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

Comments

[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.

[snideper]

Either I'm real good at killing real cleanly, or I set up a bunch of preparation far away from the place he actually died because I didn't know what I was doing. You get to pick one. The only reason I haven't been voted out yet is because of all this interest in finding his real killer, all this useless sentimentality—but boy, would everyone just love if it were me, so I'm easy to frame.

You can say that you didn't kill him all you want. So will I. But I'm an assassin—I go into a job knowing my target, knowing what they can do, and knowing exactly how I'm going to take care of them. I'm not about to grab whatever I can and figure it out when I get there.

[icariot]

You can be good at "killing cleanly" and still have other plans that you didn't chose to use. Your job is to "know your target" and to "not get caught." You can combine these into different plans, even if some of the plans are just "leave this evidence here to implicate someone not me."

[snideper]

Yeah? And who does all that crap implicate? Am I copying Nine's shitty plan to implicate a ghost? We've got suspects acting like they don't even know what hemlock is. None of them even looked like they were used! If your argument is that it had to be me because I'm so good at what I do, you're pinning a lot of stupidity on me.

[icariot]

It's not stupidity, if you consider the people around you. You're good at murder. The people around you? Not so much, or so blatantly. It'd be easy for you to think "oh Nine did this last week, and that could give the stupid people ideas" and so plant evidence to suggest it was a possibility.

[unfashionably]

It doesn't have to be one or the other. Just because there was a plan doesn't mean you had to follow it to the letter after things went wrong.

I think that's what happened. You tried to plan, things got away from you, and now we're here.

[odasaku]

This doesn’t sound like how an assassin would work. If she was really doing it, and if she’s as competent as she says she is, I think Bakugou would have been dead before he even noticed.

[amburere]

The brat was stupid, but he had good reflexes.

[ As awkward as this, Bakugou isn't be underestimated either. ]

[odasaku]

Then we would’ve found more attempts of her shooting at him. Maybe a couple more arrows or something like that.

[ hm. ]

Should we check pockets or something?

[snideper]

Would you look at that! I got the mafia vouching for me.

[she kind of hates it]

[odasaku]

[ sucks to suck my good dude! ]

[unfashionably]

And nothing ever goes wrong when someone tries to assassinate another person, especially one with abilities they're not used to fighting against?

[odasaku]

Sure, but that usually leaves evidence on the person. Singed clothes or skin, other arrows, proof that she struggled besides “running away.”

[icariot]

Clothes could easily have been changed or discarded, since this happened any time between one am and when the scene was found, and we can't exactly search someone's room right now.

[odasaku]

We can’t search rooms but we could look at people’s pockets. There might be something there.

[icariot]

Go on then, let's search the pockets in case something was hidden during the strip search.