Chapter 2: First Case, Aster Castro

"Woah! Woah!" Shin evaded the attacks that Kit gave him. He just got outside in his dorm but this girl is so hyped up and immediately throw an attack on him!

"Alright. Alright. I'm sorry!" Shin crossed his arms in front of his face to protect his nose. "But this time, I'll surely assure you that you'll love this codename."

Kit's fist was left hanging in the air, before she quickly draws it back.

"Speak." she shrugged her shoulders. "Make sure it isn't about mocking me or you'll forever lost your sight! I might as well punch your nose."

Shin raised his upper lip.

'T-this girl can be scary too!'

He rubbed his eyes before fixing his backpack. They're both wearing Elton High's dark uniform and now heading towards the next building where classes are held.

"Sun." Shin raised his head to Kit and let out a mesmerizing smile. "I've thought of that when I woke up. Your hair is as gold as sunshine, your eyes are as bright as the day, and a skin that is as white as a sunlight. So 'SUN' will be your codename."

Kit Lei feels like the whole world stops from moving after hearing those words. She couldn't hide the redness of her cheeks.

'Sun...' she muttered in her mind. She just couldn't believe that someone will look up to her like a sun.

She responded to Shin's smiles and formed a thumbs up. "Better!"

Shin was glad that she finally accepted the codename he made for her. "Well then, mine's SHADE."

"Huh?!! Why's that?" Kit's eyebrow lowered down and drawn together.

"Simple. Because I love black and unlike you, my hair is a pure black. I don't like wearing light clothes either."

Kit Lei was confused. So it turns out that he didn't like bright things. Why the hell did he said those words earlier?

"Black is too common so I used Shade, its synonym. But of course, I made it up also because Sun is an opposite meaning of Shade. That means, Sun (the lightness) and Shade (the darkness) are rival."

Kit rolled her eyes. "Whatever, Shade."

She turns her head down the building. Coincidentally, she saw a male student running outside the cafeteria of the school. She looked back to where was the male student is standing but instead, she saw a girl slowly sliced her neck with a kitchen's knife.

She paused walking and closed her eyes.

"What's wrong?" Shin asked when he noticed that she wasn't following him.

Kit inhaled. The cafeteria located down the dorm and class's buildings. The wall is made up of a glass so anyone can clearly see the inside.

"Your nose became red. Did you get your nostril's broke too?"

Kit grinned and headbutted Shin.

"Ouch, Sun! What's that for?"

Kit walked first and passed through their classroom.

"Hey! Your classroom is in there. Where are you heading to?"

Her mind was focused on the incident she saw earlier. She walked downstairs and went to the cafeteria itself.

"You are hungry? You could've just told me. There's still a bacon left on my dorm." Shin said in her back. She didn't expect him to follow her, well, she don't care.

"This is.." Shin uttered when he realized the cafeteria was sealed with tapes everywhere.

"Yeah, a case needed to be solve." Kit said.

"Silly! We can do this later. You'll be late for your class."

Kit rolled her eyes and amusingly smiled while watching those police who investigates the place. "Who cares about my class?"

She suddenly received a smack on her head. "Ouch! What's that for?"

"Solving a case at the time of your class isn't allowed. You'll be punished."

Kit once again rolled her eyes. "Who cares for the punishment?"

Kit only think of one thing. Another fun is coming on her life.

She treats cases as her comfort zone and as her playground. She solve cases to feel fun.

Shin uttered a sigh and let out his small pad and pen. "Fine. Where do we start?"

Kit was amused. "Oh? I thought you'll be punished if you solve a case at the time of the class?"

Shin quickly looked away. "W-well.. we're group now. If one must be punished, then the other one too."

Kit formed a smile and tapped his back. "Well then, write it down nerdy boy."

"N-ne-nerdy boy?!! You called me grumpy yesterday, and now Nerdy boy?! What the? My codename's Shade. You should address me like that, I'm still older than you!" Shin opposes.

"Whatever, grumpy nerdy boy."

Shin was 19 years old and Kit's already 16. There's a big age gap between them.

"Hey! What're you doing there?!" a police suddenly saw them standing next to the sealed cafeteria.

"We're caught." — Shin.

"Let's run!" — Kit.

Shin held Kit's hair before she could run. "W-whaaaat the hell! Let go of my precious hair!"

"League of Hawkshaw should act cool. We should never run in all the obstacle we will face."

She mentally rolled her eyes. Shade's crazy! What's wrong with running away from the police?!

