Murder Game XIV: Monokuma's Awakening

[Atomyk]

Jamie turned angrily to the speaker in the room, glaring at it. "Oh, so we're going to ignore the fact that my arm has been bleeding all over the floor here? You suggesting, what, that I shot myself?"

"U-Uh, well..." Realizing what Honda was getting at, Jude decided to chime in. "I don't think anyone's saying that, but he does have a point. Victoria was making a call to us when the gunshot went off, meaning it doesn't make much sense for her to have been holding a phone in one hand and a gun in the other. Did anyone hear Victoria make that call?"

"W-Well, it all went so fast, you know? I guess I did hear her a bit... she yelled out when the lights first went out."

"I think we're getting away from the major issue," Horne said, sounding annoyed. "Someone took a knife and stabbed the girl."

"Right, okay... let's assume Jamie is right and that he shoved someone. Possibilities?"

"Mm..." Diana didn't seem sure of herself. She ran a hand through her hair as she thought. "Okay... he could be right that he shoved Vic and that she then got shoved by Shane into the corner. He said he made the shove after he got shot anyway, so it still works, right? Or... he shoved Shane, and Shane then knocked Victoria back. He couldn't have shoved Stan due to their size difference and Horne was across the room from him."

Stan moved to look up at the speaker in the room. "Uh, this guy... Shane didn't say he was pushed."

"No, he just said it was hazy. Sorry if that sounded weird."

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[Yun Lee]

Jamie turned angrily to the speaker in the room, glaring at it. "Oh, so we're going to ignore the fact that my arm has been bleeding all over the floor here? You suggesting, what, that I shot myself?"

"U-Uh, well..." Realizing what Honda was getting at, Jude decided to chime in. "I don't think anyone's saying that, but he does have a point. Victoria was making a call to us when the gunshot went off, meaning it doesn't make much sense for her to have been holding a phone in one hand and a gun in the other. Did anyone hear Victoria make that call?"

"W-Well, it all went so fast, you know? I guess I did hear her a bit... she yelled out when the lights first went out."

"I think we're getting away from the major issue," Horne said, sounding annoyed. "Someone took a knife and stabbed the girl."

"Right, okay... let's assume Jamie is right and that he shoved someone. Possibilities?"

"Mm..." Diana didn't seem sure of herself. She ran a hand through her hair as she thought. "Okay... he could be right that he shoved Vic and that she then got shoved by Shane into the corner. He said he made the shove after he got shot anyway, so it still works, right? Or... he shoved Shane, and Shane then knocked Victoria back. He couldn't have shoved Stan due to their size difference and Horne was across the room from him."

Stan moved to look up at the speaker in the room. "Uh, this guy... Shane didn't say he was pushed."

"No, he just said it was hazy. Sorry if that sounded weird."

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"Well, Jamie, can you stand in the exact area you remember shoving Victoria-or whoever you shoved?"

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[Atomyk]

"..." The man let out a heavy sigh. "Sure, all right."

Jamie took a step back, aligning himself with the South-West corner of the room. He was standing in front of his chair, angled toward the center table and slightly to the left, or North. "About right here."

"Pushing someone directly forward from there, they would go near where Shane is now, so that sounds about right, I guess. I think... I think you guys may need to wake Victoria up somehow so we can see what she has to say."

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"..." The man let out a heavy sigh. "Sure, all right."

Jamie took a step back, aligning himself with the South-West corner of the room. He was standing in front of his chair, angled toward the center table and slightly to the left, or North. "About right here."

"Pushing someone directly forward from there, they would go near where Shane is now, so that sounds about right, I guess. I think... I think you guys may need to wake Victoria up somehow so we can see what she has to say."

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"Victoria's testimony would really help! Jamie, one last question-you left or right handed?"
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[Atomyk]

"... I'll try waking her," said Stan as he moved to the corner of the room. Horne had to step aside for him to get to Victoria.

Jamie wasn't sure what to make of the question, but he answered anyway. "Left handed."

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[Yun Lee]

"... I'll try waking her," said Stan as he moved to the corner of the room. Horne had to step aside for him to get to Victoria.

