Blackpoem/Black Poetry
The masked demon, AJ
On the four-seat silver waiting chair, Frans seemed a little unsettled. The middle-aged man of Anglo-Batak descent raised his left hand staring at the watch again. At 4.10. He pecked annoyed and then put his back on the back of the chair.
Frans noticed again the corridor on the 17th floor of the Metro Jaya Police Station which was really very quiet. 15 minutes no one passed, let alone humans.
Suddenly the sound of quick footsteps rang out from the passageway far away there. Makes Frans sharpen his entire senses. Before long, the slender, slightly pony-haired thirty-year-old man clutching a pink gift box, half ran towards him.
He gasped for a moment when he got near Frans. He turned to the nearest door: the room they should have entered from 4 o'clock.
"Why are you still outside Inspector Frans?" he asked then with an expression that was still full of anxiety, "Is the meeting over? am I late? Oh damned me if I'm late, I'll be fired from kep ...."
"Calm Aditia!" frans cut Aditia's speech. Aditia immediately sculpted. Although already ranked AIPDA, Aditia is still acting silly, precisely maybe childish. Frans himself wondered why the late Mr. Thirto put it into the INU Team and coupled with great detectives. If he is reliable in the field of information, there are still many other people who are reliable as well and have a more serious attitude of course. Ah never mind, maybe Mr. Thirto knows better than he does. Especially so far Aditia according to him is also tenacious when working.
"I'm sorry then" said Aditia smiling awkwardly while scratching her nape. He sat next to Frans. And stared at Kadonya again with a crisp face.
"What's that?" ask Frans.
"Ah this is a gift for my second child's birthday, today he is 6 years old."
"You mean Amel?"
"How do you know my son's name? I never told you that ... Oh, you're a detective."
Frans frowned, "we've been together a long time where maybe I don't know your son's name.And this has nothing to do with detectives."
"Hehe is so. Oh, tonight we're having a little party. Inspector Frans you can attend if you want, it would be an honor for me if an Inspector would attend and of course I would be happy."
"I've often said don't call me inspector. We're not too far away either." Frans smiled and patted his partner on the shoulder, "I must have come." Aditia's face immediately sparkled.
"Are you coming?" Frans nodded. Aditia grabs Frans' hand and regrets it. "I'm really moved that the Inspector is coming."
Both were silent for a while before Frans said again, "Aditia, it's been a year we've been on this INU team, but we never found the bright spot who the suspect is. Iota. I feel like I failed to live the trust, while now the victims are growing."
"We must not feel like a failure before the INU Team is completely disbanded. And our new chairman said he was a good detective, one of the best in the world. He should have come already."
"AJ well, I was curious about his face. It would be interesting if his face looked like Sherlock Holmes or maybe like Sinichi Kudo."
"From some news that I heard AJ's face no one ever knew because he was always wearing a mask."
"Mask?" Frans squinted a little.
Aditia nodded. "We'll know later."
Five minutes passed, no one had gone through the corridor after Aditia. The lizard also remained uninterested in showing himself. Until some heavy steps were heard from the same hallway when Aditia appeared earlier. Like the sound of bots clashing against the floor. The longer the sound is heard. Frans and Aditia focus their senses.
And see the origin of the voice that comes from three tall men: two police officers who work here and one man dressed all in black; his clothes are rather wide and long to the knee length more, on the shirt was tethered a silver belt that was probably just for decoration. The man's face was invisible because it was covered in a hideously gray mask: two round eyeballs, a small snub nose and two long fangs coming out of the lower jaw. This black man's hair is shaggy and expands slightly in a gray polish.
When they arrived in front. Frans and Aditia got up and nodded their heads. Frans tried to measure her height with AJ. Almost the same as him, AJ also has a height of almost 180 centimeters.
"They're members of the INU" one of the police told AJ.
"You're AJ sir?" ask Frans.
"true." AJ gave the hand office to Frans and Aditia. The ones who tell each other's names. Behind his mask Frans suspects AJ is smiling or just guessing, "sorry because I'm late" continued AJ.
"Are you two?" ask AJ to Aditia.
"Later to tell me inside," Aditia replied smiling awkwardly.
The three entered leaving the two policemen standing guard outside. The room light was turned on, and clearly displayed the work room of the INU Team for this year. There is nothing special, just like a regular office: a desk, a chair, a computer, a closet, a shelf with books and documents. Frans then opened the window letting the orange twilight beam in. Aditia locked the door.
AJ sat on one of the chairs, spreading his gaze to Aditia and Frans who were looking at him strangely.
"Why? Is something wrong?" Ask later.
The two inspectors flinched. "There is no hehe" said Frans and Aditia simultaneously. Both of them actually hope that AJ opens his mask and they can know what the best detective face in the world is like.
"Can you answer my question now?" ask AJ.
"Oh yeah. After our chairman a week ago resigned from the INU team, three of our friends decided to quit as well because they felt like they were failing."
"Why are you guys still holding on?"
Aditia and Frans glanced at each other. "I actually also want to resign but I have promised my boss the late Mr. Thirto to solve this case" explained Aditia.
"Deceased. You mean that Thirto Kapolda is dead?"
"You know Mr Thirto?"
"Of course you know."
"Yes Pak Thirto died also because of this Black Poetry case." Aditia lowered her head and clenched one hand, recalling the kindness her superior had towards her all this time, "i regret not being able to resolve this case so quickly. Maybe if I can, Mr. Thirto's life can be helped. Which person caused all this mess? I will avenge all the deaths of innocent victims . If I get caught, I promise I'll shoot that vile killer right in the head."
Frans stepped closer to Aditia and patted her shoulder slowly, before she sat down on one of the chairs.
AJ scratched behind his ear with his index finger. "Tell me the results of your investigation all along." Aditia immediately sat at a table near the computer, put down her card and turned on the computer. His fingers began to type agilely on the keyboard.
"The first case occurred at Lotus High School in Jakarta, about 15 months ago, their former principal named Purnomo suddenly died after reading a poem during the 12th grade breakup. The second case came a week later, not far from Lotus High School, the victim was a thug. According to the victim's friend, the victim died after a masked high school girl gave him an envelope with a piece of paper inscribed with a poem ...."
Aditia kept the case of Black Poetry in the first half of the year quick and concise.
"The next nine months cases have doubled, averaging 17 cases a month. And even in the last three months up to 20 more cases a month. This total of 15 months reached 191 cases."
"Everybody dead?" ask AJ.
"Right, like having a heart attack. That does not include other mysterious cases such as the person who died after calling and ...." AJ raises his hand signalling for Aditia to stop. AJ felt quite heard his explanation.
"Frans can you get me the evidence?" AJ Pinta. Frans then headed to a locker and picked up some piles of paper there. Frans approached AJ and put the paper on the front bench.
"There is no evidence other than this blank paper" Frans said. AJ's hand covered in black gloves raised one of the papers to the height of his face and AJ watched closely.
"There were never fingerprints on the paper that we found" Frans said, "but the strangest thing was the papers. Witnesses said the papers had previously written a poem. Whether we should believe the witness's words or not."
"Who are you most suspicious of before?" ask AJ again.
TBC_
