Trial Room
You already know what this room looks like.
Stranger: ...It's quiet. Like always.
Everyone seems to be have a level of concern in their eyes, staring either at the motionless guy on the floor or Paradi, and Stranger was no different. A concerned look was on their face as they walked over to The Destroyer, bending down.
"...Do you...need help getting up?"
True Destroyer: "...M-Mama....ma...mom..." They mumble, as if a broken record.
Stranger: He sighs.
"You can't stay down there forever. Give me your hand, everyone's staring..."
He offers the hand regardless, not expecting the despondent prota to talk it...
...but eventually, it does. It's a shaky grip, and Stranger can feel how cold their hand is.
Slowly they pull The Destroyer up, seeing that look in their eyes...a look so distant, yet familiar.
He opens his mouth as if to speak, glancing at Paradi again, but slowly shuts it. He...can't find anything to say.
With one last sorry look at The Destroyer, they turn away.
(I have to focus on the trial. It's life or death here...no matter how dire this other situation is.)
Ivan: "...Arsenic?"
Arsenic: "Eh? What do...What do you want?"
Ivan: "...We got this, alright? We're gonna find out who did this...whoever it is."
Arsenic: "...I know you're trying to be supportive, but you look a bit shaken up yourself."
Ivan: He peeps. "I'm t-trying, okay? It's just...I...don't know how I'll be, going in that room again."
Arsenic: "..."
She pats Ivan on the shoulder. "Still...I believe in you at the very least. This is gonna be rough...confusing, too," She gestures at the golden-robed fuck in the room, "but I think we can do this...she's somewhere out there. Tarnish, too. Both of them are counting on us. So, this one time...I won't let my anger get the better of me. I'll find out who did it, and...and....burn it all down. With you and the others."
Ivan: ...He's surprised by those words, and even more by the calm attitude she is putting out despite it all. He smiles at her, feathers fluffing just a little.
"You got it, girl."
Paradi: The platform stopped. The doors opened.
Just like that, the door gave way, and the trial room was flooded again. Even more seats were left empty this time...with The Destroyer begrudgingly taking the spot Paradi used to stand. Paradi themselves went up onto the chair, sitting back.
"I'll have you all know that, despite the small changes. I am still easily a suspect like everyone else. What kind of host would I be to not take part in my own game?" They giggle.
Arsenic: "Yeah, yeah, just...urgh. I already hate this." She growls. "Can we get on with this already!? Where do we even start!?"
MX-Z0: "Hm...well, for a murder like this..."
Don: "...It's important to find out how before the who, y-yes!? Ahahah, because then figuring out who is easier!"
MX-Z0: "Correct, dad, but try not to interrupt."
Don: "Sorry! I'm just...scared."
Rue: "..."
Stranger: "...Rue, you're looking at Clober a little bit strangely. Something up?"
Rue: "...Well, she was the only one not there without an explicit reason. Naturally, she would be a first suspect."
Clober: "Uuuugh, I knew you all were going to say that..."
Ivan: "A-As much as I hate to say it, we do need to talk about that."
Arsenic: "Hate to say it? The little shit's been a dick from day one, why do you want to defend her?"
Ivan: "Well, we have similar issues. I can tell, yeah Clober?"
Clober: She's taken off guard, stepping back in her podium.
"Wh- Not here, Ivan!! I don't know what you're talking about, just start saying things so I can shoot them down already!"
NONSTOP DEBATE - START
MX-Z0: "So, Clober..."
MX-Z0: "Why were you not helping Firestarter?"
Clober: "I didn't care enough to do so!"
Clober: "Besides..."
Clober: "Almost everyone else was already on the search! What would I even do at that rate!?"
Rue: "You have done more pranks then the rest of us."
Rue: "In fact, you are the only one to have pulled a prank this cruel."
Seven Stones: "Actually..."
Seven Stones: "Wasn't Arsenic saying that she heard a squeaky voice telling her to go to the cathedral?"
