Hooray, story!

Only thing I'm really gonna say about this:

The games go in the standard order: Werewolf, Daybreak, Vampire, Alien. If the game listed is, say, Vampire, then it'll most likely have a combination of roles from Vampire and all games before it.

Also random bits of Japanese because I don't know what I was thinking half the time while writing.

Story, go!

They had no idea why they were there.

All they knew was that Roy had randomly called his childhood friends and their boyfriends/girlfriends (well, and Rickard only because he's Marth's brother, but don't tell him I told you that) into a room with a square table and chairs to fit eight people, spouting some half-intelligible thing about 'this really awesome game' they 'have to play or else' he'd never talk to them again. So there they were, sitting around the table and waiting for Roy to come in so he could finally explain.

"Sooo...does anyone even have a clue as to what we're doing here?" That came from Wolt, who sighed when everyone else shook their heads at him. "Not even you, Marth?"

"Surprisingly, I've been told nothing," Marth replied, "save that Roi-chan has this new game he really wants everyone to play."

"Or else he'll stop talking to us," Lilina added, rolling her eyes. "Yeah, that sounds about right for Roy."

Soft laughter came from Elice. "Come now, he's just very excited to have something in which all of his friends can enjoy themselves."

"Or something he believes is like that," Merric said. "You know what he comes up with isn't always exactly fool-proof."

"I dunno," Ogier leaned back in his seat, arms crossed, "it's always seemed to me like he thinks things through, even if it sometimes seems kinda rushed."

"Oh, trust me, love," Lilina placed a hand on his shoulder, "you haven't seen all there is of Roy quite yet."

"...Should I be worried?"

"Well..." Sue glanced at Wolt, then looked back to Ogier, "I...have been told of quite a few...incidents, that have happened because of Roi-sama's...spontaneity."

"Oh, trust me," Marth placed a hand on the head of his brother, who gave him a half-hearted glare with the next words, "even Rikādo-kun's antics pale in comparison."

"Onii-chaaaan," Rickard whined, "you're killin' my rep here..."

"Yes! Everyone lives!" The group turned their attentions to one of the doors as Roy bounded in, a small dark box in his hand and notebook of about the same size under his arm. He had a pretty much ecstatic look on his face as he plopped the box down into the center of the table, somehow surprising about half of the group with his forwardness. "This is it! Prepare for a lot of deceit and hating people's lives!"

A couple of them blinked at him before all looked at the cover of the box, where a cartoonish scene of a werewolf on a cliff overlooking the full moon filled the top half and large words reading, 'ONE NIGHT ULTIMATE WEREWOLF' filled the bottom.

Marth let out a humored sigh. "I should have known this was what you were going on about."

"Um..." Sue stared awkwardly at the box for a few moments. "What...is this, exactly?"

"Do you know the Mafia series? Or Town of Salem?"

"I've heard of them, yes."

"That's basically what this is. Except it's a single night and day rather than several."

Wolt raised an eyebrow at him. "And you know this because...?"

The king chuckled. "Because he's been pretty much harassing me about getting it for weeks. I don't know how I didn't think of this when he actually came to me raving like a madman about playing something."

"How is that supposed to work, then?" Ogier asked. "If there's only one day and one night, how is any side supposed to win?"

"I got this," Roy said, before Marth could explain any more. "The night comes before the day, and all of the abilities get used during that night. Then the day phase is the same as all the other games. Everyone votes at the same time by pointing at who they wanna shoot. Most votes dies, even in ties unless literally everyone has only one vote. You can't vote for yourself or anything, obviously. If a Werewolf dies, the Town wins. If a Werewolf doesn't die, the Werewolves win. Then the Tanner has to try and get everyone to kill him for him to win."

Merric let out a short hum. "Sounds simple enough."

"It's pretty simple, actually. But it's crazy fun, especially if you have the right kinds of people playing together."

Ogier rested his arms on the table, looking between everyone. "And everyone here was worried something bad was going to happen."

