Academy's Undercover Professor React

Interlude

The interlude commences, with all of the people being teleported to a lobby-of-sort. In front of them was a round table that looked like the perfect spot for interrogations. However, there were more places to be explored. Although the place was brightly lit, the numerous hallways that surrounded the place looked dark.

Despite all the hints for them to sit down and probably talk to one another about their finding, Rudger's best course of action was to go away and hopefully not interact. They couldn't really do anything during the reaction due to even more information flowing through.

However, all of this was useless because the hallways seemed to be blocked by a barrier.

With expectant stares directed towards him, he had no choice but to sit down.

Casey started first, breaking the tense silence, and as always, straight to the point,

"You are Machiavelli right?" But before Rudger could answer, sleepy poofed right in front of them and cards of varying colours.

"I expect the majority of you to have questions for some people, but I still want to make this fun and play this like a game! The blue cards are question cards, of course, you can ask questions without it, but the blue card forces the truth."

Despite explaining like the blue card would have the ability to force the truth out of anything (blame me for favouritism okay?), I sent a telepathic message to Rudger :

"You can go around the loopholes in the questions, but you cannot tell straight out lies."

With all materials set and a perfectly tense atmosphere to set the mood, the interrogation began.

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Casey Selmore wanted to yell and question the man in front of her immediately, specifically about his previous identity, which was just revealed on a giant screen. However, as a noble, and a blue-colour mage, she had to compose herself and ask questions calmly.

At least, that was what most people thought she would do, but she is Casey Selmore, the genius detective. She has no reason to act calm and intimidation is a major factor when it comes to revealing secrets, though it would probably not have worked since the man in front of her was Machiavelli, a mercenary-turned-war-hero.

Collecting her thoughts, she banged her hands against the table, which caused the Seorn students to flinch.

"You are Machiavelli." It was a statement, not a question, though it was true unless the whole drama they watched was all fabricated (Casey doubted that was possible with how high quality and realistic it was, as well as Rud-Machiavelli's genuine reactions that sometimes slipped through his mask).

"Yes I am." A standard response, although the atmosphere only became more tense.

"'Yes I am'?! Answer me, why did you run away? Why didn't you just stay in the Kingdom of Utah, you would've lived a comfortable life! Did you have other identities? Why stay as Rudger Chelsea? Who are you?"

Despite being bombarded with questions, Rudger stayed calm and composed.

"Since you seem so eager to get the truth out of me, I'll answer some of them, I do enjoy my privacy after all."

Despite his calm demeanour outside, he was internally panicking, his past identities were not supposed to be revealed, although he was grateful that Casey was the type to ask the question directly in her mind since she couldn't speak as fast as she was thinking. This meant that his identity before reincarnation could be hidden with a simple mind altering spell; as long as she didn't cast spells or had spells casted on her that undid the spell, he would be in the clear (a note that memory sealing spells take a lot of mana that he can't afford to lose and it's pretty flashy, he also cast the spell on the others (-U.N. Owen)).