..Lieutenant Quill Silvius"
He sighs, scratching the back of his head, and replies "It is EX lieutenant doctor.
There's no need to be so formal doctor, Just Silvius or Sir would do"
"O-oh okay sir" Maria smiles and softly bows and opens the door with her retina scan.
"Please come in"
They move toward the empty forensic table that looked recently cleaned while multiple holographic screens show various test results.
As in the queue, Maria takes the centre stage behind the table. " I am going to explain this case from the start".
Lana and Quill both nods in approval and Maria clears her throat.
"A boy of age 18 was found dead with a huge punctured gaping hold of 8 centimetres in diameter, damaged heart and lungs, and multiple internal nerve and vessel lacerations. Heavy blood loss due to the open would is the likely cause of death and he was dead at least 40 minutes before I found him" she slides in the image of the chest and shows the hole and then shows a scan of the body showing almost every single nerve and blood vessel damage as if they had exploded.
"I am the first witness of finding the body," she Informs and continues.
"The blood reports show that He had a treatment of Healing enhancers which are mostly used for Quick fracture treatment"
"This brings up a possibility of torture?" Lana enquires to which Maria nods and continues.
"No other drugs are found and the body is moderately undernourished, highly likely that the boy was not fed as well for a week or two before killing him."
"There are no signs of struggle except for the cuffs which were present on the bed"
she takes a breath and continues as she slides in images of the body marks and then shows a slide of the internal body scans.
"Every organ is damaged due to the vascular damage and the muscle fibres are in shreds and calculating the time difference between the damaged tissues and death, he was alive through the process"
"A thorough torture, the boy has a strong will indeed" Quill concluded. "Any Information on his bloodline and his origin?" he inquired.
'If someone went all the way to torture this young kid like this, He must have had Information of great value, still doesn't make sense why that fox sent me here
While Quill is parallel thinking about the victim, the fear within Lana grew further because If what she was thinking was true.
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Meanwhile, the cadet's training was over and Leon was watching the losers take laps and were especially satisfied with Luke and his two other friends who also lost later on in the sparring getting punished.
"So this is what they call karma huh" he smirks as he was floating next to Hiro who decides to have lunch with the boys
' It is kind of getting boring now, let's go check if Maria is done with the lab tests, maybe she figures out what was that stone which was there in my chest...probably' Truthfully speaking, he didn't have high hopes regarding maria finding information about the stones since He is experiencing A LOT of supernatural things since he took that medicine.
"Either the worst high of my life or it's the real deal eh" he tried to humour himself but even he didn't find it much fun.
He then sinks in and reaches the lower basement as Leon gets more comfortable with moving in his new ghost form.
As usual, he enters the forensics Lab from the ceiling side to see Dr. Maria behind a table with multiple slides of him, two people standing on the opposite side, Lana the chief, and a tall man standing next to her….
As Leon saw the man…he felt his body shiver from the rising emotions which started swelling up in his chest.
A weird feeling of guilt starts to form Knots of turmoil as he stopped hovering and floated still and muttered a word very softly while ghostly tears dropped from his eyes…
"Dad"...
Leon joins in for Maria's discussion and starts reading a few screens on display, trying to comprehend what they found out, seeing what actually happened to him, and occasionally glancing at his father who was coldly analyzing his son's death.
Leon was passively listening to the discussion until his attention diverted towards the topic of bloodline and talent.
" The AI did an artificial reverse engineer of his muscle structure which shows how his body actually was.
We converted his average strength and dexterity based on his previous tone to be a E+, which is average for an 18-year-old teenager and now he became this.." Maria said as she brings in the next slide into a picture showing the Salami of muscles and all graded F-.
"But his bloodline, however…. Is one of the most unique structures I have ever seen in my career, He had not one but 2 Distinct Inherent abilities! One which was an A grade and the other… S grade." She stopped speaking after that to let the information settle in as Leon, Lana, and Quill's eyes widened.
"If you are wondering how is he still in a body bag, the answer is obvious one"
"He wasn't awakened," Lana concludes as she finishes Maria's sentence.
"Truly a pity" Quill sympathizes with the boy's death while….
Leon was salty... 'Not one… BUT TWO!' He lamented inwardly cursing on why he had to die!
"Condylostylus is the creature in human history to have the fastest reflexes on all of Earth!, and that was one of his Inherent traits, If you want a comparison, scientists at that time measured it to have a reflex time of lesser than 5 milliseconds, An average human blink is between 100-400 ms long," Maria stated as she read the rile of the screen and sighed since it was too ABSURD! Even by her standards.
'This trait is TOO broken! Why did I have that stupid stone in me!' Leon was lamenting while the others were thinking otherwise,
'Maybe it was the reason why the boy was killed? To cripple a talent?' Lana pondered.
"What was the other one?" Quill got straight to the point with a serious look on his face.
"Ah yes, the other one i-"
"It is Eagle Vision Quill" A new screen popped up showing Hugo sitting in his office as he interrupted Maria and replied with a stern face with his palms together and supporting his chin as he is looks straight at Quill.
…
Silence struck the room faster than lightning as what Lana dreaded came to fruition.
Quill stood still .....
and then let out a few words.
"Explain yourself, Hugo."
Maria finished her side of the work as the remaining tests proved to be negative anyways and joined the talk next to Lana.
"It seems they didn't tell dad the dead person is me." Leon talks to himself while he hovers in a position to see how this conversation Unfolds.
"Well, I am planning to do so either way" He shrugs and lets his hands rest on the table.
"I was searching for the Boy's Identity which was shrouded in mystery through the government database. What I found was… Nothing. His whole existence is wiped clean in the government records."
Hugo Informs in a dissatisfied tone. While Lana put two and two together and her eyes widen to even ponder such a scenario to even occur!
"But everyone's DNA codes are updated in the main system, so I went for a comparative test to fulfill a hunch of mine when I saw the boy, Maria, show the body to sir Quill before I explain the last bit."
Maria then turns to Quill to come towards the morgue but stops in fear..from the Aura of rage and Discord that Quill was emitting.
"Ahem, Earth to QUILL" Hugo called snapping Quill back to his senses and nodding at the frightened Maria who then proceeds to guide them to the morgue where she opens up and slides back the tray showing the body.
'Still can't get used to it… Leon felt a bit sick seeing his own corpse again.'
"Looks similar to you now doesn't he?" Hugo continues his explanation while Quill just froze looking at Leon's Body.
"Since he looks so similar to you and your son James, I tried to match both of your DNA, basically a paternity test, and by comparing his with James ...
I confirmed his identity."
Hugo then reduced his tone and said the last sentence of his monologue cleanly and clearly.
"Quill.... the boy in front of you is your son."
'Leon was silent and was just staring at the Unknown rage that was building up in his father who then closed his eyes while clenching his fists and gritting his teeth and told...
"I don't remember having a second son…."