> System Announcement:
The "Court of the Innocents" stage has ended.
12 defendants have completed their testimonies.
The remaining seat [No. ⑦] has been marked as "Temporarily Inaccessible."
Initiating post-trial summary...
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Summary of Defendant Philosophies:
1. Lin Qing – "Sacrifice in silence does not absolve harm."
A teacher who bore injustice for her students, yet inflicted invisible violence through that very silence.
2. Qin Luo – "No belief is above accountability."
A former priest abandoned by his church. Faith once sacred, now weaponized.
3. Han Cheng – "Enduring pain in silence is not innocence."
A victim of bullying who chose to vanish, and thus vanished from all justice.
4. Du Hong – "Leaving is not always escape."
The father who abandoned his infant daughter—not from hatred, but from fear.
Fear does not erase consequence.
5. Zhou Wensheng – "Absolute logic cannot justify emotional detachment."
A man who dissected love like a theory and dismissed it when it failed to follow equations.
6. Shen Yi – "Children raised in extremes do not remain children for long."
The youngest defendant. A boy grown too fast, too cold, under the weight of forced obedience.
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8. Liu Jing – "Intervention must not become possession."
A psychologist who "treated" her patients by shaping their identity to fit her ideals.
Therapy became control.
9. Jia Yancheng – "Empathy without foundation is still a mask."
A man who smiled, cried, and consoled without ever once feeling. A perfect mirror with no reflection behind it.
10. Gu Qingheng – "Justice shouted without responsibility is merely noise."
A public figure who manipulated outrage and weaponized guilt.
When morality becomes performance, who bears the cost?
11. Wen Yuqing – "Love that smothers is still a form of violence."
A principal who caged children in the name of care.
Sometimes, the cruelest prisons are wrapped in kindness.
12. Cui Zhou – "To erase difference is to erase identity."
An idealist who built a perfect utopia by stripping its people of self.
Peace built on uniformity is not peace.
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System Judgment Result:
Out of 12, 8 were found guilty.
The remaining 4 were declared conditionally innocent.
1 seat remains undisclosed.
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Shen Yan's Personal Status:
> [Player Status Update]
Name: Shen Yan
Mental Integrity: 62% → 78%
Judgment Comprehension: Advanced
Trait Acquired: [Empathic Paradox] – Able to simultaneously hold opposing ethical views without collapse.
Note: Subject has shown signs of recognizing patterns of consciousness fragmentation across multiple defendants.
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As the courtroom faded, Shen Yan stood still amidst the vanishing echoes.
Each defendant had carved something into him—
Not just facts, but contradictions.
Not just crimes, but the tension of being human.
This was not a game of good and evil.
This was a mirror—of choices, silence, denial, and belief.
Some were punished, some forgiven.
But what mattered most—
Was that he had seen.
And once you've seen,
you can no longer look away.
> [End of Trial II: Court of the Innocents]