Visible strings of >greentext appear in the air behind Annalie, not a single line my own!

  >whose newfag is this>shes moi's new accomplice!>new family? XD>gb2 your containment thread /gflex/>can we talk about typhlxsixn now?>dame da your gonna trigger the lolischizo!>alice tposing in a bikini.jpeg>I will kill you all in your sleep>AI generated voice acting pepegrimace.jpeg>quiet you stupid idiotas shes noticin'!>HI VAL-SAMA

  "What was THAT at the end?! Am I seeing things?!"

  I did NOT say any of that! Am I just hallucinating the >greentext now?! This can't be happening! I was just WINNING this morning, even if it feels like that was literally two weeks ago! Have I totally lost it and I know I can kill?! Can you see that, Annalie?! Tell me that my detective vision is working right! I'm the detective, I can't just be 'seeing stuff'! This is basic Knox the 2nd! [1]

  Val-sama calls me out from the couch behind me,

  "Oh, I see the >green perfectly, Ayano-dono."

  "Then what's that all about, Val-sama?!"

  Our resident graduated veetuba pushes the bottom of her gsses, the top of her brows now narrowed to the smuggest degree. Please! Tell me that all this is a prank and Madi-san put you up to this!

  "Not a prank, Ayano-dono. Do tell me, do you know what a rrat is?"

  "A what?"

  "Yes."

  "What?!"

  "Oh, right, I almost forgot you are from the Old Continent. My apologies." Val-sama crosses her thighs under that long bck skirt of her, ced boots peeking out from underskirt! Huh. I never noticed this before, but aren't these the same brand that Madi-san wears?

  Pcing both hands across her knees Val-sama expins,

  "A rrat is short for a narrative. A story that you tell through the >green."

  "I know THAT part. The >greentext creates implications. So what are you implying here, Val-sama...?" I'm sorry if I am huffing a little too arrogantly, but Sachiko-senpai already expined that part concisely! Not only did I understand that, I got hit by a barrage of the >greentext fired off like arrows at me!

  "Did Madison expin it to you? I think she left an important part out..." Pausing for a pivotal moment to see me wring my hands up in the air, Val-sama picks her next words with great care, like she were trying to expin a difficult concept to a toddler!

  "The >greentext affects our world. Same goes for the other side too."

  "W-what are you saying..."

  "To mennifest, is to pull things from beyond the New Continent. Ayano-dono is smart, what do you think that implies...?"

  Gulp.

  I don't like the sound of that.

  Rather than use the green, let's use my personal magick instead...! The magick of the New Continent relies on pulling from a world beyond the one we see. >greentext is simply an application of that magick. If I create narratives through the >greentext, and the >greentext influences the world we live in...

  "The rrats I create will overwrite reality...?!""Oho, you are indeed Madison's accomplice."

  Nonononono, this is the part of this power that I don't need! Are you telling me that if I imply too much, what I imply will become real?! This is even more broken than Madi-san's [Narrator's Power]! So like what happened at the end with Rufti there, instead of yuribaiting, it turned into a full-blown Omegaverse yuri retionship?!

  So this is the blowback of using the >greentext?

  Ah. AHHHHHHH!!! I can't accept this! Just when I had found the perfect weapon to fight against Madi-san! There has to be a way to get around this! I'll find it... Definitely! I won't lose such a powerful bde just because of a little blowback! W-what's a little reality warping to the bestest detective on this continent!

  That was when I noticed something wrong.

  "Hang on, Val-sama. But the >greentext forced itself into my speaking..."

  Val-sama tilts her head, leaning back into the couch, reversing the cross on her legs!

  "Maybe Madison wasn't too upfront with you. Please allow me to expin it directly: If you abuse the >greentext, it attracts and allows for 'people like us' to step into your narrative...!"

  P-people like us?

  You can't mean...

  ... those... those...

  ... Anonymous Message Board people?!

  Those...

  ... >Channer people!

  Val-sama does not answer me, but instead picks up her phone beside her, putting in a couple of rapid taps on her blue smartphone!

  >bullying the newfag>she cant even defend herself>y u all no teach?>kinda cringe desu?>she was asking for it.jpeg>goodness look at the time>its ALWAYS time for RA------Val-sama shuts off message at the right moment, cutting off the offending final message with the upwards swipe of a finger! Magickal blue sparks emit softly from the tip of Val-sama's fingers as the final message is cut in two halves!

  I saw it!!

  The 'others' trying to interfere with Val-sama's green!

  As the >greentext floated across the air of [Hauntsgirl], the final rrat was not given a chance to survive, falling to the ground in dissolving text before it could become reality!

