pc: livio

[squirt]

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[crimebaby]

We had a discussion about it last week. That if we wanted to save people, we would have to kill. So it's possible. But I don't know. Maybe Simon did.

[ simon thinking it's yuneyuze makes sense but not framing him because they are the same team so there is absolutely no benefit to this ]

I did. So did you?

[squirt]

...Not this week. It might just be when you get away with it.

[ he looks serious as he gazes out over the water, then at livio. ]

I haven't trusted him since he lied to you. But we've done a lot of bad things to Simon. And I didn't think he was a bad person.

But I trust Gerard. And if he's worried about our safety, then Simon must've done something. [ ... ] I can't confirm anything. But do you think he could've been there when Zelda died? There was that fur in her hair.

[crimebaby]

Is that why it happens?

[ does getting killed count as getting away with it? ]

[ .... ]

Was there more than just framing him? [ i hope they've just been bullying simon this whole time i approve ]

... It's possible. Simon's good with animals, and I'm pretty sure the scratches matched a rat. But if it was just killing Zelda with Fukuzawa, I don't understand why Simon specifically would be considered a dangerous lunatic and not anyone else who killed.

[squirt]

...Framing him was bad enough.

[ he feels insanely bad about it!!!!! this has haunted him for a while!!! ]

But yeah. That's what I don't understand. If it's just about killing, then we've done that too. A lot of people have. [ hrmhmm ] ...If Simon had killed Shen Qingqiu, you'd have two new psychs. But you don't. Right?

[crimebaby]

[ awww haru. giving his shoulder a little squeeze. at both parts ]

No, just the one. Getting away with it... just means surviving and not getting voted for? If that's the case, and Fuzukawa did kill Zelda, then....

[ how do they have the special new psych? simon also killed that night? or simon killed zelda? ]

[squirt]

...Your team can still have the psych after you die.

[ ): ]

But I don't know. It could mean that Simon killed Zelda, along with Fukuzawa.

[crimebaby]

So if you kill and then are killed on the same night, it counts as getting away with it?

[ giving his shoulder another little squeeze ]

I can see that. But it still doesn't explain what makes Simon worse than every other killer....

[squirt]

I can try to ask. But the reapers don't always give details like that away.

[ it's confidence week, so he doesn't fidget or anything, but he does gingerly lift livio's hand away. because he's about to say something mean. ]

...We never figured out who killed Fukuzawa. And if they killed Zelda together—couldn't he have tried to cover his tracks?

I don't know if it's true. I don't like the idea. [ he could not fathom the possibility of killing his own teammate. ] It's just... something on my mind.

1/2

[crimebaby]

[ haru can do this because the same idea seems to have dawned on livio, and though his expression has been pretty blank this whole time, his eyes widen a little bit and the color drains from his face ]

[crimebaby]

Fuck.

[ that's the most expression he's shown ]

No, it's him. He did it.

[squirt]

[ ah... ]

You're sure?

[crimebaby]

Yes. I'm sure. [ .... ]

I'm sure he used our team power to do one or either. [ livio like i have to fucking kill simon now even though murder proposals are closed ]

[squirt]

...What is your team power?

[ not like everyone in the game is not also planning to murder Simon right now, imagine he just shows up at trial ]

[crimebaby]

[ me praying he was already murdered ]

Putting a compulsion in someone's head that's very hard to resist doing. For example, that week when Valerie was cursed three times, once with "being polite", that was me. I cursed her to think about how her actions and words affected other people before she spoke or acted. It doesn't always work, but.... I'm sure he fucking used it on Fuzukawa. Either to get him to kill himself or to kill Zelda.

[squirt]

Oh. [ it makes sense but it's not great. fukuzawa's murder hadn't left that much evidence—he can see why, now. ] ...Sorry, Livio. That's... [ it's not great. ] Watch out for Amelia.

[crimebaby]

I will.

[ livio mentally kicking himself for having not figured this put earlier ughh ]

[ me also screaming i can't murder simon ]

Shit. I can't let him hurt either of you.