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“What was that?” Battler exclaimed, “is this the XXth person?!”
Everything stopped.
The room went black.
The room went silent, and stayed silent for a moment.
The silence was broken by the cackling of the witch.
“Ahaha! You're fooled by mere shadow puppets, Baaaattttlerrrr!? A child is smarter than yooooouuuu! Ahahahaha!” She hugged herself and bent over in an eerie uncontrollable laughter.
Battler composed himself and pointed at the witch, speaking in blue, “It was shadow puppets all along then!”
The witch, unimpressed, narrowed her eyes. “Go on then, explain how shadow puppets did the murders without magic.”
Battler cried.