CHAPTER 7: COOPERATION

I left the forest and went where the others are. I saw the dead bodies that went missing and some rotten bodies. I guess that they are the ones responsible for that girl's death.

I also saw cars coming, many are reporters and some are the relatives of the victims. Once they saw their bodies, they immediately run to them and hug them while crying.

One car gains my attention and that's when my tears start to shade my eyes. My aunt runs to my uncle's body and start to cry, hysterically. My tears start to flow out and I can't stop it.

"Scar, we need to treat your wounds now," I heard Captain Li say. I wipe my tears and nodded. We headed to the medics and start to treat my injuries.

After a few minutes, they finished treating my injuries. Captain Li come to me and we sat in silence until she broke it. "Won't you continue to cry?" She asked.

"No, not yet. It's not the right time," I said while looking at my aunt.

"So this time, will you tell me the whole truth that you're still hiding  from us?" I look at her then look again at Aunt.

"If it's to end this, yes," I said looking at her seriously.

"Let's go to the station then," she stands up and looks at me.

I also stand up and follow her. The first game is already ended, it's time for the next one. The next target, Lady Griffin.

We reach the station and went inside. Captain Li guide me to the meeting room and let me sit there. I sit down and she also sits down. I saw almost her whole team also there.

"Will you tell us, how do you know when the killer will kill someone?" She asked.

"He told me," I answered.

"Told you? Why? Isn't it going to hinder his plan?" One of the male police asked. There is one male officer and two female officers including Captain Li. I don't know where the other guy is since he is not here.

"Because he wants to play with me," I answered again.

"Can't you explain in a way we can understand?" The female said and I nodded.

"Before this thing happened, I received two messages from two different person. One was threatening me while the other one is weird. Clearly, the threatening one is from the killer you caught earlier. He told me he wants to play with me where I'm the protector and his the killer. At first, I disregarded it since my friends like to prank me with this kind of stuff when they change their numbers. The next thing happened, he killed four of my classmates. That was the first time I got scared of something, but I need to calm down to think clearly. After that, he texted me again saying I failed and he will give me another chance. That's why I take everything seriously. I thought to tell it to my uncle since he is also a police but.....he also killed him. And you know the rest of it," I explained.

"About the message you received, can you show it to us?," Captain Li asked. I pick out my phone and gave it to her. She opened it and went through the messages. "You said there are two of them. And based on these messages, Reaper is the one we caught. Then, what is this Lady Griffin's involvement in here?"

"He was the one guiding Reaper. He managed the footage of our school and deleted the scene where Reaper killed someone to not raise suspicion," I replied.

Captain Li was going to ask something when the door opens and revealed one of Captain Li's team. "Captain, I found the data of the man who killed the students in the Grove Sage Academy," he said.

He placed the man's picture on the whiteboard along with the victims and his daughter. "The man's name is Morgan Lane, he's 48 years old. His daughter Talia Lane was killed and raped by Margaret's friends. They are also the rotten bodies we found. Looking at Margaret's body figure and Miss Smith's, he mistook you as her that's why he taught that Margaret is still alive along with her friends that's why he tried to kill you. Based on his job, he can't afford to buy the gun he used to kill, the weapon he used for the rotten bodies was different. They died after getting stabbed multiple times and the forensic found that there was damage in their skull. This cause the victims to lose their consciousness making it easy for him to kill them. On education, he was not capable of hacking the system to erase the footage of his killings. It means this case wasn't solved at all," he explained.

"Well, this answers the problem I was supposed to ask you. Also, we already know that someone was helping Reaper, Brent. That's our topic right now. Now, let's proceed to the next problem. Who is Lady Griffin? And what is his purpose on you?," Captain Li said.

"Who knows? Criminals' mindsets are complicated," I replied.

We fall to silence and think why Lady Griffin helping Reaper. If he is interested in me why is he doing this? We are so deep on thinking when the door suddenly opens again gaining their attention while I'm still thinking.

"My baby!!!!," Captain Li screams gaining my attention.

That's when I saw a very handsome man. He was being hugged by Captain Li. "Oh my god, I completely forgot that you are coming back today. I'm sorry, my baby. I got busy solving a case and...,"

"Mom, Mom, it's fine I understand. And by looking at it, the case seems still not solved," he said.

"Well, we already have solved half of it and now we are solving the next half,"

"Can I also help?"

"Sure sure, sit down. Having one more head is easier than one,"

While they are talking I was back to thinking. It's not the time to think about someone handsome now. I don't know why but I feel like that guy was staring at me. I'll just ignore him.

"I think this Griffin person is interested in or has a romantic feeling for you," I suddenly look at him and found that he is also looking at me. "But the question is, why is he helping this Reaper guy? That's the question running through your head, right?"

"Y-yeah," I stuttered. Not because I'm flustered but because he managed to know what I'm thinking. It seems this going to be easy if he is also involved with it.