"Aimi....Aimi...."
First of all, what caused her to be like this?
"H-how did I end up... Here?!" Lisa was confused.
"Wasn't I at the hospital, no, the factory?"
Sfx: scream
Scream....!
"WHERE WAS I...?!" She screamed.
Thud!
"Agh!" She fell towards the table,
Push!
Wham!
As Lisa wiped her hands off the table, a number of medicine tablets fell to the ground.
"What the hell...? Who kept these-"
Shock.
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Lisa widened her eyes in fear, as she
Suddenly remembered, everything, that had happened so far.
And why,
She wasnt with her brother.
"Ah, I get it now."
"It was that girl, no, she was older." She recalled,
Scratch!
As she Violently scratched htrough her head, her shoulder length black hair getting tangled within the grips of her fingers, she said
"Huff...Ayumi, you were so clever, to MAKE ME ASLEEP, HUH?"
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[Flashback]
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"Haah...haah..."
Pant.
"I-...i- ...."
"I KILLED A PERSON!"
"Lisa...but you-"
"I DONT CARE! I AM A MURDERER!" Lisa said as she scream on the top of her lungs, her chin looking up towards the skies.
Her hair covered her eyes, as her hidden eyes were bloody red from all those tears she had,
From taking a life.
"How could she...how could Aimi, ever, EVER KILL A LIFE? i-it just doesn't go with me that well!"
Pick...
Lisa picked up the gun again, as she pointed it towards her forehead and said
"Haah...if I can take a life, I should be prepared to also take my own life." As she slowly pressed the trigger,
"LISA...! NO!"
Slap!
"HAAAA!" Nina slapped Lisa as
"Are you crazy?! What the hell has gotten into you?!" Nina shouted, her eyes were widened in fear.
Until now, she had absolutely no idea,
That Lisa was the one to kill Harold.
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"Officers, get her." Nina pointed at Lisa.
"Wh-what?!" Lisa couldn't have guessed,
Her own friend betraying her?!
Grab!
"Explain yourself in the Jail woman!"
"No! But I-"
"There is absolutely no justification to let you roam free. You're the reason Aimi has won and Aiko has been unconscious." Nina said as she
Thud!
Fainted aftwards.
Though the heat of the fire was cooled down with the help of firefighters, the smoke inhaled by the people involved were still getting harmed.
Nina was one of them. She would be admitted in the same hospital as Aiko afterwards.
As for Lisa,
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"Your brother's in the police, and you do this?!" a police officer said as he handcuffed her.
"Bitch! I'll let ya know what it takes to kill our senior Harold! You were an accomplice of Minoru, right?!"
"Wh-what?! No! I-I, I was helping Aimi!"
"Huh?! So even you manipulate us into believing it's Aimi, just like that bastard Minoru?"
Slap! Wham!
"Gah!" Lisa was hit by the officers.
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"Is...there no saving me?" Lisa wondered.
What has she done? Was it even worth it to save Aimi,
And sacrifice her peaceful life with Aiko?
Perhaps she still hadn't realised, she was the one to be brainwashed by Aimi.
But she wasn't the only one.
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"That's enough officers."
Clap! Clap!
Stand!
"Yes, ma'am!"
A lady stepped in, who commanded the officers at the sight of her fingertips.
"That uniform..." It seems to resemble that of a student, not a police officer.
Who was she?
Lisa had the same questions.
"I believe Nina has gotten alot of Trauma that causes her to falsely believe it is Lisa who shot down Harold. Ah, while in reality-"
She countinued
"IT WAS MAI. DAUGTER OF MICHAEL."
Mai was dead, there was no reason to arrest anybody related to the murder of Harold at this point.
Free... Push!
"You're having an extremely lucky day woman." The police left Lisa.
"...th-thank...you"
Thud!
Lisa couldn't think of anything else rather than kneeling and thanking the one,
Who saved enough time for Lisa to atleast, meet her brother.
"I, I can't thank you enough... Whoever you are, I will use this time to meet my brother. Thank you-"
Stop!
"Oh wait, where are you going?"
