Nov 26, 2010 14:48
With breakfast finished and a new acquaintance made, the Scarecrow's mind turned to his other friends. The disappearance of Depth Charge's friend had brought back memories of how he'd felt when Kaiji went missing: helpless, useless, as though he should have and could have done something more to find him. If only he had his brain, then maybe he
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"I haven't been here long enough to see if he does or not," Erika began, wondering herself if Landel-san's fancy tricks really would be reused. "But my companion last night listed several events that happened while he was here and they all seemed to be unique. If we stay here long enough, he may run out of tricks, but..."
It was pretty clear that Erika had no intention of actually staying that long. If the good doctor here was anything like Beatrice, as shabby as she was, Erika at least had to be astonished at the sheer number of stupid tricks the witch came up with to keep up her shoddy illusion. Yet even those were just that, illusions that couldn't hold up to the truth.
"I certainly don't plan on staying here long enough to wait for that. But I'm sure he'll have some more similar tricks to show us later." And if he was anything like Beatrice, there would be some common theme to those tricks that she could use to break them apart. Perhaps she should inquire with Sync or anyone else about those again... If Momo were still here, she might have been useful as well, but her time as a piece on this board had already passed. It was terribly inconvenient for the detective.
"... I do have one more question, but don't misunderstand. I simply want some broad information, not details. Am I right to assume that your shadow was trying to play on your insecurities? That it knew personal information about you that it shouldn't have?"
There was one more thing bugging Erika about this whole ordeal, and it might have supported a thought she had. The information that her shadow and Sync's shadow had... It wasn't something that Landel-san should have known, if he just pulled everyone in from different kakeras like the story was. At least, it shouldn't have been accurate in Erika's case. But it did support another theory that she was thinking of...
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Furudo's next question caused Rita's eyes to narrow; she couldn't help but feel apprehensive about discussing that particular aspect of the illusion.
But the actual information that was being sought wasn't anything so personal, so Rita forced away the knee-jerk reaction in order to give a proper answer. "... Yes," she answered succinctly at first, then elaborated after a pause. "Some were things I've never spoken to anyone about. I imagine Landel either has some way to spy on people over a long period without being detected... or he has some kind of technology that allows him to probe one's memories." The latter seemed a bit far-fetched, but Rita wasn't going to dismiss any possibility when she was surrounded by advanced alien technology. If it was conceivable in even the loosest sense, it was worth consideration.
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