televised | catch-all: emma.

You think I'm singling out any specific part as shittier than the other? I'm talking about all fifty flavors of bullshit.

[People she likes are dead. Fuck off with that?]

I don't think we have enough items to cover everyone this week, either.

[As she speaks, the ice balls keep slamming into the ground, her voice tense.]

We don't. There's the partner role, and - I know someone has another item that can cover another pair, but we also don't have any items that can clear out corruption. So, whoever we vote for isn't getting the same treatment Xion and Swift Wind did, and that's going to put us over the threshold of people we can repartner.

... So I was right. Two people are going to die. Minimum. And that's in the best case scenario where we don't fuck up so magnificently that we accidentally tie our votes.

[This is a majority vote situation, after all.]

Are we even remotely close to getting rid of the darkness? We started off this week with twenty-two survivors, and we're gonna end it with sixteen or less. We could easily find ourselves in the single digits by next week.

That's also assuming nobody pulls the same shit Shirasu tried last time when we caught him in the middle of the trial.

[She shakes her head.]

I don't know. I asked Lune about it, because I was hoping he could tell me more now that some time has passed, but...

[... Raises an eyebrow.]

Do you have a specific reason to expect someone to pull the same shit as Shirasu?

[Like. Are they getting Shirasugate 2: The Electric Boogaloo? Or is she just catastrophizing? Hm.]

Lune must have told you something in response, even if it was to deny or evade the question. Do you remember what he said, exactly?

Not his specific shit, maybe, but... We had to stop multiple people from murdering him last trial. If we find a culprit who isn't corrupted, do you think that'll be different this week, especially considering who was killed?

[Ugh. At the question, though, she thinks about it.]

First I asked him if it was possible to get it to manifest anywhere other than in a location or a person... He said he didn't know of a way to do that.

... No. Probably not. But I hope we can at least skip the part where someone gets stabbed in the middle of it.

[Poor, poor Lea.]

Okay... And what did you ask him afterwards?

Yeah, I'll say a prayer that nobody is a fucking idiot this time around.

[However well that'll work out.]

To let me know if he did find a way, since he said he would look into it. He did say we were in a better position in regards to it than we were when we started, at least.

You and me both.

[Please no stabby.........]

In regards to... ending this once and for all, right? [Just to check she's following correctly.] It's obnoxious that they're forced to be as vague as possible.

Ookurikara shouldn't try anything, at least, but...

[Who knows.]

I think so. Or, at least the whole eradicating the corruption part.

Except people he got along with are dead.

[Lili was the Ookurikara whisperer.]

... I see. [It'd be nice if they had more clarification on that, but...] Emma, you haven't had any trouble with your role since Hisoka died, right?

Have you talked to him today? You'll see what I meant tomorrow. I don't think he'll be an issue.

[Hm. At any rate, she shakes her head.]

No, I haven't. I haven't found anything as useful as Shirasu's shit, but... It's definitely easier now.

[She hums at that, choosing to gloss over whether she spoke to Ookurikara or not. He's a jerk? Obviously she didn't? Etc, etc, etc.]

Yeah, I assumed as much. [REST IN PIECES, HISOKA.] But I wanted to know— Were you able to clear anyone for Swift Wind's murder?

...Yeah. It wasn't Shirasu, but we think it was someone close to his height and build.

[...]

Why? Do you have any ideas who it might have been?

Someone close to Shirasu's height and build, who knows how to prepare a meal of that quality.

[... Well.]

There's only so many people who fit that description, Emma.

...If I tell you something that sounds weird, are you immediately going to tell me it's stupid?

[opens her mouth.

closes it.

opens it again.]

I won't.

[EVEN IF IT PAINS HER.]

...Shess, Lea and I think it might have been Hisoka, even with the whole two living killers thing.

[

SHE SAID SHE WOULDN'T CALL IT STUPID, BUT—]

—Excuse me?

Trust me, I hate it more than anyone that this is what we've come up with.

Please tell me your theory doesn't involve Hisoka's fucking ghost jumping out of his body to possess some poor asshole.

[SHE'S AGING 10 YEARS BY THE SECOND, EMMA.]

No, that would be stupid.

Oh, thank god.

Then how the hell would that work?

We... are still trying to figure that part out, but literally everything else we've found kind of points to him in a big way.

... You're gonna have to elaborate. Did you find anything outside of the trial?

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