Ivan: "Oh...right."
Ivan: "Clober...was that really you?"
Clober: "What!? No, no!"
Clober: "This is so DUMB!"
Stranger: (...Could it really have been Clober?)
Stranger: (...There was something about what one of them said...was it...?)
Ivan: "Clober...was that really you?"
THE VOICE - BREAK!!
Stranger: "Hold on there, you all. There's something about the voice that the evidence bank specifically points out."
Arsenic: "Right. The voice was all cutesy sounding, yeah- but it seemed like it was being forced out. It was definitely an act."
She glances at Clober. "And despite how I still don't really like you, you little green creature...you naturally sound like that, don't you? You'd have no reason to force what your voice already sounds like."
Clober: "Exactly! If I could sound like anything BESIDES this dumb little voice I've grown into, I would! It's soooo annoying!" She huffs. "But besides that, it's true. If anything, I'd try to sound like something else! I'm not stupid!"
Seven Stones: "...Eh. Guess so," He sighs. "But anyways, guess we should focus on how it happened before we accuse anyone else. Could give us some hints."
Don: "Ooh! Oooh! I know where to start!" Don cries. "The flamethrower, yeah? How'd that get taken away!? The dorms are all locked, yeah?"
MX-Z0: "...Ah. Right, I do not believe anyone has told you about that one...'trick.'"
Don: "Trick? Hhahah...Trick?"
Stranger: (...Right. Those are still in play, too...)
...Select a piece of evidence!
. . .
THE VENTILATION SYSTEM
Stranger: "The vents act like one-way entrances to the dorms, Don. You can get in and out without a hitch as long as nobody sees you."
MX-Z0: "Hm...perhaps I should weld those things shut once this is over. It would do us only good."
Dax: "..."
Dax: "...Did I kill them?"
MX-Z0: "H-Huh?"
She blinks, looking at Dax.
Dax: They are gripping their hands together. Although their face remains the same, their voice sounds...pained.
"My tricks...oh, my tricks...they've caused three deaths, dear. Aah...is it...my fault?"
Hitori: "D-Dax! Don't say that, you didn't know...!"
Rue: "That is correct. You had no idea how useful the vents would've been in a murder."
Dax: "...Mrrp...mrow..."
Paradi: "Ahh, spare the drama, would you? Why don't you discuss something of actual value, instead of moping? Such as...what started the explosion-"
Rue: "Shut up."
Paradi: "..."
Rue: "But...they are right. We do not know where someone would've gotten a bomb, or any type of explosive, in this facility."
Ivan: "Sooo...we gotta find out who it got there, yeah?"
NONSTOP DEBATE - START
Don: "So, uh...bombs..."
Don: "I-It's pretty easy to make one!"
Arsenic: "For YOU, probably!"
Arsenic: "Besides, there aren't any materials to make a pipe bomb or something like that in this place!"
Dax: "...Maybe..."
Dax: "...There was a secret scary room."
MX-Z0: "Scary? Why is it scary, Dax?"
Clober: "Ugh! Can't you guys think for a sec!?"
Clober: "The Destroyer gave someone a bomb, easy!"
Clober: "If they could make a whole ripworld, they can make a bomb!"
Paradi: "Hmm...but were they allowed to do that?"
Paradi: "Even the host can't break the rules without good reason, you know."
True Destroyer: "..."
Stranger: (Huh. How...did a bomb get in here?)
Stranger: (...That's right!)
Clober: "The Destroyer gave someone a bomb, easy!"
THE SPECIAL GIFT - CONSENT
Stranger: "Clober, you remember the special gift, right?"
Clober: "Oh, yeah, that whole thing...What was it about again?"
Stranger: "The Destroyer said it gave someone something...specifically someone who seemed to want to kill already."
Stranger: "That had to have been the bomb. It's the only way one of us could obtain one."
