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📍 Tiger's Den
🕛 7:15 AM
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I was midway through my morning workout when Ashwin, my training partner and old friend, called out,
"Today's Meeting Day, machan. Don't forget to be back early."
I gave a nod. Ashwin had been working as an IT specialist for nearly six years, and his routine was as disciplined as mine-just in a different battlefield.
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After breakfast with Rocky, my loyal companion, and a quick game of fetch, I started preparing for the day. My EDC weapons and gadgets-checked. My suit-checked. My ride, Rimba-checked.
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Before heading anywhere else, I decided to visit Karen.
Karen's story was one of the darker chapters I'd faced. Once a nurse in a mental hospital, she had been kidnapped and brainwashed by a notorious psycho killer. He turned her into a tool-an unwilling assassin-for his twisted plans. When I captured her, I learned she was no killer at heart. She had tried, in her own way, to help him heal from his past... but ended up his victim instead.
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I believed she deserved a second chance. I helped her recover, step by step, from his mental grip. Years later, she now worked as a caretaker at an old-age home. Still, I knew mistakes should never be repeated, so I kept watch over people like her from a distance.
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This morning, it was Karen's turn for a check-in.
I drove toward the old-age home, but at a traffic light in Silibin, I spotted my cousin Rajan. Thanks to my tinted windows, he couldn't see me. Seeing him after all these years twisted something inside me-a pang of guilt for letting my family and my love, Anu, down.
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Whenever I miss them, that guilt grows heavy. But the promise I made and the oath I took mean more than anything. Whenever I feel my resolve slipping, I look at the tattoo on my arm-the Jalur Gemilang. It reminds me why I chose this path: becoming a nobody. A dead man.
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At the old-age home, I disguised myself as a guardian for an elderly woman and arranged for Karen to be assigned to her care-another quiet way to keep an eye on her. While we talked, I studied her expressions, her body language-techniques taught to me by my friend Logesh, a psychiatrist. Karen was fine. No shadows in her eyes.
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Back at the Tiger's Den, I updated my files. That's when Jay called.
"Codename: Harimau Ketiga. We've got a new case, machi. Get ready."
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It was still Meeting Day, so I just had to wait for the rest of my team to arrive. I decided to cook-Chicken Curry and Briyani, our all-time favourite. I rarely went out in the morning, but I needed fresh vegetables, so I hit the pasar malam nearby.
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Night fell. The sun gave way to the moon, and I suited up for patrol. By 11:30 PM, the streets were quiet. I was heading back when a fire broke out at a hotel.
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From the rooftop of a building opposite the hotel, I deployed my Tiger Drone to scan the structure-three people trapped inside. I activated my heatproof armor, took my Tiger Hoverboard, and smashed through a window.
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First, a young girl on the 14th floor.
Then, an old man on the 5th.
Lastly, a woman trapped on the 3rd.
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I handed the girl and the old man to the firefighters, promising to go back for the woman. Her room was engulfed in flames. She was hiding inside a cupboard. I told her to come out, but she wouldn't let me open the door. Something felt wrong.
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The fire began to tear the building apart. I yanked the door open-
-and froze.
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She was already dead, her hands tied to the cupboard handles from the inside, a time bomb locked around her neck. Three seconds left.
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I smashed the window, leapt out, and the bomb went off mid-air. The blast threw me hard. Pain shot through me-ribs cracked. I barely stayed conscious as Ashwin swooped in on the Tiger Hoverboard, hauling me to safety.
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I held on for a few minutes... then darkness.
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When I woke, I was in my bed at the Tiger's Den. Beside me was my best friend Ram, a government hospital doctor and forensics specialist.
"You're lucky as always, my friend," he said with a smile. "Rest now."
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Then the rest of my brothers-in-arms walked in-Harimau Merdeka. Seeing them, I silently prayed that nothing like today would ever happen to any of them. They had families. I didn't.
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That thought stayed with me as the anaesthesia pulled me back under.
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and then Add to home screen.