The Irrelevant case of Akiki (Chapter 4)

Yeah, you have reached the 4th and next-to last or penultimate chapter of the Irrelevant case of Akiki. Good news!! I will post this chapter and the 5th chapter will be the longest chapter of all. So I hope you have not given up on reading about this story. So, thanks for reading the case of Akiki's disappearance or so it seems. Start!!! Fourth chapter!!!

Chapter 4 : The Solution

I sat up straight after waking up for bed that night. The dream shook me up a bit, I was still terrified. Who was that person in my dream, was it someone I knew, or someone who is a complete stranger to me. And the worst of all what was his name, I couldn't really guess who it was. Was it my friend Ziq, or some other guy whose name is familiar. And what has he got to do with Akiki's disappearance. This thought bothered me throughout the day.

As I went into the shower I thought about the note or puzzle that Akiki left me or he should have. I thought carefully thinking of the possible ways of getting the hidden message left within it. Then something came to my mind, Math!! It was one of the things that Akiki was best at and maybe just maybe there was a way of getting the message by solving all the questions. I answered each one carefully making sure that the message is clear.

For the first question I had answered the answer was, O=G, I thought about how this could become a note. Then, a thought struck me, I remembered my teacher saying something about where there can be the number 1. I started adding the number 1 to all the answers not on the first letter but on the ones after the equal signs.

I cleared it out, and the new answer was, O=1G. I received more answer when answering the following questions, K=1B, I=1A and so on. I finally found it, the way of solving the puzzle, the first letter represents the letter and the following ones represent the coordinates not on a Cartesian plane but on the coordinates like when playing Battle Ship as I saw in my dream.

The answer from the puzzle was horrible but I tried to hold my self together. I sat back on my bed thinking of all the ways I could overcome and solve this case. The message the letter held was something I had never expected and I tried not to think about this case, this impossible case that cannot be solved by any mere human being and what more me a school kid. That thought filled my head as I read a book about the White Wolf.

Well that's all I'm quite sleepy so this is a short chapter and still the penultimate chapter of this 5 chapter story. Bye.

Farid

The Irrelevant Case of Akiki (Chapter 3)

The third chapter in the story that you have followed, the Irrelevant Case of Akiki, might be the weirdest of them all. Why you ask? Well, it is because this case is something of an alternate chapter of the story, a chapter where the story is completely different than the others but will match at the end. The story is still about me searching for answers and clues to the case. So please enjoy this chapter like you have enjoyed the previous ones. If you have not enjoyed the previous ones than just try to enjoy this. Sheesh.

Chapter 3 : The Synchorization

I was running. Running through an endless glade, a field where only grass grew. It made no sense to me at all, what was I doing, why was I doing it. I saw a shine in the horizon, and I went after it. It was different than before the shining light was both horizontal and vertical meeting at a straight 90 degree angle. A flash suddenly appeared and everything in sight turned a slight reddish colour. It was an explosion I ran towards it trying to see what was going on.

As I reached the area I could see that it was burnt, and smoke was still coming out of the ground. I was all strange. I ran back following my tracks leading me back to a place I have known so well as home. My house was empty no one in it. I searched my own house not knowing why, and then suddenly, I stepped on a piece of paper. Somehow it looked fimiliar, like I have seen it before. The instant I picked it up I knew what it was, the paper I found addressed to me from Akiki. A thought came to my mind. I ran to the nearest bus station and took a bus back to my school. The place I had gone to at night to search for clues.

As the bus approached to the stop, I was still thinking about the puzzle. Almost forgetting, I managed to get out of the bus and ran towards my school. I passed the same place seeing the same things from the previous time and everyday as I enter my school. As I walked in I did not have to hide, no one was in the guard post. Although it was strange, I took the chance and ran in, to the same block. But before I reached it, I saw a person staring straight at the sky, I recognized him eventually and it was my friend Ziq. I called out to him but somehow he did not bother to look at me.

I ignored him and ran towards Akiki's class. It was completely different, only the tables were there but there were no chairs. I went to look for Akiki's desk but I could not find it. Then, something caught my attention. The table was out in the same glade I was running through. I walked slowly towards it and examined it for any other clues until I felt pain strike through my back. My back was bleeding and someone was there, holding a knife. He knelt down to me and said "Have you solved the puzzle? It's quite easy actually, Numbers are placed in a vertical order and alphabets are in a horizontal order just like the game Battleship". He lifted up his arm, the one holding the knife and said again" It's me, don't you recognize me?It's Z..." Then, everything faded out. I was sweating in my bed when I woke up." It was just a dream." I said to myself.

That would be the ending of the thrid chapter. I hope you'll read the next one. That will be the one where I answer the puzzle. Bye.


Farid

The Irrelevant Case of Akiki (Chapter 2)

Hey, welcome to the second chapter which is sure to be quite interesting I hope. Now at the end of this post I will put a picture showing a puzzle, the puzzle which I have found. How did I find it? That you have to read yourself but just to tell it took me quite a long time to break it. So I hope that any of you can solve it before reading the next chapter and enjoy reading this chapter. Let the story begin, I mean continue...

Chapter 2: The Investigation

His answer really puzzled me. I thought about it the following night, thinking of all the possible reasons to why and how Akiki just dissapeared from maybe existence and why such a disappearance would happen. I thought about all the ways that it could possibly be done, all the ways it could be solved but they all made no sense in anyway. Finally, after putting much of my thought to it I decided to investigate about this case. I named it the Impossible Case of Akiki because it was almost impossible to commit.

The plan to the investigation was simple yet quite difficult to perform and it would take quite a long time but I have decided. I took a bus to the first stop in the city and from there I went straight on to my school and in order to not allow my parents to know about it I used the night I was supposed to go to tuition. I got off the bus at the nearest stop from the school. It was a beautiful night because it was not very cloudy but the sky was clear and some stars were shining in the sky. I tried not to let this distract me from my main goal, to investigate.

I sneaked by the guard post, making sure no one heard me coming or hear me going past the guard post. But this was harder than expected because of the wide open field in the school which was the first obstacle I had to overcome. Swiftly and silently, I moved through the field hiding shortly behind tree after tree until I came to the first block, the block where Akiki's class was. I took a deep breath and rushed to his classroom. It was there where I started my search for any clues leading to his disappearance.

I found his table, where it used to be, by the corner near the window beside a few others. But, there was something different about it. The desk was clean, no papers, sweets , chewing gum or even text books. It was clean like someone had remove all of the belongings of the friend Akiki. This frustrated me, but as my hope was fading something brought it back again, the rubbish bin was full of papers and other rubbish. I went through the items inside and there where all quite clean. Most of the papers where activities and test papers which were thrown away and of course most of them belonged to Akiki. Finally, I found something but its presence made me even more curious about what had happened. It wasn't a note or any short poem, it was something more, I was a list of mathematic questions that maybe had a message hidden in it. I went home that night, feeling even more puzzled than before. I laid down on my bed with the paper I found and tried to see what message it had.

The Paper I found...
Click the picture to enlarge it and question number 16 is (N=A....) Sorry no so clear.

You have now reached the end of chapter two. I hope you continue reading the following chapters of the Irrelevant Case of Akiki. Bye.


Farid