The town of Anemoia is the happiest place in the world. The individuals living in Anemoia are the most friendliest and most hospitable people you'll ever meet in your life.

Who would have taught that this town would be caught in a web of murder, suffering, and crime? Who would have imagined that this town full of smiles and laughter would be a nest of a mysterious criminal organization?

Will Kira Zen unravel the mystery?

Who is he?

What are his intentions?

Why is there a symbol that is so peculiar in every crime he took part in?

Where could he be?

It seems like the puzzle is harder than how we taught it is.

The Mystery of M has more to it than meets the eye.

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"The one who stole the thing this young lady is looking for is.......you!" a male student shouted and pointed at the teacher that's standing beside the flower vase.

"M-me? No! H-how could that b-be? I-i am n-not" Ms. Blaque, the teacher, denied the claim with her legs visibly shaking.

"Stop denying it Ms. Blaque, the evidence clearly points out that it's you" the male student said.

"You're just a student! How would you know? Who knows maybe you're an alliance of the real suspect? I have worked in this school for nearly 7 years! I could not be so evil to steal a student's project just to get money from other~~" Ms. Blaque froze at her words and the color of her face drained. She admited her crime unconsciously.

"Oh! I never knew you are also a fortune teller, Ms. Blaque! You guessed what I was looking for or is it because you were the one who stole it?" a female student, the victim, said grinning.

"I-"

"No more talking, Ms. Blaque; you said it yourself! I taught you were the best teacher in this school, is this school not paying you enough? Well, I would like to talk to you more but it looks like you need to save your words for later. See you in the police station, Ms. Blaque! Have fun!"

"No!! You can't do this to me!!"

"You're under arrest for robbery."

"*sighs* I thought this would be another boring day\, thanks for that robbery\, I'm now energized\," the young boy thought.

"Hey, thank you for helping me out there, if you didn't help me I would probably fail my subject." the young lady said.

"No problem! I have nothing to do anyway" the boy replied.

"My name is Lyra Gizem, I'm in 12th Grade, how about you?" asked the young maiden.

"Oh..I'm Kira Zen, also in 12th Grade" he replied.

"You were amazing earlier! How did you do that? How did you find out it was actually that Ms. Blaque is actually the one who stole my project?" Lyra asked energetically.

"Oh, it's simple she said that she was in a meeting during the hours you said your project was lost but I checked the bulletin board where they post all events, including meetings of teachers but I found out there are no meetings for this whole week." Kira replied casually.

"Amazing! I really wanted to meet someone who is as cool and smart as you! Can we be friends?" Lyra exclaimed while hopping around Kira.

"Umm.."

"Really?! That's good news then! I'm looking forward to meeting you everyday then! Anyways, I gotta go, my next class is starting in a few minutes, see you later!" she excitedly replied even before Kira could answer.

"But I still haven't....never mind. As if she'll listen. Well, at least she said I'm smart and cool. I already know that but HOHOHO it's so good to hear it from other people. Maybe I should paste a poster in every hall of this school with my face and put words saying: "The Smartest, Coolest and most Handsome Student in Anemoia's Best School: Kira Zen"  Kira said arrogantly while walking to his class with his hands on the back of his neck.

"How wonderful, I never expected that I would find the one I am looking for in this school. Nice to meet you and I am looking forward to playing with you............ Kira Zen" a mysterious person hidden among the shadows said.

Who could the mysterious person be?

What is he doing in Anemoia's best school?

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The act of stealing earlier was spread throughout the school and caused quite a

commotion. I don’t like boring days but I despise noisy and chaotic days like

this. Maybe I’m not so happy that there was a case today at all.

After hearing a lot of gossip about Ms. Blaque, I think my day is beginning to

become boring again. Maybe reading some books in the library will help.

“Have you heard? Mr. Mori having a secret relationship with a student?” I heard

from one student while secretly praising my looks while reading a book about

poisons. Why am I reading this? I don’t know, I just picked a random book and

read it. It’s a hobby of mine, plus I often get new information about things

most of the time because of this hobby.

