Chương 151: Checkmate

In the morning, right as the teachers were arriving at school, as soon as they stepped into the hallway, all of them froze in fear. On the other side of the hallway, on the wall, a man was embedded into it. His body was full of scars and his eyes were fully open, it was the most disturbing thing you could see. Although far off from him, you could see that he had something in his mouth. But the teachers didn't really enjoy this sight and all of them came back to their senses.

"Ahhh!" One of the female teachers, who had been petrified, couldn't hold it any longer and ran outside. 30 minutes later, the police arrived. The sheriff was looking at this sight and had no words, then he looked at his deputy.

"What's in his mouth?" Just as the deputy was about to answer, someone else butted in.

"It's a chess piece!" Rafael walked with his head high and glanced at the sheriff with a hint of provocation. Noah, the sheriff, looked away as he felt he really was having a bad day.

"What's the FBI doing here?" Rafael, Scott's dad, glanced at him dismissively and then looked at the body.

"Beacon Hills is having too many deaths recently, so they sent me here to check out what the hell is going on." The sheriff frowned as he didn't like the FBI butting in, but mostly he didn't like the man in front of him. But he didn't forget where he was and maintained a professional attitude. Then he looked at the body and approached to see its mouth better and saw a chess piece.

"Who would do such a thing?" The sheriff mumbled in disbelief, as this could be at the top of the list of the weirdest things he had seen. Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.

"It's not like he will be missed." Rafael raised an eyebrow while looking at the dead man. Both fell silent as they looked at the dead body of this mass murderer, nicknamed Shrapnel Bomber. On this point they both agreed, someone like him was better off dead. But the question remained, who was the one who killed him? And from the looks of it, the one responsible isn't that sane either. •••• Back at the base, just as Lucas was about to ask John more about the Shrapnel Bomber, John suddenly got called.

"What?!" John raised his voice, then toned it down.

"I understand." After he closed the phone, he looked at Lucas with a grave expression.

"He was found." Lucas gazed at him with a hint of inquiry, John seemed really weird when he said that. John didn't make him wait long and told him how he was found.

"A chess piece…?" Lucas murmured as he looked down at his hands. He then looked back at John and asked.

"What type of chess piece?" John frowned as he tried recalling what his subordinate told him.

"I think it was the king."

"The king, huh?" Lucas leaned back and smiled, but his smile was cold as ice.

"As expected from the trickster." It was just a feeling, but he was sure that it was for him, it was a message mocking him and his attempt to monitor the Bomber. He knew it wouldn't be that easy, fooling a thousand-year-old fox took something more than this, something that even he wouldn't expect.

"Trickster? You know who did it?" John frowned as he felt that Lucas was acting even more strangely than usual. Lucas broke from his thoughts and looked at him, he didn't answer his question and spoke in a serious tone.

"Give the orders that all our men should leave the town for some time."

"But!" Just as John was about to ask why, Lucas stopped him.

"You included, take Hope and leave for a while…this is an order!" John's face struggled visibly as he could see that something really bad was going to happen, the image of his daughter appeared in his mind.

"I…will do that." John looked down at the floor as he felt like a traitor leaving Lucas behind. Lucas smiled and got up and patted his shoulder.

"I will be alright, it's just that the situation is one where you would be in danger." He knew that the Nogitsune was capable of killing his men one by one, and even turning them against him. Lucas didn't work so hard to build this organization just for it to turn into dust. John nodded heavily and walked away, just as he reached halfway, he saw Allison coming in, he nodded and walked away. She approached him and looked at him curiously.

"You said you wanted to show me something?" Lucas smiled at her, then gestured with his hand towards the table, there was a large metal box on it.

"Don't tell me it's another bow?" Allison smiled teasingly, but she was still curious about what was inside.

"Something better." Lucas didn't talk anymore and gestured with his eyes for her to open it. She threw him a weird look, then reached for the box and opened its lid.