Chapter 6 : Case Solved
A Romance Mystery Fict
Originally From Aprian K. Len
Main Pairing : IA & VY2 Yuuma, Maybe a slight pair and crack pair content
Disclaimer : Vocaloid ©Yamaha, and other companies
Story ©Aprian K. Len
Translation © Me
UTAUloid © Its Respective owner and creators
Summary :
"I've always lived out of habits, nothing really matters, disappearing without any meaning. When that memory is finally imprinted, somehow, in the end, it is forgotten. Until she came, and changed my whole life."
Warning : OOC (Maybe), typo(s), lack of depiction, misused word(s)
'Abc' : Flashback, foreign words, indirect conversations (Phone calls, email, etc.)
'Abc' : Normal conversations
'Abc' : An emphasized word or sentences, important statements
HAPPY READING MINNA!
Chapter 6 : Case Solved
Normal POV
"KYAA!"
"Len! Len, no! I'm scared! Let's get out of here! I don't want to die! Not now!"
"Sh-shh, calm down Rin, do-do-don't panic, sob... Don't panic, sob, sob..."
Len and Rin was starting to break down, especially Rin, she was weeping and screaming hysterically. Len was holding his tears, after all he was the first person to be 'accompanied' by the beautiful ghost lady earlier.
Gakupo put on a serious front, probably more than the others. He mumbled grimly, "I'll slash that ghost, I'll slash that ghost in half." As if chanting a curse to the ghost. Yuuma was surprised and bewildered, along with Cul. Lui and Aria instead was rather curious.
Even though Aria was scared, she was always wary; from when they arrived at Cul's villa, until now. She thought she should play along with the puppeteer. Yes, Aria assumed that this was a human's doing, a good and organized one at that, though Aria did not want to say it, it was too early. Aria wanted to see where this play is going. So, the 'scared' Aria was not truly a 'scared' Aria, a simple act (Though that could still mean Aria was scared, because basically she's still a scaredy-cat).
"Okay then! Yuuma and I will separate for now. Gakupo, can you take Len and Rin outside? They have to calm down after their shock."
Gakupo sheathed his Katana, he nodded and held Rin and Len's shoulder to steadily push them both outside.
Aria gave Lui a small code, Lui understood and executed Aria's plan.
"Great! Me and Cul can check the other part of this mansion, you guys can go ahead."
Yuuma and Aria started walking, actually Yuuma was forcefully dragged away by Aria, because Yuuma still couldn't catch up to what Aria is thinking.
Lui and Cul was entering a big room that looked like a family's gathering room.
They were walking carefully, Cul was holding her flashlight, Lui was being alert. They saw a chamber, like a room inside a room. Cul impulsively shone it with her flashlight.
"What was that?"
Cul saw something floating, carrying something in its hand. What Cul saw, was human like thing, wearing a Yukata and a cone hat. Cul shook her head, forcing her mind to stay focused.
"Cul? What are you looking at?"
"Ah no, nothing. Let's go"
Meanwhile...
.
.
.
"Aria?! What do you mean separating?! At times like this it's better to stick together, right?!"
"Shush Pinky Boy, you're just a fussy temporary assistant aren't you? Let's just watch where this play is going..."
"What play?! Don't play around shorty!"
"I won't bother arguing with an idiotic person... Why don't you observe the surroundings, we didn't see anything strange after Cul left. No more floating ghosts... it has been almost half an hour, why was a sacrificial ghost only showed up once and gone without threatening anything right now?"
Yuuma just realized what she meant, their small stroll was calm after separating with Cul and Lui. Almost no supernatural sighting.
"So you meant to say... Cul brings misfortune."
"No idiot! You know what, just wait and see where this is going."
"Do what you want then, BakAria."
"You little…"
Aria balled her fist, visibly angry. It was apparent that Aria had lost her patience towards the unreliable Yuuma
.
.
.
"Lui."
"Yes Cul? What's wrong?"
"I need to pee..."
"Hmmm, well that's tough..."
"Why? I can't hold it in anymore!"
Cul thought this place was scary and intolerable, especially if 'no toilet' was what Lui considering. Cul was sweating while waiting for Lui's answer.
"I'm hesitating between holding out my hands on top of your 'pee', or watching you pee in a corner with lust..."
Cul's face turned scarlet, she could not comprehend that Lui was thinking perverted things at a time like this.
"I-i-i-idiot! Pervet! B-baka! Maniac! How do you still have the time to think about things like those!"
"Yes,yes. Now you could go wherever you like, I'll be waiting here." Lui said, Cul smiled but there was something in it.
"Okay~~~"
"KYAAAAAAA!"
Lui, Yuuma and Aria heard a scream. They hurriedly looked for the source. Lui met up with Aria and Yuuma in the hallway that goes to where Meiko was killed.
