TRIAL 04

[thecomputer]

Attention, Citizens! You have ten minutes to proceed to the Loyalty Chamber. Anyone who is late to the Loyalty Chamber, or who brings any weapons into the Loyalty Chamber, will be immediately executed.

[Once you arrive, you will find a large chamber, with twenty podiums spaced around the room in a circle. On the ceiling, a massive screen showing the digital eye of The Computer, turning to look at whoever is talking.]

You have one hour to come to a consensus about who to eliminate. Ties will be broken randomly.

[The floor of the chamber begins to split apart, eventually only leaving the twenty podiums as safe places to stand, above a seemingly bottomless abyss. Each podium lights up with a touch screen showing twenty user IDs (the dead are grayed out), plus the word “ABSTAIN”. However, ABSTAIN has now been grayed out as well. The trial begins now!]

[[Vote here]]

Comments

[schrodingers_man]

So I got rid of three of the less useful Communists to make sure all the Citizens believed I was one of them, right? Here's a question for you then, kid. I investigated Anthy Himemiya because she was trying to talk people into believing I was a Communist. If we were both Communists, why would she do that? The trust plan you're proposing only works for one person, and a passive girl like her never would've been able to swing it.

[fullonbraced]

That's right. It only works for one person, and never for her. But, I don't think that was the plan.

Anthy was the Indoctrinator, right? And she already indoctrinated Rin, so her power wasn't working anymore. So, because she couldn't help anymore, you got rid of her in a scenario that showed that she was really a communist, and got everyone to believe she was lying!

You already said that you were the "mastermind" of the whole event. Didn't you?

[schrodingers_man]

That explains why I'd get rid of her, sure, but it doesn't explain why she'd accuse me of being a Communist in the first place. Give me a good reason why she did that.

[fullonbraced]

Hmm... [Looking over her hands like they were holding a fresh, clay pot...]

...She didn't like you. I said that you keep killing communists to build everyone's trust in you. Maybe she thought that was a bad idea and tried to stop it. She did look pretty surprised when you met her in the food sector.

[schrodingers_man]

Throw me under the bus to save Sakura and Rin, huh? And when I got the Troubleshooter's trust, I used it to take her out of the picture, is that it?

[fullonbraced]

Sakura, Rin, and whoever the other communists were. And, after Rin came back from the dead, you immediately wanted her back on your side!

[schrodingers_man]

Rin? Hah! That girl's no help to anyone but herself. I don't care what she does.

Here's another question for you, let's see if you can come up with something cute for this one. I was working with the Troubleshooter to convince everyone I had his role. That plan wouldn't have worked otherwise. So I obviously knew who he was. Then why would he be the Communist's very next victim? It's not like Simon was a threat, so why not let him live to the very end so my trick would never be found out?

[fullonbraced]

You seemed to care a lot when she came back and you asked her for help.

It was another addition to your trick! He was another citizen that you would have to vote against. So, you killed him and made an alibi to keep everyone's trust!

[schrodingers_man]

That's the best you've got? I told Simon I was the real Loyalty Officer. Even if I was lying about that, he believed me. Why would he ever vote against me?

[fullonbraced]

You didn't kill him because he didn't trust you. You killed him because he did trust you, man!

[schrodingers_man]

If I'm trying to get all the Citizens to trust me, why would I let one of the ones who already did get killed? Why not somebody who didn't trust me, like Mukuro? Your logic doesn't check out, kid.

[fullonbraced]

Because he didn't do anything to you. People knew you got along, and weren't surprised when you looked shocked when he died.

[schrodingers_man]

...Is that why you killed Kimbley?

[fullonbraced]

[Yomiel no]

No, of course not! Kimbley was my friend, man! If anyone didn't want him to die, it was me!

[schrodingers_man]

[ Yomiel always ]

But he had a role so he had to go, right? That's just the way it was, is that it? Just a lousy draw?!

[fullonbraced]

I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THE DEFENSE OFFICER! IT WASN'T MY DECISION, MAN! NONE OF IT WAS MY DECISION!!

[schrodingers_man]

...

Of course not. You, Anthy, Sakura, none of you were the brains of the operation. So who is?

You want out of this trial alive, you're going to have to do the same thing you're accusing me of doing: throw one of your "comrades" under the bus.

If you didn't want Kimbley dead, then show me who did!

[fullonbraced]

............


Objection. I can't tell you, even if I wanted to. We'd all die.

[Which, she almost wants at this point.]

[schrodingers_man]

You've been studying law, right? Haven't you figured out how to bend the rules yet?

It doesn't matter. I know who it is, anyway.

[fullonbraced]

The biggest thing we learned at school was that the ends justified the means. I guess that's what goes here.

Oh Yeah? I think you're still a bad liar, Mister Yomiel.

[schrodingers_man]

I'm through with lying for now. I'm a dead man tonight no matter what I say, so I might as well tell the truth.

[in_plain_sight]

[Who has two thumbs (which she is not gesturing with it's just a saying) and is tired of Yomiel being right?]

Are you new to interrogating people? "We'll kill you tomorrow instead of today" isn't a very good bargaining chip.

[Mukuro may have tortured a man once.]

[schrodingers_man]

[ Look the only interrogation Yomiel's ever been in, he was on the receiving end and it ended poorly for everyone involved. ]

What should I say? That she might make it out of this whole thing alive? We all know that isn't true.

[in_plain_sight]

I don't know. Promise someone will do something for her friends and family back home?


[She does have a couple people from her world here, though one is probably also going to die...]

[schrodingers_man]

If you want to try that, go ahead, but I'm not really in a position to promise anything like that.

[ Since, y'know. His chances of getting out of this alive aren't any better than Robin's. ]