They both met up after 30 minutes. "So, you got any info?" said Trevor.

  "Yes," Misty Explained everything to him. "Do you have something?"

  Trevor crossed his arms. "Hmm, the Info I got is correlated with yours.

  "What do you mean?" said Misty.

  Trevor revealed his findings to her. "Did we just find our culprits?"

  "I guess so, but let's not get to that conclusion just yet because apparently the kidnapper was kinda stalking us, so maybe they..."

  "...are trying to frame someone?"

  "Yes, let's try to gather more proof."

  Present

  Vincent and Ralph are now back home. 'So this time, it's the real one,' Ralph thought.

  "Hey Ralph, you are quite enthusiastic to catch the killer recently," said Misty.

  "Ofcourse I am," Ralph looked at her sharply.

  "Yo bro, calm your eyes, or else I will..." she walked closer to him, "bulge those out," she smiled cheerfully.

  "Hmm, sorry."

  "So, what did you find out?"

  "Misty, you know what-"

  Ralph stopped Vincent from saying anymore. "Why should we share our findings with someone who won't do the same to us."

  "Okay then," Misty shrugged, "you don't have to..."

  Vincent looked at Ralph. "Are you going to keep it a secret? Now my doubts are starting to get stronger, you really are the kidnapper I guess."

  "That's not it, anybody could be the second kidnapper, I don't want them to.... think that they have gained power over us. Also, didn't you say that you like me because you think I'm the kidnapper, if I'm really the kidnapper shouldn't you be shutting up. I'm not saying I'm the kidnapper though...."

  "Hmm, I don't really care either way. Let's just say you aren't the original kidnapper, does that mean you trust me and that's why you told me this of all people."

  'Not really, but this guy joined me so I had to tell him.' "Yes."

  At night

  Everyone was eating dinner, suddenly Misty got a call. "Oh, it's from Uncle Fred, I will be right back."

  Misty came back after a minute. "I got bad news."

  "What is it?" said Mary.

  "Another kidnap has been registered."

  "Is it the first or second kidnapper?" said Ralph.

  "Well, Uncle says that there are signs pointing towards it being the first kidnapper."

  Ralph came back to his room after having dinner. 'Is this person trying to frame me for what they did? They are such a pain in the ass,' he smiled creepily, 'if this person wants me to kidnap, I will just fulfil their wish.' He put his hand over his head. 'No, what am I thinking, I have already decided to stop.'

  He then got a message from the second kidnapper.

  ???: Check your spare phone.

  'I see, they want me to make sure that they are really after the kidnapper. If I checked my spare right now, you can confirm that I'm the kidnapper, quite clever of you...' He smirked, 'I have just the right solution for it.'

  He went to the living room and called everyone over there. "I want to tell you all something important."

  "Hmm, what is this important thing?" said Misty.

  "At first, I didn't want to tell you this because I don't know who's real and who's fake."

  "I can definitely see who's fake," said Trevor.

  "Stop it Trevor, you can keep your speculation for some other time. So what I was talking about was..." He showed the chats to them. "Whoever the original kidnapper is, should just come out at this point, this second one has lost it."

  Everyone was dead silent. "I guess you are all confused about what to do. Well, the only thing we can do right now is to go to sleep. It's too late to do anything," said Vincent.

  Everyone went to their rooms. When it was midnight, he got out through the window wearing a hoodie and slowly reached the window side of Vishnu and got down. 'As Misty said there are blind spots for the camera. However, no matter how sneaky someone is, the camera will definitely catch someone going out, how did they get out that day. Like the camera can't exactly capture which side I came from neither my face, but the camera captured nothing that day.' He walked out of the house and walked for quite a while, then stopped and dug his spare phone out. "Now it's time for me to take a look at what my buddy has in stock for me."

  ???: You should have already guessed that it was me who kidnapped this person.

  Ralph: Ofcourse, I know it's definitely not me, so it has to be you, duh.

  ???: But now everyone will think you are the one behind it.

  Ralph: Not anymore, I'm texting them that it isn't me. Like, they know that this is the original kidnapper, maybe they won't trust me. However, they will put you in the blacklist too, that's a win for me.

  ???: You can't anymore.

  Ralph: What?

  Ralph's phone screen suddenly went black, and letters started to show up. 'Hacking succeeded.' He tried to turn it on again, it turned on but he wasn't able to use any of the apps. He ran back to the house. 'Is it... Is it Trevor? But will he go that far?'

  He got back to his room the same way he got out. 'If I'm right, that fake kidnapper is trying to...'

  He took his real phone out and opened the suspects group chat. 'Yes, I am right.' There was a message from his spare number in the group chat

  ???: I think you guys heard the news already, I'm here to confirm that it was indeed me.

  Tomorrow, you will get another news, and that won't be a pleasant news either.

  'What do they mean...'

  He wasn't able to sleep the whole night. At around 5 am, Ralph got a personal message from his spare number.

