BBDW 19 [Black Butterfly] - Nevereverland

Section 19 (UNEDITED)

-As soon as Alvin got off the plane, with light and ominous greeting-“See you again soon” – he waved his hand and disappeared into the crowd. Jude sighed and handed Roy over to the police. The case was closed before the cooperative investigation, and Roy was forced to wait for a trial date in prison.

And as for Mrs Travis who had been admitted to a mental hospital in Miami, Jude could only hear the news later on. Roy, who is still in prison, claimed to have committed the crime by himself, and several times the prison guards had stopped him from trying to kill himself.

“-Tim! You bastard, I won’t forgive you! Are you happy to go on vacation alone? Do you enjoy it?”

On the way back to New York – the chief over the phone threatened to put in a month of overtime work if he didn’t return by plane, but Jude was stubborn – he shouted resentfully at his cell phone.

[Ju, Jude! Sorry, sorry. I heard about it. I heard there was an accident on the plane that you hate. Did it work out all right?]

“Yes, it worked out well, somehow. The cooperative investigation was good, and the plane case was somehow over. Just get back, Tim. It’s hard for me alone.”

[Ahahaha, yes. I’ll be back soon, thank you. Really, nothing else happened, right?]

There was. Jude swallowed the word for a moment. A young man with pale blue-grey eyes. Jude briefly recalled him for a moment, who completely concealed himself with only his dark-rimmed glasses and speaking skills, then shook his head with a smile.

“Uh. It was just an ordinary incident.”

[Yes, that’s a relief. See you later, then.]

“Uh-uh.”

Closing the flip phone, Jude looked out of the car window with sleepy eyes.

-You really didn’t know?

-I……I…….

-See you again, Detective.

Like a palette of paint, scattered images swarmed in his head. With one shake of his head as if he were trying to get it off, Jude soon fell asleep, leaning his head against the car seat.

-Dreaming of the plane crashing, he woke up in annoyance ten minutes later.

A bizarre incident left people unable not to raise an eyebrow at the news which took place in the middle of July.

It was a disorderly murder of a fairly wealthy family. Several relatives gathered in a mansion took each other’s lives one by one. Among the eight family members who had gathered in the mansion – each of the children from the eldest uncle and youngest uncle on father’s side together with the youngest uncle’s wife– were the last three to survive.

One was a little girl who knew nothing, one was a teenage girl who had just entered high school, and one was an aunt. The little girl entered an orphanage, and the teenage girl and her mother were admitted to a mental hospital. Naturally, the police managed to conduct a brief interrogation with the doctor’s permission to get to the bottom of the matter, but the two hospitalized in the mental hospital said nothing.

Two things surprised the police even more. The murders in the fancy mansion took place one after another for nearly a week, and no one noticed the tragedy that took place in that short period of time until a convulsed girl ran into the street and screamed. Nobody doubted, why no one was in or out of the mansion. Nor did anyone in the mansion tell the truth. The incident seemed so rotten as if things were dying with pus.

-Mystery of the Maples family, this case has been a hot topic for some time. Naturally, the truth was still a mystery. No one survived in normal condition, so there was no one to ask for the motive, and in what order did they start killing? Perhaps, it was the legacy of the grandfather, who died not long ago, but the distribution had ended early on. Even why the relatives were all gathered in one place in the first place, the police had no way to find out.

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