will we oversee the smile of love and peace for everyone?;

[recrypt]

[ ori i need to let you know that this is the most hilarious thing i've read about this game so far ]

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[recrypt]

[ There's something like a brief flicker of surprise in her expression, but it's gone relatively quickly. ]

You want me to retain the truth for you when my senses can be compromised as easily as anyone else's here?

[kazokun]

Yes? It'll still be better than anything we've got.

[ Even if she can't see, she can hear, she has all her other senses and a good memory is a sum of all those things. ]

Even compromised, everybody else's testimonies can supplement yours.

[recrypt]

[ Her, 'better'... ]

That's a lot of trust to put in me. If I lie about something that no one else can contradict?

[kazokun]

Why would you?

[ Of course everybody are stellar citizens and wouldn't dare lie ]

[recrypt]

Why would anyone? We are all strangers here. Do you think everyone here trusts everyone else?

[ she's devil's advocating herself, cool. ]

[kazokun]

No, of course not. But what reason would you have to lie unless you had a part in it? And even then, why would you?

[ Nobody here has a reason to kill, and that's enough trust he can afford to give each person here.

And then trial happens!! and he learns otherwise!!! ]

[recrypt]

[ Hm. ]

... Then, I'll do my best.

[ And how, look how fast she nyoomed over to the body. ]

[kazokun]

[ She really did do her best ]

...I appreciate it. Hopefully we won't need to be called to be witnesses any more than once.

[ To the police, naturally, who are obviously going to be the ones investigating and not them. ]

[recrypt]

Let's hope so.

[ though. ]

You think the police have been called?

[kazokun]

They took the body away to the hospital.

[ Presumably ]

The next logical step would be to call the police.

[recrypt]

Did they? Did you speak to them?

You remember how isolated we are, correct?

[kazokun]

I didn't but... They're able to go outside. The only reason we aren't is because the garden isn't ready.

[ PRESUMABLY

He's only stating what he believes are facts, but there's not much conviction behind the words. The three staff members can leave, but the guests aren't allowed to leave. Somebody has died; that should be grounds enough to call off this dinner party. ]

[recrypt]

[ Hm, yeah, and she hears that. She's also going to be prodding at it, that lack of conviction. ]

Why would the state of the garden matter when there's been a death on the grounds?

And has any of the rest of this been logical?

[kazokun]

[ It shouldn't matter and none of this has been logical from the moment he woke up sitting at a dining table wearing a top hat and cape and a suit with lacy sleeves. ]

None of it, but isn't that because those three aren't making sense? People who have power don't have to play by the rules- they make the rules and the rest are forced to follow. But all of this is too much, isn't it?

[recrypt]

It's a lot.

[ A pause, almost critical. ]

Don't be overwhelmed. [ She underlines it a few times, for emphasis. ] We lose before we begin if we are.

[kazokun]

[ Ayabe heaves a sigh ]

That's easier said than done.

[ HE IS OVERWHELMED ALL THE TIME 45 HELP ]

[recrypt]

[ WELL DAMN SHE CAN'T HELP WITHOUT BEING REDSTRINGED BUT THAT WEEK'S COME AND GONE HASN'T IT ]

I know.

Try your best anyway.

[ One gets the feeling that if this were spoken it'd be said with her usual audible music note, but in writing it just seems plain and stark. ]

[kazokun]

Right... Nothing to do but try our best. Thanks, 45.

[recrypt]

You're welcome?

[ why is he thanking her for stating the obvious. ]