thinkoutsidethebox | Memory 39 (significant neutral)

Battler used the rain gutter!! Blue truth, effective! What do you think, my master?! [EP5] Form of a sugar holly leaf - 3 leaves and a 2 berries. 4/5 remaining.

Also known as "Erika starts ranting and using blue truth in the game board world and everyone looks at her like she's a crazy person."

With the crime in the early morning, we'd completely forgotten about breakfast, so we now had our first meal of the day at a time that could never be called breakfast time...
Even Gohda-san's wonderful meal, which had supposedly been in the works since yesterday, provided no comfort.

The several empty seats quietly burdened us with a pain-filled sadness......
Then, in the middle of this meal that felt like a vigil, Erika suddenly stood up.
Everyone focused on her to see what was the matter.

Her expression was somewhere on the line between relieved and insane, as though she'd made some groundbreaking and strange discovery.
"......Hey, what's up? Are you okay...?"
"I've got it, I've got it!! Did you think I wouldn't understand? Yes, I've got it, there's no way something that stupid could happen...!"
With an ugly expression covered with cold sweat, Erika glared and lashed out at Battler.
".........What do you get......?"
"There's no way you jumped down from the third floor study...! Not one of us saw you fall down and land in the courtyard...!!"
"............"
"When you set up the ladder from the courtyard and saw Rudolf-san go up it to the third story window, you closely observed the construction of the outer wall, and realized that by cleverly using a rain gutter, it might be possible to go down to the courtyard from the third floor window...! You didn't jump down! You used a rain gutter or something and clumsily wriggled down the outer wall!! What do you think of my blue truth?!! Come on, what's your counter-argument?!"
".........My counter-argument?"
"You don't have a counter-argument? Then my truth is effective, right?! Hey, did you see that?! Trying to look cool and making it look like you jumped down was all an illusion! You just jumped out and latched onto a rain gutter...!!"
"..................My argument then was about whether it was possible for Grandfather to escape from the study, right...? And it was possible for Grandfather to escape through the window. All I did was prove that. ......Whether I jumped down or crawled down, that doesn't change anything, does it?"
"Don't try to change the subject!! A mere human can't jump down from the third floor...!! Did you see that, did you see that...?!! What do you think of my reasoning, my master...?!!"
"......Are you tired or something? Just calm down and eat some food."
When he escaped to the courtyard through the window...
Battler really did use the rain gutter to crawl down the wall, just like Erika said.
His hand had slipped halfway, and he had fallen from a considerable height, but he had managed to land on his feet.
......No one had witnessed this, but most likely, everyone in the dining hall now except Erika had realized that something like this had happened.

Since the very beginning, no one had believed that he'd jumped down from the third floor window.
......Even if they hadn't witnessed that directly.
So they had no clue what Erika was complaining about all of a sudden and started to whisper, staring at her with cold eyes and dubious faces......
"You can't counter that, can you?! You jumping down has already been denied! My truth has won!! My blue truth is effective!"
"My master, please acknowledge this!! I am not incompetent or a disappointment...! I will match up to your expectations without fail, so please don't abandon me!! My master...!!"
Facing someone that might have been somewhere beyond the ceiling, Erika spread her arms and yelled.
Then, .........as if in answer, a massive lightning bolt landed very close by.

It was an incredible sound.
They could even feel the earth shake.
At the same time as that sound, Erika went limp and fell into her seat like a puppet who'd just had all its strings cut.

Then, as the sound of wind and rain slowly filled the room once again, ......Erika slowly opened her eyes as though recovering from a bout of dizziness.
Then, she continued eating in silence as though nothing had happened.
As if she had been acting normally the whole time.
......Didn't Erika just stand up suddenly and yell something strange at someone......?

Automatically, enough to make one doubt their eyes, Erika continued eating quietly as though everything was perfectly normal.
When they saw this ordinary appearance ......everyone convinced themselves that they were totally worn out and that they must have just seen some illusion of Erika suddenly yelling.
So Erika's sudden transfiguration of a few seconds ago was treated as a daydream and faded out of everyone's memories......

Erika quietly poked at her salad and muttered in a voice no one could hear.
Thank you very much, great Lady Bernkastel...... I am Furudo Erika. I am my master's piece and her double. ......I will most certainly present you with an incredible tale. Eheheheheh......
"That's right, when it comes to utensils, knives and forks are pretty primitive. Chopsticks are the best. Don't you think chopsticks are the easiest way to eat salad? Well, everyone?"

Comes after the study battle and the first twilight battle! This makes her feel... a little... better...