13 Club 2

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Box: If you obtain the power to choose between life and death of others one day, what would you do?
Box: Will you seriously judge them, and correctly use that power---
Or...
Story 2: Judgment

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SFX: *Drop*
SFX: *Whistle*

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Sign on the trash can: Flammable trash
Man: ...

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Sign: Room 304 Ozaki
Man: I'm back.
Woman: Oh, welcome back. How was Hello Work? *TL's Note: Hello Work is the name of the Japanese government employment agency.
Does it look like you'll find somewhere good?
Man: Mm...
I'll borrow your PC.
Woman: Wait a second, using the Internet again!?
You're going to peep at some weird site again, aren't you!?
Box: Part-time worker Ozaki Ako (23)

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Man: ...If I don't use a PC, uploading video would be really hard.
Box: Unemployed Iwamoto Masaru (24)
SFX: *Click*
Screen: ---Welcome to 13club---

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TL's Note: The news article at the top features the death of the photographer from the previous chapter.
Ako: ...
Ako: ...Hey...When will you feel like working?
My savings from working is almost...

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Masaru: ...Shut up.
Masaru: Even when I go to the interviews, none of those places like me.
It's not my fault.
Ako: ...

Upload screen(What comes after the colon are inside the boxes):
Video Upload
Comment:
I found something really funny lolololololol
If you like 13club, have a look lololololololol
LOL
Title: Oi, everyone come here!!
Tag: (nothing)
Button: Upload

Ako: ...I think I can kind of understand why they don't want you.
SFX: *Beep*

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Masaru: What does that mean...
SFX: *Vibrate*
SFX: *Vibrate*
Masaru: ...
Ako: ...What?
Who is it from?
Masaru: ...Hey you.
Do you know what a "juror" is?
Ako: Huh?
Ako: Y...yeah. They said something about it on TV.
About how they let normal people try criminals...
Masaru: ...I...

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Masaru: Was chosen, it seems like.
Screen:
Iwamoto Masaru-sama,
You have been chosen as a member of the jury in this court for the next trial.
To attend a lecture concerning the procedures, please go to the address provided below.

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Man: Nice you meet you.
Man: You must be...Iwamoto Masaru-san.
Masaru: ...
Masaru: Yeah...
Man: Welcome.
Man: Excuse me for the late introduction. I am Nogata.
Masaru: ...Oh.

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Masaru: ...
Masaru: ...So, what do I need to do?
I'm busy, so can you explain it quickly?
Nogata: ---In recent years,
Nogata: There has been a surge of indiscriminate killers, and those who violently kill people who are unable to fight back, like young women.
What do you think of it?

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Masaru: ...
About that...I guess it's something pretty unforgivable...
Nogata: ...Yes, everyone thinks and answers like that.
Nogata: We think think that for those cases that greatly affect the society,
Instead of having judges appointed by the government,
Nogata: It would be good to have normal citizens gather together to try the accused.
Nogata: ...In other words,
To get even everyday citizens to think "our society has morals"---
Nogata: We have introduced this system.

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Nogata: We mainly deal with those cases that negatively impact the society.
Nogata: Jury duties last one year, and you will be given all materials relevant to the case.
Of course you will also have the chance to talk to the defen---
Masaru: ...But in the end,
Masaru: What's the thing that I gotta do?
Nogata: ...You will determine the verdict, and if guilty, the severity of the crime.
Masaru: Will there be any trouble for me?
Like people knowing my name and stuff.
Nogata: None.
Masaru: ...Or having restrictions because of the trials...
Nogata: None.

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Nogata: Your name shall remain anonymous.
Nogata: We will take on all responsibility for the trials.
SFX: Gulp...
Nogata: ...In addition,
If you are too busy, it is also possible to use this to participate.

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...I see.
I can also judge people via the Internet.
---Ok, sounds interesting enough.
I'll do it.

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Kudan: ...And then...
Masaru: ...Yeah.
Masaru: I decided to participate actively in their trials.

