Capítulo 27: Aftermath
TIME : 8:38AM
LOCATION : KANA MANOR ( OUTSKIRTS OF CALOS CITY ).
Sai and Ilara are seen in bed with each, only waking after rays of the sun had pierced through the window and rested on their faces.
Dan is in the kitchen helping himself to a bowl of cereal when he sees Sai and Ilara walk in rather lazily.
"Well hello there, I was starting to think you guys wouldn't wake up today."
Dan comments sarcastically as he begins to dig into his breakfast.
"Ha-ha funny, yesterday was really rough, you weren't really expecting us to wake up so early, did you??"
Ilara questions as she walks over to the coffee machine to help herself to a cup of the dark liquid.
"Forget it babe, there are times you shouldn't grace Mr Ruso over there with a response."
Sai remarks as he opens up the fridge to scavenge for a snack, only coming out after he had grabbed a pack of biscuits, Dan turns his neck and glances at Sai with a raised eyebrow.
"Really??"
Dan asks with an expressionless face.
"Yep."
Sai replies has he takes his seat beside Dan and proceeds to deep his biscuit into Dan's bowl, Dan shifts the bowl aside and stands from his seat to find another, Sai let's out a laugh and Ilara couldn't help but laugh as well as she watched the little drama unfold between Sai and Dan.
"You have serious issues."
Ilara comments between laughs, Dan eyes both detectives before taking his seat and returning to his cereal.
"If you guys are done using me to have fun, can we get on to more pressing matters??"
Dan asks.
"Yeah sure."
Ilara responds has she took her seat next to Sai.
"So Armstrong is dead and Cheng will most likely have found out by now which means he would be searching rigorously for us to exact revenge, Rani is currently watching over Jace albeit with a collar to her neck....."
"Which we don't approve of, mind you."
Ilara cuts Dan off, Dan takes a look at Ilara before he continues.
"You told me about an exchange that was supposed to take place between Crow and Cheng, have you guys thought of a way to find the location??"
"Well I've thought of a few but only one is plausible; we have to talk with Gr'egor."
Sai pitches in.
"Police chief Gr'egor??"
Dan asks with interest.
"Yeah, I now know that he knows exactly what's going on and he is most likely working with Cheng to take us down so if we can get to him and make him talk, we might just be able to get the location of the exchange."
Sai continues as Dan and Ilara listen with rapt attention.
"So how do you propose we go about getting an audience with the chief??"
Ilara questions.
"We might have to sneak into his apartment."
Sai answers with a hand to the back of his head.
"Alright then, it's settled, we leave tonight."
Dan announces after which he leaves Sai and Ilara in the kitchen.
"Do you think it's safe to keep him with us??.... I mean that dude clearly doesn't care about us and is only in this to fulfill his own selfish motives."
Sai remarks has he munches on a biscuit.
"I know it seems like he doesn't care but he does, he might be a sadistic asshole that would care less what happened around him, he is still a good person with a heart, even if for anything we can count on his intense drive and humanity to help us bring Cheng down."
Ilara responds with a smile has she turns to Asians pecks him on the lips.
"I'll go see how Rani and Jace are doing."
Ilara picks her cup and begins to head out.
"Let's hope you're right."
Sai mutters to himself has he watches her walk away.
TIME : 10:16AM
LOCATION : OUTSKIRTS OF CALOS CITY.
A couple of police cars are gathered around the forest area that was the scene for a brutal encounter just last night.
"This place looks like a freaking war zone, looked like a couple of strong assholes used this place has their playground."
An officer comments has they take note of the damages that spread for quite some distance.
"Hey Jonah, you better come see this" an officer calls out to the detective and he comes over.
"Who's that??"
Jonah asks as he comes over to lay his eyes on the lifeless body of Armstrong.
"Not sure, no ID so we can't know who exactly he was until after we have gotten the autopsy report."
The officer responds.
"Alright then, pack it up and send it over to the precinct to be examined."
Jonah gestures to the officers who then proceed to place Armstrong in a body bag.
A black vehicle is parked not too far from the crime scene, quite hidden from the eyes of the police.
