Chapter 3: The event: seconds before the murder

NICO'S APARTMENT

After Nico came back from the lieutenant's office he started looking for a more or less elegant outfit for the Calahan event that will be today.

While his sister does some more research about the place where the event will be because according to her it's weird that it's there instead of some other place.

"Hey bro look it's… wow you look beautiful Nico with that suit that dad had from his wedding" Nahir says after seeing her brother with the suit he will wear to the event.

"Hehe Thanks Nahir, but what were you going to tell me" Says Nico as he adjusts his suit tie.

"This look here it says that the last murders done by the letter killer were people who knew Mr. Calahan plus it was discovered that those people talked to him days before they were killed" Nahir says as he shows Nico pictures of the people who had been killed talking to Calahan days before their deaths.

"That means then I'm right the killer is after Calahan, but still there is weird behind all this" Nico says as he sits on the edge of the bed.

"What do you mean" His sister asks as she turns her chair to look at him.

"I mean it's weird that Calahan doesn't see that it's suspicious that the people he knows died a few days after they spoke" Nico replies as he looks down.

"Yes it is something suspicious, but don't worry brother I know you will be able to catch him not for nothing you are the best detective in the world" Nahir says with a smile after having approached his brother and giving him a hug that made him smile.

"Thanks Nahir" Nico says with a smile to which Nahir also smiles and just listens as Shina arrives.

"Good luck brother I'll be on the lookout to let you know of anything" Nahir says as he makes a fist to bump it with his brother.

"Yeah okay Nahir" Nico says fist bumping with his sister.

Nico goes down from his apartment and gets into Shina's car who brought a red dress which made Nico blush a little bit during the way they were talking about the possibilities that the letter killer has to kill Mr. Calahan.

Besides that there are undercover police agents to monitor the place and keep an eye on Mr. Calahan while that Nico and Shina will have to act as a couple since thanks to that lie they were able to get in.

But thanks to the fact that Nahir has access to all the cameras in the place she can see in sectors that the others can't that benefits Nico and Shina so they are less worried about the other places where there is no one watching.

They arrived at the event where there were a lot of people and thanks to the fact that no one knows Shina it will be much easier to infiltrate as a couple for them.

They walked in and a waiter took them to their table that Nahir reserved minutes before reservations closed.

"I'll keep saying it you sister is amazing" Shina says as she sets her bag aside and looks around admiring the beauty of the whole place and the well dressed people.

"Yes, although now this will take away from her time to study" Nico says as he grabs the glass of wine to drink it.

"Now that you mention it she what grade is she in" Shina asks as she looks at Nico.

"She's in fourth year and she's been the president of the student center for the past two years" Nico replies after taking a sip of the glass leaving Shina dumbfounded.

"She's practically smarter than you" Shina says making Nico gag at what she said.

"He's practically smarter than both of us since I remember a certain girl being in fifth year would come begging me to explain to her the subjects I didn't understand and me being in fourth year" Says Nico with a mocking tone making Shina blush since she remembered that to be true.

"Wow how cute they are" Nahir says through the communicator they both had.

"I forgot you were there" Nico says as he looks around to see where Mr. Calahan is.

The event started, but there was still no trace of Mr. Calahan, but after almost two hours he appeared on stage talking about the future project he had in mind with the president of the country where Japan's great technology would be involved.

He also explained that he will change the way people live in the United States referring that he will create a country where people who defy the laws will be either executed or locked up for life.

"Now I see why they say billionaires are sick in the head" Nico said in his mind as he looked at Calahan.

"BROTHER, SHINA THE ASSASSIN IS UP IN THE AZOTEA HE WILL FALL RIGHT ON TOP OF CALAHAN KILL HIM!" Nahir says over the comm to the two causing Nico to look up where he sees the assassin dive.

"LORD CALAHAN BEWARE!" shouts Nico after jumping up and intercepting the assassin who fell on the opposite side of them.

People started to panic, but they didn't leave the scene other than the cops who were undercover came out to see if Mr. Calahan was hurt.

"Mr. Calahan are you okay?" Shina asked as she helped him up.

"Yes I am thank you" Calahan replies as he gets up and looks over to where Nico and the assassin were.

The assassin left as soon as he saw that they were all together taking care of Mr. Calahan.

"Shina take care of Mr. Calahan I'm going to chase him" Said Nico to which Shina only nodded so that then this one left by the staircase part to go through the roof.

The chase for the world's greatest detective Nicolas Schneider begins.