When I attended the principal's office that day, I could've never imagined what was about to happen…., the principal openly confessed to know the murderer, why? Why now? Why not before? Those questions generated an enormous explosion in my mind, liberating a huge rage when all the sudden… his desk was covered in blood and the silent sound of a bullet that courses through the silencer is accompanied with the noise of a ricochet of the bullet on the ground; It was then when I understood everything, the principal had tried to kill me…
-Guty: …
However, something happened, something that neither of us was expecting…, without any reason the spat a great puddle of blood on his desk and he fell on it while he twisted in his agonizing pain…
-Principal: AHHH! Help me Guty! My stomach is tearing myself apart.
-Guty: …
I just stare silently while he twists in his own misery…
-Principal: GUTY!
While I was observing the symptoms everything indicates that he was poisoned with the same poison they used on me, but I think that something else was added to it…
-Guty: Even if I get you to the nursing office, there is nothing that can be done to stop the poison in your current state…
I get up from the chair to pick up the principal's gun which is laying on the floor, I seems that the poison was faster than the bullet, had it not been by that a tragedy would've happened…
-Guty: I will call an ambulance but by the time it gets here you will be already dead…
The principal falls unconsciously in his desk while he is having a seizure; Truly there is nothing that can be done to save him except to search the area and look for a clue of what was used to poison him…
-Guty: Yes… send the forensic team to the school please, quickly as possible, hmm?
A metal sound in my foot catches my attention, when I look down, I notice it's a fork, maybe he was poisoned with the school's food…, ironically, he dug his own grave, last time we spoke about the subject I told him that someone might change the sedatives for som…
-Guty: Wait a minute…
Someone might change those tranquilizers that were being administered to the students by a drug that could do the opposite… that's what I said… and that's what they did with the students to initiate the brawl. Yes, that's it! They drugged the students with the food from the cafeteria and that's why everything happened there, I never thought that they could carry out my suspicion…, then what the principal said was true, he knew the killer and told him about that tactic, unfortunately he took the secret with him…
-Guty: I think that the killer intended that I was killed by the principal… then he would kill him to take care of the loose end…, it was a shame that the poison killed the principal before he could do anything…
I suppose that when the saw I survived the poison they thought it wasn't efficient enough and gave him a higher dose…; His plan was perfect, but the dose spoiled it, now I see how far he would go just to get rid of me, I wonder what he will do once he realizes he sacrificed another of his pieces in vain.
Meanwhile… in a computer far away…
When I saw Guty get out of the principal's office in one piece, my soul returned to my body…
-Chess: Damn, are you trying to kill me?
I don't know what happened in there but somehow, he managed to get out of there alive, if the killer plans to keep with his plan of putting drugs in the food it would be best if I send more information to Guty about it, maybe one day he will read it…
-Chess: Let's see
I slip through the system of the school, the firewalls in this thing are complete trash, they can't even see me go through… so I continue my advance until I reach the compute of the head cook, I need to know who we are dealing with…
-Chess: It's blank…
Everything seems as if the computer that the computer was formatted so no one has access to the head cook's information, why go through so much trouble? Maybe because this woman is a key piece in their network…
-Chess: Format the computer…? That was your master plan?
I can't help but to laugh my face off at this and twist in my chair…
-Chess: Ah… ah…, ok… enough laughter…
I feel that finally I bumped into something big, if they took the time and trouble to format this computer it surely was because there was something important in it and they did not want anyone finding out about it, it's a shame that I know all about retrieving all the information after a formatting…
-Chess: Come one PC… tell me your secrets…
In short time I retrieve all the information that was deleted, to be honest I thought I would find something more important… I can only see that different types of medicine are listed here and the proper amount that must be administered every day to keep the students at ease, but we already knew that right, Guty? Hmm… there are also various emails between the head cook and the principal of the school… it seems that these are enough proof to get him in jail for a long time…
-Chess: Anyway, I think it's best that Guty knows about this...
