Channel 135- Easy Answer

Shiraishi appeared in front of his master, who shall be known as Moran. (It is, of course, pronounced like the insult 'moron', as he is a useless character whom we have no affection towards.)

Before Moran could say anything, Shiraishi dove forward and threw his hand over his mouth. (Just for clarification, Shiraishi put his hand over Moran's mouth. Not any other crazy variation.)

"Before you make a wish," Shiraishi said. "I want to let you in on a little loophole."

"A loophole?" said Moran. (This was, naturally, after Shiraishi took his hand back.)

"Yes," Shiraishi said. "Remember how I said that wishing for more wishes was not allowed?"

"…Yeah…" said Moran slowly.

"I was only saying that because I didn't really like you at the time and I didn't want to have to hang around for longer than I had to," Shiraishi said. "You should use your third wish to ask for more wishes."

"I can do that?" Moran said.

"You most definitely can," said Shiraishi.

"Wow!" said Moran. "Golly! That just makes everything so much better! In that case, I wish for more wishes!"

"How many more?" said Shiraishi. "Be specific."

"Oh," said Moran. "Um…three! For now! Just so I don't lose track!"

"Great," said Shiraishi. "Three more wishes just for you. Perfect. All right, so I'm just going to head out now."

"Wait!" said Moran. "What you said about not liking me before…"

"That's all changed now," Shiraishi assured him.

"Exactly," Moran nodded. "So…are we pals now?"

"…Sure," said Shiraishi in a very unconvincing tone.

"Cool!" said Moran. "Let's hang out!"

Shiraishi raised an eyebrow and didn't look like he was going to comply, so Moran cleverly made a wish to force Shiraishi to stick around and hang out. Maybe Moran isn't quite as moronic as we originally accused him of being…

Meanwhile, everyone else was still wandering aimlessly through the forest, hoping they would stumble across a giant mansion.

"I wish Shiraishi had gestured less vaguely when he was telling us where the mansion was," said Shishido.

"You know," said Kirihara, stopping suddenly. "Remember how when we were on the rowboat at the beach, there was a big mansion off in the distance?"

Everyone else stopped as well and stared at him.

"Excuse me?" Inui said.

"Well, you know," said Kirihara. "That mansion. Up on the hill."

"There was no mansion," said Inui.

"Actually, now that I think about it, there was," said Momo.

"I don't remember a mansion," said Saeki.

"We couldn't see it from the beach, but when we were still on the water it was pretty visible," said Kirihara. "But…oh right! We were rowing so we were facing that direction. You guys didn't see it because you didn't do any rowing. At all."

"But that doesn't make sense," said Inui. "We were facing the beach the whole time."

"Obviously I'm talking about the beach on the other side of the water," said Kirihara.

Inui looked offended. "Don't speak to me that way," he said, but he was probably just offended because Kirihara was getting the best of him, and that's something no one wants.

"Shiraishi's master has probably since made his third wish by now," Oshitari pointed out. "I don't know if all this searching is really worth it."

"We still have to go there and try," said Taka.

"So we row all the way over there?" complained Atobe.

"Hey," said Shishido, looking at his watch. "It's almost ten o'clock. That means Choutarou can use his teleportation powers and we can get over there if we all hurry."

"Hurry…" said Fuji. "You mean…hurry and hold hands?"

"Hold hands?" said the entirety of Rokkaku.

"I need to be in contact with everyone if I'm going to teleport them," Choutarou said.

"Or he could just fly over there himself and get the lamp," said Atobe. "We don't all have to go. Then he wishes himself and Shiraishi back to us, then he wishes Shiraishi free. Then we're out of here and missions become instantly easier because we have almost rule-free magic."

"That just takes all the challenge out of the adventure!" said David, and he hadn't even finished saying it before Bane punched him.

"I guess I could," said Choutarou. His expression suggested that he sort of agreed with David (or maybe he just wanted to hold hands…), but he didn't want to be punched even though he was impervious and Bane's hand would probably crumble before Choutarou felt any sort of pain at all.

So even though Choutarou would have rather had friends come with him on his little journey, he took off into the air and flew off into the distance while the others bid him a farewell.

There was a bit of silence as they all finished waving and gave heavy sighs.

"I think this is one of the only times we've had an actual plan that just might work," Inui said.

"And it was all thanks to me," said Kirihara.

"Yeah right, Kirihara," said everyone even though it was sort of true.

"What are we going to do in the meantime?" Atobe said, looking bored.

"We could try to figure out the word that makes Shishido evil," said Taka as if that was a small issue.

"Oh right," said Shishido. "I forgot that I was still brainwashed after that whole thing where we all lost our memories."

"Does anyone have a dictionary?" asked Oshitari in a way that suggested he might have been sarcastic.

"I do," said Saeki as he pulled a dictionary out of his duffle bag.

Everyone looked at him like he was a lunatic for having a dictionary so he felt self conscious.

But anyway, this isn't so interesting, so let's bring ourselves over to the giant mansion on the other side of the water. Actually, we're above it and now we're crashing through the room and standing there looking heroic.

"I'm here!" Choutarou announced, putting his hands on his hips as wind blew through his hair and a flag waved behind him.