"Wait, seriously?" Roy frowned. "What did you all think I was doing?"

"Oh, enough of that." Lilina lightly slapped Ogier's arm, sparing a short warning glance that he replied to with a sheepish smile. "Let's just get to playing."

The lordling's face immediately lit up again; he grabbed the box and opened it, taking out a set of thick cards, rifling through them to take out a few and put them back into the box. "Okay, so I'll be the Announcer for this. Since there're eight people playing, we'll need eleven of these cards; three go in the center. You'll find out why. So, we'll take out...the Doppelganger 'cause that's too confusing for a first game, the two Masons since they're a bunch'a skrubs and no one cares about them," that earned him a few chuckles and looks from the group, "and two of the three Villager cards." He moved the box off of the table and over to the side and put the notebook onto the table, then shuffled the remaining cards. One was dealt to each player, and the remaining three were placed in the center of the table. "Okay, so, everyone look at your cards, and DON'T let anyone else see them. This is the only time you're guaranteed to be able to see them, so don't forget what's on there." When he received a questioning look from Wolt, he said, "Cards are going to get moved around during the night phase, so you may not be the same person during the day. In which case looking at it again would just kinda mess everything up."

"What do each of the different roles mean?" Elice asked.

"I'll explain what you're supposed to do when you 'wake up' in the night phase. If it's a role that doesn't wake up at night, I'll explain it in the day phase. So...Werewolves and the Minion are on the Werewolf team, and even if the Minion dies, as long as a Werewolf doesn't, they still win. The Tanner is, again, on his own trying to get everyone to kill him, and everyone else is Town. Are we good for now?"

"Can I change my card?" Rickard asked in a whiny tone.

Roy stared pointedly at him. "No. You can't change. And don't tell anyone who you are, either."

The princeling sunk into his seat. "Fine..." he mumbled.

"Okay! Everyone, make sure you're not touching your cards and they're in everyone's reach so they can be moved if wanted. You can't know if someone's doing something to them. Meaning also try to be as quiet as possible when you're performing your role, 'kay?" He picked up his book and turned to a page that had the order of the roles written down in it, as well as a brief description on what they had to do.

Announcer: Roy

Players(Clockwise from top left corner of table): Merric, Elice, Marth, Rickard, Sue, Wolt, Ogier, Lilina

Roles in play: Werewolf(2), Minion, Villager, Seer, Robber, Troublemaker, Drunk, Insomniac, Hunter, Tanner

Upon seeing Rickard properly adjust his position in his chair, Roy said, "Alright, everyone, close your eyes and 'go to sleep'." Once everyone had done so, he said, "Okay, Werewolves, open your eyes and look for the other Werewolf. If you don't see another one, it means the card's in the center. You get to look at one of the center cards if you're alone, too."

Only one person opened their eyes and, after looking for the other and seeing no one, looked at the center card closest to them and ended up sharing a smirk with Roy before closing their eyes again.

"Close your eyes. Minion, wake up. Werewolves, stick out a thumb so the Minion knows who you are. And before someone asks, the Werewolves aren't supposed to know who's working for them unless the Minion can somehow give them a sign sometime during the day phase."

The Werewolf stuck their thumb out, and the Minion was someone that made Roy stare in interest because of the combination. They nodded at the Werewolf in recognition, then closed their eyes again.

"Okay...Minion, close your eyes. Werewolves, put your thumbs away." Once they had done so, "Umm...then would be the skrubs no one cares about..." A few scoffs, chuckles, and head shakes came from the group again. "What? I mock Masons. Deal with it. Anyways, next comes the Seer. Seer, open your eyes and look at either...one other person's card, or two from the center. No combination of both."

No one opened their eyes, so after sufficient time had passed, he said, "Close your eyes. Robber, wake up. Switch your card with another person's, and look at your new card. Don't switch with the center; it has to be another person's."

