Chapter 5.

Truth.

The next morning the officer returned to apologize not only to Grandpa Yurik but to young Ritchie, who had evidently proven his innocence and revealed a crucial piece of information for the investigation, since when the security cameras were reviewed, it was seen that they dragged the victim when he was alive, then cut off his ears in the middle of the street and stopped to look for a moment at the grandfather's house.

It was not possible to see exactly what had caught his attention and why he had stopped there for a while to look, almost as if he were marking the place of his new victim.

The grandfather stretched his arms to the sky and said: thank God and your parents who have looked after us from heaven, the truth came to light and it has been proven that it is not us.

The officer left and Ritchie was left pensive, they had been saved by the bad focus of the camera towards the house because if they had seen him standing at the window, they would definitely find him guilty and an accomplice of the criminal; And while the grandfather was celebrating with his only addiction, which was eating bread with coffee, the young man said to him: Grandpa, ¿are you realizing what is happening? And the old man said: Of course I am realizing, we are innocent and we will not go to jail for something we have not committed and much less that we have witnessed, but the boy reminded him that the officer said that the murderer stared at our house for a while as if he were studying it to attack those who lived inside.

The grandfather dropped into the chair and said: tell me that's not what I'm thinking son, but the boy nodded and said: old man, we are the next victim of the murderer, we can't sleep at home, we have to pack our things soon and leave, I don't want to lose you grandpa and I don't want you to bury me, ¿do you understand?, to which the old man only said: prepare both our suitcases, because we will go to a small field that your father left in the Republic of Magnivia, I will not resist burying my grandson, I have already suffered enough burying your father and your mother, I do not intend to lose you.

The boy understood and put the grandfather's medicines in a cloth bag and put it inside the suitcase, asking the grandfather if there were any clothes of theirs in that field, but the old man only commented that there are probably some old rags of your father's that probably wouldn't even withstand a blizzard, those rags are so old, so only pack light clothing, because I remember that it's a tropical climate there, and if we bring a lot of jackets we'll be cooked alive on the spot.

The young man nodded and began to search through the old man's belongings looking for the thinnest clothes, suddenly he found a photo of old Yurik hugging his father when he was young and a woman disguised as a man with glasses barely held on her nose, that image caught his attention and when he went to ask him, the grandfather's face simply fell and he said: she's nobody, she's just a lost daughter who changed sex when she was young, don't worry, I think she's dead.