15strangers | THE MOCK INQUISITION

[Soon after the final clue is found, there are three more loud, unsettling tonal clangs. Those in the first floor vestibule will hear another, loud creak afterwards, coming from the set of doors.

The set of doors on the left are slowly opening, revealing a long, long corridor, with a very long flight of stairs going upwards just barely visible at the end of it.

The Intercessor's voice booms through the air and shakes the ground, sounding loud and clear no matter where the Titled might be standing at that moment.]

ENTER!

[The voice brooks no argument. As soon as everyone goes through the set of double doors, they close behind them. There is no choice. The Titled must go up the stairs at the end of the hall. They feel like they take forever, but when the stars are finally traversed, there is a single door at the top, already open to them.

Welcome to the Debate Hall, Titled. Its perhaps the best-lit place you've seen, with gas lamps on the wall bright as possible. Its also the emptiest place they've ever seen so far - its massive and yet the Titled and the Intercessor are the only individuals to be seen in the entire area.

So, Titled, don't mind the faint chanting coming from the darkness behind that stage at the other end. There's no real way to hear what's being said, no matter how close you try to get, or if there's even anyone on or behind the stage to make such chanting possible. The only person remotely close to the stage, standing on the stone steps, is the Intercessor. Maybe its in your mind. You've been paranoid the past week, after all.

Maybe this is just all insane to begin with.

So. Take your seats at your stone desks to face one another as you debate. And yes, they are stone. Yes, they have stone chairs with which to sit in. And yes, your Title is on your assigned chair, etched in with chisel and hammer. Every desk also has a copy of the Writs with Orders 7 and 8 circled, and a copy of the autopsy file of the deceased on top of it; that is all the aid you will get from whoever brought you here. The rest, it seems, is up to the Titled, with what they have found.

Once everyone has taken their seats, the strange, ominous chanting stops. Its time. Bound in blood, the death warrant has already been signed. The contract is complete. Its now just a question of finding the guilty party to fulfill the call for justice.

The Inquisition of Kanna Hijiri has begun.]

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Hm? Nothing!

[ He's very quickly going to sit down and cross his legs. ]

Why would there be? A curtsy usually puts the weight off one foot, right?

[ ...But twirls... ]

[ Akane narrows her eyes. ]

I think you need to strip.

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Excuse you? My brother has always had a bad ankle.

[ She'll stand from her seat. ]

And Aoi was stabbed in the stomach. We made him strip as well.

[ Akane regards her with a cool look. ]

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This is invasion of privacy!

[ She slams her hand down. ]

[ Akane stands up as well. ]

Who the hell cares in the sight of a murder?!

[ She then covers her mouth, shocked at the fact she swore. ]

... Not me.

[ Her smile is cold. ]

This is my brother you're picking on. Surely you understand, don't you, little miss "I stabbed my own brother"?

[ Akane gasps from behind her hand. ]

I didn't... that wasn't my fault!

[ Her tears are welling up now.]

Oh, but wasn't it? You stabbed him. Gleefully, in fact, from what I hear!

[ She smiles. ]

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[Shrug.]

Then he can show us his ankle from where he's sitting.

[ ... Levia finally just... calmly sits back down, exhales, and... ]

... You were all looking for someone with shoulder-length hair, right?

... I killed her. I admit it wasn't all that much harder then most of the other times I've killed people in the name of a Kingdom that doesn't matter here. She certainly put up less of a fight then I expected, though. It wasn't difficult to pick out how to destroy her. I know souls. I know soul containers.

[ And Behemo just... Calmly watches this. No protest, or anything, to his sister's confession. ]

[ She glances at him, but she doesn't say anything. ]

You also don't care about life, or about us. Nothing but your brother, who's conveniently been implicated.

You think I don't have the guts, do you? That's cute. Is it my stature?

You said she'd pick someone who looked "small and weak".

[ She chuckles. ]

I'm short. I'm not very tall, you know.

Oh, I've never said I don't think you could do it. In fact, I'm sure you could. But I think you have one thing, in this or any world, that you're still attached to. That's the only thing.

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Disgusting.

I don't care what you call me. I saved all of you, didn't I?

You should all be thanking me.

At the cost of an innocent child?

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...I actually failed at picking the icon for that gagtag so it makes no sense

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... oh well

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You said he was your brother, right?

[He might not be familiar with these sorts of fights, but he knows what it's like to protect family and comrades. He also knows... that he can't die here, not if he wanted to reach that place.

People who get in the way get crushed. That's all there is to it.]

I'm checking his ankle. [He'll make to move to Behemo.]

Don't touch me!

[ The look on Behemo's face as he stands to get away from him goes from calm to absolutely venomous. But more than that... The second he's touched, whoever touches him will find themselves becoming fatigued. ]

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[Well, that saves him the trouble of getting Behemo to stand up. Still, he's not expecting the fatigue effects, so grappling isn't really an option. Still, if he can get him still...

Mika will close in, going for a trip. He'll target the weaker leg. If he can get him down for a second, he'll check that ankle out.]

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[Hmrm.]

That is it.

[ She'll just smile. ]

[Mogar's not.]

Mogar wonders what is next, now that this nonsense is over.