Unsolved

Case #20: Unexpected Incidents

Everything happened unexpectedly in a flash.

There they were having a short tea break in the mini lounge room in Trinity Academy after the Chemistry Challenge with the rest of the students from other schools. Everyone was served tea for free. The tea was brewed by the same person and came from the same teapot. However, something terrible happened out of the blue.

A person's head fell onto the table with a loud thud without any warning and the tea was spilled all over the table. Everyone gasped and turned to look at that person's direction. He was not moving at all. His face was pale while his lips were light bluish-purple. His eyes were not moving as he stared at Rin's direction.

His partner placed his trembling finger over his nose and screamed, "He's dead! He's dead! He must have been poisoned!"

Everyone in the lounge room went hysterical as they screamed and ran all over the place. The tea might be poisoned and most of the students had ingested them.

Rin placed her hands on her chest and tried to cough out the tea which she had drank. Meanwhile, Piko was dumbstruck. He could not believe that this thing could simply happen just like that. It was extremely unexpected and he could not prevent it from happening on time.

Leon was dead.

-:-:-:-

Big Al was laughing amusingly at the scene. He hugged his stomach and snickered softly to himself when he realised that he had attracted a lot of unwanted attention. He grinned devilishly behind his fingers as he watched Leon's dead body being carried into the ambulance.

"What a pitiful child Leon is," he murmured and took the last sip of his tea. "He is wanted by the great divine."

Piko slammed his fist on the table and shouted at Big Al accusingly, "You must have poisoned him! You..."

"What makes you think that I killed that clever nerd?" Big Al smirked.

"You were laughing," Piko snarled. "Nobody laughs at one's death!"

"You have no prove that I poisoned him." He laughed and shook his head in a taunting manner. "By the way, I'm innocent. Miku Hatsune might be the killer."

"That's not true. You must be the one..."

"Let's think about it. How could I poison him?" Big Al interrupted. "If I did, everyone in this room, including me, could have been dead by now."

He began laughing again. This time, Piko was already fuming with anger. He grabbed hold of Big Al's shirt and pulled him forward. Just when he was about to give the gang leader a punch on his face, Rin immediately stood up and pulled them apart.

"Stop fighting!" Her voice echoed throughout the room. "Leon might not be poisoned."

"So, how do you explain about his death? He drank that tea and died the next moment. His lips were purple in colour. Now, tell me how exactly he was not poisoned," Piko retorted angrily.

"If he was poisoned by the tea, then all of us would have been poisoned as well since the tea was poured from the same teapot!" Rin argued. "Half an hour had passed, all of us are still alive."

Piko pushed Rin away and pointed at Big Al, "No, this gangster is the 'Joker'!"

Big Al had enough of Piko's accusations. He stood up from his seat and within a split second, Piko fell down on his bottom while covering his swollen cheek.

"How is my punch, brat?" Big Al growled and kissed his fist mockingly. "Don't you dare to provoke me ever again."

After saying that, he walked out of the lounge room with his partner who was petrified by the things happened earlier following behind. Piko hugged his knees and hid his face behind them. He was furious; his favourite senior had died mysteriously and he could not prevent it as planned. If what Meiko had said was true, then Big Al was likely the murderer.

Big Al had always hated Leon to the core ever since their first year in high school. It was no wonder that he would choose to kill Leon as he had always wanted Leon to be out of the spotlight.

Big Al was the obvious killer.

He might be the one who had killed Dell Honne, Lui Hibiki, Oliver and Luka Megurine.

"Utatane," a soft voice whispered into his ear. "Don't let your emotions take over your senses."

He looked up and saw Rin squatting down next to him with a worried look on her face. He could not control his tears any longer and they just came rolling down his cheeks.

For the past ten years of his life, it was his first time that he actually cried bitterly for someone whom he called a friend.

-:-:-:-

Rin leaned against the side of the bed and sighed. It had been two days since Leon's death. He was really poisoned but they could not traced the murderer. The police had investigated this case and found out that the tea was indeed poisoned but the strangest thing was everyone's tea was not poisoned since the tea had supposedly come from the same teapot.

She shifted her gaze to Piko who was sleeping soundly on the bed. He had trouble sleeping for the past two nights and had finally gotten some rest after taking a sleeping pill which the school doctor had prescribed to him earlier. From that incident, she then knew that Leon was indeed an important person to Piko.

For some reason, she felt jealous. For him to care so much about Leon, it was very touching and admirable. She could not help but to think that Piko was in love with that guy.