  ???: Hey, I have a surprise for you on the front door, come and see.

  Ralph quickly went there, when he reached there, he saw a body. His eyes fluttered. 'Wh..what is that? That's not a corpse, right? This guy isn't so out of his mind to kill a person, right?' He gathered his courage and hit himself. "Whatever it is, I have to face it." He went closer to the body and flipped them, it was the body of a lifeless man. "Who's.... this?" The man's body was very cold.

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  "Ralph?" he heard Vincent's voice from behind. "What is.... this?"

  "You have got the wrong idea.... it's... IT'S NOT ME!"

  "Why are you here?"

  "I got a message.... and when I came here, I saw this corpse. I swear, it's not me."

  "It has to be the kidnapper's work, and you are the kidnapper!"

  "HOW ARE YOU SO SURE?!"

  "I have got so many hints from day 1!"

  "I don't care if you think I'm the kidnapper, but don't think of me as a killer."

  "Huh, but the kidnapper and the killer are the same person, right?"

  "I think... I think it's done by the second kidnapper. I don't care about anything anymore but whoever did this needs to be punished, it's very evil."

  "You aren't making any sense here." Vincent called everyone to the spot.

  "So you're telling me, the second kidnapper did it?" said Misty.

  "Yes, Forget about the kidnapper, he never did something like a murder, but this person is a much bigger threat."

  "Hmm, Ralph, could you give me your phone? I want to see the said Message."

  "Uhm...Here but..." he handed her the phone.

  "But?" She started to look through the chats. "Nothing is making sense here. You are saying the second kidnapper killed this man but the message you got, the message in our group chat, all are from the kidnapper."

  "The kidnapper's phone was probably hacked or something..."

  "And how do you know that?" said Trevor.

  "Ralph, can you come with me for a while? I want to talk to you about something," said Misty.

  They went a little farther from everyone else. "What do you want to talk about?"

  "You just admitted to me that you are the kidnapper," she whispered, "only you and I know someone ever hacked your phone."

  Ralph's eyes widened. "You are..."

  "Yes, I definitely am," she smiled. "You have won but there's a catch now, they won't find me without finding you, you are going to take this secret to your grave. I will give you more proof now. Your spare phone is back to normal now, you can see my new message."

  Ralph smiled. "This strategy again, but I am really not the kidnapper."

  "You think it's my strategy, just go and check your spare."

  He went to his room when nobody was looking and opened his chats.

  ???: I'm Misty.

  Now you know it's not a strategy.

  Along the way, I realised you were right.

  It's more fun being the villain, now I don't even care about catching you.

  The police arrived after a while. Fred questioned everyone one by one. It's Ralph's turn now. "Sir, what is more important to you, justice or your personal feelings..."

  "Hm? Justice I guess."

  "Then I want to tell you that... Your Misty killed this man. I am the first kidnapper... This is my chat with the second kidnapper," he handed him the phone.

  Fred pulled out the handcuffs. "Your plan worked," he handcuffed Ralph, "Misty."

  Moments before the truth or dare

  Misty was writing the name of everyone on the slip, she felt someone's presence and looked up, it was Vincent. "What are you plotting with this game?"

  "Nothing, I just want everyone to calm down."

  "I can help you with whatever it is. You know, I can't go against you."

  "I think letting you know just one thing won't hurt," she picked a lot and looked at him. "This lot will choose you, and once it does, you have to ask Ralph the thing I want."

  "Hmm, okay."

  Misty and Trevor were talking with each other in the CCTV room after the game was finished. "So far, Ralph is losing," said Misty.

  "Yeah, he reacted the worst to our questions. We still have to investigate more about everyone else though, because it could be others trying to frame them."

  "Yeah, we still need to have an eye on Ralph," Misty started to think, "I just got an Idea! Let's create a second kidnapper."

  "Second kidnapper?"

  She took her phone and dialled a number. "Mr. Scott, meet me at Medieval street, you have a new job."

  Misty and Trevor went to Medieval street. "So you want me to pretend to be kidnapped by someone?"

  "Say the things I told you when asked about their appearance, don't mess up, it's a very important mission."

  "Alright."

  The day they visited the police

  "Okay Uncle, we will come back tomorrow, but I have one more favour to ask of you," said Misty.

  "What is it?"

  "I want you to prepare a dead body for me."

  "That's almost impossible for me!"

  "Keyword, Almost."

  "No Misty, you aren't understanding," he looked at Misty and saw the determination in her eyes. "Alright."

  Present

  "You know, we were trying to gather info from all of you by talking to y'all. Eventually that helped us shortlist the suspects," said Misty.

  "One person was too indifferent towards us. That was you, you always tried to avoid convo with us of all people. That was our call to do two things. One, to strengthen our suspicions against you. Two, to have some helping hand, that helping hand was Vincent," said Trevor.

  Ralph chuckled. "I thought you liked interesting people."

  "Yeah I do, that's why I helped Misty," said Vincent.

