Third POV
"What do you mean?" Grimsby asked Lau after he had suggested if one of the guests were the guilty party.
"There's nothing to it! I meant exactly what I just said."
"If the murderer isn't here among us, where are you saying he is?" Grey asked.
"For instance, he arrived before the storm and is hiding outside...something like that?" Irene guessed.
"Even so, would it not be impossible for him to enter a locked room or come in out of the storm to wander about the manor without leaving footprints?" Ciel questioned.
"What if there exists a thirteenth person who can make the impossible possible?" Lau suggested.
"Rubbish!!" Woodley exclaimed. "That could never be!"
"Never, you say? In this world, it's absolutes like 'never' that can never be. If someone who negates that absolute is lurking in this castle and is waiting for the ideal moment in which to target our lives...he may already be closer than we think. That thirteenth guest who ought not to exist-"
"Excuse me?" a feminine voice sounded behind everyone, causing them to either jump in their seat or let out a sound of surprise.
Looking behind them, everyone's eyes widened to see Red standing there, looking sickly as the remaining injuries on her stayed the same.
"What's wrong? It's almost like you've seen a ghost..."
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Laughter is Born From Madness
Fiksi PenggemarThe Undertaker discovers an abandoned child and is left to take care of her on his own. Soon, he will have to leave her in the care of a well-known Earl and butler. Time will only tell what the Undertaker is actually up to. (Based off of Black But...
