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.

Links

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Voting

[Welcome to the trial! Please remember to cash your votes here!. Your deadline is 8:00 PM EST. Good luck!]

Comments

[unfashionably]

I think it might be the opposite. If she used an arrow, it would be immediately obvious to all of us it was her. And she already said she wouldn't waste an arrow.

[snideper]

A kill shot isn't a waste. [clarISSE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE HELPING] Besides, a wound from a thin-tipped arrow wouldn't be hard to disguise as something else.

[robitussin]

It wouldn't be hard, but it would be easier to use something else and not have to disguise it at all, right?

[snideper]

No, it wouldn't. It would be easier to take a target down fast and take your time with the aftermath instead of dealing with half-assed wounds like that.

[robitussin]

He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would go down fast no matter what someone tried, though.

[unfashionably]

Is there a guarantee it would've been a kill shot?

[snideper]

My arrows don't miss.

[unfashionably]

[ Ignoring her for a second to talk to Kino. ] Hey, Kino? Where was the injury on Bakugou's chest?

[carbide]

An attack that does not miss can still fail to kill. It might be blocked, for example.

[icariot]

I agree. It'd be foolish of someone who doesn't want to get caught to use something that's unique to them only.

[robitussin]

...I guess that's true. Besides, I wouldn't put it past her to try to kill someone with a candlestick.

[unfashionably]

In the guestbook it says has above average agility, and I think we've been overlooking the fact that agility plays a big part here.

Add to that, "if you give her an object she can probably figure out how to end a life with it" and a mention of fighting in low-vision conditions...

[doublelammy]

He was pretty fast on his feet. So whoever was after him woulda had to have been, too.

[unfashionably]

That makes sense to me. 'cause of all the destruction, I think we've been looking at things the wrong way. We got confused and thought "it must be someone strong" thanks to the debris. Maybe we should have been looking for someone fast instead.

[robitussin]

...I mean, you also have superhuman speed written on your biography thing, don't you?

[unfashionably]

Yeah, I do. Sayin' this required someone quick on their feet doesn't help me at all, but I already told you guys. I'm a close-range fighter without my magic. There's no way I wouldn't have gotten hit if I fought Bakugou.

[snideper]

Superhuman senses, too. I'm good at that kind of stuff, sure, but I'm only human.

[you can see how much she actively, absolutely LOATHES saying ANYTHING that puts down her own skills even a LITTLE]

[streetwolf]

I'm fast, but there's no way I was going near that. Like my thing says I'm normal and can't do any of this crazy shit some of you can.

[unfashionably]

Right now, there's only one person on here that I think did it. Clarisse, so... I guess what I'm saying is, I believe you didn't do it, man. I don't think Keith or Olympia did either.

[snideper]

That was a half-assed wound, not a fatal one. If there were all these explosions and all this fire, it would have added some light. I—can't say anything about the agility, I guess, but this is all circumstantial crap.

[unfashionably]

So was everything against Nine. I wanna point out, too? You're an assassin, if anyone knows how to kill without leaving much of a trace? It's you.

[snideper]

There sure was a trace, though—All the oil and matches, the poison, all halfway across the damn town. The...orange? [fuckin, why was there an orange] And you're ignoring it for guesswork.

I make for an easy scapegoat. I know that. You've got a vested interest in putting this on me, yourself.

[icariot]

The oil and matches were unopened, as far as I remember. They could easily have been planted by the killer as a throwback to Nine and Moloch, or been left around by someone else needing them for something. Bakugou wouldn't exactly have been able to fight nearly as well as the destruction suggests if he had been poisoned, or wouldn't have been able to fight at all if the dose was high enough.

[unfashionably]

No, the oil and matches actually make sense if it were you. Someone tried to pull some stuff together for any kind of kill they could manage. They didn't end up needing those things, so they didn't use them and left them in the junkyard. The orange might as easy as a distraction. For us or Bakugou, it doesn't matter which.

And if you really made for an easy scapegoat, everyone would've voted for you the second they saw your name up there. I don't think you're easy, Clarisse. The rest? You can point at me if you want to, but I didn't kill Bakugou.

[icariot]

The chest wound might not have been fatal with whatever caused it even if it would have with another weapon, but combining it with his other wounds could have caused Bakugou to die.

[He had a head wound too, which could have knocked him out and caused him to bleed out]