TRIAL 03

[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

[thefaceofjustice]

If that's true, maybe we should target another suspect and remove Ms. Sakura at the next trial instead. We might catch the scanner or inhibitor... and the sooner, the better. The loyalty officer is undefended without Mr. Kimbley.

[schrodingers_man]

And who should we target, Detective? Mukuro's right about one thing, at least; we should avoid voting without anything strong to go by. Sakura's our safest bet. Her sister should return to us one this trial's finished, and if everything's gone like we've hoped, she should bring the names of the other three with her.

[thefaceofjustice]

I agree, we shouldn't make this kind of move without a really good idea of a second suspect. ...So I'm wondering if we might have one. We can at least discuss it.

Ms. Rin wasn't allowed to give their names to us. Do you think that will be lifted?

[schrodingers_man]

We can hope it is. If she's not a Communist anymore, then hopefully the rules won't treat her like one. Even if she can't just come out and give us the three names we need, she should at least be able to tell us if we're barking up the wrong tree. And we need that. Our Loyalty Officer is powerful, but they have to guess the right names first.

[standbyrival]

--and pass up getting rid of a Communist that's practically being handed to us on a silver platter? Come on. Who would you even go for?

[thefaceofjustice]

Saving it for the next trial isn't passing it up; she's not going anywhere.

You said yourself that Ms. Anthy was suspicious for being defensive of Mr. Newman. So that would make Mr. Newman suspicious as well.

[standbyrival]

And I still think she is. However, it's not guaranteed yet.

Keeping a known, active threat around is dumb. She may not have a role, but there's no telling how she contributes to their team. For all we know she could be their real brains. It's best to get rid of her now.

[thefaceofjustice]

I already voted for Ms. Sakura, but I can change it to someone else if this trial reveals convincing enough information about another suspect.

Do you have anything to add as a witness about Mr. Newman or any other suspects?

[standbyrival]

Not at the moment, but I'm sure I could make something up if you're that eager to off another kid. Is that it, detective? Are you that kind of corrupt officer?

[thefaceofjustice]

Mr. Newman is 18, that's old enough to be tried as an adult.

We don't have any lawyers here to read into anyone's testimony, so I'd rather you stuck to the truth...

[standbyrival]

Wow, he's a runt. [says this guy]

In that case, the only truth you need to know is that voting for Sakura makes the most sense. If we're wrong, then wow, one up for Tohsaka.