i_s_l_a_n_d_rp | (no subject)

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.

Luck can play a considerable role in many things. Even the person with the best skill may need a bit of luck so nothing goes wrong at all.

Would that really be right? Since I can't manipulate the pieces on the board.

Luck and risk and gambling-- all necessary endeavors for magic. And success in general.

It's just a comparison. The moves you make are your explanations, and mine are the counters to that. How I weave my truth and how you weave yours are how we can effectively read each other. It's just how well either of us can accomplish that that's up in the air.

Which would say luck is more of a universal force than anything, don't you think?

Is that it? And when I successfully block the questions is keeping you from getting to my king, right?

... aaahahahaha, true! But it plays a special role in magic. People can casually disregard it if they choose, but witches can't.

Right. You might have to sacrifice pawns, like theories that don't pan out or red herrings you're unwilling to let go of. Likewise, I'll have to do the same, except with angles where I'll present a magic solution and my piece might end up taken. You could call my queen the red truth.

Are you really that dependent on such a thing?

I'm not sure if I'd call those pawns. If that was the case, I'd have a million pieces the first time I see a dead body.

Important magic hinges on risk. [ this next part sounds strained, because it's the event affecting her ] It-- it plays a major role in the Anti-Mystery perspective of the Epitaph. [ ... damn. ]

Then think of the pawns as the theories you believe in the most. The ones you're willing to risk. Your rooks and bishops being theories you'd stake the game on. And your queen being that 'one truth' you brag about.

Claim my red, and I'm defenseless. If I claimed your one truth, it'd be the same way.

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[Well, he hadn't met to force that out of her, but...] Does it? [Makes a note of that. Especially with how hard the riddle IS.]

Then...I suppose it's good, that the queen can be regained, if one sees an opportunity. That'd definitely fit the best.

It... does. But not the Anti-Fantasy part. That is all based on the skill of solving it.

Indeed. It's a devastating blow if it's taken, but it doesn't mean the match is lost.

Figuring out it's meaning in one way will probably reveal some of the other meaning.

And the comeback from the other side of the board can be quite dangerous.

I can tell you ahead of time you won't like that meaning.

Right. Perhaps it takes a drastic fall to rise higher and win? [ Certainly applies to Battler, at least. ] Plus, it's always important to... heh, flip the chessboard over. Know the moves of your opponent and why they're made.