Arsenic: "...So he was egging someone on, you're saying? ...Did it assume someone would try to kill us all!?"
Arsenic: She glares at The Destroyer from across the room.
"You...prawn, what do you even GAIN from this!?"
True Destroyer: "..."
It wraps its arms around itself, and lets out a sob. His gaze meets nobody else's besides the void.
MX-Z0: "Interrogating him is ill advised, Arsenic. He doesn't seem to be in a state that is of use to us."
Arsenic: "...F-Fine. At least we know where the damn bomb was from...but what about the oily stuff on the floor? We all felt it, but the smell...not sure what kind of oil it was exactly."
Stranger: "I mean...it had to be something flammable, yeah?"
Stranger: "That's the only thing it really could be-"
Clober: "I'M NOT YOUR STUPID TOY!"
CRASH
REBUTTAL SHOWDOWN - START
Clober: "Are we sure it had to be flammable, like...like gasoline!?"
SLASH
Clober: "Where the hell would we get something like that!?"
SLASH
Clober: "There's no garage! There's no outdoor cooking sector!!"
SLASH
Clober: "You're being kind of sus, Stranger!"
SLASH
Clober: "Cmoooon, show me something that could have been used like gasoline!!"
MISSING COOKING OIL - BREAK!!
Stranger: "...It was the missing cooking oil?"
Rue: "It was the missing cooking oil."
Hitori: "...Yeah. Probably the missing cooking oil."
Clober: "...Oh."
She blinks.
"...W-Well, I didn't know about it! Did you think I pay attention to all the stuff in the kitchen!?"
Seven Stones: "...Actually, if that is the case," he speaks up, coughing a bit in between, "then how did it get ALL over the walls and floor?"
Hitori: "Uuuh...y-yeah, that one seems impossible. That room is HUGE!"
MX-Z0: "...Hmm. Surely there is a way..."
NONSTOP DEBATE - START
Hitori: "So, uh, how they did it..."
Hitori: "...Maybe they were magical!"
Rue: "I...doubt that."
Arsenic: "Actually, when was the last time ANYONE was in that room!?"
Arsenic: "Nobody likes churches. That place was probably vacant for days!"
Seven Stones: "They would've had a lot of time to coat everything, if they had all that time..."
Seven Stones: "...And it's not like anyone likes the yellow hallway either."
Paradi: "That old cathedral...it reminded me of home."
Paradi: "I'm glad it's burned."
Rue: "Hm."
Rue: "You would've fit right in with the fire, host."
Stranger: (It...does make sense if the killer had a lot of time to prepare...)
Stranger: (...But something here contradicts that. This isn't right.)
Arsenic: "Nobody likes churches. That place was probably vacant for days!"
DAX'S ACCOUNT - BREAK!!
Stranger: "...Hold on. We actually know the last time someone visited the cathedral."
MX-Z0: "...Ah, yes, we do." She beeps. "Dax?"
Dax: They are caught in the middle of licking their own arm. They almost seem to be doing it out of necessity...to soothe. "Huh."
MX-Z0: "You were in the cathedral the morning of, correct? What did you notice then?"
Dax: "It was dry, dear. Nothing was out of the ordinary...there wasn't a flamethrower, from what I have seen."
Dax: They immediately go back to licking their arm, faster this time.
Stranger: "Why were you in the cathedral, anyways? Was something else going on...?"
Dax: "...Pretty windows. Mrrp."
Ivan: "But, if that's the case...then how did they paint the WHOLE PLACE wet that fast!? Nobody can do that! That's inprotan!"
Don: "A-Ah, I....Well, ahahah, I don't know! My mechanical arms are fast, but not THAT fast! A morning's worth is not enough!"
Rue: "Then let's focus on something else for now."
Stranger: "Eh? What's there to focus on, Rue?"
Rue: "...The traps. We did not figure those out. However, I have a theory."
MX-Z0: "What is your theory, Rue?"
