Summary:
As Dora-the-Kid and Dora-nikov live in an opposite building to the murder scene, they have to figure about a man which the identity stunned all. But it isn't enough, as another shocking moment reveals that more than just one. But what is behind such a murderous, gruesome and inhuman behavior and the motivation of it, is still unclear. Meanwhile, far away from Paris, a man starts to decode the mystery only to figure out something that will influence their own investigation on the List.
Paris, France
The police discovered a man's body, whose head got a bullet. In a way, Kid and Nikov recovered from the scene as people were forbidden to get in.
They discovered a body lying on the ground and it was a black man. Then, they soon carried alongside French police as Kid and Nikov talked in English instead of French.
"The man dying there was identified … Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta, 35 years old, jobless, and … having ties with terrorism, notably Daesh." French chief inspector, an old guy with a bald head was Édouard Jannes, who charged the murder of the man.
"Wait … how the hell a terrorist-linked bastard could have entered France? And which motivation led to his murder?" Kid wondered how.
Inside the apartment where Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta was found dead, it was quite complicated to see a lot of pictures, stuffs and even some … black flag in the table. The flag of Islamic State was also founded there, for some reasons.
French police soon agreed that the dead man had a dark tie, and it must be examined.
"Inspecteur, il était entré à Paris sous le faux nom Souleymane Hadia." (Inspector, he had entered Paris under the fake name Souleymane Hadia.)
"Bon travail, Philippe. Nous devons récupérer plusieurs profils perdus de ce terroriste malien." (Good job, Philippe. We need to recover several lost profiles of this Malian terrorist.)
Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta, turned out, was from Mali, a Sahelian country in Africa which has tie with France. The French Government is now coordinating with Malian Government, and has dispatched a fellow Malian inspector to there. But as the Malian inspector had yet to come on time.
"So, we need to think that … how the hell a Daesh sympathizer, could be killed in the city of Paris?" Kid got amused to see this.
"We're not clear why. But he was under target by us for mobilizing the terrorist group Islamic State of Sahelian branch. His exclusive tie expanded further to Boko Haram and Libyan militant groups. He could be considered a jihadist, but his death now has made us even feel stranger."
"You don't know which motivation, do you?"
"We can try. But, it is not enough. We are hacking his computer and phone because the last time he checked, he talked with a senior member, perhaps, of the Islamic State elsewhere, before being shot dead."
The room was quite beautiful in standard, but the blood of Mohamed Abdoulaye freaked them up. But Nikov saw it somehow: a fake name, fake nom-de guerre, and entering France freely without being discovered, only to be killed in an apartment near the Eiffel Kensington Hotel.
Now, this became even more suspicious. The room suffered little damages to none, so, how could the killer enter the apartment?
"This is a fucked up scene." Kid told to Inspector Édouard: "Fuck it!"
As the police tried to uncover the scenario, they soon reported about the computer and iPhone of Mohamed Abdoulaye.
"Inspecteur, l'iPhone a finalement été décodé. Que devrions-nous faire ensuite?" (Inspector, the iPhone was finally decoded. What should we do next?)
"Bien. Découvrez les éventuels appels de ce dernier à d'autres hauts responsables ou à des membres de cellules terroristes. Je suppose que le meurtre a quelque chose à voir avec les affaires." (Good. Check out any possible calls from him to other senior leaders or members of terrorist cells. I guess the murder has something to do with business.)
The old inspector was quite brilliant on it, yet not well in fashion due to his age. As they were looking beyond the border, the criminal mindsets finally made a return on their own's minds over the body of the death.
For Nikov and Kid, the case was not that simple.
"ISIS has many internal enemies and even outside they are hated a lot. So, I believe the murder of Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta must be from rival group. Or anything else, perhaps about those whose relatives died because of them."
"(The group seems to be declined, but in fact they're still trying to reorganize and revive itself. I expect such a death of Mohamed would be a severe blow for the Daesh.)"
"Can we? Islamic State would be …"
"(I expect more. Do you think the war will end like Vietnam War?)"
"Maybe. And this death would be the option. To fight, we have to arm other groups, although it is a deadly decision."
As Kid and Nikov watched on, the computer's profiles changed radically and their records of the death's private connection to other senior ISIS members and other terrorist cells, came out. But it wasn't satisfied for the Inspector.
This was only for that. The reason was for a senior member and an important one, Mohamed Abdoulaye must have even more and more links. His death had closed all links and putting them at risk of more terrorist activities in revenge.