"Huh?"
"I did not tell that you're free, I just lifted off the guilt from you." The lady said.
"Uhh, that's not-"
"If you weren't just lifted off the guilt, then why did you thank me just now?" She laughed.
She added
"I mean, wouldn't you be just prove innocent in a moment after? It just tells you actually did shot Harold, after all. I wonder how Aiko-"
"NO!" Lisa shouted.
"Whatever you do, PLEASE DONT TELL HIM!"
"Ooh~ is it so?"
The lady pushed her hands forward, as she cupped them a little and said
"I am Ayumi, a fine evening to you, Lisa." She reached for a handshake.
"Ah- i-"
The two met their hands in a handshake, they nodded a little as they exchanged their contacts to which Ayumi added a second later
"So, let's go back to your house?" Ayumi tilted her head in innocence.
"What? We won't meet..?" Lisa meant as in meeting Aiko,
To which Ayumi smirked a little as she said
"Ah, that? Well, he's in the hospital, you see~"
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At Aiko's place
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"Why are you cooking for me?" Lisa didn't understand what was happening.
What's with this sudden kindness?
"Fufufu~ just sit there and wait." Ayumi blushed.
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There was a loud yet awkward silence between the two. A moment before Ayumi talked about Lisa's 'murders' and right now she's cooking for her?
She couldn't understand that at all.
Suddenly, Ayumi added a conversation to ease their awkwardness
"Say, who cooks usually? Your brother or you?"
Blush...
Lisa couldn't have thought of this question, it became only natural for her to blush at it!
But still, she said
"Ah, it's usually him. Though I cook whenever he is tired~"
"I didn't ask when you cook. It seems you're a little spoiled." Ayumi said with a straight voice.
Frown!
"You could have used a little better words..."
"Someone seems sad, haha~" Ayumi laughed.
Ayumi sat down at the dining table, as she called Lisa to finally come out.
"Lisa, dinners ready!"
"It's evening..."
"You guys don't eat at this time?" Ayumi was confused.
"We don't."
"Manners! Where are they?!" Ayumi became flustered.
"Huh?" Lisa was confused.
"Don't you realise that eating at unusually.times affects your digestive system?!"
"How is that a manner-"
"It is!" Ayumi shoved a napkin to Lisa's face.
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"Thank you for the food...!"
Both of them began eating.
"Do you feel any better?"
"I don't, I have to visit him." Lisa indicated at visiting Aiko, who is hospitalized as of now.
"Uhh" Ayumi failed, it seemed.
"Well, Do you know how families eat?" Ayumi countinued.
"That's so random-"
Shove-
"Huh?!"
Ayumi shoved a spoon into Lisa's mouth, as she whispered next to her ears upon leaning closer to her.
"Families, are very sacred relation. You see-"
Pull!
Ayumi pulled back at her seat
"I don't really have a family. I do have a father, but he's drowning in money. It's like a cash dispenser for me. He doesn't behave like my father, haha~" Ayumi she'd a little tear as she said.
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Blush....
"U-u-UWAAAAA-"
Lisa couldn't help but blush at what Ayumi had done to him!
"Y-youre..."
Badump, Badump
Suddenly,
Lisa felt as if she would fall apart.
"A-Ayumi...i-i...I don't feel good-"
"LISA!! ARE YOU OKAY?!" Ayumi panicked!
"Don't worry, I'll save you!" Ayumi said with a determined face,
As she rushed outside the place.
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"...Ayumi..." Lisa reached her hand for a glass of water.
Thud! Shatter!
Which fell to the ground as she failed to pick it up,
"You...did not have to...care for...me"
Thud!
Slowly, Lisa's eyes started to close.
Lisa slowly accepted her fate as she recalled
"The smoke...it got me... Huh?"
As seen previously, Both Aiko and Lisa had problems with fire smoke. Which caused them to go unconscious.
Only difference was, Aiko reacted immediately to the smoke, while as for Lisa
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Giggle...
