Chapter 7: A Memory I found

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"Kyoshi I was suppose to tell them that!" Mizuno sighed "Well too bad your charger is slow when it comes to charging," he looked at her making her gasp "I- MY CHARGER IS 100% FAST CHARGING HMMPH!" Mizuno pouted "They act like Kokichi and Kiibo," Shuichi whispered at Maki "Yeah," Maki replied.

"What's going on here? I heard yealling," Katsumi appeared all of a sudden "Kyoshi already told them-" Mizuno's mouth got shut by Katsumi's hand "Shhhh... we can't let the workers know!" Katsumi said and looked at the others "Nyeh?" Himiko spoke up while checking her water bottle "What is it Himiko?" Maki asked.

"I ran out of water," Himiko sighed "Oh, my office is just close by you can refill it there," Katsumi said "Nyeh? Thank you," Himiko said. Katsumi walked towards her and held her hand like an older sibling guiding their younger sibling towards their destination and walked away.

"So, about this 'investigation'," Shuichi looked at Kyoshi and Mizuno "Alright, we'll explain it to you two," Mizuno and Kyoshi sighed.

Himiko's POV

Katsumi held my hand as we walked from one hall to another then climbed up a stairway. This is starting to become a pain, I can't really memorize the directions so it's kinda useless but I'm here to refill my water bottle so I gotta stay focus just in case I run out of water again.

I still can't believe that Katsumi is Kokichi's sister, not to mention she's the one guiding me to her office for some water. I wonder what Tenko's reaction would be if she met Katsumi, probably praise her for her looks or tell her about Kokichi being a "degenerate male".

"Hmm? Is there something wrong Himiko?" Katsumi asked me as I turned my head up to her, she's very tall and my neck might hurt from looking directly at her. "Nyeh, it's nothing," I replied as we kept walking.

"We're here," Katsumi and I stopped at a large white door that was labeled "CEO's office". Katsumi opened the door slowly as the air conditioner's wind came out directly at me, and there I was greeted by a clean wide office not too many papers scattering around, there was a large window behind the desk and the lights weren't on either.

 Katsumi opened the door slowly as the air conditioner's wind came out directly at me, and there I was greeted by a clean wide office not too many papers scattering around, there was a large window behind the desk and the lights weren't on either

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There were fountains at the walls as well... I guess Katsumi is a fountain person huh. "The water dispenser is just behind that large lamp over there," Katsumi pointed at a lamp that looks a bit like a trophy for some reason. "Nyeh, okay thanks," I replied and went to the water dispenser.

While I was refilling my water bottle the announcement came on "Ms. Oma, ma'am someone wants to talk to you in the front desk," the lady called as the announcement went off "Hmm... I wonder who it is," I heard Katsumi sighing "Himiko stay here, I'll be gone for a while, feel free to look around my office just don't go near to any of the drawers okay?" Katsumi said as she made her way to the door.

"And I have some books there if you feel like reading, feel free to look around the bookshelf if you feel like reading," she added and left. I finished refilling my water and sat on a nearby sofa. Katsumi told me to wait here for a while, oh well guess I have to look around.

I stood up from the sofa and watched the large screen above the table near me, the remote is below it and beside it was champagne it was still full though and the TV was muted. I picked up the remote from the table, unmuted the TV and switched through the channels, I wanna see a magic show...

When I found my type of channel I adjusted the TV's volume a bit louder so that I could hear what the host is saying and walked around the office again the next thing I did was went to the large window behind the desk feeling a bit hesitant, I looked through the window and saw an incredible view. You could see the city from here! it was already noon so part of it was covered in shadow.

I hear the host from the TV explaining how the magician's magic trick works it's kinda nice to see these types of shows it helps me improve with my magic... and going for my MP.

Next, I started looking around the bookshelf "Hmm... I wonder what type of books Katsumi reads," I said while going through each book title. I found one about fantasies, an apocalypse with advanced technologies, a series and each of them were line up neatly, and a book about the history of technology.

Although that book was simple I couldn't help but notice a bookmark sticking out of the book getting squished by the other books above the books seemed to have a border line on it like a photo paper. I carefully removed the book that was squishing it and used my thumb as a marker for the page. As I removed the bookmark, I saw something unexpected yet again.

Kokichi...

So this is how he looked like when he was young, he looks so cute and innocent here but of course, growing up is a thing and the Killing Game happened

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So this is how he looked like when he was young, he looks so cute and innocent here but of course, growing up is a thing and the Killing Game happened. Why would someone use a photo as a bookmark? Nyeh, thinking about it will just be a pain.

"Katsumi must've kept this for a long time now" I thought. The book's bottom part was squishing one of its edges this is very important to Katsumi so I'll keep this bookmark safe where the books isn't squishing its edges. (Do not-)

I placed the photo or rather, bookmark back at the page but this time I placed on its middle part to prevent it from coming out and getting squished by the other books and returned it back to where it was.

I took a look around the place again and found several family pictures, including the ones where Kyoshi's in. I even found a picture of them when Kokichi and Katsumi's father was still alive I guessed that was when Mizuno was born because Katsumi was already holding a tablet that had her in it.

I took a seat at the sofa again and patiently waited for Katsumi's return. "I'm here," she opened the door holding some folders in her hands "Nyeh, who was calling you?" I asked her "Oh it was just one of my relatives," Katsumi replied.

"Couldn't they just call you by your phone?" I told her "Well it was actually my younger cousin from Russia she wanted to call me but she doesn't have a phone and my phone was off," she said while putting the folders down at her desk "Well then shall we go?" Katsumi gently took my hand and lead me outside.

"Uh Katsumi," I called her "Yeah?" She looked at me still wearing an expressionless face "About your talent, you said you're known as the Ultimate Hacker right?" I said "And?" She raised an eyebrow. "Well what type of devices do you hack?" I asked "Oh just some things that can bring benefit for me and my family, and games nowadays can detect hackers," she said as we kept on walking through the halls "Hackers nowadays are easily detected by an AI who plays as an NPC in games, hackers usually use a cheat code that can affect the games system but for me," I saw her smirk.

"My cheat codes doesn't affect or harm the game's system they're created by me fresh and clean," she winked. We kept on walking through a hall full of workers and we were almost going to reach the place where Shuichi and the others were and that's when she spoke up.

"If my brother was known for being a dirty liar I was known for being a 'clean cheater', guilty but not entirely,"

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