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A/N:Several months later, Naru indeed returned to Japan under the guise of "heightened paranormal activity as opposed to England," at least, that was how Lin saw it.
At their return, Yasuhara was hired as part-time researcher and Mai as a part-time investigator and everyone was back together again.
Along with solving the case, Naru also found a way to contact his brother and use his PK powers without having a toll on his body for doing so. As Naru had said, Gene indeed still hasn't moved on and could still contact Mai.
Prologue
Tokyo, Shibuya
It was spring time, a time to watch the sakura trees in bloom and to see their beautiful pink flowers grace the scenery as they fall, yet, here she was, stuck in the office. Preparing tea-again, for maybe, a thousandth time, wait… it was much more than that, Mai thought. Nevertheless, she went on and put the cup of tea in a tray and proceeded to Naru's office.
As usual, he didn't even say thanks… oh damn, forget that, and then she slumped on the couch in the office's waiting room.
The bell on the office door suddenly rang and in came a group of people, about seven, and they looked like they weren't of Japanese descent. They look like people who shouldn't be going here; rather, they should be going to some executive meeting. With their first-class bearing, suits and perfume, mai was in a daze.
"Ohayou, is Mr. Kazuya Shibuya here?" the petite woman in the group asked, in perfect Japanese accent. She was about 4'10" and has a wavy black hair and dark brown eyes that radiates elegance. Indeed they didn't come around these parts for they first mentioned Naru's first name, Mai noted.
Mai's POV
"Uh…Hai...I'll go get him," I stuttered.
"Just mess have we gotten into?" I asked myself before I entered his office without even knocking… I was too nervous…what would they want from Naru? I said the details to him and he was still indifferent, when will this man be taken by surprise? I thought in my mind.
"Are you Mr. Kazuya Shibuya?" the woman asked, looking a Lin-san.
Naru coughed. I giggled. Really, who would think that such a young man runs this place?
"That would be me, "Naru corrected.
ALL of them stared at him from head to foot. I giggled even more. Naru glared in my direction like he was killing me with just his looks.
"Uh, so Mr. Shibuya, could we invite you to the Philippine embassy?" the woman asked after regaining her composure.
Eh? Embassy? Just who are these people? I looked back and forth in bewilderment.
"We could not trust this place's security and we can't leak sensitive information here, it might cause a scandal, and we don't want to add more to what we already have" the woman added.
We looked at Naru, he seemed to be weighing his options, and finally, he nodded.
"Very well, we shall be waiting outside and we would like to stress that bringing of recording devices or anything of the like is prohibited," the woman prompted and then went out the door.
I gave Naru a confused look. He ignored us and went in with his order.
"Lin, Mai, get your notebooks and let's go."
We were at a closed room, by closed, I mean, a no-window, sound-proof room. Other than that, the room was just plain. Two sets of couches, and a table in the middle and other basic furniture. Two men stood by the door (to secure the perimeter, I don't know). The woman asked us to sit on one of the couches.
"I'm sorry if we haven't been all too formal earlier, my name is Julie Rodriguez," she offered her hand. Naru shook it and she went on, and these two students at my left are, "Aya Cortez and Roy Dullin."
They smiled at us. I couldn't help but notice that Aya looked a little bit Japanese but it has some distinctions, like she has round eyes which start to look Japanese-like in the terms of the end slit She has dark blue hair and matched with sparkling green eyes, gives an "oh so smart" aura and Roy, who looked Asian but then has brown hair and caramel brown eyes that look like its going to melt. Cute, I noted.
"They will be discussing the details, please fell comfortable and help yourself" Rodriguez-san said and motioned to the sandwiches and cups of tea (I noticed it just now), with that, she left through the door.
"Well then. Let's get started." Roy chirped happily and smiled in my direction. I blushed. This is the first time a client has taken notice of me.
"We're students from the Philippine Institute for the Gifted, and the school board sent us here to tell you of this case, which we suspect, is of paranormal in origin…"
"Whoa… Gifted?" I couldn't help but be amazed.
"…I would like to add that we and the government have investigated this case and the evidences presented proved that they were beyond human capability," Aya went on.
"As proof of that, here are the videos and images related to this matter, "Roy added and took out his laptop.
They first showed us the images… uncensored and in full color… I couldn't help but gasp, horrified and appalled at what I saw. Bodies were beyond recognition and in rotting condition. Blood stains on walls and worse, images of rotting flesh and pieces of bones side bi side a paper with a message written in blood…
"I saw what you did… I saw you…" and I felt the hair on my back rose.
It was followed with video and voice accounts from students and professors, with Japanese subtitles and it ended with a lone video footage taken at night time, a glowing figure dragging something and it looked at the screen and then it went black.
I then looked at Naru and Lin; they weren't showing any bit of reaction after they saw it that I began thinking, "Are these people human or what?" but then I noticed that they have tensed up a little bit and with that, I settled down.
"You may wonder why we asked you and not just the psychics from our place, in fact, we have, and they weren't able to solve the problem. A colleague of our school director, the director of the school (refer to Yasuhara's school case) you have solved a case before referred you to us. He said that you didn't divulge anything to the media and we like that fact. Accommodations will be provided and we'll try to provide you needs within our capability" Aya explained.
"Please take the case…" Roy pleaded.
I looked at Naru and wondered if he would take such a dangerous and controversial case. He was a media-hater and this would be one of the cases he has to avoid if he doesn't want the media coming to us all over again. However, Naru seems to have been more baffled by the case than his hate for the media that he said,
"We'll take the case," Naru replied.