Smile For The Camera | Trial 3 | Execution
āPlease. . . Iām begging. . .ā [morphogentic fields active] He keeps his eyes down, focusing heavily on the podium. You can tell heās crying by the teardrops dripping on the surface, but heās not looking up at anyone. It seems almost out of place to have Kosami, the strong, silent type, breaking down right before your very eyes, but itās happening. And before you know it, he tears his gaze from the floor and looks at his fellow students, as if attempting to coax them into persuasion.Ā [deadlight engines calibrated] āI donāt want to die--ā [our will be done]
Before a single soul could respond, the sound of static comes through harsh as Kosami fades away, your eyes stinging while you look at him. It's like watching a digital image loose all resolution and fade away.
You all watch the screen that drops down, as Kosami is dropped in the center of the stage. You hear a strange sound off to the side of the room, and before you know it, hundreds- if not thousands- of robotic photographers surround the poor boy, snapping photos of his every move as he tries to escape.
You see, for a second, that he reaches out to you in the audience. His face seems desperate. Thereās too many robots swarming around him, giving him very little room to move, much less breathe, and the more panicked he becomes, and the more minutes that go by, the closer they become.
As they do this, two large TV screens overhead flicker on. They begin to play images of the Akita family from the very moment that Kosami was born. In most of the images, you can see a very young boy punching his siblings, yelling at classmates, and throwing various random objects. There are very few happy photographs, and Kosami looks distressed as this pictures are revealed for his friends to see.
You can almost hear him whisper āNo, please, donāt look!ā but shortly thereafter, you can see him fall to the ground.Ā
The robotic beings scoot closer to him, snapping more pictures, stepping on his bones, causing them to break. You hear a blood-curdling scream followed by the snapping of legs and arms as the robots pile on top of him, trying to snap photographs of his face. For a second, he wonders if this is what poor Kokei had to deal with regularly.
But luckily, he didnāt have to be consumed with that idea for long. A particularly large robot took its heel and jammed it into Kosamiās skull. You can hear him attempt to say something as the blood trickles down his face before several other robots follow in the first oneās footsteps and hit him relentlessly with their shoes. After several long, grueling minutes, Kosami takes his last breath, and the robots snap one last photograph to be displayed on the television screens.
You see a bloody, bashed in, beaten and bruised SHSL Bodyguard laying before you. Maybe he was your friend, your companion, or just some stranger occupying the same space as you- whatever the case, Kosami Akita has been executed.
[so it ends]
[know what you must do]
[you may go]
[trial 3 end]
[chapter 4 begins]





















