Fourth Night [Action/Voice, Backdated to April 12th]

[cowledcrusader]

[Action]

[Naoya and Dilandau are safely behind bars in the tunnels, secured and locked away with no weapons.   And right now he made sure to take every key to the prisons and secure the entrance with a padlock of his own.  It should be strong enough to hold anyone attempting to break them out for now.

First thing's first.  He needs to track down

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[ voice ]

[one_green_eye]

...properly tried?

[Now there's a pleasant surprise. As Dilandau's original warning was locked from him, Ginko has only just caught up with unfolding events. Mildly--]

...and what exactly makes for justice in a world without death-- where "detainment" is just a prison within a prison?

[Voice]

[cowledcrusader]

Society cannot expect to function without just punishment for those who would hurt others. The important thing is the people must decide what the law is. And therefore the proper punishment.

And imprisoned though we are, that fact does not change. Judgement is not mine to pass. I bring criminals to face their judgement in the eyes of their peers.

[Voice]

[one_green_eye]

[He listens to this statement with some interest. What a thing to say.]

I'd be curious to see the people here decide together on anything-- let alone the penalty for murder.

You bring criminals to face judgment--hnn. It sounds like you're speaking of a world with a function system of justice. But...what do you intend to do with them here? Imprison them indefinitely?

[Voice]

[cowledcrusader]

Not for me to decide. And I would hope it would not come to something like that.

[He doesn't want to have to traipse back and forth to the tunnels delivering meals every day forever, anyway.

[voice]

[no_gray]

[Having just figured out the voice function by this point, Rorschach decides to respond and test it out.]

Good. Criminals should not go unpunished. Should not slip through cracks of justice system. Should pay for their sins. [He'd rather have them dead so they can't harm anyone again, but arrested is acceptable... barely.]

[voice]

[cowledcrusader]

...They will pay their debt to society. When society determines what that debt rightfully is.

[voice]

[no_gray]

Society unfit to make such decisions. Easily corrupted by fear or greed. Juries threatened or bribed, criminals escape. Perpetuates cycle of violence. Captors should decide, not public whose opinions are altered easily.

[Voice]

[cowledcrusader]

[...You are promptly getting filed away into the "potential threat to peace" folder.]

...What you suggest is little better than the blood feuds of an era long past. Law exists to prevent that sort of barbarism.

[pinkribbons]

[Yuzu's not so hard to find today, for someone like Batman anyway. She's in the Brigade HQ, alone, working on Haruki's latest busywork for her - producing advertising fliers. Since a copy machine hasn't fallen into Luceti yet she's working steadily to make each one by hand. It's a tiring task after the first few and that may be why the message is rather.... colloquial, so to speak.]

[cowledcrusader]

[And Batman will silently sneak in through a window in the ajoining room. Thankfully, it's dark enough in here to cover his entrance. ...There she is, in the next room. He'll slowly approach the door before he speaks.]

Miss Yuzu Tanikawa?

[...When she looks up, his outline will likely be visible. He's not trying to hide. Much.]

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[pinkribbons]

[She was a bit lost in thought. There was a lot to think about lately, after all. The sudden deep voice makes her jump, the marker slipping across the page and ruining the flier she had just started.]

Sheez, you could at least knock before you -

[pinkribbons]

[then she actually looks up.]

....Uh.

[Voice]

[unseenspy]

A "just punishment?" What would you personally consider a "just punishment?"

As far as I'm concerned, they can rot in the tunnels for eternity.

[Especially Dilandau.]

[Voice]

[cowledcrusader]

It's not my place to decide what justice is.

[Voice]

[unseenspy]

And yet it was your place to bring those people into custody?

If it's not "your place," then whose place is it? The Malnosso's?

[Voice]

[cowledcrusader]

The police do not pass judgement when they arrest suspects. The courts do.

...The people.

[violaceil]

Dilandau's an idiot.

[cowledcrusader]

[You'll get no reply. But Batman's not going to disagree.]