, there's less morbid curiosity and more quiet outrage. Everyone's glaring at the visitors while they enter the courtroom.

The number of podiums draped in black has increased dramatically. Nine's, Mako's, Sandalphon's, and Bakugou's have joined Moloch's, raising the number to five. That's one sixth of the available podiums. How many more will be covered in black velvet before these two months end?

Once everyone is at the right podium, the Sergeant bangs his gavel. He doesn't seem to be in better mood than before.

"Today the victim is Katsuki Bakugou. Solve it."

Without even bothering to taunt or be as antagonistic as usual, he waves the gavel. Five small photos appear on the podiums.

            

"When it's time, you shall cast your vote. Write it on paper or put the photo inside the slot, I don't really care about how you do it. What matters is that you actually do it. Start your discussion."

The trial room went completely silent, all the visitors can feel the attentive stares of the townspeople gathered to watch. It's up to them now to find the culprit.

Let the trial begin.

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Comments

[pecker]

Um, in other words, you believe it is someone who's never taken a life before, yes?

That's quite an awkward question to have to ask of everyone...

[doublelammy]

We already asked everyone to strip. You think this is awkward?

[pecker]

W-Well.... true. And I didn't say that we shouldn't ask.

[she's just timid]

[snideper]

Oh, you don't need to ask.

[likes: murder]

[doublelammy]

I really hope no one was thinking of actually asking you.

[snideper]

You could. Have I ever got stories to tell.

[don't]

[doublelammy]

Yeah, don't think I've ever cared less about anything.

[carbide]

Your ability to kill is already firmly established. We have no need to examine it further.

[pecker]

[masterfully suppressing the urge to laugh.]

Yeah I guess.... You'd be a pretty bad assassin if you hadn't.

[yonosoymaria]

Not necessarily never, but... someone who cannot justify away what it feels like to watch someone die and know it was by your hand. Someone capable of regret.

["Someone like me," he isn't saying.]

[pecker]

[Someone not like me, is what she thinks in response.]

Ah... Bakugou-san's eyes had been closed for him, hadn't they? So you may be on to something with that.

...CW: Christianity?

[yonosoymaria]

His eyes were closed and he'd been... his eyes were closed and they perverted the sacrament of baptism by leaving him where they did. It is meant as a rebirth among God's children, the way the Protestants do it with being submerged in a font like that. Leaving his body there, of all places... I'm suddenly wondering if any among our suspects would know only enough to think they were uniting him with a decently friendly god in doing that....

[burgerprince]

[Jughead has a feeling, and thinks a moment before speaking up.]

You think they'd tried to get to grips with Christianity and didn't study hard enough?

[yonosoymaria]

Yes. From the way so many people spoke while we were investigating it doesn't seem that it would exactly narrow the field, but...

[He shrugs, hands upraised, because there's nothing to say that isn't just repeating himself, about that.]

[pecker]

Well... maybe? I mean, I'm not sure I could see Olympia-san doing that. She's been mostly flippant about, um, Jesus.

[burgerprince]

I'd talked with Olympia about it, she wanted to investigate Jesus.

[He might have enabled it.]

[amburere]

If you knock someone unconscious half the time their eyes close in reflex.

[pecker]

True. Well, why not humor the possibility anyway?

[They don't really know either way, and you can't get insight on a killer from a reflex.]

[amburere]

[ Shrug. Just chiming in that it doesn't need to be the religious angle, ty villainy experience. ]

[streetwolf]

[Ughh he likes you too. So he'll try.]

...I don't think I have. There's been a few close calls but normally everyone just runs away when they know they're beat.

[pecker]

[thanks salt buddy... she doesn't really think he did it anyway, but might as well follow up just for clarity's sake.]

And you're mostly talking about street fights, right? Have you ever fought someone as strong as Bakugou-san?

[streetwolf]

Kinda hard to rank it when the kid could explode shit... [But he scratches his head to think.]

I guess Miguel? He was quick and had a gun, that lasted a while...Only reason we're both alive is cause the bosses wanted to settle things themselves.

[pecker]

So it would be fair to say you couldn't take him for that long...

[streetwolf]

[He opens his mouth likes he's going to argue that. But huffs instead.]

...Like I said earlier, just shooting him would have been easier.

[pecker]

Well... is there another way of looking at this? That would make what all of this was easier for someone...