Hi ! This is the new chapter. I will ask you to be generous, like I said on my profile, English is not my mother tongue. And thanks to ToL-Lover for the review.

IMPORTANT: Now the story is complete, most of people didn't liked chapter 12 but READ THE EPILOGUE if you want to know how it really end.

The three suspects.

Watari and Hisoka were facing Miss Maria Wong, who was answering to their questions. Hisoka was silent. Watari was asking everything. He observed her, she didn't seem to lie.

"Have you heard of our arrival, Miss Wong?" Asked Watari.

"No sir! We know that the police came here, but we don't know who and when! Oh please sir; I really don't understand why this…Man or ghost is interested with me! I…"

"Did he send you letters?"

"Yes sir. I already showed everything, the police took them."

"Ok. Then, just tell us, was it love letters? I don't want to get in your private life but…"

"No" assured Maria. "No, it's only letters of encouragement. He told me to continue, that he will help me to have a place in his opera, sometimes he gives me some advices. It's almost like he was…A protector or a teacher…He is always respectful and kind in those letters. He says it's because of his love for music that he helps me. He says that the opera will be better with me as a diva. But he doesn't seem in love with me."

"We will see those letters. If you have anything to tell us, please, do. But we don't want you to leave the city for the time of this investigation."

"Ok. Good luck sirs."

They left the room. Hisoka was thinking about the letter. Did the phantom write that kind of things to her? No. The one he received was polite but threatening in a way. The game starts. Yes, it wasn't innocent to say something like this.

"What do you think about the girl, Hisoka?" Asked Watari.

"I think she says the truth. But maybe I am wrong. She seems as nervous as the director. But maybe she knows how to fool everyone, for now, I'll believe what she said and just keep an eye on her."

"Well, I'll trust you! Now, we have to see the diva, Miss Tsubaki."

At the very moment Watari said those words, they heard a loud scream. They ran and finally found a young woman Miss Tsubaki, on the stage with some dancers. Rehearsals were taking place. But in the center of the room, a projector had fallen, near the diva. She could have been really hurt. Hisoka ran toward her, and before he could place a word, she screamed again:

"This can't continue! I quit! I stop everything! You should have stopped all this since a long time!"

She was talking to Muraki, who was looking at her, obviously annoyed and tired. She continued her ranting, without seeing Hisoka or Watari.

"You should have called the police again! If you are not able to…"

"The police is here, so please, calm down, Miss Tsubaki" finally replied Muraki.

She finally saw the two men. Hisoka was stunned. The director was really not lucky. With a phantom, and such bitch for diva, life was certainly not easy.

"Well, it was about time! I hope you would do better than your predecessor! Really, is it that difficult to arrest somebody! I could have been hurt, and this man has something against me! And…"

"We have questions for you, Miss. So please follow us" said Hisoka, more and more annoyed.

She finally followed the two men and they began to talk in her room.

"First, we want to know what sort of attacks or threats he had make against you" asked Watari.

"Everything he can. He sends me threatening letters; he killed my dog and destroyed my room! He spoils every rehearsal, and even one of the representations! He write to the director to make him fire me and takes this Wong bitch instead of me! As if I was nothing! This little whore is the one behind that, I am sure of it! She is jealous of me, and she wants to take my place, but have not enough talent. So she makes all this."

"Have you ever done anything that could make you enemies?" Asked Hisoka.

"Oh sweetheart, I am famous! A lot of people are jealous! But the one behind this is Maria Wong."

She looked seductively at Hisoka. He was exactly the type she liked. Once this was over, Hisoka left the room, his blood was boiling. Watari looked at him and laughed.

"What?" Hissed Hisoka.

"You have quite a success with women! Tsubaki was interested."

"I am beginning to understand why the phantom wants her out of here! She is so…The way she talks about Maria Wong…I mean, she is maybe a suspect, but this girl seems really sweet."

"Yes the Diva is not a really kind and sweet girl. But what do you want…"

They returned to the stage, they still have people to interrogate. When they were finally at their destination, Maria Wong was there. A woman, the chorus chief, was standing next to her, and was talking to Muraki:

"If your diva left, maybe Miss Wong can sing…"

"Okay, if I had someone able to sing it will be alright" sighed Muraki.