Someone opened their eyes this time, and after thinking for a moment, switched with the person directly in front of them, though with a very soft shuffling noise, making them lightly cringe. They looked at their new card, nodded at it, and silently placed it face down in front of them, closing their eyes.

"Won't we know if they end up moving?" Ogier asked all of a sudden, his eyes still closed.

"Oh, don't worry," Roy said, "I'll make sure you won't be able to tell. Anyways," he looked back at his book, "Robber, close your eyes. Troublemaker, wake up. Switch the cards of two other players without looking at either of them. Not yours," he said in warning as the Troublemaker almost swapped theirs with the person directly across the corner on their left, "two OTHER people's."

"Well, I think we know what that means," Merric said in jest. "Someone was doing something they shouldn't have been."

"Quieeeet. Don't tempt people to talk and end up giving themselves away."

The Troublemaker gave Roy a sheepish smile, then put their own card down, choosing to swap the one they had already picked up with the person directly across from them. They quickly closed their eyes.

"Troublemaker, close your eyes. Drunk! Sucks to be you. Open your eyes and swap your card with one of the center cards. You're so drunk you don't remember who you even are, so you don't get to look at the new one."

Lilina and Sue both ended up giggling, the latter's quieter than the former's, as the Drunk shook their head and chose to swap theirs with the middle center card, motionlessly noting beforehand that their card had been shifted slightly. They closed their eyes again.

"Close your eyes. Insomniac! Be boring. Look at your card to see if it's been switched. Then try and fail at going back to sleep. But still close your eyes."

Among the new set of scoffs, no one opened their eyes. After a few moments, Roy said, "Okay, everyone keep your eyes closed so I can shift the cards and make sure you can't tell if someone messed with it or not." He went around the table shifting the cards ever so slightly, including the center cards. When he got to Marth's, he decided to poke the back of his head, making the blunet respond by slapping back at him and therefore almost hitting him in the face. The redhead puffed his cheeks out at him in annoyance before continuing to shift the cards. Once he finished, he said, "Everyone, wake up!" He pointed at Marth once they had. "You! No hitting the Announcer!"

Marth chuckled. "Hey, you're the one who decided to poke me. The consequences are on you."

"But it was my face!"

"Roi-chan, I would have felt it if I hit you in the face."

"Well, you almost did!"

"Then I apologize for that, unintentional though it may have been."

With a final huff, Roy said, "Alright, you guys have ten minutes to discuss before voting! Ready, go!"

Ogier half-raised a hand. "Okay, all I know is that I know my card moved before Roy did anything. So someone did something with mine."

"You noticed that?" Wolt asked, somewhat in disbelief.

"Ogieeeer," Roy whined, "you're not supposed to know thaaaaaat..."

"I-" The blunet laughed sheepishly. "Um, sorry?"

"Uggh..."

"Saying that means that you woke up during the night," Marth said, hands folded and resting under his chin. "And the card-shifting roles are...Robber, Troublemaker, and Drunk, correct? This means that, should we believe you, you are either the Troublemaker, Drunk, or Insomniac. Do you know what you are now, by chance?"

"No idea," Ogier answered, shaking his head. "I didn't know what I was before I acted, and I definitely don't know now. I'm whatever happened to be in the middle of the center."

"Meaning Drunk," Elice noted.

"All I know is I was boring, and I wan'ed a new card from the get-go," Rickard said matter-of-factly with a single, exaggerated nod, arms crossed and eyes closed.

"Yes, we all noticed," Lilina said, rolling her eyes. "So what were you then? Insomniac?"

He reopened his eyes. "No! The stupid Villager. I know enough to know he does absolutely nothin'."

"Oh, that reminds me," Roy started. "The three roles that don't wake up. The Villager is, obviously, the most useless thing, and so if you're telling the truth, I apologize, Rickard. Then the Tanner is the guy who has to get everyone to kill them, like I said. If they die, even if a Werewolf doesn't, only they win. If they die and a Werewolf ALSO dies, then both they and the Town win. Then there's the Hunter. If they die, whoever they vote for also dies. It can be really interesting if, say, a Werewolf is swapped with a Hunter, and everyone shoots them, and they end up killing someone else unintentionally."

