Everyone present was smart. The moment Bruce said it, they understood.
The protagonist group should have been fleeing, then encountered and rescued by Greed. But Greed had not rescued them at all; he had even joined the pursuing army.
They should have been running through the village, but because Bruce had set up the Underground Cave, they somehow ended up inside it. And there was a river in the cave, which gave the Wanderer a chance to come into contact with water.
In the Cthulhu Mythos setting, anyone who wanted to avoid being killed by Ibo's Avatar's blood had to hide in water. So the Wanderer was also afraid of water, and Greed had used that to trap it.
"I don't think whether the detective died affected the main plot," Greed said. "Didn't we more or less piece together the main story's background in the end? That proves the clues he mentioned didn't matter."
"That was just blind luck..."
"Then we had blind luck far too many times." Greed argued reasonably. "We didn't just figure out one thread. We basically figured out all the major threads in the setting."
"Well, then..."
The Beyonder thought it over carefully and realized he truly had no rebuttal.
The Book of Evil Gods and ghost ship storyline designed by the Beyonder, the Siltec and hotel storyline designed by Greed, and the Deep Ones storyline designed by Joker had all basically been unraveled by the end.
There were two kinds of puzzle players in this world. One followed the proper sequence, finding clues one, two, three, four, and five before reaching a conclusion. The other found clue one, punched a hole in the ground and found clue five, then stumbled across two, three, and four while wandering around.
This game was like them not even