Take Responsibility.

[transmittable]

Four people were found dead this week. With that many down, it's difficult to ignore the drop in your numbers - you've gone from just under two-thirds to exactly half of your original number in one day. And given the way things tend to work around here, there are going to be even fewer of you left by the time the day is over. Is it wearing you down yet? Even if it is, the investigation period comes and goes, as it always does, and those doors in the center of the second corridor slide open for the sixth time in as many weeks. The fluorescent overhead lights of the operating theater fill the room with light, bright and steady, as soon as the first person walks in; as always, those seats surrounding the podium circle in the center of the room remain unsettlingly unoccupied. Six more have joined the ranks of the deceased this time, their absence glaringly obvious; Nozomi, Krauser, McGillis, Corrin, Rose and Rin have all had their absences acknowledged in the usual way, their greyed-out portraits set atop their black-swathed podiums, observing the proceedings with unseeing eyes. Once everyone has found their place in the circle, the public-address system crackles its way back on; the Transmitter can be heard throughout the room shortly thereafter. "Composed, Sororal, Gracious, and Courageous... They've all been killed. ...You guys know what to do. The number of victims doesn't, uh, change that. Put together your evidence, find whoever's responsible for these deaths. You know what'll happen if you can't. Good luck." Fifteen Patients remain. We'll see how many leave at the end of the day.

Comments

[georgeous]

If she were training, maybe she'd take it off to not let it get in the way.

But training at this time...? Unlikely.

[yourpiecenow]

She could've taken it off to fight, too. Like taking off your earrings.

[positivespin]

But why hang it all the way up there? Throwing it at ground or attacker sounds easier.

[yourpiecenow]

If it was important to her, maybe she wanted to make sure it was safe.

... And I mean, maybe the attacker wasn't there yet. She could have been waiting around for someone to attack.

[imaginex]

... People do that?

[What]

[yourpiecenow]

You don't want some bitch ripping your earlobes open in the middle of a fight, do you?

[imaginex]

[Sakura stabs bitches with magical energy and sucks them dry until they're a husk, so... hard to relate. BUT NOTED]

[carnivorously]

That said, she did frequent the gym, didn't she? She probably took it off to workout. What if she went to retrieve it because she had forgotten it earlier and found trouble instead?

[imaginex]

[A nod because that's what she's thinking here]

... If she was in the middle of a fight, that'd make even less sense. She wouldn't have time to worry about it.

[journalname]

Training does sound most likely. Though I doubt she was doing it at that time of night.