Heavien felt pain in her back. It was as if someone had pierced something so sharp on her back. She let go of the pitcher, so it broke. The water spilled. She sat down on the floor because of the pain, and it got worse when she forgot that the glass pitcher had broken. Her right hand got wounded from the broken glass pieces. She stood up and composed herself. The killer is here.
"Who's that? Who are you? Show yourself!" She's threatening whoever it is, but she has an idea who— Jecko!
She picked up a glass on the floor and pointed it at whoever attacked her.
"You shall die," someone whispered.
She heard a voice...that voice was... "Argh!" Seyah?!
She heard a sound like there was a fallen, fallen body. She stepped away from the refrigerator and flicked the switch. Trembling, she turned it on and screamed at what she saw.
"Cy, what happened?" She heard a voice; it was Trake.
He approached her and turned to the body she was staring at, lying in front of her. Her hands and feet trembled as she stared at Seyah's body. Her left side is bleeding. Her eyes are open. But before she stumbled, because there were glass shards on the floor, it severed her left chest and sank into her flesh.
"W-We should ask for help. We need to save her." She searched around the kitchen to see if there was a first aid kit. "Hurry, Trake. Call Brenille for help."
"What are you doing?"
"She's still breathing. We can save her."
Trake clenched both of her arms. "She's a killer. This is a survival game. She planned to kill you."
"What happened?" Brenille squinted. "Are you alright?" He has woken up, scratching his eyes.
"Seyah is dead," Trake told Brenille.
"What?" he's in disbelief.
They only slept for a few hours, but another incident happened. She washed the wound on her hand and back. She wrapped the wound on her back. Trake wrapped her right hand with a clean cloth. They went to Seyah's body in the kitchen. Brenille is currently perplexed.
"Can't you believe it?" Trake uttered.
"Yeah, at first, I really thought it was impossible, but right now... Yeah, she's dead." Brenille concluded.
They covered Seyah's corpse with whatever cloth they could find in the mansion. The three of them gathered in the living room to discuss Brenille's imagined possibility. She looked out the window, and it was still dark. They are still on a long journey. They gathered in the living area. She took the clock from the table. Its three hands are now pointing at number 6.
"I also noticed something earlier..." Trake stood beside Heavien. "Before we went to sleep, the hands were pointing at number 4."
She realized something from what Trake found out. She stared at them. The two of them must have gotten what it means. She already knows what this clock means! Its three hands point to who has died. The first to die was Leonthan (1st), so it pointed to number 1 earlier. A while ago, it was number 4 because Rochevel (4th) died. And now it is pointing to number 6 because Seyah (6th) died.
"I will now discuss with you why I didn't predict the death of Miaje, Seyah," Brenille began. "It's because I know that she killed Rochevel."
She stayed silent at what he stated as if the cycle of her world had stopped.
"What?" they both asked Brenille.
"I know you won't believe me, but I have my evidence." They listened to his deduction. "We all thought that Jecko killed Rochevel. By that kind of mindset that Rochevel's real killer planted into our minds, it will be his or her opportunity to kill all of us without suspecting him or her." Third has a point. "First, how did the killer get into her room? Second, when we saw Rochevel's body, there was no knife stabbed in her chest. Brenille, Seyah, Jecko, and I were the suspects for killing Rochevel because Seyah and I stayed in our rooms. We have no alibis. We deduced that Jecko was the one who killed First and is on the loose."
She also thought of that, that one of the three of them was the killer because she and Trake were in the living area. But she didn't judge the two, so she only accused Jecko of everything because he's the prime suspect.
"Rochevel knew the killer, so she let her come into her room easily. Seyah and Rochevel have known each other for a long time, and she trusts her more than Jecko. If Jecko knocks, Rochevel will immediately shout for help because everyone knows that Jecko is the missing killer," Brenille added.
"But Cy told us before that Jecko had a drill tool, so he got into Cy's window. He could also open Rochevel's window grilles by chance." Trake has something on his mind.
"That's right. But if Jecko drilled the grilles, Rochevel would wake up to the noise of the engine and still shout for help, so it's not possible." Brenille is deciphered.
Brenille continued. "Seyah may have stabbed Rochevel after she lets her in. Seyah is someone that Rochevel trusts even with the slightest chance compared to Jecko. Next, she stabbed her in the chest and killed her. Her room is adjacent to Rochevel's room. She called out to you and acted like someone who's seen a corpse. She also deliberately opened the door slightly to pretend to be passing by Rochevel's room. If she meant to go to Rochevel for any reason, she would be accused of being a killer. This explains why there's no knife left stuck in her chest. Unlike in the first crime scene, where the knife was still stuck in the chest. Why didn't she do that? It's because Seyah still has a task to do..."
"She's coming after us," Heavien added.
"You got it. She plans to kill all of us, and that's when she tried to attack you, Heavien."
Me?
"You were her second victim."
"But when I went to the comfort room, I saw her still asleep." Before she left her post in the living area, she was sleeping beside her.
"Acting is just a piece of cake. I think she was supposed to attack you when you exited the comfort room. But you entered the kitchen without turning on the lights, and that's when she tried to kill you."
"How did you know the light was turned off when I went to the kitchen?"
"There's blood on the light switch. When you went to the kitchen, you weren't wounded yet. Seyah attacked you, so you got hurt. That was the time you turned on the light."
Heavien was amazed at Brenille's deduction. She's aware that he is a good leader, but she didn't know that he's observant like this.
"Also, the stab on Rochevel was not big and long enough, so the knife used wasn't big enough either. Jecko was not the killer because his knife contradicts the size of the wound on Rochevel's chest. That proves that Seyah is Rochevel's killer, and the other proof is when she struck at you. "
"Does that mean there are two killers?" Trake pondered.
Two? Yes, the possibility is high.
Seyah killed Rochevel, and Jecko killed Leonthan and Seyah.
"Maybe, or maybe more than two. We still don't know Jecko's whereabouts, whether he is dead or alive. But there's something peculiar about that jerk."
"What is it?" Trake asked.
"When he killed First, he left his knife. Then, how will he kill the rest of us?"
She was horrified by the last thing Brenille pondered. It means that Jecko is really going to target all of them, but how is he going to do that when he left his knife on Leonthan's corpse?
"He could have taken that again from the corpse." Trake hinted.
That can happen. But what for? He could've just seized it right away after he did that to Leonthan. Is he that reckless to leave something so important? The tool that he would need to reach his goal.
For a moment, silence prevailed.
Brenille crossed his arms. He rested his chin on his right hand. "But one thing is for sure... One of us is the other killer."