[SDU] [Chapter 49 – Shiro –
Reflectors]
I don’t really want to say it to
him but for real though…Zero Yohna is a piece of work. He doesn’t really need
to get all vulgar to me. I even asked him politely. Jeez, can’t he take a break
or something? It’s like he has some sort of issue with me. I haven’t done
anything to piss him off in the past as far as I can remember. We haven’t even
talked since the start of the semester. Until today that is…He seems to have
some knowledge about the monster from the mirror. What he calls them again?
Reflectors? He said that these Reflectors only come whenever someone is
starting some sort of battle royal.
Here I am all alone under a
gazebo, figuring out a way out of this mess that my classmate has made. Will
they even believe what I will say? The
three boys involved will definitely say something else. They are pretty much
opponents now. They might just lie to themselves and point fingers to someone
else just to eliminate their opponents at their blind spot…
Wait…blind spot? I think I made a
big mistake when I said that the room with the seven people in it have mirrors
on its wall. It wasn’t that room! I mistook it for the meeting room we had on
the other room! Tara’s attack was at the meeting room! She wasn’t at a
different room at all. Darn it, I can’t believe I forgot about the meeting
room’s location. I also found out a reason to how she was locked inside the
meeting room.
After realizing that, I decided
to go back to where Tara was attacked last night. I also made sure to make a
pit stop to the first scene, checking up whether there was a mirror in that
room or not. In fact, I did make a mistake. The room where Hunter was attacked
never had a single mirror at all. That means, the people inside the room at the
time are still suspects.
But in any case, I should take a
break from that scene and go and take a look at Tara’s case. I went inside the
meeting room and closed the door. Surprisingly, it wasn’t locked like last
night. Maybe the guards had unlocked it this morning. With that in mind, I
continued my search over the crime scene and found out that my guess was
correct. It’s almost like my memory had altered…or…something…
Now wait just a minute…Something
doesn’t add up. Why did I make that kind of mistake? I’m not the type to be
mistaking the same keys or pants. I can basically tell the difference. I can
even recall what Blanc wore during Sam’s campaign. Alright this is definitely
the work of another wizard…and there’s only one person I know who can change a
memory so insignificant…
But before I was even able to say
it to myself, I heard a clicking noise. I tried to look for it and found out
that it was the sound of the door being locked. I tried to open the door but
the handle doesn’t seem to budge at all. It was then I realized that the door
doesn’t even have a keyhole.
“There’s no keyhole?! How can I
get locked in?!” I punched the door in disappointment as I said that.
I looked at my watch and it is
already noon. 12:06 PM, to be more precise. A minute later, the same clicking
noise can be heard. The door was unlocked! I finally got out of the meeting
room. I wondered what the meaning behind
all of this is but before I was even able to do anything else the door was
locked once again. At least this time I’m already outside of the room.
I tried looking around the door
and found out that the door had a special locking mechanism. It uses a timed
system. I tried looking over the meeting room schedule and saw a notice saying
that doors will automatically be locked during lunch hour and curfew. Now that
curfew was mentioned, we were indeed at the classroom building way past curfew.
Curfew starts at 11:00 PM. If only I looked at my watch to know when every
single event happened last night. But that’s not something a normal person
would do, of course. Incidents like these happen abruptly without notice.
“Shiro? What are you doing here?”
Someone suddenly called me from behind.
I turned back and saw that it was
Aspye, “Oh…hi, Aspye. Nothing. I’m just investigating.”
“Did you find anything?”
I shake my head and said, “No.
Nothing good at all. All I got was me being locked inside the room for a few
minutes just now.”
“You got yourself locked in?”
“Yeah. Just now. But for some
reason it unlocked itself. I got out and waited out for a bit and then the door
locks itself back. I don’t get it.”
“Didn’t you read the room’s
timetable? You probably got locked during lunch hour.”
“What about the door being
unlocked momentarily then, Aspye?”
“Don’t you remember during our
orientation?”
“What are you talking about,
Aspye?” Aspye seems to be telling me something important.
Aspye sighed and explained,
“Since the door had an automated lock system, someone will definitely lock
themselves in the room during those two intervals. So the campus made a
solution to this for anyone who got them locked in. Every 7th minute
after the lock was activated; the door will unlock itself for one minute.
Meaning that, if you lock yourself during lunch hour which is 12:00 PM…then you
have to wait until it was 12:07. The door then lock itself back when it is
12:08. It will then unlock itself again on 12:14 and so on. You know the drill.”
“I see…That is indeed something
so insignificant for a student to remember…”
“I know right? But it is
necessary since we are going to be using it.”
“Well, thanks for telling me
that.” I patted his shoulder once and said, “I’ll keep that in mind and hope
that I don’t end up locking myself in the door next time.”
“It’ll be funny if you got
yourself locked in again after you said that.” Aspye laughed as he said that.
“Oh one more thing, Aspye.” I
stopped him once I remembered something else.
“What is it, Shiro?”
“You seem to have a really good
memory, huh? I can’t believe you could remember something so insignificant like
that.”
Aspye laughed and said, “I guess
you could say that it is a part of my talent that I was born with. Being able
to remember insignificant things and what not.”
“Well that’s too bad. If only you
could take that away right?”
“Well you can’t really take away
an important memory, right? Only the insignificant ones are the one that you
usually forget. It’s just how our brain works. It’s like magic.”
“Indeed it is. Well then, I’ll be
off. Thanks for helping me out, Aspye.”
“No problem.”
We parted ways and went on to our
separate ways. Looks like I didn’t get anything from that excursion. What a
waste of time, really. Maybe I should just go back and take a look at Hunter’s
scene and see what else I can gather…
As I was reaching the room,
someone suddenly got out of the room. It was Jenna. I called her from afar. She
noticed me and she immediately run away from me. Why is she running away? The
only reason to her running away could either be that she did something or she
is afraid of me. But I’m not that scary…weird. However, I also pick up the pace
and chased her.
“Hey, Jenna. Hold on!” I tried
calling for her but she completely ignored me.
Alright that’s it. She’s
definitely involved in this case in some way or another. First, she’s a
participant in The Battle Royal. Second, she was the first person to saw Tara
was injured. And third, she’s running away from me knowing that I’m
investigating this case. I’m not going to let her get away now. I have to stop
her in somehow. She quickly made her way to the only lift in the building and
quickly closed the lift door and went down.
“Darn it!” Once again, I punched
another door.
Then I looked at the stairs and
figured that she will probably be further away if I use the stairs. I looked
the other way which was the balcony. I know that I’m the type of person who
doesn’t really do the stupidest thing in the world but…I’m definitely going to
be one today. I climbed the balcony railings and jumped off the building. As I
was falling down, I immediately used my ghostly abilities to slow down my
falling speed. As I was about to drop down death to the floor, my feet suddenly
hovers a few centimetres away from the ground. Thankfully I was able to
levitate myself just in time. I’m very grateful to know that I’m a ghost. If
not, by now I might already be a…ghost…Well that’s just sad…
But in any case, the lift door
opened and to her surprise I was already waiting for Jenna in front of it. She
had nowhere else to escape.
“Enough, Jenna. You can stop
running away now.”
Jenna sighed and said, “Fine…”
Finally, I’m about to reach the
final verdict to this case…
TO BE CONTINUED
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