"R---R---Ra...!"
How long must this idiot keep holding my hand up like this?! Even if its just pretend for whatever show Madi-san is filming 'LIVE FROM NEW COIMBRA' or whatever tagline those crazies came up with, this is really excessive! Just what kind of perfume are you wearing, its making it really hard to breathe all of a sudden!
Beyond Rufti's intense gre, I manage to spy with my eye:
The mystery!
The mysterrrrrryyy...!!
The mystery is getting away...!!!
It is as if countless dark threads unravel their hold on my head at once.
And I bme you, Rufti de Galopin...!
"The ntern, Rufti!!! Where is it---?""Huh?" Even our local heiress is confused by my sudden request!
Is your detective the only one who remembers?! We came here to find Rufti so we could get the ntern that was left at the Chateau! If we get a hand on the ntern, we can solve all mysteries...!
I didn't come to this nightclub for the funsies like Madi-san did, I came here to solve a mystery! The ntern that Fox-Mask left behind at Galopin Chateau is the key to solving all mysteries! So long as we have a copy of it, we can learn how she produces the 'pink mist'! Obviously, Rufti isn't going to hand over the ntern to people who barged into her home in disguises! The only person not recognized as an intruder that night...
... is me!
I am only one who can coax Rufti into doing it...
Not Oracion!
Not Val-sama!
Definitely not Madi-san!
"The ntern! The auction room! Don't you remember?! Where's the ntern?!"
Come on, Rufti, recall! Think back to the pce where you first met me!
Rufti's orange eyes blink once. She doesn't get it. She doesn't get why I am so anxious and looking with x-rayed eyes right through her cute skull! As expected of my Watson! Being this dull-witted is expected of you! She cannot understand why I am so anxious about this! She cannot see! Even as I struggle against the one hand pinned above my head and try to avoid the knee that is pced in a most inappropriate location...! But hurry up and realize...!
"The mystery is getting away...!!!!"
She ughed.
"Hi--- hihahahaha...!"
Now I'm really pissed!
"What's so funny?! You come straight up to me and suddenly do this to me...! Take some responsibility!
Rufti releases the hold she has on my hand, stepping back to push back her tinted gsses.
"It really is like you, the detective, Lady Ayano!" Rufti ughs, covering up the underside of her mouth as she holds her stomach, "Your mind is so single-minded and focused on solving a crime!"
Why yes, I only care about solving a crime right now!
Is there anything weird about that?!
"Lady Detective, does Rufti de Galopin look like I would carry a thing like that around like a prop---"
"... so the ntern is at your home." The little grey cells in my head are starting to tingle! This is a logical conclusion, so the next logical step is...
"When can we go to your home, can we do it tonight?!"Ah?
Something seems to be wrong.
Was there something wrong with my Vespanol?
Have you been drinking? Why is your face suddenly turning red in real-time?!
"You want to go to my home to solve a mystery... S-so this is what you meant by solving a mystery..." Rufti lurches backwards in embarrassment, aghast written on her face! What exactly is there to be hazukashii[1] about?! The detective literally decred her intentions to you! Any more directly and I would be throwing out red truths now!
"Ah?? Of course! What did you think I meant by solving a mystery?!?!"
Why are you suddenly holding your face with both palms?! Listen here, this is no time to be twisting your legs around and getting red-faced! I need to go to your home, pick up the ntern, and we'll send it to the appropriate magickal experts! How else is the detective supposed to solve a mystery!!
"H-how bold! Are all the women of the [Sanae Fleet] like this?!"
"If not tonight, then another time." I have my eyes locked on the mystery, and I'm not letting it get away!
[SFX:Phone's Flipcase Opening]
I flip open my blue flipphone's address book, which has less numbers than the fingers on my hand on it!
Mine.
Sachiko-senpai's.
Madi-san's.
It is now 20:30.
"What's with that weird reaction...
If you're going to be my Watson,
then memorizing this much is possible for you,
Rufti de Galopin...!"
Under the purple glow, a certain exchange of phone numbers occurs!
Club Percheron, The Loft.
"W-what is this impossiblé amount of rizz that's coming outta you...!"
The boob-for-brains La-Roux is holding her head in absolute confusion. The confusion has hurt her so much, that her suppressed Frxnchwoman accent is showing itself! Unlike you, I have always focused my sights on one thing, the mystery! Tonight, a mystery will be solved! Otherwise, your small and cute [Narrator's Power] wielding detective is not called Ayano Sane!
Under low and baited breaths, La-Roux leans a half-body behind the couch, cupping her hand to her mouth in whispers...
"You are cheating, Aya-chan! Cheating! You didn't beat the game!"
Aha...ahahahahaha!!!
Problem, Madi-san?! This is for all the times you've made fun of the detective's hard work! Do you think your detective is going to spend the inane amount of time >you spend grinding hearts to unlock the hotel scenes?! Here's your non non right back at >you! In fact, right after this, your detective is going to go straight after the mystery herself...!
"You can't just speedrun this like one of those Dxngxnronpx games! Py FAIR, Aya-chan!"
No, >you!A mystery is getting solved tonight, we aren't even waiting for the css trial or tea party! If you don't like it, you can handcuff yourself to a chair nearby and just watch me rip the mask off the culprit!
"... escation is all over the pce. This is not pickup." The orange-haired twintailed Jxnko reject disapproves of the scene that is going on down there as well!
"Yeah! What kinda line is 'the mystery is getting away' anyway?! We can't let her win, for real!"
Can't let me win?
That's YOUR selfish desire, Madi-san!
Fortunately, someone in the room has my back!
The saint in white robes shoots up to her feet, almost in etion!
"If it works... It works!!!This is... magick!"
Downstairs, right now.
It's noisy.
But at the same time, it's quiet.
It is as if the whole world stopped for the two of us.
I can no longer hear the band pying, or the purple-haired Frxnchwoman in my ear...! By the time I pull my head away from my much taller and panting 'Watson', thin string of yabai trailing the side of her lips, I know that whatever magickal device broadcasting this has caught it all!
dou?
What do you think?
If it comes to solving a mystery...
... this much is possible for Ayano Sane!
Somewhere in the distance, a small white textbox appears on-screen:
Tonight's Results:
Ayano's Victory
Go Go And Learn Moonrunes With Aya-chan![1]hazukashii- "hazukashii means to be shy or embarrassed... You can use it in a sentence like Totemo--- Madi-san? Why are you being so quiet right now?"
