TRIAL 02

[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

[harshwords]

I just want to get this over and done with without any further problems, so first of all: I'd like to congratulate Yomiel-kun. That's right, I'm one of the Communists you guys are looking for. So if you'd like to vote for me right now, I won't hesitate. I'll even give you guys a free extra vote.

Besides, it's also the best for me to bow out for now, strategically.

But if you still have your doubts, why don't you go ahead and ask me right now. I won't tell you who all the Communists are since I'm bound by the rules, and I highly doubt that you don't want to all die along with me, but anything else is completely fair game.

[thefaceofjustice]

[.........DRAMATIC COURTROOM PANNING OF SHOCKED EXPRESSION? No but seriously, what even.]

[harshwords]

You seemed rather surprised by these turn of events. Then again, I would be too, if I were on the other side of this conversation.

[thefaceofjustice]

You're confessing???

[IF THEY WEREN'T ON SEPARATE PLATFORMS HE'D BE PUTTING CUFFS ON YOU.]

Why? This makes no sense!

[in_plain_sight]

[Why did she try to come up with a big clever theory she's not smart enough for this if Junko were here whichever side she was on would already have won well no they'd probably all be dead or in despair but the point is she's not good enough to survive in a situation where she can't think with her muscles and she could have ruined everything like such a disappointment and


anyway.]

Were you the one who wrote the message accusing Phi?

[harshwords]

I wasn't. If I were to write a message, I wouldn't have use the FunFood; instead, I would have simply done it using magic.

[ No point hiding it now. ]

[in_plain_sight]

...You can do magic?


...Wouldn't writing a message with it make it obvious it was you?

[respring]

[ ....

she looks like she's about to make some passive-aggressive comment, but ultimately keeps her mouth shut. ]

[harshwords]

Sorry, Sakura. I'll be back soon enough.

[respring]

Back? What do you mean back? T-They're really going to vote for you at this rate, I--

[ she stops in the middle of her tumbling sentences, clearly having to restrain herself, to reign her concern back into that mask of stoic anger she wore only a few minutes earlier

Sakura forces herself to stop talking, only gazing down at her feet. ]

[schrodingers_man]

[ Yomiel would've suggested voting for Rin over Sakura when it came to it; she's struck him as the more suspicious of the pair, but this, this is a surprise. ]

What happened to being sure you were going to win?

[harshwords]

Weren't you paying attention? I'm still going to win. I simply said that I'm going to bow out for now.

[schrodingers_man]

What's that supposed to mean? The Survivor role...?

[fullonbraced]

[Robin looks completely confused. She opens and closes her mouth several times before she finally gives it up.

What the heck was even going on anymore? This is even more insane than her own world.]

[harshwords]

You're pretty surprised, aren't you... Newman-san?

[cantarellacookie]

... you do know that by telling them you're the Survivor you'll be eliminated two nights in a row this way.

[harshwords]

Not necessarily. If I'm revived as a Citizen, I can out every single one of the Communists with absolutely no problems.

[alchemicals]

...So you were converted, then - if what you're telling Yomiel is true and you've got the Survivor role, you were converted. Meaning you just outed both you and your sister in one go.

[...]

So that's what you meant by saying you'd kill her if you had to.

[harshwords]

I have no reason to lie. Besides, she's not my real sister. She's not even from the same world I'm from.

[ Rin Tohsaka doesn't care. ]

But for all that it's worth, Sakura doesn't play an important role in this game. However, I know who does, and I'm willing to share my information once I come back. I said I was going to win, and I meant it.

[angry_jerk]

Oh, so that's where the penis envy comes from.

You're an actual dick.

[harshwords]

I've been called worse.

[stinkingdeadendjob]

What??

[Clay listens carefully to what Rin has to say, and... very little of it is registering. Being a thoroughly survival-oriented man, this sort of attitude confuses him.] ... That's some way to look at death, er... Rin. I mean, even if you come back as a clone, it won't be you.

... Wow, I didn't think you'd just go like this without a fight.

[harshwords]

The vessel doesn't matter as long as the soul still exists.

[ She says this in a matter-of-fact tone, completely cold voice. ]

And I'm not going down without a fight. My next turn is to turn the tables and go on the offensive. Besides, I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't advantageous for me.

[standbyrival]

[Paul just looks at her wide eyed. Holy shit this girl. That's the only non-deadpan reaction anyone's gotten from him aside from Moge-ko.]

. . .you are crazy straight forward.

[harshwords]

I'm not as crazy as you think I am. Because if I was crazy...

[ She stops for a second, smiling maliciously; ]

I would have destroyed all six of everyone's lives by now.