"Hey Tsukasa... Did it just... Announce it to everyone?" I asked as he nodded.
"It seems like everyone now knows. But don't you find it odd?" He asked as I began thinking about it.
"Yeah, I mean this case seems far from over..." There were many clues that point towards nothing.
I looked at Pandora's box. "I bet he knows what is going on." I said as Tsukasa seemed to agree with me.
I walked to Pandora's box and Opened it entering the box.
"Hey Kazuhisa. I'm gonna need you to tell me what is wrong and what isn't" I said as He seemed skeptical.
"Why should I tell you?" He asked as I then smirked.
"If you don't tell me, I'll just kill Emi." I said as he was shocked.
"E-Emi.. is here?" He seemed shocked.
"And also if you tell me, I'll get you out." I said as he seemed convinced.
"Okay I will cooperate." he said as I began explaining the entire crime.
"You killed the victim Harley Beck." I said as he nodded.
"You did it by launching a puppet onto the fire escape stair from a nearby building and then you opened the window." I continued as he nodded once again.
"Now here is my question. Did you leave a note saying the puppets did this?" I asked as he nodded once more.
"Why would you do that?" I asked as he replied.
"That way I'll make everyone think it was him, the old man. because he owns the puppet store. And yet I failed because you managed to talk to him before I could." He said as I then sighed.
"You are a stupid murderer." I said as he looked at me in disbelief.
"I'm just stating the facts you idiot."
"Now was there struggling in the living room?" I asked as he shook his head.
"I planted that to make you stray away from the true place of the crime scene, The bedroom which you never checked." He said as I looked at him confused.
"How did you know we didn't check the bedroom?" I asked as he replied.
"Well I'm not a Player Haruki, I'm a puppeteer." He said as he kept talking.
"I watched you from the puppets." Well that makes sense.
"Did anything happen in the kitchen?" I asked as he nodded.
"Yes the victim struggled because she ran out of her room and managed to get to the kitchen, once there she grabbed a knife trying to kill the puppets, she failed obviously and then my puppets tore her face off." He explained.
"When she died was it in the living room? the kitchen? or the bedroom?" I asked as he answered.
"I told you anything that says kitchen or living room is a lie, she died in the bedroom, if you go to the apartment and go there now, You'll see the actual white layout of her body in the bedroom."
He was dumb yet he thought of all of this through so I gotta give him credit.
"Now my last question." I said
"Why did you do it?" I asked as he then responded.
"Not telling you." He said as I then sighed.
Well I got all the info I needed except for the motive.
But knowing he committed it, he probably got rejected by her and killed her.
"Alright then I'm leaving now." I said as his eyes widened.
"Wait weren't you gonna let me out?" He said as I then looked at him and gave him a grin.
"Hehehe... I lied." I said as I left Pandora's box.
Only the creator of Pandora's box can leave and enter freely and choose who they want to let out.
That's why I'm able to leave while he isn't.
"Hey Tsukasa, I'd like to be alone for a bit." I said as he seemed to understand.
"I'll take a few days off from the agency and just enjoy life in the hotel." I explained as I said farewell to him and left to the hotel.
I soon made it to the hotel and as soon as I entered I got ambushed.
"Huh?!" Before I could react Emi and Luna grabbed me and took me to a private room.
"What is the meaning of that announcement?!" Luna asked as I then got nervous.
"Uh... I cleared the floor?" I asked as I then got a beating.
"I told you to not do anything dangerous!" Emi said as I then sat on the ground being scolded by them both.
"And yet you went on and cleared this floor! What did you even do?!" Emi kept going on and on as I then sighed.
I pulled out a small box from my inventory.
"This is Pandora's box. I trapped Kazuhisa here." I explained everything that had happened.
"So... he's really in there?" Emi asked as I nodded.
"But you can't enter. He might try to attack you." I warned as she seemed to understand what I'm hinting at.
After all she knew that He was madly in love with her.
"I see... Well then it's better to keep him sealed." She said as she then continued.
"I'm glad you didn't kill him Haruki." She said as I then smiled.
"Well I'm doing my best." I said as I then looked at the room.
"Hmm I guess now I can do what you asked of me Emi." I said as she seemed confused at first but then her face lit up suggesting she remembered.
"Ah! You're going to investigate the Hotel?" She asked as I nodded.
"Yeah, I'll investigate this place. And I'll solve the secrets of this place." I said as I then added one thing.
"And you... Emi I want you to join me in my journey in the tower." I said smiling as her eyes widened.
"B-But I don't have any... skills." She said as I smiled.
"Well It's not a problem Emi, I'll let a friend teach you magic." I said as I looked at Luna.
"H-Huh? Me?! But I only know destruction magic and Shadow magic!" She said as I then looked skeptical at her.
"O-Okay and Blood magic too!" I smiled.
"Well then, teach Emi how to use Shadow Magic." I said as she seemed to look at me.
"No way." She said
"Why?" I replied.
"Because I don't want to." She said as I then sighed.
"I guess we'll have to do That Emi." I said as I looked at Emi who then grinned and we both looked at Luna.
"Don't look at me like that!" She said as I then told her.
"If you don't teach Emi, then no food for you." I said as her eyes widened and she began to cry grabbing my shirt.
"NO PLEASE! ANYTHING BUT THAT!" She really wanted to eat huh...
"Then teach Emi Shadow Magic." I said as she seemed to finally agree now that food was at stake.
"You're a demon Haruki..." Luna sniffled as she said this
"I gotta do what I gotta do to make you listen." I said as I sighed.
----------- Na-eun pov ---------
I was sitting on my computer when I suddenly heard the announcement.
[ The 89th floor of the Tower has been cleared! The people who cleared the floor are Two people! Haruki Suou and Tsukasa Renjou! ]
They both cleared it? How?! When did they get the chance to team up...?
Then it dawned upon me.
Has Tsukasa been fooling us all along? Him and Haruki have been working behind the scenes without even meeting?!
They did all this without communication...
Those two are different Monsters in that case...
But that means all those harsh things I said about Haruki....
I should apologize to him...
As i think that way I remember his words.
"One day you'll hear what I'm saying, One day you'll understand, One day but not today because I can't tell you." He meant he can't tell me he was working with Tsukasa.
He really is a genius if he was able to do all this with Tsukasa without having communication...
As I was thinking Tsukasa entered.
"Tsukasa! Is Haruki back?!" I asked As he shook his head.
"He said he wanted some time off from detective work. So our descent to the 88th tower will be delayed." He said as I then got disappointed.
I wanted to see Haruki... I wanted to apologize to him and hug him...
I wanted to see his face again smiling.
now that I think about it...
Do I... Like Haruki?
As I say this I feel flustered as I then try to brush away such thoughts.
I finally stopped blushing as I then looked at Tsukasa.
I wondered something and so I ask.
"Uhm... Tsukasa, Do you have any idea of the 88th floor?" I asked him wanting to see what he thinks we might encounter.
"Well sure I know." He said as he pulled out a note with a number written on it.
"We're going to the year 2000." He said.
"W-What?"
------------- end of Na-eun Pov -------------
It seems like Everyone is asleep now.
I guess I'll walk around the halls of the hotel to find out what sort of thing I will find to solve this mystery.
Walking around I saw a figure sneak around.
"Huh?"
I followed the figure and while walking...
I see a transparent figure in front of me...
Is that a... ghost?
As soon as the ghost turned around he saw me and then screamed as I also screamed.