Chapter 9 Drawing the line with THAT chalk(Pt. 2)

"I didn't pat on your back for nothing, I just planted a mini-bomb on you.", The boy said to me and no joke I was scared like a kid and amused on myself at the same time. I was scared because I wasn't expecting a kid of fifteen years old to pat on my back and say, "You are dead." and I was amused because I am a fricking detective and he is just a child and he caught me off-guard. I couldn't stop laughing and fearing the boy in my mind.

"So..."

"Who are you and don't lie to me, you already know what can happen with you.", The boy said to me with a serious face expression while he took out something which looked like a remote. The boy had black hairs and black eyes and seemed good-looking to me. Well, he was atleast more good-looking than me. I had blonde hairs and unmatched brown eyes. I was not going to lie to him after all that had happened to me as a father.

"You are that person , from the dark web.", I said questioningly.

"Yeah I am. Listen, you will answer me.!!"

"What do you know and what did you mean by saying that you are on my side?"

So, it was hard for him to believe in me. Well, I don't blame him.

"Against UTO."

He didn't answer back so I continued.

"Against United Terrorist Organisation."

"How much do you know?"

"Just that they forced some hundred children to work for them."

"Take this.", he said while he looked at the paper bag containing some books which were covered with paper.

"They have the things, you need to know more. We will meet tomorrow here at this time.", he said while he prepared to go.

"Uhh..before going, dismantle the bomb....please."

"Oh, I will NOT, till you meet me here tomorrow. Rest assured as I won't kill you but if you don't believe me then I will dismantle it and we will never meet again."

Hell! Is he kidding? He wants me to belive his crap.

"Okay."

What and why the hell did I say okay. And thus it began the deal and its seal.

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"Is he insane?", I asked myself while I opened the door of my house and closed it.

"What's there for dinner, mother?", I asked mother as I saw her cutting some,....whatever they were.

"Father will be late so we will eat dinner earlier today."

"Okay.", I said in a dull tone while I checked some juice in the refrigerator.

"And yeah, since Frecia's house is going to be shifted so she is going to live with us for few days starting tomorrow.", mother replied in a taunting and polite way.

"Okay.", I said in the dull tone again as I took some time processing the reply.

"What?!!"

"Why are you screaming on my face. Go scream somewhere else but first of all why are you even screaming? Its not like she is your girlfriend...", mother paused and smiled deviously while she looked at me and continued, "or...Is she?"

"She is my good friend.", I replied calmly.

"She will stay and sleep in my room and your father will sleep in your room. Her parents thought that it would be a bother for them to live here so they will live in a nearby hotel."

I don't want to insult her parents but did they really think this while allowing her daughter to stay with us.

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I was waiting for the same insane guy while having wore the same long jacket.

He suddenly came running towards me and handed me the paper bag containing some books to me and shouted on my face.

"Why the hell did you give me some shoujo manga literature books in the name of.."

I instantaneously slapped him.

"Oh, I am sorry.", then we faced the lake and started talking. I was disappointed, those shoujo mangas were one of the best mangas of my sister, I expected him to say that they were good. And the thing about the clues, they had clues encrypted. I was going to go after taking the paper bag but I stopped as he started to say something.

"Your encryption pattern was amazing, the pattern you used made you seem as you were an old man."

I gotta say he caught me off-guard and I was even actually smiling in my mind. I was happy that he had decrypted the clues but I didn't know why?

"I got most of the clues and some coded chat messages you were seeing there. But I have to ask that why the hell did you encrypt them in the shoujo mangas that were the favourite of my daughter.

I swallowed NOTHING. I didn't want to even think about the thing that I was thinking about.

"She too committed suicide. Your sister's name was Lily, right? My daughter and your sister were good friends. She used to tell me how good Lily was at about everything."

"My daughter was an amazing person. My wife and I were silent people. We were lovey-dovey with each other but silently. But our daughter was super energetic, always cheering us up. At the age of ten she started to develop an interest in my work. I was a detective in cyber theft, cyber crime cases. I was happy that she was interested in my work and I was even more happier to tell her about it. She was amazingly good at it. I was happy and surprised that she was even much better than me and started to help me with my cases at your age but suddenly one day she hung herself to death. I was dead inside. My wife and I couldn't think of anything else, life was worthless for me. I was, I wanted, I also wanted,..."

His voice became thick. I looked at him he was crying and so was I. I punched the railing but amazingly I didn't feel pain at all.

"I felt failed as a father. I also wanted to kill myself. I hate to say that I suggested my wife that we commit suicide together but she, she was STRONG or maybe she wasn't. She just wanted justice and wanted anyone who forced our daughter to commit suicide, DEAD. She strengthened me and that's why here I am. Let's kill these bastards."

The guy said while he rubbed his face with flood of tears. I gave him a tissue and also wiped my flood of tears too and said to him,

"Yeah, let's do it, TOGETHER."