Just then Fushichin's radio transmitter resounded.

"Umm, Fushichin, can you hear me?" asked Manish from the transmitter.

"Yeah, what is up?" asked Fushichin.

"I need you to bring all your detective friends here. I cracked the passcode to the file." said Manish.

"Sweet, let's go." said Fushichin.

The five detectives went upstairs and entered the inspection room. There Manish was sitting on a chair with a concerned look.

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"The locked file was about Tenma's research. And I did take a look at this file. It seems rather interesting." explained Manish.

They all peered into the file and scrolled down. "The file detailed the research Tenma has conducted throughout the ages. There were formulas to a few chemicals and records of Tenma’s attempts at creating medicines as well as poison. Then they all came across a strange section that seemed relevant to the case. It was a diary personally written by Tenma.

"**June 2nd.**"

Something very strange happened today. I found my own master keycard that I have been missing for 2 days hidden in the recroom.

When I entered the research room using my master keycard I realized a poison and that poison’s antidote was stolen from this research room. The poison was called CycloniumX and the antidote was called SteadyY. The details and properties of both CycloniumX and SteadyY were written on a paper strapped around the bottle so the person who stole it probably has all the knowledge I am going to relay now.

CycloniumX is a colorless, tasteless, liquid substance and 1 hour after consumption a person will start desiring suicide (the exact time can shift between 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on how much is consumed. The more one consumes it, the faster the effect).

SteadyY is a yellow powder that tastes like salt and when consumed it negates the effects of CycloniumX.

Together, these two can be a devastating assassination method because traces of CycloniumX disappears from the victim’s body 4 hours after its consumption.

However, there are clues to know who is infected with CycloniumX. When the effects start and a person starts desiring suicide, they will start looking sickly, they will lose the ability to speak and will become very stubborn. The infected also becomes capable of using the full strength of their body due to psychological restraints being removed. The research room could only be accessed through my master keycard. Marian’s master keycard will not open it.

I’m assuming that someone took my master keycard while I was drunk during May 31st. The suspect list is quite huge. Marian, Mew, Succi, Hori, Jude, Yumiko, Reiner, Jack, Mikhail, George, Nile, Joseph were in the mansion while I was drunk and honestly any one of them could have taken it. To make sure something like this won’t happen again I moved all the dangerous chemicals including CycloniumX and SteadyY in the research room to a hidden room not many can find.

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To do it, you have to put in a special password onto the small safe. The password is 97554121103769666. Yeah, it's long ass and hard to remember. I even wrote this just to keep myself a reminder"

"Wait, that's absurd.” yelled Galtomor and said “I heard from the other cops, they said they used Tenma's master keycard to unlock the research room. And I actually did check the safe in Tenma's research room while I was separated from you guys. There was only a few dollars. And a necklace there. Nothing noteworthy."

“Well, then they have been tricked by Tenma. You can't solve a mystery if you never knew there was a mystery in the first place." said Fushichin with a smirk.

Manish and the detectives entered the research room and found the safe on the other end of the wall. Galtomor entered the code into the safe's keypad. A beeping sound came from a nearby bookcase instead from the safe.

The bookcase started to slide sideways and a tiny passage became visible. The detectives entered the tiny passage, walked up the stairs and saw a dead end. This was all the space in the room. But inside the room were various chemicals and documents put on shelves on the wall."

The detectives started their search quietly.

"Hey, I found it." said Salim.

Salim was standing in front of a box. The other detectives came next to him and saw a bunch of bottles with silver lid. Salim took the bottles one by one and gave it to the others. The bottles did indeed contain the word or on its label. And under the name were the warning and description of the chemicals. They were accurate to what Tenma's notes said.

"I'm taking a picture of the description and what was on the PC and add it to the truth files." said Galtomor.

"I'll help." said Hellen.

Afterwards the 6 detectives exited the inspection room and headed downstairs. Klancy was the one to see out Manish. The others went to the dining hall.

"I guess my job here is done?" asked Manish.

"Well, in that case, take some of these bottles with you to the lab. We need to let these be inspected. And experimented. To see if its effects are legit." said Klancy.

Manish put the chemicals in his briefcase. He headed towards the door and got out of the mansion. Klancy arrived back at the dining hall.

"Hmm" pondered Klancy.

"You have anything in mind?" asked Fushichin curiously.

"No, not really. Well, except for the fact that you were right. Tenma did kill himself. He has to have." said Klancy.

"Really? Do you seriously think that he was able to stab himself in the heart, twice?" gasped Salim.

"Yeah, because CycloniumX poison takes away psychological restrictions. It's a bit messy cause we don't know the validity of CycloniumX but if the psychological restriction is removed, it might be possible." said Klancy.

Klancy walked around the room and said "Taking into consideration CycloniumX, we need to realize 1 of the truth files is utterly wrong."

"Oh, I get what you mean. The autopsy report has to be wrong." said Galtomor.

"Yes. Our inspectors found out that Tenma was not drugged. But he was drugged. It's just that traces of CycloniumX disappears. That is a very dangerous poison." said Klancy with serious eyes.

"Tenma did stab himself. It's very likely he grabbed a knife after dinner." said Galtomor.

"But when did the effects of CycloniumX take effect tho? I think we need to establish that first." said Hellen confidently.

"Yeah, that's right." said Salim.

"The notes said something about when the desire to commit suicide kicks in, the victim starts looking sickly. I think the moment where Tenma's face turned blue and he walked out of the recroom matches perfectly." said Klancy.

"Yeah, that did happen, didn't it. Afterwards Tenma entered the kitchen. He didn't even talk to Reiner. Probably just grabbed the knife and got out." said Galtomor confidently.

"This is difficult. We can't figure out who stole the poison by gathering alibis of the day Tenma was drunk, no?" asked Salim with worry.

"That's probably not gonna be viable. Considering how bad people's memories are." said Galtomor sadly.

"Then our only lead is to find out how and what time he was poisoned." said Hellen.