“Come down Flynn, your breakfast is ready.” This would be the daily routine of Flynn and Pinocchio after Pinocchio's daughter, Rapunzel, had passed away. Rapunzel had come back to him only a few months ago, when his son-in-law Flynn had saved her from Gothel, who had abducted her when she was a child. However, Gothel killed Rapunzel and committed suicide herself. Flynn was the sole survivor of that shootout on a cruise ship.
The table today was decorated with a great deal of food out of which, Flynn only picked up a toast to sate his hunger, with the reason that he was late for work. While he was buttering the toast, Pinocchio approached him and said, “Thank you for starting the salon after Rapunzel. You are doing a great favour to me. It was her dream to open her own salon and add beauty to the world.” Flynn replied with a smile on his face, “It was not only her dream, it was our dream. And…” His words were interrupted with a phone call. Flynn picked it up and murmured a few words which resulted in him heading out of the house in a hurry.
Pinocchio bid him farewell and started cleaning the table, which made him realise that Flynn had forgotten to take his lunch with him. So, he rushed to his salon, carrying the lunch, with a thank you note in his hand. When he reached the destination, he was surprised to see the shutter of the venue half – closed. He entered through the small space and started to scout the place for someone’s presence.
To his shock, he found that no one was present in the salon. So, he started to approach its back door, when he saw a shadow having a conversation with Flynn and all his employees were unloading some boxes from a truck. He could smell something fishy there. He decided to hide behind a few boxes and tried to overhear the conversation. He could hear Flynn saying something to that shadow dressed in a coat beside him.
Flynn said, “The shipment is complete and we are good to go to finalise the deal.” To which he got a reply, “I hope you have been cleared by the police regarding your wife’s death. Then again, what happened on that boat will stay on that boat.” Pinocchio was shocked to hear that and he felt his blood freezing in his veins. His fear made him move, resulting in the falling of one of the empty boxes placed there. All the eyes there turned on him. To save himself from getting caught, he gave the absurd reason that he was bringing Flynn’s lunch which he had forgotten at his home.
It was too late to give reasons. So, he started to appease the criminal’s mind by saying that he would tell no one about everything that took place there. But even Flynn was well aware about his Pinocchio syndrome, which made him unable to effectively lie. In an instant a gun was pulled out and two shots were fired, one to his chest and other to his head, at a point-blank range. The blood spilt on the floor and everyone rushed out of the place.
The police had come to investigate the scene headed by Alice, the captain. There was no clue left at the scene, except one striking thing which Alice noticed in Pinocchio’s hand. It was a rabbit – shaped ring, stained with blood.
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