Murderer

CHAPTER 18 - Alter, Are You The Earth? (Revision)

The finger piece had already moved to the forensic hospital, Faisal was just a grin beside Bara. "Has that crazy killer turned into a butcher now?" his grunts to Faisal.

"Yesterday I was dealing with a corpse full of scratches verse, as if I were reading the bible on human skin ... Then today is a piece of human finger? You must have had a great sin in the past." He glanced at Faisal with annoyance.

Bara was still grumbling while checking the finger, he was surprised — even though it looks cut carelessly, but the person knows the location of the joint that fits so he does not have difficulty cutting it.

"This person has medical expertise as well as it seems, is truly a genius killer. He could make the forensic and police teams find no meaningful clues, other than biased clues," Bara's continuous story goes either to Faisal or to himself.

"Who does this finger belong to?" faisal asked curiously.

Bara rubbed his chin. "From the shape and size of the finger, it was confirmed to belong to a woman."

Then he handed Faisal a ring that had been put in the bag of evidence.

"Look at the one engraved behind the ring!" Bara had Faisal examine the engraving on the inside of the ring.

"Cindy Angelica E's. Yoseph? Could this be Mr. Mayor's gift to Angelica? So why didn't he recognize her?" Faisal wondered for himself. Without saying another word, he left Bara alone in the autopsy room.

"Thank you! Good job, Bara!" bara shouted to Faisal. "She should say thank you or something."

Faisal's car drove to Mr. Mayor's residence, surely he was indirectly related to this case, or even he was also one of the targets. According to Bara — most likely, the finger was cut in the state the owner is still alive and that's good news because it means Angelica is still alive.

His avanza stopped at a stately home, the private residence of Freddy E. Joseph. A security guard knocked on his car window. "Good night, sir!" greet the security.

"Good night, I'm from the police looking forward to meeting Mr. Freddy."

"Ready! Please come in, sir!" The security opened the gate and let Faisal's car in.

Faisal entered a luxurious house that clearly belonged to a high official, with a variety of expensive items worth tens to hundreds of millions in it. He sat on a sofa in the living room, which would have cost him ten times his salary as a cop.

A housekeeper came to bring a cup of coffee, shortly followed by the arrival of Mr. Freddy who smiled at Faisal. It seems that he is indeed a good person, regardless of his arrogant attitude yesterday in the hospital.

"Is there any development on Angelica?" ask Mr. Freddy without further ado. The question was answered by Faisal by thrusting the ring he got from Bara.

"This ring ... do you recognize it?" ask Faisal back.

Mr. Freddy took the ring wrapped in the clear bag. His eyes widened in shock, he was stunned for a moment to see the round object and his hands trembled.

"I-this ..I gave this ring as a prize for Angelica's victory in the modeling contest a year ago," she said.

"You really didn't recognize him this afternoon?" cecar Faisal in astonishment. The mayor shook his head weakly, the look on his face implying regret and sorrow.

"What Angelica has ...." He was unable to continue his speech.

Faisal lowered his head, his eyes staring straight at the marble floor reflecting his shadow. He did not dare to speculate at all to a father whose daughter was being kidnapped, because he knew that the kidnapper was a cold-blooded killer.

"We wish he was alive. After all, according to forensic doctors, it's possible that his finger was cut off while he was alive" Faisal said. The old man could only grit his teeth, he looked extremely angry and desperate.

"Didn't you know anything about Benedict's orphanage?" Faisal asked with a slight raise of his eyebrows. "If it's not wrong, you were the head of that parlour before it burned."

This time Mr. Freddy was flabbergasted, his face water turning into fear. He just kept quiet and made Faisal wait for the explanation of the elected mayor.

The man rubbed the back of his neck, looking once if he was very anxious. Many times he knocked on the handle of the sofa with his finger, as if he wanted to say something he could not say.

"Sir Freddy ..." - Faisal.

He jerks. "Nope-no. I don't remember anything about the orphanage, after all it's been a long time." The mayor replied with a stutter.

"Suster Grace, sister Sandra, Velentino Arthasena, Kinanti Candhrawati, Johan, Cecilia and Andre, they've all been killed, and currently — Angelica is in the killer's hands. Aren't those killed closely related to the orphanage?" cecar Faisal, but his — interlocutors were still silent, not a word came out of his mouth.

"Johan is a former gardener at the orphanage, then the two sisters, then the children of the orphanage who have been adopted by their respective families, including Angelica who you adopted yourself," faisal continued trying to persuade Mr. Freddy to open his mouth.