Rue: "...Perhaps, the traps were a distraction. Aimed at you, Mixzo."
MX-Z0: Her eyes widen.
"Oh....that...that is..."
...A sad beep. "...If it is true that I fell for a distraction..."
Stranger: "...You're alright, Mixzo."
MX-Z0: ...Beep. Beep.
Seven Stones: "You sure those two things are related? I mean, there is the possibility of two people being out to kill."
Clober: "Oh yeah! They wanted me dead, I'm sure of it! If they had a bomb, they would've just used it on me!"
Hitori: "..I...uh...don't feel anyone here has enough murderous intent to go at it for that long...right?"
Don: "Oh...uh...are we...split?"
Paradi: "...Split?"
Don: "...Yeah. I said split. Why-"
Paradi: They laugh. A big laugh.
"SCRUM DEBATE~!!"
Don: Don yelps loudly as the podiums all begin to rise, dividing into two sides...with the exception of The Destroyer, who watches from below.
SCRUM DEBATE
(THE VINE TRAPS ARE RELATED)
Rue
MX-Z0
Stranger
Dax
Don
(THE VINE TRAPS AREN'T RELATED)
Seven Stones
Clober
Hitori
Ivan
Arsenic
Clober: "Why would they change up their strategy!? Why did they stop going after me!?"
Rue: "It is likely that they got new ideas upon being given a bomb."
Ivan: "Why did they keep setting up traps after the second motive, then?"
Dax: "As a distraction, like Rue said~."
Seven Stones: "Seems like a big coincidence if they did get it..."
MX-Z0: "It's not a coincidence. The Destroyer implied the one who got it already had murderous intent."
Hitori: "But I...I can't believe someone would be that bloodthirsty!"
Stranger: "They tried to kill everyone in the cathedral. Unfortunately, the evidence is pointing against you there..."
Arsenic: "Are we really gonna rely on a bunch of theories!?"
Don: "They aren't just theories! Together, they all make con-crete proof!"
PUSH!!
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BREAK!!
Rue: "...You understand now, right? It makes the most sense for it to be them."
Clober: "...I guess..."
Stranger: "It's not your fault you fell for a trick, Mixzo. You were just trying to protect us."
Don: "Y-Yes!" He purrs. "Ahahah...you're wonderful, Mix."
MX-Z0: "...Thank you, both of you...but now that we've decided this, we have something else to figure out. Something that may help us narrow down who did this."
Stranger: (...Something to narrow it down...)
Stranger: (It's...really coming back to those things, huh?)
...Select a piece of evidence!
. . .
THE CARDS
Stranger: "The cards, eh? If we narrow down who could have The Vines card, we know who our killer is."
Ivan: "Right, right! Stranger, you got my back, don't you? We told each other our cards day one. I got "The Loving", and you got...uh...Survivor, yeah?"
Stranger: "Correct. Glad we can vouch for each other."
He looks to Mixzo now with a smile. "And you're clear too, Mix. You got The Protector, yeah?"
MX-Z0: "Correct. Then it has to be someone else..."
Don: "N-Not me!!" Don yelps. "I got a card, that, uh, makes me feel the agonies every night! I...uhm...forget what it's called..."
Clober: "..."
She looks at Paradi.
Paradi: "...Yes, that card is real. They got it special, as a new addition~."
Arsenic: "Welp, guess you're safe too, old man." She states. "So...everyone else, state your cards!"
NONSTOP DEBATE - START
Arsenic: "I'll go first."
Arsenic: "I got a card called The Vessel. Not sure what it does, besides whisper nonsense in my ear...it's annoying as HELL."
Clober: "Ohh, I had that one before! It did that to me..."
Clober: "Glad I don't have it. Right now, I have The Free...but I don't think it does anything."
Seven Stones: "I've also had the Vessel before...it was real confusing."
Seven Stones: "But now? I've got The Silent."
Dax: "Mrrp? Cards?"
