Ken Jamieson got everyone's votes when it was time for the students to pick their suspects. The first time someone was getting a unanimous vote. They were all joyful when Strauss turned on Ken, his gun raised. They thought all their woes were about to end, that with Ken's death, they'd finally be released from this hellish imprisonment. But what none of them had prepared for was to see Ken's limp body thud against the floor, life gone from it; to have Major Strauss turn around with a vicious smile on his face and pronounce that they'd got the wrong person again, that Ken Jamieson, unfortunately, had not been the Angel of Death either.
Nike was devastated.
The rest of them were scared.
Distrust spread like a wildlife—having a life of its own.
If Ken wasn't the Angel of Death, it meant the lie detector had itself lied. But how could that happen, unless the device was rigged? Why would the device be rigged, unless someone had predetermined the result of the voting. Did that mean all the previous voting session had been rigged as well? Could the EV itself have been tampered with? Was there someone who was playing with their lives and having fun with it.
But then Naftali Lake told them about the question Ken had asked him. About who Ken was wondering if the Angel of Death knew he was the Angel of Death. "If I'd known this was what was bothering him I'd have tried to help," he finished sadly.
This calmed the others down for a bit. Maybe the lie detector was right after all. Maybe it had just reacted to the uncertainty Ken carried inside. Maybe there was no one trying to pick them off based on their own criteria.
The calmness lasted for a very brief time, and then the fear was back again, bigger, more powerful.
Because if the lie detector had been telling the truth all along, it meant the real Angel of Death was an exceptional liar. That he or she was playing their own game, using them like fools. Whoever it was had no trouble standing back and watching the rest of them die. A liar like that could be any one of them. It could be someone they least expected. It could very well be their closest friend.
Or the truth was that the Angel of Death did not exist at all.
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Mystery / ThrillerONE OF US IS A SUPERKILLER The final year students of Dom Adams Public High has been called to school for a night class. They reach school to find armed soldiers in their classroom. Soon they learn that they are going to be put under a dangerous lo...
