Mission!

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"That's why he's termed as a Ghost Rider!"

"The one that can freely walk in both worlds". She shut down the projector and looked back to her teammates.

"Our mission here is to catch this criminal and bring an end to assassination and other crimes of his!".

"All we need is to have a lead and the ride is going to get started and I know it's going to be a one hell of a ride so buckle up your belt tightly ". She added

"Inspector Azan if I may ask, how did you get all those pieces of evidence .and you said he leaves a crime scene without any trace" Roman asked after he jotted down the main points from what Yasmeen explained.

"Many crimes are committed and mainly the culprit run away without being caught, so when I gathered many pictures of the scenes of those crimes I found something . Guess what I found!"she asked and he shook his head meaning he got no clue

"All those crimes have similarities,whether armed robbery or murder or any other form of felony. One thing he always left for the police to notice was his method of killing and trademark card and those dimwit police officers didn't even take notice of that,they always close a case when they failed to arrest the culprit for two weeks without even presenting it to the investigation Bureau".

"Officer Rio complained to me about it and I secretly assigned him to critically examine and observe the crime scenes to find out the similarities,sometimes I joined him when I was less busy or sometimes I investigated it myself"

"It got lucky one day when I went out in the middle of the night to a particular crime scene where assassination took place,I was silently observing the area when I felt some movement ,I hide behind a pillar and you know what? That night I hundred percent believe in the quote that says

"A criminal always return to the scene of the crime". The assassin returned to that crime scene because he forgot something or he felt that he's smarter than the police,if not that why would he risked his life?" She was about to continue when Nadia decided to cut her off

"Inspector Azan ,how did you get to know that the criminal is a male?"

"The Shadow that I saw lacked any womanly curves so I termed him as a male".

"I saw him keeping something by the window side and swiftly left. After some minutes I checked what he left and that's when I saw this" she brought out a card and passed it out to Nadia. Nadia took it from her,she observed the back and front of the card where she saw the picture of a grim reaper and the title phantom.

"I showed this particular card to that goon in the jail and I managed to squeeze out some information from him" she paused and took a sip from her bottled water,her throat felt dry and itchy.

"You went all these ways to have a concrete evidence to present it to investigation bureau? As expected of inspector Azan. We're really lucky to have you as our leader" Henry praised,Yasmeen faintly bowed her head down in appreciation and a small smile adorned her face.

"Alright!now that we have an..."Yasmeen started again but the ringtone of her phone interrupted her

"Excuse me" She said and picked up the call.

"Yeah Officer Rio,I am okay what is it?" Yasmeen asked as she didn't except any call from him

"Inspector Azan there's ...."

Officer Rio started to explain what happened.

The team could not hear what the other person on the other side of the phone was saying because Yasmeen had used a Bluetooth earpiece to speak to the caller. However, they could tell that whatever that was reported to her must have been some kind of bad news just judging by the air that had changed around her.The temperature inside the room seemed to plummet into the negatives. Even themselves shivered at the sudden drop. Her grip on the phone tightened a little.

"We'll be on our way"

She pressed the red button and ended the call. No word came out from her lips anymore, she stood there unmovable for some amount of time. No words were needed for them to tell that something serious had just happened.

"Inspector Azan, what happened?" Asim finally decided to ask

"Assassination,The chairman of the go food company has been assassinated this morning" they all gasped when they heard the news. She gathered her material and shoved them into her briefcase.

"We need to be there now ,the assassination has not been leaked out to the media,before the police does that we have to investigate the scene".

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They now hurriedly walked to the parking lot each person holding his work material. Yasmeen,Nadia and Roman got into Yasmeen's car while Henry and Asim drove in Henry's car. The investigation center was not that far to the mansion. It was not less than 10minutes and they arrived at Mr. Patterson,the dead chairman of Gofoods mansion. Police have surrounded the mansion. Every single worker and his only child were gathered at the big living of the mansion. Police and medics were scattered around questioning and tending to each person.

"Where is officer Rio?" Yasmeen asked one of police officers

"Inspector Azan!" He bowed his head in form of greeting and then replied to her question

"He's at Mr.Patterson study,where the murder took place". After he walked away. Yasmeen turned to her team and said

"You should all set to work,I will have a talk with officer Rio".

"Yes! Inspector" they chorused and dispersed.

Yasmeen made her way to the study, the click sound of a camera was what she heard as she got there, evidence markers were all around and a caution tape was stretched out around the desk that Mr.Patterson dead body was slumped down on his office chair behind . Officer Rio was having a talk with another officer when he sensed someone's presence by the door of the study he turned his head and turned to come into contact with Yasmeen's body frame by the entrance.

"Inspector Azan! You're here?" Officer Rio called out and excused himself from the officer he was talking to.

"Yes officer, how's everything going?" She bent over the caution tape fully into the study.

"The forensic investigators are still taking samples" he explained and slipped his gloved hands into his uniform pockets.

"Can I take a look" she gestured towards the dead body with her head.

"Of course! They're done with the body" officer Rio called someone to give Yasmeen hand gloves.

She gloved her hands and got under the caution tape around the desk. Her amber eyes scrutinized Mr.Patterson dead body from head to toe,her eye balls didn't reach down when she quickly pulled them up to his neck where two brutal slashes of a dagger laid at the base of his throat. She bent her head to his neck level for closer examination.

She looked down to his blood stained white shirt.

'Something seemed off' she thought,she blinked and narrowed her eyes tilting her head to the side wanting to recall something.

'The slashes looked so familiar,where have I seen them' think Yasmeen!,think!she cracked her brain and a flash of a picture zapped through her mind.

"Phantom!"

she slowly mumbled out and straighten her back she quickly got out from under the caution tape and hastily rummaged around the office ,opening different drawers,checking the bookshelf and also the cubicle .

Officer Rio didn't say anything but curiously followed her around. 'It seemed like she's looking for something,inspector what are you up to?' That was his thoughts as he saw her bent again to Mr.Patterson desk.

She crawled under the desk and looked up to the surface where the card she was desperately looking for laid. A dry chuckle escaped from her lips as she plugged it gently from the surface.

"So you finally made a big move, right phantom?".