Saying that Salim gathered his team who were Jude and Mew and exited the room. Salim strolled around the mansion with his team. He checked Hori's room but he did not find anything suspicious.

So his team entered Mew's room. Still he could not find anything that could be of use in the investigation.

"Ugh, dang it all. I wish this was easier." grumbled Salim and sat on the couch.

"Come on, you can't give up. You have to save Hori, please." warned Mew.

"Hey, just because I'm complaining doesn't mean I gave up.Truly, the Hinokaiser does not appreciate anyone who has not worked hard." said Salim seriously.

"Interesting, you worship the religion of Hinokaiser?" said Jude.

"Yes, what of it?" asked Salim with a frown.

"Oh, it's nothing." muttered Jude.

"And last I checked, I'm the detective, not you. Stop butting into my personal life." said Salim.

"Yes, of course." said Jude.

Silence descended over the room. Salim seemed to be tired from all the work so he gave up and sat on a sofa. Suddenly the unlocked door burst open.

"Yo, how you all doing?" said Fushichin happily as he entered the room.

"Step aside!" yelled Marian from behind him.

Marian stepped into the room, she walked over to the wall which was previously blocked off by the tv and the bookcase. Marian pulled the carpets on the wall up and revealed the hole to Hori's room behind it. She dropped the carpet and looked miserably towards Mew.

"Cry about it." grunted Mew.

They exchanged eye contact for a while. Finally, Marian sighed and leaned against the rabbit figure. It fell to the ground easily.

"Stop breaking my shit, you asshole." cried Mew.

"Manners, misses troublemaker." said Marian.

"You, it all happened because of you! If you hadn't prevented me from keeping an eye on her, she wouldn't have been kidnapped like this!" cried Mew aggressively.

"Hmph." murmured Marian and looked away.

"Or...no…You kidnapped her, didn't you?” said Mew, her eyes widening with fear.

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“You were so adamant about protecting her, taking her away from me. That's right, why else would the kidnappers want to get the money from you? You sided with them, and took her away by force." yelled Mew as she pointed her towards Marian.

"Stop spewing bullshit, you idiot. Do you seriously think I would do that to my own daughter?" asked Marian.

"Yes, Yes you would! We have been prisoners in this house. We always have been. We only noticed this recently when you revealed that we were living in a cage all along!"

Mew cried and wept. Marian gritted her teeth but only managed to walk away out of the room.

"Hey, miss. You have to stay with me." said Fushichin, ran after her followed by Nile.

Salim looked at the miserable Mew and sighed.

"You have committed a sin. You are suffering cause of your own decisions." said Salim fiercely.

"W-What?" gasped Mew. She quickly became enraged "Sin? Shut up, you religious fanatic. Don't talk to me!"

Mew angrily went out of her room.

"Heh, you really had to push your religious dogmas and superstitions onto her?" asked Jude.

"It's not a dogma, it's the truth." said Salim.

Jude snickered at the statement. Jude walked over to the fallen rabbit figure. He pulled it up and put it on it's feet.

"I don't understand how can you worship the religion of Hinokaiser and be a detective at the same time." said Jude sadly.

"I don't want to hear your atheistic insults at the moment. Leave me alone." said Salim.

"Fine, fine." muttered Jude.

Jude silently walked around the room. Salim looked around the room and thought things through for a while. Then a strange realization hit him.

"Wait, that is strange." said Salim.

"What is strange?" asked Jude.

"The rabbit figure. Hey, could you try and lift that rabbit figure up." asked Salim.

Jude walked over to the rabbit figure. He pushed it to the ground and then pulled it up in the air with both of his arms.

"Isn't that strange?" asked Salim.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" asked Jude.

"At 13 pm, Nile, Reiner and Succi carried that rabbit figure into this room. It took three people to carry that then and now you're lifting it with relative ease." said Salim.

"I mean, it's not that easy. But...huh, I guess I remember hearing Nile saying that he needed people to carry the figure. And if Succi and Reiner also helped in carrying it, none of them were lying, right?" said Jude.

"We need to go and bring back Mew. As well as the others." said Salim.

The two of them went out of the room. They quickly found Fushichin's group, told them what was up and asked them to find a strong knife or blade that could cut through the rabbit figure. Then they headed off to gather everyone else. Soon, they returned to the room with every group.

"Hehe, now it's time to cut this bad boy down." said Fushichin as he stood in front of the rabbit figure.

"Hey, what are you doing?" gasped Mew.

"Do you want to save your sister or not?" asked Salim.

"What? How does that relate to this?" gasped Mew

"You'll see if you allow us." said Salim.

Fushichin stabbed through the rabbit with the large knife and started cutting the bunny from its head to its stomach. Then he cut the other side of the rabbit as well and revealed the insides.

"Just as I suspected, there is large enough space for someone to fit inside." said Salim.

"Oh, yeah, definitely. And look there is a zipper at the back too." said Fushichin.

He pulled the zipper down and a large hole appeared at the back of the rabbit.

"If someone was hiding inside this, they could easily get out." said Galtomor.

Hellen was inspecting the head of the rabbit.

"These eyes of the rabbit. You don't see much from the outside if you peer into its eyes. But from inside the figure, or should I say suit, you can definitely see what is happening outside." said Hellen with surprise.

Galtomor put his hand on his chin, said "Then, does this all mean-"

"Yes, the kidnapper most definitely was inside the suit." said Klancy.