“Really? It’s a shame…I have a crush on Mr. Mori” said a girl that doesn’t look

like the type of girl that goes to the library. She’s wearing heavy makeup and

I think that *that* short skirt is against the rules. I wonder how she got past

the guard at the gate?

“That’s perverted though, a student and a teacher shouldn’t have relationships.

I think that whoever the girl Mr. Mori has a relationship with is just being

his girlfriend to have high grades. What a bitch” added another girl. They’re

lucky that the disciplinary officer is not here and I am not the kind of

students that tells on other people, what would I get if I report them?

Nothing.

“Yeah, I really think that the girl is just for grades. I also heard that the

girl always gets an A+ in that subject but lately, she’s been getting F’s and

D’s. I wonder what happened?” said one student who I often see checking

attendance and giving discipline to her classmates; I think she’s a class

monitor. *scoffs* I guess the saying “Don’t just a book by its cover” is true

after all…

“I think the girl tried to break up with the teacher but Mr. Mori refused to do

that and he threatened to reveal to the girl’s parents that she is in a

relationship. The girl’s parents are strict so I’m sure they would be furious

about that. Maybe the girl said that she’ll report him to the police and say he

forced her to have a relationship with her and say he did immoral things to

her.”

“How shameless… I bet that girl even volunteered and initiated herself to do

immoral stuff with Mr. Mori”

“I agree,” the class monitor said judgingly.

“Hey, you four! What are you doing there huh? The library is for reading not

gossiping” the girl that is the owner of the stolen project earlier said to

them. Wait---the girl that is the owner of the stolen project?

“Hey, Kira! What’s up?” Lyra greeted me with a big smile.

“Uh…hey?” I replied awkwardly

“Come on! Put some more energy into it!”

“I am just not used in this, I don’t usually talk to people”

“Oh. Then I’m going to change that!”

“Shhh! This is a library!” said the librarian.

“Oops…. I am sorry, Miss”

“Anyway, have you heard about the "Mr. Mori rumor"?”

“Yeah… heard it from the girls you reprimanded earlier”

“What do you think of it?”

“What do you mean---“

"Waaahhhh!!" one student shrieked.

"I said this is a library, not a noisy city! Why are you shouting anyway?" the angry librarian shouted.

"M-mr...Mr. Mori c-collapsed outside"

"What? Where?" the librarian hurriedly said and stood up from her seat.

"T-there," the female student said shakingly while pointing at the door.

"Hey, Kira. What do you think is happening?" Lyra asked me.

"I don't know but according to the facial expressions and tone of the voice of the student, it's something serious. Let's go and check."

We had trouble going to the scene because people are packing up but we still managed to do so. I saw a man in his 20's lying on the cold floor.

"I-it's Mr. Mori," Lyra said.

I checked his pulse and looked for signs of life but I did not find any.

"Let's call the ambulance," the librarian said.

"No, it's already too late. Call the police, I believe Mr. Mori was poisoned."

"P-poisoned?

"Yes, by cyanide. Potassium cyanide to be exact."

"How can you say so??"

"Only a few can notice it but if you move closer, you can smell the scent of bitter almonds from his mouth. Potassium cyanide smells like these nuts. Also, another factor is the pinkness of his nails and lips, this kind of poison interferes with electron transmissions in the body so oxygen in the blood will pass through despite being dead. In normal circumstances, it should be turning purple by now." I illustrated while walking around the body. I'm moving cautiously as to not destroy or tamper the scene.

"You're explanation is amazing, Kira!! I knew you'll be so cool! But, how did you learn all of this?" Lyra Gizem asked. It may sound a bit overreacting, but I think I saw her eyes shining.

"I read them earlier from the book I was reading."

"The police are here!" the librarian shouted.

The police first confirmed that the body is indeed dead and then started to protect the scene with police lines and detained everybody in the building to protect any evidence that can point out to the criminal.

"When we arrived here, I saw you near the body. What is your name, relationship with the victim, and why are you there?" an officer asked me.

"I'm Kira Zen, I'm a Grade 12 student in this school, Mr. Mori is my teacher in Math class. I was near the body because I got curious about what's happening and decided to check. I was also the one who thought Mr. Mori is poisoned."