The orchestra conductor told her what to sing and the music started. When she sang, Hisoka, Watari, and a lot of people were astonished. She was truly good. Even Muraki was stunned. Her voice, clear, sounded like the voice of a dream. When she was over, Muraki gave her the role of Miss Tsubaki. Watari walked toward him.

"You look like you heard her for the first time. You say she already sings when the phantom…"

"Yes sir" answered Muraki. "But she hadn't sung that's well! She was good, but not as much as now! She made progress! I keep her."

"This will satisfy the phantom" continued Watari.

"I know, but for once, it's not him. I need someone, and Miss Wong is perfect."

"You should really make her the diva, sir" suggested Hisoka.

"Hum…Well, I leave you here sirs, if you allow me. I have work" concluded Muraki.

He left. Above them, the mysterious figure they were searching was smirking. He was finally making Maria's career! She was quite important to him. She was the one he chose for his opera, she was his student, the one who will be soon the diva of his work, his masterpiece! Beside, she was truly sweet. He liked those people. He remembered the night when he first met her…But time wasn't for memories! This young inspector here was really interesting and he seemed to understand faster than a lot of people. He already saw that Tsubaki didn't deserve the honour of being here, unlike Maria. He decided to give him something more than a simple letter. Yes he deserved more…He smirked again and returned to his lair.

The night, Hisoka was home. This would be complicated. And it was only the beginning. But how this man could hide in the opera without being seen or found? And this letter he sent to him…It was giving him chills. Watari and he had worked late. They had read every letters Maria gave to the police, the one received by Tsubaki and the director. The ones addressed to Muraki and the diva were polite but sometimes really frightening. It was almost as he thought being the real chief of the opera, that he had every right on those people. Those addressed to Miss Wong was sweeter. Almost like some teacher writing to his student. Maybe he really thought himself as her guardian angel. It happened sometimes. Some mad peoples were protecting someone, by some sort of love, and used any ways to "help" their protégé. The young man began to sleep, his dream haunted by a beautiful voice and a mysterious shadow.

The next day, him and Watari investigated on Maria's past. She had obviously no mental problems, never committed anything wrong. She was a quiet girl, making music studies, and who worked since one year in the opera. And the phantom was there since a longer time. For Hisoka, it wasn't her. It was too simple, and this case was far from being simple.

"Maybe Tsubaki herself. I mean, she could do that to make herself a reputation of persecuted diva. Or the director. This story of ghost had attracted peoples. They are frightened, but they are really curious about this story."

"Yes maybe…But the director seems really exhausted…I don't know. We will see."

They searched again. Miss Tsubaki was from a rich family, never committing anything wrong, she was working in the opera since almost three years. She was already famous. Beside, Hisoka thought that someone like Tsubaki, convinced that she had so much talent, wouldn't even think of doing anything else except singing, being treated as a princess and look at her admirers. The director had made great studies. He was a widow, and had no children. Nothing really interesting for the investigation. They decided to go to the opera and interrogate everyone else.

They warned the director that everyone would have to submit to the interrogatory, and searched for the employees. The rehearsals were taking place, Maria Wong as the diva. Everyone was listening to her with admiration or envy. They began to ask questions to a man who was working on the light, when they heard a scream. It was a woman. They runned in the direction of the scream. It was a woman who was cleaning; she was standing stiffly, facing a wall. Here, a red mask was painted. It was not really large, but it was clearly fresh. And it was painted with blood. Written with blood too, there was a message:

Dear Hisoka

Good luck for the chase. Be careful. I could be soon the hunter. Hope you will stay here for long.

Phantom of the opera.

Hisoka shivered. Watari looked concerned. He ordered that no one approach this place, and called the laboratory, to make analysis, and hoped that it wouldn't be human blood…Hisoka was almost unable to move first. He soon regained his cold-blood, though. When the men of the laboratory were here, Watari talk privately with Hisoka:

"Be very careful. This don't please me at all…"

"Do you think I am happy with it?" Hissed Hisoka.

"No of course, but this phantom seems to be interested in you. This can be dangerous. And helping too…"

"You mean that it can help me to get near him?"

"Yes, but I don't want this to get a twisted game"…Murmured Watari.

Near them and unseen, a shadow was standing, laughing silently.