Dax: "...I think it was The Bard? I don't know what that does. I don't like singing."
Rue: "..."
Rue: "...A-Ah..."
MX-Z0: "...Rue? Are you alright?"
Stranger: (...None of them really sound like they're lying...)
Stranger: (...)
Stranger: (...Except!)
Seven Stones: "But now? I've got The Silent."
THE CARDS - BREAK!!
Stranger: "...You shouldn't be able to say that, Seven Stones."
Seven Stones: "E-Eh!?" He flinches, pulling on his mask a bit. "What do you mean!?"
Stranger: "We know what The Silent does. And it makes it so you wouldn't be able to state what your card is, yeah?"
Paradi: "Mmm...correct. It doesn't let you state anything about yourself, or what you were doing, if it relates to the murder."
Seven Stones: "Y-You...You...!"
He growls. "Then who does have the card!?"
MX-Z0: "...Rue? Is...is it you?"
Rue: "..."
MX-Z0: "...Blink once for yes, twice for no."
Rue: "..."
Blink.
Seven Stones: "G...Gh...!!"
Hitori: ...Hitori, once wearing a determined face...seems to grow a frown. They're quiet, as Seven Stones continues.
Seven Stones: "I'm telling you, I had nothing to do with it! Maybe you got me on the card, but what else do you have on me!? How was I able to do anything else!?"
MX-Z0: "...Are you asking us to figure out how you coated the Cathedral?"
MX-Z0: "...I believe we can answer that. Can't we, Stranger?"
Stranger: "...Can we?"
Stranger: (...Oh...fuck...it's happening again!?)
HANGMAN'S STUPID IDIOT GAMBIT
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Stranger: "...Ah!"
A lightbulb goes on in his head, and his eyes flash. "Your attunement! You always levitate things around, don't you? So if you were able to move the oil around with telekinesis..."
Ivan: "...You could wash the whole place while sitting down and having a drink! You could make it rain, you could oil yourself up and roll around!"
Ivan: "There's a million ways for you to have done it that fast!"
Seven Stones: "Gh...ghhkk--!"
His pull on his mask tightens. He coughs as his body shakes, his other fist clenched.
"You...s-stop accusing me, damn it!!"
Arsenic: "...You were one of the closest to the exit, too...Besides Ivan and Stranger."
Seven Stones: "...Right, right!" He hisses. "How did I turn on the flamethrower from that far away, huh!?"
Dax: "...We just said you had telekinesis."
Seven Stones: "It can make things FLOAT, it can't manipulate them! I'd have to press down the trigger using my telekinesis, but I can't. So there! It wasn't me!"
Stranger: "You had your stones, didn't you? The ones you constantly float around?"
Paradi: "Ah-ah-ah...The Destroyer took those."
Seven Stones: "Yeah, what- what they said!"
Arsenic: "G-God dammit!! Then how did it happen!?"
Clober: "I dunno. Maybe...someone stepped on the trigger?"
Arsenic: "Nobody was near it besides Tarnish! And they were right NEXT to it, not on top! I remember!"
Stranger: "...Hold on."
MX-Z0: "Hm?"
Stranger: (...What could have set off the trigger for the flamethrower, and ignited the explosive...)
...Select a piece of evidence!
. . .
GREY RUBBLE
Stranger: "...There was some strange rubble on top of the ruined flamethrower, wasn't there?"
Don: "Oh- Yes, yes!! There was!"
Stranger: "Then it had to be that. It was oddly smooth, like the stones Seven Stones had were..."
Stranger: "...But, that still doesn't add up. He didn't have any stones, so...where...?"
Stranger: ...
He notices.
He sees Hitori's fearful expression, the dread on their face.
"...Hitori? Do you have something to say...?"
Hitori: "...I...I can't."
Stranger: "...Eh?"
Hitori: "I...No, I don't want to...I..."
