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A Good Deception

Characters: Shuichi Saihara & Kokichi Ouma

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Recently, Shuichi Saihara, the Ultimate Detective, has been having trouble solving a difficult case that he came across. There is so much evidence he found already to strongly suspect and narrow down the culprit of this particular case to be one of his classmates, but he can't figure out who that might be. After staring at the pictures of his fellow classmates on the wall and pondering about everyone's statements on where that person (or robot) was during the time of the incident for quite a long time, there is only one person who he knew he could trust. And that's only because that person was his alibi throughout the entire day.

Kokichi Ouma.

Shuichi knows that he can't solve this case by himself and that he needed another person's help to see if they can formulate any new ideas or find some new facts that he had previously missed or never even thought of. The Ultimate Detective is indeed quite aware of how smart and cunning Kokichi really is, however, he isn't sure if his companion would either help or just hinder the case.

Despite this, Shuichi is desperate to gain some new perspective by now and knows that time is of the essence. The longer the case stays open, the more time goes by as possible theories and evidence grow colder with each passing moment.

After carefully contemplating about the issue at hand and planning on how to obtain Kokichi's help, he immediately spares no second into setting foot to find the talented trickster.

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Shuichi eventually finds Kokichi up to his usual antics. He stops the shorter male from doing what he was currently pursuing and turns his back away from him. The detective knows that Kokichi is peering at him, curious to see what is on his mind. Shuichi tugs on his hat as he sets his plan into motion. With as much confidence he can muster, Shuichi carefully eyes his classmate and speaks to him at once, "Show me how to lie."

Kokichi momentarily becomes surprised to hear those words come out of Shuichi's mouth, but shortly after, he then bends down as his teasing smile quickly returns to his face once again. Kokichi is generally intrigued at the detective's request as he often wants to spend more time with said detective whenever he can. With this interesting proposition, Kokichi decides to cancel his latest scheme at that very moment and go with Shuichi.

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Once they enter the detective's room and he has Kokichi's undivided attention, Shuichi makes it very clear that this practice was only to help him with his detective work and only for this case in particular. He suspects that at least one or a few of their classmates might be lying about when and where they were at the time when the incident occurred. Shuichi talks and goes over the case with Kokichi, leaving no detail out. Shuichi even describes everyone's facial expressions and body movements when he questioned them regarding to the case about their own statements, noting a few odd behaviors that some of their classmates did.

Kokichi listens intently to the facts about the case and notices Shuichi's keen eye for pointing those things out. He can see that the detective has grown a lot since he first started and proceeds to commend him on his efforts so far. He walks over to Shuichi and places his hand on the detective's chin. "You're getting better all the time," he praises him in a soft-spoken manner, caressing the area of the skin underneath the other's bottom lip.

Shuichi gazes into the shorter male's eyes, almost wanting to spend his time just being in that exact moment with him.

Quickly shaking away his confusing thoughts, he remembers that time is of the essence, especially with a case like this. He couldn't afford to waste any more minutes and needed to solve this as soon as he possible. He internally sighs at the thought before he goes back to wearing his usual serious expression. He asks, "Can you help me with this, Kokichi?"