[ch. 6] post-trial, w/ souji

[asswipe]

[Hey, Souji.

He'll find Veronica sitting in the lounge. She doesn't have a drink or snack with her. She's just sitting here, staring into the void. She will, however, look up at him when she hears him approach.

It doesn't seem like she has anything to say, though.]

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[asswipe]

[She thinks about it for a moment, trying to pin down any obvious lies from the trial, but...]

Does it have to be from this trial, or can it be a lie from a previous week?

[sanguinairy]

It didn't specify, so I could probably see what I can get away with.

[Souji has truly mastered the art of weaseling his way around wording.]

[asswipe]

... Okay.

[...]

Then you should probably know that Melloi was one of the Blotters who murdered Reyna.

[sanguinairy]

[That-- ah. Hm. He opens his mouth as if to say something and then seems to reconsider it. Instead:]

...I suppose that explains why he wouldn't use the item they were debating over.

[Why is everyone like this. He doesn't even have it in him to be surprised.]

Do we at least know if he used his reward to help us? Reyna said that as long as her killers at least did that...

[asswipe]

[Because humans are a mistake. It's fine.

She shakes her head, though.]

No... I don't know, but I can ask if you want me to.

[sanguinairy]

[They're a struggle for sure!! All the non-humans in their midst are probably just watching them like "what the fck".]

If you'd like... Though I feel we'd already know what it was, if he did.

[It's been a week without much new information, okay. WAVER!! After a pause, though:]

May I ask how you know...?

[asswipe]

[To be fair, Veronica wouldn't be surprised if Waver wasted his reward on something they already knew. Mistakes.]

I... know who his accomplice was. They confessed to me this week. [Yeah, uh. Sorry.] But I knew that killing someone wasn't their choice, so I didn't say anything.

[sanguinairy]

[Waver just sitting there with this well-known knowledge like "fuck".

THAT SAID he just shakes his head a little.]

I understand. [Actually, he really understands since Fane told him literally right after the week three trial that he and his partner murdered Fitz so Souji would know they weren't also responsible for Hijikata. THANKS FANE.]

...It's true that they choose their targets. That makes it a little more difficult, I think. [More difficult than Editor kills specifically, he means.] But I think you're right to keep that in mind, too.

[asswipe]

Not... exactly. Not in this case.

[Fane and his partner are a tragicomedy, but not as much as Waver and (redacted).
God.]

Melloi and Reyna had an, um... Agreement, apparently. If one of them was chosen as a Blotter, they would target the other. [...] To be honest, though, knowing this just makes me more pissed off that Dazai took the fall for him. Melloi could have minimized the casualties so easily, but he didn't.

[sanguinairy]

[Oh my god WHY ARE THEY LIKE... THAT... Souji is definitely just sitting there for a second like "oh. Hm. Hm, oh."]

...Well. I suppose the agreement didn't include confessing. [@god why] It makes sense to be angry.

[He isn't because he has negative amounts of salt in his sickly dying body, but he Gets It.]