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𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕: 𝟐,𝟏𝟔𝟒

Upon logging back onto the server, Jess had noticed so much progress has been going on. Having been busy along with xB and TFC, Jess was surprised to see the intimidating island of Scar's land awaits him at a distance. Meanwhile, Jess just had an ordinary looking base.

He sees the messages on his screen, some of the hermits were awake at least. They were all happy to see Jess, xB and TFC all at the same time back on the server. It was a rare occasion most of the time, so Jess felt honoured having to see some of the hermits say hello.

Oddly enough, another message was sent to him privately. It was from xB, he looked to be in a panic at some sort.

xBCrafted to Jessassin: dude.

xBCrafted: plsss come to my base

xBCrafted: i think this person got the wrong address

Raising an eyebrow, Jess headed off to xB's base. He used a boat, since he didn't even realise that the server even sold elytras or perhaps Jess was just not bothered to.  Anyway, once Jess arrived he saw a distressed xB holding a letter, there was no name to indicate who wrote it either.  TFC also happened to be here, his beard growing much longer than Santa Claus could dream of.

"The first thing I came back to is this..." xB sighed, giving the letter for Jess to read out. Jess couldn't recognise the handwriting, he barely knew half of the hermits that well. But skimming through it, all it talked about was how much this person loved Biffa. The following read,

Biffa,

I came to the conclusion that I am without a doubt, in love with you. Ever since we started to talk more this season, I began to wonder my feelings about you.

It's adorable what you do, and I miss you a lot.  You remember when we baked a cake together? Or surprised Wels on his birthday? I'm still angry that you're not here that much anymore, I still feel that spark in you, Biffa.  Almost like, love has gotten me and now here i am in love with you.

What else can I say? You always like making me smile, it's so lovely when you give me cuddles. Okay,  I'm getting far from track. If you are happening to read this now, I want you to come to my base. Please don't tell anyone about my crush for you, nobody really knows that I love you more than just a friend. I'll probably be waiting, and even if I'm not there, be sure to put on some Disney movies on for me.

Thank you for being my dream prince.

Love, ???

TFC was shaking his head. "This is undoubtedly adorable but also suspicious."

Who would even write this? Jess thought to himself. Now he could understand as to why xB acted like he was in high school drama, it was another mystery to be solved aside from the salmon incident.

"Guess it's only me that got the letter." xB shrugged, holding the love letter. "I'm pretty sure Biffa doesn't know about this."

"Yeah no shit." Jess replied, pulling his bandana back so that xB and TFC could hear him better. "But which hermit would've have a crush on Biffa?"

"There's three female hermits and ten or more male hermits so..." TFC mumbled, still shocked that out of everyone, it was xB that got the letter instead of Biffa. "No way that Cleo, Stress or False would crush on Biffa."

"Do I even cross them off on my list of hermits that I'm imagining mentally in my head?" xB said, walking up and down from his base.

"No, let TFC do it. He's got more braincells than the entire server." Jess sits down on the table, still wondering wherever or not he should just ditch xB and TFC.

After a few minutes of silence from the three, xB decided to go for Plan B which was to investigate. "How about we ask the hermits?"

Jess' heartbeat went up, for god's sake he has no idea if the hermits knew that he had existed! And especially the red sweater boy, his name happening to be Grian (Jess pronounced it as Grain once), Jess was confused having heard of him everywhere around the server.

"Are you sure this is a good idea, xB?" TFC questioned, biting his lip at the thought of Biffa's reaction when he finds out he has a secret admirer. "I'm pretty sure we can get kicked out for this."

"First of all, why would they kick us out? Second, what's the worst that could possibly happen? xB trailed off outside and they sure did miss a hell of a lot of districts that were being built up.

"Come on, I'll treat you two with free ice cream!"

Both TFC and Jess groaned, their only option for free ice cream was now walking alongside with xB. But they did what they had to do and besides, this was the first time that both Jess and xB logged back in the Hermitcraft server after months of hiatus.

With that, the three had arrived at the shopping district first. Amazed at how incredibly complicated Sahara's system was and how Concorp was still the capitalist company the three remembered, Jess spotted their first suspect: Xisuma. This was the obvious answer, that's what Jess and xB would think. Not TFC though, but they ended up talking to him.

Xisuma's face lit up, shocked to see that both Jess and xB were back on the same day. He runs up to them out of joy. "You two! And TFC! It feels so good to see you all again!"

"X! We're all in a hurry but do you know who wrote this?" xB hands the letter to Xisuma, who was reading through it quickly.  At some points, his face turned into a surprised look before going back to his normal expression.

"Unfortunately not," Xisuma shook his head, this could be a prank but xB or that writer wasn't the type to joke along if X was being honest. "The handwriting is neat, but I doubt it's one of our female hermits or Iskall for that matter."

"Why would say Iskall?" Jess asked, suddenly remembering Iskall's existence.

"Oh, he just has bad handwriting so it's not him."

"Looks like five people are crossed out on the list..." TFC brought in a notebook, crossing out the names or every hermit on this current server. "Jesus, there's more we have to interview."