"What... am I thinking?" Rin muttered aloud and pinched her cheek. "This is so stupid. Why am I thinking of gay stuffs? This is so wrong!"

She banged her head against the bed and slapped her cheeks a few times to clear her thoughts away.

"Don't die..."

Piko's weary voice startled her and she looked up. She smiled weakly as she knew that he was probably thinking about Leon in his sleep. His sleeping face was so adorable as usual. If only he would put on this type of facial expression everyday instead of his irritating poker-face, he would have gained more friends and even a girlfriend.

"...Rin."

Rin jerked. Maybe she was wrong. Maybe Piko was thinking about her in his sleep. If so, that meant that she was going to die in his dream. What a weird dream he had.

"Rin, I..."

Rin frowned upon realising that something was not feeling right. Piko was calling her by her first name! Luckily, there were only the two of them in his room or else, she would be busted.

"Stupid Rin..."

Rin blushed heavily as she immediately covered Piko's mouth to prevent him from saying her name casually and repeatedly. Her heart was pounding rapidly against her chest and she was so afraid that her heartbeat would stir him from his sleep.

"For goodness sake, Utatane! What are you dreaming of?" Rin muttered and puffed up her reddened cheeks. "Didn't we make an agreement to call each other by our family names? Calling me by my first name... is... so embarrassing... especially by... by you..."

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, causing Rin to shriek softly. She ran towards the door and opened it, revealing Kaito who was still clad in his school uniform.

"Len, I knew that you would be Utatane's dorm," Kaito spoke with a large grin. "Hey, do you want to go to the library with me? I heard that there are new books."

Rin looked at Piko, then back at Kaito sadly, "I'm sorry. Utatane is not well today so I..."

"It's okay," he interrupted her with another smile. "I can go there myself, though I initially thought of spending more time with you since we hardly hang out with each other."

Rin shook her hands and laughed sheepishly, "Kaito, I don't mind going there with you. I'm sure Utatane wants to have a peaceful sleep too."

"Oh, so are you coming?"

"Of course!" Rin replied and walked out of the room, leaving Piko behind.

-:-:-:-

"Have you read 'Hamlet'? It's a nice story," Kaito suggested as he handed the book to Rin.

Rin browsed through the book and said, "I haven't read it yet but I think I will borrow it. Thanks, Kaito!"

"You're welcome, Len. If you like this story, I will recommend you 'Macbeth'."

"I think 'Romeo and Juliet' is so much better than 'Macbeth'," a voice interrupted their conversation. "Twelfth Night is the best in my opinion."

Rin and Kaito turned around and saw Lily smiling sweetly at them. She carefully placed a thick book into the shelf and took another book next to it.

"Good evening, Ms. Lily!" both of them greeted her.

Lily nodded and walked to another shelf. Rin continued her search for new books while Kaito walked to the magazine section.

'Click!'

Rin's head jolted up and looked around frantically. She had a bad premonition all of a sudden. However, Rin casually brushed that thought aside.

'Crash!'

And it was true. Before anybody knew what was happening, the shelves suddenly fell and collapsed one by one.

"Len!" Kaito shouted and pulled Rin away from the shelves before they collapsed on top of her.

She gasped and saw the ruins in the library. "What happened?"

"I have no idea. The shelves just collapsed by themselves," Kaito answered while panting heavily. "I hope no one is injured."

There were not many people in the library and the majority of them were sitting at the reading corner, reading books or doing homework. Furthermore, Big Al was there as well. He was standing next to a collapsed shelf with books under his feet and looking very amused by the scene before him.

"Help... me," a soft and weak voice came from underneath a pile of books and a shelf, followed by a soft groan.

A bloody hand was also sticking out of the pile of books. Rin pulled away from Kaito's grasp and ran towards the hand. She lifted the shelf a little and made it rest on her back while she pushed the books away. After clearing the pile of books, she finally caught of a glimpse of the person who was stuck underneath the books.

It was Lily whose entire body being squashed and smashed by the dead weight.

Hi guys, thanks for reading up to Chapter 20.

Next, I would like to thank those who had reviewed Chapter 19. Thanks for all those encouragements. Hope to hear more from you again! :D

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Current suspects which were stated by the reviewers as of Chapter 19 (ranking from the top to the bottom):
1) Len
2) Piko
3) Meiko
4) Unknown stalker or childhood friend of Rin
5) Miku (by possessing people)
6) Kaito

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