I still don't get Byakuya's behavior (spoiler chapter 2)

[oursjulien]

Hey guys, :)
I 've just finished Chapter 2 Trial (RIP Chihiro and Mondo) and I still don't understand WHY Byakuya messed up with the crime scene. I mean, he would have been killed with the rest of the cast if the majority would have voted against him (or Genocide Jack). Even if he did it for the fun of screwing around with the other students, it's not what one can call a "winning strategy" ....
Can someone please explain it to me ?

[Protocol27]

I think he wanted to make the case more interesting, keep in mind he's the only who considers the situation a "game". Also at the end of the trial he said he knew Mondo was the killer, so he would of told everyone that he saw Momdo leave the change room if the others thought Genocide Jack or Byakuya himself did it.

I doubt that would of worked though...

[ｚｏｍｂｉ★ｄｅｓｕ]

I think it was a combination of "he was bored" and "wanted to make things more interesting" ... and that Toko had told him her secret and he wanted to out her.

[Phantron]

The game often forgets that all the characters have only met each other recently. Quite a few characters make decisions as if everyone have known each other for all of their entire lives. Suppose everyone was dumb and believed Byakuya was the murderer, all he'd need to do is say, "Just kidding, Mondo is the murderer." and everyone would believe him because his trustworthiness is considered unimpeachable as if all the students had known him for years. Even in the game itself most of the guys immediately bought this explanation when he simply said, 'it wasn't me' even though Byakuya has produced no evidence whatsoever that it wasn't him.

Note that Byakuya acts as if he already knows all the other characters trust him despite having no reason to do so. Therefore there is no risk for him to do whatever he's doing because his word has priority over pretty much everything else. Keep in mind he has literally no proof that Mondo did it either besides his word, and his explanation at the end of the trial is that his word alone is enough to convict someone.

[oursjulien]

Thank you all for your answers :)
It seems that I underestimated how much Byakuya thinks he is above everyone else. I wonder how the others are stil able to trust him after everything he has done and all the horrible things he has said though :-/
Besides, IMHO revealing Toko's secret in such an horrible way is just mean XD

[Phantron]

If Byakuya only thinks people are dumb then he'd never have made himself look suspicious because he'd have to be aware of the fact that dumb people might not be able to tell why he's supposed to be trustworthy.

You can imagine all the characters secretly maxed out all the private events in the first day of school with every other character behind your back so they already know everyone else's deepest secrets and everything else. For example, let's start with Genocide Jack. She basically asserted that it can't be her because she only kills certain type of guys and she always use scissors, and we're supposed to believe that despite only meeting her for the first time everyone thought this is a totally feasible argument? Obviously the implication is that everyone is supposed to know Genocide Jack enough to know that she wouldn't compromise on her killing targets/methods, despite having no basis for such history.

Likewise, it is assumed that everyone knows Byakuya well enough to know that he wouldn't lie to save himself, which is why most people believed him immediately when he offered the 'I didn't kill Chihiro, I only rearranged the body for fun'. In fact, most of the characters are probably aware that Byakuya has a history of doing deranged things for his own amusement. There is no way you can get that conclusion via the game, but the characters act as if they know way more about each other than the player can possibly know.

[Stormo]

You're all technically correct, but you're missing the most important reason why he tampered with the evidence to pseudo-implicate Genocide Jack. Yes, his reasoning was partly because he wanted to make things more interesting, the primary reason he does it is what you're all missing even though he clearly states at the end of the trial:

"This way, if I do decide to become blackened, I know who I have to look out for."

Byakuya deliberately threw the Genocide Jack red herring out there, to see who'd be clever enough to see past the smokescreen. With the other characters so easily falling for the Genocide Jack-angle, Byakuya observed Makoto and especially Kyoko, and identified them as the two people he had to be wary of - because only the ones skilled enough to see through the smoke could pose any threat to him down the line.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

Byakuya did it to ♥♥♥♥ with them. That's it. And you're wrong, Stormo. His wording makes it clear that learning who to watch out for was an unintentional side effect.

[Phantron]

Outside of the incorruptible Makoto, Byakuya is the only survivor who never made some action with the intention of killing a classmate. That doesn't mean he's a good person. He might just be flat out too scared to actually kill someone (he avoided confrontation with Sakura and didn't fight back when Hina slapped him). He's certainly a pretty messed up guy, but being a messed up guy is not synonymous with being a killer.

[coca cola]

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[Runa Silvertongue]

I got the impression that killing another classmate was beneath Byakuya, but he had NO problem "playing the game" and sequestering himself from everyone else in Ch 2. Handy plot device to be sure, but it added to the whole dismissive "Togami heir" persona of his.. that gets smashed later invariably.

[Alex Tesla]

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Pff...I tend to get spoiled on a lot of stuff, so eh. don't care.