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

[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.