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[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

[He still thinks most everyone on the island is insane. No, he still doesn't believe in all the magic. And yes, he's still trying to find some way to logically explain everything.

But even detective maniac Edogawa Conan needs a break. Which was why today he was taking a break. At present, he was sitting under a tree with a stack of comic books on top of his jacket laying on the ground.

They were Sherlock Holmes comics. He wanted to see if they were any good since he hadn't gotten the chance to read them back home. For the moment, he seems more than content.

...now, really, he's just asking for someone to bug him.]

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[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

[ That wipes the smile off her face into more of an angry pout. She's definitely got a childish temper. ]

Beatrice is a title among witches of Endless anyway, it has no bearing on the story. No secret meaning. That loving guidance is something you could better apply to my teacher, who bore the title Beatrice before I did.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

Which makes it all the more questionable. Beatrice is referenced in a great many other works as a beautiful woman with a good heart. For it to be a title, it seems odd for you to break the pattern.

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

In this day and age, is it so uncommon to want to separate yourself from your predecessors? Especially with such playful magic at one's disposal?

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

That sort of reasoning works better for families. Titles you have to seek out, after all.

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

But once you've achieved it, you've got a lot of power at your disposal, hmmm...? I had quite a bit of fun with my magic when I was acknowledged fully as the Golden Witch. All people are different, remember that. I won't let some ethereal wisp who shares my name define me.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

So the power made you change?

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

I won't deny I've certainly made a few changes over the years... but the power being a factor? Hoh. I don't know if I can answer that.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

I would hope not. It'd make you seem weaker.

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

Whether you're trying to provoke me or not, saying anything would be saying too much. Besides, that's the sort of thing you like to dig up yourself, right?

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

I wasn't. Just stating a fact. People are too easily corrupted by power. If your actions were based on just insanity from power, I'd be disappointed.

Of course. Which is why I'm throwing out possible theories. It shows I'm thinking about it.

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I'm very happy you haven't stopped thinking about it. If I came up to you today and you didn't have any new material, I'd be more than a little disappointed.

Speaking of...

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

Do I know how you did the trick, right?

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

Right. Have anything for me today?

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

[Ponders. Does he want to read or go for the mystery. Ponder, ponder, ponder...]

Yeah, an idea. [Marks the page and sets down the comic, sitting up straight.] First off, the rose is easily prepared in advanced. Saying I could choose any in the whole garden is just a way to make it seem like you couldn't predict which one, but since you said wilted, you had already limited to the number of choices I had.

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

But you need a wilted rose in order for it to be revived, so I didn't have a choice on that matter to begin with. I'll say this now: Not a single one is synthetic in any way. Your counter?

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

I never said there was an inorganic rose. The rose doesn't have to be inorganic. What is inorganic is if the rose was truly wilted. You just have to make it look wilted.

One idea is flash paper. Since it's thin and light, all you have to do is color it it to look like the rose. Then add a chemical that could produce a golden color. All it takes is a spark that the butterfly sets off and the flash paper goes up in a flash. It goes up so fast, it wouldn't even damage the rose and then it looks good as new.

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

Tche...! I told you I'd make this harder, so don't think you'll take me down that easily this time around!

You examined the rose closely before I revived it, didn't you? I allowed you to make sure it was a wilted rose. If it was paper, you would have noticed, right? You're observant, so a little detail like that couldn't possibly slip by you! That's why I let you observe it so closely in the first place! So I'll cut down that theory in red.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

Well, I would assume you would know how to craft it to look like a rose and since it's so thin, it wouldn't look bulky.

But the rose wasn't made of paper. Then... *Ponders.*

Then it'd possible you soaked the actual rose with the compound that makes flash paper go up in a flash. The rose would be organic, but it would be like flash paper itself. Being wilted, it was already dry. And in the proceeding flash, a device shoots up a perfectly healthy looking rose. All it'd take in a small clasp to hold it down and a spring to put it back up into place.

Many magicians make perfectly healthy roses appear as soon as a flash paper goes off.

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... hmhmhmhmhm. Clark's Third truly is a dangerous weapon to all witches. You're making me grateful Battler can't wield it properly.

I'll counter with a devil's proof, and I'll give you your first taste of blue.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

Then let me counter immediately with my own question.

Since that trick was shown to me only less than two weeks after meeting you, which was when you arrived, why was it a recently planted rose garden already suffering from wilted roses? During those two weeks, you had a home and a full garden. Since they have to be planted there, why weren't the wilted roses done away with right away and left on the bush? It's not how could you be sure all the wilted roses were covered, but the real question is why there was any wilted roses for me to find at that point in time when they should have only been there a few days?

[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

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Ohhh, I'm having too much fun to let this go now! I'll state this: Hahahahaaaa... I never stated one way or another how it came to be, right? Now you know!

So here's my final question... whoever said the rose garden had been immediately planted? Break down my counter-argument in blue now and I'll hand over the second game to you.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

In the end, it doesn't matter who made the mansion because even if you moved in upon your arrival, that rose garden was no more than two weeks old. Because I was here one day before you and I was in that very spot on my day of arrival.

Further more, you didn't have to cover the whole rose garden. You just had to do it in the area where you would tell me to find a wilted rose.

I didn't know the type of magic you were to perform. All I knew was the wilted rose was to be a prop. Chances are almost zero that I would leave that area. The fact you said I could go anywhere in the garden lowered those chances even more. Since I was not 'limited,' I saw no need to go out of my way to look for a rose and would choose one I saw in the immediate area so I could see the trick.

I did not know what was to happen to the rose and a good many rose tricks don't require any advanced preparations. Even more reason why I wouldn't think to leave the immediate area because I didn't think there was anything done to the rose specifically before hand.

Yet another point was the magic was to be performed a bit before my departure. The chances are even smaller because I wasn't likely to go trekking over the whole garden after the second piece right before I left to find a wilted rose.

There was a possible chance I'd leave the area, but the chance was so small, it would be pure bad luck for you that I would leave the area. And everyone who performs magic has to believe they have some good luck. You even said your magic requires luck, so there's no reason to think you'd be hit by such bad luck.

And a good chunk of magic tricks is to manipulate the audience into acting how you want. All you had to do was to make sure I wouldn't have a specific desire to leave the area.

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[bitchcrafts.livejournal.com]

.... eheheh... Ehehahaha... [ subdued laughter, not erupting into that obnoxious laughter like she has before. In fact, if you listen closely... she almost sounds very pleased. ] I can feel it. If everything you just said were in blue-- [ a sharp motion across her chest ] Straight through my heart, and I wouldn't be able to pry it free. Even if you didn't say it in blue, I can feel a shadow of what could have been if it had been. That argument... is lovely. That's what makes that argument so beautiful! I'm thrilled!