Kid and Nikov looked on and the police also continued.
"This time, we have no reason to halt anymore. Do it."
They rushed to see more and more because it was just 30% of the link of the Malian terrorist and supporter of Daesh. But it must be seen as complicated because the link of Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta so deep to depth.
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"I think this had been into the conflict that lies deep on the War on Terror. But how, and why?"
"(It has to find out.)"
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Meanwhile, outside Paris, a girl arrived and they were going beyond, as they were looking onward. But as they kept walking, they saw the feet of someone inside tree bushes. And with purple clogs, but the body didn't move. The woman did not move a single steps and this put them in strange.
"彼女は寝ていますか?" (Is she sleeping?)
As such, there were three girls. Three of them soon looked on and they quietly urged the woman on. Yet, after they pulled down the bushes, they got shocked a lot to see a horrific scene.
By then, one of them … she soon cried …
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"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH …"
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Kid and Nikov were quite interested to know about when the scream headed to them. Meanwhile, a police officer discovered a box in the brown cupboard made in Ukrainian woods. In there showed a letter in French but they had not read.
"A box?" Kid and Nikov asked: "What's inside?"
As Kid and Nikov had yet to know which lies inside, Inspector Jannes demanded the open of the box. But at least, he read the letter first.
"Essayez plus fort ou soyez énervé." (Try harder, or get pissed off.)
The letter insulted both the police and the dead Malian terrorist. But that was the only few option to handle about. The Inspector soon opened the box from upside and what later the officer who discovered the box up there, Marcel, and other, including Kid and Nikov, who rushed inside, got not just one shock, but almost everyone … had a struck on the soul.
The police officer, Marcel, let it fall into the ground, in which … even Kid and Nikov opened their eyes bigger than general. It was …
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A head of a woman!
The head, which she was quite young and had a purple-haired, pretty cheerful and wonderful, red lip, but the severed head showed a very tragic emotion that she was trying to resist, before getting decapitated.
It was kept up there and with the dead of Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta added on, the scream soon reached their ears.
"A scream!"
The other police vehicles arrived with Kid and Nikov decided to rush out for this moment, having seen a gruesome woman's head, age about 20-25. Kid and Nikov wondered what was to be expected from the murder.
Inspector Édouard ordered the holding the scenario as he also left to witness the truth of it. Both Kid and Nikov wanted to see what's going on another side.
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When they came … together with Inspector, they must have seen that … story.
A girl, who has her dress and wore a jersey "Rock of Mind", screamed hard and the people's fear brought to the gang another horrific moment. Perhaps even more.
Because they saw a body, after pulling out from tree's bushes, it was … a body wearing a violet, flashy pushy clothes covering whole body. Look on the arms, it was thin, shiny and marvelous, and the dress must be fitted only for models. The body of her was also thin and white.
It might have been just that, until Kid and Nikov came on, and together with Inspector Édouard, but adding now was … the Black guy standing altogether. Both were stunned to the gruesome murder as well.
Because … the body didn't have one thing.
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Her head was severed from the body.
Kid and Nikov discovered the headless body, indicated the right meaning that it was a brutal decapitation. It came just after few minutes following the death of an ISIS sympathizer and financer and the discovery of a woman's head.
Both Kid ad Nikov, alongside Édouard and the new Inspector, a black man with grey jersey, came on. And …
"This is a decapitation." Kid got a push: "The beheading level shows that it is must be brutal."
"(I guess the head of her founded in the room of Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta must have fitted with the severed body.)"
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Kid, Nikov, Édouard and the unnamed black guy discovered her body as it was lying up and the right hand went straight to the right, the left hand put into her breasts, except without a head.
Soon, the black man introduced.
"My name is Ousmane Diagné. I am chief Inspector from Bamako, Mali."
"Inspector Diagné." Kid shook hand.
"I've been following the case of terrorist cells since the ISIS' expansion to northern Mali. I've been hunting about Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta as well, but we had never killed him. Now, it is a big wow."
"You know … how would it go if we cannot be fast, right? But did Mohamed Abdoulaye have anything to do with the decapitation?" Inspector Édouard examined.
"It is not clear." Kid told: "The identity of the decapitated one, have you identified?"
"Actually … someone knew it." Ousmane claimed, as he pointed to the group of three girls there, who saw the decapitated body of the woman.
One of them had been taken by the police, and no one else but the girl who wore the jersey with the words "Rock of Mind". Two others were also under testimony of the police in Paris.
