Chapter 16: The boat of friendship capsizes at any time

After making an appointment with Christina Dumas for the next day, Lucifer walked to an empty seat at the long table and sat down together.

"Although you have probably all heard of the rules, there may be some omissions in the description, so I will explain them again."

"[Civilians] don't have any special abilities."

"[Heretic] At night of each round, you can choose to kill one person, or you don't have to take any action. You decide who to choose."

"[Sage] At night of each round, you can choose to check a person's identity to see if the other person is a civilian or has a special identity."

"[Angel] can choose the person he wants to protect tonight on the night of each round. If he chooses the same person as the pagan, no one will die that night."

"[Priest] can verify the identity of a deceased person on the night of each round."

"[Hero] can choose one person to stay at the opponent's house every two rounds, or he can take no action. If the person being stayed is a pagan, and the pagan camp takes action that night, the pagan will die. If the pagan camp chooses not to kill anyone

, or if the person staying overnight is someone from your own camp, the night will be spent safely.”

"It should be noted that if the host is chosen by a heretic, both the hero and the host will die. If only the hero is chosen, the hero will die, so it is better to choose carefully..."

After Lucifer's 'pagan killing' improved from werewolf killing was localized, these players can easily understand and substitute it.

After confirming that everyone understood, Lucifer announced the start.

"Then, if you find three 'heretics', it will be considered the righteous camp's victory. If you kill everyone else, it will be considered the 'heretics' victory. Let's start now."

Lucifer thought to himself that when these people became proficient in playing, he would not need to be the host, but could join in and play together!

In fact, what he most wants to play is a game like a running team that provides a general worldview framework, allows a high degree of freedom in playing roles, and allows a group of people to jointly shape a plot.

It's a pity that it's too difficult for this group of hicks who have never even seen a fictional novel to start running a group and make up their own. It's better to take it step by step.

ten minutes later--

One round is over.

This game was too fast, for many reasons.

"...Didn't I get caught all at once? I also lost." Einstein bitterly accused his 'companions of infidels', "Your expression is too obvious!"

Gauss felt guilty: "I think it's okay? Aren't everyone very excited?"

Einstein complained: "Your nervous look is really conspicuous next to other people's excitement. You will know that you have won a special status at a glance, right? Show your usual dead face!!!"

"...I'll try my best next time."

Second game——

"Why did you vote for me and Ludwig again?" Einstein couldn't believe it, "I clearly said I was a civilian!"

The others looked at each other in confusion: "Because I don't know who drew the 'heretic' this time, so after thinking about it, I just started with the one you drew in the last round..."

"Compared to that..." Miss Alexandre Dumas held her forehead, "Ruth, you can't just vote for whoever he votes for just because you have a good relationship with your boyfriend... It turns out that Jack is the 'infidel', isn't he? He is

I deliberately defrauded you of your votes!”

Ruth also had some doubts about life: "I just thought Jack wouldn't lie to me, but I didn't expect him to act so similar."

Her boyfriend Jack, who was called by Ruth, looked innocent: "But, isn't that what this rule says? You have to learn to distinguish truth from lies. After all, not every lie will be punished by God. Sweetheart, you know I usually don't

I'll lie to you."

"...Don't talk to me yet. I feel a little unhappy with you now."

"sweetheart!?"

Although they, a group of novices, played chaotically at first and could not let go of their interpersonal relationships outside of the game. They were still accustomed to trusting whoever was good to them, but after two rounds, the boat of friendship was almost overturned.

...The boat of love is about to be submerged, and I think a real melee will begin next.

Lucifer watched for a while and found that he had thought that these people would be shy about drawing a 'pagan' identity card, but it turned out that he was unfounded.

In this world, although the divine punishment has been relaxed in recent hundreds of years, it has never disappeared. Every few years, you can still hear about people who did bad things and were struck to death by lightning - churches in various places have different opinions about their jurisdiction.

Any large-scale divine punishment that occurs in the country will be communicated and recorded so that it can be publicized among the masses and warn those who are ready to take action.

The most important thing is that angels will come down from time to time to patrol, and their identity will be discovered due to some things.

This leads to the fact that all people in this world are convinced that God is always watching them. There are no pagans at all. The identity card of 'pagan' gives them the feeling of 'playing a non-existent role'

, everyone is actually very relaxed.

If Lucifer changed the card of the pagan to 'the person possessed by the devil', then everyone would feel uncomfortable, because the legend of the devil has been passed down to this day, and no one wants to be associated with the devil.

But role-playing is very much to their liking.

"Oh, I played the role of the dragon-slaying hero George when I was a child. I have never done such a childish thing since I grew up... Ah, Lord Sage, I am not saying that your trial is childish. It is different from what we played when we were children.

Not the same thing."

"When I was a child, my favorite role was playing the role of Artemis, the huntress. It felt so great to have adventures around the world."

"It's a pity that my mother won't let me do this anymore after I'm ten years old..."