Jamie wasn't sure what to make of the question, but he answered anyway. "Left handed."

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"Huh. Interesting. Say...who sat in the chair opposite Jamie? As in, the chair facing him right now. If what he's saying is true, whoever shot him was in that area!"
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[LuckycoolHawk9]

Stiles was listening and wasn't sure what to say now. " So, what exactly do we know? We know that Victoria was knocked out and someone stabbed Bullet to death," he said.

" Do any of you guys remember drawing weapons?" He asked.

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[York]

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"Kyoko! You're alright!" Nono exclaims. "I always did see myself as an animal, but today is the day I won't."

Nono then says as she raises her hands and shakes her head, "sorry, Monokuma, but the games of said description aren't of Morikubo's age rating, and I'll make sure my next action isn't, either."

Nono's fist was gradually rising.

"Humans go beyond nihilism. Morikubo knows for a fact that humans, like animals, have a pack mentality. A mentality to socialise, stick together, and cooperate. And we're cooperating now. So let's leave any philosophical arguments till later. Right now..."

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"Ugh... These two give me a damn headache..." Sledge simply remarked looking at Monokuma and Daughter.... "Trust me... No form of murder is fun... Trust this from a soldier whose killed many in his time.... I'm only 34 and i've probably killed hundreds of terrorists in my time with the SAS...It's not fun in the slightest but hell... Someone has to do what others won't.... No matter what happens to them in the process... I'm sure people view me as a monster and that some of the terrorists i've killed had families...." Sledge paused as he looked over at Honda now...
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"I'm no medic... But if allowed i can probably tell you the distance the bullet in his arm was fired at..." Sledge spoke up offering to help if he even could.
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"Depending on how far the bullet is lodged into him if we could get it out I could tell you the caliber easily..." Sledge added thinking this might be a good idea...

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Yurick had been quiet for the most part, but he was glad to see that Jack seemed to be feeling better than he had last he'd seen him.

"Good to see you better, Jack." he said to the Guardian.

He ignored both Monokuma and Daughter, not in the mood to hear their crap. Plus, he didn't know what a video game was.

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Jamie had to think for a moment. "Hm... When I pushed them, guess they were kind of not that big actually... I guess it could have been her, but I definitely wasn't aiming for her. Look, there's no doubt the gun in that girl's hand shot me."

"I'm really not sure if we can determine the range," Jude said. "Maybe Sledge can, but considering he's stuck out here, I don't know... But, if Jamie shoved Victoria, she must have wandered close to him. She somehow ended up across the room though, to the opposite corner."

"Blame the man with the shotgun for that one," Horne said. "I recall him shoving someone out of his way to my right. I figured it was Jamie, but it makes sense it was the girl."

Meanwhile, around the podiums, Daughter was staring Kyoko and Jack Frost's way. Her expression turned listless as she stared the other woman down. "Boring. Very boring. You're not in control. You can barely even stand. Your world is far from this place, foreign here in the darkness. We stand around familiar things that you register as relatively tangible and normal, but it is nothing but an illusion-- a form taken to ensure you don't immediately go mad. The dark place and all that lurks within is alien to you. To view its true form would be an impossibility for a being such as you. Do you not understand...

T R U T H?"

Monokuma was waving off Nono and Sledge. "A soldier kills, no way around it. Say what you will, you still kill for some reason or another. No one said murder had to be fun." Monokuma rubbed his tummy at the idea. "But it is fun to watch! Thing is, you can all cry about how bad it is, but it keeps happening! Every single day! Every day, people make the choice to perform good deeds or bad deeds... look at the state of your worlds. Look at the state of this world. In places where suffering is paramount, are you all naturally as good as you say? The proof is out there, chumps!""

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"Hmm..." Honda drummed his fingers on the podium before walking to Jude. "I wanna try something, Doc. Just start telling me about anything. Just ramble!" If Jude playef along, Honda would shove him midsentence-not too hard though, just enough to move him back a few inches.
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"Huh?" Jude rubbed at the back of his head. "Uh, okay, I... I don't know why you're asking but I'm just playing along and--"

Jude stumbled backward, moving the few inches that Honda had intended. "W-What...? What was the point of that?"

