Chapter 20: The old man's tale.

As Max and Lucy followed the strange man, the two girls kept looking at their surroundings, making sure they knew where they were if the guy was indeed a bad person, as the three of them kept taking turns into all sorts of alley ways, the man stopped and pointed to a door, which was next to a noodle shop, the man then opened the door and entered the two girls following him, Max then checked on her phone and noticed that they have been walking for the past 2 hours, Lucy then finally asks the man where they were heading, all he said was " almost there, a bit longer " and after another hour of silent walking the man stopped, turned around to look at the two girls and finally said " we have arrived " he then opened another door. As max and Lucy entered into a strange room, the strange man made sure to look out the windows, closing the curtain and locking the door, he then looked at the two girls and noticed that they were slowly beginning to feel suspicious and scared of him, he then said not to worry, that he was just making sure that there wouldn't be anyone listening, peeking or attacking us in this room, Max then sat down on a chair which was located next to a wooden table, while Lucy sad on a wooden chair which was located closer to the door while the man sat on the floor, laying out some documents, pictures and other important looking things, Max and Lucy then looked with awe at all the important papers this man had, but they also began to question, ' who is he? '

' Why does he have these documents? ' and the final one which they both blurted out by accident, ' How does this man know that we're investigating Jane Monroe? '

The man then looked at the two girls and gave out a small laughter, after he composed himself he began to talk, he first introduced himself to the two girls sitting in front of him.

The man then stood up, took a deep breath and said in a deep raspy voice, " My name is Agent Nakamura, and I have been investigating the case of Lady Monroe for 10 years now but I have never gotten to far with the investigation " max then asked quickly " why haven't you continued? "

He then looked at her and said " it is because there's someone who's been messing with the evidence, at the crime scenes and with my paper work, so I couldn't go further and crack the case since - " he was cut off by Lucy when she quickly finished his sentence " since the murderer is either still alive or has people working with him that have been sabotaging your work, am I right? " said Lucy, Agent Nakamura then just nodded his head and once again said " I believe that there is someone in the police force that is working with the murderer who killed Jane Monroe all those years ago and I also believe that this wasn't just a simple murder but something more messed up "

Lucy and Max then looked at each other and nodded, max then asked " Can we help you with the continuation with the case? We have found a lot of things which might help you and you have some things that might help us and if we join forces, we might be able to solve this case which hasn't been solved for so many years. "

The Agent had a second to think about the offer, he then looked back at max and nodded, he said he needed help and he knew that he couldn't do it on his own.

Max and the man then shook hands, after that Max and Lucy left, going back to the academy and back to their friends to share the new information that they have gathered.