"What was that?!" Yuuma panicked, he could not imagine more murders, and he would not like to imagine who was killed.
"Cul's voice…" Lui and Aria exclaimed.
Yuuma's pupil shrunk, he began to think negatively. While Aria and Lui was chatting, then Aria was smiling contently, Yuuma was extremely puzzled by Aria's expression.
"All the pieces are colleted, now we don't have to panic anymore."
"What are you talking about shorty?! How can you still play around right now?!"
"Yuuma, please listen to what Aria has to say."
Lui interrupted Yuuma, Yuuma only clicked his tongue in annoyance.
"I'll explain, we'll just walk slowly to the source of the scream."
.
.
.
"Everything started when I saw Yukari's back light blinked twice when she left the mansion." Aria started to explain from the start, but was interrupted by Yuuma.
"What do you mean? That has nothing to do with this?!"
"When Yukari said her car used GPS, I look at her speedometer, her 'aware' signal on her car blinked twice after she activated it.* I realized by then, when the car back light blinked twice, Yukari activated her GPS, not following where the car is going, and went somewhere else."
Yuuma was astonished, Aria paid attention to small detail like those?
"My next Assumption is that Cul poisoned Meiko's food. That would explain why Meiko was walking rather wobbly. Meiko was murdered in a clodsed space, what if she entered a trap door?
"A trap door? But that's pretty clichéd, and moreover someone has to guide the target to it! Trap doors can't follow a walking target!" Yuuma continued to argue, Aria instead shook her head.
"That is true, but what if it was all planned? Here, Meiko was killed in a circular room, the hallway around it automatically circled around the room, Meiko and Gakupo was walking to south. Which means Meiko's right side was the concave side of the wall, and her left side was the convex side of the wall. Human's nature is, to lean to something that is closer, in meaning Meiko, who had a difficult time walking, leaned towards her left side that was closer to her, she leaned at it from the start after she saw the circular room. Meiko kept leaning towards it until she herself unconsciously went inside the room from the trap door."
Yuuma nodded in understanding, he now understands how Meiko went inside. But the question now is, how was Meiko bound to the altar and how did the altar work? Even though there were no buttons or anything to turn it on when we check the room.
"So then how did Meiko die on top of the altar?"
"Quite simple actually, you know this right? There were two doors, north and south, which means the wall on the west and east are separated, that would explain how there were two trap doors. This door is a mechanism on the house itself, no renovations or anything, for it has a fragile construction, meaning it's old. I saw a little unnatural crack in the wall when checking the room. The second trapdoor was able to be used from inside and outside, enabling a third party to went in quickly to bound Meiko to the altar. If you're sharp enough, the rope that diet Meiko was a knot, not just some simple square knot [?]. Too 'neat' for a ghost to do. Also the mechanism, you remember the 'click' that resounded when Rin was going through the small pathway behind the bookshelf inside that small prison? That was the mechanism, the mastermind already planned this if one of us was going in without any flashlight, this mechanism was renovated. Rin seemed like she bumped to a lot of things, so it's not strange if she also accidentally activated the altar to operate and pull the rope from Meiko."
Yuuma caught on to what Aria had said, Yuuma cannot truly believe the Aria that he had 'mocked' actually paid attention to small details.
"You mean to say... Cul murdered Meiko that way?! Then the ghost was it really real?"
"No, because now Cul's dead. Moreover, i did say there was a Third party, which is someone other than the seven of us. You remember the UV light from Cul's flashlight? It radiated a UV rays which has a higher heat than a normal flashlight..."
Aria took out a small projector; the projector seemed to be modern-like from its design and size. Moreover, it has double lenses, which means the projector can project shadow without a flat surface.
"This projector is the answer, i found it in Meiko's 'room'. This projector activates if the temperature around it changes abruptly and will stop after the normal temperature is back. Cul shone this projector with her flashlight, so that the projector suddenly turned on, and then off after Cul acted surprised and diverted her flashlight. That explains the ghost that appeared."
"From your statement, Cul seemed to be the murderer. But why was she killed too?" Yuuma kept asking questions, he was interested in this twisted case.
"I did not openly say that Cul was the murderer. I got this information from Lui, Cul went to take a little break and never went back. In my opinion, she might've had the intention to meet with this mysterious third party that we discussed, why? Because some scenarios could not fit into her trail of thinking."
"In meaning...?"
"Lui told me earlier, Cul was silent for a while after seeing another ghost when directing her flashlight. Cul must've been surprised, she did not know there were other projectors in this building, she was confused and tried to meet this third party, then this third party killed her..."
"But, for what purpose?"
"Why don't you ask it to the person itself? Yukari, i know you have been watching us."