While I am finishing transferring the data to Guty's computer I find something interesting…
-Chess: the registry of the head cook…hmm… her name is Motoko… she is 35 years old… 35? I don't remember that she was so old, let's see…
Quickly I go back to the monitoring equipment where I search in the recordings that the head cook can be seen, focusing on the image after freezing it I make a comparison between the photo of the registry and the image of the video camera…
-Chess: There is no way this woman if 35 years old… there must be a mistake…
Checking again the computer of the head cook I cannot find any related data nor something that explains why there is such a big physical difference, so there is only one thing left for me to think…
-Chess: These are two different women…
There is no doubt about it, there look nothing alike, someone took the place of the head cook and was operating in the school without anyone noticing and taking advantage of her absence…. Could it be? What if the head cook wasn't missing? But she was in fact disappeared by someone else… this way they could exchange for a puppet that could work in the shadows in her stead…
-Chess: Could it be possible that everything is the nurse's doing…? Nah, don't think so… she's got a stupid face… but if it wasn't her… who?
Guty: Who in the kitchen would be capable of poisoning the principal…? I will have to make a detailed investigation when I get home…
After finishing with the arrangements for the principal's body to be picked up by the forensic team, I finish the fifth day, that means that tomorrow I will have to find the killer, or the school will be in danger…
-Guty: Now that he has lost another key piece, it should be easy to locate him.
I feel like I am getting closer and closer to him, if everything goes well I may even catch him before the time is up, although that is no guarantee that he would not do anything about it, maybe I am being too optimistic, but I should not let my guard down until I manage to capture him…
Without further to do I retire to my apartment, I will have to check thoroughly the camera recordings of the kitchen, no doubt the person who poisoned the principal is another key element in the killers network and I know that… if I manage to decipher who he or she is I will have him cornered, even someone like him has a limited trusted circle and in my experience, the less they are the better so I trust that person is the only one left.
When I get to my apartment, I charge my phone and start to check the recordings of the cameras in the kitchen until I find the one, I am looking for, she is the head cook? She is younger than I thought…
-Guty: let's see what she does after poisoning the food…
Once she is finished with her intent, she quietly leaves the school, everything seems like she just come to take out the principal… Could it be that she does not belong to the school…? Or simply left to elude me…? The killer knows about the cameras so no one would be so stupid to reveal themselves to them… she was even wearing the coif and face mask when she left…
-Guty: Ah… it has been two hours now since I started investigating… I think it's best to take a bath.
Bit by bit the complicated web is coming apart, I can't help but to feel good about it but I don't know how far the killer could go to avoid capture…, I submerge for a moment on the hot water trying not to think about it…, this time I am convinced that I am addicted to hot baths… there is no doubt that the Japanese know how to treat themselves…
When I am done with my bath, I go get my cellphone, now that I remember I have some messages from someone named Night Bird that I haven't been able to read… I wonder who it could be…
-Guty: Let's see…
I start checking the messages from Night Bird in my cellphone which only indicate a location of a folder in my computer, Was I hacked? My computer is protected by the international system of Interpol which uses a highly advanced software designed to be specifically un-hackable…
-Guty: How did they do this?
I access my computer to check the folder with the information that was set to me finding different videos of the monitoring room, what does this mean? When I see the videos, I am shocked, how did you decipher all this from your computer? It's impossible… there is no way that she could just take a walk in the park though our system without being detected, and the worst thing is… How much do you know about the case? I don't know what the intentions of Night Bird are, but there is no doubt that hacking the computer of an Interpol agent is a serious crime, not to mention to be sniffing around classified information…
-Guty: Maybe she is also involved in the murders of the school… I will find her location and if she is in Japan… she will be a new enemy to catch…
Using my knowledge in informatics I start to trace the transfer route of the files, there is no doubt that it will lead me to Night Bird…
-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!
To be Continued...