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Mr. Gold, SHSL Rhythm Gamer Affiliated with Lunatic Lunado 2 Status: Hero | Zero

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Veil of Smoke || Gold || Trial 6.1 [RE: White, Katsuo]

Starting the trial, Gold walked in with a look of determination on his face. He had been looking forward to something like this for quite a while, it seemed. It was almost as if he had stopped caring about the game and murders at hand, and instead turned his undivided attention towards finding the mastermind’s true identity.

“It’s true, the mastermind’s alias couldn’t have had a color in it. Although, at the time I didn’t consider that shades could have also been excluded from that rule…”

He took a small pause before speaking up again.

“Anyway, as I’m sure you all are aware at this point, but as it turns out, this game was just that. A Game. Although it may have seemed like we were all in trouble, none of us were any real trouble all along. An illusion.”

“Thus… We can assume whoever the mastermind is, they never had any intention of killing anyone in the first place. If anything, they probably trapped us all in here because of those cards we all received at the beginning. If they were true, if all of us did commit a crime we couldn’t remember, they likely trapped us in this place to teach us a lesson.”

“As for names… I must admit that all of the names I received for personal identity facts belonged to people who perished. However, considering the nature of this world, and the nature of this trial. It should only be fair if I just…”

Another pause as he reconsidered what he was about to do. Although, he really didn’t have anything to be worried about, right? He already knew that the world they had been living in had secretly been consequence free all along.

“My true name is Ryouma Reizei, and I’ve been hiding my talent this entire time as well. I am truly the Super High School Level Whistleblower.”

That wasn’t so hard, after all.

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Fuchsia, Garden, Bat.

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Unraveled || Gold || Trial 5.1

Gold had stayed relatively quiet throughout the investigation and trial. He had much more important things on his mind. His interests had elevated above just finding who the killer was. Especially after he had gotten his mastermind clue.

But then, something astonishing happened. Two people appeared, people that were supposed to be dead.

“Impostors.”

That was all he said before looking back at the two revived corpses.

“I knew both Kuukai and Ryuuya. Neither of them acted like this before, and their eye colors were different. These two are simply a distraction.”

And then he went quiet again.

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Effervescent || Gold || Trial 4.1 [RE: Everything]

After staying quiet for most of the trial, Gold finally spoke up. Ever since he had ditched his shades and jacket his entire personality seemed to have changed. No longer was he shouting or causing a ruckus.

“First of all, you should all take the time to remember the motive. If you get away with it all you can take two friends along with you. Considering the number one suspect here, Cyan, also appears to be dating someone who is vouching for their innocence… Coming from someone who did this in the last case, it’s a little hard to buy.”

“That being said, I don’t mind doing any checks you might want me to do. I have nothing to hide here, after all.”

Before he could forget, he went to bring up one last thing. It was something he was sure everyone was waiting on, after all. There was something that he was given that nobody else had access to.

“I received a notification a few days ago. It was similar to a personal identity fact, but it had no name designated to it. That was our mastermind clue. As much as I would love to share it with you all, I don’t wish to cause mass hysteria either. So I’ve given the clue to someone who I know isn’t the mastermind, to be a little more secure.”

With that, he fell silent once again. He seemed a little lost in thought, as if he had more concerning things on his mind than the trial. Although, he really shouldn’t have been so lackadaisical when it came to something that concerned the safety of everyone in the trial room.

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Turning Point || Gold || Clock Theater [RE: Executions, Grey]

As Gold watched the two executions, he had a blank expression on his face. He didn’t seem too phased by anything that was going on. Not even a slight grimace. After it was all finished, he turned to face the others.

“Once I receive my clue, I will inform the rest of you. I was never intending on keeping it to myself in the first place.”

However, he couldn’t help but notice Grey going off on him. His face still seemed rather devoid of emotion as it had been since he removed the shades.

“I’m sorry, Grey-san, I’m not letting you or anyone take these keycards. You say I can’t be trusted, but personally I don’t think anyone can be trusted. These keycards are powerful tools, and I’m not giving them up so easily. I have a plan to make sure none of you can ever get a hold of them even if you attempt to slay me.”

