case 2 part 2

Part 2 – Crime Scene

I arrived in front of Nine Dragon Inn, a shabby rest house in downtown. Walking up the stairs with unknown smells, i reached Room 118.

The door was opened, and “Big Dog” James was sitting on the bed.
“You're late.” he growled, with a cigarette between his teeth.
“Sorry, took me a while to find this place.”i answered, and rejected his offer of ciggies, feeling sick of the smell, and the dryness it causes in my throat.
“Tis the pictures we took last night. Man, you better not be on a full stomach, else you cant stomach this.”saying which he tossed a stack of pictures on the bed.
It looked gross. With the head of Vanilla Brulee bloated up, smeared with blood all over. Blood was coming out everywhere, and i nearly puked out my breakfast of roti canai and the tarik.

“What else have you got?” i asked.
“We found this bottle of drug on the floor.”he handed me a white bottle with colorful labelling, just like any other vitamin pill bottles you see everywhere. Only this one is a bit different. On it was written “ Equagesic”.
“Man, this was banned in the UK in 2002.”i looked at him and told him. “Any other thing?”
James shrugged, and said “Oh yeah, we put the blonde who was with him in custody. Name's Lydia, and she's renting this room. Seems she's a good friend of Brulee.”
“Can i see her after this?”
“Ya, since you're good friends with our police director, Tan Sri Thayalan.” Yup, Thayalan and i shared the same room in oil palm estates during our younger days, and he had since progressed ahead, way ahead of me, since we parted ways, mostly due to his diligence and intelligence.
“Ok, i owe you one, bro. Arigatou. Supper's on me next time.”
“Dou itachi mashite.” he replied.

With that, i left to meet Lydia.


Note : Arigatou = Thank you (in japanese)
Dou itachi mashite = you're welcome (in japanese)

To be continued...