The Victim

This afternoon Melisa was summoned by the police to assist in the investigation into the serial murder case in which she was involved. The police made him a key witness in the murder case that killed the serial killer.

"Tell me what you were doing the night of the incident?" asked the investigating police officer with a thick mustache with a serious face. Melisa shuddered in horror because she had never been in this position before. He swallowed several times to get rid of the anxiety in his chest.

"Dad...that night I went to a minimarket on the edge of town, before coming home it rained heavily so I...I was trapped in the minimarket!" he answered haltingly. Cold sweat dripped down his forehead.

"After that, what did you do?"

“I waited for about half an hour with a middle-aged woman and a girl about 6 or 7 years old.”

"Woman ? Who are they ?"

"I...I don't know her but the woman's face is very similar to the photo of the perpetrator of the sadistic murder of a small child in the newspaper."

“Sadistic murderer? "You mean the fugitive the police are currently looking for?"

“Y...Yes, but I'm not sure whether it's really the woman I mean or not. It's just that the faces are very similar."

"If you met him and knew he was a fugitive, why didn't you contact the police?"

“I…I was afraid that what I saw was wrong so…. Melisa answered shakily

“Miss Melisa?”

"Yes sir ?"

"It's a shame you didn't contact the police quickly at that time!"

“Wh…why?”

"The woman you saw in the minimarket was indeed the perpetrator of a sadistic murder that killed more than 15 people, all of whom were children under the age of 10. And the child who was with him at that time was the final victim.”

“N…impossible.”

"On the night of the incident involving you, in another place a girl was brutally murdered. His organs were taken and his body was mutilated into 3 parts. You were very lucky in the same fate that you survived from the hands of the killer because someone helped you, but that little girl was really unfortunate. He died and his body parts were put in a suitcase and washed away in the river!" said the policeman with a sad face.

Melisa was silent and didn't move, she didn't expect that something bad would happen to the little girl at that time. Even though he had the opportunity to save him from the hands of the killer.

"You know Miss Melisa?"

“W…what?”

"The little girl who was killed was my daughter."

“W…what?” Melisa was shocked to hear the police's statement in front of her. He looked at the face of the mustachioed policeman, it was like he had met him before.

"I'm sure you still have the paper I gave you that afternoon near Rottenbir park, right?"

“Eh… ? Yes, that's right, this policeman is the man I met at that time!" thought Melisa.

"But never mind, it's not your fault. I don't mean to blame, the perpetrator has been found. You don't need to worry!"

“I…I'm sorry.”

"Never mind, we'd better get back to the topic of the investigation involving you. Did you see or had time to see the face of the person who helped you on the night of the incident?"

“N…no, I only saw his body from chest to feet. He was dressed in black, and he seemed to be holding a scythe.”

"Did you see him conscious or almost unconscious?"

“At that time I was half conscious and could be said to have almost fainted. So I couldn't see clearly."

“Then this is really strange.”

"Why sir?"

"If someone else was at the scene and killed the perpetrator, we did not find any fingerprints at the location or on the body of the perpetrator who had been killed. "And there were also no traces of human footprints around the place even though on the night of the incident the ground there was wet and muddy, so it is absolutely impossible that anyone else was involved."

"But...but why did the person who killed me die?"

"That's what we're asking, are you sure you weren't the one who killed the perpetrator?"

That question was like lightning that struck Melisa's head, it felt like there was a strong wind tearing her mind apart at the moment. How could this possibly happen, the death of the perpetrator has now made him a new murder suspect.

***

"Lisa, are you okay? Have you been daydreaming ever since?" Heriet asked.

"I am alright !"

"Are you sure ? You've been silent for three days, what did the police ask you?" Heriet asked while eating potato chips.

"The police made me the new suspect, they thought I was the one who killed that crazy man!"

"What ? Seriously ?"

"Hey friends, there's some exciting news!" Kevin shouted as he ran hastily towards the two girls.

"What's wrong Kevin?" Heriet asked.

"Right now our school is talking about Melisa."

"Talking about what?"