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Chapter Ten
Malik finished clearing the house of all evidence that any of them had been there. That meant banishing everything they had touched to the Shadow Realm if it was small, and clearing the fingerprints from their rooms or any of the larger furniture.
Ryou had gone through the rooms to see if there were any journals or diaries. As it ends up, both Yugi and Tea had kept one. He carefully erased all mention to them, leaving the names blank until Kaiba came so that they could find out what to do.
Yami Bakura came sauntering up to his hikari as Ryou proceeded downstairs.
"Kaiba is on his way." He said cheerfully.
Ryou nodded and they went downstairs and outside, meeting up with Malik and walking down towards the small strip of beach.
A yacht was seen near the mainland, where Kaiba had been waiting for their call.
"So it is over now?" Ryou asked.
"Yes, it is." Yami Bakura said. His faced changed slightly, and he turned and walked towards the house.
"I'll be right back." He said, and disappeared up the slope and they watched him walk and into the house.
Kaiba's yacht pulled up right as Yami Bakura reappeared.
A small ramp extended from the side, and Kaiba walked down, followed by Marik.
"It is done?" Kaiba asked, looking at the three he had hired for this.
"Yes, all dead. And no evidence to point to you or us." Yami Bakura answered, eyes gleaming. He held the Millennium Puzzle in his hand.
Kaiba raised an eyebrow.
"Part of my reward, if you remember." Bakura answered to the look.
Kaiba shrugged. "You will each receive your payment, and the proper alibi's will be produced that you were with me the entire time this was happening, as you would be the natural suspects for this." The three nodded their thanks.
"There is the matter of having two extra bodies here. The poem specifically states ten people, and two of them have kept journals, so it would be easier to have those modified instead of erased." Ryou said.
Kaiba nodded.
"It has been planned out. Here are your decoys." Kaiba said, and Marik grinned as two of Kaiba's guards hauled two unconscious bodies out.
Rex Raptor and Weevil.
"How did you two 'die'?" Kaiba asked.
"Ryou fell off a cliff." Malik said.
Kaiba nodded and Marik grabbed Rex and dragged him to where the cliffs began to get steep, and with effortless ease threw him over the edge of the cliff, watching in delight as the body tumbled and splashed below.
"How about you, Malik?"
"I was the last to survive, and the last line of the poem says: One little kid all by himself, it seems he gets all the wealth." Malik quoted.
"Hmm.........how can he 'get all the wealth?'" Yami Bakura mused.
"How about we make him kill himself? As if it was an accident, I mean. You know, he will be crazy, kill all the other people, then kill himself, thinking to get the wealth of the Afterlife." Malik said.
Kaiba stared at him.
"That's crazy." He scoffed.
"But he will be crazy. Why else would he kill all the others? So it works." Malik said, and grabbed one of Yami Bakura's daggers from his belt loops, and easily slit Weevil's throat.
Kaiba raised an eyebrow, backing away as the now dead body fell to the ground. Malik carefully wiped all of his prints off, before wrapping Weevil's fingers around the hilt.
"No one knows 'Kura has that dagger, so it works." Malik said confidently.
"I'll go change the journal entries." Ryou said, and took off.
Kaiba nodded in satisfaction.
"At last." He breathed. "I am finally number one. And all my competition is gone. Aside from you three." He said, turning a glare on the three standing before him.
"You don't have to worry about us." Bakura said coldly. "I was interested in dueling only so that I can get the Millennium Items, and Ryou said he will help me with that now, so I don't need to duel. Besides, I have the most important one now." He said, stroking the puzzle, which he had tied to his belt loops, deciding it would look tacky with two Items around his neck.
"Hn." Kaiba grunted as Ryou came running back.
"All done." He said.
"Then we are ready to go. Get on board." Kaiba said, and they boarded the yacht and left.
(In the Detective Agency.)
"So, any clue as to what happened?" One officer asked the investigator, who was running over photos, reports, and other such evidence.
"It appears that ten people were invited to that island, rented by a Duke Devlin, and they all went there for what seems to be a harmless trip."
"Then someone tried to kill them all?" the officer offered.
"Yes, it seems that way. According to two diaries kept by a Yugi Motou and a Tea Gardner, the first to die was Devlin himself. So it would seem that someone he invited was planning on using a poem found in the house as a basis for the killings." The inspector said, flipping carefully through one of the journals.
"That's sick." The officer commented.
"Yes. After that, Yugi Motou died, overdosed with a sleeping drought, it seems by the tests."
"And then?"
"And then the girl Serenity Wheeler, who fell off the second story stairs, and then Yami Motou, who I guess was a brother to Yugi, was stabbed." The inspector said, looking through the different reports.
"And then Mai Valentine was poisoned, and Rex Raptor, who fell off a cliff." The officer said, reading one of the reports as well.
"Yes, and Joey Wheeler drowned and Tristan Taylor was killed by a crushing blow to the head."
"And the other two?"
"Tea Gardner hanged herself, and Weevil apparently killed himself as well." The inspector said.
"That seems to be all, then? Nothing to indicate why this happened?" the officer said, writing some stuff down on a notepad.
"Nothing that no one, not even the experts, can find." The inspector said sadly.
"Very sad, indeed. So, that covers it." The officer said, and pulled all the evidence and reports together into a file.
He stamped the cover.
CASE CLOSED
(End Chapter and End Story.)
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