"You crashed a hole through my roof!" exclaimed Moran. He and Shiraishi were both sitting on a couch watching home videos of when Moran was a small child.

Choutarou looked up. "Yeah…" he said. "Sorry."

"It's all right!" said Moran. "Genie! I wish my roof was fixed."

Shiraishi crossed his arms. "I prefer the term 'wish granter'."

"You have to sort out your priorities!" said Choutarou, pointing at Moran. "Someone has just crashed through your roof and your initial reaction is to fix the roof instead of inquire as to who the person is, why he crashed through the roof and exactly how he managed such a feat?"

Moran paused for a moment. "Point taken," he said. "Well?"

"I can't tell you any of that information," said Choutarou. "All I can say is that I need the lamp because I need to make a wish."

"The lamp?" Moran said, grabbing the lamp that was on the table next to him and caressing it. "Why would I ever give this to you?"

"Because we need it," said Choutarou. "And look. You already have everything you could ever want! You don't need anymore wishes."

"I don't have everything I want," said Moran. "My roof is still in shambles!"

Shiraishi stood up and pointed at the roof, causing it to POOF and become perfect; even better than before because it was gold plated.

"There," said Shiraishi. "Now, don't you want to give the lamp up now?"

"But…but…I thought we were pals!" said Moran.

"Oh we are," said Shiraishi. "And trust me, after my friend here makes a wish, you can have the lamp back, I promise."

"I don't know if it'll do any good," said Choutarou. "Because once I make the wish, we're leaving and never coming back."

Shiraishi slapped his forehead. "Why did you tell him that?" he demanded.

"Oh," said Choutarou, looking ashamed. "I forgot about lying…"

"You lied to me?" Moran said, deeply hurt. "You never liked me! That was just a ploy so you wouldn't have to go back into the lamp, wasn't it?"

"Well, yeah," said Shiraishi. "But I think you're winning out in the situation more than I am, don't you?"

"I'm never giving this lamp up!" announced Moran.

But he could hardly finish the sentence because Choutarou walked up and gave him a super punch that was so intense that he was rocketed across the room and his pants actually flew off and stayed where he had been standing when his body hit the wall.

"That might have been overkill," Shiraishi said.

"I didn't kill him," Choutarou said, picking up the lamp that was lying on the floor. "I always try to solve things first without violence, but he was obviously not going to comply with my wishes."

"True," said Shiraishi. "Speaking of wishes…"

"Right," said Choutarou. "First! I wish we were back where everyone else is."

"And where are they exactly?" Shiraishi said.

"On the beach across the way," Choutarou replied. "If you don't know exactly, I can always teleport us there if we just hold hands for a second."

Shiraishi considered his options. "You know, I think I'll just try to envision the place," he said finally.

"All right…" said Choutarou, a little dejected.

So they disappeared, leaving Moran there unconscious and pantsless. Whether or not he survived is not our concern.

They reappeared on the beach where everyone was thumbing through the dictionary, way to preoccupied to notice the supernatural occurrence right in front of them.

"Airplane?" Saeki read from his dictionary.

"No," said Shishido. "I'm still not evil."

Shiraishi cleared his throat and everyone finally looked up.

"Oh, excellent," said Inui. "See, Atobe? I told you drastic measures were unnecessary this time around."

"Right, because you're the one who gets to choose when drastic measures are necessary," Atobe said.

"Right," said Inui in that, "OBVIOUSLY!" tone.

"What were you guys doing?" Choutarou said.

"They were trying to figure out the word that turns me evil," said Shishido.

"Oh," said Choutarou. "What would have happened if you guys had gotten to it?"

"We would have attacked Shishido by hitting his fists and feet with our faces!" said Momo.

"Speak for yourself," said Oshitari, putting his hand on his gun just to be safe.

"Not kill him I hope," said Choutarou. "Since Shishido has been killed on several occasions already and it really is starting to distress me."

"Well, we weren't even halfway through the A's," said Saeki.

"We'll figure it out eventually!" said Eiji optimistically.

"Anyway," said Inui. "Why don't you just make that wish to free Shiraishi from the confines of genie life so we can move on?"

"Wish granter, guys," said Shiraishi. "Wish granter."

"Whatever, Shiraishi," said Fuji. "Whatever."

"All right," Choutarou said as he pulled the lamp out from behind his back. "I still have two wishes left, though."

The others glared at him threateningly. The speculated that maybe they would be able to all take him if they ganged up on him and found out the word that makes Shishido evil and bent on killing Silver Man.

"I wish that Shiraishi was free from the confines of…wish granter life," Choutarou stated clearly.

There was a slight pause. No light show. Nothing special.

Then the lamp just crumbled into a pile of dust right in Choutarou's hand.

"Whoa," said Choutarou, wiping his hand off.

"Whoopee," said Shiraishi. "I'm free."

"That rhymes," said David pointlessly.

Then there was a special lightshow.

"Unless we go to a new Universe, we're on our way to the Mary-Sue Universe," Inui reported as he pressed the button.

"NOOOOO!" yelled everyone like Darth Vader. Even Shintenhouji and Rokkaku. Despite the fact that they had never been to the Mary-Sue Universe, they knew innately that anything involving a Mary-Sue could only end in tears.