THE SECOND TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

THE SECOND TRIAL

[Soon after the failed attempt to contact the dead, the tell-tale alarm suddenly rings out, rattling everyone's teeth alongside Marie's voice.]

ATTENTION! EMERGENCY ALERT! PLEASE GO TO THE ELEVATORS IMMEDIATELY!! HMHMHMMM! I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF SAYING THAT...!

[And so, once again, the elevators bring everyone back down to the trial room, where the table has been...altered, slightly, color-wise, to reflect those who are no longer among you. And once more, upon entering the force field, weapons disappear - and powers fail to work.

Bottson hops up onto the center of the table, transmitting the evidence found.]

heRe yOU Are eVerYBOdy! THe sUsPECt lISt!



YoU cAN Do THiS!


[Above everyone once more is Marie, floating around in her hover platform.]

WELL, WELL! FANCY MEETING YOU ALL HERE AGAIN! I GUESS YOU ALL FAILED TO KEEP THAT GUY ALIVE, HUH?? AHAHAHA!!

WELL, LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN GET WHO DID IT THIS TIME, HMM??

Comments

[crouching_sin]

[Oh. Well. His expression turns very cold as he turns to her.]

It's not that I think there's something wrong with my body. It's that others do. But here, no one cares, so there's no reason for me to wear a towel.

[mementodagger]

... unless you were using it to conceal something.

[crouching_sin]

Do I have to take off my clothes again?

[mementodagger]

I don't mean something about your body. Were you concealing a weapon?

[crouching_sin]

I probably should, but I don't take my knife into the onsen.

[fashionfever]

You haven't said anything about whether you'd wear a robe! Besidses! In any culture of ours you'd need a covering when you left the onsen!

I never said anything about a towel, anyway! Is this another word game? The towel was soaking wet, the towel didn't get that way by a person wearing it sitting in the electrocuted water, because that person would be dead! The killer was wearing the soaking wet robe to run out of the onsen inconspicuously, made it to the bathroom, and then dried off with the towel!

[crouching_sin]

[He just laughs.]

Well, in an onsen, normally you wear a towel. That's what I'm getting at. But you still have no proof that it was me other than circumstantial evidence. What evidence do you have to link me to the crime scene directly?

[fashionfever]

Molly was in the bunk with Nagisa when that boy heard the scream and left with Baku and Johnny and the others towards the crime scene. The elevator is the only way to move between floors, so Molly not being in the elevator with them means he didn't go up there. [LITTLE CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERTISE AREAS: HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN GO IN ANY GIVEN DIRECTION AT ONE TIME?] If we assume the killer was in the onsen at that moment and that one of the five suspects is the killer in the onsen, it could only be you!

[HEMPEL'S RAVEN]

[crouching_sin]

You have no evidence that I was on that floor. If you're willing to convict on the fact that 'might have been' on that floor, then that's on you.

[fashionfever]

Someone outside of the onsen discovery party took the elevator downstairs while the three of them were in there, and hasn't admitted it to the rest of us.

[crouching_sin]

And you have no reason to think that it's me.

[fashionfever]

Was it you?

[SHE MIGHT AS WELL JUST

BUT SHE'S SURE THERE IS AN EVIDENCE!!!]

[crouching_sin]

There's no evidence to suggest that it was me. Show proof, or back down.

[fashionfever]

[they're standing pretty near each other according to the chart so Angela just

steps over and grabs his wrist

to see if the palms of his hands have any water on them]

[crouching_sin]

[No, but they smell faintly of coffee.]

[Naoya pulls his hands back.]

Consent, Angela.

[fashionfever]

Oh, sorry, bit of a generation gap there, I don't really understand how that's supposed to work outside of the bedroom.

[she draws back her hands behind her neck and preens, thinking]

As hard a kick as Rosenkreuz got should have left the person who did it tired if they weren't very strong, but you said from the beginning coffee was the first part of your day you were willing to tell us about.

[crouching_sin]

Cultural things as well, but...

Because it tends to be the first thing I do in the morning.