"Poisoned?" the officer said after taking note of the my basic information then looked at another officer.

"Sir, we found traces of potassium cyanide in the victim's mouth." confirmed the other officer.

"I see...leave this case to the authorities and don't try to interfere with our work again." The officer said then continued to interview other people.

"You were amazing when you explained what happened to Mr. Mori, Kira!!" Lyra praised.

"It's nothing. I just happened to read a book relating to poisons before the poisoning incident." I humbly replied.

"No, no. You really were amazing! Anyways, I'm really curious about what happened to Mr. Mori and I really wanna see your amazing look again. So...can you, please...please investigate this case with me? I want to learn from you since I'm a fan of mystery novels and I want to be a detective." She said with sparkling eyes.

"Are you crazy? Let's leave this to the authorities. I also am curious about the case but it's important to follow the rules." I said though I really wanted to investigate this too.

"Come on....can we please? Let's just do it for once? Please? Please? Pleaaaaseee?" Lyra pleadingly asked.

"No" I replied, though trying to fight off my inner thought to follow her wish and also my own desire to look into this case.

"I'll stop annoying you after this."

It's really hard fighting yourself, maybe I'll just allow this just this once.

"Ugghh...alright fine. But promise me that we will not interfere with police works again." I said that but the real reason is I'm also itching to go through this case.

"I promise"

"Alright. Let's ask around people then."

"I already did." she said, standing proudly with a smile then took out a notepad.

"W-what? When did you have time for that?" I did not expect that.

"When you were illustrating what happened to Mr. Mori."

"How did you--nevermind. Alright, what did you found out?" I asked.

"I interviewed the five people, Mr. Mori was with before the poisoning incident. There are two teachers and three students: Ms. Agatha Jones, Mr. Asher Morr, Ethan Gray, Allysa Avery, and Samantha Joan," she said while looking in her notepad.

"How did you know that they were with the victim?"

"Well...I also admire Mr. Mori so I often follow him around when I am free but I'm not sure who among those five is the criminal. Around 12:00 PM, Samatha gave Mr. Mori his lunch because I heard that she was asked by Mr. Mori to buy him lunch for he was busy grading the projects of his students. While eating his lunch in the faculty room, Mr. Asher gave him an apple. Then, Ms. Agatha arrived with her lunch, unfortunately, Ms. Agatha got the wrong lunch from her fridge and found out that she was allergic to the food she brought so Mr. Mori traded lunch with her but kept the fried shrimp in his lunch because Ms. Agatha seems to be also allergic to shrimps. Allysa visited the faculty room around 1 PM to beg Mr. Mori to accept her late project then after deciding that Mr. Mori will just deduct some points, she gave a water bottle to Mr. Mori. Lastly, just before Mr. Mori went to the library, Ethan gave Mr. Mori a sandwich, he said it was a token of appreciation because he accepted his project that was passed a minute late." Lyra explained.

"What? How did you--Were you in the faculty room the whole time??"

"Oh, I only witnessed the Samatha to Mr. Asher and the Ethan part. I was visiting the faculty room to borrow the spare key to my locker. I got the other information from overhearing a few gossips."

"What kind of gossip is so detailed? Nevermind. Anyways, thank you for the information. Now, we analyze the things you said, look for the alibis of those people, deduce, and find evidence."  It was only a gossip yet she's so proud with it. It looks credible anyways so I think we will rely on the stories she heard.

"This is exciting!" she said, with sparkling eyes and a smile that stretches from one ear to another.

"Let's get to it then!"

"Alright!" she replied.

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    Due to improvement purposes, I've decided to rewrite the whole story, I've noticed some plot holes and some details that are confusing in the original version of the novel. I'm really sorry for the long delay of updates, I was busy with school activities and I experienced author's blocks these past holidays.

    The rewritten version maybe will take somtime to write so expect another long wait. I am really sorry. To make up for these delay of updates, I'll post two episodes once I finished them and then try update daily for a week(?).

    Thank you for your support!! I promise to try and do my best to meet your expectations.