LogFAQs > #923893170

indeed it is

"You used magic to create a golden flower petal inside an overturned cup. It was a splendid bit of magic."

lucky for us, magic is such a nebulously defined term. if someone closes their eyes and imagines something happening and they believe it's real... then it is real.

magic is all based on perception. hence why magic tricks IRL are called magic even when they are not.

if we were being super pedantic, we could just use that as the reason it was golden. a magic trick can be referred to as magic.

hence why the golden truth can be used to say it.

perhaps the golden truth is different from the red because it has surpassed the idea that for a situation, only one "objective/factual" truth can exist.

and that's why this game gets at the same themes as <that other game> about whether fictional things are real. when this game takes a "real life" situation and creates a magical version of it... like how it says "those superstitions you created about a witch afraid of spiderwebs gave life to an actual being with thoughts and feelings"

well

for all we know, these characters are real

for all we know, there's an extra layer to the universe we live in, where when someone writes a fictional story, the characters within it truly do come to life on some alternate plane we can't observe, and really do have feelings

that's exactly what is being shown to us with the hachijo tohya storyline, and it's been a theme of the game all along.

like i said, i literally cannot prove that this alternate plane where magic exists doesn't exist.