"What are we now, working for Convex?" xB blurred out, already getting annoyed just by the thought of how cliche the letter was.

"The only difference is that you three don't have to watch Cub and Scar flirt." Xisuma joked.

Jess bursted out of laughter before the detectives could say their goodbyes to Xisuma.

"Good luck on finding that admirer!"

Hours have passed and TFC was right. This took so long, crossing out the names of each hermit each time they said no. Sure, they had a few hints such as Grian wouldn't know how to write a love letter or how Joe was already married but this only make the list grow smaller.  And it came with a price, having to find the hermits without the knowledge of where each district was now that everything was constantly being worked on.

This could be even the longest time xB and Jess have been around on this server, wanting answers from this person. Who were they? Why did they love Biffa so much? And what was up with Grian and Mumbo these days? Questions that even TFC can't really answer.

"So we have around one person left, Pixl." TFC explained to xB and Jess, they were taking a break by the Concorp country club, eating the leftover ice cream Scar had offered them for wasting their time.

xB spitted out his vanilla ice cream. "Wait, Pixl is in Hermitcraft?!"

"Apparently him and Zloy are now whitelisted here."

"He doesn't count, they just make recap videos!"

"Okay fine, I'll cross him out." TFC rolled his eyes, the sound of pencil pressing onto a notebook. Jess ate his ice cream, hoping that this would have been the end of it.

"Out of all days and Biffa can't even be here on the server..." Jess recalled, finishing off his steak. "I swear, we will never find out wh-"

Biffa2001 has joined the game!

TFC jumped out of his seat, his mind was going insane over this. After hours, miracles really do come true on this server. Not caring that Cub would get pissed at the three detectives for leaving their bowls on the floor, they run to Biffa's base which luckily xB had remembered.

"If this happened to be Xisuma that's the secretly admirer and he's lying to us the whole time, I wouldn't be surprised!" Jess yelled, he was far ahead unlike xB and TFC.

"I highly doubt that, Jess!" TFC sneered. "If you ask me, I think that Jevin is the one behind this!"

"Um, guys..." xB stopped running, which both Jess and TFC followed. "Look at the sign..."

In front of Biffa's base, there was a sign which read out,

I'm off at Hermitville, if you need anything from me please message me back.

- Biffa

TFC was speechless. "So that means..."

"Wait, what's Hermitville?" Jess asked, but TFC and xB were already running off.

"YOU TWO DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION! I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS!"

When they arrived, the village was peaceful. Luckily, there wasn't any angry raids that would confuse xB and Jess so it went as normal. But for a name like Hermitville, the town was completely empty, probably due to curfew hours.

Searching from each house from the village, nothing. False was there building her moat but she said she couldn't find Biffa anywhere either.  The three were on the verge of giving up, wanting to forget that this happened and they had better things to do.

Then, a hush voice can be heard. It was somewhere in those village huts, but Jess had a gut feeling that there was something else more to it than meets the eye.

Slowly approaching to the closest hut that was making the hush voices, Jess had found nothing. It was a normal village hut. Not until you break the bed that was laid there just for "decoration".

"Bingo." Jess smiled to himself, calling xB and TFC to come over. A secret door heading downstairs to a more domestic room. But this wasn't a secret base either, it was more of a place where you can relax.  The three stayed quiet, hiding behind a staircase while xB is holding the Biffa love letter on his hand.

"I had something with me but..." The voice sounded worried, but none of them could remember who that voice belonged to. It sounded like they were from Europe, so that crossed out a lot of names in both xB and Jess' new list of suspects.

"Is it something that I should know of?" It was Biffa speaking, almost making xB gasped. "I'll wait for you while you look for it."

Was this it? Jess thought to himself. Is this the person we finally found?

A thump noise was made, the same person with the European accent came inside the same room as the three. They were panicking, sounds of chests opening and shulker boxes were heard but TFC assumed that person couldn't find it. If this was indeed a prank, TFC would've sure burned the letter in front of the person.  This could be anyone.

Finally, without any warning from Jess and xB,  TFC slid the letter before hiding back behind the staircase in the secret room. Jess could hear the person walking back into what seemed to be the living room. xB decided to take the risk, peaking out of the staircase.

"You wrote that... for me?" Biffa said, flustered at what the person just wrote to him. "You're so cute, you know that right?" He planted a small kiss on the admirer's cheeks. Jess kept moving which let them to almost tripping over each other.

"I love you so much, Biffie."

There, his red hair was being brushed by Biffa as they both share a sweet hug. His eyes turned pink, indicating that his heart was fluttering stronger than ever.  TFC's jaw dropped. It took Jess and xB a while before they realised that it was someone they didn't expect at all.

Biffa then responded back in a comforting voice, "I love you too, Python."

But even if it was unexpected, Jess, TFC and xB were so heart warmed at the fact that they were able to save Python's romantic ass from failing to win Biffa's heart.  Although, Python had already won Biffa's heart in the end. Jess smiled, looking at the two lovebirds like an idiot.

"Well, I guess this ain't bad at all."