Kid soon reached a potential discussion with the girl who wore that jersey, and Kid knew what to expect from. Dora-nikov also spent the time there, in particular, thanked for their experience with the language of the witnesses.
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"あなたは彼女を知っていますか?" (Do you know her?)
The girl nodded. Meanwhile, the police also took from the resources of the new from the other girls, but Kid chose only her to talk over the decapitated body they discovered, now being covered with white towel while they would also carry the head of the victim from the apartment where Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta was found dead.
On the other hand, the girl wearing "Rock in Mind" admitted:
"はい。 彼女はカタナキユウシロウです以前は私と友人が監督としてアイドルになるのを助けました。" (Yes. She is Yuushirou Katanaki, who previously helped me and friends to become idol as a supervisor.)
"(Wait, Yuushirou Katanaki? Wasn't she a model of the French fashion company Lanvin?)"
"I guess more than that." Kid told to Nikov as he continued to address in Japanese toward the girl.
From the girl's explanation, Kid soon found out that …
"あなたの名前?" (Your name?)
"多田李衣菜。 私はアイドルマスタープログラムのアイドルであり、私が最初にそこに来たときに彼女は私を育てていました。" (Riina Tada. I have been an idol of the Idolmaster program and she had nurtured me when I first came there.)
The story of Riina had been confirmed, but the discovery of the headless body must be a shock. At the age of 25, Yuushirou was on her brightest days of career for many girls in the Idolmaster program. Kid and Nikov were mostly less informed about the program, so they tried to less active about the detail.
"(The Idolmaster? Never heard of it.)"
"Then we heard it now." Kid smiled, a bit he switched to Russian: "Царь Александр I, когда он скептически относился к генералу Михаилу Кутузову во время вторжения Наполеона в Россию, должен был нажать два спусковых крючка вместо одного. Он ожидал, что Кутузов выиграет Отечественную войну, но ему нужны были пруссаки, чтобы наконец-то победить." (Tsar Alexander I, when he was skeptical of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the Napoleon invasion to Russia, had to pull two triggers instead of one. He expected Kutuzov would win the Patriotic War, but it needed the Prussians to finally gain it.)
"(So, you expect two triggers instead of one?)"
"Hahahahaha!" Kid laughed to Nikov: "Be happy, because we shall know who's behind!"
"(You're quite confident, don't you?)"
"Maybe."
Kid and Nikov left the room and together they recovered another evidences. Those fellow girls following Riina Tada were Mika Jougasaki and Rin Shibuya, who also witnessed the decapitated body of Yuushirou.
Both Rin and Mika also expressed their disbelief to the body, however, what followed them later was even more frightening. The box where it contained the head of an unknown purple-haired girl model arrived and it took few short to the girls to realize it …
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"Do you think we need to do DNA?" Kid asked.
"Yes, we should. But from the faces of the girls, I expect they don't talk lie. Overall, they're quite pure anyway." Ins. Édouard claimed.
"I'll ask the Lanvin fashion company and the CEO as well. I think they know that." Ins. Ousmane told: "We cannot let it go away. We must be hurry. Fast!"
As for the result, Kid, Nikov and Ins. Édouard also agreed to work and resolving the problem in order to prevent the problem that they had to deal with, perhaps for a better future option.
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Lanvin Headquarter
Both Kid and Nikov chose to witness the story in their own sight, while Ins. Édouard and Ousmane talked to the CEO, the bald-headed Jean-Paul Boumediène and age around 51.
"Nous devons vous informer que Melle Katanaki, votre modèle a été retrouvé mort en dehors de la banlieue parisienne. Connaissez-vous des rivaux dont vous avez peur?" (We have to inform you that, Miss Katanaki, your model, was found dead outside Parisian suburb. Do you know any rivals you are afraid of?)
"Traditionnellement, nous avons beaucoup de rivaux. Mais nous ne nous attendons pas à ce que notre modèle d'assassinat soit assassiné. Je suis assez surpris, mais j'espère que nous pourrons le récupérer, car une semaine plus tard, la Fashion Week commencera." (Traditionally, we have a lot of rivals. But, murdering our model is something we do not expect about. I'm quite startled, but hopefully, we can bounce it back, because a week later, the Fashion Week will begin.) Jean-Paul regretted, and somehow, he knew something.
"Monsieur Jean-Paul, si vous êtes au courant de la possibilité de crimes contre votre entreprise et vos modèles, veuillez nous en informer." (Mr. Jean-Paul, if you know about any possibilities of crimes against your company and your models, please report to us.)