  "When you decided to start investigating upon learning about the second kidnapper, that made us believe that you have a 60% chance to be the kidnapper," said Misty.

  "With Vincent's findings, we managed to come to the conclusion that your group has a 70% chance to be the kidnappers. On the day, the hostages were rescued, something Evelyn did raised it to 80%," said Trevor.

  "The involvement of Ralph and Jerry made it to 90%," Fred smiled.

  "Yes, Uncle Fred and you should have already figured that the hacking was done by Mr.Trevor the great."

  "Also, nobody got kidnapped last night, that was a bluff."

  "Alright, I admit my defeat, let's go, sir," Ralph walked to the car.

  Fred and Ralph got in the car and it drove off. Everyone looked at it while the car was going further, the wind was blowing just like every other day.

  "So, it's over," said Mary.

  "Yes, now, you are all free to go back to your lives," said Misty.

  "Well, let's pack our bags and go back to our homes," said Meera.

  "But this is my home though," said Satoshi.

  "I was talking to others."

  "Hey wait, we should all actually stay here for one more day. We should celebrate," said Annie.

  "I want to go home. I don't know why but something in me keeps telling me that, but since someone like Annie wants to celebrate this somehow, I'm in," said Mary.

  "I feel it's best to go back," said Catherine.

  "I feel the same way," said Misty.

  "I agree," said Trevor.

  "Me too, also I have something important to do so I am leaving either way," said Cheng, "I will leave around 10 am."

  "Okay bye then, we will celebrate without you," said Annie.

  "You seem like a completely different person, Annie," said Cheng.

  Everyone decided to stay for one more day. Trevor and Misty looked at eachother and sighed.

  Afternoon

  Misty was packing her bags and saw Satoshi walking towards her. "Hey."

  "Hey, good job on catching the culprit."

  "Please don't give me compliments. I don't know if I should be sarcastic or be nice in such situations."

  Satoshi laughed. "Sorry then."

  "Thank you very much for letting us use this house, or should I say mansion, without any hesitation, you are really awesome."

  "You are doing the same thing that you said you don't like."

  Misty chuckled. "Hm, sorry."

  At night

  "Wow Satoshi, You really did decorate it royally," said Misty, while being amused by the decorations.

  "Since everyone said that they want to celebrate, I decided it should be extravagant...."

  Misty got a call from Fred at that moment, she picked up the call. "Did you call me to give me some bad news? Is it something like Ralph running away?"

  "It is definitely bad news, but it's not the bad news you think it is?"

  "Then, what is it?"

  "I need your help, yours and Trevor's. One for the proofs and stuff. Two, and the MOST important one, I need an alibi for the usage of the corpse we just used. Oh god Misty, I keep getting in trouble because of you."

  "Okay I'm coming with Trevor," she hung up the call and looked at Satoshi. "Well, I can't get part in the celebration because I have to go."

  Trevor heard this. "Too bad, but have fun," he grinned.

  Misty smiled. "Yeah, too bad," that smile went to Rage, "for you and me both. Now, come with me!"

  "What? No...." Misty dragged Trevor outside with her.

  The party started. They all ate the best food and drinks, played a few games, danced, sang, and did everything they could do.

  Mary was standing outside and looking at the night sky with the beautiful moon and shiny little stars. She heard footsteps behind her and looked back. "Oh Alex."

  "It's a beautiful night today," said Alex.

  "Yes, totally unlike me," her eyes softened.

  Alex sighed. "You might not be beautiful like the moon but...."

  "Hm?" Mary looked at Alex.

  "... I like how you aren't the most beautiful girl in the world. I like how you aren't that smart. I like the fact that you get annoyed easily. I like your loudness. I like.... everything which is you. I love you! Mary."

  "What?"

  "I have been observing you ever since you came here. You are so kind, you are just so amazing. Will you give me a chance?"

  "You are saying I only have faults to love," Mary rolled her eyes.

  "No! I was saying I love everything about you. I just said that you were kind. Mary, I can say a million other things-"

  Mary chuckled, she then leaned in and gave him a kiss, it was only a few seconds long but it definitely delivered her love for him. "Now, we are officially dating," she smiled and ran back inside.

  Vishnu was in his room looking outside through the window, the wind was blowing hard, his hair blowing with the wind. 'Hm, it's quite windy today.' he thought. "Well, I like it anyways." He went dead silent as the wind touched his hair and made it fly in rhythm. 'Maybe tomorrow's the day when I will see the day... I have been chasing for years. I lived 28 years, waiting for it to arrive in my life. From tomorrow onwards, I can finally live a life with peace.'

  The next day

  Misty and Trevor came back home after clearing everything in the police station.

  "Your Uncle had no reason to ask for me. He's as shit as ever," said Trevor.

  "Okay, I will tell him that for you."

  "I was just kidding..."

  Misty unlocked the door to see someone from their group lying face flat on the ground still, in a puddle of blood. Misty and Trevor looked at each other in terror.