"Interesting." Sue placed a hand on her chin. "So a side can win or lose without realizing it until the very end, even without all of the card-switching."

"Exactly! Makes it fun like that!"

"Well, aside from that, I was going to say it in the first place, honestly. I'm the Hunter."

"Liar!" Lilina cried. "I am! Or, well...I was, originally."

"Um, Lilina..." Wolt started, "Sacaens don't lie, remember?"

"Aw, wait a minute!" Roy pouted. "That's a thing! But that's no fuuuuuun..."

Sue giggled softly. "Ah, no worry. I've decided to discard the motto...only for the sake of the game, of course. So no one knows if I'm always telling the truth or not."

"Oh, okay!"

"So you ARE lying!" Lilina said again. "Told you!"

She shook her head. "Oh, but I'm not, Rirīna. I am the Hunter."

"I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with both of you on that," Marth said calmly, in the same position as before. "Neither of you are." He momentarily tilted his head to his left. "Rikādo-kun is."

"Wait, what?" Several people asked at once, staring at him strangely. "What are you going on about?" That time was from Wolt. "You saw his reaction before. How could he not be?"

"Because I saw that he was not. Besides, I'm sure you know that my brother can be quite the actor, should he choose to be. Even right from the beginning."

"But I wasn' lying!" Rickard pouted. "I don' know what I am now, but that's what I was then!"

"Then Marth could have seen it after your card was switched," Merric offered. He tried seeing if Marth would look at him, but the king was watching how his brother would respond.

"No, that's not right. Seer goes before any switching roles," Sue stated.

"Oh. Nevermind, then."

"Why are you assuming Seer?" Marth asked, shifting his gaze to her. "Seer isn't the only role that can look at other cards."

"Then...what was it..." the mage took a wild guess, "Robber? Don't they look at the card they steal?" Even with just a peripheral glance possible, after making sure no one was staring at him, he gave a faint nod to the king, hoping he understood.

He picked up on it, but he didn't respond. "Yes, they do. But-"

"That isn't right either," Elice said first, swiftly cutting her brother off. She looked at him when she said, "I was the Robber. So I know you aren't. Besides, that argument doesn't even make any sense. In order for you to be the Robber, Rikādo-kun would have had to have been the Hunter initially. So he can't be it now. Which also means that you're lying."

He sighed, eyes closed, then said, "Which was what I was about to say before you cut me off, Onē-san. I was giving the game a bit of a challenge, but then was planning to stop it there so that no one would go and assume that I was actually being serious about the Robber bit." He opened his eyes and concluded, "I was the Seer, even if I no longer am. And Little Rikādo-kun was the Hunter."

"But I wasn'!" Rickard protested once again. "I was the Villager!"

"And I was the Seer. Are you calling me a liar, Ot ōto?"

"I am!" Lilina huffed, crossing her arms. "Because I was the Hunter. Not Rickard. Not Sue. Me. And you've been way too calm about this, anyways."

"That's just how Marth is, Lilina," Merric said nonchalantly.

"And why are you defending him so much? Are you a Werewolf, too?"

"What?" His face blanked, as if caught right where he didn't want to be.

"Ah-ha!" she cried. "You're a Werewolf!"

"N-No I'm not!" As far as he knew, that was the truth. He just didn't want to make it seem like that.

"He's probably not, Lilina," Wolt said in an attempt to keep her from going overboard with Merric. "I switched him. So he's whatever Ogier was."

"Wait, what?" Both looked at him in confusion.

"I..." he gave a light-hearted sigh, "I'm the one Roy was yelling at. I was trying to switch my card with Ogier's, but after finding out I couldn't, I switched it with yours, Merric."

