Day 14 - Results

[pandatreasure]

Can I tell 'em, can I tell 'em? Ooh, I'm so excited!

[That's right, it's your favorite raccoon voice coming up over the loudspeakers once the vote deadline hits.]

NYEHEHEHEHE! CONGRATULATIOOONNNNSSS! Congrats on nailing our murderer-murderer, you sly dogs. We'll have something special for you tomorrow, but I just wanna tell you all what's going on right now! I'm soooo excited!

[Everyone's tablets are going to display a list:

RESULTS:
Futayo 11
Will 2
Grim Eyes 1
Hiyori 1
Mae 1
Minako 1
Ulaz 1

Raquelle cackles over the speakers.]

We'll have a 💖 fabulous 💖 prize 💖 for our winner tomorrow, nyehehehe! You kids have a looooooovely night 'til then, got it? Sleep tight, nyehehehe!

[The bodies have mmmostly been cleaned up. Tsumugi, Maki, Dazai, and Jack's are all gone, and the areas they were in are clean, buuut Caius's body from earlier is still just in the middle of the floor where Tycoon's Q&A was happening...]

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[purrtagonist]

. . . winner. . .

[JUST. SQUINTS AT HIS TABLET. . .]

[he's too tired for this]

[insurgeont]

[ welp ]

It seems voting for the dead does not work after all.

[ IT WAS WORTH A SHOT. ]

[worldcup]

. . . I don't think that we've won, really.

[theyregooddogs]

[If you are looking for paint from the art room, a lot of it is missing. If you are looking for Will though, he is in what was formerly known as the White Room. There's a large mural on one side of the room from where paint was (and sometimes containers were) thrown, splattered, dripped, and slapped onto the walls and nearby furniture. The artist is seated on a spotless white desk to consider his work.]

[flamingprick]

[There's rules against 'bullying the raccoons' but flipping them off doesn't count as bullying right?]

[maege]

Oh are you serious.

[THE UNIVERSE HAS DONE ENOUGH FUCKING WITH HER TODAY AND NOW SOMEONE VOTED FOR HER TOO. LEAVE HER ALONE]

Okay! Well! I am going to go wash Caius's blood out of my shoes, I'm gonna take a hot bath, and I'm gonna go to bed, and if anyone needs me for anything that isn't petting a dog or letting me use magic long enough to electrocute a murderer until then, then that is just too bad.

[and once she has addressed the group at large with that meltdown in the making (maeking) she is STORMING OFF, she is SO UPSET ABOUT JUST, THESE PAST TWO DAYS, IN GENERAL????]

THE CORPSE

[loveandwillpower]

[ Minako's back to the floor and she is NOT having this. This is another Ichigo-and-Akira, right? He's got a pulse?? Maybe she's just. Bad at finding a pulse it's not like she's ever been to med school!! ]

Doctor, this man needs a doctor, ULAZ! SOMEONE GET ULAZ!

[theyregooddogs]

Minako. Minako. He's dead.

[loveandwillpower]

You don't know that for sure!

[theyregooddogs]

[carefully kneeling down to check his pulse, glancing at the pool of blood]

That's too much blood. There's no pulse. He'd need surgery to fix the internal structures that were damaged. We— We don't have that kind of equipment.

[loveandwillpower]

I can donate blood...!

[ Weakly, because this is the only part of that she even vaguely has a solution for and she doesn't even know his blood type. ]

[theyregooddogs]

You might not match.

[taking his hand away from Caius]

I'm sorry, I know you were close. But he wanted this.

[loveandwillpower]

What do you mean, he wanted this?!

[ Going down fighting? This might be a guy thing. ]

Are you saying it's my fault?!

[theyregooddogs]

[absolutely a guy thing]

No. No. It's not your fault. He wanted power, control, not to be a toy. The only way to control his life here . . . Was to control his death.

[loveandwillpower]

And not having power's worse than not living?

[ What the hell, Caius. Plenty of people don't have power. ]

Weren't you ever an ordinary person?

[ She's talking to the body. Maybe she should be talking to the air? She doesn't understand ghosts. ]

[theyregooddogs]

Not having control over your own life can be worse than dying, yeah.

. . . Do you need help? With anything?

[loveandwillpower]

...I've got control over whether my friend gets eaten by awful animals or gets a real grave.

[ And Caius doesn't, so there. Will looks less buff than Ichigo, but he will do. ]

Between us, we'll be able to carry him to the garden.

[theyregooddogs]

Sure, uh, I can do that. You take feet?

[chosemyfate]

If a third person makes it easier... I could be of assistance.

[Came across this. And he did appreciate Minako helping bury Niles ...]

[loveandwillpower]

[ What, he's going to help? He didn't when Niles - right, so. He's probably feeling bad about that. Everyone's feeling bad about something or other. ]

All right, I'm definitely not above making royalty dig in the ground.

[theyregooddogs]

Good. Then, let's go?

[chosemyfate]

[DEFINITELY felt bad about not being able to help about that. Being beside himself with grief and all. At least he's not impacted by any of the recent deaths.

Consider the gesture an apology as he looked at the body and began to lift half of the body, already expecting one of them to help lift Caius.]

[loveandwillpower]

[ Well Minako's not going to let go of him. Probably he wouldn't disappear with two other people holding on but look. She'll feel better if she's got him. She'll get the legs, the torso is kind of big and she doesn't want to drop him. ]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[ssssigh]

[...may as well see if he can scavenge some parts from this bonus severed raccoon head, when life gives you a ton of corpses, make lemonade or whatever]

[very_good_end]

...You're kidding, right?

[purrtagonist]

[giving her a long look from across the room]

[very_good_end]

[WELL Erika's not one to back down from any confrontation, or even let a chance for one slip by. She walks over.]

...If there is a 'real winner,' it is certainly not me.

[purrtagonist]

[. . . s-snorts. he actually isn't staring at her in an attempt to start any confrontations, hilariously enough]

No. I already discounted that possibility. And Raquelle made it clear that Futayo really did kill someone.

[still. the whole "winner" thing does make him anxious]

[very_good_end]

[shrugs]

Here's an idea... maybe the 'real winner' isn't on Futayo's side?

Perhaps someone gave Harukawa Maki the sword and prompted the so-called 'duel'.

[purrtagonist]

[mmmm]

I think if there's any manipulator in this, it was in Dazai and Tsumugi's case. But the raccoons said that accomplices or instigators don't count as killers, so they wouldn't count as winners, either.

[he assumes]

Raquelle is probably just being. . . herself.

[very_good_end]

[giggles]

Perhaps Aoba-san's prize will be awarded posthumously.

[purrtagonist]

[squints]

Do they. . . do that? Dying is supposed to be a technical loss.

[cluelesscavewoman]

[Well that settles it, she's dying tomorrow. There's a few things for her to write, change into her captains uniform, but she isn't sure what else to do.

So she's going to go stand in the auditorium.]