STRANGE MAIL

At long last, after running for almost 15 minutes, both Kyuu and Ryuu are able to make it on their 1st period wherein their teacher is none other than the strict (and cruel, as what most of the students see him as) Hongou. They are about to start their class when Mr. Dan, DDS' principal, entered the room. Everyone immediately stood up and greeted Mr. Dan. He nodded his head as a sign of greeting.

"Sorry for barging in like that and interrupting the class."He said.

Mr. Hongou walked towards the window, crossed his arms and said,"It's fine. You're going to give them another case, aren't you? So, please continue."

Mr. Dan looked at the class, "Yes. I'm here to give you your new assignment." he takes a deep breath and continued, "We received some strange mail the day before yesterday and we found out that it's a threatening letter. I don't think that it's just some childish prank or anything because it was written in crimson red and we suspected that it's blood."

Everyone gasped except for Ryuu and Mr. Hongou, who just looked intently at Mr. Dan. Meg was horrified on what she heard and whisper, "Who would do such a thing?"

"This is the content of the letter. You can read it and investigate about this strange mail. I can only count on this class since class A is still on handling the case in Shizuoka." Mr. Dan said, "Do your best. I'm counting on you to get to the bottom of this case and solve it."

The five of them looked at each other and with a determined look on their faces, they chorused, "You can count on us, Dan-sensei."

The class immediately looked for clues and some handprints. Kyuu read the mail while the others just listened to him.

It says: "Shut up. Shut up. Nice to meet you. Investigation.

But Kyuu mistakenly read it as, "Shusz upf. Shusz upf. Nize so mies yoh. Investigascion?" He raised one of his eyebrows. Kyuu's actually not good in reading English so the consequence of it is that he's not able to understand it very well.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh on Kyuu's stupidity. "WHAT? It wasn't my fault that I can't read English that good." Kyuu explained with an embarrased look but Kinta, Kazuma and Meg kept on laughing. "STOP LAUGHING!" he shouted in a much redder face. Ryuu sighed deeply as he snatched the paper from Kyuu to properly read the letter.

"It says shut up but why would the sender write nice to meet you? Also why mention about investigation?" Ryuu thought out loud. "I don't get it at all.."

Everyone stops laughing. "Maybe the sender is just a child who's playing some pranks on us." Kinta defended, "There's no point investigating this case if a child send it."

"You're not listening are you, Kinta?" Meg interrupted, "If it's a child, how would he know how to write English if even 'Kyuu here' can't even properly read or write English?" Meg continued while emphasizing Kyuu on her sentence. Kyuu protested on her back when he heard his name mentioned by Meg.

Kinta smirked and grabbed Kazuma, interrupting his work. "But MAYBE if the sender was like this techno-savvy pipsqueak here, he CAN definitely DO it."

Kazuma was enraged on what Kinta said, "ARE YOU SAYING THAT I WAS THE ONE WHO SENT THAT STUPID MAIL?", he shouted,"If it was me, I would've at least use my laptop to write something as trivial as this. And why would I even have the time to do such things if I have less time creating a game." he defended. Everyone agreed.

"Kazuma has a point there, Kinta" Meg said "And also if Dan-sensei said that it's a threatening letter then that means this is not a prank."

"Meg's right. But at least we've got some info now about the letter." Ryuu said. "But first we've got to find out where this letter came from. And~~-" Ryuu was interrupted when Kyuu's phone suddenly ring. The call was from Mizue so Kyuu immediately answer it.

"Mom? What's up?" answered Kyuu, "Now?...Yeah,sure...I'll go right away...Bye." then he hung up. Everyone was looking at Kyuu and was wondering who phoned him. Before anyone could ask Kyuu about the phonecall, he ran towards the door and said, "Sorry guys, I've to run some errands for my mom. I can't come with you guys today. Bye."

Everyone was left dumbfounded. What about the case?..The progress with the case would be really slow without Kyuu who always do the thinking. 'At least we still have Ryuu...', was what everyone was thinking. "Ryuu go home first if I'm not back yet" was what echoed in the hallways as Kyuu dashes off somewhere.

END OF CHAPTER 2 ^ ^