Alfred F. Jones and Arthur Kirkland have been working as undercover detectives for a while now. They could solve every case that was flung at them. That is, every case except one.
Arthur's head met the desk with a very loud thump which echoed in the rather large office. Alfred turned his head from the television to look at his partner, but quickly turned it back to the screen when something caught his attention. Arthur, now rubbing his forehead also looked at the screen. A reporter spoke extremely fast but Alfred was able to understand most of what he said. Knowing Arthur could not decipher the quickly spoken English he took out his note pad and wrote down all the crucial information.
"Wow. YOU are ACTUALLY writing down something for once?" the surprised Brit asked in his noticeable accent. Alfred only nodded, still trying to write down what the reporter was saying.
"Maybe you should tell your people to slow down when talking?" he added, not listening to the news channel anymore. The other chuckled and turned towards Arthur, holding out the notepad.
"Here," Alfred said slowly, his mind still wondering about this case of theirs. Arthur read over the extremely sloppy notes.
"So, what we knew before this was that…that this 'Lunar Phantom', as he or she is calling themselves, has been kidnapping people before but now their targets are the nations, cities, etcetera. The only odd thing is that this 'Lunar Phantom' has been going for the girl nations specifically. He or she has taken Taiwan, Seychelles, Monaco, and my dear, dear London, but this person's victims have female before he or she started targeting all of these nations and what not," Arthur said, giving himself a report on what's happened so far. Continuing he said, "So now what? This 'Phantom' has taken another victim? Fuck, I can't read this sloppy writing, Al!"
Alfred laughed and took the notepad from Arthur. He started reading his notes out loud.
"Well, that reporter dude said that the Lunar Phantom has stricken again, this time taking Liechtenstein. I wonder how they managed to get passed Vash…A-Anyways, this time, he left a note! The reporter dude said that it had a riddle written on it!"
There was about two minutes of silence before Arthur said, "Well, what was the riddle, you git?"
"O-Oh, right. It said, 'To those who've found this, I will give you a hint to my next victim. Will you be game enough to try and solve it?
Here is a puzzle for you.
Ukraine will be saved for a later time,
Netherlands should not worry for Belgium.
Georgia is safe too.
Austria may want to keep watch,
Russia should keep Belarus close.
You think you can figure this out?'
" I've written this thing down exactly as the note had it. Take a look," Alfred said, handing the newly ripped piece of paper to Arthur. He read it a few times, trying to understand what the kidnapper meant by this tricky piece of writing.
Could they figure it out in time before the next kidnapping?