"Call Karan and inform him about this, I'm sure he would want to know."
A man in shades says to his companion.
"Of course."
The other man picks his cell and begins to dial, the man in shades proceeds to start the engine and drives off in a haste.
TIME : 12:17PM
LOCATION : GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CALOS CITY.
"These pesky detectives have bitten off more than they can chew and now they'll pay dearly for what they have done."
Cheng bellows.
"This is all my fault, I underestimated them and they proved they were not the weaklings I took them for, it's unfortunate Armstrong had to die before I realized the level of threat they posed to the cause."
Karan remarks as he sips his drink in a calculated manner.
"I had told you to get rid of that Ruso boy but you said no, now see what has happened, how do you plan to fix this mess you've put us in Karan??"
Cheng asks as he slams his palm into the desk causing the table to crack.
"Calm yourself Cheng, everything will go according to plan after which we'll be able to deal with these little group of merry men adequately."
Karan replies calmly.
"You better fix this, you better do."
Cheng says after which he collapses back into his chair and begins to breath heavily...….
Capítulo 28: Dirty truth
TIME : 2:19PM
LOCATION : CALOS CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT.
"Any word on Sai and Ilara's whereabouts??"
Gr'egor asks over the phone.
"No sir, not yet but we did encounter a site that they might have been at."
Jonah says.
"Really…. What did you find there??"
Gr'egor asks with keen interest.
"A decimated forest with carnage spread over a distance of over four hundred yards alongside a dead body, by the look of things the forest was the location for a really big encounter and the body we found was found with several holes in his head, we are sending him down to the precinct to know more about him and how he died."
Jonah replies.
"It's that serious huh, OK then, you guys keep on looking."
Gr'egor says after which he drops the call.
"Where could they be now??"....
TIME : 4:11PM
LOCATION : KANA MANOR ( OUTSKIRTS OF CALOS CITY ).
"Do you hate me for what I did??"
Rani asks as she is surrounded by Sai, Ilara and Dan fully dressed.
"Hate??..... That's a really strong word, but yeah we don't trust you at all."
Sai responds.
"You should be thankful you are not dead, it would have been nice to silence you permanently."
Dan comments as he begins to walk towards her.
"That's enough, Dan…. You'll stay in this room till we get back, try to escape and you'll feel a lot of pain, don't try anything funny in our absence, OK.."
Ilara says after which she leaves the room with Sai and Dan following suit.
TIME : 7:24PM
LOCATION : DISTRICT 9, HOUSE NUMBER 13.
Gr'egor parks his car and gets out with a worried look on his face. He walks briskly to his front door and knocks briefly but there is no answer, he knocks again but still receives no answer.
He became suspicious and brought out his revolver, he tried turning the knob and the door opened.
As he walks in he is immediately blindsided from behind with a blunt object to the head…
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Gr'egor wakes up thirty minutes later tied to a chair alongside his family; a wife and a son.
"Hello chief, what's going on with you lately, collected any bribes recently."
Sai says sarcastically.
"What's all this Sai??.... I am your superior, you cannot treat me like this."
Gr'egor struggles to get free but is unable to.
"You sold your soul for a few thousand and you expect me to respect you??... I believed in you, I trusted you and I looked up to you has a father figure once you told me you were a close friend of my dad, now I wonder how my dad could have been friends with a weakling like you…. Tell me how much did it take for you to sell the soul of the force??"
Sai asks in disgust.
"You have no idea what's going on, do you really think it's that easy, it's so simple and you have figured it out…. I cannot tell you the sacrifices I have had to make for the good of the force, the deals I have had to cut to protect the lives of innocent officers, you should know that this city has and will always be a city of sin and the criminals are the big dogs here, the force are fodder and would never be anything more than that."
Gr'egor says in a demeaning tone.
"What do you mean by this city has always been a city of sin??"
Ilara asks as she comes out of the shadow.
"Release my family and I'll tell you."
Gr'egor pleads.
"No."
Sai replies instinctively.
"They are going to remain unconscious and strapped in that chair till we are done asking questions and unfortunately we aren't."
"For God's sake, Sai this is not right, at this point you are behaving like them… let my wife and kid go, please."
