pc catchall for shess (nonbelligerent)

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[foodbin]

It's kind of a thing where I'm from, but... You don't need to hear all that.

[She waves a hand.]

I bet we can find someone we both trust, if we do pick that.

[nonbelligerent]

I'd suggest Axel, but I wouldn't want to have him unconscious for that long.

[foodbin]

Me neither. And I don't really...

[Mm.]

I trust him enough to tell him, but maybe we should wait until we're more certain.

[nonbelligerent]

Do you think he'd do something reckless?

[foodbin]

No, not really, just...

He has enough to worry about, you know?

[nonbelligerent]

Yes, that's certainly true.

[foodbin]

If we do figure out it was Shirasu, though... It'd be good to tell him then, I think.

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What would we do if it was him, anyways?

[nonbelligerent]

That's the question, isn't it?

One option is to take matters in our own hands. However, that puts other lives at risk, and it's a needlessly cruel move if he doesn't intend on killing further.

Another is to vote for him at trial, but then we'd have to somehow reveal this to the public.

And another option, of course, is to do nothing at all.

[foodbin]

If he did it, it'd help if we could know why, but it's not like we can just ask him that.

[She sighs.]

[nonbelligerent]

My guess would be for some kind of task, although that would then imply Lune or Sol put him up to it.

Or he knows something the rest of us don't.

[foodbin]

...I can't imagine either Lune or Sol doing that.

[She frowns.]

If it was him, I wouldn't mind telling everyone at trial.

[nonbelligerent]

Are you sure? That could put you at risk.

[foodbin]

Everyone is already at risk.

[nonbelligerent]

True.

How would you explain yourself? The lie detection?

[foodbin]

That'd probably be the easiest way. It depends on exactly how the item works, though. I don't know what it'll be yet, just that it'll help catch a lie.

[...But, wait a second.]

...Hang on, earlier you said he demonstrated he was with Earth, didn't you?

[nonbelligerent]

[...]

Did your check reveal a different element?

[foodbin]

Water. It said water.

[so, uh

yikes!]

[nonbelligerent]

Then it certainly seems there was some deception going on, doesn't it?

[foodbin]

[She pauses for a moment, raking a hand through her hair.]

Son of a bitch. Okay, so... Can you think of another reason he would do that?

[nonbelligerent]

I thought there might be some elemental subterfuge going on, which is why I asked Sol during the trial if someone could possess more than one element. Whatever Shirasu did to summon a seed, it didn't classify as that, apparently.

[...]

Under those circumstances, it'd be dangerous to reveal yourself as water. On the other hand, he had to have something prepared even before the trial to be able to do what he did.

[foodbin]

Well... The part about a water user who wasn't accounted for - we got that information during the trial, right? But if he used a power there, he wouldn't have been under water at the point they gave us that information, would he?

[Hm.]

[nonbelligerent]

It's possible that he didn't actually change alignments, and that whatever he did wasn't "having another power", which was my specific question. For instance, it could've been an item, in which case it'd be one-use. Do you know what he and Akane received from the war?

[foodbin]

[She shakes her head.]

No. I'm trying not to ask him too much, I don't want to make him suspicious.

[...]

If I did talk to him before the trial, what question would you suggest I go with? I was thinking about pretending I was asking him because of a quest I got from Lune or Sol.

[nonbelligerent]

If it's about the war rewards, you may have better luck asking Akane. Shirasu would almost definitely lie if he was guilty, after all.

[foodbin]

...No, I meant about whether or not he did it. I could take the item with me and ask him something related to Kazuaki's death, then say Lune or Sol gave me a quest to ask a few different people the same question.

[She frowns.]

Unless you think we can safely assume he was involved without using that item...?