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<small>[The real question is, <I>What version of this story will flatter Touko as much as possible</i>]</small>

What you have to understand is that as all-stars, your group is for the most part carefully selected; you've proven yourselves as reliable, bankable talent. The producers' least favorite members of the cast fell swiftly and smoothly to the deadweight ranks, where they were subsequently denied even an afterlife. <small>[The Ampora-Freud-Kurashiki formation can be found elsewhere in the theater.]</small>

Our season wasn't like that. They knew plenty about us in terms of individual information, but very little about how we would be received as performers in a cast on the show. Belarus as we knew her had "God" in her heart, a knife in her hand, and a bow in her hair. <small>[anticlimactic but she has to make sure somehow Austria can pick her out of the gallery]</small> She blew away competition like--you have to understand, picture your unpleasant hostess "Marlowe" being paid to present herself as more saccharine than Chiaki Nanami's public persona, as she was in that episode Ms. Cykes and Iceland won. The production needed to get rid of Belarus if Marlowe were to continue dominating the rankings, and the ratings themselves weren't very good anyway considering there hadn't even been a double murder yet. They also had Yuzu Aihara to worry about, but her story is a largely separate, albeit somewhat shorter one. <small>[Kanaya you're clearly not very concerned about brevity here]</small>

Fortunately for the producers, the designated killers that round were motivated much more effectively by fear of the mastermind instead of love, and would act at the drop of a hat in any way necessary. A particularly creative member of the clique took initiative that week, knowing full well she would be discovered and not particularly caring if she died in this kind of place. So after a relatively standard deadweight poisoning - Touko Aozaki cut off her extremities, her limbs, her head, and then her organs, about a dozen items in total, for a scavenger hunt that would take up plenty of screentime.

The way Belarus died and got dismembered was <I>too</i> theatrical - more horrible than even the most coldblooded killer would ever deem necessary or practical; an enormous, thick trail of evidence led to Ms. Aozaki, who clearly had the skill to do things differently if she had that as her goal. That was the first time anyone outside of the clique really started to suspect that there was a mastermind... no, beyond that: how much our every action was being staged. But Belarus was essentially comatose in the graveyard, thanks to the production's lack of favor towards her, and we had no hope of waking her back up before we fled from here.

<small>[the end. She looks to Austria making sure the woman is still awake]</small>