Gr'egor pleads again.
"Unfortunately we are not the ones with a say in that matter, he is."
Sai points to the back after which Dan emerges from the darkness.
"It would be best you start talking old man, I don't have a lot of patience."
Dan remarks as he walks towards Gr'egor and stands behind him with his hand to his face.
"Fine… the truth is that ever since I got into the force, we have never actually caught a criminal and we were only directed by the underworld to do the bidding of crime bosses that ruled it… the police force were their watchdogs and only caught those that had gone against the crime bosses or who were not working for them and were deemed to be worthy of arrest… that's how it works, that's the dynamic of the criminal underworld and police force to avoid the deaths of many."
Sai listens with keen interest.
"Wait so what you are saying is that all cases that I and Ilara have solved in our four year career were all commissioned by Cheng and we never really solved those cases on our own."
Gr'egor nods his head in affirmation.
"The both of you are brilliant officers and I always wanted the best for you, that was why I assigned all those missions to boost your résumé so that the D.O.D could see your good works and pry you from this crime ridden city before you were consumed by its greed."
"Is that what you did for my father??"
Sai asks as he comes to crouch in front of Gr'egor.
"Yes, he was supposed to be our trump card and change the system but his career was short lived…. You need to realize that I never collected anything from Cheng and his circle, I only agreed to their whims because I was trying to protect the force from destruction… You don't know what Cheng is capable of and he would do anything to achieve his goals."
Gr'egor remarks as he looks down on Sai.
"Then why the Harlem case, why suspend us when we were getting somewhere, why detain us when you realized we were working under the radar??"
Ilara asks in frustration.
"I handed the Harlem case over to you because I did not realize you'd go so deep into the investigation, when I realized this I knew I couldn't stop you so I had to suspend you at the orders of Cheng, when Cheng realized that you guys were still investigating, he threatened to kill everyone you loved before finally killing the both of you, I had no choice but to have you detained and I was going to release you once the exchange was done."
Gr'egor replies with shame.
"I can't believe it, so all this while I was working for a crook to catch other crooks, I don't even know what to believe anymore."
Sai says as he rises to his feet, looking at Gr'egor, he says.
"You might have been trying to protect the force but that is still not enough reason for you to have sold it's soul so cheaply, you were scared and that's understandable but caving in to that fear is not right, every single person that is a member of the force knew what they were getting into when they signed up for the academy but you robbed them of the chance to actually do some good and they all ended up working for the same people they swore to take down."
"I know I was not right but what did you expect me to do??....i couldn't possibly go against Cheng."
Gr'egor remarks in a sad voice.
"You could actually. You could live up to the oath you took and fight crime till your dying breath because that's what you signed up for.. Unfortunately the force is no longer what I thought it was so I resign and I'll hand in my badge once this case is done."
Sai replies.
"Same here, I didn't spend my time in the academy just to work for criminals, we'll find another way to right the wrongs of this city."
Ilara walks and stands beside Sai in solidarity.
"So touching…. Now if we'll get to the meat of things, Chief Gr'egor could you be a darling has to tell us where and when the exchange is taking place. I'd really like to know if you don't mind."
Dan questions in a sadistic manner.
"It will be taking place at the Royal casino at ten thirty pm tomorrow, you guys should be careful because both thugs and cops will be watching out for the three of you."
Gr'egor replies calmly.
"Don't worry about us, I'm sure we'll be just fine."
Dan says after which he turns to leave.
"Dan wait…"
Ilara says after which she cuts the binds holding Gr'egor and his family.
"Thank you Ilara, I'm sorry for all the lies and deception, I know you expected more."
Gr'egor apologizes in a low tone.
"It's fine, I guess I expected too much but don't worry it won't change who I am, we'll be going now."
Ilara replies as she makes to leave.
"Before you go, check my office in the table cabinet, second drawer, you'll see the files I've compiled on Cheng and his circle, I think you'll need it if you're gonna going up against them."
Gr'egor remarks.
"Thank you, unfortunately we'll have to knock you out now."
Sai says after which he knocks Gr'egor out with a punch.
"Let's get to work."
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