5) Game On, Mystery Club

Part 9

Everyone is surprised to see who the mastermind behind the incident of the games is: Jirou Kayaku. Matt kept staring firmly at the culprit, knowing he's the one. Ako and her team were shocked by this, too, including Chika and the audience.

Jirou jolt in confusion. "What? You're accusing me of this heinous crime?" Jirou said in disbelief. "I've done nothing of the sort. I said my security people would track down the crooks that did this, and I gave everyone my word."

"Oh really?" Matt said in exasperation. "Well, I think that innocent act of yours isn't fooling me, especially you were the one that tries to kill Ako." The president jolted, and so did Ako and everyone else.

"What makes you say that?"

"Before I continue…" Matt turns to Ako, who is worried about the situation. "Ako, did you notice anything unusual about the president?" Ako heard and tried to remember. "Anything he said to you?"

Ako thought thoroughly until she flinched a little and remembered. "Yeah," she speaks up, "the president happens to know my name. But, what's that got to do with this?"

Matt turns back to the president and speaks again, "From the clues I've gathered so far, and from your great co-leader Kimi, you and underlings knew exactly every athlete in the games before the whole event started. As being president, you had access and researched all the great athletic students of what event they are participating and planned to injure them in the process.

You have planned this set-up with the decided athletes you researched. Miss Shinju is a great hurdler, and you needed a hired gun to rig that hurdle for her to fall over. That basketball player, he was very proficient in his dunks, and you order a goon to rig the basket so it can fall off and make that player land on his back. Each of those injured athletes you researched and victimized, had a specific incident they all had, and you were responsible for the crime."

"Wait a minute. How did the crooks manage to get past security?" Chika asked as she walks up to Matt.

"Me and my team were at the enemy's base undercover and found something important." Matt took out the rejection list he had in his pocket and shows it to one of the refs. "Take a look at these papers. These are all the rejected athletic students back then that couldn't participate in any sports games because of their medical conditions. But there's more to it."

Matt flips the papers to the last page. On the last page is a list of the thugs' task jobs to victimized the athletes in the games. "As you can see here, these are the photos of the same underlings that worked for the mastermind. But the way how they pictured these portraits were used to create fake I.D. cards. We learned this when my team and I discovered at their base, they had a photoshop software on their computers."

The ref and the head security of the games see this shocking sight and understood Matt's point of view. Then the head of security came into the scene and looks at Matt. "Oda-san, then where the thugs?" he asked.

"Right under your noses. They're the security people standing before you."

The head security man looks at all the guards that were in the area. He then makes a command, "Guards line up!" Every guard was lined up in front of the captain.

"Take the I.D. cards from them, and see if you can find their names and their photos from their cards on this list," Matt ordered.

And the captain nodded. He took all of the guards' I.D. cards, and then he uses them to find the names on the list. After a few seconds, the head security man makes a shocking surprise.

The captain pointed the legit guards and orders them to apprehend the fraud guards. "Arrest these imposters!" the head man commanded. The real guards did and grabbed them. "These fake guards are the underlings of the mastermind that are on this list. Matt Oda's accusation is one hundred percent correct."

Everyone on the field and stands are surprised even more. Ayaka and her classmates were astounded too, but they couldn't really see Matt's face from a distance.

"I don't believe it," Chizuru said in astonishment. "Matt was right."

"Incredible…" Ayaka said in surprise.

"What a scoop!" Kazumi followed as she got her camera and takes pictures of Matt.

Matt then stared at the president of the games. "It's over, Mr. President," Matt stated with a firm mood. "It's time for you to surrender."

President Jirou gritted his teeth and scrunched his eyes. "Now listen! I'm the president and sponsor of the Mahora Games, and there's no way I have could have done this dirty deed."

"Oh, but you would," Matt stated. "You and your goons intended to kill Ako because she lifted everyone's spirit and lost their complaint to each other. If Ako got killed by your trap, everyone here in the games would argue and panic again, and they had the intention to cancel the Mahora Games for good, for their own safety. After all, nobody wants to play with a cheater or someone getting hurt, right?"

Ako, her teammates, and everyone is still surprised by this sudden twist.

"That's just not true, I–"

"But it is true." shouted an old man's voice. Everyone turned to see who said, and came onto the field is Dean Konoe and Professor Takahata, with Negi, Konoka, the twins, and Satsuki by their side. Matt and the other members smiled in relief. "Guards seize him." the dean commanded. The academy's security staff people surrounded Jirou and apprehend him.

"Let me go, you brutes!" Jirou yelled. "I swear I haven't committed a crime, you hear me!?"

