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[Really, he shouldn't be using this detestable thing. Some of its functions are helpful, but the babbling and barking of the masses, not as much. Still, there is something on his mind, and he has seen enough to know that there are some people who come here from worlds very different than his own. Even Hinoto-Ri's laws had needed studying before he could even attempt to practice law. Perhaps there is some measure of knowledge amongst the filth here.]

What is "truth" to you? And how far would you go to pursue it?

[Of course, he knows full well whom this message could reach... but he'll try to ignore that person just the same.]

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Yep. When you've got crazed aliens ransacking the city, there's bound to be some collateral damage. It's a pain.

The more I think about it, the more I like your definition of justice. It's kind of what I do, after all.

I see...

And that is what the job of prosecutors is.

[And the Steel Samurai and related characters, but shh.]

Huh. Does that make me a prosecutor, too? I punish unlawful people. Mostly by shooting off some lasers in their face. There were a loooooot of lasers in the last battle I was in.

On the other hand... if that makes me a prosecutor, that would make you a Justice Rider. They're like the superheroes of my world, except they're real.

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No. Prosecutors prove the guilt of criminals and the judge determines the punishment they are to receive. Then others carry out the punishment.

[Ouch. De-nied.]

Darn. I thought I was onto something. It's not like aliens smashing up a city need their guilt proven, anyway.

[Obviously Blackquill can't see it, but MiRa is totally sulking on the other side.]

[Sarcasm is hard to tell through text!]

No, I suppose not.

[Right. For someone who employs sarcasm so much, you'd think MiRa would be better at detecting it. ~~Guess we know what MiRa's next upgrade is!~~]

The evidence is pretty much there, isn't it. When they're right there, assaulting people and blowing stuff up, it goes all over the news, and there's witnesses everywhere. I guess someone's just going to have to show them how guilty they are.

I tend to deal with more complicated cases, myself. The answer is rarely simple.

More complicated? How so? I mean, of course they're more complicated than just firing lasers off in someone's face and calling it a done deal, but I'm curious.

The lines between the guilty and the innocent are far blurrier. Where guilt is not so obvious. An inmate I once knew said that "the difference between the damned and the saved is as thin as a razor's edge".

He was a barber, and it took quite a while for the police to catch him. He was careful to kill only those who he knew would not be missed for some time.

Wait, an inmate? What were you doing with inmates? Inmates who were confirmed killers, at that.

I was an inmate for some time. My name was eventually cleared.

You had to serve the time for something you didn't even do? Geez. What kind of crazy law system do you have where you come from?

It was better than the alternative.

And the alternative was...?

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