"Ufufu~"
"I realised that a little bit of sleeping pills paired when you're in a critical condition can, infact, help you get fizzy and unconscious! Oh my~" Ayumi giggled at what she just thought.
"Y...you're...evil...I'll get you-"
Sleep...
And slowly,
Lisa was in deep sleep.
While Ayumi left, she locked the doors as she said.
"The inheritance papers, it's not here." She sighed in disappointment.
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And that's how,
"That bitch, SHE-"
Bang bang bang bang!
"OPEN UP! HELP! IS SOMEBODY OVER THERE?!"
Lisa banged helplessly at the door, hoping somebody would recognise her and open the door.
But unfortunately, there was no help.
"Shit, what do I do?!" Lisa said as she grabbed her head. Her head was still fogged with a painful headache due to the sleeping pills.
***
After a few hours, she began smiling.
Her smiles went upto her frowning face as she clapped both of her hands together forming an evil conspiracy she has planned of.
"I have got it figured out now." Lisa smiled.
"Aiko, I will FIND YOU. AND SAVE YOU."
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Chapter 61: False Statement
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"So, your statement begins. Now." Rei said with a cold voice.
It was clear that they were being deliberate, but inside they had this feeling that
"We already know they are innocent though."
"Shut up! Can't you let them speak first?!" Rei scolded Takumi.
Huff... Huff...
"You're crying?!" Ryou was surprised.
How on earth does a grown man
"Aww, you cry like a kitten! So cute!" Rei blushed.
"What?!" Ryou said in disgust!
"Come here my cute plushy bear! Let me hug you~"
"AWW~ YOU'RE SO EDGY~"
"I will be forever your edgy senpai~"
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"..."
Ryou witnessed two grown men hugging each other.
"We should do that too, sometime~" Aimi became suggestive at the sight.
"No! Never! Don't even think-" Ryou protested.
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Ehm, Ehm
"The police will show NO MERCY to the suspects. Which includes both of you." Rei came off tough.
"We will use each methods of torture to get out the statement form you." Takumi changed his personality in an instant!
"Yeah yeah..." Ryou, who has just witnessed them like that had no idea how to respond in this skewed situations.
"Fire the questions at us, then~" Aimi nodded her head as she went with the flow.
"UWAAA-" Her charms were enough to panic the two officers!
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"First of all, Ryou Aikawa, how many maids were there when you came. And how many maids were there when Aimi told them to leave."
"Ah- that, so there were Rosa, Isabella, Nina, Susan and three other maids." Ryou replied.
"And after Aimi told them to leave the mansion, as per your requests?"
"Ah, that was-" Ryou stuttered.
He was prepared. But he feared, if he slipped up his mouth,
AIMI WOULD BE IN JAIL.
"?" Aimi looked at him with a look a curiousity, she acted as if she had no idea,
But inside, their thoughts met each other.
Do not worry, confidence is they key to lie~ is what they told each other.
B-but, I have never lied... How do I?!
Shh, just think of yourself, in a canvas.
A canvas?
A blank image came to the scene,
Aimi went upto Ryou's shoulder as she tapped on it,
"So, what's on your mind to draw about?"
"I- I don't know?!" Ryou stuttered.
"As a kid, you were a great artist!" Aimi smiled.
"But... How does being an artist relate with lying?!"
"Fufu~ don't you know, Aritsts are great liars?" Aimi said as she smiled.
This scene was Ryou's imagination. Or perhaps a place where Ryou and Simi's thought met to each other.
The scene was just as white as the canvas.
In the ceiling, a picture of sky could be seen. Yet not the actual sky.
Ryou looked behind him, only to see Aimi, in a completely white color-schemed maid dress.
Suddenly, the statement,
Aritsts are great liars,
Clicked to his mind.
As he said with great curiousity,
"W-what..what do you mean?!"
Aimi smiled a little, as she said
"Arists have the ability the draw whatever they want, and they can create as many scenes as they could. Someday you could draw me naked~"
"I promise I wouldn't!" Ryou stuttered as he blushed.
