The Mystery

AB's Aquarium?

(3rd person POV)

The doorbell of the mansion rang, disrupting the peace and quiet of the surroundings. A servant went up to the door and opened it, only to find himself standing in front of the two detectives who had become quite the frequent visitors.

"I'm afraid your arrival is fruitless, since the master has left for a business trip and the young master isn't at home either ."

"No worries, today we've come to meet you and the rest of the helpers."

"I see, then do come in" he stepped aside to let them enter, before he shut the door.

"How can we be of help?"

"We would like to know more about the young master's girlfriend. How was her behavior? Where did she live? Anything that you may know."

"I'm afraid I don't know the place of her residence. And regarding her behavior, she was quite the well-mannered lady, she was kind and polite, not only towards the young master but us as well. The other day one of my fellow helpers brought her kid to work and he spent his entire day happily with the young lady."

"I see...is there anything else?" asked Cilan.

"Oh! I almost forgot, the young lady had dropped this a few days ago, I've been looking for a chance to return this to her" he said, handing them a card from his pocket.

"AB's Aquarium" it read.

"If we find the chance, we'll return it to her. Thank you for your co-operation."

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"AB's Aquarium...let's hope to find something here" said Ash as he entered the building and looked around. Multiple fish tanks with numerous kinds of fish that were swimming carelessly, or so it appeared to be.

"You never know what sort of stress fishes may have" Cilan said.

"Huh? How could you tell what I was thinking about?"

"Not difficult to guess a lazy detective's thoughts."

"Who's lazy?!"

"Anyway, let's ask around, I happened to have saved a picture of hers from that clip we received"

The two headed towards the help desk and asked the lady sitting over there, "Have you ever seen this young lady?"

"Oh! Isn't this...uhh...I can't recall her name, I've barely seen her but she works here...I think."

"That enough! Get back to work!" said another employee who appeared to be her senior.

"My apologies, she's a new recruit, she doesn't know when to not mention irrelevant stuff. And about the girl in the picture...I haven't really seen her. She's not a regular employee here either. Have a good day."

It was clear that the detectives were not welcome for further investigations. The words of the lady kept lingering in their minds. Something was amiss.

"Let's go back for now, I have a plan" said Ash.

"Oh? May I know what it might be?"

"I'm afraid not, it's something I shall carry out of my own, your involvement isn't required. After all, I must prove that I'm not lazy. Drop me off at my home now, will you?"

"Alright, have a good time investigating then. I have certain things to do as well."

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(Ash's POV)

"When you said you wanted me to hack into a system, I expected it to be me doing it from my own place and not me breaking into some building to access it!" said the one next to me.

"Don't worry, I'm accompanying you, am I not?"

"That just doubled my worries!!"

"Calm down"

"I can't! This is trespassing!!"

"You won't get caught, don't worry."

"I'd rather not be in a situation where one has the chances of getting caught! That's it! I'm leaving!"

"Don't! I very much require your help. If not you, then who? How can anybody else's skills beat yours?"

"...fine"

'Yes! Persuasion worked!' I thought to myself.

We carefully sneaked in through the emergency exit and made our way into their manager's cabin that I had managed to pinpoint before leaving the building with Cilan. Thankfully there was no one to be heard. The young hacker sat down and started with his 'god knows what' procedures and managed to unlock the system while I kept watch at the door.

"I found something, this is the one right?"

"Yes she's the one!" I exclaimed as I looked at the screen.

"Let me get a copy of the details then" he said. Soon after he handed me a pen drive and turned everything off.

"That went well"

"Thanks to my hacking skills."

"And my stealth!"

"Stealth? You merely stood at the door...in plain sight. You should consider yourself fortunate that no one was around."

"Anyway, thank you for your efforts! I really owe you one!"

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(3rd person POV)

"Have you had fun interfering?" asked Cilan.

"Hm? What do you mean?"

"I heard from Ash that you didn't let him investigate the house of a possible culprit."

"Ah...that, I just wanted you guys to find some concrete evidence and not illegally break into someone's property. Besides, it's only the two of you requested to work on this case, a proper search team isn't needed at all. I believe that the two of you are quite capable, aren't you?"

"You...know something, right?" Cilan questioned, to which Drew merely smiled.
Cilan sighed and gave up on asking any further.

He arrived at his house only to see a certain someone grinning, at his doorstep.

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To be continued