“And you’re talking to one of the least selfish people in this room, Grey. I’ve almost never done anything for myself. I’ve never even celebrated my own birthday. Even by hiding my identity, I’ve only been doing so because one slip up and all of the wrong people could track down my entire organization. They could handle themselves, but I would prefer if that didn’t happen. Call me whatever you want, but I’ve risked my life and my family’s life dozens of times all for a cause that would have had no impact on me in the long run. And as I said, I would have gladly excepted my fate had Nikaidou-san been in the clear.”

With a sigh, he turned back towards the others, taking a sweeping glance around the room before speaking one last time.

“I don’t plan on laying a finger on any of you. However, if you try to apprehend me, I will not hesitate to strike you down. Hate me if you will, but revenge in and of itself is petty and cheap.”

And with that, he was off away from the others, slipping into the shadows. Even if anyone were to follow after them, they would notice that his movements were even brisker than normal.

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打打打打打打打打打打 || Gold || ClockThea [RE: Silver]

[Suicide Mention]

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Gold surprisingly had very little reaction to Silver. Instead he seemed to almost ignore her, even as she attacked him. Instead all he did was reach up to grasp at his shades. Which was then followed by a distinct clattering sound echoing across the trial room as they hit the floor.

“Silver-san, I do not care what you think of me. And like I said before, I quite don’t like when you act like you know what I’m like, when you very clearly don’t. Especially when up until now I’ve been playing a character, rather than behaving like myself.”

“I’ve grown tired of playing the role of Kenta Kamiya. I held hope that perhaps we would get out of here sooner than later, and that keeping up my disguise would be more worthwhile. But as the weeks dragged on I began to realize how less and less necessary it was to hide my identity.”

His tone seemed to have changed quite a bit. Had everything up to this point really just been an act? It was as if at the drop of a hat, or rather at the drop of a pair of shades, he became a completely different person.

“All you truly need to know about me is that I do whatever I can to fight for what I believe is right. You say I am a criminal, yet you don’t even know what I’ve done. I’ve stolen many identities and driven many people into economic ruin all for what I believe in. It may be illegal, and you may consider it wrong, but I always stick to my modus operandi. I do what I can to benefit the most people, but there is always a cost. However, I never do anything for my own selfish reasons. I would have allowed myself to die if I knew Peacock would have gotten away with it. I just didn’t want our plans to be all for nothing.”

“However, I will say that most of my story that I told you before was not a lie. One of the biggest differences was merely who happened to be holding the gun. I gave him every opportunity to flee, and yet he chose to let me kill him, only under the condition that I move his dog somewhere safe.”

With that, he finished speaking. The way he behaved wasn’t anything like before. No more shouting or gloating. Instead, he almost seemed to be devoid of emotion altogether.

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Everlasting Message || Gold || Trial 3.5 [RE: Grey, Mystique, Silver, Peacock]

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“Gey-kun. You aren’t forgetting, are you? It doesn’t matter if you vote for me. I have roughly a 5% chance of getting executed if you all get it wrong. So I pinned it on myself. You didn’t really think I would make a case like this so easy without an overall goal in mind, did you?”

“Think about it this way. Why would I use a unique, distinguishable gun when I could have just used one from the Casemate? What is the benefit of using my own? I contemplated leaving the gun with Rusty’s corpse, but I didn’t want y'all jumping to the conclusion he did it to himself as a last ditch effort if you couldn’t pin it on anyone else. And really, when you think about it, why would have I kept it in my room if I didn’t want to get caught? Worst case scenario, you have to play a guessing game on who shot it. Best case scenario? Somebody investigates my room and finds it, pinning it on me.”

“Yeah, yeah. I know what you’re all thinking. How horrible, right? It’s not like I care. It’s my job after all. Tell me, do you believe it’s wrong to kill one person if in the process you could save twenty people? Small Tragedies with greater outcomes are preferable to large tragedies with smaller outcomes, are they not? Such is my modus operandi. I don’t care if you think my operations are wrong. You know who the worst kind of people are? The people who act like they’re trying to save everyone, when all they do is hurt the people they supposedly care so much about in the process. No, I’m not one of those people. I’m realistic, I know that in order to do what you believe in, sacrifices must be made.”

