Previously in Code: Fearless...
-Chess: Hmm? What is going on…?
My computer sends an alert indicating that someone is peeking where they shouldn't…
-Chess: Someone is trying to access my computer…. HA!, don't make me laugh… Who is the poor devil…? Guty!
-Guty: I just took down her first firewall
-Chess: Aww… sweetie… you also know your way around computers, but…
-Guty; Hmm?
Suddenly my computer freezes
-Guty: What's going on?
As if my computer was possessed, letters appear on screen as if they were being hand written…
-Chess: Hi!
-Guty: She is speaking English…
Then a blinking bar appears inviting me to write…
-Guty: Who are you and what do you want?
-Chess: Wow… straight to the point, I am Night Bird and I think what you do is… very interesting.
-Guty: What you did to my computer is illegal… the information if have from Interpol is classified…
-Chess: oh… I've been bad, arrest me officer!
I try to get the control of my computer back, but it is impossible, it is completely blocked except by this text line… everything seems like this woman is crazy and probably works for the killer…
-Ches: I imagine that you doubt me, I don't blame you I would do the same in you place but let me tell you something Guty if you want to catch the killer tomorrow you will only be able to do so with my help.
-Guty: And why should I trust you?
-Chess: Because I am your only alternative
-Guty: …
Despite the big breakthroughs I've made I do not have enough information to catch the killer in the time that I have left, I could cooperate with Night Bird and see if it works or risk it and keep going on my own…
-Chess: Tick Tack Tick Tack, time is running out Guty, remember that the killer never rests…
-Guty: Deal…
-Chess: Good, you have made a wise decision, your English is very good by the way
-Guty: Thank you…
-Chess: And… What do you think about the videos?
In a small exchange of information, we talked about what happened with the principal and the videos she sent me making emphasis on the main aspects…
-Guty: What happened with Carter gives me much to think about…, there must be a link to what happened to them and what happened in the cafeteria…
-Chess: Then, you think this is all the nurse's doing?
-Guty: Although everything aims in that direction, the appearance of the head cook it's without a doubt a key piece in this matter…
-Chess: We can agree on that, also there is this curious piece of information I want you to look at…
In that moment the profile of a worker appears on my screen…
-Guty: That person looks very different from the one seen in the videos…
-Chess: So, you noticed it too,
-Guty: …
-Chess: Probably they wanted to use the nurse as a scapegoat, leading our attention away from the things that are truly important, like this small detail I sent you.
-Guty: Where did you get this from?
-Chess: That's irrelevant…, what matters is to discover who is impersonating the head cook.
-Guty: Investigate in all city records, check if there was any inexplicable death reported maybe the body of the head cook has been found, if we know when she was killed, we can start from there…
-Chess: You think someone within the school is impersonating her?
-Guty: It all depends on how long she has been missing…
-Chess: I understand, so I will get to work… chao sweetie…
After that moment the computer went back to its normal state, and I could use it normally…
-Guty: …
Despite accepting to work together I still do not trust her, at the beginning I thought she could be working with the killer but when I managed to go through the first firewall, I realized that she does not belong to any region in Japan so she must be in a foreign country…
After speaking with Guty we proceeded as we agreed, so I started searching for any death registered in the city of Tokyo in the past 5 years which is approximately the time frame when the murders started to happen in the school, which makes the computer spit out thousands of registered deaths, however, I am not looking for any type of death, I am after the strangest ones…
-Chess: Let's filter these out…
Eliminating the deaths related to common causes I reduced the number to just a couple thousands, unfortunately it is still a high number, so I make a last filter for registered unsolved deaths, dramatically reducing the number to 87 people which all belong to universities in Tokyo.
