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Ms. Stacy Thompson, CEO of Stanbaxy Pharmaceutical Company, was brutally murdered. Her Pharma Company posted a sensational growth in its profits and went up the ladder in a short span of time. As if adding salt to the wound to her competitors, her Pharma Com. made its entry into the “Lucre Hundre”, an annual list published by prestigious Lucre Periodical that ranks 100 of the largest United Islands of Japan (ULJ) Companies.
Even though she failed umpteen number of times, she has risen like a Darenix avifauna from the depths of water!
Albeit born and brought up in US, she moved to Japan and made it a focal point of her business, but for one main reason, their Unity. Inspired by the hard work and dedication of Japanese, she reposed faith in that country and its countrymen as well. Anybody who hears her life history will dismiss it simply as a fable. Being a nonlocal, she struggled at the beginning, but she learned the techniques in due course of time and stabilized her companies in and around ULJ and in many more foreign countries. Her success history became history after her untimely exit from this world.
Stacy’s body was found in her bedroom of her lavishly built swanky GrandHouse in Tokyo’s Gotheby’s International Reality . None understood how this has happened despite the presence of high profile security. Ms. Stacy’s Personal Secretary Ms. Anabelle Rachett was the first to see her Boss in such a condition and she was one who informed Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
The Superintendent-General of Police Department, Mr. McKinstein received the call directly since Ms. Stacy enjoyed more of like a celebrity status in UIJ. He assured Ms. Anabelle that he will himself personally look into the case.
He immediately asked the Chief Inspector Mr. Charles Nebuchadnezzar to come to his room and updated him with all details and entrusted him with the responsibility of dealing with this case. This man is an extraordinary one with an exemplary track record. He has a dedicated police team with him operating in several places. He rang them up and send them as groups to Ms. Stacy’s house, her company, and the like after updating them with necessary information.
He immediately called Ms. Anabelle and asked her to turn up to his office. Ms. Anabelle opened her heart before him.
“I am everything to my boss. I used to take care of her official and personal activities. My sincerity to the work and her honesty earned a place in her heart.” She said
“Can you please tell me if anything untoward happened in her life recently?” Mr. Nebu asked her
“No, nothing like that.” pat came the reply.
“Her Pharma business success depleted many companies. There are chances that her competitors would have involved in this murder. Any idea?”
“No, no, nothing like that.” same reply.
“Ms. Stacy divorced her hubby due to some personal differences and they had the worst fight in her company in front of her employees regarding some business issue. You have any suspicion regarding his involvement?”
“No, no, nothing like that” she said.
Suddenly she felt like something and looked at Mr. Nebu. He started thinking about this case from an unusual angle. Ms. Anabelle got tensed for a moment because it seems that his suspicion angle is turning towards her.
In order to cover up her fear, she thought of diverting the topic.
“Ms. Anabelle, I have one doubt……” Mr. Nebu said.
“Without leaving your office, you want to clear all your doubts from me. Am I your info bureau?” she started shouting at him forgetting for a moment who he is and where she is.
“Hahahahhah……” Mr. Nebu laughed loudly.
He is an expert in reading other people’s minds and hence he is able to guess what is running in her mind.
“What do you think about me?” he continued.
“Well, nothing Sir.”
“Then why this change of mood all of a sudden?” he looked at her with a puzzling look.
“Okay fine, you can leave.” he said.
A few moments later, he called up all his team members and all the info he received did not smell anything fishy.
A month passed without any development. Even his unusual angle of suspicion fired back as Ms. Anabelle’s character was without any black mark. This was evident from the fact that she was still the same after her Boss’ demise.
When things are moving at a slow pace, Mr. Nebu got a phone call from the Senior Manager of The Ventral Bank, which is actually a top bank. He asked Mr. Nebu to come to the bank ASAP. Thrilled by this unexpected development, Mr. Nebu jumped into action. When he was nearing the bank, an attempt was made on his life. By the Almighty’s grace, he escaped from it.
At that moment, he saw a man moving hurriedly into the crowd. He jumped out of his car and chased him. At the same moment, he got a phone call from the SM again.