Then he looked over at Mystique as he was speaking. He looked pretty confused, before finally speaking up.

“Uh… Mystique-kun, I think it’s time for a time out, don’t you think? Did you even look at the corpse? He very clearly has a star-shaped bullet wound. Also, the Chapel and the Study are literally right next to each other.”

As Silver approached him he reacted rather quickly. As he snatched the shades off of his face, he quickly grabbed them back from her hands. After doing such, he quickly returned the frames back where they belong.

“First of all, who gave you the right to touch me? Second of all, there are no such things as heroes, Silver-chan. Even Sentai Heroes destroy the whole town in the process of defeating their monster of the week, so can you really even call them heroes in the first place.”

“Also, whether any of you would like to believe it or not, Rusty killed himself. I’m sure at least one of you found my note, right? That thing was pretty ominous, wasn’t it? Only a man with a death wish would follow up on a note like that. You also can’t deny that he was shot pointblank. The star-shaped wound and the fact that his clothing around it is charred from the gunpowder combustion all confirm that. And before one of you try to argue that he wasn’t conscious, none of you should have been able to find bruises that would indicate that he was knocked out, if any of you even bothered to check the body thoroughly enough. And I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t know how to knock him out food without killing him in the process. And I don’t think he would have died with a smile on his face if that was the cause either, he’d look more like he was sleeping.”

He smile began to fade as he heard Peacock speak.

“I’m sorry, Peacock… You did your best.”

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Max Burning!! || Gold || Trial 3.4 [ATTN: Everyone]

[[Suicide Mention]]

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As the trial went on, Gold seemed to get even more irritated. Until eventually, he spoke.

“You all really don’t get it… Do you?”

“In fact, the only person here who has really seem to caught on has been Plum. Congratulations on that. You’re correct on that, why was Rusty smiling…?”

He took a moment to pause, looking across the crowd through his shades. It was time for a little story. Not one that anyone would probably have any interest in hearing, but a story nonetheless.

“I invited Rusty to come have a talk. I never had intentions on killing him, but I brought my pistol which I swiped from the trophy room back at the hotel as a safe measure. In reality… I brought him there as a distraction, but things didn’t quite pan out the way I expected them to.”

Another pause…

“You see, Rusty immediately assumed I had brought him there to kill him. But he didn’t leave or try to combat me. As it turned out, he was fine with dying, especially if it meant the others could get a mastermind clue from it.”

“So we moved his dog to the lounge together, so she wouldn’t have to watch her master die. And then after that was over, I gave him the gun… and he used it on himself. That’s why the bullet was at point blank range, so close that it burned his clothing. That’s why he died with a smile on his face.”

“I shot the wall on purpose, not for the reason any of you were even thinking though. I wanted it to seem like there as a struggle going on because both Rusty and I didn’t want you all to get it right. The hope was that you’d vote for someone else, and then he would have gotten away with it, sending the clue to his keycard. That’s also why I snatched up his keycard.”

“There, are you happy? I don’t even care what you vote for at this point. Either way you get someone innocent executed or you miss out on a mastermind clue. I was willing to take my chances with y'all getting it wrong, but it was really annoying how you all kept going on and on putting words and feelings into my mouth. Why’d you kill him? Was it because you don’t like dogs? You did it to get a mastermind clue but it wasn’t worth it!”

He clenched his fists and started to look more angry than he usually would. Maybe even a little furious at that point. But then… He calmed down a bit, to say one last thing before finishing his little speech.

“Please, just stop acting like you know… Like you know literally anything about me. Because you don’t.”

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ΑΩ || Gold || Trial 3.3

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Well,

“You’re all being really annoying, you know?”

“Accuse me if you want, but all of your theories are such shit. Hey did, you know that you can accuse just about anyone if you stretch your theories hard enough, focus on minute details, and think of as many ‘what if they did it on purpose!’ twists as possible.”

He sighed, taking another keycard out of his jacket pocket. It’s almost as if he had a keycard for each pocket.

“You’re right, theoretically I still could miss someone even with that skill. But think about who you’re talking about. Have you even looked at Rusty before this point? Not a very athletic dude. And that’s not even close to my only skill, you know?”