"But that's just your morals interfering, no? In reality, if you were to be a liar, you could easily draw me naked and present it to the world. That's just how liars are~" Aimi said as she flowed towards the canvas, taking the brush into her hands.
"Look up!" She exclaimed.
Ryou looked up,
"That's.. a painting of the sky?"
"Exactly. Could you tell if it's the realy sky or no?" Aimi asked
With what there was previously told to Ryou,
Aristis are great Liars, they can draw anything and present it to the world, even if it's not real. It's their morals that stop them.
(author's note: I have great respect for Art, I do not intend to hate art or artists, this perspective have been used to correlate with the art of lying, for the story purposes.)
Though very wrong and controversial as it seemed Ryou, he took it to his consciousness as he said
"But, this painting doesn't decieve me! Didn't what you say earlier make it a lie?"
Giggle~
"Fufufu~ I just drew a canvas, and lied to you! That's exactly how an artist does it too~"
"What do you mean-"
Ryou could not understand, how did this relate to lying?
"Lying at a specific place is what makes it believable. Making a sky at the ceiling won't decieve you, but a hidden lie, like everything I told you just now, can easily be believed~ and that's how, people lie!"
Ryou understood what it meant.
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"To tell a lie, is to make it believable at a time when you couldn't have expected the person to lie. Drawing a sky in the ceiling isn't believable, but making someone believe that drawing sky in the ceiling could be believe, is the art of lying."
"Aikawa, what are you saying?" Rei was both bored and confused.
"Ah! Nothing!"
"Hm?" Aimi wondered,
What had Ryou just thought in his mind, did Aimi ignite the right fire in him?
"You see, Minoru killed Rosa that day. For safety me and my maid Aimi ran into my room for the night, a few days later Minoru poisned Mayuri as well!" Ryou lied.
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There was a silence.
Did Rei and Takumi believe Ryou at all?
He was shaking. He was nervous. He feared.
Until, suddenly,
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"MY NIECE, YOUR MAN IS A GREAT CHOICE!"
Takumi teared up as he hugged Rei again!
"Come here my plushy bear, I will hug you again~"
"I might just squish out, you know~" Takumi blushed.
"Aww, you'll become my squishy bear then!"
The two grown men were at it again.
"Uhh, these are your uncles?" Ryou wondered.
"As a child, my father was their accomplice, or a colleague. I used to visit them, so I kind of became the whole office's daughter."
"Are you sure they are police officers? Like real ones? Like the male ones-" Ryou was in disbelief.
What the hell was he witnessing?
"What do you mean, boy?"
"UWAAA- HE'S BACK TO THE TOUGH POLICEMAN-" Ryou got frightened ot of the sudden!
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Rei and Takumi were great friends,
"Takumi...! My love!"
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Really great friends.
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"I shall name my son after you!"
"My friend Rei there's a problem!"
"What is it dear Takumi?!"
"My...I have a daughter! Not a son!"
"So what? We will name your daughter with my wife's name then!"
Very Close friends. Almost like brothers.
That wasn't important to Aimi,
What was more important that,
"If I ever die. Find my daughter and love her as your niece to death, please..." Lee was once requested.
Rei and Takumi had a sense of responsibility, and overprotection for Aimi, they couldn't just easily trust someone like Ryou, who was a rich businessman.
"You're sure you're not a loan shark?!"
"I am very sure of that, sir!" Ryou said he kept sweating!
This didn't feel like an interrogation,
Rather like asking Aimi's parents for her hand!
Did he succeed?
"Huff...huff... I see, Takumi, I think it's time we give our niece, our dear, to this hunk of a man~" Rei cried as he wiped off his ears with Takumi's hankerchief.
"When did that occur?!" Ryou was confused!
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"Mister Ryou Aikawa and Miss Aimi Inoue, you're officially free to go."
"Really?"
"Yes. We just did the formalities, ah, actually, we had an idea that you guys were always innocent. We are extremely sorry for all the trouble." Rei bowed down.
"Ah, no- it's okay!" Ryou wasn't afraid, and was confident that Aimi is no longer suspected, same for him aswell.
Rei leaned onto Ryou's ear as he said
"Don't dare you hurt her."
