Love Craft

VI

Ai followed Kluen around but he didn’t find anything suspicious about the gardener. Kluen was walking towards his room before he stopped and turned to look at Ai with an annoyed face, “I’m not an intruder, stop following me…”

Ai comes out of his hiding place and shrugs, “How can I believe you?”

“Didn’t you follow me the whole day? Found anything?” Kluen asked in annoyance

“Not yet but I can't be 100% sure….” Ai spoke but got interrupted by Wan, “He’s innocent….”

Ai looks towards Wan and Dao who are walking towards them, Dao steals a glance at Kluen before handing a note to Ai. Ai stares at Dao before reading the note.

‘Garden is innocent! For generations, his family has served the King and also the king treated them with sincerity. Though, he’s sad with everything that’s happening in the castle…. Where will the poor guy find a job if Castle falls?’

“We also found something, I don’t know why but these notes were thrown into the fire. Fortunately, it didn’t burn…” Wan pulls out a couple of notes which were a little burnt from the corner

‘Servant looks suspicious as he knows everything about the castle but he’s a loyal person. The situation of the castle currently is making everything and everyone suspicious but the Servant is a good person…’

‘Poor Teacher! He came here to help his students gain knowledge but got involved in unfortunate events. Hope he survives and gets to leave the castle with his students…’

‘Our Queen is innocent! Though the Queen spends money like water but Queen would never harm the king! If the king dies then all properties and the castle would go to the younger prince….’

“Wait… prince?!” Kluen was surprised

“There’s no character as Prince so maybe it's just a delusional character?” Dao suggested, Wan thought for a while before replying, “Could be… at least now we know that Teacher, student, Servant and Gardener aren’t the suspect…”

“What about you two? Can we trust you?” Ai asked Dao and Wan. Dao took out the note and showed it to Ai, Kluen leaned closer to read the note.

‘It was so stupid of me! My husband would never cheat on me! He’s such a loyal person…. *Sighs* I need to trust him more and try to mend our relationship…’

“If I’m not wrong then Wan is innocent too or else my card would have said something suspicious about him” Dao said and Ai and Kluen nodded.

“Now, the main question is… who threw them into the fire?” Wan reminded others who became quiet before Ai spoke, “We need to keep this among us till we find the suspect….”

Dao quickly turned to look towards the crew and asked, “Since we completed our story, we are safe now. Right?”

The director nodded and gave them a note, Ai took it and read, “Congratulations to Servant, Queen, Gardener, Couple and teacher for clearing their story…. Who has 3 chances to vote for suspects ....”

They sighed in relief before frowning again as they realised that the suspect hadn't been identified yet. Wan rubbed his forehead as he spoke, “That leaves us with Cook, Both the guards, Influencer, King and Butler?”

“King won’t be attacking himself to create all the nuisance and I don’t think students would be involved too…I mean they are just a bunch of kids…” Kluen concluded.

“Again, how many suspects are there?” Dao asked but the crew didn’t reply.

“Least 2, I believe…” Ai said thoughtfully when the crew refused to give more clues