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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grog" data-source="post: 3315912" data-attributes="member: 6183">Well, that's true. We don't know that. And we also don't know if Miko has it within her powers to execute anyone who recites poetry or passes gas anywhere in her vicinity. And for that matter, we also don't know if Roy sneaks away from the group and eats a baby every week.OotS is a work of fiction. We can only go by what we're explicitly shown, or can reasonably infer from what we're shown. Since we were never told that Miko has special powers under the law to execute people as she sees fit, we can reasonably infer that she does not (since a practice that unusual in Azure City would certainly merit a mention in the strip, especially because it impacts directly upon the main characters). Thus, the only logical and reasonable reading of recent events in the strip is that her killing of Shojo was a murder. You can say "Well we don't know that's true," if you like, but as I said, this is fiction, so we don't know anything for certain. The entire strip could be Durkon's fever-induced hallucination, for all we know. Arguing along those lines gets us nowhere.</blockquote>