"Well," Lilina casually waved a hand in her boyfriend's direction, "if he really was the Drunk, we still have no idea what he is, so we don't have to worry about him."

Ogier sighed.

"Wait, so..." Merric pointed to himself, "I'm...NOT what I was before...?" he asked hesitantly.

Wolt stared at him strangely before nodding slowly. "Yeah..."

"Oh, well, if that's the case," he waved at Marth, "he's your Werewolf. I was the Minion."

"...Wow." Marth gave him a genuinely annoyed glare. "Wow. Just...wow. Throwing me under the bus like that..."

"Well, you're kinda doing it to everyone else, so..."

"But nowhere near like that."

"Wait, so Ani is a Werewolf?" Rickard asked. "Okay!"

He lifted a hand and stared at his brother strangely. "Really? Just like that? Besides, you haven't heard from Elice, yet. She never said who she stole from."

They looked to Elice. "Um..." After a few moments, she ended up sighing.

"Well, that just proved it," Merric said. "So which one of them are we shooting?"

"Well," Sue started, "as long as one Werewolf dies, it doesn't matter if we kill one of our own. And no matter who they shoot for, they will still be tied in the end, and they both will die."

"Oh, right!" Wolt slung an arm around her shoulder. "This is one of the reasons why I love you."

She blushed and looked away. "Who is shooting who?"

"How about Ogier, Merric and I take Elice, and you two and Rickard take Marth?" Lilina suggested.

"Alright."

Roy had been silently watching the entire thing, mesmerized by how well it was being done for a first game, especially since only about half of the time he set for them had even passed. Now, he said, "We ready? Three, two, one, shoot!"

As agreed, Lilina, Ogier, and Merric pointed at Elice, while Wolt, Sue, and Rickard pointed at Marth. Elice had chosen Sue, while Marth pointed at her, the same look as before on his face, directed at Merric.

"And Elice has a majority on her! Only she dies!"

"What?" everyone but the two siblings cried in unison. They looked at Marth in surprise.

The king shook his head. "You shouldn't have expected me to just go along with what the rest of you are doing. She was obviously being too suspicious to actually be a Werewolf. And after that little stunt of yours, you really don't deserve the win."

Roy snickered, then said, "Elice, flip over your card."

Elice, with a small, victorious smile on her face, flipped the card to reveal the face of the Tanner. "I was telling the truth when I said I was the Robber. I just stole from Sue."

The rest of the players' cards were flipped to reveal that everyone else (other than Ogier, obviously) was exactly who they were all said to be: Marth, Werewolf; Rickard, Villager; Sue, Robber; Wolt, Troublemaker; Lilina, Hunter; Merric, Drunk. Ogier looked at his card, then flipped the middle center card to reveal the Minion. "Really? I switch the Minion just to become a Werewolf. Really?"

"Mariku-san, this is your fault!" Rickard cried. "If you didn' do that to Marusu-chan, maybe we would've won!"

Marth smiled wryly at a gaping Merric. "...Karma."

Winner(s): Elice, Tanner!

Roy put down the book, then went around and collected the cards. While he shuffled, he asked, "Are we up for another round?"

"U-Um..." Merric nervously glanced at Marth, "Maybe I could be the Announcer this time...so Marusu-sama can stop staring at me like that...?"

Marth sighed, then stood from his seat. "No, I'll switch. So I don't end up getting too worked up over this." He walked over to Roy and started taking the cards, but stopped once they were both holding them. "Would that be alright, Roi-chan?"

Roy released the cards. "Oh, of course. Um, the book has all of the roles in order of wake up, and what they're supposed to do. If you wanna change something with the Doppelgänger, go right ahead. Because I know you can understand when to tell people to do what. I just wanted everyone to know the roles first, because the Doppelganger can be anything, and you can't exactly say what each individual role does for them. That would take too long. And being specific would just give them away."

