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Uh...the rats were definitely different! [The rats were so much.] Nothing like that has really ever happened before.

[burningrescue]

So what made you decide to do that whole trial and execution thing? If it was my house, and someone turned into a wererat and started biting people...well, it doesn't seem like the plan you'd come up with on the fly.

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That's why we couldn't talk to you guys on Friday! We had to come up with a proper procedure to follow what happened and instill the rules of the house for the sake of the house and its guests.

...it took us a little while to figure everything out. [...]

Do you believe in justice, Mr. Thymos?

[burningrescue]

Yeah, I do. But I don't think what happened today counts.

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What would your idea of justice be in a situation like this then?

[burningrescue]

I think it was right we worked to find out who did it. Michiru needed to know the truth. But you can't just go around executing people! Especially when we don't know why something like that happened to Nikki. We could have kept her locked in that cage for now and tried to find medicine to cure her. Or if it wasn't a sickness, if she actually committed murder on purpose, then she should go to jail.

That's what I believe.

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...Mr. Thymos, we don't exactly have a jail nearby. [She blinks a little like she's surprised nobody else has actually said that before.] I understand your concerns, but for the safety of the other guests we couldn't afford time to look for a solution that wouldn't come.

...besides. What's better for the benefit of the guest? Being locked up and tortured, or relieved from the monster inside of her?

[burningrescue]

Tch. You can lock her up without torturing her. It seemed like it was holding her pretty well. And I'd say being dead isn't exactly a big relief.

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In a sense, you're right. [How to explain...]

Have you ever been sick or really badly injured?

[burningrescue]

Not really. I broke some bones once? And another time, my arm was set on fire. But nah, not really.

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You seem very nonchalant for someone who was set on fire...[No, not the time to get distracted!] But let's say it's like this. What if it was like you broke your bones, and those bones didn't heal. Instead, even more of your bones broke until all of your bones were broken. That doesn't seem like a good thing, right? Wouldn't you want to fix the broken bones?

[burningrescue]

Yeah, but if I broke a bunch of bones and wanted to fix those bones, I wouldn't want to be killed with a trident.

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That wasn't the right part of the analogy to focus on. It was either take care of this now, or leave Nikki to suffer a worse fate. You saw what happened when we released her from the cage. And if something like this happens again, we have to be prepared.

[To use the cage again? We just don't know.]

[burningrescue]

Who's the one telling you that something worse will happen? Is it Master Blue?

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[She shakes her head a little.]

On Friday when we were preparing for the trial, we looked at a bunch of options for what we could do. After discovering what happened and observing Nikki ourselves we realized it was going to get worse.

[burningrescue]

Where'd you find these options? And...observed Nikki? When, after we caught her?

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Research mostly. You've noticed there're lots of worlds besides your own, haven't you? There were a lot of places we looked. It took all of Friday to narrow it down. When we realized that the monster still had a hold of her and started to change her permanently, we knew we really couldn't avoid rule seven.

[burningrescue]

[He definitely has not realized that, but it sounds boring and he doesn't care, so moving right along...]

So why make us do a trial at all? Why not just tell us, hey, Nikki turned into a wererat and we have to kill her? It's not like we could stop you.

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[Next time she'll illustrate in crayon for him..]

The rules don't work like that. And anyway do you really think all of you would have agree to kill her without proof?

[burningrescue]

But you made the rules! And of course we wouldn't agree, but we also didn't want to kill her with proof, and you still made us!

Something is fishy here!

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We didn't make the rules. We follow them and enforce them.

[But she's pretty sure that's not a good enough answer.]

If you think something suspicious is happening in this house, might I suggest starting to investigate more?

[burningrescue]

That's what I'm trying to do! But you're leading me around in circles. You said you three researched the rules, didn't you?

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We researched our options because of the rules. There's a difference. [Sorry Galo.]

[burningrescue]

[He's too stupid and impatient for this!!!]

Then whose rules are they!

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[There, there...Peach pauses to think this through.]

They don't really belong to anyone? They're just rules to help with the house. [She's not explaining herself well.] You can't punch an answer out of this if that's what you're hoping to do.