Chapitre 18: Chrysanthemum Murders...

Age 1991

"So? How'd you sleep?" Nick asked curiously?

"Terrible..." Hero muttered out laying face down on the fancy table. "Ken wouldn't stop teasing me, and Sera, wouldn't shut up about the great Noble families..." He whined.

"Ouch... Well, Sif slept like a baby so I was able to get plenty of beauty sleep." Nick said giving a shrug as he sipped some of the tea that one of the busted robots poured him. "Of course you aren't the one I was really curious about..."

"I'm not?"

"Nah... You're in a room with Ken, who you view as a sister, and Sera, who is... Well, she's Sera. Also while you may be getting to that age, Ken, and Sera, are way to young to consider anything like that with you. I knew nothing was gonna happen. But... Well, there is someone who I am a bit curious about." Nick said staring at the stairs right as Dawson Blight was walking down.

"Why are you looking at Dawson?" Hero questioned in confusion.

"He slept in a room with a woman his age who is into him, and he is presumably into her... Why wouldn't I be interested?"

"Are... Are you by any chance a fan of romance novels?"

"Yeah," Nick said nodding as he gave a smirk. "I am. I like to view myself as a match maker-"

"God damn it... Always with the perverts..."

"Yo," Nick said standing up as he waved towards Dawson. "Mr. Blight. How's it going?"

"Vice-Captain Nick," Dawson said nodding his head.

"So... How was your night with Ren?"

"Quiet," Dawson said simply. "We both slept quietly."

"Is that all?"

"Should there be more?"

Nick let out a sigh as he folded his arms. "Yeah, yeah... Geez. Stubborn Enforcers... It is like everyone in Squad Six is just incapable of telling when someone is in love with them-"

"Love?" Dawson said in confusion. "Why are you suddenly talking about-"

There was a loud banging sound as the three Enforcers turned seeing an Automaton marching towards them. It was glowing a sickly green as it held up a piece of paper. Nick took the paper looking it over. His eyes slowly widened.

"Well... It would appear that we have a case..." He muttered out.

Ten minutes later...

The group of seven Enforcers walked into the big police station building that was found in the city. The difference between the police and the Enforcers was that the Enforcers were made up of SuperHumans, and dealt with the Bestia Macht, and SuperHuman crimes, while the police were made up of only Humans and dealt with normal crimes such as theft and human murders. They were like the Enforcers, but way less cool...

If a normal human wanted to do good things and be a hero, then really their only options was joining the police, or becoming a city guardian.

The Enforcers entered the building seeing how flooded it was almost immediately. So many people were running around in a panic, and the sounds of phones went off again, and again.

"What are we doing again..." Sif hissed out as she yawned. She was currently on Nick's back as he carried her.

"We got a request to come down here," Nick said simply as he held the girl.

"Ahh, Enforcers!" A middle-aged man said as he walked towards them. He held his hand out. "I am Officer Bradley. I'm currently in charge here."

"Currently?"

"The last guy in charge died. We made a few bets and think I might last the full month if I'm careful."

"That's dark..."

"It's life." The man said seemingly unbothered by the prospect of dying so soon. "Anyways. I have asked you guys here for a good reason. Please follow me." He said walking to an office. The others followed him as he shut the door on them. "Have a seat." He said gesturing to only two chairs.

"We...We're good."

"So..." Dawson said quietly. "Why did you ask for us?"

"We have a murderer on the loose..."

"We don't deal with Human crime," Sif said simply. "Besides we're already on an important mission. If this has nothing to do with that, then we won't get involved..."

"No. You don't understand. We think the murderer is a SuperHuman." That got the attention of the Enforcers as they stared at the man... "The murders are quite gruesome..." He warned.

"We fight giant killer monsters on a daily basis..." Dawson said simply. "But... Hero, Ken, and Sera. Go wait outside."

"What!" Ken said with wide eyes. "Why?"

"Have you seen a dead body before?"

"Yeah? Both me and Hero saw a guy die in front of us? I also killed a guy. Hero held him down so I could do it."

"Oh..." Dawson said surprised by that answer. "...Well, go outside anyways." Dawson stated as he waved his hand at the door.

The kids let out several small groans as they all stood up.

"Lady Sif you're a kid as well. You go-"

"I'll kill you."

"Nevermind..." Dawson said quietly.

The police chief cleared his throat as he reached into his desk pulling out several pictures. "I just want to say I warned you." He said simply sliding the pictures over to the group.

"Geez!" Nick said with wide eyes as he shot his hand out placing it over Sif's eyes.

"You're only allowed to do this because I refuse to look at something so grotesque..." Sif said slowly holding onto Nick's hand.