  Was that a message from those >Channer people on the other side?

  Gulp.

  "But Val-sama, I am not a >Channer...!"

  Upon hearing this, Val-sama lets out a smug puff of air, like she had already seen through everything to begin with! Narrowing her brows with a knowing smug smile,

  "Ayano-dono, it might not be mine pce to spake thus,

  but might it not be beneficent to cease thine dissembling? [2]"

  "hai?"

  Val-sama suddenly spoke with a completely different tone of voice.

  I don't know what you are talking about, Val-sama! Those are words too hard for me!

  Don't get me wrong!

  I am very thankful for your help, Val-sama! Now that I understand the blowback of the >greentext, I don't need any more advice! All I have to do is to tiptoe my way around the >greentext, and shut it off when the >implications get out of hand!

  Right, Val-sama?

  W-why are you looking at me with that smug grin...?

  What am I missing here?!

  "Suki ni shitara. [3] Some people just never learn." With that, Val-sama pces both arms upper arms on the couch's long backrest, smugly implying her job here was done!

  hai?

  How are you speaking in my ancestral nguage perfectly, Val-sama? Is that one of the perks of being a former veetuba?

  At this point, a loud and confused voice pops up from behind the counter...

  "Ehhhh... Val-sis, Aya-chan! What are you two talking about!!"

  Annalie is using both hands to scratch the sides of her blunt bangs.

  "Its difficult to expin, senior Nana-chi..." Val-sama scratches the side of her cheek with her eyes closed, unsure how to expin it to a complete outsider!

  "Annalie." I sm a hand down on the front desk, which I immediately regret since my wound opened up once more! Wincing a little while Annalie peers at my bandages with inquisitive eyes,

  "Did you not see all the >greentext inside my speech?!"

  "No! I have no idea what you are talking about!"

  Huh. That's... odd. Unlike my personal magick, [Truths: Red and Blue], it doesn't seem to show up for other people. Or maybe that's just Annalie being a doofus again. I wonder if there is some sort of rule to this? Either way, if these 'normies' can't see my >greentext, they're going to mistake it for things that come out of MY mouth and cause all sorts of misunderstandings!

  "I WILL find some way to find a way around this, or I am not the great detective...

  ... Ayano Sane...!"

  [SFX:THUMP!]

  "Ouch!" A small grimace washes over my face as the wound on my hand splits open once more. (You) might think this is shamelessness; even though it seems like I badmouthed Annalie all this way, we are actually very good friends!

  VERY good friends!

  So...

  So...!

  "A-annalie, could you look at my hand? Please?"

  New Coimbra, Market District.

  The camera shifts from inside [Hauntsgirl] out to the open port New Coimbra is named after. Light rain puddles don't deter the throngs of people visiting the long ne of open-air shops set up near the port.

  [SFX: pachipachipachipachipach

  At one of these stores, a certain purple-haired troublemaker is testing out an odd weapon; a stick with a piece of cupped rubber at the end. The force of the successive suction makes those horrible squelching sounds, which pleases this malevolently grinning fiend to no end!

  "Yep! I'll take this one!" Handing over Vida with daemonic intentions, Madi-san twirls the plunger between her fingers like a leek, humming an orange song from years gone past! That was when... her bright red eyes caught the wind of something 'happening'!

  [SFX:Zawazawa]

  "Ehehehe... what's going on over there?"

  At an arched bridge that connects the Market District with the Pace District (under renovation), two figures stand off against each other, weapons drawn and greatly disturbing the peace of this city! Disturbed by this odd dispy of force, passerbys from the market district opt to take the sister bridge to the side instead of passing them by, afraid of the fight that will break out at any moment!

  Their reluctance to interfere only emboldened these two maniacs, who trade loud slogans and insults to each other! Looking upon this scene with a snigger, Madi-san flips open her phone, taking a shot with her camera!

  [SFX:KA-SCHINK!]

  This scene was about to disappear for good after all...!

  For unnoticed by the crowd, a certain pink-haired girl in an all-white cloak was stomping her way towards the disturbance!

  Go Go And Learn Moonrunes & Mysteries With Aya-chan! (feat. Author-kun)[1] Knox the 2nd! - "Supernatural entities are not allowed for the solving of a crime!" This means that any use of magick to expin my side, the mystery side fails automatically!

  [2] Dissembling - Basically to lie. - Author-kun

  [3] Suki ni shitara- すきにしたら- It means 'To do as you please." It means that Val-sama approves of what I do... right?

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  250201 - Minor typo in glossary, does not impact the heart of the story.