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"To prove a point! Thanks Doc!" Honda gave the guy a pat on his back. "Jamie, the chance of you shoving Victoria is the same as me going on a diet-none! Victoria was able to give us a clear, coherent message on the phone literally the moment before the gunshot!! No sound of struggle or being cut off, like Jude here! In fact, nowhere at all did you even mention hearing her contact us! You better start getting your facts straight, buddy!!!"

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Jamie turned angrily to the speaker in the room, glaring at it. "Oh, so we're going to ignore the fact that my arm has been bleeding all over the floor here? You suggesting, what, that I shot myself?"

"U-Uh, well..." Realizing what Honda was getting at, Jude decided to chime in. "I don't think anyone's saying that, but he does have a point. Victoria was making a call to us when the gunshot went off, meaning it doesn't make much sense for her to have been holding a phone in one hand and a gun in the other. Did anyone hear Victoria make that call?"

"W-Well, it all went so fast, you know? I guess I did hear her a bit... she yelled out when the lights first went out."

"I think we're getting away from the major issue," Horne said, sounding annoyed. "Someone took a knife and stabbed the girl."

"Right, okay... let's assume Jamie is right and that he shoved someone. Possibilities?"

"Mm..." Diana didn't seem sure of herself. She ran a hand through her hair as she thought. "Okay... he could be right that he shoved Vic and that she then got shoved by Shane into the corner. He said he made the shove after he got shot anyway, so it still works, right? Or... he shoved Shane, and Shane then knocked Victoria back. He couldn't have shoved Stan due to their size difference and Horne was across the room from him."

Stan moved to look up at the speaker in the room. "Uh, this guy... Shane didn't say he was pushed."

"No, he just said it was hazy. Sorry if that sounded weird."

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"Well, Jamie, can you stand in the exact area you remember shoving Victoria-or whoever you shoved?"

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"..." The man let out a heavy sigh. "Sure, all right."

Jamie took a step back, aligning himself with the South-West corner of the room. He was standing in front of his chair, angled toward the center table and slightly to the left, or North. "About right here."

"Pushing someone directly forward from there, they would go near where Shane is now, so that sounds about right, I guess. I think... I think you guys may need to wake Victoria up somehow so we can see what she has to say."

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"Victoria's testimony would really help! Jamie, one last question-you left or right handed?"
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"... I'll try waking her," said Stan as he moved to the corner of the room. Horne had to step aside for him to get to Victoria.

Jamie wasn't sure what to make of the question, but he answered anyway. "Left handed."

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"Huh. Interesting. Say...who sat in the chair opposite Jamie? As in, the chair facing him right now. If what he's saying is true, whoever shot him was in that area!"
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Jack Frost

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Jack Frost paused, looking around the room for a moment, he had been listening in on their conversation, and well... Agreed that waking Victoria was for the best, but hmm... What was the best way to wake someone up like that? Wait! It was a classic prank that people still pull on each other from time to time; a bucket of water! Or at least, something equally as jarring as that.

"Is there any... Water in there? Or something cold, perhaps?" He asked, frowning a little.

Though he wasn't sure this idea would work very well due to the limited resources in the room, he figured something cold might be enough to jar Victoria out of her unconscious state.
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[Atomyk]

"I believe the chairs line the South wall," Jude said, pointing to the monitors. "They would have gotten up and moved around the room. The weapons that were drawn... we have the knife and the three guns. No other weapons were drawn."

"It... was someone in front of me... who shot me." Jamie suddenly looked uncomfortable.

"There is no water and nothing cold," Horne said.

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[DBZ7]

"No... No..." Kyoko breathed weakly, her body still even more pale than it usually was. She spent most of her time hunched over, leaning on the podium for support, as though she had become so weak that she could hardly stand by herself. When the girl known as Daughter would speak, speak words that Kyoko couldn't very well agree or compromise with, it was then that Kyoko knew that she had to throw in her two cents. Especially at a crucial time like this where it seemed to be all or nothing in the battle of hope and despair.