To worth, Nikov translated words for Kid and the American cowboy understood each time he listened to. But Kid still struggled to listen for French more than English, so it took a moment to finally he focused on. By this moment, all the information was done enough.
They talked less about that, because they favored something more in order. But the murder might have not ended there, as Kid expected to be more and more. However, the level of gruesome could be … the same, or higher.
Inspectors Édouard Jannes, Ousmane Diagné and fellow Americans soon departed away as they didn't acquire much evidence of the murder.
But what Kid and Nikov could not understand was, how did a mad man kill an ISIS sympathizer then beheaded a model, putting the head into the ISIS member's room for some reasons. They could not understand the real motivation around it.
Kid and Nikov soon looked on as the scene of the decapitation as the police still maintained around and barred people from entering it, except press coverage. But the brutality of the decapitation and the earlier death of a Daesh member told that, something was messy around here.
"Nikov, I still don't understand, why such a mad man beheaded a girl and then shot dead an ISIS member."
"(I'm still unclear. But ISIS typically practices this medieval tradition of decapitation, and types like Jihadi John are not rare.)"
"So, was it being done by another ISIS member, or something else. But surely, it must be the opponent of Daesh, or internal clashes."
"(We've yet to conclude who is responsible for the deaths of two. But the situation might evolve into a larger and more unpredictable level.)"
"Remember that, the money of Ahmad Mohamad Al-Salih is also very important. Since we need to find Taha, the death of ISIS member should not distract us from investigating."
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Colombus, Ohio, United States
Anthony Concong lived in the city, but in an elsewhere building that's still unknown except those who had deep tie, including Kid and Nikov on the depth. Anthony tried to search about the List of Ahmad Mohamad's financial distribution, and as he was decoding, some of the most important names revealed.
In this case, Anthony looked on and on and on. He seemed to have known something.
"Bingo!"
It was not a surprise that Kid needed the hand of the Ghanaian-American Anthony. They needed for it because they saw the fact from it, from how it went and how it appeared to be.
And that was all for Anthony to conclude the final exchange. For his eyes, he soon discovered the real agenda behind it …
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21:30
Paris, France
The capital once again shined with the amazing Eiffel Tower on the top screen with the Arc d'Triomphe in the city as well. Paris was always a sleepless city, and is still a sleepless beauty.
Also, in the same building, another beautiful, black-haired model with a petite hair, she was another foreign model in another different fashion company. She also looked Asian, like Yuushirou.
And the same time, she had a thin, fit and long legs in both sides, thus she was a model for sure. But while she was coming in, suddenly she heard a voice from someone else.
"N'est-ce pas beau?" (Isn't it beautiful?)
"Qui es-tu et pourquoi es-tu ici?" (Who're you and why are you here?)
The man there stood in front of them, told that, there was a man he had already shot dead, and he would do it again. This time, she realized the man was behind the murder of two people, one ISIS sympathizer and decapitation of a female model: "Non, vous êtes …" (No, you're …)
"J'ai effectué une recherche sélective et je suis prêt à faire en sorte que vous ne la ressentiez plus. Dis-moi ton maître, ou tu seras le prochain." (I've a selective research, and I am willing to make sure you can't feel it again. Tell me your master, or you'll be next.) He said as he did an act that freaking her out, showing his index finger went beyond his neck, indicating his planned actions.
"Non! Va-t-en! Je vais appeler la police …" (No! Get away! I will call the police …)
The model tried to resist against it, but she got a slip and fell down into the ground of her own room in elsewhere. Then, the man came on and on, brought with an axe and looked on her, just with only the different: he had covered his body by hooded coat.
As she was still lying and yet to see all the consequence, the man told her to be quiet, then he grabbed his own tape and silenced her mouth. He also took his hand and covered her eyes, meaning he would do it in a brutal style.
"Fais un beau rêve … sans ta tête." (Have a nice dream … without your head.)
She still tried to resist, but this time, he pulled all strength on the axe and it hit into …
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"PSSSSSSSSS …"
Red water … red water … red water …
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Next morning
Paris, France
Kid and Nikov arrived into a coffee shop in Boulevard Saint-Germain and called for some hot coffees, where they drank some of them.
"I hate coffee this time."
"(Why? France has good coffees though.)"
"Not like in Italy."
"(Bro, you're stupid. French coffee is better than Italian counterpart.)"
"Whatever."
