Chapter 7: The Final Piece
I sat at the table in the base, thinking about my encounter with Remi. She was set on not leaving. Getting her to leave is going to be tough. She definitely became strong headed later on in life.
"Mai-chan!"
I shook my head, clearing the fog, to see Bou-San, Ayako, Masako and John standing in front of me.
"Hey guys," I said as I stood. "I didn't hear you come in."
"We could tell," Ayako said. "Are you alright Mai?" She asked as she placed a hand on my forehead.
"I'm fine. This case is just a little more complicated than I originally thought."
Masako placed a hand on my shoulder. "Is that why it took you so long to call us in?"
I nodded. "I thought I could handle it and get it done quickly, but…"
"MAI!"
I stopped midsentence when Madoka came bursting through the door. She was breathing heavily.
"What's wrong Madoka?"
She looked at me. "I think I've got something."
After everyone had sat, Madoka told us what happened in her interview with Nina's daughter.
"My mother never talked much about my aunt, but I could tell she was very distraught after learning her sister died," Nina's daughter, Kiyo, told me.
"Even after I was born, the sadness my mother had never really went away. But my father, Seiryo, was more upset, but he hid it well. Especially in front of me and my mother. He was engaged to aunt Remi before she died. He married my mother a year after aunt Remi died. I thought they got married only because they didn't have anyone else and of the grief they shared.
"But, when I was about 10, I found some boxes in the basement. I opened them to find old psychology books and my aunt's journald. In it, aunt Remi talked about many things. Patients, mostly. But towards the end, she rarely talked about patients, but about my father. She loved him and was excited to get married. She wrote down every detail about how she wanted the wedding to look like.
"As I continued reading, I saw that near the last few entries, she skipped days. She went back to talking about a patient and how she wanted to help him. In the last entry, she wrote…"
"If something ever happens to me, Nina, please, help Seiryo. Sometimes he loves me too much and I know if anything ever happened to me, it would kill him. Please, for my sake, make Seiryo happy once I'm gone."
Madoka let out a big sigh. "Remi knew something was going to happen to her. She had a gut feeling, and wrote about it in the journald."
Madoka opened her pink handbag and pulled out an old, blue notebook and handed it to me.
I gently flipped through a few entries and read them while everyone waited in bated breath.
"Lin," I said as I was continuing to read the entries, "we need patient records. You think we could get access to the records from the 1970s? More importantly, the records for patients that had Remi as their doctor?"
I looked up to see him nod. "Madoka, Yasu, go with him and take this."
I handed back the journald to Madoka. "Look at all the patients she talked about in here and see what happened to them."
"Got it, Boss!" Yasu said as he and Madoka followed Lin out.
I took a deep breath and looked at the Irregulars. "We're wrapping this case up today."
"Mai," Ayako said, tilting her head to the right, "what did you read?"
I looked at Ayako before looking at Monk, Masako and John before smiling.
"Exactly what I needed to save Remi's spirit."
A/N: For being gone so long AGAIN, and all I post is this short chapter. I know! I know! I feel terrible about being gone again! After the last chapter got posted, literally my life became crazy busy again! But, I have been hit with the writing bug again so HOPEFULLY this time I'll be able to finish this story and continue my Ghost Hunt/Black Butler crossover. I already have the next story idea for what'll happen after this case is over, so I have to finish!
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