The morning ended in a flurry. I was going to the kitchen to cook lunch when Corry stopped me.
"You are tired after all this. I'll do it."
"Never mind. You are also exhausted."
"No, no, I'm fine."
He sounded concerned about me, but maybe he's just worried that I'll poison the food.
Even so, nobody wants to have lunch. It's understandable.
"Hey."
I was tidying up the dishes, Hearty said to me:
"Can you come to my room later?"
After washing my things, I went to his room. I knocked on the door, but for a long time there was no reply. I was about to knock again when the door finally opened.
"I'm sorry, I was talking to my cousin," he said, slipping his phone into his pocket. "she lives in the north, but it seems that the police even went there to ask questions. "
We sat on chairs. He dropped his eyes and spoke as if to himself.
"As much as I had thought about having witness a murder in my life, I never thought it would be one of my family. World is never a good guy, I always think he is a bad guy. If it's not with our father's help, he'll be in jail lots of times. Still, he shouldn't be murdered like this. He doesn't deserve it. Who killed him..."
He held his head. I didn't say anything. Finally he looked up at me.
"Amanda, if it were you, you would have solved the case. Please, catch the man who killed my brother."
"4500USD. Can you pay it?"
He stiffened for a moment, and immediately replied:
"I will pay. Even if it means that I need to work for my father's company after leaving graduate school."
Such a good guy.
"I'm just joking, you don't need to pay me anything."
My profession is prostitution, and detectives are just my hobby.
"So it's a YES!"
"Yes. Although investigations can only be done during leisure time."
"Of course!"
"But I think this is a crime within you all. Perhaps one of your family members will be found guilty of murder because of my investigation. Are you okay with this? "
He clenched his fists on his knees.
"I also think it may be an internal crime."
"All right. So let me ask you some questions as a detective now."
"Sure."
"Have you received any instructions from Gunars about how to explain me?"
"Yes, saying that you are a friend of Gilbert or something. But you saw him first time yesterday. "
"Yes, first time meeting."
"Why does my father do this?"
I asked him if he knows who has the motivation to invite me here, I told him Gunars didn't invite me. At the same time, I have been watching the expression of Hearty, he looks purely startled.
"Ah, a letter. The reason ... if you are the target of the killing, it would be understandable, but you're not. "
But it seems that he did not consider the possibility of serial killings. Isn't it possible for me to be killed next time?
But I had no reason to be killed.
No, really? World and Gilbert said something strange to me last night.
"Speaking of last night ..."
I told Hearty that Gilbert and World came to me last night.
"Do you know anyone who hates World?"
"I've heard all kinds of bad comments, but I don't know the specifics. "
"What are you doing between 2 am and 4 am today?"
"'Sleeping in my room."
"Me too."
"I said the same to the police. So this time zone is the time when World died?"
"Most likely." I left his room.