sixth trial

[arsholes]

[With the last piece of evidence collected, Heisenberg's voice abruptly comes from everywhere and nowhere once again.]

You know the drill. Get up here.

[The long trek up the stairs is different this time and not just because the number of people has been slashed into the single digits in one horrifying night. There are no more locked doors save for the court room.

Finally they reach the courtroom door. The door swings open to reveal a small set of steps, leading up to an imposing round chamber with a tapered roof. Twenty podiums stand in a circle in the center, lit brightly from below. Each podium is made of dark metal with a colored crystal matching the individual dorms enclosed on a thick glass dome on top of it. As always, greyed out portraits of the deceased have been added- Loki, Somnus, Bryn and Hubert. The whole room feels even more massive, echoing and empty.

Heisenberg stands up on his scaffold, as usual, leaning against the railing with his arms folded and looking down at the handful of apprentices left.]

Let's see if you picked up anything from what Hubert taught you.

You will have to vote the correct killer for each victim, whether that killer is alive or not, so don't half-ass it.

Comments

Solarium Evidence

[reresurrected]

The Solarium looked like it had seen quite a battle... the entire place was half-destroyed, with a large amount of the plants burned and a number of stabs and gouges in the floor. From the size of the gouges, they look to have been made by something large, like a greatsword-- they were definitely the work of a sword of some sort.

[He pauses for a moment to lift a cloth-wrapped bundle up onto the podium and open it.]

I also found... Brynhilde-san's arm on the floor. From the looks of things, it was cut off cleanly, likely also with a sword.

But that isn't all... while I was investigating, I started to feel a very odd sort of residual magic in the area. Two different kinds, in fact. One of them was... I don't know how to describe it other than unpleasant. That particular type was the strongest right near Brynhilde-san's arm, while the other sort - one that felt almost protective - was closer to the door. It almost seemed as though it had been applied to the doorframe, or at least in that general area.

[spitessier]

Could magic have been used to cut off her arm like that?

[reresurrected]

No, it was definitely done by some type of sharp weapon. Just what sort exactly I can't tell, however.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

If it's true she was fighting Somnus-san, he had lots of swords, didn't he?

[reresurrected]

Yes, which would also explain the sword gouges on the floor.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

So it might've been. They fought in the solarium, she lost her arm, he died, and then... something happened with Hubert-san. But it doesn't make sense, was that before or after? If it was after, why would they have been in the potion room working on her flowers?

[replacementshield]

The protective magic could've been remnants from a conjured shield.

If it was an unpleasant sort of magic you felt, then it could be some kind of Dark Reason magic, or something similar to it.

[reresurrected]

I recall Brynhilde-san saying at Olive-san's trial that we would have known if the fire had been hers, as her fire was fueled by curses and would have a distinct feeling to it. I can only assume this might be the "distinct feeling" she was referring to.

[replacementshield]

Hmph, sounds about right, then.

[ghostsguysgyuudon]

And Somnus-san had shielding powers. We all saw them at the ice-skating event, when he and Orthrus-san protected us from the shrapnel.