118The Knights Diary
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"talking"
thoughts
Let the Case Begin
"This is interesting" as Aru scrolled through the application. "A diary that's tells the future huh?"
Looking to his cell phone, he was rather intrigued about everything he was seeing. But as interesting as it was, he didn't quite understand its significance or the meaning behind some of it. Looking at the current date, he held his chin. "Judging from the text, it seems . . . . fractured in the way it's written". Just looking at a few of the entries, two things were clear to him. The first fact was that the entries were written in his grammar style as if he were writing himself brief clip notes. Second, if the first was true then it was like he was in a hurry when he wrote this. Of course he speculated that this was all a very well orchestrated prank by someone with a weird sense of humor. When he thought about it, it didn't take much to set this up as all the perpetrator really needed was a good understanding of his psychological background and a good computer to hack his phone with. But whatever it being, it was still a case that he wanted to get to the bottom too. Reviewing the data once more his eyebrow arched at this, "two months worth of entries huh? I wonder why?"
But looking at today's date, he read it to himself in the exact format it was written in. "Yukiteru Amano, first diary user. In danger. Construction Yard, 40th floor. Takao Hiyama, third diary user. Perpetrator. Yuno Gasai, second diary user. Will come to help him. Important! Must make contact and monitor them!"
Of course there was a bit more to the entry that he didn't quite understand. But it was something he had to look into a bit later. For what was important now was confirming the validity of this entry. Looking at the time the entry was made, it was right after school. So he had time before the aforementioned event was supposed to happen. "I guess that will give me some time to think about this case for a bit".
~ Aru's school (lunchtime) ~
"Hey! Isn't that Aru Akise?"
"You mean that boy detective geek?"
"Don't talk about him like that! I think he's rather dreamy" as the three girls then began fawning about this fact.
Aru Akise was rather well known at his school. Aside from being physically adept and having a rather bright mind, the boy detective was an all around charismatic. Anything Aru put his mind too; he was capable of achieving it. For the boy detective could have easily been president of the student body much to the insistence of his peers. However Aru enjoyed his free time seeking out cases to solve, people to help, and the gratification of solving a puzzle no other could. What set the standard of Aru's popularity was when he solved the case of the missing students to which he discovered the culprit was none other but a teacher at the school who was a serious head case who kidnapped students for his own twisted needs. But where the police failed, he succeeded as he not only rescued the students but captured the demented teacher before he could do anymore harm.
"He's so cool isn't he?"
"Maybe we should try talking to him this time".
"Don't, when he sits in that corner he's usually doing a case" to which with that the girls gave a nod too as they left.
Now at this time Aru contemplated the current facts of what he did know about his current case. "According to the first entry, before the construction yard it's states another time and place predating the one mentioned before almost like a side note to the main clip notes" to which he shook his head too. "I can't really investigate this as the time mentioned is also after school. So it can wait till later". Now with this out of the way, Aru contemplated his second scenario. "But who can possibly want to set me up with something like this? To what end are they trying to achieve from doing this?" From the few entries that he read, it didn't appear to be a trap. Judging by what was written; no one could have known him this well to set up such an elaborate scheme. But nonetheless, more data was needed to which he had to wait after school to see.
~ Business District (after school) ~
So following the earlier time, Aru soon found himself in a shopping area. As he stood there, "I wonder what's supposed to be important about this?" to which a moment later felt a thump as someone bumped him from behind. The boy detective then turned about to see a boy around his age as he seemed to have been in a hurry. "He seems rather cute", "Hey are you OK there?"
"Uhh yeah yeah" he stuttered. "I'm needing to be somewhere right now" to which he looked to his cell phone again only to seem more panicked at his already heightened state.
Aru blinked at this. "Wonder what's wrong with him". But then scanning the boy over, he found a name which quickly caught his attention. So reading over his diary to double check, he then looked to the boy "are you Yukiteru Amano?"
Upon that question, the said boy looked like he had seen a ghost as he quickly began to run away.
At this sudden action, Aru didn't have time to react. But as he watched the meek boy run, it quickly became apparent where he was running off too. "He's going to the construction yard! He's going to get himself killed there!" So wasting no time, he was off to make certain his diary's prediction would not come to pass.
As this was going on, a certain pink haired girl was watching just around the corner making certain to keep out of sight as she was confused to what was going on.
~ Construction Yard ~
As things went Aru was running like hell to beat him to the fortieth floor. But looking from the ground floor, he not only saw Yukiteru on one of the elevators but another one heading up right next to his exactly one floor behind him. "A man in black? He must be this third diary user! The murderer!" So quickly going through his options, his next action was clear. "There's no way I'm going to reach him in time by elevator. I'm going to have to run it!"
