AFTERMATH 04

[thecomputer]

Thank you for your input, Citizens! The results of the trial will now be revealed on your screens.

[The interface with the voting buttons vanishes, and is replaced with the following:]

Bobby-G-███-1 voted for Robin-G-███-1
Clay-G-███-1 voted for Yomiel-G-███-1
Curly-G-███-1 voted for Curly-G-███-1
Dan-G-███-1 voted for Paul-G-███-1
Horace-G-███-1 voted for Bobby-G-███-1
Logan-G-███-1 voted for Logan-G-███-1
Mukuro-G-███-1 voted for Bobby-G-███-1
Paul-G-███-1 voted for Bobby-G-███-1
Phi-G-███-1 voted for Bobby-G-███-1
Rin-G-███-1 voted for Bobby-G-███-1
Robin-G-███-1 voted for Robin-G-███-1
Yomiel-G-███-1 voted for Bobby-G-███-1

Total:
Bobby-G-███-1 (6)
Robin-G-███-1 (2)
Paul-G-███-1 (1)
Curly-G-███-1 (1)
Logan-G-███-1 (1)
Yomiel-G-███-1 (1)

Comments

[schrodingers_man]

[ We all know the only reason these two aren't high-fiving right now is that they're stuck on separate podiums. ]

It's about time.

[thefaceofjustice]

[God you two are insufferable. Or you would be if he actually felt anything. Just toying with a lighter over here.]

[schrodingers_man]

[ u mad bro? ]

[thefaceofjustice]

[Nope, not at all, actually. It's not an exaggeration to say he has no feelings.]

You're celebrating a bit early. Do you think misplaced grudges and luck will carry you all the way to the end? Or keep you alive?

[schrodingers_man]

You've probably noticed by now, Mr. Fake Detective, but I'm not a stupid man. I knew I wasn't making it to the end of this little game alive from the very first time I saw that "LOY" printed after my name. My luck runs out tonight, and I'm ready for it. But you see, I've already won the game. I've already exposed one of the two remaining Communists, and do you really think I don't know who the other one is? Even if I die tonight, you can't stop that information.

Taking you down with me, that's just the icing on the cake.

[thefaceofjustice]

Yes, I really think you don't know.

In any case, you were too late to interrupt my work as a scanner. You should have listened to your petty grudge sooner. Although that was Bobby Fulbright's choice of attire, not mine.

[schrodingers_man]

...Kimbley had you pegged, that first trial. I should've listened to him. But I was trying to move past my history, to stop being the kind of person I'd become. That was my mistake.

But it doesn't matter. I'll pay for my crimes, but not before I see you burn for yours. And that's a victory I'll be glad to take to my grave.

[thefaceofjustice]

Please. Everyone in this exercise has been pegged as a communist at some point, including you. That's no grand revelation.

So that's your reward? That's what you fought for today, the opportunity to witness my execution?

[schrodingers_man]

That's right. I'm not fighting for any noble purpose, like seeing justice done or protecting the Citizens that are still left. For me, this is about revenge, plain and simple. And I'm going to enjoy it.

[thefaceofjustice]

Then there's no point in speaking to you any longer. I've decided what I'm going to do.

[He presses the emblem on the side of the lighter, which causes part of the casing to shift and a trigger to spring out of the side. That lighter wasn't actually a lighter at all!! It was... a small gun!]

[Without wasting time, he lines up his aim at Yomiel's heart, and shoots.]

[schrodingers_man]

[ Yomiel barely has time to register the lighter's transformation before it fires. A million thoughts fly through his mind, but none of them can get the chance to fully register before the bullet hits. The impact knocks him off balance, but in the brief instant before he falls off the edge of his podium, the expression on his face changes from shock and pain to nothing but pure anger. ]

[plentyfriendly]

[Phi doesn't say anything for a few seconds after she sees Yomiel shot... and falling.

...but she has more words for the man they'd called Bobby Fulbright.]

What the hell? What was even the point of that, you know he's just going to come back!

[That death... was not according to the rules of the exercise. The computer has to revive him, because of that.]

[thefaceofjustice]

[Oh, no reason. But the computer's probably not going to give him a chance to respond to her...]

[thecomputer]

[Correct! The instant he fires, that one-minute countdown goes out the window. Enjoy your early execution, Bobby-G-SCA-1!]