A group of people in their teens and twenties are here to miss their childhood in an old-fashioned way. The scene is very funny. However, people in this world are indeed two different worlds when they are children and when they grow up. They have completely different requirements for children and adults.

You can't blame them for missing the time when at least playing with their friends doesn't count as playthings.

Everyone came with enough money. Although everyone didn't let go in the first game and didn't have a good time, they got the hang of it in the second game. After chatting for a while, they couldn't wait to enter the third game.

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"...???Christina is not a sage! I am a sage! I have verified that Ludwig is a commoner... Alexandre Dumas must be a 'heretic'!" Einstein shouted.

Christina Dumas, who was accused of pretending to be a sage, looked at her boyfriend: "Ludwig, do you believe him or me?"

This is a sub-question.

Gauss said without hesitation: "I believe in Christina."

Her friend Sarah, who was called by Miss Alexandre Dumas, hesitated: "I also think Christina is not it."

Einstein looked desperate: "It's over, it's over, we are going to lose this game..."

His expression of hatred for steel is very contagious.

Lucifer, who had seen through everything, said with a smile: "Well, let's start voting. Who do you think is the 'heretic'?"

Ruth said: "I think Mr. Einstein's collapse just now is very real. It should not be staged. He is probably a real sage... Is Mr. Gauss's ID card really a civilian?"

Gauss coughed: "I am indeed a civilian...but I can't vote for Christina, you know..."

Christina Dumas frowned: "But, I am really a sage, I know Ludwig, he is a commoner."

Einstein immediately said: "Why didn't you say anything just now? I suspect you are imitating me."

Everyone thought what Einstein and Ruth said was very reasonable, so except for Gauss and Sarah, everyone else voted for Alexandre Dumas, whose identity conflicted with Einstein, and voted her out.

Lucifer announced with a smile: "Then, if Miss Dumas dies, the priest can choose to verify the identity of the deceased tonight."

The next day, after another person died, the priest came out and revealed his identity: "I am the priest, I tested Alexandre Dumas, she is a sage."

Everyone: "…………???"

Wait, if Miss Alexandre Dumas is a sage, wouldn’t it be Einstein who claimed to be a sage in the first place and made them decide to vote Alexandre Dumas to death...?

Facing everyone's disbelieving looks, Einstein smiled awkwardly: "Ah, it looks like I'm going to be eliminated in the next round."

It's a pity that the person chosen to kill this round is not the priest...

Ruth, who was the first to support Einstein, looked very shocked: "If you were not a sage, how could you guess that Mr. Gauss was a civilian?"

Einstein continued to laugh awkwardly: "Ludwig and I have known each other for so many years. I can tell at a glance whether he has a special status..."

There is no doubt that everyone chose to vote Einstein out in the next round.

His identity is indeed a 'pagan'.

"It's terrible." Everyone was still complaining about Einstein. "I didn't expect that he would pretend to be a sage. How will we tell whether people who claim to be sages are genuine?"

"I don't know! The problem is that the rules don't say not to do this..."

Lies with a very bad impact will attract divine punishment, but some white lies and fibs will not matter. This is the impact of the relaxed conditions of the divine punishment system. If it were placed hundreds of years ago, this game would not be playable at all.

Because people at that time valued telling the truth much more than they do now.

But even if the people present occasionally tell little lies, they still cherish the opportunity to lie under the rules of the trial.

Guilt is sometimes also the seasoning. When you do things you usually dare not do, your brain will feel stimulated.

Especially for these people who have been suppressed for too long, the rules of the trial are an honest reason for them to try to let go without worrying about divine punishment, because they choose to believe in the sage. If the sage deceives them,

If you induce them to make mistakes, the wise men will be punished by God first, and it will not be their turn.

After everyone condemned Einstein, the game continued.

Lucifer guided the game, innocent players were voted out one after another, and his last words were messy, full of personal grudges from the first two games. In the end, the 'heretic' won.

"It doesn't matter that Einstein is a 'heretic', the problem is..."

Everyone looked at the two innocent-looking girls with incomprehensible expressions.

“Why are Ruth and Sarah ‘heathens’!?”

"Especially Sarah, you are obviously with Einstein, why did you still speak for Alexandre Dumas in the first place? Isn't this betraying Einstein? What if we really vote Einstein to death?"

"...That's why Ruth led us to believe in Einstein, right? She was just afraid that Einstein would be voted to death..."

"Damn it, everything Miss Ruth said makes sense. I really thought she was deceived by Einstein's acting skills. I didn't expect them to be in the same group!"

Ruth embarrassedly used her ID card to hide her smile: "Well... do you want to continue?"

"…………"

"Continue!!! Our justice camp cannot always lose!!!"

Lucifer smiled as he took back the identity cards and shuffled them.

Where does this lead? Let’s explore slowly. There will be more tricks in the future.

I hope that after leaving here today, the boat of their friendship can continue to sail.
Chapter completed!