Chapter 3 The Answer

It had been 3 weeks since the murders, and that gave the Inspector time to think. Xu had been made the temporary headmaster since Quistis was a suspect. After that time though and going through the victims' histories and looking up the weapons and ways of killing the victims, Mason came up with a conclusion.

"I have good news," Mason said. "I figured out who killed Seifer and Nida. This is a very complicated conclusion, but it makes perfect sense. Nida's little brother John goes to this academy. John had killed Nida with Squall's gunblade. John rooms next to Squall don't forget. Seifer had actually committed suicide. There was no one murderer. John could not live up to Nida; to get him out of the way he murdered his brother. But from when the estimates of when the deaths were, Nida was supposedly killed first. Seifer rooms next to Nida so Seifer walked in Nida's room the time John was going to kill Nida. Seifer probably had seen John going to kill Nida and the two worked together on it. John killed Nida and then Seifer killed himself with his gunblade. The gunblade was found missing. I know what happened to it also. Xu, go into Quistis room and find Seifer's gunblade."

Xu left to go to Quistis' room.

"Quistis didn't kill anybody, but she covered up for Seifer's death. Seifer had killed himself to avoid punishment, but also to make it easier for John to get caught. Seifer cut himself the same way John cut Nida. Quistis, you knew that. Seifer told you his plan therefore you are guilty with association. Quistis, Xu told me that you hinted to Squall about John living up to Nida and that gave me an idea about you being involved."

Xu came back with Seifer's gunblade.

"See I told you," Mason chuckled.

Quistis got up and ran. Zell chased after her. He caught up and cracked her neck backward. Quistis fell to the ground.