When I finished reading the letter, I felt a small chill going through my back, could it be true that he could blow up the school? To do that he would need a great number of explosives… which could not go unnoticed… I immediately communicate with the specialist team asking if they had seen any suspicious truck enter the school to which they replied that everyday numerous trucks access the school, so this makes difficult to identify if any of them had smuggled several explosives…
-Guty: Damn…
I would like to blame the specialists for not knowing this, however, what they say is true, every day many trucks enter the school so proving any of them was transporting some strange material would be complicated. Furthermore, the great number of cameras make it hard to tell in real time what is going on inside the school…
-Guty: Perhaps I should ask her for help…
Maybe Night Bird can find an answer to what I am looking for… however the number she uses to contact me is different every time, which makes it impossible to contact her, I will have to wait for her to reach out.
-Guty: ah…
A small sigh escapes my lips, it is true that I was ready for a stampede of students trying to kill me, but to blow up a school is more than I was expecting…, I would like to believe that he is just bluffing but he is not the kind of people that play games, he told me he would do it to boast about the fact that I will not be able to stop it…
-Guty: What will I do…?
I sent the specialist to check every corner of the school in search of explosives, unfortunately despite searching all the evening they did not manage to find anything, on the other hand I was investigating in the school system for the registry of exits of all the teachers, I was looking for one that might be staying late and noticed that only the PE instructor and the nurse left an hour later than usual while the rest of the teachers leave 20 minutes after the hour at the latest with the exception of the chemistry, the psychologist and biology teachers who always exit promptly.
-Guty: Hmm…
There is something in these records that catches my eye, finally I am finding the missing pieces of the puzzle…
-Guty: Just a bit more…
I pull away from the computer to relax for a moment since its almost 10 pm and I have not yet found and opportunity to have dinner, if things do not go as I intend them to, I will have to be prepared for anything and the school blowing up is something that worries me quite a lot…
-Guty: A bit of cereal will suffice…
I enjoy a delicious cereal and then I head over to my room where I lay down in my comfortable bed which seduces me with its comfort sending me into a profound and regenerating sleep until the annoying sound of my alarm indicates that today is the day, the day where it is decided if I solve this case or I am blown up into the sky along with the school…
-Guty: Time to work…
Without losing time, I jump out of bed and get right into action, dressing up at full speed to get a cup of coffee and wait for the school bus as usual, once I'm inside the truck I do not hesitate to take an empty seat and continue my journey to the school calmly thinking what I would do next… If in the end I don't manage to get all the pieces of the puzzle together I think I will end up risking myself and follow my instinct…
-Akasha: Hello, this is planet earth trying to reach Guty, come in Guty
-Guty: Good morning, Akasha, how are you?
-Akasha: Good, you look a lot more reflective than usual, did something happen?
-Guty: No… nothing, just things… I am thinking about.
-Akasha: oh... I see…
We talked about the sudden death of the principal for the rest of the trip, which surprised everyone in the school, Akasha told me that the student council is planning to host a memorial after class, I just hope that we all make it alive to attend…
When we arrived at the school, many of the students are wondering what happened to the principal, not long ago a teacher died and now him, according to the rumors nothing like this had happened in previous years of the school which negatively attracts the students attention so I try to stay alert for the unexpected…
-Guty: Hmm?
The sound of a medium tension wire snapping and looking up I realize that the sound came from one of the chandeliers in the roof, which is coming down on me, so I take Akasha by the hand and pull her towards me, taking her as far from the impact zone as possible, from the crash area many crystal shards fly out at high speed cutting through the skin of Akasha's leg.
-Akasha: Ah!
-Guty: Are you okay?
-Akasha: They hurt so bad…
-Guty: I will take you to the nursing office…
I take Akasha in my arms and then take her to the nursing office as fast as possible while a bit of blood drips from her legs, the chandelier took me completely by surprise, had I been a bit slower and maybe it could have landed on top of us…
-Guty: Almost there…
When we reached the nursing office, I quickly place her over one of the beds and the nurse started checking and curing her wounds…
-Nurse: Luckly these are not deep wounds, once I am done treating them you can return to class after 30 minutes, meanwhile you will have to stay here until the bleeding stops.
-Akasha:…
-Nurse: Relax, you will be okay…
-Akasha: Will you stay with me Guty?
-Nurse: It's not necessary… Let the student go back to class, the day is about to start, you should stay here at least for the first period…
-Guty: I will come back for you on second period, don't worry…
-Akasha: Really?
-Guty: Yes…
-Nurse: Go on boy, you are running late, you can catch up later…'
Without anything else to do I leave the nursing office, I hope that Akasha will get better soon, I will come find here after next class…, so I dedicate myself to patrol the halls of the school which are strangely calm.
The students are in class and the halls are deserted, I walk in silence around the building with just the sound of my steps to accompany me and resounding throughout the hall. Almost an hour has passed since class started session, second period will begin shortly…
-Guty: I should go get Akasha… its almost time…
With a new destination in mind, I walk towards the nursing office and in my way, I run into the PE instructor walking around where the nursing office is located… so I walk slowly and pay attention to his every move, he seems to be peaking inside the nursing office… so I approach him silently until I am close enough…
-Guty: Lost something professor?
When he heard my voice he jumps forward a bit, I seem to have scared him…
-PE instructor: young man, please don't do that! shouldn't you be in class at this time?
-Guty: I just came looking for a friend…
-PE instructor: Be more careful next time.
After giving me that warning he quickly gets away from the nursing office, he almost bumped old James who was about to get inside his office…
-Guty: Hmm…
Once the teacher leaves, I go inside the nursing office where I found Akasha sitting at the side of the bed getting ready to leave for class…
-Akasha: Guty, you came!
-Guty: I told you I would…
BOOM!
In that moment a loud explosion was heard in the school which shakes the building for a moment…
-Akasha: What was that?!
-Guty: Wait here!
-Akasha: No Guty don't go!
-Nurse: Wait here!
Ignoring her warnings, I run through the halls searching for the origin of that explosion, until I find a group of students that were descending from the second floor, so naturally I run in that direction finding a lot of smoke which activates the water sprinklers inside the classroom putting out the fire caused by the incident…
-Guty: It is the cooking classroom…
Once the smoke and the fired cleared, I deactivate the sprinklers and I head inside to inspect the zone, it seems that the gas pipeline of one of the stoves had a leak which caused the loud explosion that killed a student that was working in there…
-Guty: Hmm? Isn't that girl…
I find the burnt body of Reika… the fire caused by the explosion killed her within seconds, I never expected her to be the victim…
-Guty: She was a nice girl…
The first aid team of the school arrives to the zone, unfortunately there is not much to do, so I wait for the forensic team to inform them about the situation and speed up the operation, however despite the efforts to clean the area as fast as possible it took us two hours to clear the area…
-Guty: I will find Akasha…
I was heading over to the next class when I heard another explosion, coming from the top floor.
-Guty: Again?!
I try to reach the last floor as fast as I can where I find a group of people clustered in the teacher's hall, so I make my way through the crowd until I reached the room when a microwave exploded when a teacher was taking out his food, taking his life instantly.
-Guty: What is the meaning of this?
I immediately call the forensic team who are still nearby, so they can handle of another body… and clear the area where he died… so once more we engage in cleaning activities that this time take one hour…
-Guty: It's almost time for lunch… he said he had something in mind for that time…
I get away from the zone heading towards the second floor when I suddenly hear the screams of some terrified students in a classroom close by, so I go there as quickly as possible finding that a student was killed when the fan on the roof of the classroom fell and cut deeply into his jugular…
-Guty: What the hell is happening?!
To be Continued...