📍 Greentown, Ipoh
🕛 11:45 PM
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The night air felt heavy, thick with the promise of rain. Down below, the streets buzzed with late-night traffic-cars weaving through the glow of streetlamps, motorbikes growling past kopitiams still half-full.
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From the rooftop of a shoplot, I crouched low, my eyes locked on the restaurant across the road.
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Three days of hunting had led me here.
Three days of following breadcrumbs only my instincts could piece together.
And tonight, it ends.
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My earpiece crackled.
"Hope you're right, machan," Ashwin's voice came through. He was my eyes and ears, watching through the feeds from my front and back bodycams. "If we miss him tonight, that'll make it his twelfth murder."
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"We won't," I muttered. "The receipt I found was from this restaurant. And he already booked a table. He'll be here by midnight."
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Almost on cue, a red Proton Saga slowed to a stop right in front of the place. Perfect getaway position. Engine still running.
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Then I saw him.
Dark jacket, black pants, cap pulled low over his face.
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Inside, my Tiger Drone tracked him with precision. He walked straight to the table he'd booked-directly opposite Dato Rajan, the famous politician and economist. My gut twisted. I knew Rajan's son was the target.
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The waiter approached, but the man waved him away. His hand slipped into his jacket. I caught the glint of a dart gun.
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"Ashwin... now," I whispered.
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My thumb hit the remote for the electric breaker I'd planted earlier. The restaurant plunged into darkness.
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The man froze, confused. In the chaos, he bolted for the door.
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I leapt from the rooftop. My boots hit the ground with a thud. Before he could react, my baton cracked against his side, the electric charge dropping him instantly. He collapsed, unconscious.
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I cuffed him with the restraints Sarjan Hilmi had given me. Seconds later, Hilmi and his team arrived.
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I slipped away before the flashing blue lights gave me a headache. My work here was done-almost.
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Back at the Tiger's Den, my Rimba Motorcycle purred into the garage. I removed my helmet and mask, breathing in the familiar scent of oil, metal, and coffee.
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Ashwin sat at the main computer. Beside him, Rocky-my loyal German Shepherd-thumped his tail against the floor.
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"Update the case file, machan," Ashwin said.
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I pressed the record button. My voice filled the small room.
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Case 329 - The Killer from Penang
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Luqman Hakimi. Retired military officer. A man who once lived quietly in Jelutong, Penang, with his beloved granddaughter, Rafiqa.
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After his wife passed away, Rafiqa was all he had left. When she transferred to a city school, she became the target of six bullies-four boys, two girls. She told no one, not even him. She only poured her pain into a diary.
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Then came Canteen Day. She was asked to perform in a dance show. While changing in the school washroom, the two girls secretly recorded her.
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After the event, the bullies confronted her, threatening to spread the video. That night, ashamed and broken, she took her own life-leaving behind her diary and a note.
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The next morning, Luqman found her. And something inside him broke.
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He buried her behind his house, told the school they were leaving town, and began plotting revenge.
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His targets: the bullies. Every one of them.
His mark: the letter R, carved after each kill.
His time: midnight-the exact hour Rafiqa died.
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One by one, they fell. But to confuse police, he sometimes killed an extra family member.
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When the case landed in Sarjan Hilmi's hands, he called me. I traced Luqman through sightings, car records, and drone surveillance. A break-in at his hideout gave me his diary and the note.
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But he was careful. Too careful. By the time Hilmi closed in, he'd already fled. I had one lead left-his final target: the son of Dato Rajan.
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Which brought me to Greentown tonight. And to the rooftop.
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I closed the file.
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Justice was served... at least, on paper. But in my head, the question still clawed at me:
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Who was truly guilty?
The scared granddaughter who stayed silent?
The man who loved her enough to kill?
Or the bullies who pushed her to the edge?
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No one should take the law into their own hands.
And yet... the roar of injustice still echoed in my chest.
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I leaned back in my chair, Rocky resting
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his head on my knee, and let my eyes close.
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Tomorrow, the hunt would begin again.
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and then Add to home screen.