Holy Whisper

Here I am. Sitting in a comfort my own office. Drinking fresh cold coffee. More importantly, having many subordinates that will do whatever you command. This is my story, a young lady that become a police chief in her prime age. Unfortunately this is not an achievement to be proud of. Some of the previous chiefs were having a bad carrier track and ended up taking his own life followed by some of their subordinates. So this position is not an achievement at all, but a curse. All of the previous chief died with one reason. Too tired to deal with suicide cases.

2023 is not a good year for these three cities. After the pandemic impact, they now facing an unpleasant case; suicide. Many of these cities’ residents conduct suicide attempt, not once, but more than three times each person. Rumor said that there is a new trend emerging. Named “Holy Whisper”. A trend began with a pastor in one church taking his own life in his backyard. It is said that whoever hears an invitation to end his life has been chosen by God and moved to heaven for a better life, leaving this rotten world. This trend become more annoying because they, taking his own lives, must be in area of their house and using knife like showering themselves with blood. If you handle 10 suicide cases, only two you can save, the rest is just looking at the blood pool. No wonder my previous chiefs chose short way to end this hellish vision; doing suicide too.

“2023 is only a month and we have handled our 23rd suicide case. Can’t even celebrate our New Year party, we even bathe in a pool of blood.”

I said while looking at the family photo and my subordinates responded with a chuckle. Turning around, I checked their works and recognizing that one of my subordinate is not in this scene.

“Where is Yumi?”

“Ah-oh, ma’am. We lost her two minutes ago”

“Split into two teams! The other followed me to find that kid!”

I said angrily. I will end this position curse and not letting my subordinates die like these no-brainer who doesn’t value their life.

Yumi is in the second floor, alone, and gazing to a scissor in victim’s bedroom.

“Here ma’am!”

Said who found her. I rushed, making heavy step and shouted her name, but no answer. I got closer and turned her around then punching her until fell so loud. All the people in this house can hear my exciting action.

“Yumi SNAP BACK TO REALITY!”

“YOU FORGOT YOUR PROMISE WITH ME, HUH!?’

“Ah ma’am I am terribly sorry. I was investigating this room finding some clue until suddenly I lost my consciousness”

She said trembling afraid.

“All personnel gather in the living room!”

I command. They rushed into the living room and gather as fast as they could.

“From now on, don’t let anyone investigate alone, make a duo!”

“I am not letting you all, my precious subordinates die like a fly”

“I already promised to all of your family to bring you back! I even do it to your dog, remember!?”

“I know we are all so tired and want to vomit all the time, I know we only saved two people in this case, but still every life is precious at all”

“Now everyone, let’s end this pitiful trend and open their eyes!”

I said, encouraging them all. We conduct a proper investigation until dusk comes. I greet the victim’s parent and say my condolences accompanied by a promise to solve this problem and uncover its root.

We headed back to the office. In the office, some of the subordinates prepare themselves directly to go back to home. Some other resting themselves first then go home. I also come to my office to have rest a little bit and then heading home too. When I lock my office, I saw Yumi and Ken still on their desk chatting. I greet them and invite them to back to home until Ken stopped me.

“Look what I found ma’am. The result of the first suicide case, the pastor”

“What’s so amazing about that, Ken?”

I bow my body to see what was on his computer to see the result that had already been announced for a long time. I was surprised.

“There are oddities in that Pastor’s case. In the Pastor's home, there is a debt slip but it is ignorance because it seems it has already paid.”

“And then?”

“Look closer, ma’am. The debt was edited as if it was already paid.”

“So you said…”

“Yes ma’am. The Pastor died because of debt and left a fake note saying he was God’s chosen one. Please look at this memo.”

Three of us canceled going home. We investigate what we found more tonight, enthusiast. We gather all the information we find and make the report. Tomorrow after getting acceptance, we came back to the Pastor's scene, doing re-investigation, interviewing related parties, and gathering missing pieces of information directly from other parties that had been related to the Pastor before he died. One week was the investigation and all the missing pieces were finally collected. We submit our report to submitted superiors in order to make our investigation official. A few days later, Ken received a news which said he were invited to explain our findings at the next meeting two days later. The night before the meeting, I gathered all my subordinates and had a small party for our hard work all that time.

“We’ve been through a hard time, full of blood, full of dead eyes, full of crying, and full of vomit. No one can hold but we strengthen each other so that we finally reach this point.”

“Tomorrow is the final test, go rest everybody. Don’t push yourself too much tonight. We need to by our energy by answering all the questions tomorrow”

“Cheers!”

“CHEERS!”

10:00 A.M. The meeting started. Yumi and Ken are the two who are trusted to present our findings. 30 minutes passed with something new to all the important people in this meeting. They also added their findings that strengthened our report more. We don’t need the more-than-two-hour-meeting because the top head who is also attended today’s meeting commands us to publish our findings in order to stop the suicide trend. Hearing this, we all, who were in this meeting room, rushed to gather all the media to do a press conference.

A week passed after that shocking conference. The trend that taking one of a family members’ precious one finally never heard again. All of the youngster seem like enlighten. All the Pastor past mistakes and criminal acts were revealed. Being a fake Pastor in order to avoid the debt using amnesia after car accident as an alibi, his relation with all the church administrator which turned out to be fake for only to take a donations from people, fake “Holy Whisper” letter to trick the police, and many more as in our report. My force, which is completing this case were visit all the family who lost their member as this trend happen yesterday to said our condolence.

“See Yumi, all the life is precious. No matter how small it is”

I said while helping the ants who had lost their group direction.

“Yes ma’am. Every life has their own story and we cannot end the story by forced”

“You right yumi, let’s go. We have our holiday trip waiting as our reward”

Other member replied as our walking away heading back to the office.