"What's this...?" Looker is having trouble seeing what the three boys crammed in front of a screen are doing. It looks as though Hyuu's Xtransceiver is being used, and neither of the other two seemed to have gotten the idea to do a split call.

"Get out of the way," Hyuu's free arm is trying to shove Kyouhei out of the way, and suddenly they are all arguing about one thing or another.

"Are you three through wasting my time?" Irritation is evident in the investigator's voice, but the squealing stops nearly immediately. Looker himself had been becoming quite frustrated as there were no new leads on the criminal teams, nothing new for him to look into, and no apparent sightings of the man he was looking for.

"We think she might have really had some connections-" Curtis had pipped up while the other two seemed to be at a loss for words. "...you know to team Plasma." The green haired boy's words seem to bring the other two back to their senses.

"Yeah, we got a large envelope, and inside four others, one to each of us, and my mom." Kyouhei's eyes are watering up.

"They're dated to the day she died." the bluenette, for once, doesn't seem very angry. In fact, his expression would be closer portrayed to frustration, and regret.

"We're going to be going to Kyouhei's so his mom can read hers, then turn them over for evidence." Curtis is speaking again, however, his eyes are down cast before he backs away. No longer in view of the Xtransceiver.

Letting out a small sigh, Looker smiles a bit as he tips his head back. "Alright, I'll meet you three there." He's hanging up, and already heading for the door. With the possibility of new evidence, Looker is more than a little relieved. There was a better chance he could salve this case now, and figure out what really happened to the girl.


Looker had taken the letters after everyone had read theirs as much as they needed, Kyouhei himself had copied it down in a hurry, and handed it over, in hopes the detective could figure something else out. Their description of the Shadow Triad and such was interesting, but two of the three boys had explained how the men would not be able to be tracked down - it was infuriating, yes, but not something Looker - or any detective for that matter - would have the ability to do. Thanking them all, Looker took his leave, anxious to try and find anything in the letters.

Though the brunette had retired to his room quickly, everyone else just figured it was because his letter was the longest, and held the most teary-eyed material. However, instead he set to his desk, and quickly pulled out some parchment paper. On the paper he spelled out several Pokemon, the name of his sister's team really, Herdier, Serperior, Bravery, and the rest.

He ordered their names by date of capture. Serperior, being the first, had it's code starting from the last word. Each letter in each word's value was equal to where it appeared in the alphabet, and counting each word in the letter, Kyouhei began to unscramble the real message his sister wanted to tell him.

What he had come up with...he would have never imagined it was the truth.

Even still, Kyouhei knew he couldn't tell anyone, Mei's message said so. In fact, the summarize, she had written that she wished for Kyouhei to help Curtis and Hyuu move on. That her being gone was hard on them, but her too. She didn't want them to know where she had gone, only that she was making a new life for herself - and that she had someone to help her with it.

All this was nice and all, revealing his sister was really alive and all, but Kyouhei couldn't help but shed a few tears when he had skimmed his eyes across the end, that she would meet up with him to say a proper goodbye. In Undella Town's marine tunnel.

At once, Kyouhei began to plan how he could get away with this. He could say he was continuing his journey, going to release Mei's Pokemon - as her fake message to him had said, but really return them to their trainer.

"If this is what will make you happy..." He says softly to himself, and crumples his copy of the note, and throws it away. His decoded message followed as bits of confetti. "So be it."

For the first time in days, Kyouhei was able to sleep. And well at that, too. No need to cry himself to sleep, because the void he had been feeling, was beginning to fill up once more.


A/N

- it's not important, you can skip this -

Mwahahahah short chapter of 816 words- also sorry about that - I try to keep chapters at least 1000 words, but... Oh well. Also thank you much for those who are following, have favorited, and or commented. It means a lot to me. This story has evolved much more than it once was - if there is the slightest chance of someone out there who read the first and has found this one... please don't bring up the old version. It's basically unrecognizable-from new writing style, to actually having somewhat decent grammar, and even the plot has changed. Looker wasn't in the original, and Kyouhei ended up in the loony bin... soo- yeah.