While they talked about the believed talk about faith and hope, while his hair was cut off, on the other side of the city, back in the familiar warehouse, the emotions and the atmosphere were more tense.
Throughout the palace, investigators in white protective suits and masks moved carefully, photographing and marking evidence, blood spatters, shell casings, guns, and bodies lying on the floor. Yet among them, there were men who stood apart.
"This is fucked… like unimaginable fucked." A man said as he stood about Vincente's body with a jacket which had letters saying DSA. "But well, at least one is down." He said as he crouched down and started picking Vincente's face with a pen.
"They are like roaches, Jimmy." Another one spoke as he stepped toward the body and sat down. "Now the top dog died and now the little dog's going to take his place."
"Yeah, but he is Vincente Lisonda…" He looked up at Misa. "I bet the high command is already prepping the coffins with the medals of honor and service." He stood up slowly. "We are going to witness another war."
"No doubt about that. This fucker was a drug lord, and now he is dead." Misa stood up too.
"And another two of them are in custody..."
"That's a joke on its own… they're going to walk free out of the hospital and then everything will be more fucked."
They both knew it that well, there's no way Jelena and Gabbana will not stay in custody, nor will be sentenced… they will just walk free and when that happens, shit is going to play out.
"You two are already here." A deep familiar voice came and they both immediately looked there.
"It's rare to see you at a crime scene, sir." Jimmy said.
"Yeah, it is almost more outrageous than Vincente's death." Misa said as he looked back at his body."So this is how fucked up the situation is that even the director shows up."
"One of my agents was kidnapped and shot, the three heads of the underworld were shot, one of them died, not to mention the dozens of bodies outside… and it was all done by one man, who the JCA pardoned."
"The man, the myth, the legend… Joseph Cassian." Jimmy said and for a moment they all went silent.
"I never even thought that he would still have power." Misa said as he looked up at the director. "I mean, he was jailed for ten years straight, and the first day he's out this happens." He gestured around at all the blood.
"Just like his father." The director spoke. "All the Cassians were the type of criminals whose power was never questioned even once, and now he is out, the worst of the worst."
The director knew it well, or at least he too got tangled up in all of the lies and misunderstanding. He was the one that always went after Joseph's father, and the family but never could do anything about them, because of the corruption and how deep it rooted. But he knew too that Joseph was just a scapegoat for them… but, when all of them died, his thought disappeared and became facts… facts that Joseph ain't no scapegoat but a fucking worse Cassian that ever existed.
A Cassian that beheaded the top players, even his own family… that is something that is truly on another level, at least back then he was, and now in front of his eyes, Vincente was dead.
He is back.
"Then what is next? Should we hunt him down?" Misa asked as he looked at the director. "It is sure he left with a car, so we can use the cameras all around the city to ping where he exactly went."
"We do nothing." The director said, and the two of them just looked at each other with focus written all over their faces. "We sit back and watch what's going to happen, because now a door opens in the underworld and everybody is going to rush in to take a piece."
"Fishing net?" Jimmy asked.
"Exactly, the bait is already set, that chunk of the drug market which Vincente ruled is worth hundreds of millions. The family will now also have an internal fight over who is going to be the one that rules, but while they are in conflict, others are going to rush in the chaos and start the war. We don't even need a rod to catch them because they're going to swim in the net on their own."
"And sir, who is going to be the net?" Jimmy asked a very important question, because even though they are in the same agency, there is also internal conflict or more like a race to be the one that will catch them.
"The whole agency. We are not going to be fighting against each other. We need all six divisions to work together because if not, then we are worse than them."
"I already feel sorry for the IAD, they're going to go crazy." Misa laughed a bit but then realized they were still beside a dead body and standing in the blood.
But it was true that the Internal Affairs Division will go nuts, because uniting the five divisions together, and not letting anything leak out or looking out for corruption will be hard, especially now that they are going against criminals who are well known to have connections and bribed angst officers, even government officials.
"Well, it is how it is, but the PID will be the one that needs more oversight, sir, at least in my opinion. If they don't do their jobs right then all of this will mean nothing." Jimmy spoke."Like Vincente was well known to bribe even ministers."
"That's why the PID will be under my direct supervision."
They both got even more surprised because every single supervisor of the PID got arrested, even the Political Integrity Division itself once was under investigation and 67 agents were jailed in. That whole division was a hell, and now he's saying that taking supervision will be a threat to his career and position if something goes wrong at least.
The PID is the worst division for one simple but devastating reason… they're up against politicians, who have the influence and resources to completely derail any investigation. Taking them on means risking everything, because their reach extends into the highest levels of power, and they have the means to fuck up the entire system if things don't go their way.
"But for now that's it, I need to write a lot of reports, speak with the president. You two immediately make the joint force of the Criminal Investigation Division and the Counter Terrorism Division, if it's done report to me." The director said this, then simply nodded farewell and turned around, walking out of the warehouse out of the blood.
"Working together… so this is how fucked up the situation is." Jimmy sighed.
"Yeah, well… let's hope for the best."
Misa said as he glanced once more at Vicente's body, the body that marked the beginning of all the chaos once again, a war that is beginning a new era.
The era of Joseph Cassian.