Chapter 3: Witness

Emiyan: I'm so sorry I took so long to update. But when summer comes, everything just seems to pour out of me, like my ideas for new chapters...

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"Wha- What do you mean by another?" the neko-jin's voice had run dry, and his eyes were blank.

"There was another victim," Mariah whispered, struggling not to break into tears, "And the worst part is, the killer left her daughter behind to suffer." The pink-haired teenager turned away, shaking.

"That's cruel," Tyson said simply, summing up all the words jammed into Rei's throat into two words. "Maybe... Maybe she knows something." Mariah shook her head, "I tried to talk to her, but she's... blank. Y-you could try to get to her though."

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Rei peered inside the room, once he found it safe, he entered.

The witness was lying on a cot, asleep, snoring the seconds away peacefully. She had short dark brown hair, tied into a messy ponytail on her head, her ears weren't pointed, her nails were chewed, and her skin white. Her appearence gestured to the fact that she was not a neko-jin, or from this area.

Ever so softly, he shook her. The girl murmured quietly, then, her incoherent rammbling grew louder, until finally, she was screaming loudly. Rei pressed his hands against his senstive ears and squeezed his eyes shut. "Please stop screaming!"

The girl shut up, looking at him with wide, gray eyes. "Who... who are you? Why am I here? Where's Takeshi and Genki?" She asked, running her questions together into one large strand. It took a while to understand what she was saying, and to finally place his words in the right order.

"I'm Rei. Uh... You're here because..." he didn't really have the heart to tell her now, so he skipped to the next question. "I'm not sure who Takeshi or Genki is."

"Genki is my..." she started, but she stopped, peering suspiciously at Rei. "Why should I tell you? And why aren't I home?"

"Home?"

"Yes home, I came here with Genki and Takeshi for a visit. And now I wake up in a weird room with a cat staring at me."

"I'm not a cat," he murmured, supressing an outburst. She huffed, "Fine, kitten, I wake up with a kitten staring at me."

He growled, but refrained from doing anything desperate. "Look," Rei sighed, "I just want to know what happened..." he halted, all this talking and he didn't even pick up her name. "Uh..."

"Midori," shesaid, her eyes growing soft and cloudy. "I don't remember anything," Midori added softly and curtly, letting her eyes slip close. "You do."

"I don't."

"Don't lie, we could use your help."

Midori sighed, "Fine, Rei," she gave him a quick glance, "I'll tell you everything I know and remember."

"It started when Takeshi, Genki and I went to the river. It was suppose to be normal and all, yadda yadda yadda. But, it turned dark and rainy, and we were about to head in. Then, I remember this odd animal, it looked like some sort of cat, I petted it, but it bit me. I screamed, and Genki went over to see what happened. She tried to shoo away the thing, but it wouldn't go away. I didn't really notice what happened next because my hand where the cat bit me was starting to feel numb, and then, I passed out."

Rei cocked his head, "That's all?" Midori nodded, "Hai, all I remember."

Rei sighed very quietly, it was less than he wanted, but at least it was a start.

"Wait... I think I remember something else..."

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