They were walking along a razor's edge here, after all. If you misstep, you'll fall to the edge, and if you drag your feet instead of stepping confidently, you'll end up cutting yourself badly.

"That kind of twisted reasoning... I can't agree with that," she'd reply to Daughter, pushing herself to stand on her own two feet, the young woman breathing heavily due to the effects of the mystery fever, "Maybe humanity is fundamentally violent... and they can justify that desire all they'd wish like a standard Hegel or Raskolnikov, but... Even so...!"

"Even... so... It's when... we choose not to take the life of another that sets us apart from animals. The truth is... While one push may be enough to trigger this desire you speak of, whether it be out of hatred or the simple desire to preserve one's own life..." Kyoko began, talking between rough, hoarse coughs, as well as a shaky breath, "It's what we choose not to let free that defines us, what makes us strong. That's my truth. And the truth will set us free..."

"... But don't take my word for it. See what everyone else would show us."

"So let's watch what unfolds then. If this is what this world, your world, is capable of, then I'll show you what my world can bring out, just as you want it," she said, standing resolute with shaky legs, more out of her currently weak body than anything else, but she refused to let it deter her.

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Once Kyoko was finished with her lovely speech, Tharja appeared behind her like the wind, quickly wrapping one of the weakening young woman's arm around her own shoulder to provide support whilst the hextress's own hand coiled around the lavender haired woman's waist.

"You've done your part, dearest little detective. Now I know I'm definitely taking you home once we get you some help." Tharja chuckled and muttered darkly, now acting as Kyoko's crutch. A big, armored, lumbering crutch.

She was going to find that bear and maul him in a way that would scar his unborn children.

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[Yun Lee]

Jack Frost

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Jack Frost paused, looking around the room for a moment, he had been listening in on their conversation, and well... Agreed that waking Victoria was for the best, but hmm... What was the best way to wake someone up like that? Wait! It was a classic prank that people still pull on each other from time to time; a bucket of water! Or at least, something equally as jarring as that.

"Is there any... Water in there? Or something cold, perhaps?" He asked, frowning a little.

Though he wasn't sure this idea would work very well due to the limited resources in the room, he figured something cold might be enough to jar Victoria out of her unconscious state.
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"I believe the chairs line the South wall," Jude said, pointing to the monitors. "They would have gotten up and moved around the room. The weapons that were drawn... we have the knife and the three guns. No other weapons were drawn."

"It... was someone in front of me... who shot me." Jamie suddenly looked uncomfortable.

"There is no water and nothing cold," Horne said.

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"Don't sound very sure of yourself, Jamie." Hearing Jude, Honda nodded. "That means at least two people weren't armed. We know for sure that Stan, Shane and Horne were armed...but we don't know for sure if Victoria got the gun herself or not unless she wakes up-hell, it could've been planted on her. Where exactly was the gun on her body? Why not shake her a bit? That may help!"

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[Klutzy Ninja Kitty]

Faint grumbles escaped Zinnia's lips as the trial continued on. So far, it had seemed as if they discovered little and they had run into a wall thanks to the fact Victoria was still unconscious. Plus, to make matters worse, Monokuma and Daughter continued to drone on about infuriating things. Especially that little ramble Monokuma had started about violence, video games, murder and whatnot. Oh dear Dragon Lord were they annoying! She could hardly stand listening to them without wanting to claw her ears up.

"Oh for pichu's sake— Look, at least try and be a little creative to wake Victoria up," Zinnia began, pounding her fingers on the podium as she not-so-gently drummed them on the surface. "Shake her like Honda said. Or pinch her, slap her across the face, tickle her, or shout in her ear. Every second that passes is another second in which we sit here in the dark longer and longer about this case."

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[Atomyk]

Stan looked uncomfortable at the suggestions being thrown at him. He cleared his throat awkwardly, raising his hand into the air above Victoria. "I'm real sorry," he murmured, about to lay the smack down.

