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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[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.

[sockmongoose]

Would that not mean you would pay the price for sentencing others to death? Your logic is exceedingly simple.

[thisisgonnasock]

Hey, you're the one telling us to sentence an innocent person to death for you.

[sockmongoose]

Mitsuko is not so innocent. She was grooming Estelle into a suitable meal for her.

[whowearsthesocks]

So what? That's neither here nor there!

[thisisgonnasock]

Still didn't kill anyone, though, did she?

[whowearsthesocks]

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

[sockmongoose]

And I apologize I could not do it any other way.

[whowearsthesocks]

Then why confess when you could have gotten away with it? Not that I'm complaining.

[sockmongoose]

As I said, suspicion was falling squarely upon me. I decided that I would appeal to others' morals.

[blacksock]

...That was definitely a mistake.

[whowearsthesocks]

Admittedly I only threw you under the bus last week because you had been there but this week... I knew you were trying to do the same.

[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.

[sockmongoose]

If they addressed the root cause... [But the doll's lost in thought.]

[mylittlesocks]

Still. It's not worth sacrificing another innocent life for just the shred of a chance that it could be possible.

[ ...and this doll isn't too impressed either way. ]

I suppose you didn't do this completely out of malice but it still doesn't forgive the sin you've committed already.

[sockmongoose]

I see. So that is the conviction you hold.

[sockmeupinside]

...

So you sacrificed one life to save countless lives.

[sockmongoose]

Indeed I did. I would rather I had other options, but it is not the first time I have had to make such a choice to save many.

[sockmeupinside]

And now you're asking for one more sacrifice to your cause.

...I'm sorry. I can't say the idea sits well with me. Yet I can tell from the sound of it, you really must not have had any other choice.

[sockmongoose]

...Indeed. I could not do anything else but what I did.

[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.

[sockmongoose]

...I see. It seems the concept of sacrifice does not come naturally to those here.

[generic_sock]

Haha. Perhaps it is simply different when one is asked to sacrifice someone who would have no say over it.

[sockmongoose]

The situation of my world is precarious enough that I have had to do just that on several occasions.