Exam 3

[lockdownmods]

Exam 3.

[ Once again, the exam begins with the desks arranged in a perfect circle; one desk for each person that's participating in the program. There are nameplates for everyone, and they have been bolted to each of the desks, facing the inside of the circle...

...including the deceased. Their chairs have been placed on top of their desks, signifying that they will not be needed. Above of their desks are holograms of their portraits from their profiles, grayed out and bloodstained.

Today Han is absent-- only Megumi is present at the front of the classroom. ]


Today you are responsible for finding the culprit responsible for the death of Maya Fey, the Apprentice Falsely Accused.

Your exam begins now.

Victim.






Suspects.



[ The physical evidence tray sits in the middle of the circle of desks; you all have the Evidence app on your tablets to access photo evidence. ]

Examination START.

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[preconstruction]

Make your case. Rebecca is a smart, logical woman, she'll listen to you.

[devotingly]

I've made my case and her decision was that it was planted to point at Stuart. She's defensive and won't admit that the people close to her are suspect for a murder, and will therefore prefer to point towards someone that she's not nearly as close to.

[preconstruction]

We're all on high tension now.

[ except for connor, apparently, who is trying to be calm and even soothing. ]

But you have strong logic on your side. You're right that she's defensive, but she's not unreasonable.

[throwabookatit]

Now, hold on a moment! I don't want Alexander to be the culprit either. He's a nice boy, but everyone was too quick to rule him out! I don't want to...to send an innocent person to their death, alright?! Something looked odd, about the guitar being put back there. You said it yourself!

[devotingly]

Did a life in the Highlands ruin your hearing, Gales? Or are you just selective about what you want and don't want to hear? I also said that it might have been precious for the killer to bury it.

[ he points at stuart ]

He's the only one from this list that would have considered a stupid instrument "precious".

[12d3]

I'm not a guitarist! Noodle breaks guitars all the time and I don't soddin' cry about it!

[BOI HE DONT CARE ABOUT NO GUITAR if it was a keyboard though]

[throwabookatit]

[ excuse you??? ]

Now who's being defensive? I think, when you're dealing with a murder, something like that would be ridiculous, and even he would know that.

[pathofconquest]

Please forgive him. He's having a difficult time remaining impartial.

[A Servant can apologize for his future Master.]

I have no intention of avoiding anyone's suspicion.

[devotingly]

But you shouldn't accept it as if it doesn't matter to you!

[ DON'T MAKE WAVER GO OVER THERE TO SLAP YOU ]

[pathofconquest]

You understand better than most what I am. Unlike the other people here this life isn't my own. And in the future I'll be summoned again.

...as long as you live to make it there.

[So don't do anything stupid.]

[covertizer]

That doesn't make it any less of a life though.

[swordsinternally]

...

[ Shirou doesn't say anything himself, but he... understands this sentiment as well, given he's also a Servant as well. There's a distinct reaction as his fingers curl in and out of a frustrated fist as his eyes glance down at the desk, unable to say a single word without sounding like a hypocrite. ]

[devotingly]

That's...that's not...

[ waver tears up, but tries to keep himself as angry as possible ]

It won't be the same and you know it. If I lost in the Grail War, then it means that you won't live then either!

[pathofconquest]

...Waver Velvet. Listen to me closely.

[Suddenly this is... very serious?]

The version of myself that was summoned here-- unlike the one you summoned, had no wish for the grail. I wonder if that is why I was able to find the answer that even he could not.

A wish grander even than Okeanos.

[devotingly]

What...?

[ waver looks at him with wide eyes, confused. he understands that okeanos turned out to be a fraud, and even iskandar himself told him that.

but...what could be greater than that? ]

What are you talking about?

[pathofconquest]

Foolish boy, you can't even see that much for yourself?

[...oh well. He can't complain about it too terribly. This is the idiot he loves after all.]

There is only one sight I have my eyes set on now.

[And if you were confused, his burning gaze should make it clear enough now.

It's you.]

[throwabookatit]

Then, if you don't mind, I'll ask you directly. [ Arms crossed, deep in frown. ] Did you kill Maya?

[pathofconquest]

Is it enough to believe if I say I did not?

Nonetheless, if it keeps Waver Velvet out of danger, I'll be just as happy to accept it. I am, after all, just a Servant.

[throwabookatit]

Don't you start...talking like that, either. I'm not looking to put this on someone who didn't actually kill someone. You're just as much a person as anyone else here.

[pathofconquest]

I was a person once, it's true, but a Heroic Spirit is something different. I've lived my life once. That's not true of the others here.

[throwabookatit]

I'm...not pretending to understand your circumstances. If you're apparently...Alexander the Great, or whatever is going on here. But don't speak like that. For the sake of the person who likes you, at the very least.

[pathofconquest]

I can assure you that I am.

...at least, as I was when I was young. The one most would recognize... well that's apparently not how I was summoned this time.

But I understand. I will be conscious of that. Nonetheless I feel it's something you all should keep in mind when you have to make that choice.

[Because someone has to die, you know?]

[unhalting]

...Hey. Is this really the way someone'd speak after they frame someone for murder?

[swordsinternally]

... If they said that I can stay even in spite of who I am, if you didn't do it, then I agree with the others as well.

Because even if you die, disappear and get resummoned, you won't remember any of this because of how the Throne of Heroes works.

[pathofconquest]

Hmmm... that's true.

[That is... well it does make it more difficult.]