Stranger: "...Hitori, you can talk to me. If you know something, please..."
Hitori: "...N-No! No!!"
Hitori: "I'M NOT CONDEMNING MY FRIEND TO DIE!!"
FINAL SHOWDOWN - START
Hitori: "I KNOW NOTHING! DON'T TALK TO ME!"
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Hitori: "I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP ON MY FRIENDS!"
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Hitori: "I CAN'T DO THE FINAL BLOW! I CAN'T!"
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Hitori: "THE VOICE INSIDE ME WON'T LET ME!"
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Hitori: "PLEASE! I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS!!"
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Hitori: "PLEASE, JUST...SAY IT FOR ME...WHAT COULD HAVE DONE IT!?"
T H E
D E I T Y S
S T O N E
FINAL BREAK!!!
Hitori: They're in tears. From beyond the censor bar, streaks come down.
"I...he...I don't...want to say it..."
Rue: "We need to know, Hitori. We need to end this case."
Hitori: "..."
Hitori: "...They were the only one...who knew about the stone the deity made for him..."
Hitori: "...It was the perfect size...easy to lift around...and it was stolen. I had it...and I knew he had to have taken it."
Hitori: They look at Seven Stones. The almost shaking, seething prota...and they cry.
"Please, Seven Stones...prove me wrong! Just, say something! Prove me wrong!"
Seven Stones: "I..."
Seven Stones: The pull on his mask tightens.
Seven Stones: "I...I...I...!"
Seven Stones: SNAP.
Seven Stones: His mask falls to the floor.
A shadow covers his face. He stands there like a broken toy, and then...
...He chuckles.
Seven Stones: "I don't care anymore."
Hitori: "H...Huh?"
They retract backwards, like a startled squirrel.
Seven Stones: "...I...said..."
Seven Stones: "I don't CARE ANYMORE!! ALL OF YOU! ALL OF YOU ARE AWFUL! AHAHAH....HAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAHHHK-!"
He coughs in between frenzied, manic laughs, his head thrust to stare at the ceiling. He sounds like he's dying...and yet, embracing it.
Arsenic: "S-Seven!? What the- What the hell is wrong with you!?"
Seven Stones: Just as quickly as he began laughing...he stops again. He seems to have lost all the tension in his body as he stares, his blue eyes glowing.
"Don't you understand, Arsenic!? The pain!? The pain of slowly dying, when all you want to do is survive!?"
Seven Stones: "And just when you thought you had SOMETHING good...one friend, who trusted you, who you could believe in..."
Seven Stones: "Someone LOPS OFF THEIR HEAD, and PUTS IT ON A PLATE!"
Clober: She remembers.
Instantly, her annoyance turns into terror. A squeak escapes her throat as she watches the prota rave on and on.
Seven Stones: "I wanted comfort, I wanted SOMETHING....the only comfort I got was to get information out of me. I saw it. I saw how LITTLE you all cared...but...but..."
They look at Paradi...and they laugh again.
"AH...AHAHH....Paradi showed me the truth. They showed me how DESERVING this killing game was...and I knew what I had to do. To get revenge. To survive! They broke my mind, but I don't care! I! DON'T! CARE!!!"
Stranger: "Paradi!"
He growls as he snaps his head at him, glaring. "What did you do!?"
Paradi: "...Well, besides kick the prawn's ass...I did have some private meetings with Stones here."
They smirk. "It's so easily to kick a dog while they're down...but it's even easier to train a dog when they've got no master to turn to. And besides, what part of my words is wrong? Did you really care for Seven Stones? Did any one of you try to comfort him after the last trial?"
Stranger: He opens his mouth to speak...
...But for the second time today, he stops.
He can't find a rebuttal.
Hitori: "I...I tried...I tried!!" Hitori says, even more tears pouring out of them. "I..I just...I didn't know what to do, or say, or...!"
Seven Stones: "...Hitori. It's okay."
Hitori: "...What?"