When he is about to enter the Bank, he was fired from behind. It is a very unfortunate day for Mr. Nebu because his mind is going wild as to who got the necessity to end his life. Immediately he fell unconscious. A bank employee called 119 and within no time an Ambulance reached the back and carried Mr. Nebu to Tokyo Metropolitan Boshuka Hospital. He is given first aid treatment inside the ambulance.
Senior Bank Manager called Ms. Anabelle and informed her about the condition of Mr. Nebu, but did not tell anything about him trying to contact Mr. Nebu. Ms. Anabelle got confused as to what is the need for the Bank Manager to call her up and inform the condition of Nebu to her, but she felt pity for her. Then, she went to the Ventral Bank and made transactions worth a million yen. All the passwords of all accounts and all the details regarding how much amount of money in each bank, complete property details of Ms. Stacy is known to Ms. Anabelle and she is one who is entrusted with all the financial transactions, be it the salaries of the employees, the amount spent over the company’s pharma research projects, and the like.
Due to the unfortunate exit of Mr. Nebu, the Superintendent-General was forced to entrust this case to another talented Chief Inspector, Mr. Akari Chan. Soon after this case was handed over to him, he rushed to meet the Ventral Bank’s Senior Bank Manager. Due to the complexity and dangerous nature of this high profile case, Mr. Chan wore a bulletproof jacket and he is a close friend of Mr. Nebu and he has been updating him with some important details and before he was shot, he sent a message to Mr. Chan and told him he was in a confused state and that he received a call from the SM. He thought of doing it for his friend, but since the case accidentally landed on his hands, he is going officially to meet him.
Again there is a bomb blast and Mr. Chan was expired on the spot. Info reached the SG’s ears. He was severely upset regarding this development. His eagle’s eye fell on Ms. Anabelle. On the same night at an undisclosed location, Mr. SG met Ventral Bank’s SM and informed about some transactions done by Ms. Anabelle after Ms. Stacy’s murder. Mr.SG asked about the list of those who received such huge funds from Ms. Anabelle. When this conversation was going on, a powerful bomb exploded killing a dozen people including SG and SM.
A day later, Ms.Anabelle was involved in a major accident and she went into a coma. All the whole city is trembling with such horrible deaths going on one after the other after that brutal murder of Ms. Stacy. But it was actually a setup by SG and all the three were alive and this was done to confuse the murderer. In the meantime, SG learned from Stacy that the transactions were done according to the wishes of Ms.Stacy to start orphanages in several places to take care of the poor and needy.
So, who is the black sheep now? he started thinking. He was not sure that this plan will work.
At the same time, the culprit who is doing all this could not understand what was happening and he thought that there is someone else apart from him who is eyeing for Ms. Stacy's property.
The SG secretly met Ms. Stacy's husband and came to learn from him that the reason behind all this fuss is a friend of his, which he came to know via his friend who happened to be the best friend of Ms. Stacy's former husband.
THE REASON:
HIS NAME IS MR. SOUTA. HE IS KNOWN FOR HIS BENEVOLENT ACTS AS WELL AS FOR THE HUGE NUMBER OF ORPHANAGES OPERATING ALL AROUND TOKYO. PEOPLE ARE CONSIDERING HIM AS GOD, BUT THIS DEVIL UNDER GOD'S MASK IS AN EGOIST AND HE DON'T WANT MS. STACY TO BECOME HIS COMPETITOR. HE KNEW VERY WELL THAT MS. STACY HAS REDUCED MANY PHARMA COMPANIES INTO RUBBLE IN NO TIME. IF THIS BE THE CASE FOR A TOUGH COMPETITIVE BUSINESS, WON'T SHE BECOME THE GODDESS OF THE MASSES IF SHE STARTS OPENING A LARGE NUMBER OF ORPHANAGES?
Soon MR. SG issued orders for the arrest of Mr. Souta and put him behind bars immediately and he ordered the police to raid all his orphanages to check whether any illegal activity is happening under the cover of the orphanages.
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Much better flow to this story. Some very good writing and an interesting storyline.
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