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[ Hear that, Beato? It's the sound of one of your most useful trump cards flying out the window. And that's what you get for getting carried away bullying someone during an event. ]

[His head snaps towards her as she's talking. And as he listens, he slowly, slowly relaxes. Relax being he doesn't look like he's afraid he'll get shot, but he's still rather tense.

Slowly the detective look crosses his face.]

...you didn't expect to say that. [She was either a damn good actor, but he was pretty sure it wasn't the case. Which told him several things, maybe more than she wanted.]

Everything I've said...I know to be true. The witch thing, any of those things...it could be a subjective truth to you. This just proves...you don't see yourself as human.

And that you really do have a bias in what you show in those game scenes.

... Tche. I'm not an alien, time traveler, or esper.

[ and then, she really doesn't want to admit this part, but hey, truth event ] T- then... this event got to me... that last part is true... damn it! I should've quit while I was ahead!

So it's not an automatic affect... [A point in his drugging theory. But is there a truth serum this affective?]

It's only fair...right? For you to know something like that about me...it's probably better you did that.

It makes it seem less likely you're involved with those behind the Island.

You would've figured it out by the second game, at the very least. But this makes things much harder ahead of time... Nnngh...

The only thing I care about is the fact that this event is seriously dangerous for me, hoh. And you too, apparently.

I'll be looking for it in the second game. Probably an even better reason to have followed the cousins...

Even if I chose to believe in this 'multiple world' thing...there are two it'd be dangerous to hear this truth. [And he just HAD to live with them, didn't he?]

Following them was...the right... choice... You got an extremely valuable piece of information there, whether you realize it now or not... [ DAMN IT. ]

So avoid them. It's just annoying to admit these things to you because I'm playing a game with you and it's going to give you an even greater advantage.

Ah, thought so. The mundane often does that. Whether people realize it or not.

[Chuckles. Kind of bitterly.] I'm a seven year old in their eyes. [Pushing himself to his feet.] I don't know about Kuroba, but Kazuha would never let me run off for that long unless I could give her a reasonable excuse.

So run off without her permission. Say you got lost for a few days and act all traumatized when you come back. I'm sure she can't blame you if you pull those innocent childlike eyes on her. Better to deal with those repercussions than the other ones.

She'd run everywhere to look for me if she thought I was in danger. She's the type of person to do that, since her childhood friend often got himself in trouble and I'm like him. Especially if it was days.

Though he's the more hot blooded one of the two of us, I can't blame her for her reactions. He has a tendency to get himself into dangerous situations too.

[Pauses.] And I have to warn her. Damn, how did this get into me? I haven't eaten any of the weird food.

What have you eaten or drank today?

It's a huge tropical island. I'm sure you can find someplace to hide comfortably for a couple days, guilt or no guilt. I'd offer the mansion just so I'd have the opportunity to play tricks on you, but frankly I don't want to risk giving away any more free clues and hints and whatnot.

Everything I've eaten today were things I've eaten here before with no odd effect. My servants prepared them for me, so it's highly unlikely they would slip something in.

It's five miles. Though if I went to another island...ugh, she'd never let me out of her sight afterwards, but I can't hide quite yet. [Had to find Haibara. Had to warn HER about this.]

I'm not looking to cheat. Especially with all the hints you've already given. Just the red and perspective will probably help a great deal.

Only the food that's not weird. I don't eat anything like cake growing from a tree, but the things that grow like they should. It might be something was added that's not usually there.

But it would be wise to do so when you get the chance. Even if that secret means little to me, it'll mean quite a bit to others, won't it?

... Good. Then I'll ask that we postpone the game for today, and that you refrain from asking me questions about it. Fair enough?

Who knows? I personally believe it's the island itself. [ cackle ]

Yes. In my world, that secret has the potential to kill them.

...only if you swear on your honor of my opponent, and in red, that you won't breathe a word of who I really am to anyone. [Because it's imperative no one finds out.]

Islands are just land masses. They can't do anything like this.

So it overrides her worrying about you and trying to seek you out for however long this lasts.

... Fine. ... doing that would be cheap. Not to mention, useless to me. It wouldn't be beneficial to me at all to drive away someone I'm playing a game with over such trivial matters.

And I'll beg to disagree.

It does. The question is how successful I am and if I can warn that person.

Trivial to you, but to me, it's as important as you getting Battler to declare you a witch. Precautions have to be taken.

Of course you do.

I'd wish you good luck, but this relies solely on skill.

Of course. I won't undermine it.

...yeah, probably does. She's the one with the good luck charms that actually work.

Good. It'd be bad to have it be underestimated.

Ahh, so you believe in some kind of magic, then? Now I just feel shunted.

Opponents must be able to have some understanding of one another, no matter how different the viewpoint.

Luck is luck, not magic. Magic is too much of an absolute in what it does and luck is more of a probability. Besides, I can't deny it does something, since it's quite literally only because I was wearing one of her charms that I didn't die. It stopped the blade. [He moves a hand right before his heart where he'd almost been run through.]

Or else the game would be quite boring, wouldn't it?

... that's neither luck nor magic. That's a miracle. If Bernkastel existed in your kakera, you could almost consider that a blessing from her. [ If Bern were nice enough to hand out miracles, anyway. ]

And there'd be no reason to play the game.

Admittedly, it came with a price...it was Hattori's charm. He thought I needed luck for some reason and gave it to me. He ended up getting shot and she thinks it was because he didn't have the charm. He recovered, but still, if it was that, I almost feel a bit guilty. [But then again, he would have died otherwise.]

Then it's good we understand each other.

You have your life and so does he. There's no issue, is there?

Not true, you still have quite a bit to understand about me. And the same goes for me about you, Kudo Shinichi.

No, no issue. Still...I know there's luck. There's been too much that's just by chance for there not to be some sort of distortion to probability that's not just fifty, fifty.

Ah, I suppose I said it to mean too much. A basic sort of understanding, like people will get in the beginning of the poker game.

Even if you don't believe in magic, luck plays a considerable role in magic, you know.

An apt comparison. Chess also works-- you can tell a lot about a person by how they play and the kind of moves they make.