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Chapter 8 - Jest (Part 2)

Continuation of Chapter 4

When I walk in I arrive at the sight of the corpses of two students brutally massacred.

-Guty: What the…!?

I cannot help but to be surprised, truthfully I did not expect this scene when opening the classroom door, so I take a deep breath to calm myself and I remain there to contemplate what happened, there I could notice that one of them had an envelope which I took and put away as quickly as I could, after that I triggered the fire alarm to evict the school, the teachers took the students outside and in a few minutes the school was empty, in that moment I could open the envelope I took and I started reading its content: a small printed note that read.

<< Agent Guty, you are more resilient than I thought, I wonder what it is behind of that calm face of yours, I am intrigued to know, a man who cannot be killed by poison, if that cannot do it, would a bullet suffice? Or maybe if I behead you, you might die … very interesting Guty, very interesting, you are the agent that has lasted the most, but despite the fact that I enjoy putting your intelligence to the test it is time to end this hide and seek game of ours given that I cannot allow you to continue your advance in this web that has took me years to build, so let us spice things up, I will give you six days to find me, otherwise I will turn the whole school against you. Would you be able to kill them all? I can manipulate the students as I please, so you have six days… and counting>>

-Guty: So, I have six days eh… You want to speed things up? Fine… let us speed them up.

Without losing time, I take my cellphone to call the Interpol agency, if he wants a fight we will fight big…

-Guty: I need you to bring me equipment to the Japan university, I want security cameras and audio equipment along with motion sensors and I want it installed today!

I take a look around the school to check that there is no one in it, I want this to be as fast as possible, in 2 hours 4 loaded trucks arrived on site all loaded with the equipment I requested after them 3 SUVs full of trained personnel for the installation.

-Guty: I want the cameras all over the school with no exception, including the restrooms.

-Special forces: Yes sir.

The cameras have been installed all over the school I wonder how he will react to this… I am intrigued by the way he would manage to continue to committing crimes without being detected, perhaps he is confident because none of the students would talk even if they witnessed a crime and if someone dared to even thing about speaking up, they would end up like Kintaro…

-Guty: So, you do not like to leave loose ends eh… I wonder how will you silence the cameras; will you force them to kill themselves as well? Go on tell me…

The smell of new computing equipment subtlety slips inside my nose, all the gadgets are now installed and operating so I verify each and every one of the monitors ensuring the image is clear and the quality, perfect.

-Guty: From now on I want an Interpol team, specialized in communications to be monitoring the security cameras 24/7.

Specialist: How many men do you need?

-Guty: I need 4 men to work in pairs day and night without objection.

Specialist: It will be so.

The personnel remain working giving the finishing touches to the equipment on the control cabin, which I asked to be installed in a building next to the school to keep it at a safe distance; when I leave the building, I take a taxi to my department thinking in what could happen next…

When I arrived to my department I took out my laptop to check the information the principal sent me, when I opened my email I see the one sent by him so I open it and read its content <> … so no trace from her, how convenient…

With the principal's password I personally access the data base of the school to verify the veracity of the principal statements however is it not long before I find out that in fact there is nothing regarding the head cook, could it be that she was a puppet of the killer? Or could it be that the principal erased the information himself to hide his crime? Both options seem plausible.

Hours pass while I lie down on my couch looking into the roof lost in thought, feeling the warm air of the heating in my face, I analyze what happened up until today.

-Guty: Despite that everything points towards the principal being guilty, something does not add up, ah…

A slight sigh leaves my mouth while my head continues to revolve around what happened; There is no doubt that this criminal's intellect is far too elevated to be discovered like this.

-Guty: I will have to take the risk and rule out the principal…

Without more to think I decide to go to sleep, it is not worth it to continue speculating without solid proof, which is why I slowly head over to my room until I reach my comfortable bed where I lie down to rest, however, with the heating being on I start to sweat through my shirt…

-Guty: Damn it…

I slide my hands to my hips… then softly… tuck my fingers inside my shirt to get a firm grip and I start pulling from it until I remove it… then when I pulled out my arms from the inside of it I throw it to the clothe basket on the corner of the room.

-Guty: Ah… much better…

On the following morning I wake up full of energy and in 20 minutes I am ready to take the school bus with coffee in hand as usual, aboard the truck I look for an empty seat to peacefully seat down afterwards I take out my notepad to analyze the following notes << Day 5 the surveillance equipment is satisfactorily installed, if the killer wants to make a careless move or some suspicious act occurs we can quickly address it.

-Akasha: Hi Guty, what are you doing?

-Guty: Akasha? I did not hear you coming…'

-Akasha: Sorry, it wasn't my intention to interrupt you.

-Guty: Don't worry about it

-Akasha: What are you writing in that notebook of yours?

-Guty: Nothing important… How was your fight?

-Akasha: Very well, thank you it was a shame that you were not able to attend.

-Guty: I am sorry, but something came up…

-Akasha: I understand…, hey…Guty Will we have lunch together today?

-Guty: Probably, although I have a tough day ahead.

-Akasha: That is unfortunate, precisely today I brough my special rice with octopus.

-Guty: Rice with octopus?

-Akasha: It's delicious, also it's not something that I make every day…

Now I remember that Akasha was my first suspect but after many things my suspicions were decaying, now the thing that worries me is that she might be one of the victims, until now she's just had the accident on the roof and luckily, I was there to save her, if not she might have died…

-Akasha: Look Guty we have arrived at school.

-Guty: It would seem so…

-Akasha: A big crowd has gathered; I hope nothing bad happened again…

-Guty: I don't think so, maybe there is some event or something of the sort.

-Akasha: Let's hope it's only that Guty.

After approaching to the crowd we hear what happened, once again two students from class 3D have died, when we heard that I was really surprised that the killer finally exposed himself, I did not think that he would have the nerve to kill in front of the cameras, two more students have perished but now we have something that will lead us to the one responsible.

-Akasha: Again, someone died

-Guty: This will end soon, I'm sure.

-Akasha: How would you know!? This doesn't seem to have an end…

-Guty: Wait for me here, I'll be back.

-Akasha: Don't go Guty! It could be dangerous…

-Guty: It's alright, I'll be back in a second.

-Akasha: Guty…

I head over to the monitoring building, I cannot help but to be excited since we have never seen how it is that he can kill the students without anyone noticing, if there are any witnesses in the video we can interrogate them about the incident, while I am walking towards the building I see the principal leaving accompanied by another person but I do not remember seeing him on the school since I arrived… I will investigate that later, right now I need to get to the surveillance center. After walking enough, I arrive at the investigation center, when I enter the monitoring room, I see the 2 managers with a serious look on their faces.

-Guty: What's wrong?

-Specialist: Agent Guty…

-Guty: They just murdered two students and I am here to see the video.

-Specialist: You see… we were monitoring the cameras of the school when something unforeseen happened.

-Guty: What happened?

- Specialists: Someone cut the power on the school… and the cameras stopped working… when we repaired the issue… there were two dead students in classroom 3D and there was a message written on the board.

I looked at the monitor of the camera that was inside the classroom, in it I could see a message on the whiteboard written with the blood of the students that read: <

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