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Chapter 15 – the final victim…
Kyu's POV
"Let's go in" Shishido said finally when everyone except Gouda and Kinta had arrived at the storeroom.
I noticed everyone was nervous, I was too. This might be the last clue. And personally I was sick of this mystery. A spiral of clues but the spiral kept twisting, so much so that we were getting confused in the process. I'm surprised that Ryuu hadn't figured it out yet but this was hard.
"Look anywhere you think he could be hidden." Shishido was saying as everyone went around obeying his orders. I searched in the crates containing the processed foods. Nothing could be hidden in those crates as long as the cans were in it. The way they were stacked didn't give any chances to anything that could be hidden behind them. If it was the whole bunch of them would come crashing down on the killer.
"Do you think it's in the freezer?" Hayato asked making a retching noise…
"I told him that" Saburamarou muttered unhelpfully.
"No" it was Ryuu who answered "Meat is the highest consumer product in the school diet plan. The killer wouldn't have done it if she didn't want to risk exposure to it. But then again better safe then sound"
"Gotcha" Hayato disappeared into the freezer holding the DDS flashlight…
"What's down here?" a voice called from the opposite end of the room, I turned and stared at the face of Yuki… she was pointing at the half hidden door at the back of the room.
"Dunno"
"I'll go check, you guys wait here" Ryuu commanded but Yuki followed him, and I followed her… the door opened in to a smaller storeroom filled with barrels… stinking of the strong smell of –
"Garlic" Ryuu said putting a hand over his nose delicately.
"Why" my voice burst out, eying the barrels half–hidden in the dark.
Yuki switched on the lone light bulb in the room and a strangely eerie yellow light cast deeper shadows in the room but we were able to see properly without straining our eyes.
"In the olden days, they would cut up fruits and vegetables then store them in vinegar/brine/mustard to make pickles… most people don't do this nowadays but this might be an ideal place to make…" he stopped abruptly, staring at the barrels with that intent look… "Very clever" Ryuu murmured silently.
It took a moment but I got what he meant… what better place to hide the body if not in a barrel filled with garlic. The smell would make sure it'd not be disturbed for months. And by that time he'd be forgotten… the body would have decomposed and it would be just another body not concerning Akane's suicide case. Like Ryuu said very clever…
CRASH!
I turned and saw that Yuki had kicked down one of the barrels at the end of the room… the contents splattered into the room, the dark liquid splashed out rapidly, soaking the bottom of my pants and shoes…eerily cold, but it was nothing compared to the sudden icy terror that grasped at my heart when I saw the body…
Without warning a horrifying scream rang through the room, slicing through the thick silence… I turned… tried to reach out…
But Meg had already fallen to the floor in faint.
Ryuu's POV
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" a girl screamed.
Meg…
I watched her drop to the floor, Kyu ran to her side. I turned towards the body once again…
(WARNING Bad/gross/overly graphic visual of gore….yeasssh gore…. So if you are squeamish, or a puritan :) skip this part )
Kabuto Wada was unrecognizable… he was lying on his side, right arm bent in the wrong direction…half of his body still in the barrel. His shirt soaked thoroughly with blood, a single deep cut in the front exposed the grayish decaying flesh… his neck was scaled with a line of hardened blood… the scar spread from his neck to his lower abdomen, some of it's contents all but disemboweled… the blood or mostly water were flowing out of his wound…the eyes held me in place… it was not the unfocused look of death… his eyes were filled with fear…
( Grotesque descriptions END HERE you may read on)
"Oh my god" I whispered silently as a sudden uncontrollable quaver ran through me, wild emotions raced in my body… deep sorrow, anguish, terror, shock, disgust but at the same time I felt respect, and admiration for this cold blooded monstrosity… the killer had acted in ways that it was impossible to predict… and that was why I admired her, her ability to deceive…
Yuki walked forwards, stooped down next to the body.
"He's dead…" she whispered coldly "…another suspect is dead. We're useless aren't we?"
I didn't answer, kept quiet pondering about what she said.
She reached out and touched the clammy dead forehead without flinching "we found him… so why isn't this leading anywhere? Why we are still stuck on this? Why are we so useless?"
"We will find out who did this… we just need to find her motive"
Yuki looked up stared at me with disbelieving eyes… "Will we?"
"Yes… we will" I consoled her, even though now I didn't believe the rest of the suspects were indeed suspects… something was anew… there was someone else now…
Kazuma's POV
"What?" I asked Kyu disbelievingly.
"Just a hunch but can you check if anyone had noticed Kabuto anywhere near the computer labs the night Mizuki was attacked?"
"Okay" I muttered after much of his pestering "According to the investigation held by the police, he wasn't near the computer labs but there's a statement that he'd visited the infirmary that night about the time but he didn't leave until after Mizuki was found…" I read from the police statement when he suddenly grabbed my shoulder…
"Er Kazuma… is it possible for you to get me the school blueprints…"
"Sure" I shrugged, hacking into the school buildings schedules and blueprints. Within a minute I got all the maps to the school "what next?"
Kyu whistled "I knew it"
"So the second killer is Kabuto?" I whispered unable to believe it.
"Yeah…" he glanced at me "and I think he was in league with the killer"
Ryuu's POV
In the next meeting Kyu and Kazuma informed us what they'd found out. As expected we all were surprised but we still had to find the motive… we had to lay a trap… trick the killer into admitting the truth… but how?
A: that was a lot of work... but I think I did it okay…the description wasn't so over the top that I have to put a higher rating (I hope) anyways there is only three chapters left…or might be less… I dunno but I have already decided how it's going to end…
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