Take Responsibility.

[transmittable]

This week isn't a good week - for anyone, it seems. The death doesn't seem to have gone over particularly well with anyone, whether captive or captor; it's difficult to say, for the time being, what will ultimately come of it - and how well the case will be solved, given that this is yet another hit to your number. There are so few of you now. Even so, there are still things to be done and processes to be carried out; the allotted time for investigation comes and goes, leaving only the sound of the courtroom doors sliding open again in their wake. The fluorescent overhead lights of the operating theater illuminate the room as soon as the first person enters, their light bright and steady; the seats on the upper level remain unoccupied where they're surrounding the podium circle in the center of the room. Danny and Ryoji's greyed-out portraits have joined those indicating the absence of the deceased, the podiums they rest upon draped in black as they watch the proceedings through unseeing eyes. The public-address system crackles back to life once everyone has found their place in the circle; the Transmitter can be heard throughout the room shortly thereafter. She's at least a little more composed, but her words shake. "Amiable's...gone. Figure out what happened, and- and do what you have to. For his sake. Good... Good luck." Nine Patients remain. However many leave here today is up to you.

Comments

[preciousking]

They might not have.

[crywiththesaints]

It's possible; you are one of the strongest. Do you know why Mochizuki was out in the first place? Was he lured specifically?

[preciousking]

[ He's a little perplexed she's responding to him and not Greed, and that she's asking him these questions in the first place. ]

It doesn't sound like he was lured, he was probably out making that unicorn or finishing it.

[crywiththesaints]

[She may be old and bitter, but she can still follow the flow of a conversation.]

That makes as much sense as any. So either it was happenstance or he was still targeted.

[preciousking]

If it's a choice between the two, then it's probably the first one. Nothing anyone's said so far makes it seem like he was lured.

[ossifragant]

No, it's sounding like he was ambushed.

[preciousking]

It's possible.

[ossifragant]

But that's just it: I'm not strong at all.

It comes with slowly dying.

[crywiththesaints]

Dying? You don't seem ill.

[ossifragant]

[He's been gaunt and sickly since he got here, and it's only gotten worse.]

[journalname]

...is there nothing that can be done for you...?

[ossifragant]

Not here, no.