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Reflexively, you curl tighter. Just another minute. Just another minute of sleep is all you need, but the sun waits for no one. Wait. The sun? After many days and nights with only moonlight to guide you, your eyes snap open and your pupils contract at the light.

It's been a while, hasn't it?

Bask in this euphoria for however long it lasts, until your memory snaps back against your mind like a rubber band. Weren't you dead? No matter how you met your end, you certainly remember dying in vivid detail. The pain that corresponds to the last moment's of your life chooses then to make itself known, trying to wriggle free from your skin almost literally. That mark on your skin wasn't there before either.

Take a moment to breathe and get your bearings, and really take everything into focus. The warm rays of sun that dance upon your skin are colorful and fragmented like a kaleidoscope, the effect of being filtered through stained glass. Of all the places to wake up, it seems you're inside a church that's no stranger to you, St. Mary's Basilica. While the odds are good you've woken up with company somewhere near by, the glint of gold from the altar will likely catch your attention regardless—embedded deep in the altar stands a golden staff, two sculpted wings draped down its sides.

While some things are the same, and some things are different, there are still more questions than answers. But the inscription engraved into the roof of the ceiling of the Church, now visible in proper lighting seems rather apt: Welcome to Krakow (again).

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[p_q]

A toddler tantruming over a broken toy. How unsightly.

[He pretty much always says 'unsightly' the same way he'd say 'garbage' and Shin is probably acquainted with that considering his own trial.]

[twoasone]

[ Yes, he's a horrible person who's rightfully suffering, but he's more focused on watching her world burn right now. ]

It's actually an interesting change of tone compared to the last few.

[p_q]

Perhaps. But the fact that they're scurrying to do her bidding is the same.

[So while it's kind of gratifying to see her lose her marbles, it changes less about the trial itself, in his view. All the soap opera drama going on is less than ideal, too.

Then this happens.]

Unsurprising that the Sonui users have been keeping secrets.

[twoasone]

They're only human, you know. Mob mentality and a morbid curiosity, plus that lady and her pet demon have a stranglehold on their lives...

[ And then Cumore happens. ]

It sure is... Hm.

[p_q]

Indeed, they are only human. But even a human mob can be turned to useful ends by the right hands; it just so happens that the only ones in the running currently are the woman and her lackey, for many reasons.

[Cumore sure did happen, even if he had to take a long moment to judge humans again first.]

Sakaguchi Ango and Osamu Dazai are not to be trusted, particularly together. My suspicions lie in that direction regardless of what alibis they may concoct.

[And then Seteth happens.]

[twoasone]

[ And then MIKAMI happens. ]

And now everyone is pointing fingers at each other. Maybe someone might get killed before she even offers any hints.

[p_q]

Doubtless there would still be takers, if it gets that far.

[He says this as a statement of fact. The living do not have a track record and continue not to have a track record of good decision-making regardless of how much they shack up together. Maybe the shacking up is part of the bad decisions, but anyway.]

Pointing fingers sooner simply saves time.

[He really isn't particularly invested in them getting the correct culprit. Same as pretty much every other time.]

[tokihanate]

Some of them have been holding out this long, huh?

[p_q]

I would say the credit lies not with them, but with the incompetence of those trying to gather the information.

[tokihanate]

Very true. Especially when it's been clear from the first that they should find out all they can about each power and who has them. But oh well~

[p_q]

They should, if they had any interest in those farces that the woman calls trials.

[Which Ulquiorra for the most part was only tenuously invested in, but anyway.

Would you look at that.]

... Sooner than I was expecting.

[tokihanate]

Wow, amazingly fast~ Unprecedentedly fast. [ Maybe there's time for a nap after this after all. ]

[p_q]

Perhaps that clock tower should have been broken long ago, in that case.

[Apparently the secret to forcing people to speed up trial is just making them trial at like 2 AM. It's fine. He's definitely judging the broken clock tower a little but it still depends on the results of the black box investigation, maybe.]

[tokihanate]

[ Maybe everyone just wants to go back to sleep. ]

Heh, if only. It'd be nice to break all their things that they deem useful.

[p_q]

[That is probably a part of it. Humans and their sleep schedules!!]

Many of those things were already broken, I suppose. It seems that now we have moved on to breaking the people that she or the majority deem useful.

[tokihanate]

Well, they'll be fine when they pop in here. For a few more days anyway~

[p_q]

It seems we will be seeing those in the Night struggle and claw their way to some kind of conclusion based on whom they think they're connected to in the Twilight. It should be just as dull as any of that woman's machinations.

[tokihanate]

[ He'll nod without saying much, because quarter's got the idea anyway. Grandpa maybe getting sleepy. ]

[p_q]

[Silence is fine too, he doesn't have much more to say while they watch the living watch distcourse. He's not sleepy at all, it's fine. He's not one to sleep in public, anyway.]