“This is it,” said Lusamine. “The fruit’s on the other side of this wall.”

Vergil pushed her aside and side-eyed her. “Liar.”

Lusamine went pale. Her voice began to tremble, and the faintest glimmer of a tear shone in her eye. “Wh-what? Why would you say that?”

“Who is it on the other side of this wall? The President? The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development— Xemnas, as you referred to him?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Lusamie said. She tried to make her voice firm. It didn’t work.

“Even now, you still play the fool. Although I suppose it’s an easy role for one such as you to play.” He reached into the Lord Ruler bracer and removed a piece of tin. The same tin in which he invested his hearing during his fight with Dante. “I am not deaf.”

- Ragnarust Round 5