"Excuse me? What are you talking about?" Frank spoke in surprise at the accusations

"Who do you think you are?" He was clearly getting annoyed so Hector changed tactics.

"Well you see I already talked to Samuel Arthurs butler and from our conversation he is innocent. Then I talked to Mary, Henry, and Martha, and from our talks, I could judge that they too are innocent. So you are the last one." Hector spoke slowly as if he spoke to the child.

"BUT! Before you get any more irritated or feel impulsed to do something stupid like running because it was you. DO. NOT. RUN. You know, I don't have running shoes." He spoke hurriedly to finish their conversation as fast as possible, before any official beyonder would come.

Hector could not understand why people would just not confess to him. It would be the correct thing to do, he reckoned. But he understood that people are stupid. Even though he knew if people would just obey to his every word then everything would be better.

'It's good to be a hypocrite.' He smiled at the thought and continued questioning Frank.

"So Frank, how did it feel to find out that your business partner is trying to get rid of you with some underhanded tactics?

"It must be infuriating to build something from scratch with your friend only to have everything taken away by the same person.

"To face danger from gangs that could strike any time any day because of Arthur's dept, and not to mention the damage that your image can receive from the rumors that he started to spread.

"Why would you let him? When you could make it all go away, and keep the whole company. Gangsters are no longer being paid, and rumors still at the beginning stage will die out. All that needed to happen is for him to die." Hector spoke with certainty as if he had it all figured it out.

"So tell me m I right?"

"...A-Ah, No?" Frank spoke dumbfounded

"He hired gangsters? And what rumors!? What are you talking about? I know he had recently some financing problems I had even lent him some money but he wouldn't do something like that... surely he wouldn't do something like that.

"Wait! Recently some people were hanging out in the street where I live!

"That bastard, that Intis donkey sh*t how dare he after everything that I did for our company! How dare he!" Frank was seething with anger and started to swear at Arthur.

'Alright, He didn't know about it. Wish that I would know sooner, my bad.' Hector thought as he started to back away from him.

After a few minutes, he could see that two more people entered the room. Both were wearing police uniforms but He could tell that they were not ordinary people.

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When they came one introduced himself and asked witnesses to come with him to a different room to repeat their statement. The second one went to the room with the corps of Arthur and closed the door behind him.

'Is he going to channel his spirit or some other ritual?' Hector thought as he didn't remember exact information about the savant pathway, of course, he could be from another pathway too.

Hector waited for his turn so he slowly walked over to the rocking chair and sat down comfortably. He allowed his body to rock back and forth rhythmically.

He visualizes spherical phantasmal lights to calm his mind. He then entered a state of cogitation as to prepare for questioning by beyonder.

When his mind stabilized, he opened his eyes and looked into the darkness, and went to drink some alcohol.

Then he heard Albert speaking to him. He said that it was his time, so he stood up and entered the room opposite the one he was in now.

It was one of the guest rooms and he could see a man sitting behind the table looking at him and observing his every move.

"Please sit master Hector." The man spoke as he invited him to sit opposite to him.

'Inviting me to sit in my one house.' Hector nearly snickered but otherwise, he remained silent as he sat down.

The interrogation went smoothly but Hector felt something was off from the man, but he thought that should be some beyonder effect.

He didn't know if the man was wearing some item or had the ability to see if he was lying. He shouldn't be justicial as he didn't feel any oppressive pressure but otherwise, he could tell.

When he was done he left the room and returned to the ball letting the people leave.

Hector then started to eat from the food that remained as to be prepared for whatever comes next. He wasn't worried much but one can't be too sure.

With a plate full of food he went to the Albert

"Who do you think killed Arthur, was it Samuel whose family he tried to blackmail, Mary who had a secret relationship with him, Hanry who found out about his wife's betrayal, Martha his wife on whom he cheated, or lastly Frank who he tried to get rid of.

"Personally, I don't think any of them are guilty. But then who is? Guards saw no one leave the building, if they did then they would need to be truly excellent assassins." He spoke while wondering how they could have escaped, only someone with beyonder powers would be able to do so.

"Yes indeed," Albert spoke in thought but then he smiled as he said.

"At least we don't need to guess, death was accidental."

"WHAT! What do you mean by accidental, and how do you know?" Hector spoke bewildered

"Oh, I actually saw the whole ordeal, sir. Mister Arthur was drunk and went with Mrs. Mary to one of the guest rooms, terribly rude if you ask me.

"But then Mary needed to leave for a second to prepare herself. And then Arthur found the knife in the drawer. Because he was drunk he slipped and fell stabbing himself with the knife in the process." Albert said calmly as if he was reading a newspaper in the morning.

"W-What? How? Wh..." Hector became speechless and then he started to laugh.

"Hahaha... I LOVE IT!" Only then he realized Hector's persona would not laugh at it and so he hurriedly stopped.

"Ah, sorry for my behavior, that was rude of me. But still what a strange coincidence that everyone that was there had some problems with him." He thought at the chance of it happening.

"Well Mary was there because of Arthur, Samuel and Hanry came to kill him actually, at least from what I saw that is the case. Martha was looking for Arthur as was Frank.

"Not that much of a coincidence as bad luck."

"Well ok by why had you told nothing until now?" Hector asked.

"Sir, you didn't ask and I thought that you could enjoy finding out yourself," Albert said and smiled innocently, then he bowed and continued. "We should return to the police, they should be ending the investigation soon."

Hector just stared at him but then shook his head and followed him.

And strangely enough, when they came to the police they informed them that they are done. It was indeed an accident.

"What a weird day"