Chapter 3
“Cola, your order is to find a woman named, Miyano Shiho before the Black Organization,” ordered Horovimocic. “Her codename is Sherry. We know that she is living in the Beika-area.”
“We need her help to make another drug,” said Cure-kun.
“And to get another lead on the black organization,” added Horovimocic.
“I will find her. But the FBI is on my tracks right now,” answered Cola.
Cola hung up and called a number.
“Who are you calling, aniki,” asked Fanta.
“8 times 8,” answered Cola.
Aeyra-chan came and glanced at the numbers. She smiled, and walked away. We all observed her. She seemed like one who thought about the meaning of life on Earth. We all looked at the numbers again. But, somehow it confused us every time we looked. We gave up and started thinking about food. It was late and none of us had eaten much.
“Maybe, we just need to sleep this through,” I said, hoping the others would agree.
“No, we can’t leave yet. I still need to explain the meaning of this dying message,” said Aeyra-chan with victorious eyes.
“Have you solved it then?”, asked Forever Lost surprised. “I was completely lost in those numbers.”
“Yes, of course,” answered Aeyra-chan. “First you need to take the numbers inside the brackets and add them up. That gives us this:
(2+5)+(10+5)+0+(1+2)+(1)+(6+6)+(5+7)+0+(7+13)+
(4+4)+(2+7)+(1+18)+0+(7+7)+(20+1)+(10+3)+(1+1)
+(2+3)+(9+9)=”8*8”
=
(7)+(15)+0+(3)+(1)+(12)+(12)+0+(20)+
(8)+(9)+(19)+0+(14)+(21)+(13)+(2)
+(5)+(18)=”8*8”
Then every number in the brackets symbolizes a letter in the alphabet. For example, 7 is the seventh letter or “G”. By doing this we get:
(G)+(O)+0+(C )+(A)+(L)+(L)+0+(T)+
(H)+(I)+(S)+0+(N)+(U)+(M)+(B )
+(E)+(R )=”8*8”
The zeros symbolize zero letters, or space. So now it is possible to line up the letters as words, resulting as:
"Go call this number"
Then we need to find the number. What’s left is “8*8”. Eight times eight give us 64, but that is irrelevant. In order to get 64 using eight times eight is a second option. 8*8 can also be written as:
8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8.
What we need to find is a phone number, so I suppose the number is:
88 88 88 88.
That is the trick… We just need to call 88 88 88 88. Wasn’t it easy?” ended Aeyra-chan.
“No it was not that easy, but I understand it when you say it like that. It seems like it’s the truth,” said Kudo-kun.
We called the number. The receiver was a man called L’easy. He was hired by Kid the Phantom Thief to help the FBI. L’easy told us that we needed to visit a woman named Chelseaj500. We also found out that a mysterious man, called Cola, just spoke with him and that he was provided with the same info as we were. A scream made us hurry up. We ran up the stairs only to find a man, who was stabbed with a knife. What should we do? Leave them alone and visit Chelseaj500 or solve this murder. Cammy, Aeyra-chan and I wanted to visit Chelseaj500 while Detective Kudo, Misaki-chan and Forever Lost wanted to solve this murder. We came up with a brilliant idea. We split up.
(Looking into Misaki-chan’s eyes)
“He is already dead,” said Kudo-kun. “Call the police, Forever Lost.”
“I am the police,” said Forever Lost seemingly angered.
“But we still need backup,” replied Kudo-kun scared.
The investigators arrived soon after. I gave some cookies to the dead man’s wife. There were three suspects. The first suspect was the wife, who is 1.50 meter high and was in the kitchen, and was married to him 10 years. Her motive would be to obtain an insane amount of money from the life insurance. The second one was his brother. He was 1.60 meter high, worked with creating knifes. His motive was that he had borrowed a lot of money from his brother. The third was the wife’s brother. He was 1.80m, worked as a fisherman. His motive was just that he hated that man. The victim was president of a small company. Not many hated him and whatever he did it was always for justice. He was 1.70 meter high and strong. He could easily defend himself if not for the fact he was approached from behind and stabbed in the chest. Who was the murderer?
(Looking into Hano’s eyes)
We drove as fast as we could towards Chelseaj500. Could we make it before Cola?