The blood was dried as if killed a long time ago.
Maybe it happened in his sleep or a while before that,
But he was sure it was not Evelyn, because she was with him the whole time, so it would be a miracle if Evelyn could kill her like that.
But the setup was perfect,
The culprit was now perfectly hiding in that shadow of Evelyn.
Smile felt helpless, he couldn't even tell that Evelyn was with him the whole time, or else she would be killed by Elena.
The culprit had to be extremely witted,
Tom came in soon and looked at the scene, even he too was surprised.
He ordered his bodyguards to clean up the mess and came a step close to Evelyn, "Killing your own people in shadows to survive, how sad"
Smile didn't wanted to say anything but he had to take that stance, his heart wouldn't let him be still, it still burned with a little flame and humanity and justice.
Smile said in a soft tone, "Do you have a camera to confirm that"
Tom looked at him surprisingly.
Smile knew it was the perfect question, he also guessed there was no camera or else Evelyn would be dead by now.
Evelyn looked at both of them, she was already traumatised seeing Jessica's dead body and now she was being accused of something she didn't even know.
Tom sighed and came closer to Smile ready to give an answer, "Will a spy do?"
Smile shook, this was his thought when he saw Evelyn, a spy sent by Elena but now it was sure there was a spy but it wasn't Elena.
And Smile knew one thing for sure,
The spy was the the murderer because, if she would've blamed it on Evelyn by setting up the knife there, it means she wanted to hide in a shadow of someone obvious.
Smile smiled a little, it was like hitting two birds with a stone, he could find the spy and culprit together,
Though it wasn't necessary for him to do, he was quite bored, by only getting tortured and also he had to protect Evelyn.
Smile started at Tom, with a little smile he asked, "Then ask the spy who to culprit is?"
Tom stared at him in silence for a while, and stood back up,
He started to scratch his head and look up and talked, "About that, only young madam knows who the spy is?"
It was quite obvious, it was necessary for Tom to not know about spy because that psychopath would do some crazy activities with her talking weirdly and also he would ask her and revealing who the spy was.
Tom continued, "Young madam is on a school trip, so we have to wait for some time"
Smile flinched a little, she was having fun with other people, while he was suffering here, he remembered Quentin and Jake once and thought, 'I wonder what they are doing'
The room was silent for a while, then Tom broke it and said, "Well we didn't expect this to happen so no games for today, enjoy your time"
He left leaving some supplies of food with everyone.
Smile felt so wrong in the words said by him, because it revealed the whole idea of step two, if someone died and he decided to say that's unexpected so no games for today, everyone was going to die,
There were now 3 people.
Would that mean all their lives would end in 3 days.... It might extend but they all were gonna die,
Step two's only player is Smile, he was meant to witness all the death and hold it in him adapting to them, he thought, 'Adapting to Murder'
He remembered that saying by Tom, this was one heck of a step, he had to see everyone who were with him die, showing him how meaningless life could be.
He looked Evelyn, she was sitting there innocently, hair sticking on her beautiful face, she had a sorrowful expression on her face because of Jessica.
Smile will be witnessing her die anyday..
He had to do something and so he thought,
He came up with an idea, he would do a deal with Tom before Elena comes, maybe Tom was strictly ordered to follow some rules, but would a psychopath really do that?.
Smile was waiting for the next day, the time went quite slow since there were no tasks given,
Evelyn was sitting silently without even glancing at Smile,
It seems that she understood why she was on the floor when she woke up instead of his chest,
And because of the revealing of the role of a spy, she became more alert.
Smile thought, 'Not bad you're smart'
He stood up and started to warm up, other girls started to stare at him, they all were very scared now after so many deaths, it was a pity that he had to see them die soon.
Ava asked, "What are you gonna do now?"
Smile looked at her nonchalantly and said, "I don't want to rot, so I'll work Myself a bit"
He started doing some workout, to keep himself barely fit and pass time in that hell.
Soon Ava got up, she was chained the closest to the stairs, yet it was not visible.
Ava started to repeat what Smile was doing, it was kind of cute, but Smile let it pass since she had only a day or two to live...
Soon the lights went off,
Time passed and it was time to talk with Evelyn, he had to tell her about the step 2.
She was laying right beside him, he knew that very well, he also knew she would be awake.
He held her hand and pulled her close....