"Y-yes sir!" Ryou said in fear~
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And time went on, it was late evening.
"Ah, it's around seven pm, Ryou, are you hungry?"
"I don't think I am." Traumatised Ryou said with fear.
"Fufu~ were they that scary?" Aimi blushed.
"Scary? They looked like they would end my life right there."
Both were walking towards their home, Though Ryou would easily get tired.
"Ugh, I am used to a car-"
"Wait, Aimi, why were Takumi and Rei that close to begin with? They seemed like a coupleh"
"Dummy! They are married!"
"To each other?!"
Ryou was in disbelief!
Stare...
"Ofcourse not. Takumi's wife is Rei's sister. And Rei's wife is Takumi's distant cousin, that's why they are really close." Aimi explained.
"That makes sense, so they were always a pair huh?"
"Why, are you jealous that we aren't pairs?~" Aimi teased onto Ryou.
"Shut up~" Ryou blushed at the question!
And so, Ryou and Aimi walked their way home.
Even though Ryou had a smile on his face, and a relieved voice, Aimi could see the pain in his eyes. The pain of what he has lost as s a son that his father had given him
This, alone, was unbearable for Aimi.
What also was unbearable for Aimi was
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At Aimi's Place, the hall
"KISS. GIVE ME A KISS." Aimi formed a circle with her lips closing in together, as she closed her eyes and reached out to Ryou's lips~
Smack!
"Awww-" Aimi caressed her lips.
"Is that the first thing you think of when you come home?!" Ryou blushes.
"Yess!!!" Aimi dances on her toes, waiting to play with Ryou~
"Ah, no. Let's wash ourselves first-"
Wham! pin!
"Who do you think you are to tell me when I can use you or no?"
Aimi pins down Ryou to the sofa, as she placed her knees between his two legs and grinds them further.
She covered Ryou with her scent, her hair and most importantly,
"Be covered with me." Her bra.
"You're too perverted for this-"
Smack!
"You're way more perverted. Making me ask for it when you clearly want to do it with me, right?"
Aimi stared down at Ryou with blank eyes, waiting for a response that satisfies her.
Ryou, who has faced this side of Aimi, alot, knows what to say.
"Uhh, I don't really know. I care about retrieving the mansion back a little more so we can-"
Unfortunately, Ryou was a little dumb this time.
Slap!
"Ow- what was that for-"
Smooch, Kiss!
"Mmf-"
Aimi forcefully invaded Ryou's mouth as she pushed her tongues into his lips, instead of intermixing their tongues, she began licking and delivering her saliva, covering his mouth into her saliva~
"Aughf- thatsh dishgushtingh-" Ryou moaned.
Aimi grabbed Ryou's cheeks as she
Squeeze!
Squeezed them to extract more of his tongue into her mouth,
She forcefully placed his hands into her chest, asking him to fondle it as he likes.
"Come on, knead them to whatever shapes you'd like, Ryou~"
hug! Squeeze!
"Augh-" Aimi quickly wrapped herself around Ryou, which made Ryou's finger accidentally pinch Aimi's chest's 'sensitive' spots~
"Ahn! Haan" she moaned.
Pwaahhhhhh
As she broke the kiss, she looked at Ryou with a drink expression,
"If it's the mansion that you want..."
She countinued
"I will help you get it. If you..."
Ryou sounded curious to what the deal was, as he heard
"If you do what I'm about to tell you, just now~"
To which, Ryou replied
"I'm ready to do whatever you want, what is it?"
He thought it was related to what they were doing just now, but suddenly,
Aimi broke the predictions.
"What I'm about to tell you to do, is not related to sex~"
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At the Hospital
It was early young night by now,
As the news anchor reported.
"A dead body has been found infront of the hospital at the seventh Street."
To which, a patient said in horror
"Wait, we are in the hospital, at the seventh Street-"
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Outside the Hospital
A person had just comitted a murder, they threw the body at the bushes as they entered the gate.
The words that were heard by the other guards were,
"Aimi, you should have helped me."