"Meh. I've seen worse." Dawson said shrugging. "This one guy I knew, got hit by an attack that made his insides his outside, and his outside his insides."

"It is quite surprising that someone would kill in such a way..." Ren said with a slight eyebrow raise.

There were several pictures of each kill. For the first three, it showed the brutally stabbed bodies of three women. One in each picture. They all look different having different hair colors, skin colors, and they all looked to be of various ages.

After the first three pictures, there was a drastic change. Now there was two bodies in each picture... Well, sort of...

Each picture still had a woman who was brutally stabbed to death much like the previous one but there was also a new addition. In each of the pictures what could only be described as a pile of flesh was present. It was just a mound of ripped up flesh, muscles, and blood. Lots, and lots, of blood... Although strangest of all was that there was no bones at all in the pile of flesh?

"So... I get that it's a horrible murder but what about this is special?" Dawson questioned raising an eyebrow.

The police officer pointed down at the pile of flesh. "Every single one of those are the murderers. Each pile of meat is a different person. In the first three videos we got, it was the same person chasing the girls." He stated. "We aren't sure what is going on exactly but in every video, we have it always starts the same way. A man, which is the pile of flesh, chases after a girl. After that the video cuts off."

"Wait video? What video." Sif questioned pulling Nick's hand away from her face. She glanced down at the pictures and grabbed Nick's hand again placing it over her face covering it up and blocking the pictures once more.

"We've been getting pictures, and videos from the Noble family of Báthory, the family who owns this City." The man said. "As I said earlier the first three victims had the same man chase after the girls. The video always cuts off before he catches them..."

"Okay... So you've been getting videos of people dying from the Nobles and you don't think that is suspicious?" Dawson questioned raising an eyebrow.

"Oh no, it's super suspicious but... Well, you know the rules. Only Enforcers can look into Nobles. We've been trying to get a hold of you guys for nearly a year now... You just don't seem to care unless it is a massive threat."

"Well... There's only like three hundred Enforcers, we lose someone every day, and are constantly under attack by massive monsters." Dawson said letting out a sigh. "Sorry we can't spare a few members to save some normal humans, unless it is either a big threat, or we are getting paid to help. But we are here now so..."

The police had a small eye twitch as he turned away. "Name any excuse you want but there are nearly twenty people who have been killed. Two new victims every month..."

"We'll do our best to solve this crime," Sif said holding a hand up. "I'm sorry it took us so long to arrive. Now. What can you tell me about these murders? Victims and the men who are chasing the women?"

The man let out a heavy sigh. "Well... We haven't actually gotten any of the bodies..." He said slowly. "The only things we get are the videotapes, showing the women being chased by a man, and then a picture of her body stabbed to death, next to a pile of flesh."

"But in the first tape, it was the same guy for the first three?"

"Yes."

Sif nodded her head slightly. "And the Nobles are sending these to you?"

"Yes. They claim someone is sending it to them, and they send it to us." The man said shrugging. "Naturally we aren't allowed to look further into it, but you guys won't have a problem."

"And you claim you guys don't have any of the bodies?" Ren commented.

"Nope. But we can confirm each of the victims..." He said letting out a sigh. "It always starts the same way... A girl goes missing, then a week later the Nobles show up giving us a tape, and picture of the bodies. We try to contact you guys to come, and we are ignored, since we can't pay for this mission... That isn't the weirdest thing though... Each of the men who chase after the women. Well there's something about them... We know they are the pile of flesh from the skin, hair, and clothing being the same as theirs. Also, each of the men are missing so with all of that we came to the conclusion they are the pile of meat in each picture. The strange thing though is each of them all have something in common..."

"They do?" Dawson questioned raising an eyebrow.

"Yes... We haven't found anything in common with any of the women, other than the obvious being they are all the same gender. But for the men, each one of them, is a highly respected minor Noble in this town, or it is the current Police chief so with that in mind I'll likely be the next one to die... The minor Nobles are the more common one's to be picked though. We still aren't sure why but, they all own various stores all co-owned by the Noble family. With that in mind their deaths means the Noble families paycheck, and land property gets bigger... Naturally very suspicious but we can't do anything about it..." The man said through gritted teeth.

Sif let out a small hum. "And... What about the first three murders. All of those are missing the pile of flesh and all three have the same potential killer in them..."

"That is correct ma'am... Tobias Cluster. That's the name of the man in all three. He's a commoner who went missing. His pile of flesh is found in one of the videos though so chances are he's dead. We tried to investigate his family, but they claimed their son is a SuperHuman so only an Enforcer is able to investigate them- Seriously I hate how these laws work!" The man said clearly pissed off from how hard it was to be a normal human in this world.

"I see..." Sif gave a small nod. "Well then. I have one last question. Have you heard anything about a group called the Organization?"