Seven Stones: A grin curls across his face. Those tired, dull eyes...
Hitori sees no hope in there. No love, no dreams...
...Just acceptance. A bitter, twisted acceptance.
"...I'm going to die. You all will have your revenge...even you, Paradi," He says with a glance, "You will get to kill me. I know how much you want to...after all I took from you, yeah?"
Paradi: ...They scowl, but only for a moment.
"Then am I to get on with it?"
VOTING TIME!
10 VOTES FOR: SEVEN STONES
1 VOTE FOR: HITORI
🎉 SEVEN STONES IS CORRECT 🎉
Paradi: "Mm, blaming yourself there, Hitori?" They comment from atop the throne. "...I guess these trials have a trend, I see."
Huff. "By the way, your cat friend there is about to flood the room. Maybe tend to them while I get the sin reveal all nice and ready..."
Rue: "...Dax?"
He turns to look at them.
Dax: ...They're hugging themselves. Crying. Again.
"...Rue. Can you...can you make it stop...again? I'm tired..."
Rue: Taken aback for a moment, they quietly run over to do...something. They're not sure...but they're here.
Seven Stones: "I hope this won't take too long, Paradi," he says, tapping his foot like an impatient toddler. "It's finally time...what I've been waiting my whole life for. Death."
Paradi: "Naturally. All sinners deserve a horrible death, don't you agree?"
Seven Stones: "...Yes...y-yes..."
???: The screen returns, falling down in front of everyone.
???: ...Two attunements. A rare condition, only found in 0.0001% of the population.
???: One would see it as a blessing...but so much power comes at a price.
???: (We see a shot of Seven Stones as a young protalet, at a doctor's office. He's crying, his parents by his side. A doctor is telling them unfortunate news.)
???: The life span of a double attuned is very short. His expected life span was 35 years.
???: ...As opposed to the average lifespan of the modern day, which was 100.
???: ...65 years of potential life...lost outside of his control...
???: Of course, they looked for a cure. And they found one.
???: ...But the cost was far too great. A lower class family like them could never afford it, dooming their son to a small, weak existence. The healthcare they had would never be able to cover it.
???: ...But Seven Stones never gave up.
???: (We see multiple shots. One of a young Seven Stones doing odd jobs. Staring out normal with apprenticeships, retail jobs...before going darker. Working for underground organizations stealing supplies. Scamming. And then, with a bang, it cuts to a video of Seven Stones murdering an old queen in the street. He's quick, using his psychic powers to pull all the valuables from her purse and into his own bag.)
???: Money became the only thing that mattered. Survival became the only thing that mattered.
???: And eventually...
???: (We see Seven Stones' parents on top of a little balcony. They seem unaware. Peaceful...
...Until their own son pushes both of them off the edge with a blank expression.)
???: He killed his parents for the money they'd give him upon death.
???: But it was not enough. It was still never enough. No matter how much he stole, fought, and tried to survive...
???: He was still poor. He was still, slowly, dying.
???: He had become a monster, fueled only by one reason.
???: ...And only now did he accept that there was no escaping his sins.
???: (It shuts off.)
Rue: "..."
It's all quiet. Again. Everyone just...trying to take it all in. Rue speaks first.
"...You..."
Seven Stones: "Don't try to sympathize with me."
Rue: "...Ah?"
Seven Stones: He glares at everyone else, his leafy tail wrapped around his body.
"We're all horrible. So what? There's no reason to act like we did nothing wrong...we all deserve to suffer."
Hitori: "S...Ss...Seven...!"
Seven Stones: ...Sigh.
He looks to Paradi. "Just kill me already. Don't hold back."
Paradi: "...If you insist."
Paradi: "Uhm...okay, okay. Let us go. Punishment Time....was that right? Destroyer?"
True Destroyer: "..."
True Destroyer: "...Awful...show..."
Paradi: "...Eh, whatever. Let's get on with it~!"