Continuation of Chapter 3
Medics: We can't just leave him! We're medics!
Guty: Run, dammit, run!
Medic: No way in hell. It is my job to attend to you, even if you die.
Guty: Gck…AHHHHH!
That is the last thing I remember… when I woke up, I was in the middle of a green plain with all my clothes ripped. The sun started to shine in the sky, I started walking looking both ways without a course, I really did not know where to go…, some minutes passed until I reached 2 hours and 36 minutes to be exact. In that moment I could hear a loud sound in the air, I looked up in the sky until I found a rescue chopper, I must wait for it to come down.
When it stops completely some policemen from Japan came out of it, I can see a familiar face among them.
-We have been looking for you all night, you are a slippery one Guty.
-Guty: Sir I…I am sorry for what happened.
-Superior: Get in, we will talk inside
-Guty: Yes, sir
We boarded the helicopter, and we headed back into the city.
-Guty: That poison move was a cheap shot, caught me off guard.
-Superior: Now you get why so many agents have died?
-Guty: I've been on that school for only two days, countless disasters have happened…
-Superior: It is to be expected…, in that place, the students have been terrorized for years now…
In that moment I thought to tell my superior about what I had uncovered so far about the horrendous plans that the government has for that school, nonetheless without solid evidence it is not even worth mentioning it…
-Superior: Think you can solve this case?
The tone in my superior turned really serious on that question, he knows the gravity of the situation and without much questioning done he asks me a very concrete and direct question.
-Guty: It will take me longer than I thought… but I will get to the bottom of it,
-Superior: Are you sure? If this is too much for you, I can notify HQ immediately, school will be shut down in a second.
-Guty: There is no need to take such drastic measures sir.
Contrary to my other missions, this assassin is refined and disciplined… I think it must be because of the time it had to do as he pleased.
-Guty: I must admit I have been careless lately… but I think it's time now to get serious with this.
-Superior: You are dealing with someone extremely clever and dangerous.
-Guty: That's not the worst part sir
-Superior: Which is it then?
-Guty: He's not alone
-Superior: What do you mean he's not alone?
-Guty: The mastermind is just one but it does not operate on its own.
-Superior: Are you saying that he has some sort of sidekick?
-Guty: Exactly. Yesterday I was chasing down a potential suspect, it is actually the same person who poisoned me.
-Superior: Go on…
-Guty: I naively believed that he was the killer, but he got away in a cab hours before the classes ended, nevertheless, when I got back to the classroom there was a message written in blood same as the first one, a bit contradictory wouldn't you say? If the guy that I had chased was the killer there shouldn't have been any message, in that moment I made my first mistake… I doubted.
-Superior: So, did you rule out the suspect because of the message?
-Guty: Yes sir. When I arrived home I ate poisoned food which is why I called an ambulance, then just when paramedics arrive I found a band aid that belonged to the school suspect, then it all made sense… in the moment that he left in the cab, he was going to my apartment… confident that I would not return until the exit time for school, he had all the time in the world to check my apartment and poison the food.
-Superior. He did not count on you surviving Guty, now you know who the mastermind behind all this is.
-Guty: You are mistaken sir, this suspect is just a puppet, handled by the one we are looking for.
-Superior: What do you mean?
-Guty: Most of the intelligent serial killers only kill by themselves whenever is necessary if they get the chance to make someone else kill for them, they'll take it in a heartbeat… they are masters of manipulation and would do anything to keep themselves hidden.
-Superior: It is the first time I see a killer wake such interest in you.
-Guty: Perhaps…
After that a team of Interpol specialists checked the apartment, getting rid of any poisonous or dangerous material they could find, furthermore they installed an advanced security system to ensure this would not happen again. While they gave the finishing touches to the department, I started checking the medical records one by one, unfortunately only Kintaro suffers from anemia so the one who wrote the second message is still a mystery to me… tomorrow when I catch Kintaro I will interrogate him and get all the information I can from him.