Aria said whie closing her eyes, from where Aria, Lui and Yuuma were standing, Yukari appeared and showed herself. The perfect mastermind behind the complex and brilliant homicide.
"I have nothing to say, you are as amazing as they said you were, detective IA... Hahahaha!"
"You are surrounded; there is no use in running. Now explain to us all! Including the homicides in Setagaya!"
Yuuma was surprised, those murders?! Is there any relation of it to this?! Gakupo emerged from his hiding place, carrying his sword at the ready... Gakupo had been following them to catch Yukari.
"Well, I am speechless now. I was indeed the one that planned to kill all those people that tried to pursue Yuuma's frame, I was assigned by my client to keep the frame safe; whatever the cost is, and don't worry, I was just swiping off people that were in my way. The person that Yuuma and Gakupo saw that night is Meiko, the fog was Hallucinogen, I only ordered Meiko to wear a wig that matched Cul's hair, with the help of the gas, Yuuma and Gakupo automatically believed that the disguised Meiko was Cul! Hahahahahahaha!"
'Tch, that would explain why Meiko tried to befriended me!' Yuuma thought, he could not believe that he fell to the effects of the Hallucinogen that night, so his assumption had been correct, that gas was actually a Hallucinogen
"Me, Meiko and Cul was assigned together. But Cul and Meiko knew too much, I had said that this mansion was to kill all of you one by one, even though I got this assignment to end their lives! I made the perfect scenario, but it all went to ruins by a single IA! Amazing I have to say!"
"You can say that to the police, Yukari! Gakupo! Arrest her!"
Right when Gakupo tried to stop her movements, Yukari suddenly stabbed herself with a knife... Suicide...
"Cough... You little illegitimate child! My job is, cough- done here! Don't you dare simply think you got me!"
Aria was startled after seeing what Yukari did, She's desperate! Was what Aria thinking.
"Wait! Who are you working for?!"
"None of your business you illegitimate child! I hope, cough- Gag..."
Yukari spewed out some blood, Aria could not see Yukari's pained expression any longer. Yuuma tried to approach Yukari, but was flatly blocked by Yukari. Gakupo readied his Katana.
"People like her should just die quickly! Please allow me to decapitate her head as my respect to you my young lord!"
"No, don't! Gakupo! Prioritize her life! We must take her alive!"
"Cough! There is no cough- use; i covered this knife with poison. Gag!"
"Yukari! Stop talking! Or you might really just die!"
Yuuma kept trying to support Yukari, Yuuma truthfully felt sorry for her, he could not see someone right in front of him to die for nothing. Even if the person in front of him right now is a murderer, Yuuma can at least dig out some information.
"I don't care! You, bastard child over there! See you in hell..."
Yukari went lifeless and limp in front of Yuuma, he released her hand and prayed to her.
Now Yuuma truly understood, there is a meaning to all of these cases all along, everything leads to something. Something big that, Yuuma was sure, had something to do with him and Aria. Yuuma knew the fact that the frame held some sort of signal to something, there must be something other than a code, a secret writing or something else! There must be!
Yuuma thought, what was the relation all this time? Killing won't solve anything, that, he knew for sure. Was this all a sacrifice? But... Was it really worth it? Actually, what's happening...? Moreover Yuuma kept thinking of the meaning of 'illegitimate child' that Yukari kept shouting. Is that just a simple mockery act? Or is it something about Aria?
Aria decided to call the police and explained everything that has happened. The police said they will close the mansion with police lines and leaving it there to ask for a permission to destroy the mansion from the central inspector and a couple more of the officials to destroy the mansion. The police then, went by quickly, Len and Rin were calm.
They all want to went back to the Villa and pack their things and then go home, Aria and Yuuma felt a strange presence from behind them, and the both of them spontaneously stopped and turned back to the mansion's general direction with their friends already walking ahead.
"Hey Aria, can you explain the handprint on the wall?"
"Which one?"
"You know, that one... The 'fluid' on the wall..."
"That had never entered my analysis; I never knew what that was."
Right when they were going to turn back, Yuuma and Aria widened their eyes; a beautiful woman was standing in front of the mansion's door with a smile whilst softly whispering...
"Thank you for giving us a new sacrifice..."
Yuuma and Aria blinked and then the figure disappeared, they then went back gracefully with straight faces, even though behind their straight faces, lies a frightened soul that wanted to run as fast as they could…
Yay~ Translation is done~
By the way, 2 weeks from now, I don't think i could update...
School is going to start and moreover, my parents have business to attend to, so i had to take care of my little brothers (Multiples, great isn't it?)... Yeah...
Well, as always, please forgive my wonderfully unplanned mistakes that might be scattered around.
Bye~~
Yours Truly
UnGood
Update 11/04/18 – Slight fixes