"But you have," Ako cried, "and you were about to kill me."

"This is insanity," Chika said in shock. "How could you do something so heinous like this?"

"Why President Jirou? Why?" Yuna said in sorrow.

"Why would you do something so diabolical, Jirou Kayaku?" Misora said in fright.

"Because he's not Jirou Kayaku." said a voice out of nowhere.

Everyone turned to the sound of the voice. And in coming on the field are Asuna and Eva. Then following behind the girls is what made everyone scared the bejabbers out of them.

Another Jirou Kayaku.

"What!?" Makie shouted. "TWO Jirous?"

"How's that possible!?" Akira said in shock.

Asuna makes the announcement. "This guy here is the real Jirou Kayaku."

"We found him tied up in a closet at the enemy's base." Eva followed up.

Jirou continues the announcement, "These two girls are right. I'm the real deal." The real Jirou points to the fake. "That Jirou is an imposter and kidnapped me to scheme this awful crime to succeed in his plan of revenge."

"Revenge?" the announcer wondered. "So then, who is this faker?"

Matt speaks, "There's only one person I know from the evidence me and my team collected and wants to put an end in all sporting events because of this criminal's bitterness. And that person is…"

Matt walks up to the captured and fake Jirou. He sticks his hand out and pulls the top part of the imposter's head. Matt pulled hard and then…POP! What he pulled was a mask, and revealed…

Mako Sayaka

"Mako Sayaka!?" Everyone shouted in great surprise.

"Exactly as I thought," Matt confirmed.

"Mako!?" the twins shouted in shock.

"That exercising woman on the commercial?" Konoka followed up in surprise.

"Unbelievable…" Asuna said with her eyes widen.

Mako gritted her teeth and growled at Matt. "How did you know it was me!?" she yelled at him.

"You had a good scheme Mako, but you didn't cover your tracks very well," Matt replied in a calm mood. "It was back at the enemy base, I knew you were the mastermind when I saw a box full of your Vita-bars in the storage room that we found the real Jirou. I remembered them seeing those energy bars from your commercial. And the second clue is that me and my team overheard a couple of goons that you are part of this crooked band as well, and they know you a lot…because you are their leader."

Mako became even more furious as she glared at Matt.

Then Ako asked, "But Mako…, why? Why did you do this?" Mako glared at the sorrow Ako.

"Matthew-san!" someone shouted. Matt turns to the sound and sees Chisame, with Satomi, and the librarians, running towards him. When they arrived, Chisame gave a folder to Matt. "Looks like you got this case," Chisame stated. "Everything about her is in there." Matt nodded and looks inside the folder that has a profile and biography of Mako Sayaka.

After Matt read the profile thoroughly, he called the dean and gave the folder to the dean. "Everything you need to know is in this folder, Dean Konoe," Matt stated to him.

"What? What did it say?" Misora questioned.

"According to your profile Miss Mako, five years ago, you were a high school student here in Mahora Academy, and you were eager to participate and play in the annual Mahora Academy Spring Wrap-up Sports Games. You trained hard to be at least in one of the events.

But you were furious when the medical examiners discovered that you had light-headed syndrome of weak brain functioning. Because of that health condition you had, you were denied and couldn't participate in the games. You even begged and pleaded so much, but the staff couldn't let you in.

After this letdown and after your graduation, you left the academy and did research on all of the other school's sporting events to get revenge. You had the intention: 'If I can't be on any sporting event game, then no one can.'

That advertisement was only your side job; your real job was to recruit any of the other rejected athletes, create this terrible organization, and end Mahora's Sports Games first because this was the place that you turned down."

Matt then turns to everyone in the crowd. "And that, my friends, is the whole solution to this case."

The dean closed the folder after he read it and looks at Mako. "Mako Sayaka," the dean said, "you were a great student, but I never expected you to turn something so dastardly to hurt everyone in this annual event, including my students. You ought to be a shame of yourself."

Prof. Takahata, Matt, the members of the Mystery Club, and Ako and her team, including Chika, all glared at Mako with a mean look. Mako is still mad as she closed her eyes, knowing she lost.

"And my revenge was perfect…until you came along, Matthew Oda!" Mako said in ire agony.

"Sorry that I spoiled your revenge," Matt replies calmly. "But you know how it is that I, a gentleman and mystery solver, must end any criminal activity because that's my job." He then turns to the dean and the head of security. "You'll also find more of her minions on the city streets with a collision accident. But I'm sure that the cops are already on the case."

