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castle_whims2020-10-31 01:35 am
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THIRD TRIAL
To the court room. Make it quick, alright? I don't really know about any of you but I don't want to waste more time on a couple of bratty teenagers.
[The Queen still is silent as you descend to the court room. There are ten less of you than when you began. The podiums look empty as you go to them. Even if the podiums are getting empty, though, there is a new jury box near the Alices that is rather full... of ghosts of all the participants of the previous round you've discovered and of your dead compatriots. They don't talk but they're there. Judging. Always judging.
There is someone who doesn't notice this addition, though. Queen Alice.
The Queen is quiet but she's next to the Cat. Her head is bowed to her chest as she seems to sleep quietly. Then as movement she jolts up, smiling vaguely as she nods.]
Yes, a tea party--that's what we...need...
[Her head drops back to her chest as she falls asleep again. The Cat glances at her then back at the crowd with agitation.]
Someone is responsible for Lena and Neku's deaths. Do something about it, will you? Why did you even bring one of those ghosts in with you, anyway?
[The Queen still is silent as you descend to the court room. There are ten less of you than when you began. The podiums look empty as you go to them. Even if the podiums are getting empty, though, there is a new jury box near the Alices that is rather full... of ghosts of all the participants of the previous round you've discovered and of your dead compatriots. They don't talk but they're there. Judging. Always judging.
There is someone who doesn't notice this addition, though. Queen Alice.
The Queen is quiet but she's next to the Cat. Her head is bowed to her chest as she seems to sleep quietly. Then as movement she jolts up, smiling vaguely as she nods.]
Yes, a tea party--that's what we...need...
[Her head drops back to her chest as she falls asleep again. The Cat glances at her then back at the crowd with agitation.]
Someone is responsible for Lena and Neku's deaths. Do something about it, will you? Why did you even bring one of those ghosts in with you, anyway?
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Oriko clicks her tongue in the back of her mouth.] If the killer witnessed something, it might assist with understanding how they were able to act. But as for the aunt's presence...I suppose in the end all it did was make her target.
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Witnessed something? You mean while Lena was going full freak-out in her room or whatever was happening in there?
I don't know about the target thing, though. Evil Auntie Duck seemed plenty active on her own.
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One: What you said. Whatever-duck killed Spikes with their nefarious evil knife plan or whatever and then ran into somebody else.
Two! Whatever-duck and Spikes had a tussle, and killed each other.
Three, Spikes killed Whatever-duck first, and then he tried to take out Alice-chan -- or the Alices -- by taking himself out. Didn't he say something about life-ties back when we had that powers thing going?
Pretty sure that's what we've got to go on right now.
cw for suicide i guess??
And with the third, if he was shooting himself in the head, why would he have done it where it would make him fall into the knife pit? It's not like there was any chance that the gunshot alone wouldn't be enough to kill him, and if his intention was just to kill Alice rather than try to get the wish from the motive, I don't see why he would have tried to conceal his own cause of death.
Or why he would have killed Lena in the first place. Even if it was self defense if she attacked him first, there'd be no reason for that if he was supposed to die. You don't get to make a wish if you're already dead, do you?
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Did anyone actually check for gunshot residue on his hand, by the way?
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[It's half-joking but also like. What the fuck is shadow magic, fam.]
You'd have to ask one of the others about the gun thing, but if he just let the evil duck kill him, what do you think she would've done after that? Eh, I guess maybe he was dumb enough not to think in case his plan failed or whatever. So I'll give you that point.
[Nagisa gets a point because Neku is dumb, apparently.]
I really don't know how that guy's mind works. Or his powers, either. Maybe he had to be really extra goddamn sure.
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...She wasn't active enough to think or act beyond what she had planned, however. Either she was biding her time for an ultimately disappointing result, or she was caught just as off guard.
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[There's a small tilt of her head as she considers Oriko's statement.]
That's a bit too roundabout for me. Are you saying that she was caught off-guard because it doesn't look like she did much?
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She had the knife with her, but she never took it out.
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[She sounds thoughtful, though. A moment later:]
You think she and Spikes died pretty close together, then?
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While there's no telling how long it was between firings, I believe the evidence we do have in this case indicates that the third party only needed to miss once because that was all the time that was needed.
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They could have been restrained in some way, I suppose, but that doesn't explain the stray bullet in the slide. That theory may also be a dead end.
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[He's half talking to himself but it's a valid question. He's seen it before: you shoot someone once they're down, just to be sure.]
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cw: suicide mention
...... Could she have done it herself?
cw: more suicide mention, if you're on flat view
If she were truly fighting against whatever dark power her aunt seemed to hold over her, reasonably, that would be a way to remove its control.
However, that wouldn't explain why her body was dragged.
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cw: continued suicide talk
cw: we're still talking suicide