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Chapter 4-The murder weapon found

As Jack left Thomas's house, he smacked his head. With all that has been going on the past week, he totally forgot he had a Mystril Sickle waiting for him at Saibara's. He immediately walked down towards the blacksmith to pick it up.

"You finally remembered," Saibara said, when he walked in. "Gray, get him his Sickle."

Gray looked around in the back. He looked all over twice before saying "It isn't here."

"What? What do you mean, it isn't here? It better be here," Saibara said.

"I'm not finding it," Gray said.

Saibara turned back to Jack and said "We seemed to have misplaced your sickle. We'll send it to you when we come across it."

Jack nodded and left. As soon as he closed the door, he could hear Saibara yelling at Gray over the lost Sickle.

Anyways, Jack decided to head to the Library and see what he could find. He ran up to the other end of town and pushed the library door open. He stood in the doorway for a minute, focused on the chalk outline of the body, before walking in and looking around.

He looked all over the floor, and the bookshelves, but found nothing out of the ordinary. But then, he did notice something. 2 of the books were sitting with their spine down, while all the other books were standing up, spine clearly visible.

Jack knew how much of a neat freak Mary was, and knew that she wouldn't leave books like that. He also noticed that they were close to the chalk outline, which means that Mary pulled them down. Possibly the last thing she did.

Jack pulled the books out and looked at them. One was white and was titled Common Crops. The other was titled Life on the Farm.

Thinking that they could be a clue, Jack went to the desk, grabbed a piece of paper, and wrote down the titles. He also wrote a list of all the people in Mineral Town.

"I'll go through these names when I get back home, and cross out the people that couldn't have done it," Jack thought, as he walked out of the library.

When he did, however, a glint of metal caught his eyes. He went to the nearby bushes to see what it was. He soon found a Mystril Sickle, and the point had dried blood on it, most likely Mary's.

Then he saw the name on it.

"This...this is MY sickle," Jack thought. "The one that I was supposed to get from Saibara."

To be continued in Chapter 5-Crossing off Names.

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