His Conundrums

Chapter 16

An Evidence

They received a call from George saying he has found something from Arzon's case. They were on their way to Hallray City Police Department when suddenly, a car bumped their taxi.

"Do you have your eyes on your balls, you son of a b*tch?!" Their driver shouted as he went down his cab and went to the car that bumped them. He knocked a couple of times on its window shield but received nothing in response.

People started to gather around, causing traffic. Sirius and Joe went down to handle things, but it seemed like the driver is unconscious. They searched for something to unlock the door, and Joe saw a man holding a box of fruits. He ran towards the man, pulled the strip of plastic from his package, and said his thanks.

"Move." He said as he bent the strip and inserted it into the door, lifting its lock. Thanks to the man who lived his life with this kind of tricks.

He opened the door and revealed an unconscious man. He had bruises on his head. The taxi driver called an ambulance while Joe checked his vitals.

"Sirius, we have to..." He was about to say something when he saw Sirius faint.

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He saw a series of fragments of his memories from that accident. A woman keeps calling his name. It was vague and still unclear. He heard tires screeched from sudden brakes and a loud crash.

"Sirius!" Joe called his name, making him wake up from his nightmare, sweating.

He found himself lying in a hospital bed. He scanned the whole area and found out he was in Nate's office. George was also there wearing his sling bag standing in a corner.

"Feeling better?" Nate asked him as he entered through the door.

"Not much." He answered.

Joe stood beside George, letting Nate sat on a chair beside Sirius.

"I heard you started working again in some cases," Nate said.

"Yes." He answered.

"Does it not interfere with your situation?"

"I think it helps."

"Good. Just drink your medicines and vitamins and don't overstrain yourself." Nate reminded him. He nodded.

"He's okay." He heard Nate said to Joe and George.

Nate walked and picked up something from his drawer, and reached the door. "You're good. I think you can leave today." He said before leaving.

"How did the situation with that driver go?" He asked Joe as he sat down and slowly stood up to his feet.

"Well, he's conscious now, but he might end up at the police later for driving drunk," Joe replied.

"What's your report, George?" He asked while fixing his coat.

"Uhmmm... based on my initial findings, I think Mr. Arzon died from an overdose and heart attack. He had this chest pain, and he went to his kitchen to pick up his medicine, but he pulled out the wrong one. He was struggling and searching, making those bottles of liquor fall and break to the floor along with him, making him covered with cuts from its pieces." George explained.

Sirius was not convinced and asked George, "Have you seen the medicines?"

"Uhmm... Nope, but I think it was thrown or rolled somewhere." He said while scratching the back of his head.

"You have to base your findings through facts, George. You're a detective. You're not a writer of a fancy novel." He said, being straightforward without thinking how George might felt hearing those words.

"I'm sorry," George said while fixing his glasses.

"I think... it's not from an overdose." Joe said while he had his hand under his chin, lowering the tension built up in that room. They looked at him, waiting for him to say something.

"I encountered some people who died from an overdose, and they usually had seizures, frothing their mouth." He said.

"They do vomit, and sometimes they choke in their own vomits when they're sleeping, causing them death." He added.

"I didn't saw his mouth-frothing, but he was covered with his puke," George stated, thinking about where did he go wrong with his findings.

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He decided to go back from Arzon's house alone. He wanted to check something to verify his conclusions. He opened the door, and the scene from before flashed back through his memories, the body in the kitchen and Therese screaming from the living room. He roamed around the house, looking thoroughly through each thing.

Arzon's house has a small rectangular-shaped space divided into its living room and a small kitchen on the first floor. There's a small staircase that leads you to its second floor. He went straight to the stairs right after he saw it. He found blood on the handrails made him imagine how Arzon suffered that night.

He reached the second floor, which has a small space perfect for a small round table with two seats. It is also where his room is located. He opened Arzon's room and found everything in a mess. He smelled something unpleasant and immediately covered his nose. He went through his things and found letters scattered on his desk. He looked through each letter, making some of it fall from the table. He found out it was something from his underground transactions and death threats, leaving the sender's names and addresses unknown. But something caught up his eyes. A letter sealed with the Greek letter 'E,' Epsilon. He immediately put it in his pocket and was about to leave when he stepped into something, a women's undergarment.