Ed watched his friends' face turn their expressions with utter shock. They looked at each other, then back at Ed.
"What?" the boy asked. He quirked his brow up and crossed his arms, the metal in his sleeves groaning as he moved it. "You doubt my investigating prowess?"
"How did you even know that?" Elliot asked. "Everything was just an illusion. I couldn't imagine who you asked to get any information."
"That's where you're wrong. The city square, all its buildings and inhabitants are made up," Ed raised his hand to point forward. "But not the castle."
"You mean the castle was real," Lance muttered under his breath. "A very complex illusion it is from Sayu. I didn't even know that everything was just an illusion. When I found out, I could've sworn the castle was fake too. But it was not. She's a master of deception."
