He entered the departnt as if he owned it and casually walked into Cassandra's office without being stopped by anyone.
"Transfer this case to the new guy, and you should resu the last week's murder case," Cassandra said to an officer standing in the office.
"Yes, chief!"
The officer turned around and left the office while staring at Rudy.
Cassandra sat on her chair and let out a weary sigh while looking at the file in her hands.
"What's wrong? Can't solve a case?" Rudy scoffed softly.
"That's not it. There are too many cases and too few officers. What can one do when cris in the city are more than the officers?" Cassandra wondered.
"I don't know, but that sounds serious. Anything common between the cris?"
Cassandra shook her head and said, "No. That's the first thing I do when I receive a new case. Even finding new leads is tough without clues."
"Sounds rough."
Cassandra moved her gaze from the file and looked at Rudy.
"Why are you here, by the way? If you are here for John, then he is not here."
"No, I am actually here for a personal reason."
"Oh? Did your dog step on another bee?" Cassandra scoffed with a grin.
"Haha, very funny," Rudy forced his laugh.
"That said, why are you here, though?" Cassandra asked with a serious look on her face.
Rudy placed a docunt on the desk and said, "I don't think I need to say anything."
"..." Cassandra picked up the docunt and read the context.
"I wanted to ask you if you can help out with this."
Cassandra finished reading the docunt and asked, "What do you want to do?"
The docunt was the legal ownership paper of Rebecca's house.
"According to this docunt, the property ntioned on that still belongs to the previous owner, Rebecca. It was never passed down to Fred Mores, am I correct?"
Cassandra nodded and said, "This… umm, Miss Rebecca has indeed signed the property papers to Fred Mores, but Miss Rebecca had no legal signature in the record, and hence this property transfer was canceled.
Fred Mores must have also received notice to bring Miss Rebecca to sign the papers again, but that has yet to happen. Can I ask from where you got your hands on this docunt and who exactly Miss Rebecca is?"
She asked with a judging look on her face.
"As you must already know about Fred Moore's case. It's all over the news, and I don't think people and the dia would stop talking about him anyti soon. So Miss Rebecca showed this paper and asked if everything was fine with her property."
Rudy had gotten the legal property papers from Fred's office after he was arrested. He knew exactly where to find it as he already had the data from their system.
"Oh, okay. So you want to know if Miss Rebecca needs to change anything to claim her property back?"
"Well, it still belongs to her, so I was here to ask if there is any additional process?"
"I don't want to comnt on anything as I could be wrong. Do you want to hire a lawyer for you or, rather, for Miss Rebecca?"
"Yes, that would help Miss Rebecca a lot, but can I ask if that would be a governnt lawyer?"
"Yes…?"
"I see."
Cassandra raised her brow and asked with a judging look on her face, "Any problems with that?"
"As you might already know, Fred Mores was backed up by the governnt, more precisely, Bobby Tony Tress. There could be other corrupted politicians and their underlings. I don't want to go too deep into this, but you know what I am talking about."
"Hmm." Cassandra nodded and said, "People call Bobby BTT. Anyway, I will try to get a lawyer I personally know. Because of my young age and achievent, having friends in a settled occupation was, or is, tough.
I have a friend who is still studying for her law degree, but I can't ask her for help for obvious reasons. Regardless, Miss Rebecca doesn't have to worry about this matter. I hope you can pass that on to her."
"Yes, I trust you on that. But since Fred has been arrested and will be prosecuted for his cris, his case could run for months or even years. I don't want Miss Rebecca's property case to be buried under all that."
Cassandra nodded and calmly said, "You have to trust on this."
"Of course."
Cassandra moved her gaze back to the file she was reading.
"Since you are helping , I will help you, too. Is there anything you want to do?" Rudy asked sincerely.
"Not at this mont, no. But I want your thoughts on a question if you don't mind."
"Go ahead."
"Cris and criminals. They have existed in every era and civilization, and there is no true way to stop that. If you stop one criminal, a new one will be born. But so criminals try to justify their cris.
In so cases, they call it an act of revenge for what happened to them. Disregarding the laws and rules for a second, do you think any cri can be considered justifiable?" Cassandra asked in a solemn voice.
For so reason, her voice sounded a little different. Perhaps, it was because she always talked in a joking manner and never beca serious.
"That's… an interesting question… really. But thinking about it, there are tis when cris are not considered cris. Wars, for example. Old era or new era, soldiers or warriors… they have killed many, but not because they wanted to. They are simply fighting for their country, but the opponent is also fighting for the sa thing.
So who is what here? Disregarding who started the war or the reason for the war, the soldiers or warriors are doing their jobs in the end. They got a family to feed and protect. Pointlessly killing soone and having a reason to kill soone is totally a different thing. So it's… tough for to answer your question."
Cassandra looked into Rudy's eyes with a serious gaze and uttered, "Oh, you already answered my question."
Rudy smiled slightly and said, "Let's hope we don't get to that point."
"I fight for my hero, hoping to et him one day. What do you fight for, Rudy Ross?"
Rudy shook his head and answered, "I don't know. There is nothing right or wrong for , personally… because no one can judge ."
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