Allow me to slow down, just a little: I don't know how many answers I have, Hikaru.
[ he doesn't say this meanly, or anything, because it is a lot to process. there's a lot going on with such a weighty set of words, so.
xie lian picks a place to start from, choosing his words carefully. ] ...What you said, that it doesn't help anything - I think that is the crux of it.
I have a theory as to why. On Monday of this week, when we were first introduced to this port, San Lang stepped up and attracted a lot of attention by starting to organize relating to the trial. He has taken a central role in the trials since that first week, helping out with body checks - he is also confident, and unafraid to say what he thinks. [ xie lian your gay is showing
anyway. ] If someone was planning to murder someone else, they would most likely want to avoid being caught, correct? And we all, that day, were talking about ways to prevent such a thing from happening, with San Lang leading the charge.
Moving forward, San Lang started acting oddly towards Claude on Wednesday morning; I noticed it almost right away, and when I went to confirm with Claude, it was much of the same. Neither of them could explain it, nor pinpoint a cause, and the mere mention of the other's name would send them both into fury. I initially thought it may have been related to an item, but as you saw today, it has carried on for some time, beyond the limits of the gemstones we were given.
So, my initial theory was that San Lang was being targeted by someone else, simply because he is so capable. But... if the case was only to trouble San Lang, then would I not have been the better choice as the second recipient of this odd affliction? It would have surely caused him agony, to suddenly hate me, both during the week of, and in the after effects, and it would have caused me great suffering as well, which would have certainly been a way to generate nova.
On the other hand... much like San Lang, Claude is very clever, and outspoken, as well. He has had several brilliant theories, and often helps us gather our thoughts together in these trials themselves. Having him incapacitated as a helping hand, along with San Lang, could hurt us in the long run.
So, if we move the theory to thinking that whoever did this wanted to cause a distraction, things start to make more sense. The two of them snapped at each other enough to cause little distractions early on, and I was quick to try and stop it - and your help was appreciated as well [ he gives her a little smile, briefly ] - but, each time that they argued, people's heads would turn. It culminated during the body check, and was an immediate distraction before things even began. When we get distracted, we miss things; even simple ones.
[ like shima's fucking leg.
a beat, as he lets that settle in. ]
I think that the person who did it chose them for that exact reason - to sow seeds of discord. The reason they didn't pick me as the second recipient makes more sense, when you think of it that way - I wouldn't have argued. San Lang can be childish, sometimes -- [ there is, in fact a reason that he gets on so well with claude in the first place, and it is because they are cut from the exact same cloth. it's actually why xie lian really likes claude, too. ] --and I have more patience than him and Claude combined.
But, by picking Claude, I think the person who did it was almost guaranteeing that there would be some sort of a scene. And they were right.
[ here, he sighs. ] ...I didn't catch them quite fast enough. I was trying to get dried off from our investigation, when it started, so I wasn't able to stop it, quite in time... I'm glad we handled it when we did, but I had anticipated that it was coming, and I was not wrong.
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[ he doesn't say this meanly, or anything, because it is a lot to process. there's a lot going on with such a weighty set of words, so.
xie lian picks a place to start from, choosing his words carefully. ] ...What you said, that it doesn't help anything - I think that is the crux of it.
I have a theory as to why. On Monday of this week, when we were first introduced to this port, San Lang stepped up and attracted a lot of attention by starting to organize relating to the trial. He has taken a central role in the trials since that first week, helping out with body checks - he is also confident, and unafraid to say what he thinks. [ xie lian your gay is showing
anyway. ] If someone was planning to murder someone else, they would most likely want to avoid being caught, correct? And we all, that day, were talking about ways to prevent such a thing from happening, with San Lang leading the charge.
Moving forward, San Lang started acting oddly towards Claude on Wednesday morning; I noticed it almost right away, and when I went to confirm with Claude, it was much of the same. Neither of them could explain it, nor pinpoint a cause, and the mere mention of the other's name would send them both into fury. I initially thought it may have been related to an item, but as you saw today, it has carried on for some time, beyond the limits of the gemstones we were given.
So, my initial theory was that San Lang was being targeted by someone else, simply because he is so capable. But... if the case was only to trouble San Lang, then would I not have been the better choice as the second recipient of this odd affliction? It would have surely caused him agony, to suddenly hate me, both during the week of, and in the after effects, and it would have caused me great suffering as well, which would have certainly been a way to generate nova.
On the other hand... much like San Lang, Claude is very clever, and outspoken, as well. He has had several brilliant theories, and often helps us gather our thoughts together in these trials themselves. Having him incapacitated as a helping hand, along with San Lang, could hurt us in the long run.
So, if we move the theory to thinking that whoever did this wanted to cause a distraction, things start to make more sense. The two of them snapped at each other enough to cause little distractions early on, and I was quick to try and stop it - and your help was appreciated as well [ he gives her a little smile, briefly ] - but, each time that they argued, people's heads would turn. It culminated during the body check, and was an immediate distraction before things even began. When we get distracted, we miss things; even simple ones.
[ like shima's fucking leg.
a beat, as he lets that settle in. ]
I think that the person who did it chose them for that exact reason - to sow seeds of discord. The reason they didn't pick me as the second recipient makes more sense, when you think of it that way - I wouldn't have argued. San Lang can be childish, sometimes -- [ there is, in fact a reason that he gets on so well with claude in the first place, and it is because they are cut from the exact same cloth. it's actually why xie lian really likes claude, too. ] --and I have more patience than him and Claude combined.
But, by picking Claude, I think the person who did it was almost guaranteeing that there would be some sort of a scene. And they were right.
[ here, he sighs. ] ...I didn't catch them quite fast enough. I was trying to get dried off from our investigation, when it started, so I wasn't able to stop it, quite in time... I'm glad we handled it when we did, but I had anticipated that it was coming, and I was not wrong.