Memory: ✞ Case 4, Naho's possession Received: Day 163 (Iota's liar game) The Thing: ( with some names mysteriously obscured ) The setting is once again a spartan white space with cardboard boxes and filing cabinets. The cat ruling over this domain has been attacked by the evil spirit possessing a resident, a little dog named Ren. The mechanics of these cases are explained. The scenario corresponds to the state of the bodies of the victims, and they all must assign proper to blame to the story counterparts among them.
Ritsu and Malik suggest ghosts, which Yuyuko finds amusing for obvious reasons. Although ultimately Asami was Ema's counterpart rather than her own, the details of her case hit way too close to home, namely the situation with her father and her ultimate suicide. With this unfortunate reliving of circumstances, Yuyuko has to exit the trial room for a good half hour before she can compose herself again. She returns later and is able to summarize the case in time for the counterparts to step forward and unlock their memory cabinets.
Someone Yuyuko had been on friendly terms with, a paranormalist named Naho Saenoki, turns out to have been the counterpart the guilty party in the story, reliving the outcome of her poor choices and eventual death. She hadn't known Naho was dead, but evidently she was subject to a very, very bad haunting and possession, the likes of which even Yuyuko hadn't seen before.
The cat proceeds to announce that any spirit they don't manage to exorcise will permanently take over its host, meaning whoever had thrown Youmu under the bus in the previous case is now running amok in someone's body. This means, unfortunately, Naho either has to die or be swiftly eradicated of her guilt. Yuyuko is firmly in the "oh like hell you're going to fucking kill her" camp and gets in between Kouha, their supposed executioner, and Naho, only to start a huge fight. Athena and Maya (again Eveningstar of Epona) try to rid Naho of her guilt, but the effort is fruitless as Naho is eventually consumed by the spirit possessing her. Shadow!Naho attempts to fight and breaks Kouha's wrist, kickstarting a fight--though Kouha emerges victorious, killing her easily with his....weird purple fairy magical girl transformation. Yuyuko attempts to get some information out of the spirit, but it can only drop a few details before the aforementioned fight.
As it turns out, the true guilty party of Youmu's case was Austria, who'd been slowly succumbing to possession throughout the week. A party of her, Ty Lee, and Mai disperse to kill Austria's body later on.
Gleamed from it: ❀ although she doesn't have the memory of the situation in question, this pretty much confirms that her own death 1000 years ago was a suicide ❀ wow this Kouha guy's sure a blowhard ❀ ghostfriend!! ....and ghostfriend dies horribly, um ❀ HORRIBLE VINDICTIVENESS TOWARDS THIS AUSTRIA LADY HOLY SHIT HOW DARE SHE THROW TINY BODYGUARD UNDER THE BUS ❀ at least killing her possessed body gave Yuyuko some sort of horrible satisfaction..... ❀ understanding of the situation that killed Youmu, now. she was a counterpart in the last case, but not the counterpart that was to blame ❀ Names: Naho Saenoki, Ema Skye, Austria ❀ +5000 emotionally drained, +500 temporary grudge
Shard 14
Received: Day 163 (Iota's liar game)
The Thing: ( with some names mysteriously obscured ) The setting is once again a spartan white space with cardboard boxes and filing cabinets. The cat ruling over this domain has been attacked by the evil spirit possessing a resident, a little dog named Ren. The mechanics of these cases are explained. The scenario corresponds to the state of the bodies of the victims, and they all must assign proper to blame to the story counterparts among them.
Ritsu and Malik suggest ghosts, which Yuyuko finds amusing for obvious reasons. Although ultimately Asami was Ema's counterpart rather than her own, the details of her case hit way too close to home, namely the situation with her father and her ultimate suicide. With this unfortunate reliving of circumstances, Yuyuko has to exit the trial room for a good half hour before she can compose herself again. She returns later and is able to summarize the case in time for the counterparts to step forward and unlock their memory cabinets.
Someone Yuyuko had been on friendly terms with, a paranormalist named Naho Saenoki, turns out to have been the counterpart the guilty party in the story, reliving the outcome of her poor choices and eventual death. She hadn't known Naho was dead, but evidently she was subject to a very, very bad haunting and possession, the likes of which even Yuyuko hadn't seen before.
The cat proceeds to announce that any spirit they don't manage to exorcise will permanently take over its host, meaning whoever had thrown Youmu under the bus in the previous case is now running amok in someone's body. This means, unfortunately, Naho either has to die or be swiftly eradicated of her guilt. Yuyuko is firmly in the "oh like hell you're going to fucking kill her" camp and gets in between Kouha, their supposed executioner, and Naho, only to start a huge fight. Athena and Maya (again Eveningstar of Epona) try to rid Naho of her guilt, but the effort is fruitless as Naho is eventually consumed by the spirit possessing her. Shadow!Naho attempts to fight and breaks Kouha's wrist, kickstarting a fight--though Kouha emerges victorious, killing her easily with his....weird purple fairy magical girl transformation. Yuyuko attempts to get some information out of the spirit, but it can only drop a few details before the aforementioned fight.
As it turns out, the true guilty party of Youmu's case was Austria, who'd been slowly succumbing to possession throughout the week. A party of her, Ty Lee, and Mai disperse to kill Austria's body later on.
General links: part 1, part 2
Gleamed from it:
❀ although she doesn't have the memory of the situation in question, this pretty much confirms that her own death 1000 years ago was a suicide
❀ wow this Kouha guy's sure a blowhard
❀ ghostfriend!! ....and ghostfriend dies horribly, um
❀ HORRIBLE VINDICTIVENESS TOWARDS THIS AUSTRIA LADY HOLY SHIT HOW DARE SHE THROW TINY BODYGUARD UNDER THE BUS
❀ at least killing her possessed body gave Yuyuko some sort of horrible satisfaction.....
❀ understanding of the situation that killed Youmu, now. she was a counterpart in the last case, but not the counterpart that was to blame
❀ Names: Naho Saenoki, Ema Skye, Austria
❀ +5000 emotionally drained, +500 temporary grudge