efer to his reckless but nonetheless astute decision to not fall asleep in order to save as many lives as he could before he could ask the help of fairies. It might have worked if he hadn’t slipped up. In conclusion, saying that he was smart is also a right answer.”

“Huh? But then if both are right, how could you get a wrong answer?” Evelyn asked.

“Basically? Double negation. It’s a trap question. All answers are wrong because the nature of the answer clashes with the nature of the reason. If you say yes, you admit he was smart although he actually wasn’t. Vice versa.”

“{In other words, any answer could have worked,}” Higure summarized.

“Yes. Coincidentally.. or perhaps not, this is something that my uncle once developed upon when he got bored and decided to write a book. In it, he mentioned something he called ‘The Refutation of Opinions’. He said that while everyone has the right to an opinion of their own, he also said that two opinions that clash against each other have no right to be. Why? Because if an opinion seeks dominance over others, it is not worthy of being deliberated, whether they are right or wrong.”

“{I see.. Still, what a weird man he is, that Fray Brazwein. Spending so much time telling those tales only for the questions to be answered like this.. He obviously tailored them to you personally as well, and they were not even that hard.}”

“Well, what do we know,” Rakna grunted. “Each of these three tales held a message. The pursuit of love, the pursuit of revenge, and the pursuit of knowledge. Perhaps he wanted to convey how badly each of these could end. A little life lesson.”

“{..if you say so.}”

The therian shrugged and quietly walked to the end of the hidden tunnel.