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[ yeah she may have posed this theory while looking reigen in the eyes. ]

That's... a group you're part of? You don't get fail trials where you're from? [ this is how she gets the spirit of justice lore. ]

I know none of this is fair. It should work in the opposite of all this and... I struggle to be fully okay with it when I know what it does to Ryuki. [ she is so biased. ] I'm not... mad that Nimona isn't losing someone else she cares about and that we're not stuck with another situation like we had with Mika, but I don't know how that makes me feel.

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[ it took me a second to realize that was a typo and i was like well they do get fail trials actually they suck ]

Yeah, that's our revolutionary group back home. Our country had nothing but guilty verdicts for 23 straight years 'cause people could just be accused of whatever and weren't able to get a defense attorney to represent them and argue their case. Changing that system is what we've been fightin' for this whole time, so this whole thing's just... puttin' me in kind of a tough place. Which probably isn't that far off from where you are.

If this place wasn't so screwed up, he could've just confessed to a self-defense kill off the bat and gotten a lower sentence, and we could've spent our time on the other case and found out the truth of what happened there. That's what should've happened.

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-- wait, no defense attorney? How do you even run a justice system without one half of the law team?

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You're not wrong though. I'm meant to catch criminals, even if I don't like the outcome. Ryuki is driving himself to the edge of his nerves because he needs to solve cases and bring people to justice. He hates criminals deeply, and he has every reason to.

And I'm selfish, and Ryuki's well being matters to me more than anything.

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There's literally a jail cell -- why couldn't we just...

[doghouse]

Exactly. It's a sham of a system that helps the queen keep her iron grip on the kingdom. The prosecution makes their argument to the judge, the royal priestess does the Divination Séance if it's a murder and everyone accepts her insights without question, then they slap 'em with a guilty verdict and send 'em to either the slammer or the chopping block, depending on the crime.

[ ...sighs SO deeply. ]

Yeah... I get ya. It's infuriating. Not a lick of sense in any of it.

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Do you think it's similar here? What better way to gather protectors -- ones that you can found into obidience by whittling down "trouble makers"? Either way, it feels like a power trip. Something like the one you just described.

[ yeah, mood. ]

All they're using it for is holding people before they have them killed. [ she pauses, and then her lips twitch slightly ] And well meaning jailbreakers.

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I dunno. Maybe. Wouldn't be surprised if it was somethin' like that, in any case.

Supposedly there's some "real" villains holed up in some cells there somewhere, but we never met 'em while we were there, at least.

[ he's still very ??? about how this place keeps claiming to be overrun with villains when they rarely see anything close to one. ]

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They keep warning that villans are more active but-- I dunno. I haven't run into any.

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I wonder if we could find them. If I could get to an access point, I might be able to find holding records.

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Yeah, me neither. They say it's 'cause the leaders are handling 'em, but. I dunno.

[ it's always seemed fishy and keeps getting fishier. ]

Ya think? They got that power nullifyin' thing at the jail's the problem, but if you could get into the network or whatever from somewhere else...

[ he's not going to be much help here, khura'in is not on the cutting edge of technology. ]

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I'm sure they're capable of it, but-- Will mentioned this too. It's weird they brought us all here and have just been having us do commmunity work.

And then the insistence on making one of us into a villain weekly as well.

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... .................................. huh. ]

Maybe I should try. All we know is there are very high ranked villains being held somewhere in the jail, right? That's all?

[doghouse]

I'm not sure exactly how high ranked they are, but yeah, there's supposed to be at least a few.

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I think they said one of 'em's in some special round cell 'cause his power is boxes or something?

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Boxes?

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Did you get this from the leaders? [ she just bullies hers. and everyone else's. apparently. ]

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I overheard one of 'em saying it at the first trial. "The Cubist" or something.

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"The Cubist".

[ huh x 3000 ]

I wonder if these "villains" are like our "villains".

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[ me with capslock on typing yEAH, and being like oh that's a mood ]

Yeah, that's the question, ain't it? Though I don't know why they'd be hangin' around in prison here when ours are gettin' the death penalty.

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Did you see the information from the trip I went on on Thursday? Temenos was talking about it a little the other day.

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That was... the note about teams that get wiped out getting assimilated into this world or something, right? And cycles?

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That’s the one.

How are they assimilated, if they’re dead? Of course “wiped out” could mean something non-lethal, but not usually.

[doghouse]

Yeah, that's we were tryin' to figure out too. Doesn't make any sense. Don't really know why they'd want that either, unless it's just the easy alternative to sending us somewhere else.

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Well, if they want us here making up part of their population, they can't really kill us permanently.