"I understand." He looked over the cards and took out the Villager; he walked over to where the box was sitting, placing that card in and taking out that with the face of the Doppelganger, a woman with one half of her skin normal, and the other a tiger-striped blue. "It wouldn't hurt to get used to the role for future games." He shuffled them all together, then dealt them out once Roy was seated. He took the book and read over the roles, then let out a soft noise of understanding. "The Doppelganger isn't actually quite as difficult, once you read what's supposed to go when. So long as you know what every other role does, there's no problem."

Announcer: Marth

Players(Clockwise from top left corner of table): Merric, Elice, Roy, Rickard, Sue, Wolt, Ogier, Lilina

Roles in play: Werewolf(2), Minion, Doppelganger, Seer, Robber, Troublemaker, Drunk, Insomniac, Hunter, Tanner

"Alright, are we ready? Then everyone, close your eyes." He ended up slowly pacing around the table as he spoke, stopping only to watch whenever someone performed a role. "Doppelganger, wake up, and look at another player's card. You are now that role. Make sure you know what it is before I continue."

"Um...Marusu-chan," Roy started hesitantly, before anyone opened their eyes, "I know you probably already know it, but-"

"Make sure I say every possible role for the Doppelganger in order. Or else what they saw would be given away if it's one of the earlier actions. Don't worry, Roi-chan. I can handle it."

The Doppelganger opened their eyes, then decided they would look at the card directly next to them. They put it back down, trying to put it back exactly how it was, then looked to Marth for him to continue, though there was a bit of hesitance in their eyes that he wasn't exactly going to be nice after what had happened last game.

He smirked lightly, and said, "If you saw the..." he glanced at the book, "Seer, Robber, Troublemaker, or Drunk, perform that action now." They shook their head at him, but he held up a finger to pause for a few moments, then lowered it and said, "If you saw the Minion, keep your eyes open. If not, close them." They closed them. "Werewolves, stick out your thumbs, so the Doppelganger-Minion can see who you are...if that's what they saw." The thumb(s) were out for a little bit before he said, "Doppelganger-Minion, close your eyes. Werewolves, put your thumbs away and instead open your eyes to look for the other Werewolf. If you saw a Werewolf, Doppelganger, you would do the same. If there's only one Werewolf, look at one of the center cards."

This time, three pairs of eyes opened, and the Doppelganger-Werewolf had a semi-sheepish smile on their face. The three each nodded to each other, one with a big smile, before it went back to a neutral expression and all eyes closed.

"Werewolves, close your eyes and stick out your thumbs. Minion, wake up and look for the Werewolves."

The Minion's eyes opened, then looked strangely at the three different thumbs out. They half-pointed at them and gave Marth the same expression. He had a small smile on his face and shook his head in dismissal as they did the same after a moment and closed their eyes.

"Minion, close your eyes. Werewolves, put your thumbs away."

Roy decided to say, "Now everyone, wake up and mock the Masons."

The entire group ended up laughing, with about half of them opening their eyes, as Roy started half-singing about mocking the skrubs that are Masons. After several long moments of that, everyone mostly quieted down and closed their eyes once again.

Marth was still laughing a little as he shook his head. "Everyone's eyes closed? Alright. Seer. Wake up and look at either one other player's card or two of the center cards."

There was a Seer this time, and after thinking for a moment, they looked at the center cards in the middle and on their right before closing their eyes again.

"Close your eyes. Robber, wake up. Switch your card with another player's, and look at your new card."

No one opened their eyes, so after a bit, he said, "Close your eyes. Troublemaker, wake up, and switch the cards of two OTHER players." He added emphasis on 'other', hoping it satisfied Roy, though it made Wolt cringe.

Again, no one moved. It interested Marth, who wondered how there being no non-Drunk switching roles would be used to its full potential. "Close your eyes. Drunk! Be drunk, and forget who you are."

A couple chuckles came from the group, though some were surprised that Marth was making jokes like Roy had. The Drunk shook their head and swapped with the center card closest to them, then closed their eyes.

