Fifth Trial, Day One

[parasomniacs]

Week 6, Day 1 ‹ Trial ›

Saturday

victim

suspects

The time has come once more, to slip away from reality and immerse themselves in the courtroom of dreams. This time that trip happens to be into a very literal courtroom. The dolls are given spaces at the defense and prosecution's desks; facing one another. There is a table between them which contains the case's evidence.

Black, faceless spectors watch from the gallery, chanting for justice. You can hear-- among the garbled cries-- the names of all the suspects. Yuri, Rean, Merciless, Mitsuko and Mikami, as well as cries for Sting, the victim.

Naturall, Sheepy takes her place at the head of the court as their presiding Judge. Out comes the gavel and she starts banging it on the desk. The gallery slowly quiets and the courtroom becomes eerily silent, save for the sound of Sheepy's voice.

"All right, settle down... settle down~~ Court is now in session for the murder of Sting. Who is the culprit? It's time for us to find out~!"

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Victim Autopsy

[parasomniacs]

Sting

Cause of Death: Exsanguination.
Time of Death: Between 10PM and 3AM Thursday night.
Body's Condition: A clean cut across the carotid artery. Blood coating his jacket, chest, and gloves. His eyes have been closed and he was found in a seated position. There was a sword nestled in his arms. Several small, clean wounds littering his left palm and arm.
Scene's Condition: One of the cultist’s swords from the first execution has been moved.
Body Discovery: 7 AM friday morning

[parasomniacs]

[ The Honorable Judge Sheepy (her name plate says as much!) is presiding, and prepared to answer any necessary questions. ]

[generic_sock]

Let us have a closer look at the areas around the gym and the storage room where the cart was found.

[The doll's just asking for all the rooms with blood in it, essentially.]

[parasomniacs]

Hmm-- alright. Buuuuuuut since I doubt you're gonna think of it on your own-- I'll throw in the pool too, since there was a little extra something hidden extra careful in there~~

[But you'll have to try and find it on your own. Anyway-- enjoy your gym, storage room, public baths/lockers and pool rooms courtesy of Judge Sheepy.]

[whowearsthesocks]

I just want to know why did Sting go into the Women's locker room. Seems like an odd place for him to be.

[sockmongoose]

Indeed that is quite odd. Perhaps he had an interest in such things, or he heard someone in there.

[whowearsthesocks]

Maybe he wanted to act on the motive?

[whowearsthesocks]

Okay, let's just move on--what was up with that blanket?

[mylittlesocks]

I'm just going to put this out there for consideration.

You all say 'oh they couldn't have done it' or 'this doesn't seem like them' but do you all forget the damage that was done to the floor and that locker. If that was Sting's doing then wouldn't you do whatever you could to keep yourself alive?

This is why I believe it could easily be Merciless or Mitsuko because the length of their hair could work easiest for what was found, however. Merciless seems to have a profound respect for the dead and the body was set up in such a deliberate manner, after all.

[sockmeupinside]

That's all fine and well, but let's stop and think for a moment. Are we really about to start pointing fingers based on the length of someone's hair found inside a drain? Last I checked, that's not exactly something I'd consider out of the ordinary for either the men's or women's showers.

I'm not saying it couldn't have been either of them, but I think it might be better to start focusing on the rest of the evidence first before laying the heat on them. We don't want to miss anything here.

[generic_sock]

Rather than getting trapped in a perpetual cycle of speculative debate, let us see if we can piece together the sequence of events from the bloodstains, shall we? There's quite a variety of patterns we're seeing here, after all.

However, I think we can all agree that the incident appears to have started with a fight in the women's locker room.

[sockmeupinside]

There was some blood leading out of the locker room too. Could have been from the killer moving the body, maybe.

Though I'm kind of wondering about the blood found in the storage room too.

[whowearsthesocks]

Right. After that the body probably was taken into the gym.

[whowearsthesocks]

Well... The sheep gave us these.

[This doll doesn't seem too happy about them but there's a pair of soaking wet, small plastic gloves.]

[sockmongoose]

I saw you diving in the pool. It seems like the culprit wanted to dispose of those gloves.

[sockmongoose]

It appears that the gloves in the pool are not the only one.

[This doll holds up a pair of large bloodstained inside-out gloves.]

[whowearsthesocks]

So... What does this even mean?

[whowearsthesocks]

Okay, what about the sword?

[sockmeupinside]

That's right...

Where exactly does the sword come into this? Especially when it doesn't even look like there was a struggle near where they're usually found.

[sockmongoose]

Since suspicion is now falling squarely upon me, I believe it is time I stated my case.

Yes, I did kill Sting. It was an ambush on my part; I laid the trail of blood outside the locker room to lure him in. I was lying on the floor as if dead. I then stuck at him with my knife, and stuck accurately and fatally at his neck. However, he had impressive vitality and immediately started fighting me, battering me multiple times, until he expired of the loss of his blood.

I then transported him to the ballroom using the means you have already surmised and cut his neck with the sword to disguise the fact that the killing wound was a knife. Out of respect, I left him as you see him.

Now I will tell you I did it, and why you should vote for someone else than me.

The injustice I saw upon my tablet was an Empty One in its natural smoke form. I will explain what the Empty Ones are and what they did to my world.

Once, my world was thriving, with billions of human and many technological wonders. Now those wonders have been lost and where there was billions, there are now a mere few hundred million. The Empty Ones, hungry for something to fill the void within their own, ate countless victims from the inside and usurped their bodies. Of the rest, many had to be sacrificed to save humanity.

I... considered the possibility that they could be lying and that they could not in fact undo that great injustice, but I could not take the chance that they were not lying. I am truly sorry.

I will understand if you wish me dead, but I do have a request that you vote for someone else, in order to save those billions that expired. If you wish, after I claim my motive, someone may slay me. I shall not refuse. If I could offer up my life to save those countless victims, I could, but as is, I could only take a life.

[thisisgonnasock]

Oh my god, fuck you. You think your world is the only one with problems?

You killed someone, you pay the price.

[whowearsthesocks]

So, you killed him to save humanity. Alright then.

[mylittlesocks]

Ending one life to save many that's already long since been lost. Right. How do you know that the same events wouldn't happen again even after it was fixed? History has a way of repeating itself, you know.

[sockmeupinside]

...

So you sacrificed one life to save countless lives.

[generic_sock]

My, what a noble endeavor, although I suppose that would be a given considering the nature of this motive. How rather unfortunate for you that we cannot overlook your own moment of injustice, especially one that hinges on the belief of a shroud of lies.

But I do commend you on your confession so as to prevent anymore innocent lives from being lost, and for that, I do wish you luck for what you find in the great beyond.