Year 1 class c__________________
In the morning, Keiro reached her class earlier than usual and found that the class was empty except for Roju, who sat in one corner of class writing something. Keiro turned the chair in front of his desk and sat down facing him.
Keiro: "What're you writing?"
Roju: "Reflection letter."
Keiro: "Okay...Wait, what?"
Keiro took the paper he was writing and read it.It read like this...
_________'Dear Mr.Furoy,
I deeply regret my actions in the physics lab.I have never committed a mistake of this scale before. I realize that I have caused humankind deep pain as a consequence. If I had detected the ghost sooner it would perhaps not have disturbed me during my experiments. Hence in order to rectify my mistake, I have made a ghost detector the working principle of which I state below....blah, blah...'
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Roju looked on in surprise as Keiro tore the letter into pieces.
Roju: "Is something wrong with it? I was just trying to be honest without revealing the facts."
Keiro: "Honest my butt! Fury would think that you're making fun of him."
Mr.Furoy, their homeroom teacher, famous for his temper was lovingly called 'Fury' by his students.Mr.Furoy taught physics.
After Keiro had helped him write a somewhat touching reflection letter, Roju took out something from his bag. It looked like a watch with a dial.He handed it to Keiro.
Keiro: "What's this?"
Roju: "I made one for me so I thought I'll make one for Keiro too."
It had a white strap with a white dial.
Keiro: "How nice of you... It looks kinda cute." So Roju could make cute stuff like this too.
Keiro wore it on her wrist and noticed that the dial did not show any time. As a matter of fact, it looked blank.
Roju: "It's a ghost detector."
Keiro: "A what?" she said alarmed.
Roju: "It will turn red in the presence of a ghost." Roju looked proud of his new invention and waited for some appreciation.
If it turns red in the middle of the night or something it will scare the shit out of me, thought Keiro. She quickly removed the detector from her arm.
Keiro: "I already have Shimlee as a ghost detector, how about giving this to May Rusa?"
May Rusa: "Did you say a ghost detector?"
May Rusa barged into their classroom. If someone said "Ghost" somewhere, May Rusa always showed up from God knew where.
Keiro: "You sure have a good sense of hearing."
Rusa: "Give it to me please." she begged.
Keiro quickly handed it to her.
Rusa: "Can this thing really detect ghosts?" She asked examining the watch excitedly.
Roju: "Why don't you go to the physics lab and check it out for yourself?"
Yeah, take that thing away from me ,thought Keiro.
Rusa jumped with joy and ran to the physics lab to check the detector. Keiro looked on as Rusa left with her treasure.
Keiro: "I'll never get her."
Roju did not look very happy though.
Roju: "Is it because it does not give a detailed analysis that you don't want it?"
Keiro: "That's definitely not the reason, trust me."
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---Physics lab---
---7.50 am---
When May Rusa went into the physics lab, she saw that Mr.Furoy was inside, talking on his phone.He was standing facing the window with his back to her and hence did not see her coming. Rusa got inside quietly and checked her new ghost detector.It had indeed turned a bright red and this gave her a high. She was about to leave happily when she happened to overhear what the physics teacher was saying.Fury was talking loudly and seemed furious as usual.
Furoy :"So what if he died? You know very well what he did to me, back in college. Why should I attend his funeral?...yeah I get it, we were old friends and all but I hope you understand Rony."
He cut the call and Rusa left the lab before he turned around.
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---->GHOST CLUB
--->1PM
Rusa: "I've got news."
Keiro and Shimlee looked up at her, Berthy was sleeping as usual.
Rusa: "I got some major clue about the ghost." She did not like the thought of the ghost disappearing but she had to contribute to the club.
Shimleee: "Who is it?"
Rusa: "I happened to hear Mr.Furoy talking over the phone, someone was asking him to attend a funeral but he refused saying that the person who died did something bad to him back in college..."
Keiro: "Looks like this case has been solved already."
Shimlee: "But we do not know who this person is, we just know that the ghost might be connected to Fury."