"I have a much better idea!" Monokuma pulled a megaphone from behind his back and raised it to his mouth. "Let's goooo!!" he yelled, his voice deafening throughout the two rooms. Victoria shot awake like she'd been shocked, jumping up so suddenly that she collided with Stan. The man stumbled backward, his large frame knocking Horne aside and causing him to accidentally fire the gun in his hand.

"Jesus christ!" Jamie yelled, flinching down to a crouch.

"Da-da-da daaa!"

A monitor next to the feed of the weapons room began to display a series of numbers. They flashed green and counted down.

10:00...

9:59...

9:58...

"You have ten minutes to finish!" Monokuma declared. "Start voting! Better hope your next questions count!"

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[Yun Lee]

Faint grumbles escaped Zinnia's lips as the trial continued on. So far, it had seemed as if they discovered little and they had run into a wall thanks to the fact Victoria was still unconscious. Plus, to make matters worse, Monokuma and Daughter continued to drone on about infuriating things. Especially that little ramble Monokuma had started about violence, video games, murder and whatnot. Oh dear Dragon Lord where they annoying! She could hardly stand listening to them without wanting to claw her ears up.

"Oh for pichu's sake— Look, at least try and be a little creative to wake Victoria up," Zinnia began, pounding her fingers on the podium as she not-so-gently drummed them on the surface. "Shake her like Honda said. Or pinch her, slap her across the face, tickle her, or shout in her ear. Every second that passes is another second in which we sit here in the dark longer and longer about this case."

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Stan looked uncomfortable at the suggestions being thrown at him. He cleared his throat awkwardly, raising his hand into the air above Victoria. "I'm real sorry," he murmured, about to lay the smack down.

"I have a much better idea!" Monokuma pulled a megaphone from behind his back and raised it to his mouth. "Let's goooo!!" he yelled, his voice deafening throughout the two rooms. Victoria shot awake like she'd been shocked, jumping up so suddenly that she collided with Stan. The man stumbled backward, his large frame knocking Horne aside and causing him to accidentally fire the gun in his hand.

"Jesus christ!" Jamie yelled, flinching down to a crouch.

"Da-da-da daaa!"

A monitor next to the feed of the weapons room began to display a series of numbers. They flashed green and began to count down.

10:00...

9:59...

9:58...

"You have ten minutes to finish!" Monokuma declared. "Start voting! Better hope your next questions count!"

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Seeing that a countdown was initiated, Honda gripped his podium. "Glad you're awake Victoria, but we need your help solving a murder! Do you remember anything that happened after you called us?!"

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"I-I, uh..." Victoria looked around herself, taking a moment to recall that she still was in this awful room. Her eyes went wide at the blood splatter all over the room, and she let out an audible gasp upon seeing Bullet's dead body. "Oh, god... oh my god. Can someone please..."

"Victoria," Jude said, his voice urgent, "we don't have time. Like Honda asked, you need to tell us what happened after that phone call."

Victoria looked away from Bullet, biting her lip. Stan had recovered from his spill and was giving her a sympathetic look. "Okay... okay, fuck, my head hurts... Um, I phoned you guys, then a gunshot went off and I ended up dropping the phone. I think I practically threw it, actually."

"Wait, actually, can you recall who was standing near the guns went the lights went out?"

"S-Sure..." Victoria looked around, first to Horne, then to Jamie. "Those two."

"Ah, that's right," Stan said, nodding at that.

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"I-I, uh..." Victoria looked around herself, taking a moment to recall that she still was in this awful room. Her eyes went wide at the blood splatter all over the room, and she let out an audible gasp upon seeing Bullet's dead body. "Oh, god... oh my god. Can someone please..."

"Victoria," Jude said, his voice urgent, "we don't have time. Like Honda asked, you need to tell us what happened after that phone call."

Victoria looked away from Bullet, biting her lip. Stan had recovered from his spill and was giving her a sympathetic look. "Okay... okay, fuck, my head hurts... Um, I phoned you guys, then a gunshot went off and I ended up dropping the phone. I think I practically threw it, actually."

