Switched Chapter 3

Elizabeth leaned close to the paper pinned on the floor by a rock, she had noticed it as she walked back to the Boar Hat. She wasn't sure if she had just missed it before or if it appeared after she had left, either was possible really. The writing, while something she'd normally be able to read easily was now a lot harder to read. As such she had to lie on the ground and read it from there.

Dear my darling Princess Elizabeth~

I just wanted to say that I was the one who put a spell on you and your Giant friend.

Oh but don't tell anyone, kay.

Although… I doubt you would anyway. You wouldn't want to upset your precious friend after all. You're so sweet~

That's why I'm telling you exactly who did it in the first place.

Love from Miles

Elizabeth shivered as she finished reading the letter, so it was Miles. That's why the chain and bottle she had found looked so familiar. She did know Miles well after all, as much as she secretly wished she didn't in recent years. Miles had trained with Vivian under Merlin, although he ended up being much better with potions than he was at spells.

Something told her Miles hadn't told her it was him because he was certain she wouldn't tell anyone. Elizabeth gritted her teeth and shook her head, she had no reason to think that. Anything else wouldn't make any sense so she pushed that thought out of her mind.

Pushing the letter in the bag too, she picked herself up off the ground and sat carefully leaning against the Boar Hat. She knew who did it now but for now such knowledge would be kept a secret from the others for Diane's sake.

In order to make that happen, she had to hide any evidence leading to the culprit. Especially the letter that spelled the culprit's name right out. The Seven Deadly Sins had once worked at Liones and Merlin, who was a member of the Seven Deadly Sins, was the one who had trained Miles, there was no way they wouldn't know of him.

Elizabeth sighed, she wondered how long she'd have to wait until she got to hang around with friends again.


Not one of the Seven Deadly Sins had been knocked out in the first round, King had come close but apparently floating wasn't cheating and as such he wasn't eliminated. After getting their match-ups in battle, they lucked out when they learned that none of them were going first. As a result they could go see Elizabeth before one of them had to go up again, they had decided to leave King behind though, out of all of them he was going up earliest and since it was hard to tell how much time would pass before he was up, that decision was probably for the best.

The rest of them rushed back to the Boar Hat to see Elizabeth, they didn't have much time so they wanted to get to her as fast as possible so the time they had was as long as they could get it.

"You're back!" Elizabeth noticed them almost immediately, just as they had her. Elizabeth moved from her position leaning against the Boar Hat in order to face the three sins moving towards her.

"Wow, she's huge!" Ban bluntly said upon stopping in front of her. Diane punched him into the ground upon that remark while Elizabeth flushed and looked away.

"How are you doing Elizabeth?" Diane asked her turning back to her friend with a smile.

"Fine. I looked around that clearing while you were gone but… I couldn't find anything." Elizabeth told her friend, hoping the look on her face and the pause in the words would be taken as disappointment rather than lying. What if there was a clue there that she had missed? What if they found it? What if it led them to Miles? Then she and Diane would be changed back and Diane would be so sad, it was far too soon for them to be turned back! She thought if she told them she had gone to look around and hadn't found anything maybe they wouldn't go themselves. "I… I'm not sure how this happened."

"Awww, that's unfortunate" Diane pouted, what had happened back there was not normal, as much as she liked being small, she really wanted to know, for various reasons, how it had happened. What or who had done this to them might be dangerous for one thing, for another she wanted to know if there was a way to go back to being small while still being able to go back to her bigger form.

Elizabeth blinked, confused. Why was Diane upset? She had been so happy earlier and she had said she wanted to be small, so shy wasn't she happy she hadn't found anything.

"But Diane, I thought you wanted to be small." Elizabeth spoke up without thinking, only after the words had left her mouth did she realise that might have sounded suspicious. She had just made it clear she had a motive to lie after all. Meliodas' eyes narrowed slightly, Elizabeth looked at him hoping he hadn't figured anything out.

"Huh? Oh I do! I'm just really curious as to how something like this happened." Diane told her, Elizabeth moved her gaze away from Meliodas and hummed in agreement to her. So that was it, that made sense. That settled it then, Elizabeth would make sure Diane got to stay this way for a little while longer. Stealing a glance back at Meliodas, she noticed he was no longer looking at her, nor was he giving any indication he was catching onto her lie, which definitely eased her nerves a little. She didn't know if he'd go search out Miles as soon as he found out he had done this, Meliodas was pretty unpredictable after all and she couldn't take that risk.

"Well I don't know about you guys but I'm heading back~ I can't risk missing King's fight, should be fun to watch~" Ban commented, lifting his hand in a wave and running back to Vaizel.

"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Diane shouted after him. "Sorry, Elizabeth but I really want to know what he meant by that. Do you mind if I go?"

Elizabeth shook her head with a smile on her face, Diane gave her a big grin and a thanks before running off after Ban.

"If King loses make sure you tell him to come here!" Meliodas yelled after, she gave a shout of confirmation as she continued running.

Elizabeth looked towards Meliodas, was he not going too? "Well Elizabeth, what do you say I stay here for a while? I won't be able to stay long but King's probably going to lose so you won't be alone."

Elizabeth nodded enthusiastically, happy to have someone with her, and since it was Meliodas she was only that much happier. "Oh thank you!" She smiled down at him before his previous words ran through her head once more. "... Um… What did you mean by 'King's probably going to lose'."

"Nishishi. Oh, well let's just stay King would lose a fight with a cat if he didn't have his sacred treasure on him." Meliodas chuckled his hands going behind his head.

"Really?"

"Yep! I've seen it happen." From there Meliodas went on to share the story of that incident with her, he shared other stories with her too. None, she noted where about himself, instead they were all about the other sins. They were short, funny, light-hearted stories about the others. She wondered why he didn't tell any stories about himself, she'd never ask him though, if he wasn't telling her any stories about himself then there must be a reason behind it and she didn't want to pry.