I'll Fix Everyone's Problems, One Date At A Time (Date A Live x Reader)

This Far, And No Further.

A/N: This is it. Our last chapter to find who Natsumi is hiding as. With her setting down the wager to end all wagers, it's up to Y/N to piece everything together. Will Tohka's last words before she was spirited away bring them victory? Or will we be missing a core part of the cast forever? Find out!

The Ratatoskr helps gather all the remaining people in one place. They all wait in silence as they anticipate Origami's arrival. None of them have been told the reason why they're here. This is made all the more strange by the room they're all placed in. Everyone's alerted to Origami's entrance by the creaking door. 

Y/N: "Now everyone's here."

Origami: "Y/N?"

Y/N: *He lays the photos on the table* "I will now explain what's going on. I'm sorry for having to get you all involved in this. But this situation was never in my control."

Kaguya: "Don't worry about it. You could've told me all this when Yuzuru disappeared, though."

Miku: "I was disappointed when you told me that the date we went on was just a sort of check-up."

Origami: "I have a lot of questions for you, but for now, I'll help you."

Y/N: "Thank you, everyone."

He grabs the photos and spreads them in his hands.

Y/N: "Allow me to explain. Natsumi has transformed into one of these twelve people. So far I have guessed three people."

He lays their photos on the table.

Y/N: "Yoshino, Tamae-sensei, and girl 2. And no, I don't know her name."

He flips the photos over.

Y/N: "That takes them out of the equation. So far Natsumi has taken Yuzuru, Girl 1, Tonomachi, Girl 3, and Tohka. In that order."

He sets aside those photos in a group on the right side of the table.

Y/N: "She could've still transformed into one of these five. Then there's the possibility of her being one of you."

On the left side of the table, he lays down the rest of the photos.

Kotori: "We're the more likely suspects, but it'd be hard for her to transform into one of us."

Miku: *She looks over to Kotori* "Huh? What do you mean by that?"

Kaguya: "We're too high level, so it'd be hard for her to imitate us."

Kotori: "Yeah, something like that."

Y/N: "And that's why I think she took Yuzuru out of the game so quickly."

Origami: "Why would Witch, the Spirit you call Natsumi, take such a high risk? Every time someone in these pictures disappears, the chance of Y/N being right increases. It'd be hard for her to stay hidden until the end. Witch is confident that she won't be found. She's surely made it so no matter how many guesses he takes, he'll never be right. For example."

She mixes up the photos into one pile and takes out a knife. She stabs through the photos.

Origami: "She might've transformed into one of these photos.

Kotori: "That's true. We can't rule out the school of thought."

Miku: "Maybe she isn't transformed as anyone at all?"

Kaguya: "I don't think that's likely."

Y/N: "No, Origami's right. She found a loophole that makes it impossible to guess who she is. But she isn't a photo or anything in the photos. By her own admission, she's somebody in these photos."