3 The Death
Third Person's POV
A man in black walked towards the huge and wide mansion, he slowly turned the knob to avoid creating any noise, even small ones. He peeked through the gap to check if there are still people going around, when he's convinced, he immediately went upstairs then entered an unknown room. From there he took off all his clothes painted in deep red blood coming from the murder he just committed. He put them inside a vinyl bag together with the murder weapon and tossed them outside the balcony. After being satisfied, he psychopathically grinned, sign of his contentment and happiness. He took his smartphone then call somebody out of the blue.
"Ma'am. Ms. Lucille Ascania is already dead." Even if he cannot see the face of the person from the other side of the line, he knows that he made her smile with the "good" news he said.
Nicholai's POV
*yawn*
Thank goodness, I am already done in preparing our detailed strategies. Well, actually we should've done them together but Lette suggested that she will the one who will sketch the plan and I am the one who will prepare our strategies, even though I expect her not doing any plans at all. After all, her motto in life is "expect the unexpected".
I stood up and fixed myself, I need to consult mom about my own made strategies.
As I walk through the hallway, I saw our helpers and staffs running with scared face. I approached one of them to asked what happened so early in the morning.
"What the hell happened?"
"Ma'am, you need to see madam.." she cannot finished talking as she is now teary-eyed and close to brawl like a child.
Because if her reaction, I cannot afford to wait for her next line, I ran as fast as I could towards our headquarters or mom's office. And then, that's the time I saw my mom sitting at her swivel chair but her body and face is against the table covered with blood with a katana piercing her heart.
I scanned the room and check every person who's witnessing this gruesome scene, my twin must not see this. But I am late, I saw Lette is crying on her knees, she is transitioning from staring blankly then will cry after. I approached her and pat her back as I my lips cannot utter any word to comfort her. I felt sadness, hurt and rage as I look my mom's position, her death position. She looks like she cannot defend herself, she is in so much trouble not to say anything or make any sound for us not to be worried for her. I felt so helpless, I am raised as detective, police and protector of the weak. We solved different cases to avoid these things to happened, but my dumb self cannot protect her own mom. I felt so useless.
"Lette..." she looked at me desperately and hugged my tight as much as she could while crying out loud.
"Lai! Mom is.. Mom is dead! It can't be!" I hugged her back but I need to look at the crime scene. I put down Lette's arms off me and stood up to approach my mom's corpse.
"Who first saw her?" I waited for their answers but then I realized that no one's answering. I look at them then they all looked at Lette, like saying she is the one.
"There's no one approached the scene, right?" I softly asked her, she shook her head telling me there's no one.
I scanned the whole office, everything is so unorganized, like the culprit was searching for something. All of the papers were on the ground like someone threw them. The cabinets were all opened and almost empty. But despite of all that, I noticed that maybe he did not find anything, what's that left is to let my mom say it from her own mouth. I looked at mom, she has bruises on her face and arms, she did fight for her life after all. I looked at the Katana pierced her, there is no any unique signs or trademarks about it; just a plain one that can use for one-time murder.
I saw the table, looks like it is not that searched by the culprit, I can still open my mom's laptop and saw all the cases we worked on, she was doing a final report about it. I also saw some pile of cards on the table, but there is a unique pattern made from those cards. Two cards were put on together and realized that it is stick together using blood. It's my mom's dying message! I scan its pattern, the cards were not equally sticked together, the cards just made it half way both vertically and horizontally, like you are drawing a box, in 3-D.
"Redial." I was back in reality when I heard Lette's voice.
Redial? I look at the telephone on my mom's desk and look for the same pattern, I compared then and no doubt, they have the same pattern! I pushed the button and it I revealed some numbers over the screen while the lights at the button were blinking one by one.
71539*2580*1723659*27295*2580 – this are the numbers came out
I pushed again the redial button in case this is some number to call somebody, but the number is not existing. So, there is only one thing meant by these numbers, this is a code and we need to solve it.
"Miss Lai!" I looked at the person who called me.
"What is it Anne?" Anne is one of our investigators but she's only at beginner stage.
"We found the murder weapon. It is wrapped with clothes full of blood, we are thinking if this the one used by the culprit." I looked at a murder weapon and I saw something strange. There are portions or parts of the weapon that being erased.
"Murder weapon? But I thought the Katana was the one which is used to kill mom?" I asked with a huge confuse in my face.
"No ma'am. The culprit just used the katana to confuse us. Our detectives and investigators roamed the place and saw this." She said. Something's definitely wrong.
"But, why would he left that important things near the crime scene?" Lette asked.
"He was just wanted to show it off to us, that he can outsmart us, that we are weak." I answered.
"I am going to the forensic team to check if there are some finger prints left by the culprit." Anne was about to walk out from the room when Lette said something.
"NO! it has no fingerprints. I guarantee you."
"Yes! Lette is right. Tell the forensic team to check if in this part of weapon, blood are erased."
"Yes ma'am!"
I approached Lette and pat her back.
"Lette, Let's do this. Dry your tears. We've got to solve mom's case."
"You're right." Lette said then start roaming the room. We need to investigate this case thoroughly.
"Ma'am the autopsy reports are out." Said by the medical team then gave us the envelope.
I read between lines thoroughly when I noticed something that made me wonder about it. None of the said weapons were used to stab my mother.
I don't know why and how these things happened but I am sure of one thing, those guys were on their move to get those documents; documents that are all buried in the past but still haunts the present.
"Do another autopsy, the reports said that none of the weapons are used. Conduct a chemical examination, find what kind of drug was used to kill mom" I ordered them.
"Yes, Ma'am"
"Lai, I was thinking about this code that mom left. I think we need to trace the telephone's keypad by following the numbers." Lette suggested. Right! How can I forget about that?
"Then, what did you find?"
"The first set was 71539, if you trace them, you'll get the letter M." she said, she's right it really looked like letter M.
"Then the next sets were traced as I,R,A,I?"
"MIRAI? As in future when translated in English?" I asked.
"I think so, do mom want us to solve the case in the future, or we will know the answer at the future? Or what? I don't know anymore." Lette said.
"Or maybe our future will be led by this crime? We need to investigate about this Lai." I said.
"Of course, Lette, I will not forgive the person who done this cruelty with mom."
"But first, we need to do our undercover mission first, maybe it will lead our way."
"What?! Are you serious? Mom is dead! And still you wanted to do an undercover?" she hysterically said.
"LETTE! Listen to me! I saw hemlocks at mom's first autopsy reports, the same thing I saw at the file of one of our targets. They manufacture hemlocks and made herbal medicine; we need to investigate that variable." Lette was looking at me with a lot of doubt in her face.
"Okay, just in 1 month, if we found nothing, we are going to look the other way." She said.
"Okay, just 1 month." I answered.
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