[The fact that there are no knives or death penalties involved is why he figures there's no harm in playing along. This is basically just a logic puzzle. And if he REALLY wants to be friends with Kokichi again...that means occasionally he has to play along with his games.]
[Even if Kokichi never bothers to ask if he wants to play.]
Well, for starters, up until you said it didn't matter if I figured it out or not, you haven't told a single lie since I got here. [He pays close attention to Kokichi's expression as he says this, looking for any signs of confirmation. After all, technically he doesn't know that for a fact. It's just what he's choosing to believe. But he's pretty sure he's right.] This seems like kind of a weird place to start, especially since you were purposefully setting me up to expect you to lie about what's on your card.
[He wanted him to notice the blatantly obvious "hear" vs "see", he pretty much confirmed that. And he was clearly hoping Shuichi would call him out on it. If he hadn't, they wouldn't be playing this mind game right now.]
But more than that, it's the fact that I'm pretty sure you've been lying about how bad your card is since the beginning. I don't doubt that you have your share of "bad" squares, but that's not the real reason why you aren't showing us your card. It's just an excuse. We share a third of our squares, but there are worse and more masochistic things on my card than the eight you claim we share. Most of what you listed is actually relatively tame, comparatively speaking. Naturally, it would lead me to assume that you were lying.
It's an issue of flipped perceptions. By telling me the truth, you actually look like you're lying. And if you had lied, it would have seemed as though you were telling the truth. Because you would have said we shared squares like branding or rough sex instead of hands or leather.
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[Even if Kokichi never bothers to ask if he wants to play.]
Well, for starters, up until you said it didn't matter if I figured it out or not, you haven't told a single lie since I got here. [He pays close attention to Kokichi's expression as he says this, looking for any signs of confirmation. After all, technically he doesn't know that for a fact. It's just what he's choosing to believe. But he's pretty sure he's right.] This seems like kind of a weird place to start, especially since you were purposefully setting me up to expect you to lie about what's on your card.
[He wanted him to notice the blatantly obvious "hear" vs "see", he pretty much confirmed that. And he was clearly hoping Shuichi would call him out on it. If he hadn't, they wouldn't be playing this mind game right now.]
But more than that, it's the fact that I'm pretty sure you've been lying about how bad your card is since the beginning. I don't doubt that you have your share of "bad" squares, but that's not the real reason why you aren't showing us your card. It's just an excuse. We share a third of our squares, but there are worse and more masochistic things on my card than the eight you claim we share. Most of what you listed is actually relatively tame, comparatively speaking. Naturally, it would lead me to assume that you were lying.
It's an issue of flipped perceptions. By telling me the truth, you actually look like you're lying. And if you had lied, it would have seemed as though you were telling the truth. Because you would have said we shared squares like branding or rough sex instead of hands or leather.
Am I wrong?