"Close your eyes. Insomniac. You probably never slept to begin with, but wake up anyways and check if your card has changed. Then close your eyes and fail at sleeping."

More chuckles. The Insomniac checked their card, though they were disappointed by what they saw. They closed their eyes anyways.

"Close your eyes. Doppelganger, if you saw the Insomniac, then check your card. Otherwise, you're probably sleeping too heavily to hear me." When the Doppelganger didn't open their eyes, Marth went around and shifted all of the cards, making sure to mess up Roy's hair, earning him a yelp and a face that would be a glare if the redhead's eyes weren't still closed. When he finished, he said, "Alright, everyone wake up! Since the last round only took five minutes, you will have five minutes for discussion. Starting now."

As soon as they had all opened their eyes, Lilina took it upon herself to say, "I have absolutely no idea what I am."

"Um..." Roy slowly raised an eyebrow at her. "None of us do..."

"Well, actually," Ogier half-raised a hand as he had in the last game, "I do. I was, disappointingly, the Insomniac both before and after all of the switching around of cards."

"Which is exactly why I said the role was extremely boring. More often than not, you don't actually switch." From under the table, he poked both Rickard's and Elice's legs. He didn't know if he understood, but she ended up doing the same to Merric, who glanced at her, then him, then back to the conversation at hand.

"Well then," Marth started, "I guess we're going to have to come up with a way that makes the Insomniac much more interesting (hint hint)."

"Well, that wasn't what I meant," Lilina said. "As in, I don't know what I am, aside from all of the card switching."

"So...were you the Drunk?" Merric asked.

She nodded, then pointed to the center card closest to her. "I'm whatever that was."

"That one?" Wolt looked at it, then shook her head. "Sorry, can't help you then. That was the only one I didn't look at."

Roy sighed. "You have to love how pretty much all we do in the discussion is reveal. Or pretend to. But it's all about calling out who we think is lying about who they are."

"Um..." the archer blinked at him. "That's pretty much all we really can do."

"Yeah, I know. I'm not complaining. But anyways," the lordling stared at him expectantly, "it sounds pretty coincidental that the only center card you didn't look at was the one that apparently happened to be switched."

"What are you implying?"

"I'm implying that you're lying."

"Hey, you rhymed!" Rickard cried out all of a sudden, to which most of the group either scoffed, shook their heads, and/or chuckled/giggled.

"But I was serious, though," Wolt said. "I was the Seer, and I looked at the two cards that Lilina says she didn't touch."

"Uh-huh..." Roy rested his chin on his hand. "Sure you did. What were they, then?"

"Tanner and Troublemaker."

"Liar!" Rickard cried again. "I was the Troublemaker!"

"You both are immediately calling me a liar...I bet you're working together."

"That's a very bold accusation on short notice, Wolt," Merric said, now in a stance very similar to Roy's. "Sounds to me like you're trying to draw attention away from yourself."

"One moment." Sue raised a hand, then pointed to Rickard. "Rikādo-kun, who did you switch?"

Rickard hesitated for a moment, looking as if he was trying to remember, before pointing to both her and Lilina. "You two. So if Rirīna-san is tellin' the truth, you have the Drunk card. And she...well, we still have no idea, even if Uoruto-san was tellin' the truth too. What were you origin'ly?"

"Being serious this time, Hunter. Meaning, if we are to believe both you and her, this," she placed a finger on the center card on her left, "is the Hunter."

He nodded. "Right."

"Even though I know I saw the Troublemaker in the center..." Wolt half-muttered.

Elice shook her head. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you as well. I was the Robber, and I stole from Mariku. He was the Seer. So maybe you would like to change your story, Wolt?"

"I can second that," Roy said. "I know that's what he was originally, because I'm your Doppelganger. He was the Seer. That's how I know you're lying about what you saw in the center, because I looked." He shifted his gaze to Lilina. "You became the Minion. I don't know how he got the Tanner part right, but he did. That's the other one I saw."

