Erudition of Doyle: Volume One

CHAPTER 48: CASE VIII - THE MYSTERIOUS FRIENDS OF LITTLE SLYVIA

Case 8: The Mysterious
Friends of Little Sylvia
(The Investigation,
Part Thirteen)

ROSALINDA

I search Amanda's room to see if I can get any information about the case. Habang hinalungkat ko ang buong paligid, napatingin ako sa journal na nasa ilalim ng kabinet, na nakaipit sa ibang mga gamit na naroroon. I took the journal and began to read it, skipping unimportant information until something caught my attention.

This entry is about Crime Scene Cleaners. According to this entry, ito ang pinaka-unang trabaho, at May 8, 2008. After the police investigated the scene, they cleaned the house where the horrible and traumatizing event happened. A man, who was very poor and hungry, did something terrible to his eight family members. He wasn't thinking clearly when it happened; he unconsciously killed them, but they were no longer there—not because he buried them, but because of his desperate measures to fend off hunger.

Napahilamos ako ng mukha at ibinaba ang hawak na journal. I couldn't process the information I got; it was too much. I shook my head and took a deep breath before continuing to read.

Sabi dito, nakarinig siya ng mga ingay mula sa loob ng pader kung saan siya banda nagmo-mop ng sahig. She thought at first that it was probably a mouse or something, but when someone knocked from the inside of the wall—she freaked out.

Ngunit nagpatuloy lamang siya sa paglilinis mag-isa; her companions were in the bathroom cleaning the mess. As she went to a room where one of the victims had died, she happened to find a computer that was still on. Because of how nosy she was, napag-isipan niyang galawin iyon until she found something shocking: isang video kung saan naroroon ang kaniyang kapatid, talking about a plan with Herald Mortiferum, who's the one responsible for the school shooting during their high school days.

Pero natigilan siya sa kaniyang ginagawa at hindi na napanood ng buo ang video. Then, within a blink of an eye, the whole place was in flames, and they rushed through the door to save themselves. Sobrang bilis ng pagkalat ng apoy, hanggang ang tanging nakikita na lamang nila ay kalayo.

That's the end of the entry; it seems she didn’t finish writing this. I tried to find other information, kung sakaling may iba pa siyang isinulat, but they were nothing but normal days of the owner's life.

I couldn't find anything that piqued my suspicion. I took a flashlight from one of the drawers and decided to leave the room and go back to the little hallway inside the walls. I couldn't help but think of someone knocking inside the wall, as she wrote in her journal. To think that I am now walking inside the wall… who created this mansion, as well as the house she mentioned in that entry? Also, why was there a video on that computer, where Mrs. Samantha and Herald Mortiferum were planning something? Who took a video of it?

Marami akong ibang katanungan sa aking isipan na hindi ko naman masagot-sagot. The more I learn about Herald Mortiferum, the less I know.

Palakad-lakad lang ako hanggang sa natamaan ko ang isang munting pinto. I opened it and entered the room. Napatingin ako sa laptop na naroroon, as I turned it on, bumungad doon ang magkasintahan, si Mr. Alfred at si Mrs. Samantha.

But, there was a small tab on the left side of the laptop. I exited the tab, and then pictures and videos popped up on the screen. May mga video kung saan si Mrs. Samantha ay nasa malayo at hindi alam na siya ay kinukunan. As I watched the videos one by one, mula sa malayo ay nakikita ko si Amanda, nakatago ito habang minamanmanan ang nakakatandang kapatid niya.

What is she doing? Don’t tell me she’s trying to find out why her sister is working with Herald Mortiferum? If she knew, then why didn’t she mention this earlier, since we already talked about Herald Mortiferum.