Rusa: "That explains why the ghost is in our physics lab.So what do we do to find out? We can't just ask Fury whether someone he knew died recently, can we?"
Berthy: "You guys are too noisy early in the morning." He shifted around on his couch, complaining.
Shimlee: "It's 1 pm for God's sake."
Keiro: "Senior Berthy, with all due respect, you are our ghost club leader but why don't you help us solve our cases?"
Berthy: "The sun is too strong, please draw the curtains Keiro."
Keiro went to the windows and instead of closing them, she pulled the blinds apart so that more sunlight entered the club room and fell on Berthy.
Berthy: "Eh these kids..."
They won't let him sleep. They do not understand the true purpose of the ghost club.
He took a newspaper that lay near him and unfolding it covered his face trying to go back to sleep.
Keiro and the others sighed. Shimlee suddenly went up to Berthy and took the newspaper off from his face.
Berthy: "Hey I am your senior you know, why you kids have no respect?" he grumbled.
Shimlee: "It can't be..."
Shimlee was looking at the newspaper intently so Keiro and Rusa joined her to see what she was looking at. On the front page was the full-size picture of a man with a headline that read,
"NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING SCIENTIST LEVEON LEE NO MORE."
Keiro: "Yeah it was a car accident, he is that professor who won Nobel prize in physics two years back. Did you know him or something?"
Shimlee: "When did this happen?"
Keiro: "It's the paper from three days ago."
Keiro was an aspiring journalist who religiously read the newspaper every day before going to bed, so she knew.
Shimlee: "I remember Han Marsha saying that professor Leveon Lee was a classmate of Mr.Furoy."
Keiro: "So you're saying..."
Rusa: "Woah, is it a Nobel prize-winning ghost this time?"
Keiro: "It's time to do some active investigation."
She felt the thrill of a detective.She momentarily forgot all the bad happenings from the last few days.Keiro sat down and opened her laptop.
Shimlee: "Is searching Wikipedia your active investigation?"
Keiro looked up Leveon Lee's wiki and then called Han Marsha.
Keiro: "Hey Marsha, I need the list of all physics majors who passed in the year 2006, from bb university. Yeah, make it quick. Ten chicken wings? Okay. I'll add more if you get their phone numbers. Thanks, buddy."
Keiro hung up.
Rusa: "I think the person who called Fury in the morning knows something about it."
Keiro:"If we can get the number of that person, we can make a call and find out all about it."
Shimlee: "It's not like we can go ask Fury for the number. He already shouts many times in class that we are one weird bunch." Also, there were rumors going on about herself and the ghost club. Yes, there were several weird clubs in their school, but their club was considered the weirdest.
Rusa: "Even though we are perfectly normal."
Berthy: "Normal my ass." He turned around and went back to sleep.
Keiro soon received a message from Han Marsha with an attached document about the 2006 graduates from bb university.That was the year Leveon Lee had graduated. Keiro looked at the list and confirmed that Mr. Furoy was in the same batch. She tried a few numbers from the list, introduced herself as a journalist, and asked around whether Leveon Lee had some kind of feud with any of his batchmates.
"He was friends with one Mr.Furoy and one Mr.Keil, I do not know about anything else." said one of the batchmates. Keiro tried a few more numbers and got the same results. She just confirmed that they were friends but could not find out how they fell apart.
Keiro: "Now there is only one way to go, we'll have to try that number that called Mr.Furoy in the morning."
Shimlee:"It's not like we can steal Fury's phone..." Shimlee sighed.
Keiro looked at shimlee.
Shimlee: "No way..."
Keiro: "We'll just take a look, that's it."
Shimlee: "Are you crazy? We are talking about Fury here!"
Keiro: "This is for the greater good." Keiro convinced herself.
She tried to think up a plan to get it done.
There was a knock on their club room door and Rusa went to see who it was.
Rusa: "Hey Keiro, someone is looking for you." she said winking at Keiro.
When Keiro saw who it was she bit her lip. It was Jenden Pardo and his face did not look too happy.