Since I could not go to school the principal came to my apartment to deliver the attendance list of class 3D from past years, which I thoroughly inspected, unfortunately there were no name that came twice on those lists… this means that there are no students that has been in that class for a long time. Which confirms my suspicion, it appears that my focus was wrong all along… each time and agent categorizes the alumni as the possible suspects, but there are a lot of incoherences in that, the students do not stay in the same group for years even if they wanted to, they are but simple tools in all this. Tools that can be easily manipulated by a teacher who has total control over them from grading all the way up to dealing with their parents. Although I don't want to center myself solely on the teachers since there are also administrative personnel who might also be involved and based on that even the principal could be a suspect…
-Agent: Agent Guty, we have finished with the automation of your apartment.
-Guty: Thank you, you can go now.
Now there is only waiting for tomorrow to continue as planned, its 8:54 pm and in a moment I will go to sleep, I am exhausted, I will take a shower before I go to bed, mi body is covered in dust and dirt so a shower would be really nice… I take off my torn clothes to go inside the shower, the nice sensation of warm water over my body makes me relax even for a second and forget the terrible feeling of me not owning my own movements.
Guty: ah…
When I'm done showering, I prepare myself for bed, I lie down in the softness of my bed from where I can hear the leak in the kitchen sink… from now on I will make sure it stays like that since it helped me a lot yesterday, fortunately they can't break in anymore… better safe than sorry. The night follows its course, and I am trying to fall asleep, but it proves difficult to do so, I cannot stop thinking in all this matter… if I already caught the puppet, there must be many more in the class, I also think that the teacher's suicide has something to do with all this or was it just a coincidence? Tomorrow I will know for sure.
The following morning, I am wakened by the deafening sound of my cellphone alarm, although I am awake, I can't seem to find it because when the paramedics arrived, I left it on the floor somewhere, I get up looking for it and after taking a look under the couch I finally find it. I quickly get ready for school and in 15 minutes I am done, the school bus arrives at 7:15 am and just now its 6:24 am, I go outside my apartment, and I quickly take the first cab I can see, this time I will arrive before the rest to make sure no one dies. It is not long when one taxi appears on the street, in 15 minutes I arrive to school, it's 6:40 am, apparently all looks normal, I sit on a bench which is near the main entrance to observe everyone that comes in.
All of the sudden a small truck enters the school and by the stickers on it I can notice that it is a pharmaceutical truck, surely, it's here to resupply the school nursery, hmm? The nursing office is not over there where the truck is heading, where is it going? I get up from the bench to follow the vehicle silently, I continue until it stops. The cafeteria? What are they doing here? I can see how the drives start unloading boxes and start placing them inside the cafeteria, a word is visibly readable on the boxes <
-Hi Guty
-Guty: Hmm? Oh, hi Akasha.
-Akasha: Are you OK?
-Guty: Yeah, why?
-Akasha: I didn't see you yesterday, I thought you might be sick.
-Guty: Don't worry I'm ok, just a headache that's all.
-Akasha: Alright, if you like I can give you my notes from yesterday, so you don't fall behind in class.
-Guty: Thank you when we head off you can lend me your notes.
-Akasha: Sure, hey um…
-Guty: What's wrong?
-Akasha: I have a fight at 11 in the martial arts room. Would you come see me?
-Guty: If I can, I will be there. Be sure of it.
-Akasha: Thanks, I'll look for you in the crowd.
-Guty: Very well.
-Akasha: Alright, let's go to class.
-Guty: You go ahead, I am waiting for someone.
-Akasha: Alright, see you there.
Once again, I am left alone on the bench waiting for Kintaro, but so far, he is not here yet, I do not think he is aware that I am alive so he will be surprised to see me, there are only 4 busses left, he must be in one of them. I can see a young man from far away that looks like Kintaro, finally… I simply stay there waiting for him to get closer to me, so far, he has not noticed I am here, and he is heading straight for the door with his eyes down giving off a low self-esteem. Hmm? He stopped, looks like he just received a call on his cellphone, in that moment the lifts up his gaze as he had seen a ghost, surely whoever is on the other end of that call is making him aware of my presence in the school, but it is futile, at this distance it is impossible for him to escape from me, I get up from the bench and star walking towards him, he is nervous, just hung up the phone, I think he is pulling something out, A knife? I see you are not unarmed Kintaro, but I doubt you can kill be with it, unless…
-Guty: Wait!
Damn it he is going to kill himself, just when I start to run, he slits his throat and with his anemia he will bleed out in a few minutes, shit… I cannot let him die.
-Guty: Call an ambulance!