CARL got up from his seat, then he let out a sigh. And while the man stood, his wife bowed her head in thoughts.
“This is too much! This is just too much?” said Carl.
“What have these people become? How is it so fun to use their wits and brains this way? What exactly is their aim?”
The couple had just listened to the audio recording. They had heard it before when the voices weren’t quite audible.
But this time, Peter brought them the clearer audio to listen to. He invited them to his office at Pendulum Legal Bros, and made them listen.
It was biting cold that morning. So the legal counsel offered his clients some steaming coffee.
The couple sat at the guest area of Peter’s office and he played them the audio.
Carl and June heard the conversation at Lucius Barnabas’s murder. They heard the vicious threats and the way in which his captor planned to murder him.
They heard everything up till Marcuz left the scene. And what they heard broke their hearts.
“It is sad!” the lady spoke up. “It is really sad it got to this.
“Then again, I feel sorry for the boy. He just wanted to help, but he lost his life!”
June’s words came to Carl like some new light. So he settled down and asked their lawyer.
“Peter, tell me; how do we go forward? I’m not really bothered about this case. Like I am about how to not lose someone else.
“We can’t let Cannon find Marcuz. He’s right there in their camp. So what do we do, so no one else dies?”
Peter cleared his throat and sat up.
“This file is not enough evidence to nail psychomicide on Cannon. But it seems enough to indict their name with murder.
“But then, in actual fact, the file isn’t enough to nail Cannon with murder. The recording stopped before the boy was murdered!
“So, Cannon can still argue that the recording was just a conversation. That we have got no solid proof that it was one of theirs who killed Lucius.
“See, they could still hold on to the suicide claim if they want. Or just say that his killer wasn’t their person.
“That cleared, we may need Marcuz to witness in person. But again, that is not right.
“We will be putting another life in danger. And we still don’t know who the killer is, as of now.”
Carl and June settled back in their seats. It was dilemma, the way they saw this.
Peter came to their rescue right on.
“Here’s the good news. With this file, we can get the judge rule for a thorough investigation on Cannon University.
“We can get their voices analyzed and find the matching voice. Still this may take some time.
“Cannon will do everything to hide the killer. You know, the man whose voice we heard now.
“I know they will do anything to keep him, even if they have to give him a sabbatical.
“They can even fire him like he wasn’t theirs, to keep him safe!”
Peter’s news had turned sour. It didn’t sound like some good news anymore.
So June inquired, “But what should we do?”
He answered. “I thought really hard about it. I thought maybe we can use the media.
“But with or without them, the result will be the same. Cannon will be investigated.
“Our main question is, ‘Will the culprit be caught?’
“Then again, what happens to the real suit? How do we go on with psychomicide case?”
Carl spoke up. “I will not advise we use the media. The result might be worse.”
“What do you mean?” asked Peter.
“We started the psychomicide fight. Then, a young promising boy came up to testify; and now he’s dead. I fear the public opinion may be against us.
“A life is already lost and we keep crying, Psychomicide! The boy testified for us and not for Cannon. We have to take responsibility, and stop another murder!”
“You’re right, Darling!” sighed the woman. “You’re so right!”
“I came this far thinking justice would heal my wound. I thought of revenge, poetic justice… all sort of things!
“Then, when this young man died last year, I didn’t feel much concern. I was only bothered about his statement and the case.
“Looking back at everything now, I see I was becoming another Cannon in a bid to fight Cannon!”
Peter nodded and sighed.
June went on. “If we probe further and call for an open investigation on the school, they will not stay still…
“They will definitely find Marcuz López. And if they do, we may have another case of murder!
“So I ask myself: ‘With someone already dead, is this fight really worth it?’ But that’s not really the question anymore.
“The thing is I found Jesus Christ. And I realised my peace and comfort didn’t lie in poetic justice or the fall of Cannon.
“It’s all in Jesus Christ whom I found!
“We can’t go on with the weight of someone’s death on us. And we can’t allow another murder.
“If we found Marcuz, Cannon can too! So Darling, please... let’s drop the suit.”
Carl said the same words at the same time that June said them.
“Let’s drop the suit,” he said, too.
Now the couple laughed. Those words came so easy to Carl and June.
To them it was like saying, Let’s go back home. It was that easy.
But they had thrown the next punch. And they didn’t know.
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