There is a fresh corpse lying on the floor. It produces a river of blood which is painting the floor in red pigments. The space will make him deaf to its silence.
"What am I going to do? Did I really just murder a stranger?"
Hale is overpressure and his heart is racing. He is thinking of dispatching the dead body so that it may not be easily discovered.
He pushed it until he brought it to the restroom. The blood stains on his footprints which he remains evidence of what he just did. He is doomed and in trouble.
He picked soap on the stink and washed his hands. The blood is sticking on his skin so he puts friction to get rid of it. He is still gasping and almost coughs twice every second.
He finds some napkins to wipe the fingerprints on the dead body. He is really assuming that he may not be caught and arrested. Let us see if he can escape the consequences. Although he didn't intend to kill that foreigner, he just protected himself. Even if he is a slut, he will not let some alien claim his body with evilness and abuse.
Now, that he fixed anything, it is his time to leave the premises. He ran at the speed of light without making a noise and letting everyone know he was escaping because he was so guilty.
He picked up his phone in his bag and tried to call Armando. He wants him to know that he is in crisis, he wants to tell his boyfriend that he is now hiding and he needs some help.
While the conference is ongoing, Armando's phone vibrates. He excused Harrison as he needed to take an important call from Hale.
"A-A-Arman..." Hale is stuttering.
"What is the matter, Hale? Why are you gasping? What's wrong?" His boyfriend is wondering about his mannerisms.
"Armando, I have something to confess to you... I... I... I killed someone..."
"Huh? Come again? Did I just hear the word 'kill'?"
"I murdered the American investor." Hale burst out in tears and then sobbed.
Armando massaged his forehead and closed his eyes with disgust. "My god, Hale! Why did you just kill someone? For what reason?"
Hale explained to support his confession, "He tried to rape me and I was raped. I saved myself and did self-defense. I didn't expect that I could kill him. I just wanted to escape from him but he kept following me. He just ripped my underwear and hurt me."
Unexpectedly, the signal just disappeared. He didn't hear the response of Armando. He shouted and cussed then ran. He finds someplace to hide so that he can secure himself and avoid being arrested. He was arrested for once in his life, he will not let himself go to the hellish cage. This is either homicide or murder, he is not sure where his faith would be if in jail or prison. How unlucky!
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There was this gay student who felt that he wanted to pee, so he went into the comfort room. While staying there, he smelled something stinky inside the cubicle. He put his jacket on his nose to see if it was him, he just smelled perfume on his clothes.
As he stayed here longer, the odor of a fresh corpse was evident. He is smelling it now and the perfume of his body doesn't work anymore.
Out of curiosity, he tried to find out where that stinky thing came from. He roamed around the cubicles until he noticed one with a man lying on the floor with a bloody head and the right part of the rib squirting blood.
He froze and quickly breathed anxiously. "Arrrrggghhh! There's a dead! Oh my... Arrrggghhhh!"
He ran immediately and left the cubicle. He went to the conference room to report what he had just seen.
"Hello everyone, let me give you a chance to speak..." He asked permission to talk while he was catching his breath. "I... I s-saw a dead body..."
The people there looked at each other. They noticed a vacant seat which is vacant how many minutes ago.
"Let us continue our transaction by tomorrow. We have an emergency!" Harrison adjourned the conference.
He ran and followed the gay who just reported. After a few moments, he saw the bloody body in the cubicle with his two eyes.
"Oh my god... Who killed him?" He whispered screwed.
He called all the security guards. He takes priority to find the culprit. To easily find the one who murdered the American investor, he also called all the trainees.
He is suspecting someone. He thinks that anything went along with his plan even if he contacted some person as his accomplice.
And bingo! He finally found out who the culprit is. The clue is not that hard. First, the corpse was in the men's cubicle. Second, Hale is just the only one who is not around during his urgent meeting with trainees.
He picked up his phone in his pocket and attempted to use his connections. The murder incident in the company is a good scope to be reported by the news media.
He conducted an exclusive interview with the news reporters. Even if this is kinda sad and bad publicity for his company, he still pushed it just to tell everyone that there is a student working with him who just committed a crime.
"Sir, what happened to the victim? Do you think the culprit intended to kill him?"
"Based on what I have observed, the rib cage on the back of the dead body was stabbed with a cracked bottle. There was also a fracture on his skull which I assumed was stoned with concrete. I think he was killed brutally with intentions."
"Do you have a suspect? Who do you think is he?"
"He is the only student who didn't show up. I will reserve my wild guess once I meet with a police officer."
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Hale is starving to death. He doesn't have a choice but to search for one of the trash bins. While he was eating expired loaf bread, his phone vibrated. When he checked it, he saw an email coming from an unknown sender.
He just saw a video which is an exclusive interview with Harrison and the news reporters. When he heard the clue mentioned by his boss, had an idea that he was busted.
After a minute, he received a call from an unknown number. He accidentally accepted it as his finger slipped on the mobile's screen.
"I know it is you who killed the American investor. How could you do this to an innocent man? I hope you are hiding as far away as the police officers are now locating you."
How foolish he is, why just answer the phone call? He forgot to turn off his location on his phone, and now he just had a phone call, he cannot hide anymore.
He walked slowly as his legs were trembling and he was not able to move faster as he ran out of energy because of starvation today.
Just five minutes later, he heard the sound of the patrol car. He was trying to run but he slipped with the peel of the banana.
"Arrghh! Dammit!" He moaned loudly and massaged his hips.
The vehicle's door opened and the police officers came out then caught Hale.
"We have a warrant of arrest with you, Ms. Hale. You are under arrest because you killed someone. You have the right to remain silent..."
The Miranda rights echoed in his ears. Here we go again, the history repeats itself. The difference is his crime's consequences are either he will be in jail for how many years or he will be sentenced with a reclusion perpetua.
He didn't move his arms as he was locked again. He was moved to the patrol car and then sent to the police station.
"Get me outta here! Sir, I didn't intend to kill that man! Sir! Sir! I just did self-defense! Hear me out!"
The arresting officer acted like he didn't hear anything. The police don't want to listen to some opinions from a criminal. Everyone who was being arrested always said that, so nothing was new to him.
After a while, he just had a visitor. He is excited to meet who cares to visit him. Little didn't he know that the visitor was no other than who filed a case?
"Welcome again to living hell, Hale," Harrison smiled proudly at him.
He bit his lips and clenched his fist. His blood boils and he feels he is going to beat the face of this man in front of him.
"You won again! Has your evil master guided you and poured you some magic? I knew you were the one who planned this so that I could kill someone."
"I don't know what you are saying. Did you miss staying here, Hale? This time is more exciting as your stay will be longer than before. I will make sure you will be sentenced with reclusion perpetua. Hahahaha!" Harrison evil laughed and supposedly left but he was stopped.
"This is the second time that you sent me to jail. Are you satisfied now? You just won this time. We are not still done. I will come back! I will be the reason for the downfall of your company! You will regret what you did to me! Just wait for my revenge! I will destroy you!"