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Who: Gundam Tanaka and Susan Sto Helit
What: Clue solving buddies
When: Sunday Afternoon
Where: Topaz wing

[Unlike...previous times he's played this game, when Gundam gets the clue, he will go directly to Susan's room and knock. He's been keeping to himself so far since the trial, but this is something that has to be solved together, lest Susan, the Mastermind, solve the riddle before him and dispose of the clue.

It's unlikely but possible. So, without hamsters, he goes to her room and knocks.]

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Hmm...I disagree that it is more or less selfish than other incentives. Simply because the lives saved are lives here rather than lives elsewhere...

But this message casts the killers in a light intended to be sympathetic.

No, you're right; I suppose I mean... selflessness specifically in regards to this group and in regards to the game. Rather than preying on your concern for things that matter only to you, it's in the interests of everyone this week that somebody be murdered.

[At his next comment, Susan falls silent.]

...One of those four is still with us. There's only been one male killer. The voice wasn't clear, but I don't think they would risk revealing a future killer to us this way.

Spain has always hinted that there's been more.

I despise Spain for my own reasons [BULLFIGHTING] and yet I have never borne him ill will specifically for his actions. There was nothing dishonorable in the manner he chose to make his kill.

Did it not truly seem as though he had no say in whether he continued? The Hostess did not appear to ask his opinion, and truly, he would have been a fool not to take the opportunity.

There is something greater he fights for.

We have no recourse but to choose to execute murderers during a trial. If we fail and the identity of the true murderer is clear, they deserve the harshest punishment we can levy - even death - to deter future murderers. If we don't do this, we've shown that we will stand by and simply accept it when people murder at their whims.

...That is, that would be the line of thought if the idea were simply to go a week without a murder. It would be a way to step outside the rules of the game and prevent the deaths from continuing.

[...Susan sighs.]

To allow an innocent to be executed in your place is more than dishonorable. It's what I can't accept most of all...

We need to talk to Spain. No doubt part of his condition is secrecy, but he's already proven willing to hint. This doesn't mean I'm willing to allow him to play as he pleases, though - he's still a danger to the rest of us.

If it were I, I would not allow an innocent executed in my place...I would ensure this by framing one who has proven willing to participate. But absent that...merely causing confusion with no specific target and allowing the assumptions of others to direct that course? We killed Latvia, not he.

...I wonder, if he is discovered, what consequences there will be. Still, I would speak to him.

...I don't know if I'd be terribly displeased if he fell through a trapdoor.

[She suddenly pauses to give a small shake of her head.]

I asked Kaoru whether or not he had tried to influence us to execute Latvia instead of Spain - he denied it, but... it seems quite likely now, doesn't it? There were a certain number of them in the room that day, and they knew who each one was.

Knowing that there could be others working on behalf of the murderer... we must be careful of those who attempt to sway the trial one direction or another. ...Perhaps that's as good a reason to tell everyone as any. [She glances to Gundam.] You, of course, must be wary of my own theories as well.

...I'll speak to Spain. Do you want to be present as well?

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I would hear what he says.

[He sounds fairly determined about it.]

It is important we come to understand what we've been told.

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