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/SHOWDOWN/ #28 Twisting the Tortured Truth

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  "You have arrived...!"

  "(lie) I came... for you, Prinz Rufti de Galopin."

  The small and cute detective (me) that just walked through the [Hauntsgirl] front door bears an arrogant demeanor unfitting her for small size, puffed up chest ft as a bent washing board, she arrives!

  Holding out an outstretched hand with fingers straightened in my direction Rufti excims, "If there is one person who can prove what happened st night, it has to you!"

  "That's right. Last night, the Galopin Chateau was attacked. And I wish to get to the bottom of it."

  "Ehhhh... Aya-chan does?" Annalie tilts her head back and forth to the sides, not understanding what is going on!

  "Aya-chan?" Rufti looks quizzically at me, brows furrowed.

  EMERGENCY SAVE!

  "My identity in New Coimbra. You know my true name, Rufti. Is the title of the dark monarchess to be spoken aloud by lessers?"

  Rufti immediately straightens herself out, nodding knowingly! It seems that Rufti and I have reached a common understanding! I am pretending to be [La Monarquía], but the st thing that I want to have happen is to have any of the doubting nancies in this room think otherwise! Especially! That air-headed Annalie! She'll expose me by accident for sure!

  So why hide it?

  [La Monarquía] feels like a codename of some sort. What kind of family name is 'La' anyway?! Are you aliens or something?! Its got to be a title like [Lord Protector]! If it is, then the identity of [La Monarquía] is not public! Why go through all the trouble of obscuring her face when fighting Madi-san, when she could have just brazenly walked up for the bonus intimidation factor! This level of logic is possible for Ayano Sane!

  [ZA BIG LIE], USODO #02!The best lies are truths mixed between lies!

  I may not be [La Monarquía], but I am without doubt Ayano Sane, the detective!

  Before me in this room,

  One person knows and believes in this lie.

  One person is unaware and doesn't believe in this lie.

  One person is aware, but should have no reason to expose me!

  My first and true enemy in capturing this room within my chain of lies...

  ... is you, Annalie Tu!

  I have to keep you unaware of my shenanigans!

  A wave of enmity straight outta nowhere is directed at the unknowing Annalie, whose sidebangs slightly flutter from the dramatic fingerpointing from the detective defective! Dead-fish eyes going up in her irises, Annalie is unsure what she did to deserve such animosity!

  "We meet again, girls of [Hauntsgirl Antique Shop]. Especially you..." I turn an upwards facing palm at the person now lying most inelegantly on the sofa, scrolling messages on her phone with complete nonchalence,

  "...blonde-haired princess of vee."

  "... and a gokigenyou [1] to you too", is the smirking reply from the sofa.

  Even though Val-sama is not privy to my machinations as [La Monarquía], she can tell that I am up to something!

  Just like Val-sama's bde-tipped stance from st night, I am also holding a red katana over her neck!

  If you try to deny my existence as [La Monarquía],

  I'll expose your existence as Princess \V/ee!!!

  You're graduated already, but I am guessing it would be a shame if everyone

  knew

  that the blonde fencer of [Trono Palido] and the legendary 7-view were the same person!

  "Oho?", deep blue eyes narrow upon hearing my thoughts, as if daring me to make a move!

  Don't worry, I am on your side!

  You simply have to watch,

  for from here on out,

  the detective shall now lie,

  for your sake,

  in spectacur fashion!

  "You see the resembnce, don't you, [La Mon---]... no, Aya-chan!"

  「Goodo」. Rufti has completely bought my identity as Aya-chan.

  Like a runaway train, both tracks have converged and truths and lies have converged into one single track, ready to tread over anyone caught underneath its rails like a cruel logic game of pulling levers and sacrificing victims!

  With zero sense of personal space, Rufti kneels down to the sofa-side, once again pcing the [Orb] dispying the disguised Val-sama right up to the real and lying Val-sama's face! Smugness turns to a fsh of irritation, even Val-sama has her limits it seems!

  "You were the person who came up and close to the horriblé intruder!" Rufti blowhards, "You alone can verify this!"

  "Ah."

  Striking a pose straight out of the enigmatic adventures of very cool and muscur men, I cover half my face with my hand, index and middle finger finger twinned in a 'v' across my face!

  "I'll do even better than that. I shall use my personal magick, [Truths, Red and Blue] to verify it!"

  "P-personal magick...!"

  To Rufti, who has zero idea of [La Monarquía's] true powerset in strings and metallic butterflies, I could have made up any ability and bamboozled the pithy Prinz. However...

