Chapter 6: When The Clock Strikes Twelve

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It's late night of October the 2nd, 1968. Everyone is in their rooms, sleeping in peace after they thought the culprit has been finally locked in, or so they thought. As the night progressed, the culprit himself lurked around the dark corners of the mansion. He then stumbled upon the room where Norman was locked in. He then quietly breaks into the room to confront him, just as the culprit was about to speak, Norman suddenly snapped as he spoke up to the culprit.

Norman: Wait a minute?! It's you! You're the one who's murdering everybody!
(Shouted, Norman. Angrily.) Stay back! STAY BACK!

Without hesitation, Norman tries to fight off the culprit after he sees the gun in his hand. Just as he tries to snatch the gun, the culprit mercilessly strangled, him by using his handkerchief. But, Norman manages to fight back against the culprit, but moments later, the culprit suddenly shoots him in the head which makes the group startled in their sleep from their rooms.

As the culprit looks down at the dead body, the clock then suddenly strikes at twelve, after the murder had happened. The culprit then quickly wipes off his fingerprints from the gun with a clean handkerchief and slowly puts the gun on Norman's hand just to frame his murder as "suicide." The culprit then left the room quietly. Leaving no evidence of the crime scene.

The next morning. The group checked the room where the gunshot was heard, Bob then investigated the scene as he looked at Norman's corpse and saw a pistol in his hand and examined it.

Gene: looks like our suspect killed himself last night.
(Sighed, Gene. Disappointedly.) I think he's having a mental breakdown on that fateful night.

Bob: wait, someone may have done this to him, look at that. (Bob points to the bruise to Norman's face and neck.) he got strangled, and his face was badly beaten before he got shot. But there's no noose present here in the room if he tried to hang himself.

Gene: so this means, Norman's murder is framed?
(Asked, Gene.)

Bob: yes, but It's unclear who might have done this to him. But I'm clearly suspecting that our real suspect might be lurking around the shadows. And I believe that the real culprit does framed Norman's murder as a "suicide." What an awful, bastard. (Sighed, bob as he shook his head in pure disappointment with a mix of grief in his voice.)

After the examination, the group had realized that they had captured the wrong suspect this whole time. Which made the others anxious and paranoid once again, thinking they are next to be killed by the unknown culprit that haunts them around the mansion.

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