"Wait, actually, can you recall who was standing near the guns went the lights went out?"

"S-Sure..." Victoria looked around, first to Horne, then to Jamie. "Those two."

"Ah, that's right," Stan said, nodding at that.

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"Why Jamie! How'd you get over to the guns? Never mentioned that!! Oh, that's right! Victoria, did anyone shove you? If so, how many times?"

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"H-Hey now!" Jamie exclaimed. "It's not what you think! I... Mm..."

"J-Just once... I think," Victoria said.

"Oh? I could have sworn someone pushed you right by the guns," Horne said, having recovered from his accident. He had placed the gun down on the table in front of him in the meantime.

"Uh..."

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[Verite]

"Kyoko! You're alright!" Nono exclaims. "I always did see myself as an animal, but today is the day I won't."

Nono then says as she raises her hands and shakes her head, "sorry, Monokuma, but the games of said description aren't of Morikubo's age rating, and I'll make sure my next action isn't, either."

Nono's fist was gradually rising.

"Humans go beyond nihilism. Morikubo knows for a fact that humans, like animals, have a pack mentality. A mentality to socialise, stick together, and cooperate. And we're cooperating now. So let's leave any philosophical arguments till later. Right now..."

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Meanwhile, around the podiums, Daughter was staring Kyoko and Jack Frost's way. Her expression turned listless as she stared the other woman down. "Boring. Very boring. You're not in control. You can barely even stand. Your world is far from this place, foreign here in the darkness. We stand around familiar things that you register as relatively tangible and normal, but it is nothing but an illusion-- a form taken to ensure you don't immediately go mad. The dark place and all that lurks within is alien to you. To view its true form would be an impossibility for a being such as you. Do you not understand...

T R U T H?"​

Once Kyoko was finished with her lovely speech, Tharja appeared behind her like the wind, quickly wrapping one of the weakening young woman's arm around her own shoulder to provide support whilst the hextress's own hand coiled around the lavender haired woman's waist.

"You've done your part, dearest little detective. Now I know I'm definitely taking you home once we get you some help." Tharja chuckled and muttered darkly, now acting as Kyoko's crutch. A big, armored, lumbering crutch.

She was going to find that bear and maul him in a way that would scar his unborn children.

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Letting out a deep breath, as though even simply breathing had become difficult for Kyoko, she visibly winced at Daughter's words, as though they stabbed through her like the knife that she was holding, though more than likely it was simply her mysterious fever rising again.

"Guh... I'm hardly alright, Morikubo-san, but I can't stop now... Not when we're... so close..." The lavender haired young woman uttered, letting out a violent cough, still having to grab on her podium for support, though Tharja, for all her creepiness, would help her stand up with good intentions.

...

For the most part. She'd have to have a stern talking to her about the idea of going home with her.

Focusing her attention back at the smaller girl staring at her intently, Kyoko would attempt to gather her resolve, before replying back to her.

"Maybe... Maybe you're right. Maybe whatever I'm reaching out to, whatever straw I'm hoping to grasp at, is nothing but an illusion, a mirage cast by the darkness threatening to swallow us all up, an apparition of what I desire the most," she breathed, beginning to visibly sweat a tad, the air in the room stifling for Kyoko due to her condition, "But even so... That's the beauty of hope. Even if there's nothing out there to help us... We simply have to gather the strength to help ourselves. Hope is our fuel. It drives us forward, motivates us to strive for the impossible. Even if that impossibility might be to gaze into the abyss that would dare to gaze back at us, the abyss that you claim that we are all already consumed by."

"But... even... so..."

"No matter where we are, truth is what we make it to be. We, as individuals, have to conclude our own truths. Your truth may be inconceivable to me... but you shouldn't dismiss my truth in such a blasé manner. Or the truths that the others will reach, the conclusion that they can reach when they simply believe that they can..."