The head of security understood Matt and ordered his guards to take Mako and her minions away.

"Damn you, Matt!" Mako cried. "I'll get you if it's the last thing I do!" She and her underlings walked away in custody.

"Yeah…, go ahead and try." Matt then turns to everyone in the crowd, and he smiles. "And with that, everyone…, the mystery is solved!"

The announcer of the games smiled as he grabbed his mike from Matt and makes one last announcement. "There you have it, everyone! Give a hand to Matthew Oda!" The crowd cheered to Matt as he solved yet another case.

"Matthew Oda-san," said Ako with a grin, "you are amazing like we heard from the news and rumors. Thank you, Matt."

"You saved us all, Matt-san," Akira said with glee.

"We are very proud of you, Matt-san," Yuna smiled with a wink.

Then Matt's mystery team went up to him, and they cheered him.

"You really did it, Matt-san," Fei Ku said with joy. "You have done it again!"

"Awesome work Matt-san," Chao said and smiled. "Smart and wonderful as always."

"You are a legendary crime solver-degozaru." Kaede complimented.

"I am very proud of you, Matthew-san," Konoka said with delight.

Then Dean Konoe, Negi, and Takamichi walk up to Matt.

"Matt, you are triumphant as the last mysteries," the dean said and smiled. "I think Mahora Academy needs a superior mystery solver like you."

"Yes, I would agree with Dean Konoe," Negi followed.

"Yep, you sure know how to bite the crime," Chamo stated as he popped onto Negi's shoulder.

Takamichi smiled at Matt.

Matthew Oda looks at his wonderful friends and members as he smiles in front of them. "Thanks you guys," Matt speaks, "but remember we all solved this mystery together." Negi, the dean, Prof. Takahata, and the members of the Mystery Club continued to smile at Matt.

Ako, Akira, Yuna, Makie, and Misora kept watching Matt being blessed by his friends. Ako then makes a suggestion, "Girls, I think I know something that we can repay Matt Oda for saving not just us, but everyone in the games." The rest of Negi's athletic girls stared at Ako in wonderment.

In the stands of the cheering crowd, Ayaka and her classmates were astounded by Matt's detective skills again.

"That Matt Oda-san is incredible," Ayaka said in little astonishment. "I really need to see him."

"Oh my…, he really is a talented guy," Chizuru said in amazement.

"Wow, that was amazing!" Sakurako said excitedly. The other cheerleaders nodded in agreement.

Sayo flies next to Kazumi. "Did you get a picture of him, Asakura-san?" Sayo asked.

"Yeah, but it's not a good picture," Kazumi replied as she looks at her digital camera only to show a little blur of Matt. "On the bright side, I have a good scoop to write." Kazumi winks at Sayo. Sayo smiled.


A few days later, everything at Mahora Academy is quiet and peaceful again. The Sports Games are canceled for the year due to Mako's scheme, but it will be continued next year. The news of Matt's successful solving case of the sporting event incident has been spread throughout the academy. Negi and the girls in his class went back to studying for the upcoming exams.

Later in the afternoon in the Mystery Club, Matt Oda was signing a few registration forms for the athletic girls, Ako, Makie, Akira, Yuna, and Misora, as they decided to join in Matt's Mystery Club. After Matt signed the forms, he puts them in a folder and looks at the girls.

"You're now officially in," Matt said to the girls. "Welcome to the Mystery Club."

"Thanks Matt, for letting us in," Yuna responded.

"You sure you are not joining me because I'm an orphan, and you care about that?"

"It's not only that, Matt-san," Misora replied. "You inspired us by your incredible detective skills. We wanted to thank you so much for saving everyone, including us, from that Mako girl that tried to hurt us."

"You were very brave Matt, and we could learn a lot of things from you," Ako said with a calm grin.

"We may keep you company because your all alone," said Akira, "but we owe you for your heroic action of great responsibility to everyone at the games."

"So please Matt-san," Makie begged, "we want to join you until the very end."

Matt stared at the girls for a bit, and then he calmly smiled. "I have no complaints," Matt replies to the girls. "The more, the merrier from what people say, and I'm glad to have you girls on the team." The athletic girls smiled back at Matt.

Then the door to the club opened as Negi, Asuna, and Konoka entered the room. They then spotted the Ako and the girls right in front of them.

"Matthew, are they…" Negi asked.

"Yes Negi, they are official Mystery Club members," Matt replied.

Negi and the girls smiled. Konoka and Asuna looked at each other.

"Matthew-san is getting popular every day," Konoka stated.

"You said it, Konoka," Asuna replies, "You said it."