So I literally haven't uploaded any of my fanfics for a while because I've been in a draw-y mood lately... got half a cover and comic done! =w=" (It's been at least a week and that's how much I've gotten done?)
"What do you mean?" Seto asked.
"Quick! Bring the phone back!" Kano said.
Seto grabbed the phone and walked back to the group and handed it to Kano.
"You said letters right? And if you had one of those flip-phones you were stuck texting like this so wouldn't the numbers stand for the letters?" Kano suggested.
"For the first time Kano is on to something!" Hibiya said.
"We're still stumped though, there's 3 to 4 letters for each numbers, excluding 1 and 0," Haruka pointed out.
"Pfft, Kido, always left out..." Kano chuckled a bit.
"There's also Ayano-nee," Seto said and realized something, "Hey, do you think only Ayano-nee and Kido were supposed to know about that?"
"'That'?" Kano asked.
"You know, the snake...?" Seto almost whispered.
"Ooohh!" Kano said.
Hibiya and Haruka stared at them weirdly because they had no idea what they were talking about.
"N-Nothing!" Seto put his hands up defensively.
"Whatever!" Hibiya sighed.
"There's smaller handwriting above the names, except the writing is so small that they look like polygons," Haruka pointed to the smaller handwriting.
"Those are probably the same, just someone wrote it bigger so they could see it better," Seto said.
"Yeah, but the first three names are in red pen ink in the smaller version," Haruka pointed out.
"Then would the first word be 'red'?" Hibiya asked.
"Well, it does fit, the 7 has the letter 'r' and the 3 has the letter 'e' and 'd'," Kano pointed out while Haruka wrote down 'red'.
"Ayano-nee did have a thing for the color red," Seto said. "So does that mean Ayano-nee's the one who wrote the names larger?"
"Well, it does look like her handwriting, and she can't write that small," Kano said.
"That would mean Ayano's trying to figure out what Shintaro meant by the names," Haruka said.
"Um, so, what about the rest?" Hibiya asked.
...
*Chirp, chirp*
"Hey didn't anyone kill that cricket yet?"
"Bugs have feelings too!"
"Does anyone have more chips?"
"DON'T JUST AVOID MY QUESTION AND TRY TO GET US OFF TOPIC!"
"Truth be told, we don't know the rest!" the three said in unison.
"THEN AT LEAST TRY!"
This is so wrong, but I need to figure out what Shintaro wants me to do since I have no clue! Ayano watched quietly as Hibiya kept yelling at them. I wonder what's the rest, all they got was 'red'...
"There you are!"
Ayano jolted when she heard Takane.
She slowly turned around, "H-Hey..."
"What are you doing out here?" Takane put her hands on her hips.
"W-Well I... heard the boys fighting so-"
"Jeez, who cares about them! Boys will be boys! Come on, we're watching a movie but we can't start if you're not there," Takane grabbed Ayano's wrist and dragged her over to Momo's room.
"B-But-!"
"No buts, they'll stop sooner or later. If not I'll beat it into them."
"Mmm..." Ayano anxiously said as she was forced to follow Takane into Momo's room.
"Come on! Just make a guess, any guess!" Hibiya said.
Kano opened his mouth to say something but Seto is a worry wart and can read minds, remember?
"No Kano, don't teach him those kinds of things at this age," Seto said while Kano jolted and looked to his side.
"How about 'password'?" Haruka asked.
"That doesn't work, there's no '8'," Hibiya said.
"Aw, Hibiya, or Hiyori, is left out too!"
"Kano shut up."
"Eh, well I thought the numbers might be a password to something, but I guess not," Haruka said.
"Oh! How about 'crane'? That should be an obvious one since Ayano-nee loved making paper cranes!" Seto said.
"It fits! So that makes 'red crane'!" Hibiya said.
Haruka wrote down 'crane' on the paper.
"You seem pretty desperate to find out," Kano said.
"Oh shut up."
"Jeez! Everyone's so mean! Telling me to 'shut up', what is this, Smos-"
"Kano, focus."
"Right."
Maybe, if I figure this out, I can find a way to save Hiyori...
"What about 'paradise'?" Haruka suggested.
"'Paradise'? Where did you get that?" Hibiya asked.
"Well, these are all things Ayano like, right? So wouldn't these things be paradise to her?"
"I guess..." Hibiya was still confused, but went along with it.
"Letters fit," Kano said.
"We finally solved it," Haruka said while writing down 'paradise'.
"So, that makes 'red crane paradise'," Seto said.
...
*Chirp, chirp*
They fell backwards in unison.
"Great! More questions to solve!"