The Assassin

“Aaah!”,came down the noise.The guards moved up ,having heard the gruesome sound.They quickly moved up using the stairs.His room was locked from the inside.These steel locks were strong,possibly only be cut down by a huge automatic saw,As they brought it up ,another noise came out.It was booming the hall .The voice of a bold male.The guards knew that their master was dead.This had happened several times before in the regime.

Here,the place where all these murders happened was in the Kingdom of Vasyaputra .The kingdom had recently experienced a coup from the General of the Kingdom,General Vrijaya Varman.General Vrijaya had recently overthrown the King and had executed him brutally.He took down human rights to an all time low,placing down new ,brutal measures which had people fearing for their lives at the hand of the new regime.No one dared to talk against the General.No freedom of speech.Nothing for the people.As the General was expansionist,he poured the coffers into war and expansion.Prices of everyday items had skyrocketed.Among the mess that Vrijaya Varman had made,there came out a hero.

Drushya , the name and fame of this man had reached to the far ends of Vasyaputra.Popular with the masses and feared by the classes ,he was a type of Robin Hood.No one knew his identity,only his name and his job.

Drushya was an assassin.He was one of the king’s most respected bodyguards.The King was a good king ,helping out anyone in need.He was a good soul,Drushya believed .Drushya didn’t have anyone.He knew he had to hunt down the killers of his dear king.So he had gone and killed thirteen of the most influential members of the new regime using the same modus operandi.

He would stealthily enter their homes,kill anyone opposing him or anyone who saw him,and enter the private chamber of that person.He would then wake the person up with a sonorous instrument ,and then stuff paper napkins inside his mouth.He would then drag the person down the bed towards a chair in the room.Then,using a rope,he would tie up the person to the chair.After that,he would select an arm and carve out the word ‘REVENGE’.Then ,Drushya would do the final act.Using a sword ,he would kill the man after taking out the paper napkins.

This was something that had never happened before.The regime was in a state of panic.Never had a regime been decimated by a single man.The morale of the regime was at an all time low.Just the day before, Field Marshal Manthri Raman had been killed by Drushya.The regime had convened a special meeting just beacause of Drushya and the thirteen murders he had committed.The meeting had ended after hours of deliberation and the vote was unanimous .Bring in a dedicated loyalist cum detective to finish off Drushya.

The one who had matched all the qualities was the Chief of Constables Vrikashya Varman.He was a brave ,strong and brainy detective who had solved many of these interesting murder cases.Moreover, he was one of the rare men who were young yet had evidence of experience in his hand.

He had visited all of the thirteen crime sites and by looking at the autopsy reports,he had found out the modus operandi .The above mentioned modus operandi was based on his conclusions.

He was a quick paced and fast thinking detective.He had also found another proof to cement things for that all the killings were done by one person.The writing style where the killer had written the word ‘REVENGE’ was also the same in all the killings.

He ,after thinking on how had Drushya entered the place ,had found out a huge lead.He thought to himself , a theory that would prove useful in narrowing down on the list of suspects.Instead of making out all of the people who hated the regime,he would use and narrow down who was the person by using the layout of the places.After thinking on the witnesses ,he found and listed down the likely people who would kill these influential men.

He had narrowed down the suspects to just forty three people from hundreds of suspects.Most of these men were the architects,maids people and workers.He had also ejected female suspects as the killer was clearly a male.The next thing he had to do was to decrease a small amount of security.He had also decreed in the papers that the police had found out the identity of Drushya.Actually,this was to alert Drushya and make him afraid of him being captured by the police.He relayed this to his assistant ,Druvarshyay Varman.

Next , Vrikashya decided to stakeout with his policemen and with the permission of the higher men they were guarding,placed three men in secret location in their private chambers.But,Vrikashya’s assistant requested a single,selected policeman with him.Vrikashya also granted as he wanted to give what his assistant wanted after working hard.

All policemen everywhere were on alert .But suddenly ,halfway through the night , a terrible blot appeared on the mission.All signals were jammed in a mysterious way.None of the policemen in every house had any contact with the other houses.The night was spent in this way.

In the morning,police had discovered a disturbing scene.The house of the General himself was in a poor state.Things were shattered into pieces and a more disturbing sight followed up.The body of the General came through .He must have suffered a brutal death , more brutal than the other deaths.His face was scarred and he was brutally thwacked with iron rods.Blood flew out from his arteries and veins.It was a brutal sight.The detective had also found out Druvarshyay tied up and the other policeman laying on the floor ,unconscious.Druvarshyay had been muttering ‘Drushya did it’ for some time.

Vrikashya was somewhat unconvinced that these two were tied up by Drushya.Just then,a little boy came out.He must have been about seven to ten years old.Vrikashya stared at this boy.Something was being discussed among the policemen.”I know what are you thinking”,”Go interrogate the boy”,said Vrikashya.

The policemen calmed down the boy and asked to explain everything.All of Drushya’s plans came out tumbling from the boy.The boy claimed that he had witnessed the very man sitting in that chair tied up of killing the General with the other policeman .The boy further stated that this man got tied up with the help of the assistant and he had hit the policeman with a rod to make it look like an attack.

After this,the police recorded the voice of the boy and then sent him home to his mother , a maid.The police woke the two policemen up and got them arrested after being caught red handed.An intricate plan was woven out but the boy had been the hole in the plan.

Drushya then explained the motive of him to implement this devious plan.He stated that he was happy to die after avenging the death of his dear king.After a special court had been adjourned against the demand of the people ,in a record amount of time ,the sentence was announced.The two conspirators would be executed by hanging.Drushya and the other policemen died a week later.The people fueled to liberate themselves from the brutal rule of this regime ,rose to revolt and overthrew the regime’s remaining members.The queen of the deceased king was named the Queen of the Kingdom becoming the ruler of Vasyaputra.

Meanwhile,another event took place.Vrikashya , surprisingly became the Chief of Police.The Queen responding to the public stated that Vrikashya led the police revolt as he also hated the regime of General Vrijaya and that he truly regretted helping them get executed.
The two policemen became national heroes for their nation.