-Chess: Bingo…
Analyzing in detail many of these deaths seem known to me, since more than half where specialists of the Japanese government trying to catch the killer in the school, more than half of his victims were agents? Along with that I find the record of all the students that have died in the university die to this phenomenon…
-Chess: Kintaro is in this report…, despite being a suicide it is being attributed to the killer…
From all the dead I find 5 names of people that were murder with no explanation from different parts of the city of Tokyo… which make it unlikely that they are related to what is happening in the school…
-Chess: It's 3 men and 2 women, let's see…
The first individual was names Akiba and was found 2 years ago in an alley with 14 stab wounds in his body after 3 days of being murdered, the body was reported by some children who decided to investigate where the bad smell from the area came from…
The second man was a fellow named James who died 4 years ago when they unplugged his breather while he was sleeping, he was hospitalized recovering from a heart attack. The doctors discovered that someone disconnected the equipment that was keeping him alive…
The third was a tourist named Michael who was living in Japan for approximately 80 days nearly reaching the limit of 90 days a passport allows to stay on a foreign country, he was mysteriously poisoned in a bar while he was drinking with some friends 5 years ago…
-Chess: This information doesn't really say much… it doesn't seem to be linked to the school either…
I get away from my computer a bit, I need a bit of coffee, it's a cold night, I calmly walk on the hallways of my house until I reach the kitchen where I pour myself a delicious hot coffee…
-Chess: There is no better thing than a nice hot coffee for these cold nights…
After drinking a bit, I go back to the room to continue with the investigation, so far, I haven't found anything of interest…, I hope that I am luckier with the other 2 deaths or I will have to filter everything again and start from scratch…
-Chess: Let's see…
Woman, name… unknown, 3 years ago her lifeless body was found at the side of some garbage containers, it is believed that the homeless woman tripped and hit her head against the containers in the alley…
Last but not least is this woman… also name unknown her body was found a couple of days ago in a sewer…
-Chess: Bingo…
It seems that she was killed with 3 stabs, but there is something strange in her, her recognition characteristics were removed, it is as if someone was trying that she remained unidentified, and he actually did it… according to the police records it is still unknown who she is or how she could've died…
-Chess: Guty… we have found our head cook; it seems that we were right… someone tried to make her disappear…
Despite the fact that the killer has a solid network Guty has managed to bring it down, also to sacrificing the principal was his Ace under his sleeve, would've been an almost epic closing, he would've taken out Guty along with the loose end that was linking them together making it a glorious closure, perhaps even legendary, unfortunately there was a thin line between perfection and total failure… which was his doom, had he kept his asset he would've easily reached the deadline to fulfill his threat, however he decided to gamble and paid the high price.
-Chess: I will send this information to Guty…
I am not sure how this would help him, but I suppose that he has something in mind, since proving that the head cook was killed doesn't lead anywhere…., but I think I should trust him, he has managed to do things alone so far and even discovered the poisoning before reading my messages…
-Chess: Amazing…
Once I sent the information, I think the time has come for sleep… I lay on my soft comfortable bed while I slowly slide my hand all over my body from my neck all the way down to my legs…
-Guty: Oh… Guty tell me your secrets…
Meanwhile in an apartment in Japan…
-Guty: Hmm… I must admit she is very good at what she does…
Checking the files that Night Bird sent me I find very valuable information, I also confirm that my theory is true, the principal go rid of on of the weak pawns of the killer and the task was passed to someone more fitting that could do his bidding unnoticed… Since the change was recent it means that the head cook was replaced by someone who maybe operates within the premises… although in the video she can be clearly seen leaving the building…
-Guty: Could it be someone from outside?
There is the chance that the task was assigned to someone who works outside to avoid any kind of contact from me, it could be… although the killers modus operandi is quite pretentious… he loves to boast and rub my face in it whenever I make a mistake, that makes me firmly believe that he is using people from within the school, he wants to rub my face in the fact that he has pawns very close to me and that I am incapable of finding them…
-Guty: That will be his doom…
Tomorrow will be the last day to find the killer, before I was already insecure but now I think I am closer than I thought… I will start investigating the nurse and see if she has something to do with the killings in the school, she could be only a scapegoat, but I don't like not analyzing every angle…
-Guty: Hmm?
In that moment I hear my apartment doorbell ring which is weird because I am not expecting any visitors, and the only one I ever had poisoned my food…, so I carefully check the cameras that were previously installed in my place, and I see that a small package was left right next to the doorbell outside.
-Guty: What the hell?...
I carefully descend from my apartment observing the package with detail from afar, it could be a bomb and I am praying it is otherwise…. When I finally reach it I take one of the brooms to move it and get an idea of how much it weights…
-Guty: It is too small to be a bomb of high impact…
When I moved the box with the broom, I find that it is an extremely light package so I rule out that it's a bomb, then I pick it up and I read a small note that is right next to it which has my name on it…
-Guty: What could it be…?
Without second thought I open the box tearing apart the colorful wrapping, I find that inside the box there is a letter inside an envelope, which I open immediately finding a typed message that reads<< Congratulations for getting this far Guty, I must admit that your skills have surprised me…, unfortunately the time is running out and this play must come to an end, so per our agreement you have until tomorrow at the end of class to catch me or I will fulfill my threats, and to prove that I am not joking I will make a small demonstration before break time…>>
-Guty: Bastard… he took the time to send me a reminder…
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-Guty: WHAT?!
To be Continued...