pc catchall for ray (selfimmolates)

[requiemed]

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[requiemed]

I’d probably be able to deal.

[She shakes her head.]

I’m saving it for the trial.

[selfimmolates]

Art of Deduction?

[requiemed]

[She nods.]

That’s the one.

[selfimmolates]

Good.

[he takes out his utility knife.]

Anyway, take this. I don't know if you have the capacity to kill, but if you do and it becomes necessary on Thursday, then defend yourself.

[requiemed]

[She hesitates, not making a move to take it yet.]

Why are you giving me this now?

[selfimmolates]

Well, you know I have it, so it's not much of a secret anymore.

[requiemed]

I guess.

[...]

What’s your plan for keeping whoever it is safe?

[selfimmolates]

To be honest, there isn't much of one. Without the All Nighter ability, staying together doesn't even really mean anything.

[requiemed]

...You know, I'm starting to figure out why you picked Love at first, too.

[selfimmolates]

[casually sidesteps that topic]

By the way, if I'm still alive, I might be acting a little odd at the trial, depending on how things go. If I am, just go along with it.

[requiemed]

Don’t say if.

[Apart from that...]

Did you get cursed or something?

[selfimmolates]

Not that I know of. There's something I'm hoping to achieve at the trial—I'll just need to be a little ruthless for it, so know it's nothing personal or sincere.

[requiemed]

Okay.

[...]

That reminds me, there’s something else I should tell you before the trial. I got a hint about the killer we didn’t find last trial... Senri told me to find you and ask you who you’ve been suspecting.

[selfimmolates]

... Well, that's pretty much what this is about.

You sure you want to know? You'll have to lie if you ever run into them.

[requiemed]

[She nods.]

Yeah. I want to know.

[selfimmolates]

[...]

First, who do you think might've done it?

[requiemed]

...I don’t know for sure. There’s only one person I’ve been wondering about more than anyone else, but I don’t know if what I’m going off is solid.

So, tell me yours?

[selfimmolates]

... Luna.

[requiemed]

Not who I would have guessed, but... I don’t know her well. What makes you think it’s her?

[selfimmolates]

First, who were you thinking of?

[requiemed]

...Nonon.

But like I said, I don’t have a lot of confidence in that.

[selfimmolates]

Nonon, huh... I can see why you'd think that. That said, while I wouldn't eliminate her from the list of suspects, I've been talking to her in private lately. I can see why Love compared her to me.

[requiemed]

Yeah? Why do you say that?

[selfimmolates]

She's a jerk and she's ruthless, but she's been adamant that she has some standards. [a beat.] Even if her first point of defence for why she wouldn't have killed Fortune was "I thought she was cute."

[requiemed]

Compelling logic.

[But, hm.]

Just another way to narrow it down... Whoever we didn’t catch has never defected from their god.