Week 7 - Trial

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week seven trial



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[souredsweet]

[Kaoru's expression shifts to something more passive and he sits back in his chair, hands folded in his lap.]

It was not, but my tale was not the entire truth, either. Would you like the real truth, Miss Sto Helit?

[inthebones]

...If you care to share it.

[souredsweet]

[Kaoru's expression immediately ices over.]

My real family was killed when I was very young, and the family that I was forced into hated that they received a boy child instead of a girl from the survivors who were left. A boy cannot produce heirs, after all, no matter what is done to it.

So this, I suppose, is the only thing that I can offer.

[inthebones]

Hm.

[Susan manages, if not a neutral expression, at least to stop looking angry for a moment.]

My opinion on that stance remains the same - absolute nonsense. But I expect you don't need me to say that.

In the end, the facade proved useful to you from a strategical standpoint nonetheless.

[souredsweet]

[if Kaoru is bothered by that, it doesn't show. an unkind smile is offered.]

It always does, but it is a struggle to maintain.

[inthebones]

...I certainly allowed myself to be misled as well.

I was never in a position to trust anyone before I came here. That I should continue not to do so until our safety has been assured is obvious now. I suppose I have to thank you for that.

I have one final question -

Did you purposefully deflect suspicion from Spain last week? Were you the one cutting his ropes?

[souredsweet]

You are welcome, though I doubt it will be enough. [he gives a bright smile. his expression then becomes one of mild surprise - surely one that Susan is used to seeing by this point. when he speaks, it's also with the voice that she's likely grown used to.]

What a question, Miss Sto Helit. Please do not accuse me of things that you have no evidence for, it is very offensive to me. [and then, lapsing back to the lower pitch, accompanied with the grotesque grin that he seems much more comfortable wearing than the sweet, passive smiles:]

Spain was simply lucky to have an accidental ally in me that trial, and I would never risk gaining the distrust of everyone by freeing him.

[inthebones]

[Susan merely rolls her eyes at that display before turning away.]

Grain of salt, of course.

Goodbye then, Kaoru. Unlike Miss Nevermind, I think my memories of you shall be bitter and virulent. No doubt you prefer it that way.

((Just to clear it up OoC since it was unclear, Susan was saying she finds the preference of the girl over the boy to be nonsense rather than Kaoru's story.))

[souredsweet]

It is a shame you did not employ such a belief sooner. [and Kaoru's smile shifts again, this time falling back to the cool placidness of earlier.]

For a person like Miss Sto Helit, such remembrance is the only thing that would be suiting.