Capítulo 41: Stuart’s story
'Holy cow! That's new!' Queen thought as her face abruptly slipped away from her palm.
Quince who happened to see that reaction of hers almost smiled. He quickly remembered where he was and what he was doing. He immediately started questioning Stuart.
"What do you mean precisely Mr.Stuart?" Quince asked. He had a calm look on his face, subconsciously calming Stuart as well.
Stuart took a deep breath before finally uttering,"This is a long story. It may come as a surprise for you but...." Stuart hesitated before blurting out that, "I have a double personality."
Queen very appropriately had a surprised expression on her face before saying,"Double personality?"
She looked extremely confused.
On the other hand, Quince merely had his usual non expression on.
Stuart nodded and took another deep breath. "Have you ever heard the story of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde?"
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is the story about one person with double personalities. He lived in a secluded place and carried out his scientific experiments.
"From the classic book for secondary schools children?" Queen asked.
"Yes, my condition is something similar to that." He nodded.
"Can you give us the details? How it happened?" Quince asked.
"It started since I was young. It wasn't apparent then but I studied in a specialized science and mathematics school for gifted children. However, I was slow and awkward as a child."
"I was gifted but it wasn't enough. It didn't match the other children's level and the other kids made fun of my scores. A 90% grade was simply not good enough." Stuart said bitterly.
"One day as the kids were hitting me, I heard a voice inside my head. The voice urged me to protect myself. It told me to hit the kids back." Stuart trembled a bit as thought of that moment.
"I did. When I came to, I saw the kids lying on the ground badly bruised. I couldn't remember what I did and I was very confused. I looked at my bloodied hands and connected the dots together. I was extremely shocked at my behavior. But it didn't occur to me that there was something wrong."
"The kids stopped messing with me after that. Luckily I didn't face any legal issues as the kids were too prideful to tell on me. They kept their distance from me after that. The voice stopped speaking, till even I forgot about its existence."
"Until one day, during my exam I was extremely tensed. I didn't want to get just 90%, I wanted full score. I studied really hard. During the exam, I was so stressed, I blanked out. When time was up, I saw that all answers were written on my paper."
"It was the first time I got 100%. I couldn't remember writing on the paper at all. Time went by and whenever I'm stress or need to defend myself, I tend to blank out. It happened again and again that I was concerned. Even people around me started to notice my strange behavior."
"I went to the psychiatrist then. My doctor told me that I had double personalities. My subconscious mind developed the other personality to protect myself. When that other personality is active, my brain unlock itself and achieve results my normal state can't." Stuart concluded.
"Does anyone know of this?" Quince asked.
"No one. But since my subconscious personality becomes more prominent, I was advised by my psychiatrist to create an identity for it. That's why I gave it a name. It's called Dake, he is the genius scientist that achieves the unachievable, is approximately 43 years old and have 14 years of engineering experience."
"This is to separate your identity from your real personality?" Queen asked.
"Yes. Since my engineering team is quite trusting when I told them that a friend of mine would come for the interview, they didn't question much. They knew Dake was eccentric and him not showing up for work but contributing ideas was good enough." Stuart said.
"So you believe, Mr.Dake killed Mr.Bernard." Quince asked.
"Yes. I believe so." Stuart nodded in confirmation.
"Can you tell me why?"
Stuart then proceeded to tell them about his mother and Bernard's debt.
"I think this triggered Dake to kill Bernard." Stuart concluded.
Quince and Queen both nodded before Quince said," How did Mr.Dake kill Mr.Bernard?"
"Dake likes violence so I think he suffocated Bernard with a pillow. Like I said, I have no recollection so I'm not sure either." Stuart explained.
"So you are saying that if we check the finger prints on Mr. Bernard's pillow, we would find your fingerprint?" Quince asked.
Stuart nodded solemnly. "Even if you don't, I am ready to say that I am the killer."
There was silence in the room before Queen broke it.
"Very well, thank you Mr.Stuart, until this is solved we would have to ask you to stay in your room." Queen said lightly.
"I understand." He said before leaving. One escorted him out silently.
"So....." Queen turned to Quince after Stuart left, "I guess that's solved?"
Quince kept quiet and glanced at the documents on the table that One gave him earlier. He went through the words written on the document. But soon, a face with golden eyes and caramel hair interrupted him by placing her head on the documents.
"Are you going to keep ignoring my questions?" Queen asked looking angry, ready to strike.
She looked so mad with fire in her eyes, ready to burn anyone down. Quince seeing her angry pout couldn't resist poking her nose. Queen was startled and immediately sat up straight.
She clutched her nose in disbelief before stuttering, "You...you...."
"Take it as your punishment for biting my shoulder." He said easily before holding the documents in his hand.
Before Queen could attack him back, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in" Quince said without looking up from the documents.
One entered the room with a strange look on his face. Queen noticed and asked,"What's wrong?"
Quince looked up from the documents to glance at his guard's face.
"What happened?" Quince asked in a cool tone.
One looked hesitant before replying, "Master Quince, I found something strange."
"What is it?" Queen asked looking excited.
"Mr.Stuart shoes are not the same as last night." One said slowly.
"Oh..." Queen's expression immediately turned bored. 'So what? Even men can wear more than one shoes you know.'
"How is that strange?" She asked looking irritated.
"It's just that....today morning, I noticed that Mr.Noah was wearing the pair of shoes worn by Mr.Stuart last night."
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