When she arrived there, she rang the door several times and it is only after ages that Erie opened rhe door amd said "Oh Bella! Please excuse my rudeness, I was in the bathroom. Do come in." Erie gestured with her hand to show her in. They sat in the sitting room and to break the silence and awkwardness in the atmosphere Eri proposed to prepare some tea and discuss the matters over it.
"Umm, at what time did Samira disappear? And what happened?" started Bella.
"Oh Bella dear, you do not have to worry. The invesgigators and myself will do the necessary, I'm sure that Samira will come back to us safe and sound, God bless!" answered Eri looking rather down but trying to hold it in.
"But I want to help! Samira is my friend and my parents were the greatest detectives of Japan before they died. And I'm the only one who escaped unscathed from 'Jack The Ripper'." insisted Bella and on hearing the last statement Samira's mother was gobsmacked.
"What? Did he try to kidnap you too? But how did you manage to escape? Young girl please explain it all now and I shall explain it to the police investigators later. If that is indeed the case then in order to solve this puzzle I rather think that your help shall prove to be vital!" Said Eri in a high pitched tone.
"Well he simply couldn't calture me as I defended myself with my martial arts cultivation skills but sadly I could not do him in as it was too dark and he was too fast, felt as if his eyes were like a cat's that sees very clearly even in pitch darkness to be honest." Explained Bella hands on her knees and head lowered, her eyes stared at her hands as if regretting not being able to catch her kidnapper and arrest him right there and then.
Bella's parents were indeed the greatest detectives of Japan and Europe; They were Mr. Niall Scarlet and Miss Kiwako Kudo. They fell in love while working on a most mysterious case in Osaka and soon got married. They settled in Japan for some time where Bella was also born amd Bella's Japanese name is Akaibara which means red rose but shortened to sinply Bara which means rose. Shortly after Bella's birth they moved to England for some work and stayed there. After five years of Bella's birth, they were brutally murdered by two eerie men dressed in black whioe they were on duty. Bella's parents once met those men and investigated them, so they needed to silence anyone getting in their way. Apparently they were using code names and their identities were unknown. According to their investigations those men were working for an unknown organisation that was displaying suspicious activities. And from that day, Bella's ambitions were to continue and finish what her parents had then started.
The men spared Bella's life as she was only five at the time and they thought her to be way too young to understand the situation let alone remember the incident clearly, but this is where they were wrong. Bella was a born genius and they sure did not anticipate that.
After the death of her parents, Bella starved herself for two days in a row as she was bewildered, horrified and gilled with the strong desire and thirst to avenge her dear parents one day. She so promised to herself that she will definitely finish what they had started and make sure those men are punished for their crimes by law.
What is more puzzling about this affair is that two days after the funeral ceremony was held, the corpses of Niall and Kiwako vanished and no one ever found them, till today this remains a big unsolved mystery and Scotland Yard declared the case closed despite not finding out the truth behind this most peculiar mystery and the case and investigations records were kept as classified information.
"I see, pretty interesting. Do come back tomorrow after school, the police would be here, explain what happened to them. I understand your feelings, you're free to continue what your parents started." Said Eri.
Upon hearing this Bella wa thrilled and thanked Eri with a big hug and proceeded to go back home. Bella lives in the historical mansion her parents left for her. The mansion of the Scarlet family as her great grandfather and grandfather were both Earls. Tjis big mansion has so much scope for the imagination and is actually full of mysteries and complex traps for thieves, odd mechanisms working with light and glass, clocks to open basement doors and similar things. Living in such a place on one's own is a little scary but intriguing at the same time.
That Wednesday night was rather gloomy too and Bella was barely able to sleep;tossing and turning about, constantly thinking of the maneuvers of the so called 'Jack The Ripper' as she was sparring with him in the dark. He was good and was able to move swiftly in the darkness, so she clapped her cheeks with both hands and threw her feet in the air while pledging to lot let him slip away the next time she faces him and that she should start cultivating her martial arts in the dark as well; oy using sensory receptors in the skin to register the sense of touch and for the adrenaline rush in order to sense whenever she might be attacked, in whatever directions. One also has to master the art of observation in the dark that is observe the sounds of one's opponent's breath, heart beat and moves.
The next morning Bella awoke before dawn to start her cultivation. After some hours that felt like years of intense training, she headed for the kitchen and prepared breakfast which were some fried eggd, bread, some butter and black tea with milk and brown sugar. She then came to the sudden realisation that it was too late to attend school while preparing her tea and had already missed three periods. Stay at home it was and train some more. After much vigorous and intense training blindfolded she found out that she did great progress in only four hours and had some kimbap that was carefully stored in the fridge the previous day for lunch. She then practised football for the next two hours as her football team had to represent the school for an intercollege football competition. She then took a quick Shower and rushed to Eri's apartment.