Ultra-Ultimatum || Chapter 5 (MM Trial) || Saiko || RE: Harumi, Keisha, Emile, Hikaru
At Harumi’s remarks, Saiko sighs with a frown.
“I know that, I’m the one who said earlier not to focus on the roles and instead the mastermind clues, idiot. Someone else is the one who started throwing accusations around despite that.”
She glances over at Remy as she adds that last comment. Why’s everyone acting so buddy buddy with him now..? She feels really lost, since she never gave him a second thought after that trial, honestly.
That feeling of being lost just amplifies as Harumi mentions her being suspicious, and everyone else seems to latch onto that idea at the drop of a hat.
“… W-What? Are you guys really trying to blame me..? I’m not suspicious for wanting justice for the dead people! T-That’s just what a, like, normal person wants. Sorry for caring about real human beings with lives and aspirations who died and not forgiving the people who killed them. And I told you the results, misses captain- it said he was a power role. That’s exactly what it said.”
Saiko gives some nods at what Emile says in a quiet kind of ‘yea, yea’ kind of way. She crosses her arms, staring at Harumi when he speaks up, though.
“Why would he be lying? Marty-shi’s made it clear he wants to get outta here, and his role is pretty proven as being security guard so if I were a power role he couldn’t be the other one. I checked his role first at the very start and told him my role after that, since that was like proof he was, like, a good guy and we could investigate together.”
She shakes her head a little, frowning again with an upset look.
“You’re more suspicious in not believing him, really. If you’re trying to be all logical, he has no reason to try and lie. None at all. You’re just being unnecessarily suspicious of me. Plus everyone else has said their role, there’s no point in you trying to hide yours, we could figure it out ourselves by process of elimination. It would have to overlap with someone else by now, so you should know who’s lying, right? Someone has to be lying and saying they have your role, if you’re not a power role.”
Overall, Saiko seems less interested in badgering about the roles now that actual evidence seems to be circling around. She uncrosses her arms, messing idly with her jacket now as she listens to everyone.
“So basically what I’m hearing is… We were part of a coup to overthrow Alric, and this is our punishment. Our memory was wiped upon rearriving here and being put in this game, though.”
“The constellation Cygnus is relevant somehow, I guess… I can’t think of anything I know about swans and their symbolism that would be relevant. Was it pointing in a certain direction, was there anything significant about the context… I never saw it myself, so if someone could recap what it was exactly that would be cool.”
She shifts back from being as neutral as possible to looking kind of upset at what Keisha says.
“Wait, what. I don’t wanna fight against Kleis, that can’t be right… She’s been, like, super nice to us and stuff. I refuse to believe that…”
And the options… Well, that’s something, at least. There’s an end in sight and the possible endings are clear and not infinite- there’s three. Or, four, if you count standing here doing nothing forever as an option. She is.
“Heck… I don’t see why you guys are so adamant on letting the mastermind live. He literally trapped us here and worked with a corrupt leader to make us all suffer and kill each other as punishment for stepping out of a cruel system. There is, like, no redeeming factors there.”
“Unless the stupid mastermind is willing to step out right now and confess, I’m not willing to pursue option three. If he’s willing to let option two even continue to exist and leave all of us in danger, he can’t possibly care about anyone here in a genuine capacity… If he tries to get away with this and lets more people die, he’s a gross slimey monster, and I can’t live easy knowing anyone here let something like that go free.”
“Even if he was manipulated, he can come clean now- it’s the end, we either execute him or he can have even more blood on his hands. The only chance he should have in living is if he grows up and works with us instead of against us.”
