The Unforeseen I English I One-shot

The Unforeseen

"I'm going to give you until Tuesday to find me. Don't worry I'll stay on where I am standing, take your time. Tick tock tick tock," the recording said and she crazily laughs until she gasps making her stop. "Oh before I forgot, I leave some clues, my dear. Fluke!"

And by that the recording abruptly ended, leaving me speechless. Leaving no trace of who is she. Witch!

I'm ranging in anger while looking in an urn, full of determination. To think that it happened two days ago already and here I am, still finding the answer for this code engrave in the urn.

Vengeance. That's the only word running into my mind in the past two days and two sleepless nights. What a shame.

I clenched my fist with ranging teeth while looking at the codes surrounded by many crumpled papers. My poor little brother, Evan. She doesn't have a heart in killing my only remaining family. What did I've done to her to make my life this miserable?

I sighed and continued to try other ciphers in decoding the code while massaging my head. Coffee is the only thing that is making me awake at this time.

I already tried Base Eight, Clock Cipher, Rot13, Polybius Square, and many more but this code is giving me some headache for two straight days. I wish I listened to my father when he taught me how to analyze a code so that I can easily identify which cipher I should use.

I write again the codes on a clean piece of paper to try another code.

EUEANOIYNPMWULEDLHHAOSIAEERNANCRREYRTEEEEOOHIOYVU

I'm going to try the Atbash Cipher and I hope that this is the cipher I'm looking for for the past two days.

Atbash Cipher is one of my favorites. Having a simple pattern, I can easily create a code for a person. Thanks to my mom and dad who happens to be a big fan of the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and the famous detective in the world of anime, Detective Conan, for teaching me a variety of codes.

A=Z N=M

B=Y O=L

C=X P=K

D=W Q=J

E=V R=I

F=U S=H

G=T T=G

H=S U=F

I=R V=E

J=Q W=D

K=P X =C

L=O Y=B

M=N Z=A

I just hope that this will work on the codes. My little brother's justice can not wait for more.

So E is to V, U is to F, E is to V, A is to Z, and so on.

While writing on it, I noticed that it doesn't make any sense at all. Another cipher, junk straight to the trash bin. What a trash.

Ugh! I'm getting out of ciphers. And today is my due date to hunt that witch. I crumpled the paper and throw it on the ground then I take another sheet of paper and browse the internet to find another cipher when I heard a knock on the door.

Seriously? I don't have spare time to entertain a visitor at this moment. But the knock is unstoppable so I go to the door of my unit and open it only to see someone whom I'm not familiar with. I stare at a man who's wearing a hoodie while playing a lollipop on his mouth.

"I'm so sorry. It seems like you knock on the wrong door," I simply said and was about to close the door when he blocked the doorway by his hand and without my permission, he opened it widely, enough for him to go inside my unit. "Hey!" I called him but it seems like the trespasser is deaf. Feel the sarcasm, please.