"You two. You shouldn't be here. Students aren't allowed now to enter the cafeteria for a meantime." the police said.

"Hell yeah!" Kit said. The police stared at them for a while and..

"THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE?! GO BACK TO YOUR CLASS! THIS CASE IS OUT OF THE STUDENTS!" the police scolded.

Kit suddenly felt scared of the vibes this police gave her and hide in Shin's back.

Shin breathe heavily and let out an ID inside his pocket.

"I'm Galaxy's son. I'm asking you a permission to let us join this case."

Kit saw how the police gets really shock after seeing the ID which Shin showed. She's curious.

Who's galaxy anyway?

"Y-you are the son of the former Holmes! Of course, come in. We still lack of valuable information."

'Former Holmes? Eh? No clue..' — in Kit's mind.

They entered the cafeteria. The other police scolded them but when they know Shin was Galaxy's son, like the police earlier, their expression was priceless.

"Can you tell me what happened here?" Shin asked the police. Kit was slightly amused on his supremacy. But she's sure he's nothing but a student if it's not for his dad.

Just how powerful this Galaxy is? Even the police know him well.

"A student named Aster has committed suicide by slicing her vital organ." the police answered.

Kit suddenly excused to buy a food in the cafeteria. Shin nodded at her and took a stride to where was the victim committed a suicide. "Have you found any suspects?"

The polices both shook their head.

'Slow..' Shin uttered in his mind. He really don't like polices. They are just police in name but they don't give right justice to those who died.

"First, did you investigate her information?" Shin asked. The police gave him a paper.

NAME: ASTER CASTRO

AGE: 16 YRS. OLD

PLACE OF BIRTH: RUDOS VILLAGE, ELLA'S TOWN

CAUSE OF DEATH: SUICIDE

After reading the important details, Shin gave back the paper without reading her background information and asked, "Have you investigate the last person she met?"

"It's already 8:15 a.m. The classes already started so we, polices have no rights to investigate a student who's still studying at this time." one of the police said.

'Have no rights or is there something more?' he asked in his mind.

"Okay, so did you investigate where did the victim gets a knife?" after Shin asked those, he heard many gasps.

He's right. They still didn't investigated that thing. How slow they are.

"We still didn't investigated that, but I'm sure that kid stole the cafeteria's knife!"

"Yes. We also checked the CCTV footage in the cafeteria and we saw that she went inside the kitchen."

"It's not impossible for her to get that knife easily."

Shin gave an unbelievable expression on them. They still haven't had any proof. How could they say the victim stole the knife?

"Do you have any evidences that she stole the knife?" a voice suddenly interposed.

They saw a golden-haired girl eating a burger in a table.

It's obviously Kit.

"N-no.." the polices said in chorus.

"Then how can you accuse her for stealing? The girl committed suicide so of course she was depressed on her life that she even thought of killing herself! How can you accuse a dead person?" Kit glared at each of the polices and stood up. "You didn't even investigated the chefs in the cafeteria first. Do you even know that there was this lady named Fe Castro? She's the sister of the victim's father. Now you know why the victim headed to the cafeteria before the incident occured?"

The police's mouth were left half-opened while Shin let out a big smile. So Kit excused earlier not just to buy food, but to ask each of the chefs in the cafeteria.

'She's incredibly smart too, huh.' — Shin said in his mind. He's glad that he chose the right person to group with.

"Who knows, maybe she get the knife from her aunt?"

Kit Lei was provoked by that words and quickly grab the plate she brought and slammed it on the floor.

The polices were physically shocked when she broke the plate. Even Shin who was standing normally almost got a heart attack.

What was Kit thinking?

"If a plate was slammed in the floor, what will happen?" she asked the police who said those words earlier.

"I-it will get broken, of course!"

"Then if I tell you to pick it up and fix it again to its normal form, what will happen to the plate and your hands?" Kit sounded so scary that even the polices were scared at her voice.

"S-stupid! Of course it'll not go back to its normal form and if I fix it, my hands will get hurt by its sharp broken pieces!"

Kit formed a deadly smirk. "You answered it correctly. Now if the plate was Aster and you was her Aunt Fe, what do you think?"

The police's lower jaw juts out.

"Now, who are you calling stupid? Of course Aster is dead and she will never come back alive. Her Aunt is suffering on her sudden passing, how can she let her have a knife inside the cafeteria?"

Shin walks toward Kit's place and tapped her head to calm her down. "You did well, you can stop provoking him now."

Kit felt comfy when Shin tapped her head. She go back sitting and continued eating her burger.