Chapter 16: Chapter 16: The lost girl
Kazam: "M'lord, are you sure there even was an 8th girl?"
Shotaro Mugyiwara didn't answer the question, as he was busy going through the kitchen logs; his elvish numericals were still not very proficient, so he asked Kazam to read it for him.
Shotaro: "Read the log for past weeks or some."
Kazam quickly took the logs from him.
Kazam: "Yes, Lord."
His eyes wandered off the paper, analyzing all the data in it.
Kazam: "The captives were given the food, enough for the sustenance of 7 people."
Shotaro can feel his doubt even darkening as he takes the log.
Shotaro: "The head chief did sign it. Damn, the hole is just getting deeper."
He sits on an armchair of his room, made with crystal sandlewood, as he puts it.
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "How do I make them believe the existence of a girl that never even existed?"
He shouted as he kicked the chair out of the window in frustration as it shattered through the barrier around the jade tower & into the sky.
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Damn, it previously took me a while going through that thing.".
Kazam: "M'lord, you should calm down."
Shotaro Mugyiwara's eyes widened in irritation.
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Should I?"
Shotaro Mugyiwara suddenly had an Eureka of his own, one that led to him freaking out.
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK I GOT IT!!"
He threw his hand in the air, in a victory pose.
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "I got it!"
Kazam was shocked, surprised, & concerned about him.
Kazam: "Got what, Lord?"
Shotaro was sprinting towards the courtroom, chanting.
Shotaro: "I got it, I got it!!"
Scene cuts to courtroom meeting where Shotaro was asked to report on his finding.
The Queen: "Tell us, Mugyiwara, what did you find?"
Shotaro: "I found out that..logs are fake; someone fabricated all the registeries of the captives so good, making us convinced that there were only 7."
The Queen was surprised; she stuttered as she was bambozed.
The Queen: "if that's true, it's a delibrate scheme to cause a war, Mugyiwara; do you have a proof?"
Kazam freaked out; he realized Shotaro Mugyiwara hadn't found much evidence...or did he?
Shotaro: "The evidence is right here."
He throws the paper to the ground & stabs it with Alaksmi as it glimmers black & crimson, as the magic used for the fabrication is annhilated, returning it to it's original form.
It did have registration given to the 8 captives.
Shotaro: "See"
"Fabrication magic is a type of spell used to fabricate information."
Shotaro: "Someone used it"
Paliv: "I never knew your sword had anti-magic properties."
Shotaro: "It doesn't; it just anhilated the layer of fabrication from it."
Paliv: "So an anti-everything property."
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Seems like it."
The Queen: "If this was fabrication & there is a 7th girl, where is he?."
Shotaro: "I don't know."
the entire room gasped
Granny P.: "Fuck you mean you don't know?"
Shotaro: "As in, I am unfortunate enough to not possess the tangeble knowledge about such business."
Granny P.: "I know what I don't know means, cheeky fucker."
Shotaro: "Who does possess it?".
Shotaro points to the minister of magic, Nyrebo, son of Lettram."
Who just shook his head in an aloof manner seems like he doesn't care much.
Nyrebo: "Hmmm..me?, that's intresting how so?"
Shotaro: "Why rush, Let's start a trial; I, as a knight of green tower, demand it."
Nyrebo: "Such impatience, great hero; ok then, my name is Nyrebo, son of Lettram, one of the 15 golden witches."
Shotaro: "No surname?"
Nyrebo: "Surnames are a royal luxury, I am afraid."
Shotaro: "You use your mother's name, though?"
Nyrebo: "My father wasn't much; it's my mother's name that earned me whatever I have, so why not use that for introduction?"
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Makes sense, so Mr. Nyrebo, or should I say magic minister?"
"Why were you there when the bodies were found?"
Nyrebo's face didn't falter, but Shotaro did hear his heartbeat increase slightly; knowing that he hit the right spot, he continued.
"What happened? a dick got stuck in your mouth?"
Nyrebo: "Hmm..good observation; you did see me moving away from the place, right?"
Shotaro: "Yeah"
Nyrebo: "I did it"
Shotaro: "I knew i---wait what?"
Shotaro was dumbfounded; why would he do it & confess right away?
Nyrebo: "Then what is it?hanging, electricution, I am ready."
The Queen: "Well, if you have confessed, then I--"
Shotaro: "Hold the fuck up."
The Queen: "A fuck is intangible. you can't hold it, Mugyiwara"
Shotaro rephrases his words.
Shotaro: "I mean, stop it, whatever you do to that man."
Nyrebo: "Oh, I didn't remember you being such a carer of mine."
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "No, I am not gay; I just meant if you wanted to confess, you could have done it on the spot; why do it now, in front of everyone?"
Nyrebo: "Maybe I just liked myself some dignity before death."
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Yeah, you were protecting all rights, just not your dignity."
Suddenly the composed facade brock, as Nyrebo's eyes widened.
Shotaro Mugyiwara: "The girl, you know where she is; you try to save her?"
"You did all of this fabrication, this gaslighting, to save the 8th one right".
YES