Mr. Lukas was observing the pile of junk as if it was a corpse. Moreover, he brought out his gloves and gun. This gun was his most favorite one. He would always carry it everywhere. It was an old rusty gun. It made me think if it really works or not. I mean it had to be working.
As Mr. Lukas was about to dig into the rubbish to find the diary. I noticed that there was a CCTV camera straight up to us. It was placed in the direction in such a a way that it could grasp the whole area without even moving. Seeing that, I quickly shouted out to Mr. Lukas.
"Sir! Sir! There's a CCTV camera. We should check it first. That way we can be sure if what Renar said was actually true."
Mr. Lukas Averted his sights to me and stood there for a while. Then swiftly came near me,
"Good thinking." Saying that he went beside me. I was utterly shocked because this is the first time Mr. Lukas had ever praised me. He always neglected my actions and find mistakes out of them. As I was standing there out of shock, Mr. Lukas called out to me.
"Hey! How long are you gonna stand there and smell the garbage?"
I responded to him promptly.
"So, the CCTV footage might be here." MR. Lukas pointed towards a convenience store that was not well-doing. It was dusty from outside. A teenage boy was enjoying his time playing games on his phone, seating at the money counter, probably a part-timer. His ears were connected with the phone through cheap earphones. Its color was degenerating from its original color. That kid might have used it for a long time now. His clothing was as a usual high school kid.
We unlocked the door and stepped onto the store. There weren't many of grocery things that you could buy. Almost on every shelf, instant foods were present. As Mr. Lukas was before than me, he took the chance to question the boy.
"Boy! You have a CCTV on that alley, right?"
The first thing the boy said was nothing. He didn't even feel like responding to the high-level detective officer. You're in trouble poor kiddo. You shouldn't mess around with detectives.
Mr. Lukas again asked him but this time he placed his gun in front of the table. The boy was so into the game that he didn't grasp that we were even here. The boy's sights came to an unwanted thing that he didn't know. Humans are beings that drive for curiosity. To get to know about the unwanted object, the boy lowered the cell phone to gasp that thing. When his consciousness beamed up, he felt like reacting to that dangerous object.
"WAAAAAOO"
He screamed out of fear and fell down his chair. It wasn't what he was expecting. He might be expecting cash as it was his job. He hid underneath the table and said fearfully,
"P-Please, take all the-m-money y-you nee-d-d. D-don't shoot."
He possibly is misunderstanding us to thugs. I had to clear things up for both of us to communicate well.
"We are not what you think, We are the detectives. So, don't fear us. We don't intend to hurt you."
As I said that the boy began to stand up slowly. But he failed and went again. What a pain! Mr. Lukas shouldn't bring out the gun.
He said in a trembling voice.
"What's your name? And the other guy?"
"Oh! Right." If I give him Mr. Lukas's, he would most probably trust us.
"I'm Reyes and this is Mr. Lukas." He's a senior detective in the out department. You have heard his name. He did solve all the major cases." What I was thinking was totally wrong.
"Mr. Lukas? The Grim ripper?" Did people call him with that name? I didn't know Mr. Lukas was that famous. They even give him a cool name. The boy added "The one who would torture people until they blink of death. The one who never let anyone alive. The devil!!"
Truly, I was really surprised how the boy described MR. Lukas. It was like a summary of a game character. Even Mr. Lukas himself was shocked hearing that.
"You got it all wrong. It's true that Mr. Lukas is scary sometimes."
"Did you know anything?" Mr. Lukas aimed at him with his gun and a murderous aura was emitting from him. He truly is scary!
"Despite that, he's a nice person. He wouldn't harm you if you didn't do anything wrong." I attempted to calm him and this time I was successful in doing that.
"Y-You sure?" He tried to ensure. I nodded to give him hope. He stood up straight with a relieved face.
"Now, Took out the CCTV footage of 18 march!" Mr. Lukas asked in irritation. I could see the fearful look of that boy again.
"Mr. Lukas you don't have to be so rude. Just show us the CCTV footage of 18 march please." I politely told the boy and did begin to show us the footage on the monitor although his hands were shaking violently and he was peeking at Mr. Lukas from time to time. It looked like he couldn't trust us fully. The footage seemed normal to me. But in Mr. Lukas, it might be a gold hunt as he was looking at it intensely. We went through the video for an hour or so. There wasn't anything notable. I felt like sleeping but couldn't as it was an important task. At a certain moment, Mr. Lukas yelled loudly, which made me and the boy shiver slightly in shock. "STOP"
"Stop right there." He did as he was told.
"I glanced at the monitor in seriousness and found out a person. Indeed, it was A person wearing a black suit, as he went to a funeral. As he was running forward, he threw a book, No diary into the junkyard. It was so quick that only Mr. Lukas was able to grasp it with his superhuman sights.