come out of hiding, i'm right here beside you

[barehands]

[A while after the execution has ended, everyone will find a simple note slipped under their door.]

If you don't want to be alone after everything that's happening, some of us will be in the dining room. Even if you decide not to come, please remember that you aren't alone here.

[The note isn't signed, but the handwriting is feminine and neat.

For anyone who decides to come, there's a good array of food laid out on the table. There are some small and simple cakes, cookies, and pastries, a healthy amount of okonomiyaki, okayu, and other Japanese dishes (with a focus on rice and eggs), along with curry. In addition, there are pancakes, and a large pot of soup. It looks like a few people collaborated to make enough food for everyone here.

Just like the meal they shared together earlier in the week, the candles from the storage room lend a more peaceful light than the fluorescent lights above.]

Comments

[georgeous]

[ Being... comforted? (Is it that?) by the tiny robot is a strange feeling, but he'll flash a slightly forced smile regardless. ]

Thank you. There was no avoiding this outcome, so there was also no use prolonging it.

[dangerousfool]

[Kinda, both a comforting attempt and a compliment]

Have you done this kind of thing before? Solving murders and accusing people?

[georgeous]

Not like this, no.

I've solved mysterious incidents in which humans came to harm before, but those were related to extraterrestrial influence.

Violence from human to human never interested me... but this isn't about interest, it's survival.

[dangerousfool]

So you do have experience about solving stuff!

[So what if those were related to extraterrestrial influence? Tomato, tomahto, amiright?]

How did you do it? What did you do to know she had done it? I'm, uh, asking for a friend.

[georgeous]

[ Despite it being an obvious excuse, this begs the question of whether or not stickmen orbs can have friends and George has half a mind to ask. Maybe later. ]

It's a matter of data comparison, isn't it? In the trial all we did was try and find requirements the murderer would have to match in order to have been able to execute the crime - from then on, it's only a matter of seeing who fits those traits best.