Heavien is unable to mention the name of the boy in front of them without stuttering. It sores her throat and chest when she hears or mentions his name.
"You're out of your mind!" She got startled when Trake yelled at Leonthan.
"Scream as you want, and I'll kill as much as I want."
She was stunned by what Leonthan uttered. He even accompanied it with a grin. He's not the Leonthan she must have known before. He is very different now.
Why is he acting like this?!
So, this is what Trake meant about the promise. He wanted her to accept the truth that Leonthan is still alive, killing off others, and not to hate herself for trusting Leonthan when he is a culprit.
"I'll kill you!" Trake pulled his knife out of his pocket and was about to attack Leonthan when she interrupted and embraced Trake from behind to calm him down. "You bastard! Who gives you the right to kill our friends?"
As the rain gradually subsided, she cried on Trake's back. He restrained himself from attacking Leonthan. Her hands are shaking because she really couldn't believe Leonthan's behavior.
"I don't have any business with you, so don't interfere if you don't want your soul to be freed."
The way he talks and the way he means every word of it made her tremble. If Trake doesn't calm down, Leonthan might really do something bad to him. She tightened her grip on Trake because no one knows what he'll do next if she releases him.
"Trake, that's enough. Calm down, please."
"But-"
"Please, I don't want to lose another friend."
She loosened her grip on him when she felt that he had calmed down. She checked on him, and he seemed okay. They faced Leonthan again.
"Why are you doing this?" she questioned him earnestly.
So far, she has forgotten how she really feels in front of the person that she trusts completely.
"To win this tri-games," his simple, expressionless answer.
He was just like Jecko and Seyah. They are all desperate to win to the point of killing their friends.
"All came to be just as planned until that guy ruined it." Leonthan pointed at Brenille's corpse with his knife as blood dripped down its sharp edges and ends.
"Why? What did Brenille do that ruined your plan?"
"Why don't you ask that guy next to you?"
It appears that he's referring to Trake.
She glanced at Trake.
Did Trake have something to do with Leonthan's plan?
"Just as I thought... you're the first killer and the second killer is Seyah," Brenille grins.
He coindentally saw me sneaking outside of the mansion while he was reinvestigating the first corpse they saw.
"Audacious as always. Maybe next time I'll use a perfect method of killing." I smirked.
"A battle between two presidents, huh?" he murmured proudly.
"Don't sweat it."
"But a student council president is more competent than a class president. This is my sure win."
"Now that you decrypted the mystery... you will be the next mystery."
Without hesitation, I held my knife and targeted his chest. With just a little amount of force and just a scratch, he died.
"I was supposed to kill that guy first, but Brenille saw me. Brenille knew from the very start that I was the first killer," Leonthan revealed.
"What's with Trake?" she questioned Leonthan.
"The two of them already knew."
Trake and Brenille did? Did he know that from the beginning that Leonthan's a killer?
She gazed at Trake to question him using her reaction.
"I only found out when Brenille mentioned that one of us is the other killer. Brenille and I talked for a while, and he mentioned to me the possibility of Leonthan being alive. When he assured that one of us is a killer, I got mad because I couldn't believe that he is still alive. But when Brenille disappeared, it was confirmed. Then I made you promise me… that you'll accept this painful truth."
Now, Heavien knows what that promise really means. Trake made her promise him that she would be strong and resilient if ever she found out that Leonthan is a killer. He knew how close Leonthan and Heavien were, which made him do something tricky like that. Her tears welled up again.
Why did it take her so long to find out? How is she going to face Leonthan now?
She already knows the mystery that Brenille first solved before he died. The first corpse they saw, they thought was Leonthan's corpse because he and Jecko were the last ones to fight. But the truth is that it was Jecko's corpse; he is dead. He got beheaded, so they can't see whose face the corpse belongs to. Leonthan replaced Jecko's corpse, dressed in his uniform. Leonthan deliberately left the biggest knife stuck in the chest of Jecko's corpse so that Jecko would be mistakenly thought to have killed Leonthan, claiming that it was his corpse. But Brenille saw something, so he thought that the corpse did not belong to Leonthan. And that is the marking on the chest. Brenille saw that the marking on the corpse was 'Uranus' (Jecko) and not Mercury (Leonthan).
She has already figured out the pattern of their chest markings.
Leonthan (1st) - Mercury
Heavien (2nd) - Venus
Brenille (3rd) - March
Rochevel (4th) - Jupiter
Seyah (6th) - Saturn
Jecko (13th) - Uranus
Trake (19th) – Neptune
Another thing, when they saw Jecko's body, which is the first corpse, it was amazing that the hands of the clock were pointing at number 1, even though that corpse belonged to Jecko. That's because there are 12 numbers on the clock, and it has two meanings. The number 1 represents 1 or 13. It means going back to 1 or starting with the number 13. On Earth, it's called the military or the 24-hour clock times, where 1:00 PM on a 12-hour format is 13:00 in the 24-hour format.
The death of Rochevel: This time, the killer here is different because it was indeed Seyah, so she is the second killer.
The death of Seyah: She was Seyah's second victim. She planned to kill her in the kitchen, but someone went ahead of her, and her suspicion is... Leonthan killed her the moment she attempted to finish her. She saw that there was a small hole in the kitchen through which someone could go in and out. Her proof that Leonthan was Seyah's killer is that Seyah was stabbed in left side of her chest. Of the seven of them, only Leonthan is left-handed.
The death of Brenille: He killed Brenille because he already knew he was one of the killers. That's also what Brenille means: one of them is the killer. That means Leonthan is still alive, roaming around the mansion. There were actually four of them instead of three.
And now there are only three of them left...