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Warnings: T just in case. Character death
Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia.
I am surprised at the recent thoughts on who it could be, but my lips are sealed. Thanks for the reviews guys, I'm always nervous about reading them, normally because I'm scared people are all like "Nyah you are so bad a writing and you should stop writing because you're so bad at it!" It's happened before T_T Anyway, without further ado, Chapter 4.
Alfred watched them leave and turned to look at the other attendees. "How does that kid know so much about this?" Alfred asked, glancing at Ludwig.
"He is quite a clever boy, wouldn't expect it really, I suppose he is brighter than he looks." Ludwig answered, "anyway, Gilbert, we should go off and try find a list of how many people Mr. Von Bock managed to catch, we will meet you in this room in an hour." Ludwig stood up and left the room, Gilbert followed shortly after.
Elizabeta, Roderich and Alfred all glanced at each other and decided they might as well go and do something, not necessarily useful, but they didn't want to wait around for an hour.
Ludwig and Gilbert were doing some lurking around in the archives, "During the time Mr. Von Bock worked here, he managed to figure out seven cases, in which seven people were jailed." Ludwig analysed. Gilbert flicked through a blue file he had found, he was obviously quite bored.
"Four of them are out, free." Gilbert read from a piece of paper. "It has to be one of those four."
"Which four are these?" Ludwig asked, looking up from what he was doing.
"Lovino 'Romano' Vargas, Ivan Braginski, Basch Zwingli and Feliks Lukasiewicz." Gilbert listed, "we need to narrow this list down and figure out who it is, four people, they can't be that hard to track down and interview..."
"But that is also quite dangerous, if one of them does happen to be the killer, there could be a large danger of them trying to attack us, and the fact that they are probably in hiding, it could be hard to find any one of them." Ludwig sighed. "This is going to prove to be very difficult."
"We should start with people who know these guys, relatives, friends, once we get to know them, they could help us get to the bottom of this." Gilbert shrugged.
"I don't think that they would take very lightly to us trying to track down their loved ones to possibly arrest them again," Ludwig groaned.
"Well, Lovino is related to Feliciano Vargas, who we both know and is a friend of Antonio Carriedo." Gilbert paused for a moment. "Ivan Braginski has two sisters and has had communication with the three boys that were found dead, not as much Kiku, Basch Zwingi has a little sister and was once friends with Roderich, who we have here," he took a deep breath, "and finally, Feliks Lukasiewicz, though to be honest, he was very close to Toris so I have no clue as to why he would've done it."
"It doesn't mean that he didn't do it, Gilbert, there could have been a fight between them, maybe Feliks got mad and just acted a little too strangely," Ludwig suggested.
"But why would he go and repeat these killings to all sorts of people leaving these weird letters scarred on their wrists?" Gilbert questioned.
"That is a very good point, we need to keep going before someone else dies," Ludwig sighed.
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Arthur looked at his younger brother, their walk had been silent. "You did very good in there, Peter, you know, you could be just like me one day..." Arthur smiled, trying to start conversation. Peter nodded slightly, unsure of how to really answer that question. As Arthur wouldn't dare buy his brother a hamburger or anything increasingly unhealthy to eat, he decided to settle with fish and chips. Normally he would've made a nice homemade meal, but it had been and was still going to be a very busy day.
Of course, Arthur couldn't just dump his brother or leave him alone somewhere, not if this maniac knew where he lived. Arthur couldn't even begin to imagine what he'd do if he lost Peter, especially since he was so young and had so much ahead of him. He had a whole lifetime to live.
Peter ate his food on the way back to the building, he was very thankful that his brother hadn't cooked him anything. Upon their arrival, Peter and Arthur took their seats. Roderich and Elizabeta were having a conversation about Gilbert and his personality. Arthur didn't even try to join their conversation, it'd be a bit awkward.
A few minutes after, Gilbert and Ludwig arrived, with a lot of files and sheets of paper. Roderich and Elizabeta immediately went quiet. Gilbert set down the array of files he was holding on the table. Ludwig held up a few of the sheets of paper. "In my very hand, I hold, some of the clues, that could bring us one step closer to bringing this killer down, if Mr. Jones' theory is correct, of course." Arthur looked down at the sheets scattered on the desk. We are really getting closer he thought to himself.
"Speaking of which, where is Mr. Jones?" Ludwig asked.
A/N
Blah.
At least there was a lot of involvement of Gilbert and Ludwig~ Yay.
For the record, the 'criminals' were just randomly picked as I couldn't decide - but they are all going to be involved in the story.