With that display of emotion in her words, Kyoko let out a soft, drawn out breath. She slumped a bit in Tharja's grasp, though tried her best to not rely on the armor-clad hextress. Breathing alone was difficult, so one could only imagine how exhausting it was for her to even speak in such a lengthy manner as she did. But even so, just because she was low on stamina did not mean she was low on willpower. If anything, her increased vulnerability only made her more determined, more resolute.

This was the fortitude, the will of Kyoko Kirigiri.

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"H-Hey now!" Jamie exclaimed. "It's not what you think! I... Mm..."

"J-Just once... I think," Victoria said.

"Oh? I could have sworn someone pushed you right by the guns," Horne said, having recovered from his accident. He had placed the gun down on the table in front of him in the meantime.

"Uh..."

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Letting out a deep breath, as though even simply breathing had become difficult for Kyoko, she visibly winced at Daughter's words, as though they stabbed through her like the knife that she was holding, though more than likely it was simply her mysterious fever rising again.

"Guh... I'm hardly alright, Morikubo-san, but I can't stop now... Not when we're... so close..." The lavender haired young woman uttered, letting out a violent cough, still having to grab on her podium for support, though Tharja, for all her creepiness, would help her stand up with good intentions.

...

For the most part. She'd have to have a stern talking to her about the idea of going home with her.

Focusing her attention back at the smaller girl staring at her intently, Kyoko would attempt to gather her resolve, before replying back to her.

"Maybe... Maybe you're right. Maybe whatever I'm reaching out to, whatever straw I'm hoping to grasp at, is nothing but an illusion, a mirage cast by the darkness threatening to swallow us all up, an apparition of what I desire the most," she breathed, beginning to visibly sweat a tad, the air in the room stifling for Kyoko due to her condition, "But even so... That's the beauty of hope. Even if there's nothing out there to help us... We simply have to gather the strength to help ourselves. Hope is our fuel. It drives us forward, motivates us to strive for the impossible. Even if that impossibility might be to gaze into the abyss that would dare to gaze back at us, the abyss that you claim that we are all already consumed by."

"But... even... so..."

"No matter where we are, truth is what we make it to be. We, as individuals, have to conclude our own truths. Your truth may be inconceivable to me... but you shouldn't dismiss my truth in such a blasé manner. Or the truths that the others will reach, the conclusion that they can reach when they simply believe that they can..."

With that display of emotion in her words, Kyoko let out a soft, drawn out breath. She slumped a bit in Tharja's grasp, though tried her best to not rely on the armor-clad hextress. Breathing alone was difficult, so one could only imagine how exhausting it was for her to even speak in such a lengthy manner as she did. But even so, just because she was low on stamina did not mean she was low on willpower. If anything, her increased vulnerability only made her more determined, more resolute.

This was the fortitude, the will of Kyoko Kirigiri.

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Honda narrowed his eyes at Jamie, getting tired of his games. "Enough is enough! Jamie, I'm sure you heard of Sigma Klim recently? The principal over at Blackwell? He killed an innocent teenage girl and paid for it with his life! If you don't wanna end up the same way, stop telling us lies!!!!"


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"Oh... you're so adamant, aren't you? So determined." Daughter let out a contented sigh, smiling Kyoko's way a bit more pleasantly now. "Truths are very important down here. That's what you desire most right now, after all. Can you break away these illusions?"

"... Can you see the truth staring right back at you?"

Meanwhile, on the monitor, Jamie was shaking his head at Honda's accusation. "B-But it's... Agh!" Jamie angrily kicked the table in front of him, shaking the bladed weaponry sitting on top.

"Jamie..." Jude crossed his arms, grimacing at the monitor. "Did you shoot yourself?"

"W-What?! That's just... that's ridiculous!"

"Oh. I see." Horne nodded, picking his gun back up and aiming it toward Jamie. "You were trying to shoot me, were you not? A confined room, firing in the dark... Oops, I suppose. The mayor's not been a big fan of mine for some time now, and it's well known you will get your hands dirty for him."

Jamie froze, staring at the gun. "So... So what? I missed. Please... calm down."

Victoria visibly shivered, still standing next to Horne. "No! What are you, crazy?! Don't do this!"

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