seventh trial

[airlockedmods]

[You get a little time after your investigation is over, but not too long. PAL gets bored easily and doesn't like to be kept waiting, after all.

When everyone has gathered at the elevators with their evidence, the one going down turns on automatically. It...it looks like you're taking a leap of faith into an elevator shaft, not gonna lie. But the first person to step in finds that it's a carefully-balanced anti-gravity field made to just shoot you down and deposit you gently at the end of a long hallway. Like a walk-through aquarium, the walls and ceiling are all made of thick glass, giving you an even better view of the stars outside.

You're led to a wide-open area, empty except for a circle of podiums in its center. Heart and Noctis have joined the ranks of their grey-faced photo friends. The walls here are equally transparent, and they seem to have lines of large hatches going along them, as if this is where one might park one's small short-journey craft when getting ready to go on vacation to a galaxy far far away. Shame you don't know anything about those.

You already know what you're here to do. You'd best be getting along with it.]

Comments

Pal

[tokencanadian]

[Pyrrha's been quietly sobbing ever since she sank down behind her podium, just barely able to hear everyone else talking, going over the terrible truths of Noctis's murder.

But now... now the votes are up, and she already knows what she has to do. Slowly, she begins to work herself back up to standing height.

But she's not putting in any names.]

Excuse me... PAL? Can I ask something?

[airlockedmods]

Ask.

[tokencanadian]

[Short and too the point. Alright. She can do that too.]

It's true that... if anyone is killed at any time, than the person that did it must be executed... even in here, right?

[airlockedmods]

That is correct. My records indicate that that exact scenario occurred in Season 1.

[tokencanadian]

I see. [The one with Penny. She wishes she knew more about her.]

Then that means... if someone were to kill the culprit of a case, then they would need to be executed instead.

[She's been looking away from Nari for a while. But now, her eyes are directly on her.]

[airlockedmods]

Correct.

[daughterofthemark]

[F U C K]

Captain Yurika! Restrain her!

[tokencanadian]

Arianna....

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika dashes over to grab her.]

Pyrrha-chan, no one understands rash decisions for love more than I do, but we need you to live! Nari-san needs you to live!

[daughterofthemark]

You'll only be causing more pain!

[induality]

Like hell you will!! I won't let you!

[tokencanadian]

Touko, I'm... I can't watch this happen. Not to Nari.

[induality]

[...that, she gets.

....]

Then...

Let me do it.

[ratherdoweddings]

Bolton-san and Jamie-san's group...

[daughterofthemark]

[don't you fucking]

[everylittlesecret]

..... Pyrrha, please. Don't.

[tokencanadian]

...What would you have me do? Watch you suffer through whatever PAL would put you through?

[everylittlesecret]

Live. I want to be together, but not in death. Never in death.

[tokencanadian]

You want me to... [There's the tears again, she shakes her head, roughly.]

It's only gotten worse, Nari... It's been worse and worse. Even when we woke up from the simulation, I was struggling. All this time, I've been trying to help people, but I couldn't even help myself.

The least I could do... is help you.

[everylittlesecret]

Help me by voting for me, not sacrificing yourself. Please. Out of everyone here.... if you died, I would rather never exist.

[cyan_maid]

Pyrrha...?

[tokencanadian]

....It's alright, Jane.

[induality]

No, it's not!!

[cyan_maid]

Pyrrha...!

[NO IT'S NOT]

[theunderseen]

[YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE, PYRRHA]