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Chico Careta is an antagonist from Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. He was 25 years old and highly experienced in the legends of the site near where he lives.
Biography[]
Crime[]
Chico Careta fell in love with Mariana Etista, a young woman who started working at a hotel owned by Micah Sasucasa. He asked her to be his bride and was taught English by her. Shortly after, an archaeology team led by Archie O'Logie came to his village, Careta volunteered to help the team as their local guide. At an excavation site, Careta saw that O'Logie uncovered a slightly cracked ancient stone idol. He thought the idol contained demons and were loose since the container was broken, so he hoped the idol be put back at the excavation site. However, the archaeologists refused, and instead stored their finds in Sasucasa's storage hut.
Etista wanted to get rid of Careta and obtain the idol, so she manipulated him into killing O'Logie to get it back by pretending to be a demon trapped inside; although deep down, Careta had realized who the "demon" truly was, having recognized her camouflaged voice, he refused to see the truth. He agreed to the murder, but only because he thought the demons would come at nighttime and bring misfortune to the village.
That night, he offered O'Logie and Doug Scowers a bottle of liquor to celebrate their success. As they got drunk, Doug passed out outside the hut and Careta killed O'Logie with blow to the head using an axe. To find the idol, Careta looked through the notes written by the archaeologists but even though the idol was clearly stated to be in Crate C, Careta went through the first two crates first due to not understanding English. After finding the idol, he set up O'Logie’s body with fishing lines and the ceiling beams to make the body appear to be moving on its own and called the hotel using an intercom. When Etista picked up the call, Careta recognized her voice. Hoping he wasn't recognized, Careta attempted to impersonate O'Logie and claim that a demon was after him. Etista recognized him but didn’t tell Sasucasa. When she had him accompany her to the hut, Careta set up one stored tall advertising sign with the coat hook in the wall to hide himself, and when Sasucasa forced the door open, Careta moved the corpse from his hiding spot and had the corpse seemingly walk towards them. The body knocked down a bottle of liquor, which spilled over the floor, inadvertedly leaving traces behind of the presence of the propped up advertising sign, but Careta had the body collapse near the door. After the police detained Scowers, Careta gave Etista the idol and gave his statements to the police. He mostly claimed that the archaeologist was killed because of the "diablos" coming at night and the demon O'Logie supposedly saw was the diablo.
Investigation[]
Half a year later, the investigation was planned on being reopened by request from Doug's brother, Dustin. Knowing she could get rid of Careta, Etista suggested to him he should visit England and bring back souvenirs for the village. Naively, Careta agreed, and ended up being questioned by the Yard, insisting it was the diablo who killed Archie O'Logie. However, after some pressure from Alfendi Layton and Lucy Baker, Careta admitted to killing O'Logie, as a "demon" made him do so. However, his explanation on how he escaped the locked hut made little sense, as he claimed to having been given by the demon the power to walk through walls, and Alfendi had no choice but to let him go, but he was 95.1% sure he was the culprit.
However, as they investigated, Careta tried to enter Buckingham Palace but was told he couldn't enter at this season. Since he wanted to bring back pictures for the village, he tried to sneak into the palace by climbing the fence but a police officer quickly caught him and brought him back to the Mystery Room. Careta's method on killing O'Logie was soon exposed, and he also truly found out that the "demon" who tempted him was indeed Etista, who was using him just to get the stone idol, much to his dismay. As Careta was detained for questioning, he refused to give more information about the case so the police had to go find Etista themselves. Unfortunately, Etista had already fled the village along with the stone idol.
After Etista and the stone idol were found and the investigation was over, Careta was surprisingly released from custody, and returning to his village, brought back with him a new stone statue, much to the villagers' and Sasucasa's surprise. It is not known why Chico was released from police custody as, manipulated or not, he was still the physical perpetuator of a murder. However, given Careta's highly guillable, superstitious, and naive personality, it is possible that he was deemed "innocent enough" to be released.
Trivia[]
- "Chico" is Spanish for "boy" and "careta" is a Spanish synonym for "mask", referring to his habit of using masks to express his emotions. Hence, Chico Careta translated into English is Mask Guy/Boy.
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