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Masaru: Through the camera, the mixed emotions of anger and sadness on the face of the accuser,
The look of fear on the face of the accused,
Masaru: And the annoyance of having a question of ill-will thrown at them...
It was all fun and exhilarating...
Kudan: ...I see. You must have perfect for the job.
Kudan: ---And the verdicts for the accused?

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Masaru: Of course it's "guilty".
They were all trash of society, like arsonists, rapists, and robbers.
Masaru: No matter what excuses they use, my decision is final.
...But...
Kudan: ---The case you are working on right now is different...you say?

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Masaru: This time, the accused is...Ako!!
Masaru: She definitely didn't do it...!!
Kudan: ---And the crime...
Masaru: ...
Masaru: ...That would be...

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Kudan: Killing cats---
Kudan: Since about three months ago, pieces of kitten corpses have been found all over the city.
Kidan: ...That is her suspected crime, is it not?
Masaru: ...
Masaru: ...Yeah, that's it.
Masaru: I beg you! Please confirm my story!!
Other than when I submitted the video for your site, I did the rest at Internet Cafes!
Masaru: I just happened to be using her PC at the time---
Kudan: ...That would be impossible. It is determined by IP address.
Kudan: The only way to disprove it would be---

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Kudan: If the real culprit---In other words, you,
Kudan: Were to come forward.
Kudan: My site, "13club", is for gathering mysterious and curious stories. Basically, things that you would not know from daily life.
Kudan: As a result, we do receive grotesque submissions from time to time,
...But your video was different.

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Kudan: It has neither aesthetics nor meaning.
I do not know made you do so, but simply for the sake of inducing shock and disgust in others,
Kudan: You took a video of dismembering an innocent kitten while it was still alive.

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---What reason do I have to help someone like you...?

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Masaru: ...Fine.
I won't ask you anymore.
Masaru: I just need to tell the truth, don't I...!?
Girl: ...How absurd. You should have just have told him the truth.
SFX: Press
Press
Girl: He's not dealing with the government, but an underground organization practicing lynch law.
TL's Note: Lynch law means punishing someone by the agreement of a crowd, without having a genuine trial.

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Kudan: ...True, at first they sympathized with the victims, chased after the criminals via the Internet and called themselves the "Vigilance Committee".
Kudan: However, now they received enough funding from somewhere so what they did in the background became real practice.
Kudan: ---And they decided to adopt this new jury system instead of having the time-costly trials.
Kudan: As a fellow underground Internet dweller, I do not want to provoke them unnecessarily.
Girl: ...But is that guy really going to help her like he said he would?
Kudan: ---Have you ever heard of the Pilgrim Experiment?

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Box: In 1962, a behavioral psychologist by the name of Pilgrim conducted a large-scale experiment on dozons of test subjects.
They were to apply electrical shocks to innocent people, and gradually increased the voltage to the lethal level.
Box: ...Naturally, Pilgrim's fellow researchers only pretended to increase the voltage...
Kudan: But the subjects, not knowing that fact, heard the cries of pain and wanted to stop the shocks.
...However, Pilgrim said this to them:

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Box: "Please continue to increase the voltage."
Box: "I will take all responsibility"...he said.
Kudan: ...After that, close to 70% of the test subjects raised the voltage to the lethal point.
...Yes.
Kudan: That was the real purpose of the experiment.
Kudan: What we have learned from it was that
"People abandon their sense of right and wrong when they are not held responsible for their actions."
Kudan: ---That is what what I wanted to say.
Girl: ...In other words?

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They themselves are tried in this system.
Just like how he tries others as a juror---
...And just like what he did to the innocent kittens---

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Kudan: Very amusing---
Nogata: ...How unfortunate.
Nogata: You were such an excellent juror, yet helping an accused escape is...

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Man: The crime is killing kittens--- Animal abuse, that is.
Man: Everyone, your verdict---?
*TL's Note: Everyone said guilty. The bottom panel said "Go die"

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Story 2 ・ End