Early morning on the outskirts of the city. Several police cars stood near the house of Ursula and the old woman. Nothing was cordoned off, but the front door was open.
"So that's where she was hiding" Katherine thought out loud, who came here as a representative of GUN, "It's quite an unsightly place".
She went up to Ursula's former room. Here the criminalists worked already: the room remained in an untouched mess, and a white cloth covering the body of mobian lay on the floor.
"A representative of GUN," Katherine showed her identity to the man approaching him.
"Good, but do not touch anything yet," he replied.
"What can you say about this?"
"Most likely, robbery. But we will not be able to determine the loss. The victim was strangled, judging by the blue neck. Ursula herself was armed with a pistol," one of them pointed to a weapon lying nearby.
"During her detention, she did not have any weapons".
"Anyway, the fingerprints belong to her..."
"Hey, look at that, Lex!" the second pointed him to the ceiling, where there was a hole from the bullet.
"Did she shoot the ceiling? But why?"
"A kind of intimidation? Either there was a fight and the thief somehow repulsed her hand?"
After they went down to talk about this with the hostess of the house and almost the only witness.
"It's terrible! Just awful!" she shook her head, grasping by hands, "She was so sweet. I do not think she wanted to hurt anyone".
Everybody decided to keep silent about this.
"What can you say about that evening?" the detective began.
"The time was later. I was busy with my business, and Ursula, for some reason, was delayed. And soon a guest came to her. He introduced himself as her friend. I explained the situation to him, but he agreed to wait for her. Probably that was urgent. But I..."
"Do you remember what he looked like?"
"Most likely, they were Aventurosi or her gang," Katherine put in, "After what she's done. By her deeds, she was able to spite everyone".
"A guest? He was... growing up from Ursula. He was dressed strangely: in a gray robe. He never took off his hood, so I did not see his face".
"You need to be careful, ma'am," the detective said to her, "Now is a dangerous time, so you need to think hard when you let a stranger into the house. Especially not pay attention to the face of the guest".
"I'm so diffuse. And I overcame my misfortune. I've never felt this way before," the old woman only broke her hands.
"Mobian in a robe..." Katherine defined, "Wait! He could be... an accomplice of the one who took Alex! Who are they? And they began to appear more often!"
Knuckles sat near the altar until the morning, looking at the bracelet glowing with pink light. A small wind rose.
"Is that... you, Tikal?" again he addressed to that, "What happened?"
There was no answer. Only the pulsation of light emanating from it. Knuckles decided to try to wear it, after which he felt dizzy.
"What? Where I am?" a woman's voice asked.
"Tikal! Have you returned?"
"It's... It's amazing," said the voice, "I came back here again? But how did this happen?"
"I wish I could figure this out," Knuckles said, "I could only understand that these bracelets had reacted with Master Emerald".
"These are my bracelets. You had found them. But this is similar to the magic of the call. Or release from printing. I did not leave such".
"It's... strange... Wait! So you went back to Master Emerald? Along with Chaos?"
"I can not understand this... For a very long time I was in an incomprehensible place for me".
"I think it would be better if I seal you back... Only I do not have Chaos Emeralds," Knuckles remembered, "Unless something serious has happened".