Intertwine (Strings of Fate)-UNEDITED

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twnety-Five

(Kohei's POV)

I woke up by the bombarded sound of my ringing phone. I lazily pick it up in the bedside table. I push the answer button and I didn't look at the screen. "Hello?" "H-Hello, Kohei." I was taken aback when I recognize the voice in the other line. "R-Ritsu! What? Why are you calling so early in the morning?" I answered back. "Am I bothering you that much?" She said with sad tone. "N-No! Of course, you're not. What is it that you want to talk to me this time?" She pauses for quite some time before she answered again. "Uhm...I'll tell you later, can you come to the house right now?" I felt nervousness in her tone that it made me worried.

"Is there something wrong, Ritsu?" "I'll explain to you later...just come here, please?" "Ok, I'll be there in half an hour." I close my phone and stride across my room to the bathroom, after washing, I dress up and went outside toward our garage. I took my motorcycle key and hop on my bike I haven't rode for a quite a while. I strode outside our house as the morning breeze come touching my face and the sunrays gentle caressing my skin. It just took a few minutes to get to their house. Because their butler recognizes me, he let me in and I park my bike outside their house.

"Is that you, Kohei-san?" Just when I dismounted in my bike, I heard a familiar voice. "Riku-ossan!" "I thought you never visit us." "I really think so too." He walks towards me and pat my shoulder. "What brought you here so early in the morning? You want to visit Ritsu?" I scratch my nape to hide my embarrassment. "It's not like that Riku-ossan, it's because..." "Kohei!" I stop when I heard Ritsu approaching us. "Hey, Ritsu we are jus---." But before ossan say more. She grabs my arm and drags me inside their house. "We have something important to discuss." She said bluntly. "Ok, sweetie, enjoy you two!" Riku-ossan said while waving his hands. While on the hallway, we bump into Lisa-baa-san. "Oh! Kohei, it's been a while since you came into the house." She excitedly said. "H-Hey, Lisa-baa-san, good to see you again, I guess." "Are you doing some hom---." "Shhh! stop it and come on." She cuts her mother, drags me again, and pushes me inside her room. I heard her slam the door and lock it.

"So? What are we doing here?" "It's about that mafia thingy?" "Oh? Is it about Alexis?" She heaves a deep sigh before talking again. "At first yes, but when I heard the word 'Silver' something inside me want to dig into deeper..." She hesitates and looks around the room. "What is it?" "I think I heard it, about a mafia named Insignia" I felt that there is something bad is happening but I can't show it to her. I don't know what is this feeling but it gives me creeps. "W-Where, Ritsu?" "Ryu-nii-san...." She whispered. "What about him?" "I want to find the details about his death....otou-san and okaa-san didn't investigate nii-san's death, and I heard them talking about some kind of large group, or so I thought." "So, you want me to help you?" "Yes, if my hunch is right, it's not just a simple accident...and I want to know." "Ok, where do you want to start?" "At nii-san's room, after his death no one's been in his room." "Then, we should start there.

After resting for a while, we proceed to Ryuzaki's room just beside the library. She uses the key room to open it and lock it after we get inside. "There's nothing new here..." She faintly said. "It's been years since it happened, but why they didn't just clean up his room?" I inquire. "No, you're wrong!" Ritsu gasped. "What is it, Ritsu?" "Someone's been here, I don't remember that nii-san is being so chaotic in his things, and it looks like it's been disarrange just to find something." I agree on what she said, something is not right in here in the first place. "Ok, let's start our search also, before someone budge in inside." "Right, I'll search in the left side, you on the other." She instruct and I went on the left side where the study table and book shelves where place. I look at his things in his bookshelves but there is nothing usual about it, even in his study table, there are no tracks of secret compartment or what so ever. But, I found nothing. "Is there letters like last will of your brother to you?" I ask out of nowhere. "No, I don't but I have his notebook with---."