Kid and Nikov sat down for a while until they heard about another police car running around. From this point, Kid and Nikov once again smelt something fishy.
"What the hell?"
As Kid and Nikov saw police car nearby, they realized it was heading to Rue Bonaparte. And this brought them to recognize something outside for a long time, must be covered.
"Bitch!" Kid yelled: "It is a murder scene!"
Kid noted very fast due to appearance of ambulance once again. This time, they paid money and ran into the location where the police car stopped there. In this moment, again, this was …
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"Vallet!" Dora-the-Kid watched out.
"(Let's go! There's something there.)"
Kid and Nikov ran up into the house and stopped at the third floor, where the police had covered the case. But with Kid and Nikov established tie with Inspector Édouard Jannes and Ousmane Diagné, they were allowed to enter in.
This time, they discovered … a shocking moment around. Another shock …
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As Ins. Jannes and Diagné arrived to the scene, they saw inside the Vallet near China House, another body lying on. Similar to the first case, this was also a woman, and a model as well, only the company she worked was Prada.
The left hand was put to the breasts of the chest and the right hand was placed quite straight to the right. And even more similar …
"Everything is similar, even the head was severed from the body." Kid looked out, as he didn't believe in fear and disdain: "Piss off!"
"Do you know the identity of the beheaded model?" Inspector Ousmane added.
"They have yet to discover her head's whereabout, but the body indicated her name as Lü Sunjun, a Chinese model working for Prada." Ins. Édouard Jannes examined: "Also 25 years old."
"This time is a Chinese national? Previously, a Japanese female model got the same decapitation. Now, a Chinese one?" Kid looked on her body, which now only spanned from the neck that with blood spilled out on the ground to her own feet, also covered with clogs. She was also white and light-skinned, and long haired.
"Oh dear …" Ins. Jannes breathed long: "In recent years, increasing rate of murders against Chinese citizens abroad has resurfaced, due to the growing Chinese population traveling abroad. Previously, terrorists only targeted Westerners, mainly Americans; but now they're looking for Chinese as replacement."
"The Chinese Government has not reacted, right?" Kid explained: "But the murder of a Chinese female model from a hot company could become international crisis."
"(China is now dealing with the growing rate of murdered Chinese citizens abroad. Last year, over 200 Chinese were killed abroad. But this time in just four months, the deaths of Chinese abroad has surpassed to 250. And the murder of Sunjun made it 251.)"
"Not even saying that it was so brutal, beheading a young female model and hid the head elsewhere." Ins. Ousmane confessed: "If this reaches the Chinese embassy, they will report to Beijing and it'll become an international concern."
"Bang it on!" Ins. Jannes expressed in the same fear: "If we cannot be fast, the trouble will be doubled."
Meanwhile, on the next door's China House, a restaurant was about to serve opened the refrigerator and, as a staff member looked down, he was …
"Huh!?"
He startled and fell down, as another member, a woman chief, also looked on. This time, they were all shocked …
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"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW … NO …"
The scream was smaller than the previous one, but it was still horrific. And they just watched on the scene when the scream in the neighboring building occurred. Didn't waste time, the police arrived into the building and surrounding it.
One police officer discovered it was from the refrigerator, as the chief and waiter left out to see the ground. And it meant …
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"Chef, nous avons trouvé … la tête de la victime." (Chief, we have found ... the head of the victim.)
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The police had discovered the head of the Chinese model in the refrigerator and their fear around proved to be very important. For Kid and Nikov, they just called out of persecution.
"How did the head end up in a refrigerator of the China House?"
"(Nobody knows. It was thrown into a cool side of the refrigerator and not the cold one. But the investigation is still ongoing.)"
Kid and Nikov were wondering how as the head, being recovered, had been put to the table where it distanced only 2 meters from the decapitation scene. Again, they struggled to figure the real reason behind the brutal decapitation of the model alike.
In Kid and Nikov's meanings, the decapitation had two major routes on it, and it could not be seen from one way.
Kid and Nikov took the measures to find out why. One, the decapitation was to signal message against her family and her company. Two, the decapitation might have something business to do with …
While the two were taking task, suddenly Kid received message, which Kid showed up and seized the chance.
"Hey, Anthony. What's next?"
He knew it was Anthony. He texted throughout WhatsApp, and they needed to see.
That Ghanaian boi sending the message of a group of dark list, in which it registered several names. This time, Kid and Nikov looked on and …
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"No wonder why the decapitation occurred."
