Chapter: 03

Daniel updates Sam on the new details he’s discovered. Aria indeed did follow Bori and was kidnapped afterwards. The buttons found near and inside the sewage belonged to Aria’s outfit. Daniel predicts that the kindergarten teacher must have been the one who abducted the kids. The dog hair also near the sewage was seen on her clothes the day they visited her at the daycare. Maybe the teacher abducted the kids out of revenge against the principal or parents or it could have also been a case of child abuse. Regardless, the chances of her being the culprit are high. She took the kids on a museum the day before they went missing so they can check the security camera footages planted there.

At that moment, the two investigators are interrupted by a visit by Olivia. She’s come for an interview based on the job ad that Daniel posted. The chief detective interviews Olivia and she presents to him all her work experiences and skills. She attempts to persuade him to hire her, but there’s just one more question that she needs to answer if she wants to be accepted. Daniel never posted a job ad about his private investigative agency; he knows that Olivia discovered him after seeing him at the ballet academy and outside of the kindergarten. So then, why does Olivia want to work for Daniel? What is it that she wants?

Olivia is recruited onto the team with Daniel and Sam. In order to obtain the security camera footages of the kids’s visit to the museum, Daniel and Olivia create a scene inside the museum and fake a scenario that requires them to check the CCTV recordings. The two are granted permission and view the security camera clips of the little kids with the kindergarten teacher at the museum. As predicted, the kindergarten teacher is seen yelling at the kids to be quiet and to behave.

The teacher and the principal get into an argument about the teacher’s decision to leave the job. This investigation only began because she was irresponsible in taking care of the kids properly. With the principal’s back turned towards the kindergarten teacher, the teacher suddenly feels the urge to strangle and murder the principal. However, she stops when she finds the teacher talking to her with black possessed eyes and a deep, dark, and evil voice. A ghost wearing a red dress creeps up from behind the kindergarten teacher and taunts her to kill whoever is investigating her.

After discovering the CCTV footage of the kids with the kindergarten teacher, Olivia suggest they report the teacher to the police for child abuse. However, Daniel refutes that they can’t just yet because they don’t have enough evidence. He sends Olivia home while he resumes with the investigation.

Daniel returns to the daycare and revisits Bori’s doghouse. He ventures a little further and finds an entrance to the basement. There, he discovers a petrified Bori and digs even further into the basement. Meanwhile, the kindergarten teacher battles her inner voices and demons. A part of her wants to kill the kids, but another part of her wants to let them go.

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