Book 3: Chapter 27
The lie that Leon told was a simple one. The part where he said that Polina-san “went down the passage and brought back an automaton.”
First of all, automatons do not show up in the passages. They sometimes do appear from the passages on the other side, but that’s only when you enter a room and proceed forward to a certain point. I thought it might just be my misunderstanding, so I observed for the whole day today, but there were no exceptions.
Therefore, it was strange that Leon said an automaton was brought back from a passage.
「Hmm, I had no basis for not trusting him, just simply thought that he was suspicious.」Zerry-san said.
「Well, that kind of intuition might be necessary, too. The first thing that didn’t make sense was if you saw everyone get caught in a trap, you wouldn’t think “Okay, let’s go bring the enemy!”, right? Even if that was true, would you really go all the way down the passage to bring back an automaton?」
「I suppose that makes sense… but if Polina-san wanted to annihilate the party, she might do that, right?」
「You see, automatons won’t show up if you don’t go down the reasonably long passage to the next room at the end of the passage. Even then, you wouldn’t know if it would show up in the first place. By the time she makes that trip and comes back, the Golden Brigade could already have climbed back out of the pit. And first of all, Polina-san has no motive to annihilate the party. I didn’t feel like she carried that kind of hateful aura.」
「Then why is Leon lying?」
「Well…」