The nights was cold and the waves were rough.
the laughter in the cruise was not heard anymore .Everyone locked their doors in fear of encountering the cold blooded murderer.
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Bane woke up , had breakfast as usual and locked her room . she was engrossed in thoughts of the murder case .
Bane never sensed any unusual movement while the lights went of last night . As a swordswoman Bane could have felt the slightest move .Bane was sure that someone greatly skilled in martial arts was the murderer
That day noon , Bane and John came to the dinning hall as they had fixed a time .
The crew gave John a file which had information of the person who died last night .
Bane told John that it would be better to discuss about this in a closed room , so Bane invited John to her room .
John spoke "A stranger like me coming to a lady's room , how can that be appropriate?"
Bane smile and said that she was fine if it is John as John is not just any stranger but a precious friend.
Hearing the word Precious John blushed and muttered "precious!"
"sorry i didnt hear you ,you spoke too softly" bane asked .
John said that it was nothing and He will come to bane's room to discuss about the case .
The gaurd was told to stay out of the room .
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inside banestha's room
Banestha prepared some tea and snacks for john , they sat down on the table .
John opened the file .
The details were as such -
"The man who died was a noble from the Westindels, he was a married man and he came on the cruise alone with no one to accompany. ,he was offered a free ticket to enjoy the travel in a luxurious cruise by a company ''
'His spouse also was a noble and Her name was Amanda Gregory ,they were married just two years ago '.
'The man was a buisness man and did not have many rivals or enemies big and cruel enough to murder him . as he was deeply in
love with his wife he never had an affair .'
After reading the details provided , Bane and John were confused . why would someone kill a man who have no buisness rivals or illegal affairs ? and what is the meaning of the carving done on the body ? How are the carvings related to the murder ? .
After discussing it was already time for dinner .
As the banquet hall in the right-east part of the ship was closed due to the murder everyone gathered at the south-east banquet hall . This banquet was sponsored by an unknown guest. Even the crews did not know who the sponsorer was .
Bane dressed up in beautiful Green dress , she looked absolutely gorgeous.
Bane left her hair open . Bane wanted to enjoy the banquet and forget about the stress of last night murder atleast for few hours .
This time the people attending the banquet drastically reduced . almost 30% of people were not there . John joined the banquet shortly after the entrance of bane .
Akinar did not join the banquet as he was sick .
The banquet continued and everyone danced and ate .
The crews were in a hurry serving glassess of wine.
everyone present at the banquet wanted to forget last night's incident so they were drinking wine to release their stress .
Suddenly a waiter triped on something and the glass of red wine he had spell on the floor .
He hurriedly apologized to everyone around the table and bent down to clean the spilled wine ;
Lifting the table cloth he saw ........