YM778.TV Chapter 36: Ch. 36: Bonus — Talos
No that wasn\'t right, the culprit used a fake account to hide the funds. This is too easy, I took this case because they said it was hard but it\'s too easy. Done! The culprit of the crime is none other than the victim himself, he tried to frame his co worker while robbing himself in the process.
Hard to think a suspect a victim would rob himself blind just for revenge— no not revenge. Such human emotions are just baseless to me. There must have been a much bigger motive, a grander scheme but--
CLACK! TAP!
That\'s where it ends, that\'s where it always ends. Every mystery always never part of a grander scheme, I feel empty inside. That grumly feeling in my stomach again, just when it was starting to get good I lost that feeling again.
I closed my laptop and sent the files over to the Bai Corps representative, I\'m sure they must have been surprised that I solved it to quick. Even more surprised that I was even solving the case, immortals always have that expression. Surprise, love, fear, I never really got to experience most of it growing up.
Most of these traits are more common in humans but gods are showing them too, then what\'s the difference?
There it goes again, my mind looking for the next big mystery to solve. It\'s always cooking up a storm because the world is never peaceful, there is always trouble underneath. Something much more bigger in play.
I walked over to my bed which was still well laid, I could not recall then I last slept in it. Did I even sleep anymore? There has never been a story that had ever kept me up late except for that one, it was exhilarating as it was. Now I just spend my time going through every case in the Bai Force and solving them in mere seconds— at most 1 minute 17 seconds.
Life has no meaning when it\'s just one dimensional, that\'s what I belive. There is always more to the world than meets the eye. I can\'t quite recall how my life started or how old I was but I do remember it started with me waking up bathed in my own blood, I remember gurgling in it. It wasn\'t just my own blood there were dozens of them all around me, I think I was meant to die that day but I didn\'t.
There was this man dressed in red looking over me, he noticed I was still breathing but pretended not to care as he left me there to die.
But I didn\'t did, I was found and rescued by a god. He took me in, trained me, wanted me to take after him but my mind always strayed to the unknown— the world of mysteries. The lines that seperate what is and what isn\'t. I started solving mysteries. The god named me Talos after one of his greatest inventions. He called me a mystery child.
I despised simplicity, I lived for mysteries. I established myself as a well known detective, no one knew what I looked like or who I was. People are always quick to judge others based on what they looked like, it\'s a stupid ideology I never adhered to.
My mind is a complex jigsaw puzzle with no end, I can\'t stop thinking about theories and how to solve them. It usually took me minutes, now I work in seconds. I deduce that this insatiable thirst for answer arose from my quest for my past.
I sank into my bed and tried to dissolve there— it felt foriegn and strange. I tried to shut my mind out— it fought back. I can\'t understand myself down to the very atom— that is my greatest mystery. I see people as clusters of facts held together by baseless emotions, there is almost never a motive that is not guided my emotion. I operate different because I know how to subdue my emotions.
I lived in a very small apartment with just the bare necessities, nothing for comfort. Just enough. A simple kitchen, a simple living room, a simple budget but a complex life. I don\'t work for money, I don\'t request it— money just gives me more of a sinful attachment to material things so I limit myself to it.
PING!!
PING!!
PING!!
I reached out to my phone to see three notifications, but I always used a secure line. Well it\'s not the first time the Bai Force have managed to hack in.
NOTIFICATION:.
A NUMBER NOT IN YOUR CONTACT (MR ANONYMOUS) IS REQUESTING A CHAT APPROVAL. (0 SECOND AGO)
What\'s this now? Is it one of those dating things I hear so much about— not from friends though, I don\'t have that. But from some of the cases I solve, troubles and stuff.
INCOMING CALL
UNKNOWN NUMBER
ACCEPT / REJECT
A call entering just seconds after, how suspicious. A stalker would be what normal people would say but I have not stepped out of this building in ages so scratch that. There is no way the Bai Force would use an unknown number to call me right after I warned them last time. Could it be a client? No!
I don\'t even have a page or anything, I just snoop around restricted criminal files and pick what interests me-- force of habit.
If I pick the call does that mean it will be tracked to this location? But I\'d I don\'t pick I can\'t find out who is calling. How did they find the number when it\'s not saved to my name...? My chest was feeling all tingly again, my head was turning the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle.
I was either mentally troubled or quite bored because I was feeling quite turned on from a phone call from an unknown number.
BEEP!
I clicked the call and said nothing. It was quiet for the first few seconds, my heart was thumping harder my teeth gnashing at the suspense. Well, maybe I do have a problem.
"Talos I presume?" It was a distorted voice, was it a deranged serial killer? Or some kid playing a prank? I choose the latter. "I hear you have a knack for unsolvable mysteries. Turn on the news channel 12, if you\'re interested in an alliance call me."
CLICK!
And with that the call was disconnected. What a rush of adrenaline pumping through me, I made my way toy laptop and went to the news— channel 12 he said. My eyes scrolled down the headline of the news being broadcasted.
SHOCKING NEWS: HERMES, THE MESSANGER GOD MEETS HIS DEMISE AT THE 2000TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF ZEUS, GOD OF OLYMPUS.
My lips arched in a light smile, the story of a god dying-- it\'s never been heard of. Without a doubt I was sure the Bai Corps would have no way of handling it, after all they are just for show. But who was the caller and how did he contact me, I tried dialing the number only to hear:
—"THE NUMBER YOU ARE TRYING TO CALL DOES NOT ACCEPT CALLS"—
S**T! Someone I have no idea of brought me this juicy story just hours before the event happened, was this person expecting this all along? It appears I have been cooped up in this little apartment to notice a thing.
I scrolled through my contacts, it wasn\'t much. What was his name again? The leader of the Bai Corps? Pine! That\'s it.
I was so overjoyed that I grabbed my keys and ran to the door, for the first time in a while I wanted to leave apartment and all it took was the death of a god. The biggest mystery ever and I would be the first to solve it. I pulled my door open with a smile on my face, I could feel that way sensation at the pit of my stomach, what was it called? Joy?
"H--uh?" I looked down to see a short old woman staring at me as if she had seen a ghost, her glasses were oval shaped and from the reflections from it I could tell it was recommended. Who was she again? My landlady? My neighbor? Who--? I did not even know who she was but she was staring at me like she had seen a ghost.
"Hey lady--"
And before I knew it, she screamed like a wild chicken. "WAAAAAAAAH!!!" I had to say it was quite over exaggerated but she ran helter skelter off down the hall.
I knew I was a mess since I hadn\'t done my hair in ages but why the crazed expression? Did it have something to do with my outfit--?
I suddenly felt a very soothing wind blow at my body, it was very refreshing. Much different from my shut in apartment, the chill filling me up— even down there! Oh--! My eyebrows shot up, I think I knew what the matter was now. I looked down at my crotch and hissed in disappointment, it appeared that in my moment of excitement I had failed to secure myself with any piece of clothing.
How embarassing.
"Huh, what was the old lady yakking about?" I could hear my neighbors already coming out of there rooms. "I dunno, a bug maybe?"
I slipped back into my room and shut the door quietly, I had no problem with being seen that way-- I wasn\'t like other girls. But I did know being naked was a distraction and a violation of law and order. Arrrrrrrrgh, living on Olympus was a bother.
Why was I naked anyway? Oh-- that\'s it. Because of my continuous work on my laptop I realized ages ago that going to the bathroom, taking a bath, coming back to work was a stressful. Why play dress up when I would be indoors all day, so I stopped wearing clothes. Made my work efficient. Now what do I wear?