Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 331

Chapter 331: This Is An Interrogation, Isn’t It?
Turner nodded at her acceptance and he brought out a book and started flipping through it while talking.

“I had an interview with the vice-president of the student council yesterday, uh… was her name Maria? Yes, I think it was. She stated during the interview that she was with you during the time of the incident. Can you confirm if this is true or not?”

Why was he acting as if he didn’t remember Maria’s name? Arit knew that Turner remembered Maria’s name perfectly. Was he trying to make it seem like he just spoke with Maria in passing? He was trying to make her lower her guard by pretending that he didn’t have a serious conversation with Maria about her.

Arit nodded her head at Turner’s question.

“Yes, I was with her.”

“Can you tell me what you were doing with her?”

“She needed my help with the upcoming school festival. I’m supposed to be part of the student panel of judges for the quiz competition. She wanted to ask me who else would be a good fit for it.”

Turner checked something on the paper.

“I’m not going to question if you were really with her or not, but I understand that before Francis and Esmeralda were killed, they were last seen leaving their classroom with you. Can you clarify what happened after you three left the class?”

Arit first made sure that she was calm before she started to lie through her teeth.

“After leaving the class, they took me to the corridor and threatened me to stay away from Mark. Esmeralda wanted me gone so that she would be Mark’s girlfriend and Francis was trying to use Esmeralda as a shield to protect himself from Mark. I refused, and they were about to use violence, but Maria showed up before they could do anything and she told me to come with her to talk about the school festival. I don’t know what happened to them after that.”

Turner hmmed and checked something off in his book again. He continued to ask questions like this and Arit kept answering. Every time she answered something, he would check something in his book and then ask something else. Arit couldn’t get a good look at what he was checking, but she could only assume that it was points from the conversation that Turner had with Maria.

Arit and Maria had already prepared a good cover story that they would use in case they were ever questioned like this, so Arit was able to easily answer all of the questions that Turner was coming up with. She remained calm and made sure she continued making eye contact with him so there would not be any reason for him to suspect her at all.

After some time, Turner sighed as he stared down at his book. All of the points that he had in his book had been checked out except for one. And from how easily Arit answered all the other questions, he knew that this one would also check out. That was supposed to be a good thing; it meant that Arit was not involved in the killing at all.

But that just opened up a whole new world of problems since he had to start looking for another lead from a different angle now. Turner couldn’t even say why he had suspected Arit in the first place. She didn’t have the alibi for a crime like this and her records were perfectly clean. There wasn’t even a single report of her ever showing aggression towards Esmeralda or Francis. It would be silly for her to suddenly lash out and kill two people that she did not have any hatred towards.

Honestly, if not for the fact that she was the last person seen with either of them, he would’ve never even glanced in her direction.

“Okay, I suppose you and Maria were really together during that time. Everything checks out. But did you two talk about anything else when you were together?”

Arit pretended as if she was thinking about it before she answered.

“Oh yeah, she wanted me to help her with tutoring some students who were finding it difficult to keep up in science class. The science class has a lot of students below the average, so she was asking me to fill in and help tutor them.”

Turner’s hand paused over his book and Arit could immediately see his brow furrow in confusion. Arit’s eyes narrowed and her hand tightened into a fist on top of her lap. What the fuck was going on? Wasn’t that the story that she and Maria worked on? I’m sure I made her memorize this story perfectly. I even asked her about it over the phone before school started. Did Maria make a mistake in the story?

Arit could feel her heart rate rise slightly and she waited for Turner to say something. She knew that she promised Mark not to do anything violent while in school, but she could feel the Queen stirring as the tension in her body threatened to drive her insane.

‘Should we kill him? He is an A rank. We might be able to kill him if we take him off guard.’

Shut up. Remember what Mark said. No fighting, no killing. I am not going against Mark’s order.

‘The king will understand if we kill one person.’

Our situation is bad enough already. I am not doing anything. If Turner figures something out then I will deny it. Just stick to the plan.

The Queen quieted down and Arit took in a breath to try and calm herself. She forced her expression to calm down before she raised a delicate brow and spoke up.

“Is something wrong?”

Turner blinked up at Arit curiously before he finally smiled apologetically and shook his head.

“No, no. I was just thinking about something.”

Turner finally checked the last thing in his book and closed it with a nod.

“That’s it, I guess we’re done here. Sorry it had to be this way. I would have done it differently if I had a choice.”

Arit shook her head.

“There’s no need to apologize. I can understand if you’re afraid of Mark. But next time, you don’t have to worry about his reaction. Mark won’t hurt you just because you want to ask a few questions.”

Turner chuckled. Arit could say something like that just because she was his girlfriend. Mark would never hurt her. For others who were barely acquaintances of Mark, it was necessary to walk on eggshells around him. Mark might be the weakest SOVEREIGN, but he was still a SOVEREIGN, even superhumans could be easily sent to the hospital if they got on Mark’s wrong side.

Turner told Arit that she was free to leave and he sat back calmly as Arit stood and left the room. Once Arit clicked the door closed, Turner looked back down at his note and tapped his finger on the last line over and over again.

“Science, eh?”

That was something that Maria never said to him during their interview. When Turner asked what subject Arit was supposed to handle, Maria said she left it up to Arit to decide on her own. Maybe it is just a misunderstanding? But if it was a misunderstanding, which of them was making the mistake? They both sounded so sure of themselves during the interview. Turner sighed as he finally closed his book and stood up to go back to class.

“Maybe it really is a misunderstanding.”

Turner left the room and he was surprised when he saw Arit was still standing outside the room. But she was not alone. She was standing there with Luna and the both of them seemed to be talking about something before he came out. Once Turner saw Luna, he cursed internally as he saw the look of disapproval in her eyes. He was busted.