"Wait," Lilina pointed to herself, "I'M on the Werewolf side now? So I'm going to end up losing?"

"Unless Uoruto-san isn't actu'lly a Werewolf," Rickard said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Woah woah woah, you're voting ME?" Wolt asked hastily. "But I'm not a Werewolf!"

Merric shook his head. "I don't buy it, Wolt. I had checked Roy's card, and he IS the Doppelganger. So unless he, Elice, and Rickard are ALL lying about what they did and yet are somehow right on point about me being the Seer, you're the only real option."

"...Am I the only one here who's noticed," Ogier motioned to Merric, Elice, Roy, and Rickard, "that this entire half of the table has just been building off of one another the whole time?"

"Now that I think about it..." Sue put a finger on her chin. "Yes, they have been using one another's words to try and convince us that Uoruto-chan is indeed a Werewolf."

Wolt sighed in relief. "Thank you. Someone's actually believing me."

"Who ever said I believed you?"

He paled. "What?"

"It could just be coincidental that it all lines up, love. We don't know that. I...honestly would be surprised if an entire half of the table is on the Werewolf team, especially all in a row. For that to happen, the Doppelganger would have had to have seen either a Werewolf or the Minion, and in the latter case, both Minions would have had to have been able to tell the Werewolves who they are. The odds of it all are pretty slim."

"But still possible."

"Still possible, yes. But also still very unlikely."

Marth silently chuckled from behind the group, then said, "Are we ready to vote? There are still two minutes left, of course, but majority can let me know any time before."

"Wait, really? It's only been three minutes?" Roy looked at him skeptically, and when he nodded, he said, "Huh. Feels like longer. But I mean, I'm ready to. It's clear who the Werewolf is." Elice, Merric, and Rickard all nodded to agree.

"Yeah, sure, it totally is..." Wolt narrowed his eyes at Roy.

"Seems like we don't have much choice but to leave it as is, then," Sue ended up saying.

"Alright then. Ready? Three, two, one, shoot!"

Unsurprisingly, Merric, Roy, Elice, and Rickard all pointed at Wolt. Wolt pointed at Roy, muttering something about him being the cause of it all. Ogier and surprisingly Sue followed him and pointed at Roy. Lilina hesitated with her finger directed downwards at the center before settling on Roy.

"Wolt and Roy both have a tied majority, and both die!"

"Sue? Lilina?" Wolt asked in confusion.

Sue blushed and looked away. "I...thought that maybe there was a bit of truth to what you were saying, so..."

"Um..." Lilina laughed nervously, "I just kinda figured that since we couldn't tell whether it was you or them, we'd take down both. If we find a Werewolf, then no harm, no foul, right?"

"Well," Roy smiled widely as he flipped over his card, "right strategy, but wrong target. You would've been fine with any of the other three, but not me."

He was the Minion. The other three all shared a look of accomplishment with him as they flipped their cards; the siblings were both Werewolves, while Merric had the card of the Doppelganger. After a few groans from the other half, the rest of the cards were flipped, revealing: Sue, Hunter; Wolt, Seer; Ogier, Insomniac; Lilina, Robber.

Lilina sighed at her card. "I wasn't the Minion, but I still ended up losing..."

"Called it!" Roy cried out, but he quickly put his hands up in a defensive stance when she gave him a harsh glare. "U-Um...sorry...?"

She ended up letting out a 'Humph!' and crossing her arms, eyes closed, to which he only responded by sighing.

Winner(s): Merric, Doppelganger-Werewolf; Elice, Werewolf; Rickard, Werewolf; Roy, Minion!

Marth collected the cards and asked while shuffling, "Are we going again?"

"Oh! Wait a minute!" Rickard jumped out of his seat and ran for the door. "I'll be back!"

As the door shut behind him, the others all gave one another quizzical looks on just what the little princeling was planning.