📅 22 June 2027
🕛 Friday, 8:40 PM
📍 Sri Hartamas Shoplots, Kuala Lumpur
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Martin and I reached the room upstairs, tucked between old shoplots. The place looked abandoned, but the door was locked from inside.
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We broke in.
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The air inside was stale, but not old. There were traces that someone had lived here recently-pillows slightly warm, a cup with dried tea stains, and footsteps on the dusty floor. The room was empty... but not silent. It whispered secrets.
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We searched every corner, every creaking drawer and loose floorboard. That's when I found it-a hidden drawer beneath a rusty table.
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Inside it, we found:
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A stack of old photographs
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A small wooden box - the very one I had seen in my dreams
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An aged diary with "Mohanbabu" written on the inner page
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The logo on the box made my heart stop. I had seen it before-but I couldn't place where. Not yet. Not here. Something was pulling at the back of my mind.
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Martin opened the diary and we both sat on the cold floor, reading page by page.
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📓 Babu's Diary
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Inside the first few pages was a photo-The Slayer.
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But he wasn't alone.
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Beside him stood Babu, and a smiling pregnant woman - Lakshmi, The Slayer's wife.
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We read on.
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Babu was once a car mechanic in Kedah. Anand, later known as The Slayer, was a cheerful driver who worked at the same workshop. They were more than friends-brothers by choice, bonded after losing their parents in a tragic accident.
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Then came Lakshmi.
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A kind factory cleaner. She loved Anand. They got married. And for the first time in years, both Anand and Babu felt like they had a family again. Lakshmi loved them both equally, like her own.
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Later, Lakshmi gave birth to twin girls - Shabana and Ravana.
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To support the family, she worked part-time in rich homes as a maid. Anand dreamed of starting his own transport business, but money was always tight. Still, their small world was beautiful.
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Until it shattered.
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One day, Lakshmi went to pick up the girls from school. On the way, she noticed Anand's car parked outside a rich woman's house. Curious and confused, she walked in.
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What she saw broke her soul.
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Anand. In bed. With another woman. A wealthy one.
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Lakshmi didn't scream. She didn't fight. She just went home, packed, and left with the girls. She never told Anand what she saw. She just filed for divorce and refused to explain anything to him.
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The court gave one child to each parent - Shabana to Anand, Ravana to Lakshmi.
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Months passed. Babu and Anand finally discovered the truth. The rich woman wasn't just a seductress.
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She was a magician - skilled in mind control.
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She used a sinister trick: a mirror ritual that calmed the mind and planted trigger words deep inside the subconscious. Anand was a victim. She'd used him. Controlled him.
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Anand snapped.
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One night, enraged, he stormed into the woman's house and stabbed her to death with a long knife.
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That moment, Anand was no more.
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The Slayer was born.
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He found the woman's mirror. Her book of hypnosis rituals. Her secrets.
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He studied them. Practiced them. Mastered them.
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And when he saw her face on the newspaper's front page, glorified in death, something twisted in him. Every time he saw a rich person's face on a newspaper, he became enraged.
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And so began the murders. One by one.
Eleven victims. Three years. All rich. All powerful. All dead.
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All by The Slayer.
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Babu stayed silent. He knew something was wrong, but he didn't dare interfere. Until Lakshmi died from illness. And Ravana was sent to live with Anand.
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Soon after, Babu discovered the truth.
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Anand was abusing the girls.
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That broke him.
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He approached Detective Kannan, shared everything. Anand was arrested.
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That night, Babu saw only a monster inside the police van-not the brother he once loved.
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Babu wanted to protect the girls. He believed Ravana was better off with her aunt, but he feared for Shabana.
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He saw her being slapped. Ignored. Treated like a stranger.
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So Babu made a choice.
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He rescued Shabana, and raised her like his own daughter.
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He helped her become a teacher in an orphanage, and used political connections to get a job as a school security guard-just to stay close and protect her.
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Everything he did... was for her.
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But then... the diary ended.
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The final pages were torn out.
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And the small wooden box-still sealed. No key. No way in.
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I held the box tightly. The logo burned into my memory again.
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I needed answers. I needed to check my old books back at home.
Martin decided to head to the police station to begin tracking Babu.
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We both agreed on one thing:
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Whoever killed Shabana...
Babu knows something.
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And now, we were running out of time.
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and then Add to home screen.