Students From Whiteroom

Dying Messages

Virga's theory is good. But it can still be broken. Because Muji could have bought a knife for his mother.

"What's up, Ar? Is my theory wrong?"

I'm shaking. "Your theory may not be wrong. But I think your theory is far from the truth. He said that he was glad that Asuna had been persecuted by someone like this. I think that means he's not the culprit. He only has a grudge against Asuna and your job is to watch over her. Because most likely, he would also do something like this to Asuna."

"So so. Well how else, I don't have the talent to be a detective anyway." Brother Virga laughed a little.

"Sister Virga, can I give you a minute's permission." I need some fresh air to clear my head.

"As long as you're back." He went back inside too.

I walked slowly across the hallway and down the stairs while thinking about many things. Unknowingly, I was in front of my classroom. On the doorstep I saw Maya reading her mystery book.

There was something interesting about the book he read. Sherlock Holmes is a detective mystery book that has simple language. All of his mysteries had clues that were not covered up.

The case may have similar leads. Maybe at the scene there was a scattered object, a message code, or an eyewitness who was acting strangely.

That's it, I cried in my heart. The answer has been in front of my eyes all this time. The detective book opened my mind. The clue is in class B, to be exact....

"bah? Where's my drink?" I was shocked when Maya's tiny hand pulled my cloth. When did he come near me?

Our eyes met for a moment. Embarrassed, I immediately turned my face away.

"Ma.sorry me. After this I'll buy it." My heart is beating fast. Sweat dripped down my forehead. I can't stand this situation.

"All right then." The little girl returned to her seat.

Wait, I realized that Maya wasn't really that tiny. Which makes him look as petite as possible....

Ah already.

I decided to immediately return to the OSIS room on the third floor with a run. My breath's wheezing. Brother Virga seems to have found out that I'm coming back. So, he's been waiting for me outside the OSIS room.

"So, did you find any clues?"

"Yes. I found it."

"Try me to explain who the perpetrator is

this and what evidence you got."

I'm trying to sort out the right words. "Sister Vir, do you remember the red 26A on the B-class floor."

"Yes I remember."

"As I recall in mystery books like sherlock holmes, such writing can be called dying message."

"Dying. Death message. Wee~ isn't Asuna dead yet?" Brother Virga stuck out his tongue to my feet.

"Don't be so, brother. You must understand what I mean."

Brother Virga laughed widely after mocking me like that.

"Based on time, the code appeared in the day after the persecution incident, so it is not wrong if the code was a message from Asuna. Then do you know what that means?"

I don't know it yet. I have come this far to investigate. However, I feel dead-end. What does 26A mean? Is that some kind of code? Or absent number? It feels like the donut that Virga promised is getting away just because of the numbers and letters that make no sense.

"Sister Virga, check your absence. Who's absentee number 26 in class B?"

Brother Virga shakes. "If the code means absent number. Then you're wrong. The number of students in each class has been limited to a maximum of 25 students per class. So that number 26 has exceeded the number of students per class."

Also true. If the number 26 is an absent number. What does the letter A mean after the number?

I peek inside. Inside the OSIS room, interrogations are continuing. I saw Manuk explaining the derogatory title that Asuna had thrown to him.

There are many names such as black, dirty, dirty, and even native niggers. Looks like this student named Asuna has no manners at all. Well he's a foreigner. So he didn't know there was an adab in the archipelago because he was Japanese.

Jjapanese. Niggers. 26A. It seems like everything is connected. I'm trying to connect the pieces of clues I got.

"It seems I know who the perpetrators of this persecution are."

Virga looks curious. "Explain!"

"No need for you to tell me I'll explain."

I took a deep breath and began stringing words to explain the broken clues I had already drawn.

"All these mysteries lie in the code left by Asuna, which is 26A."

Brother Virga nodded. "However, we have to decipher the intent of the code, right?"

I'm nodding. "Actually the code Asuna wanted to write was not 26A."

"I think he wants to write a word. With abbreviations like this, 2GA."

Brother Virga frowned. "So the number 6 is actually the letter G?"

"This theory is forced. But I think in a desperate situation, it's hard for the victim to write the letter G and write the number 6 much easier."

Brother Virga seems to be starting to understand what I mean.

"we have learned the true message of Asuna. But I still don't know what it means. Did you know?"

I'm nodding. "After I remembered that Asuna was Japanese. I got the answer."

"So you even forgot the victim was from abroad?"

"Actually I almost forgot the victim's name."

Brother Virga laughed after I said that.

"I can't believe it. People like you attract his attention."

Me? Attracting whose attention?

"Can I continue?"

After a long time. Virga can calm down.

"So the number two in Japanese means this. So the message left by Asuna is Niga, or I should call nigga. Because he was injured, he shortened the writing of the word nigga to 2GA."

"Nigga's? What does that mean?"

"Nigga in short is a mockery for Negroes. The term is popular in America and abroad. Who do you think Asuna has insulted as a Negro?"

"I heard from Manuk that Asuna was blaspheming the nigger at him" said Brother Virga.

I'm nodding. "I heard it too. Asuna, even in a desperate situation she gives us a hint with insults."

After thinking like that, I felt very sympathetic towards Manuk and the suspects. The only person who was wrong in this incident was actually Asuna herself. If his attitude did not change, perhaps an event like this would come back to him.

Brother Virga patted my back. "No problem. The important thing is that he has fought hard to send us a dying message. You too, Aria. You've fought hard to reveal this troublesome code."

"May I get my reward?" I'm taking a promise Virga.

He just thinks of me with a laugh.

"Haha, I'll give it to you later. I promise."

I hope he keeps his promise.

“Yes, I'll be back in class. You mind?”

Virga looked at me for a moment. Then he laughs “Please. Thank you, we are very helped.”