THE THIRD TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD TRIAL
(~SK. 17-18)


[When the investigation ends, the D O N G rings throughout the ship, followed by Zero's voice.]

It is time. Everyone, come to the theater. Time is...wasting.

[And so it is. The seating has once more changed to reflect the fallen-Moriarty and now Brain's podiums are draped in black. And, of course, there is no food-

The screens come up, and the mask of Zero appears, ever inscrutable. Their instructions are brief.]

Your Brain is gone, I'm afraid. Cut into pieces and cast aside...and someone here knows why. Now, it's time for you to discover the truth as well...if you can.


[The trial for the murder of Brain, the Blue, has begun.]

Comments

[valkavian]

Yeah, I wasn't a big fan of being next, yanno?

[ Not even gonna try joking this time, because Brain is one of maybe a handful of people here she actually liked. Jesus Christ. ]

But I also saw one of the swords was disturbed. Not a lot of blood on there, either, and it's got that Lacroix kind of bullshit essence to it.

[ She's just gonna plunk the sword down on her podium]

[onychomance]

Again?

[valkavian]

You would not BELIEVE how much this keeps happening.

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes is eying that sword...]

[valkavian]

Just have a little patience ma-

Nah, fuck it.

[ And she's gonna hand it over. ]

[somuchshipping]

[Yessss! This is going to go straight into his collection into the closet after the trial!]

[superstylishsquid]

At least we know what they used.

By Lacroix, do you mean it was kinda like diet Pepsi? That sort of gross aftertaste you get with fake sugar?

[valkavian]

Ehhhh, never had it myself, the kine say it tastes like a fruit chemically farted in the direction of some tonic water, so it seemed appropriate.

Plus that guy was a huge dick.

[superstylishsquid]

So that chemical-y taste, but also thin?

Brain's blood tasted like some sort of blatantly artificial flavoring crossed with diabetes, so that sounds about right if it was his but watered down by someone trying to clean the blade.

[valkavian]

I tasted diabetic people's blood before, gotten used to it. This was just gross in comparison, no offense to Brain.

But yeah, this is about what it was like.

[superstylishsquid]

Diabetes doesn't have that weird aftertaste, yeah. So we can be pretty sure the blood on that sword came from him. Didn't taste anything like that from anyone else.