EIGHT TARGETS
55. On the Photo Grasped Closely

A photo of the memories held by Araka in her last moment.  The photo contains 6 people, 5 participants of MOS and Araka as the steering committee.  In the middle of the photo is seen young Araka happily embracing one of the bald students with her right hand while posing V with her left hand.  He was none other than the younger Kaiser from now on.

To the left of Araka, there were 2 other students.  In the far left corner of the photo is a student named Taufik, the only fat student among them, who appeared to be carrying a craft item that read ‘tiger’ group in front of him which he held with both hands.

The other, located between Taufik and Araka, was a student named Adnan.  He is seen posing sitting by folding his right leg horizontally on the ground while folding his left leg vertically where his right hand is placed on his right thigh while his left hand poses V exactly like Araka.

As for the right side of Kaiser, there were also 2 students.  The most corner named Kazuto, a student of pure Japanese descent, unlike Kaiser who was only a quarter.  He is seen smiling kindly behind his glasses while hiding both hands behind his back.

The last, located between Kaiser and Kazuto, is Fahrul, a child of rainbow syndrome, but with bright red eyes.  She posed her back to Kaiser as she folded her hands in front, but her eyes seemed to stare at Kaiser cynically.

After being shown a copy of the photo taken by the forensic team, a shocked expression appeared on Kaiser's face.  He knew very well the photo, but he did not expect at all that his senior was still looking after him until now.

[Senior base fool.  If you are so keen to keep our friendship, why should you care about the views of those of your relatives?!  We can still be friends as usual.  But what is it now?]  Kaiser murmured inwardly with teary eyes while revealing an angry expression.

“You know about the last photo held by that Araka, Kaiser Deck?”  Bianca also ripped Kaiser from her daydream through the question.

“Yes.  I know that picture.  It was a photo of the memories of the six of us during my class student orientation period where Senior Araka was my steering committee at that time.”  Kaiser said with a sad expression on his face.

“Can Dek Kaiser tell me about the four others in the photo?”  Bianca once again.

Kaiser then fell silent for a moment while looking straight at Officer Bianca.  He also said,

“If you suspect one of them is the culprit, then you better stop the thought because if my hunch is true that the mysterious figure I saw yesterday was the serial killer, none of the four fit the description.  I still meet the four of them every once in a while this year, so I know very well the shape of their bodies.

The Taufik in the far left corner of the photo was fat and even shorter than me.  While Adnan and Kazuto are second from the left as well as the far right, they are only slightly taller than me, ranging from 170 – to 175 cm.  As for Fahrul who is on my right, as you can see, although the proportion of his body is similar to the one I described, but the child is a rainbow syndrome child with bright red eyes, not blue.”

“Dek Kaiser, there is a possibility of the perpetrator faking the color of his eyes.”  Bianca tries to refute Kaiser.

“As a fellow child of rainbow syndrome, I know very well that the bright shining eyes as I saw yesterday are genuine, instead of contact lenses.”.

“Not that Kaiser Deck.  I mean it could be the usual red eye color Adek see that's what is faked.”  Before Kaiser finished his rebuttal sentence Bianca immediately cut it back.

“For now, will enter our list in the investigation to find out whether the red eye color of this Fahrul Deck is indeed genuine or not.”  Bianca added.

“How to?”

Hearing Kaiser's innocent question, Bianca then smiled mischievously while saying, “Police has its own way Dek.  We are more reliable than Adek kira.”

“Based on Senior's recognition yesterday, Senior came here without telling anyone.”

The old policeman paused for a moment after listening to Kaiser's reply before he continued asking again.

“Is the person around the victim you know according to the physical description of the suspect you described just now?”

“At least there is 2..Ah, no, I mean 1.  She is a close friend of Senior Araka, her name is Dirga, Dirga Isnandar.”

“Why are your answers inconsistent?  Or is there a cause that you can't name the other one?”  Seeing the doubt behind Kaiser's remark, the old policeman tried to be sure.

“No, that's not it Sir.  Only, another one is my cousin.  He is Danial.  But he currently has a mental illness so he is being watched 24 hours in hospital.”

Hearing her son's reply, Ms. Nana and Mr. Lucias then looked at their son warmly.  The Old Police officer nodded and asked no further.

“Alright, last Nak Kaiser.  Was there any unusual action that Kaiser Nak observed from Araka on the eve of his death?”  The last person to ask was Captain Danielo.

“Oh yes, I happen to mention that.  Yesterday Senior was a bit weird for calling me to ask me to look after his mother in case anything happened to him.  Perhaps at that time Senior had already sensed that there was killing intent following him.  As someone who also learned martial arts like me, it was common that Senior could detect such a thing.  Stupid me why I didn't realize it yesterday.”

While answering, Kaiser seemed to show an expression of guilt on his face.  The police then saw each other as a sign that anyone still wanted to ask, but it seemed to be gone so they decided to just close the forum until there.

Before Captain Danielo was about to close it, Kaiser immediately interrupted to add some information.

“Compared Dirga, there are 2 more people who I think are suspicious even though both are not children of rainbow syndrome.

First was Senior Tirta Wahyunusa.  He also often played with Senior Araka and also bullied Dios at that time.  Before his death, Senior Araka asked me to be careful with him.  I'm afraid it's Senior's suspicion that he's the perpetrator of the serial murder.

Second, I don't know his name either.  He had only once come to my school to deliver my friend's belongings that were behind time to meet with Senior Araka.  It was likely that he was one of the workers at the Dirga Senior family-owned Bar because that was where Senior Araka usually held important meetings with his clients.  His physical features were exactly the same as I described except for the color of his eyes which was the color of ordinary eyes.  But as soon as I saw him at school, I somehow felt that he was the same person as the mysterious figure I saw yesterday.

Well, of course my gut feeling could have been wrong, but it's nothing to lose for sure.  Therefore, I hope that the police will also be willing to investigate these two people.  Oh yes, for the second person, I will report back after I can know for sure the person's name.”

With the last information from the Kaiser, the forum was closed.  Eleven of them came out of the soundproof room.  However, there seems to be an unexpected awkwardness.

The eyes of Captain Danielo and three of the four other policemen who had also met Kaiser that day suddenly gave off a blue light while their own eyeballs remained in their normal color.  The incident itself, did not happen to Mono and Bianca who had met the Kaiser before, as well as a police officer who had previously acted as a minutes to record the results of the discussion so that he did not have many opportunities to speak and meet the Kaiser's face.

But outside of that, they all came out of the room looking normal.  At the end they greeted Kaiser and the group who resigned with a warm smile.