Penelope: “Well, how did I do?”
Nina: “Wow! You were amazing! Even if you are quite scary!”
Penelope: “Aw that pleases me, perhaps you and I could talk privately after this to discuss how you’ll thank me.”
Oscar: “If we’re done with the ideal chatter perhaps we can finally talk about being let go? And maybe… Oh I don’t know, reporting all of this to some law enforcement?”
Kanji: “For once I’ll agree with hoodini here.”
Valentinia: “Wait a minute, why did Hikari get credit but I don’t!”
Jak: “Cause without him none of us would’ve listened to Jeremy…”
Just then, Atropos would fire her gun in the air… a… BB gun.
Atropos: “Wow you guys were really good! Much better than the other class of students who originally had to solve this case!”
Noir: “D-did you say other students?”
Yoshiharu: “There are others!”
Atropos: “Oops! Did I say that? Aw what a dud I am…”
Atropos seemingly giggled to herself, like hell she did that by accident! She’s trying to psyche us out…
Atropos: “You see you aren’t the only ones who we’ve forced to play our little mortal game of trust and love!”
Avrom: “You mean there are others? Where are they!? Can we talk to them?!”
Atropos: “Get your ears unclogged cause I just told you that you guys did much better than the original class that tried for this!”
Jak: “Get to the point!”
That’s when hell froze over, the trial area that looked like we were standing in clouds started to darken… we felt like we were being paralyzed again!
Clotho: “They died.”
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That voice… It was the weeping mask.
Cain: “T-they WHAT!? You’re joking right!?”
Atropos: “Nope, they got it wrong because they couldn’t find the culprit based on the one evidence that you almost got wrong as well!! As divine justice for getting it wrong, we killed them!”
Kanji: “What kind of sick joke is this! Just let us go! We played your sick tutorial! Now you give us what we want and tell us the way out!”
Atropos: “Oh you want to know how to get out?”
Nina: “YES!”
Atropos: “Oh okay then… Well in order to escape…”
She raised her arms, and at that moment wings sprouted from her back as she was raised by wires… and a silhouette darkened over her entire body… only leaving her eyes to illuminate.
Atropos: “Is to get away with murder.”
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No one could believe it.
Nina: “MURDER!?”
Avrom: “WHAT?! Murder as in killing people?!!”
Suddenly, our watches would start beaming holograms… and we saw six rules.
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1: To escape the killing game you must get away with a mortal murder.
2: The first individual who murders their victim(s) becomes the blackened and must have their case put on trial.
3: Every case from here on out will regard who killed the victim, if the mortals discover who the blackened is, then divine justice is in order.
4: All mortals must participate in the killing game trials or face individual divine justice.
5: No vandalism of Olympus property, if broken too many times individual divine justice will be set into order.
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Nina: “J-J-JUSTICE!? How can you call this divine justice!? You’re actively telling us you’ve killed people before!”
Atropos: “It’s not my fault that they weren’t able to bring divine justice on the blackened! Besides… we don’t only kill the innocent… sometimes mortal beings such as yourself become so englamored about yourself that you’d do anything… even if it means to kill…”
Nina: “N-no way! No one here would even think about doing that! R-right everyone?”
Nina turned to all of us… but… we all fell silent, was it out of fear? Or because we all knew we had just been caught in a truth about who we really are… we just had a bombshell dropped on us, the only way to escape was to kill one of our classmates and get away with the crime…
Hikari: “NO! NO I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS!”
Hikari’s voice… It was annoying, sure, but it was meant to be heard.
Hikari: “I won’t believe this! I know we’ll all make it out of here together! That is my oath! An oath to make sure we all get out of here alive!”
What was he blabbering about?
Avrom: “Yeah! There’s no way we could ever kill one another! We just prove we can figure out any case put on trial! No one would risk that!”
Shichiro: “Whatever Avery says I say louder, you may think you have us trapped… but I’m sorry to say this hon, but that we will have the last laugh.”
All three sisters were now on the giant wooden stage… and unexpectedly, all three started laughing.
Atropos: “You think you’re any different to regular mortals?! You will break under the pressure eventually…”
Lachesis: “I can’t wait for them to figure out that it’s kill or be killed…”
Clotho: “And that’s when we cut… at… there… string…”
Soon, all eighteen of us hurried back into the moving cloud as it took us back down… all the while we heard their cackles… I dozed off of course, letting go…
Jak: “…”
Jac: “…”
So, we’re in a killing game huh? A lot of us were still reeling from this shock: Nina was tearing up, Noir was shaking, Kanji was gritting at his teeth, and Cain was tugging at his choker.
Hikari: “Come on guys! What are we all sniffling for!? When I make an oath I mean it… As long as I’m here I’ll make sure we all survive this! Together!”
Penelope: “…And how can you be so sure of that? What if someone’s already been thinking of how to kill?”
We all turned our attention to Penelope.
Hikari: “…I’ll make sure to stop them… I’ll stop you, I’ll stop just about anyone… When I make a bet, I always see it through.”
Avrom: “Yeah! Wherever he goes I want to follow!”
Shichiro: “Avery! You can’t just say those things, you don’t even know him! Just stay with me until we can escape…”
Avrom: “No!”
Shichiro: “…wha-what do you mean no?”
Avrom: “Shuichi, I can’t just stand around you for protection every day and night! I need to stand up for myself and Hikari can show me that! I just know it! I have a talent to get all eyes on me! I can be just like him!”
Hikari: “HA! Good to have you on my side kid! Now come on everyone! Once we get back to the building we can establish a plan… together!”
Oh brother, this is going to go well isn’t it? But at least someone’s looking to keep us in check, and honestly… that’s what we all need right now, why?
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Because this is just the start of the eclipse.
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