Armando, Gabe and the rest of the palace staff would never believe it, but Batilda was telling the truth. A meal for her kind was harder to control than it seemed. Once a vampire bat humanoid started to drink human blood, none could ever stop. Many of Batilda's kind have to stop drinking human blood once they started before said humans wind up dead, but no vampire bat humanoid had ever successfully stopped the process.
Gabe: So, if you need to eat someone evil, why not go for the false prince of the non-existent kingdom?
Batilda: There's actually 2 problems with that idea; 1. He's not really evil, and 2. Not only is he not a real prince, but he's also not a real human.
Gabe: I must still have a bad concussion because it sounded like you said he wasn't a real human.
Batilda: Your concussion has worn off, Gabe, and I did say that Prince Fernando wasn't a real human.
Armando: What are you saying? That the false prince isn't really there? Because if that's the case, shouldn't Princess Elena not even see him at all?
Batilda: I'm not saying that he's not really there, I'm only saying that he's not a real human.
Gabe: What do you even mean by that, he's not a real human?
Batilda: What I mean by that is that he's really an evil Shuriki-drone in disguise with raw sewage as his internal fillings.
With that knowledge in mind, Batilda's explanation about the false Prince Fernando made even Armando feel sick to his stomach after hearing such a thing.
Armando: I think that insight just grossed me out enough to give me the need to vomit.
Armando went to the kitchen to vomit in the sink. His face wasn't looking so good when he got back. Batilda gave Armando a handkerchief rag from her pocket to wipe his mouth area off with.
Armando: Thank you very much, Batilda.
Gabe had to be strong, so he pushed his vile back down his throat. Batilda still noticed that Gabe felt sick from the information about the prince pretender, Fernando. She noticed he got sick from the information, too, because he had a rather raspy, scratchy voice when he replied to Armando's sudden sickness. It was just like a kind of voice spoken by someone who had vomited in their mouth, a liquid belch.
Gabe: Wow, Armando! I never thought you could get that sick from hearing such information, and here I always thought you don't get grossed out so easily.
Batilda: You do know I can tell that you had to be sick, too, right?
Gabe tried to hide his shame in feeling a worse kind of sickness to the information than Armando did.
Gabe: What are you talking about? I didn't feel sick about that information 1 little bit.
Batilda: I can tell you felt sick just from hearing it because your voice is raspy and scratchy. It sounds like you had to throw up, but you kept it in and pushed it back down.
Gabe: I did no such thing. I just threw up a bit in my mouth, that's all.
Batilda: I can tell that you're lying to me, Gabe. I can also tell you definitely need some water. Don't worry, I can get some. After I get back, you can ask me all you want how I could tell you were lying.
Batilda flew to the kitchen to get water for Gabe. Once she got it and flew back to him and Armando, they both proceeded to asking Batilda how she could tell Gabe was lying, after Gabe got his water in, that is.
Gabe: Thank you, Batilda. So how could you tell I was lying?
Batilda: I can tell if a person is lying just by looking inside their circulatory system.
Armando: You can tell if someone's lying by looking inside their "what"? What is the circulatory system?
Batilda: It's the organ system of the human body that controls the flow of the human's blood.
Armando suddenly got scared at Batilda's mention of blood.
Armando: You don't use such a power for food reasons, do you?
Batilda: No, we don't, such a power is strictly for use of my kind finding out the truth.
Armando was still worried but calmed down a bit at the notion that Batilda didn't use that ability for food, but rather learning the truth. Then, Armando made a special deduction about that power of Batilda's.
Armando: I bet that's how you knew that Prince Fernando wasn't even a real human, much less a foreign prince.
Batilda: That's correct, Armando. When I noticed the faux prince with your crown princess, I could see that their insides were definitely not the same. While Elena had every vital fluid, internal organ and organ system on her insides, her so-called prince had nothing but raw sewage as his internal fillings. I, too, felt sick when I first gained the knowledge of it, and I had seen it for myself, while the 2 of you only heard it from me. Hush now, you 2, we're almost where Elena is so I can warn her.
Batilda was right, they were indeed near where Elena was with Fernando. Batilda was going to help them get Elena's attention away from Fernando. Gabe, however, was far too anxious about getting his beloved back from the faux prince Shuriki had sent to steal her attention away from everything else to wait and make a plan.
