Chapter 1

1026, February 20, Afternoon

Well, the landlord is gone now. I'm all alone in a dusty, half decorated office that also doubles as an apartment since my parents kicked me out. No well-paying job will take me because of my criminal record and all my old friends are all in jail. Life is going great.

Someone is at the door. As Cricket opend it, she saw the familiar of someone who's actually trying to help her. He's tall and muscular with blue eyes and laid back blond hair that's long do for a haircut. "Cassian! Good to see you! Have you figured something out?" [trhouout the story there are higlighted bits. These are hints that will help you with the case or subjects that you might want to think about] "Well... after much consideration, I've figured that it would be best to just do detective work." "Wow, you're the second person to tell me this today. Good thing I've got a friend as smart as you. It's just that we have already discussed why solving crime won't magically give me money." Cassian came in with groceries bags. She has known him since moving in here, which isn't a lot, but he's the kind of person that's easy to warm up to. He lives a block away and overed to help clean the place out after hearing what happended to Ann at the Heroe's agency. "Hey, maybe that's your power! And you never knew because you never bother to try doing your job." "Being in debt for a detective agency doesn't make me a detective." "Fair point. But listen, I found someone that is actually willing to pay you." He took out two boxes of blueberries and sat down in front of Cricket to share. "...Did you talk to the heroe's agency? They want me?" "What no. They want people who know what they are doing. The job is from the other side." "Villains?? You expect me to work for villains? They killed my girlfriend!" "You don't know who did it! OR if she's even dead." "What are you even doing talking to villains? Do they know Casino is going around asking villains for a job? Are- Are you a double agent?" "Well, yes. Look, you're so good at uncovering secrets! Why don't you take the job!" "Don't change the subject!" Casino started to eat blueberries faster. "Cricket, you know that the police doesn't do anything, and I can tell you first handed that heroes don't do much more." "So what, you've decided to make things even worse?" "No, we work together to unionize villains. So, so what happened to Ann doesn't repeat itself." "Does your boss know about this?" "I have a manager, not a boss, and no." The room fell silent, except for the sound of someone stress eating blueberries. "What do they want? I'm not going to assist a murderer." "Calico has been trying to unite all the villains here in Stillvalley. A lot of villains do this for fun so he arranges that they fight at different days or at least in the suburbs. Then there's people like, uh, Klek. A good half of villains don't want to be governed by anyone. Your job would be finding out where they are or are going to be so Calico can work around them." "This Calico guy, he wants me to chase the messed up half of the local crazy people." "Don't call them crazy in front of him. Also, the last guy left documentation on everyone he worked on so it won't be that hard." She went to grab a blueberry just to find out they're gone, so she stands up. "The last guy got murdered?" "Yes. But to be fair, he used to call everyone weird to their faces. No wonder he-" Casino noticed her pacing around "I don't even have another choice!" "I mean, the guy at the slaughterhouse still has an opening" "I am NOT going to murder animals" "... But you are considering working with human murderers?" "DON'T question my morality!" Casino looked away to open a bag of chips, making the room fall silent again. "You just ate two whole boxes of blueberries." "You're stressing me!" "Alright. Let's go then." "So you're going to take the job?" "I don't know, I'm going to talk to the guy." "Uh, he said to only let you come if you agree. You know, it's a SECRET base, and stuff." "..." "Alright. Let's go then." Casino stands up, cleans his face and heads for the door. "Cassian your groceries." "Oh, they're for you, since you're broke." "...Are you trying to win me over?" "No. I've been running errands all day long and I always get something in return, you know." "How many people DO you know?" "Everyone."