So jumping on the stairs, he raced up as fast as his legs would allow him. But as he climbed the stairs, he quickly assessed the situation. "By the time I reach them I'll be too tired to do anything useful". Then at crossing one of the floors, a particular construction tool caught his eye. " . . . . That'll do".
Then finally reaching the supposed floor of Yuki's death, he saw it. "Oh no, I'm too late!" At that moment, the man in black took aim with his sword as the meek boy cowered in the corner too scared to do anything but stand there and die. So aiming with the pneumatic nail gun he had acquired, Aru had only one shot to get this right. "I've done the math. With the psi this tool has, I should be able to injure him from thirty meters away" as he aimed the tool. "Here we go!" to which the nail flew. But upon impact, the nail deflected off as if nothing happened. "Body armor?"
At feeling that flick, Takao Hiyama user of the third diary took notice to the new arrival. "Who is this? My murder diary didn't make any mention to him. No! He must know something about me! I can't risk the chance of him getting away!" Then taking a brief glance at the meek boy, "he can wait" to which he now charged the boy detective with his sword.
At this advance, Aru gave his current aggressor a look over as it became apparent to who he was. "The phantom killer huh?" But as this was going on any normal kid his age would have been freaking out as naturally no one would be calm if a man twice your height carrying a big sword was planning on killing you. However Aru wasn't any other person as he kept his wits upon him as he had a plan.
"Why is he smiling?" But disregarding this, Takao lunged in feeling his sword making contact as his current victim looked somewhat defeated. "You're dead" he then sneered.
"No, I'm afraid not. But I think you might be in some trouble" as he soon side stepped to reveal that not only did the psychopath miss but he ended up skewering a junction box.
"No!" he howled. With his sword and suit being a good conductor, Takao found himself in immediate pain as thousands of volts of electricity passed through his body. As this was happening, his cell phone began to burn up before it eventually exploded in his pocket to which in a scream of pain the third diary user Takao Hiyama was gone as his corpse was never to be seen again.
Aru's eyes went wide at the phenomenon that had just occurred in front of him. "What just happened?" but then shook his head at this as he still saw the meek boy still shivering in the corner. "I better see to him first". So making his way to him, he kneeled as he gave him his hand. "Hey, are you OK?"
"Yeah . . . ." he stuttered. "Thanks for saving me . . . . Who are you? And . . . . How did you know who I was?"
"The name's Aru Akise, boy detective and I knew your name from my diary. Although it was by chance I think that you bumped into me like that". But then looking to where the third diary user used to be standing. "Do you know what's going on? Or why the phantom street killer was after you like that?"
As Yukiteru was about to speak, "it's because we're all part of a game to see who will become the next god of time and space to which the last one standing will be the winner".
The boys then looked to see a pink haired girl walk out from the elevator wearing a smile as she looked to them. "Yuno!" Yuki exclaimed questionably. "Why are you here? What is going on?"
With that, she explained it all.
~ Neighborhood ~
"So that's that. I'll take care of rest and I'll definitely watch over Yuki with my diary" smiled Yuno.
"Thanks once again for saving my life" said Yuki as he rubbed the back of his head.
"No problem. It just happened to be part of a case I was trying to solve. But it all worked out for the best in the end. However there is still much to do" as Aru then turned to leave.
"Thank s once again" as Yuki waved him good-bye before he too turned to leave to which Yuno happily gripped his arm as she walked side by side with him.
But as she did this, she turned back giving the boy detective a blank stare. "Aru Akise . . . . How can he be here? This didn't happen in the last timeline. I was the one who was supposed to save Yuki from death, not him! But then he had a diary . . . . How is this possible? . . . . I'll need to consort with Muru-Muru later" to which she then turned back smiling to Yuki as if not having a care in the world.
"I need to be careful of her . . . ." thought Aru cautiously. Something about that pink haired girl bothered him on many levels that he couldn't understand. The way she behaved, how much she knew about the current event and just something about her smile that seemed off. To some degree, he felt that Yuno girl knew all the answers to all the questions he had concerning his current case. Aside from losing out on the 'fun' of solving this case himself, he didn't trust her and for good reason too. For as he opened his cell phone to read his diaries side note, it was all too clear. "Do not trust Yuno Gasai . . . ."
To be continued . . . .
Author's notes: This concludes another chapter to which I hoped everybody enjoyed. I also want to apologize if my grammar seems bad. But I am trying to which I do have a beta-reader and things aren't always perfect.
Now for the story itself, I'll be getting to Tsubaki soon in one or two chapters. I just need to get pass some of the ground work in order to get there.
So thank you for reading and I further extend my gratitude if you can review it as well.