Chapter 4 The Actual Encounter... Probably.

"It's time for YOUR purification. Red, Re.....ddd.",The tone of the person changed suddenly and became more that of a zombie.

"Red, Are you alright?", my mother inquired. I looked around and when saw a computer, a study table and some drawers in the room with just white walls, I was relieved. It was my room. My mother was probably worried. I was sweating too much due to fear..probably.

"Yeah, I saw some horror stories the previous night, so I got a weird and scary dream about them.", I lied.

"Don't watch those things if you are going to get nightmares. (After some time, mother continued)

Frecia had called just a moment ago and she asked if you are going to school. I told her that he will not go to the school as something important has come up. If its okay by you Red, then we could go to the grandma's place today." mother told me as she cleaned my room.

"Sure, but It will take me some time to get ready.", I replied. "No, I am saying that you will have to stay at home, we need to discuss something important and it's not that she is sick. We will come home by evening.", mother told me while she deliberately moved her face to another side while cleaning my room.

Mother was maybe lying. My mother is like one of those who just kind of can't hide truth whatever they do. Still I nodded and accepted.

When they had gone, I sat down to narrow down my list. Me and my sister liked many things more tham reading. For me, it could be watching anime and for my sister, it would be practicing high level computer stuff.

But when I checked anything regarding that I didn't find any clues. The list had vanished rather than being narrowed down, nothing had any clues.

I was puzzled so I took out a novel out of our personally rated rack. I and my sister would personally debate and rate the books we would read and keep them in a shelf designated with a rating. (Negative one to positive two)

One second..I thought for a moment that my sister and I actually both liked rating the books we read more than reading them. It made sense about the thing message talked about but what of it?

I had taken out every book immediately out of the shell but not a single of them contained any slip of paper.

I thought about the message again while I looked at the zero and positive one designation and realised that these shelves contained eighty to ninety percent books we had read. Then something clicked my mind. The actual message had been:

ASK MY BROTHER WHAT I AND HE LIKED MORE THAN READING NOVELS, LIGHT NOVELS AND NOVELLAS.

ATSDHAMUCJXYEOQKQBDBXJXNPXNZNZINDNWNWOQPSKD.

I had thought about the last weird string of letters as a away to fool me from getting the real message. Still.. This doesn't leads to anything.

I sighed. Suddenly, my head started to ache.

Well! That's a lie.The headache had been there the whole time. After all this stuff turning out as major stuff, I have gotten serious but keeping it to myself has kinda burdened me. And still I haven't found a single reason why I should not contact a detective and police rather than trying to find clues myself.

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"That's a big mansion", I said to myself while I looked at the pink coloured royal mansion which was about forty six kilometres away from my house. It was Frecia's house. I had decided to share everything that had happened with me till now.

Just when I was going to push the button for bell. The recollection of my dream came in front of me. I was taken aback and thought what if I am kidnapped by these terrorists then that might actually happen to her. My three - day powerful routine of powering up myself to tell her everything was going to go as a waste and I knew it. I didn't want her to be killed like that. I have to say this that that dream had really traumatised me.

As just I was going to turn someone held something behind my back and said, " Don't move else I will kill you.... What did you think, eh? 'HOT SHOT', 'SMART ASS', That we would not find about a chimp like you. You are real DEAD MEAT now."