  I too, want the truth!

  And you, Rufti, are about to become one of my stepping stones!

  "My personal magick allows me to 'see truths'. Whatever I say in red is the truth. Allow me to demonstrate a small part of my power---"

  "My identity in New Coimbra is Aya-chan!"

  Nothing wrong with that statement in red. It doesn't invalidate my lie that I am [La Monarquía] either. That's a title, anyone can have it. It would be REALLY weird if I cimed to be Madison Deroux in the red instead! That's some Sxzxmiya-tier dissociation right there!

  The red tints the room, truth drawing a straight line across the room before disappearing through a wall! The Galopin Prinz widens her eyes in complete shock, having felt the power of my red truth for the first time! Even someone as dumb as Annalie immediately knows, that the red truth is the absolute, unquenchable, unrefutable truth!

  "And I can tell you now, this person is not the person I saw on the Galopin Chateau second floor!"

  A gasp comes through loud and clear, orb dropping with a roll onto the olden-styled wooden flooring! Rufti looks to me, and to Val-sama repeatedly, not believing for a single second! Even Val-sama is looking at me with a confused look, wondering what I am up to now!

  "Aya-chan, what are you talking about..."

  "Silence, outsider. The detective is speaking."

  Annalie's mouth immediately cmps shut by some unknown force! She immediately finds herself unable to speak over me or expose my lies further! This is part of the [Detective's Authority]! The power to keep others quiet during, and only during a deduction!! Ahhhhh, it truly is wonderful being the detective! Everything is now under my control, it is time for...

  [ZA BIG LIE]!

  "But my orb traced this golden-haired brat back here! If not her, then who? How do you expin the resembnce? You never even stated it in red either..."

  "Rufti." Pulling close to the kneeling Prinz while leaning toweringly over her face, "I saw the entire fight from upstairs. Was there not a--- certain--- name mentioned by our intruder?"

  Instantly, Rufti's eyes lit up with inspiration, while even Val-sama took notice and sat right up as well, fingers thumbing over her phone screen in rapid succession!

  That is a name that everyone in this room knows, and cannot mistake.

  "It was the first time I heard of that name.

  The [Exposer of Conspiracies],

  Madison Deroux...!"

  That's right! When Val-sama fought the Horseguys on the first floor, she recited some weird story from the 《The Princess Wars》 before scaring an entire circle of cultists with Madi-san's name! Val-sama never mentioned her own name, just Madi-san's! I am... simply taking advantage of this small misunderstanding!

  For you, Rufti, it was the first time! But for us, she's an eternal nightmare! Annalie tried to get something out, but aside from lightly gagged underjaw moaning she can't stop my twisted truth now!

  "I dare say it with the red. Madison Deroux infiltrated Galopin Chateau yesterday night."

  "Then that means..."

  Coming up behind Rufti's kneeling back, I pull myself down to Rufti's ear and point straight at the somewhat annoyed Val-sama,

  "I can also verify that this person is NOT Madison Deroux...!"

  The bamboozled Prinz feels the full weight of the red truth, completely messing up her cognition! All things that she had held as true up until this morning, the uncanny resembnce between intruder and the trace from the mansion's [Observation Orbs], all fell apart like the smattered orb I threw down on the ground st night!

  "Why don't you try it for yourself..." Putting two intellectually cute hands on Rufti's each of shoulders, I dare her to...

  "Say it in red.

  The person in front of you is Madison Deroux.

  You... can't, can you?"

  Rufti struggles against the twisted threads of red that are woven against her mind now! Without even using the >greentext, I am able to do this much to imply implications straight into Rufti's mind! Of course Val-sama isn't Madi-san! They are completely different people!

  The short-haired Prinz's thinking just short-circuits upon being bound up in yers and yers of lying logic, red rope going around her wrists, neck and eyes! I merely have to pull upwards, and she will believe in anything I say now...! Pcing a single hand atop Prinz's head while straightening myself up, I yank really hard on the colr of twisted logic I weaved across her neck!

  "If... if not her, then who?"

  "Ah, my dear Prinz Rufti, are you forgetting someone?

  There is one true enemy we both face.

  You were out of sorts then, but I witnessed the entire thing!

  Please allow me to fill in the holes in your thinking,

  I am after all, the detective, Ayano Sane!"

  Go Go And Learn Moonrunes With Aya-chan![1] gokigenyou- A formal form of greeting in my ancestral nguage! usually used between snobby schoolgirls of elite schools! Val-sama is being weird here, because we usually use it in the evenings...

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