Since doing individual interrogations are taking too long, I decided to two people at a time. Please read on

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CHAPTER SIX: GENIS/RAINE'S INTERROGATION

Charles decided to take a break from all the drama and eat his sandwich. He decided to check on Jean to see if he found more evidence pointing to his prime suspect.

"Did you find anything new?" Charles asked, munching on his sandwich.

"Yes, I did," Jean replied. They both walked outside the back door and found footprints that had dried blood in them.

"See that," Jean said, "the suspect accidentally walked through the blood and made footprints in the moist soil."

"So all we need now is to see who has the same footprints as these?" Charles asked.

"Yup, so I'll lay a cast here so we can match it up to the prime suspect later. By the way, did you come up with one yet?"

"……yes I did. His name, Zelos Wilder."

"What! The Chosen himself? What makes you think this?"

"A lot of evidence is against him. And if he is the guilty party, we'll have a hard time apprehending him."

"So you still have doubts?"

"Maybe…just maybe…"

"Well, I'll see what else I can come up with."

"And I'll interrogate the next suspects."

Since Genis and Presea were under the age of sixteen (and I'm getting lazy to write the interrogations), Charles decided to interrogate them with the presence of an adult. He found Genis and Raine Sage sitting in an outdoor garden.

"Mr. Sage? Ms. Sage? Could you come with me, please?" Charles asked.

"What? You're interrogating us both at the same time?" Genis asked.

"Yes, that is correct."

"That is highly usual," Raine replied, shifting uncomfortably. "Why are you doing this?"

"It is because Mr. Sage is under the age of sixteen, so I thought it would be better if he was in the presence of an adult."

"I'm adult already!" Genis exclaimed, getting angry. "I'm the smartest person in my village, numerous acceptances in all the schools…"

"Genis stop it," Raine said. "The reason why he's doing this is because he's afraid that you wouldn't answer all the questions correctly."

"I can answer questions."

"Like where were you at the T.O.D (time of death)?" Charles asked. "Or, did you or did you not kill Kate Ashford?"

"Uh…um…" Genis stammered.

"Did you have any relationship at all with Kate? Did you see anyone else kill her? Answer me, dammit!"

Genis couldn't stop shaking.

"I prove my point," Charles said, triumphantly.

"See, you'll freeze up if you're alone," Raine replied. "Just let him do what he wants."

"Ok….Okay…" Genis said, still shaking.

Inside the interrogation room, Charles was on one side and Raine and Genis on another.

"Let's get starting by thanking the both of you for agreeing to this."

"You're welcome," Raine replied.

"I guess," Genis mumbled.

"Genis!" Raine exclaimed.

"What?"

"Show some respect, please!"

"Why should I?"

"Perfectly acceptable Mr. Sage," Charles interjected. "What did the two of you think about Ms. Ashford?"

"She was a jerk," Genis replied.

"Thinks only of herself," Raine added.

"Yeeash, who knew Kate Ashford, had a negative reputation," Charles said to himself. "Mr. Sage, tell me what you saw five minutes before Kate's murder."

"Alright," Genis replied, "this is what I saw five minutes before the murder. I was talking to Presea when it happened. Before, we were just talking and stuff. I wanted to tell her something before the end of the celebration."

"What did you want to tell her?" Charles asked.

"Uh…um…do we really have to get into that?" Genis asked.

"Every detail helps form a picture, Mr. Sage. I just need you to tell me what you were going to tell her."

"Uh…well…I just…you know…wanted to tell her…how I felt…about her…"

Raine smirked. "Genis, were you going to tell Presea how much you love her?"

"Raine, knock it off!" Genis exclaimed.

"Although I hate to admit it, it's kind of cute."

"Will you stop it!"

"You're blushing…"

"Quit it!"

"Never!"

"I'm surprised to see this kind of behaviour from you, Ms. Sage," Charles said. "It's almost child-like."

"When it comes to my work or regenerating the world, I'm quite serious," Raine replied. "When it comes to my little brother and his love life…"

"You're just jealous because no one likes you…" Genis mumbled.

Raine slapped Genis in the head. "Ow…" he replied.

"Humph," Raine said, crossing his arms.

Charles sighed. "Will you continue, please, Mr. Sage?"

"As I was saying…"

Begin Flashback

Genis narrating: "The lights turned off, we heard a scream, the lights turned back on and we saw someone cloaked, running down the hallway, with a blood-stained weapon. He pasted us so we decided to chase him down."

"Let's get him!" Genis exclaimed.

"Let us apprehend the suspect in question," Presea replied, in her monotone voice.

"……you really know how to kill a moment, don't you…"

Genis narrating: "We caught up to him. He was a few feet ahead of us. I threw a fireball at him. Although I didn't see his face, I hit his hood, revealing that he had red hair. He dashed out the back door and got away."

End Flashback

"Red hair you say?" Charles asked. "Hmmm…just like the Chosen…"

"That's all I saw," Genis replied.

"Ms. Sage, what do you account during the black-out?"

"Nothing much, really; I was with Regal the whole time, discussing the structures of the ruins of Asgard. When Kate was about to sing, the lights went off and a scream. I looked around for Genis to see where he was. Just then, the lights turned back on and Kate was murdered."

"So you didn't see anything suspicious?"

"Well, there was the caterer who never brought in the cake for the end of the celebration."

"There was cake?" Genis asked.

"Yes, it was a beautiful cake, but the caterer never brought it out."

"Hmmm…I'll look into that," Charles said. "Uh…thank you both for sharing some of your information. We could build a character description right now. You can take you leave."

Charles started to look at his notes on the interrogation table. As Genis and Raine left, Jean walked right in.

"Sir, the autopsy report came back."

"Well, what does it say?"

"Kate Ashford died from a fatal blow from a sharp weapon through the heart."

"That's all?"

"There's more, sir."

Jean threw a weapon with blood on it on the table.

"A stiletto?" Charles asked.

"The murder weapon," Jean replied. "It's worse. Look at the inscription."

The sword read the initials Z.W.

"Zelos Wilder," Charles replied. "This sword belongs to the Chosen."

More and more, its looking like Zelos did it. Did he really? Please R&R this scene and tell me what you think.