However, the efforts of this police officer in vain, he was asked to go home on the grounds that the owner of the house wanted to rest. Faisal left with a feeling of disappointment, but he really hoped to get an answer from the Mayor.

 

120 Hours after Angelica's disappearance.

The humming sound was again heard, Angelica was lying with a pale face on the old mat. Five days he had been confined in this stuffy warehouse, the scar where his finger was cut was still painful, the man always came to bring food and drink. Although she is the same person, but Angelica feels she meets different people.

"I'll open your duct tape, but you don't yell!" her door.

Angelica according. He must survive, he vows to make this psychopath pay for his deeds. She eats by being fed by the kidnapper, in this situation — she curses her body, why not at all want to move. One by one mouth, finally the food ran out, he was given drinking water.

"Smart girl, you have to survive! I'm Deborah and that kid is Gabriel, we'll try to protect you from Charles, until the police find you!"

"Your wounds .... Ah, this must be very painful," he added.

This time she was like a wise and kind adult woman, the man went and threw away all the food and drinks Angelica. He smiled and left the woman again.

Angelica began to be able to distinguish which alter came to meet him, if the sound of his steps was light and full of spirit, Gabriel was the one who came to see him. Gabriel, the figure of a ten-year-old boy, always appears alternately with Deborah, they like looking after each other.

This time it must be Charles who came, humming with the raucous voice, as well as his heavy steps and tend to be like dragging when walking. Angelica pretended to be asleep again.

"Wake up!" snarled with a hoarse voice. Slowly Angelica opened her eyes, she saw the man holding a knife and fear began to envelop him.

Under the dim light of the lamp, he could see a flash of evil aura from the iris of the gray eye. Charles kept swinging the small knife in his hand, seen the man trying to intimidate the victim, he was so enjoying when Angelica looked at him in fear.

"Do I have to kill you today?" mumbling itself.

"Mpphh .. mpph." Angelica shook her head in fear, she must not die right now. Now he already knew who the person behind this baseball mask and hat was.

This psychopath must be caught! I can't die right now. Angelica nodded with rage.

An evil laugh rang out from behind the black mask of this man, he was really happy to see his victim was shrouded in horror. She squatted down on Angelica's side, with the blunt side of her knife, she stroked the pretty face.

"If only ... surely her face would be prettier than yours if my sister were alive!" she screamed suddenly while scratching Angelica's face.

"Mkurrgghhh!"

He gripped the victim's chin. His eyes glinted in anger. Then a minute later —

"Don't kill him first, brother! I still want to play with him." Suddenly he whined like a child again at himself.

"His father killed you at dusk!" shouted again.

"I'm still alive! It's me, Dusk."

Angelica seemed to be enjoying a monologue theater, but hearing the name Dusk called, she gasped. Dusk was one of his alternate friends who died of fever and the girl had an older brother named Bumi.

The house had just lost a girl, but they were not grieving. Only the boys named Bumi and Raka look very lost.

The atmosphere of the place was cheerful as usual, which changed only the Earth, she was more often silent. Not wanting to play with his friends anymore, he chose to be busy with his paper and markers.

Some images of the Earth sometimes scare adults, but they don't really care about it. They thought it was natural, because he had just lost his sister. Then the death of Raka, who is the only loyal friend of Earth, increasingly makes him closed. He never laughs and they often find him talking to the mirror himself.

One by one of them also got a new family, not least Cindy aka Angelica who was adopted by the care leader himself. Reverend Ebenaizer's wife could not have children and she craved a beautiful daughter.

Since then, they have never heard from Earth again, other than the news of a family of psychiatrists adopting her.

"Today, you're lucky! Dusk forbid me to kill you!" hardik Charles's. "However — I will take a video as a souvenir for the honorable Mr. Mayor!"

He got up and turned on a digital camera that was supported with a tripod. This man approached Angelica and began to strip her of her clothes one by one until she was not wearing a single thread.

He also began to harass this paralyzed woman, as his foster father used to make a little girl bear the pain, to exhale the last breath. After he finished doing the action, he turned off the video.

This time he deliberately wanted to be highlighted by the camera even though his face was not visible because of the dim light and mask. He smiled with satisfaction to see Angelica crying in silence, the woman would now choose to die.

He appears to take out a memory card from the digital camera slot, then put it in a ring box. Charles approached Angelica again, opening the duct tape in his mouth because he felt his victim wanted to say something.

"What are you, Earth?" ask Angelica lirih.

Charles laughed loudly without answering Angelica's question, he closed the woman's mouth again and cut off a little Angelica's hair, then wrapped it with the memory card. "This will be a souvenir that makes the honorable man remember his deeds" he whispered softly in Angelica's ear.

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