He showed another skill on the keycard.

# S14 Green’s Focus The owner of the keycard with this skill equipped will be more protected against distractions, allowing them to more easily stick to a task.

“If I were the one that shot Rusty I wouldn’t have missed. And like I mentioned, missing on purpose makes no sense at all if you think about it for more than a few moments. What? It could throw people off maybe. Not missing at all would have made things a lot harder to figure out you know.”

With that, he stuffed the keycard back into his pocket.

“Anyway, why don’t you all try to work out the how instead of the who first. I’m sure things will become a lot more clear if you do. You know what they say, great minds think about ideas, average minds think about events, small minds think about people.”

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BLACK or WHITE? || Gold || Trial 3.2 [RE: White, Grey]

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He looked a bit confused for a moment.

“And…?”

And then… a laugh?

“You’re such an amateur, Grey-kun.”

He took a moment to collect himself before speaking again.

“So let’s see here. You think I shot at rusty, maybe even missed on purpose? Uh… Do you not already see the problem there? Why would I miss on purpose if it was going to leave evidence? Wouldn’t it have been better to just not leave a hole in the wall at all, leaving less clues. Trying a red herring like that… wouldn’t make sense if you think about it for more than 2 minutes.”

Then he turned back towards White. He was even more confused at what she was even going on about.

“So… I don’t like dogs, right? So you’re right, you figured it out! The best course of action would have been for me to kill the dude that likes dogs, meanwhile his dog still sticks around. That’s not even throwing the baby out with the bathwater, that’s just throwing the baby out. Not to mention if I was going to kill somebody I would have aimed for the literal murder accomplice that’s still running around.”

“And Grey… You’re right. Isn’t it strange how things line up like that? Although, I have to admit I expected a lot better from you. You’re missing something pretty important, aren’t you?”

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雪女 || Gold || Trial 3.1

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Well that was irritating.

“Hey, Silver? Do everyone a favor and get over yourself for once. Heh!”

He didn’t seem to phased by the accusation, more annoyed than anything else.

“But hey, I’ll humor you. Sounds like fun, I don’t mind putting overzealous fools in their place. Where was I last night? In my bed, sleeping, like a normal person. What was my relationship to Rusty? We were subunit members and we talked all of once. Ask Grey, he can tell you that we never even talked over our keycards.”

“Anyway, let’s talk a bit more about the things that you’ve said that make no sense. First of all, are you really bringing up the dog? Let me guess, Grey and White told you it barked at me. I hate to break it to you miss, but that’s not even the first time the thing has barked at me. Here’s the thing. I. Don’t. Like. Dogs. For one, I’m allergic. On top of that…”

“Um… Don’t tell anyone outside of here this, it’d totally ruin my credibility, but I’m actually kind of afraid of them. You would be too if you were in my shoes… After what happened to my sister…”

He was starting to get visibly upset for once. He reached a hand up to rub his temple. This was getting into a territory which he never intended to speak about again.

“And anyway… I refused to let her into my room and slammed the door in its face. Sorry to all of you dog lovers out there, but I just didn’t want it getting into my room. That’s why it was barking at me.”

“Whatever… Moving on, let me humor you again. Let’s say I did kill him, there’s a hole in your theory. You say that the killer fired a shot at him, but missed, but…”

He paused to reach into his pocket. From there he produced a green keycard.

“This is Magnolia’s ID card. On it there is a skill that I got from the loveca machine, using the loveca that had accumulated on it. I carried all of my keycards on my person while we were here, considering I didn’t want someone sneaking into my room and swiping them from me. Anyway, this keycard has a skill that would make it highly unlikely that I would shoot at someone and miss.”

From there, he navigated through the options on the keycard and navigated to the skill.

#S16 { Plum’s Accuracy } - The owner of the keycard with this skill equipped will have a buff-up in their accuracy, being less likely to miss a shot or throw.

“Also… Silver, you’re being so dramatic, you know? ‘Just like Magnolia and De’ath’. Yeah? You mean like the person you considered a side suspect and the person that wasn’t even on your radar until near the end, Miss 'it has to be someone of the smile attribute, in the case where neither of the people who were involved were smile attribute’?”

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