The Devilish Assassin Meets The Angelic Detective

Elle grabbed Phantom's hand to calm him down.

"Father, please. I know it's hard but please calm down first. Let's listen to Mr. Carter's story first."

Elle could understand why Phantom was acting like this. He lost his cool because of his family. He was still mourning for them.

He thought he got justice for them but it seemed like he was mistaken. Did he kill the wrong person before? Was everything that happened before just a set-up made by the Dark Lord?

Mr. Carter sighed deeply. He knew how angry and furious Phantom was right now. He decided to explain everything to him including Erick and Elle. The three of them just listened to him.

"Yes, I was working for the Dark Knight Organization before. I was the one who created this bio-weapon. I had assistants. They got the formula I used to make those bio-weapons. They continued the operation even after I left the organization."

"I'm on the run, escaping from the grasp of the Dark Knight. They needed me because I didn't get the formula for the antidote. They only had limited supplies of Antidotes." Mr. Carter explained to them the reason why the Dark Knight still tried to catch him.

"Beatrice became my friend before. She's a chemist. She worked in the bio-weapon facility without knowing that what we were making there was actually a bio-weapon."

Phantom was taken aback after hearing that. He knew that his wife was working at a laboratory facility before. It turned out the facility was owned by the Dark Knight Organization.

"We became friends. One time, I shared my troubles with her about my family. The Dark Knight was helping my family financially in exchange for my knowledge and ability. The Dark Lord made me believe that my family had forgotten me but he just manipulated everything."

"Beatrice helped me learn the truth. My family stopped accepting money from the organization. They wanted me to return to them because they were missing me already. Because of that, I decided to quit my job. I confronted the Dark Lord about the truth. He refused to let me go and he threatened me that he would harm my family if I would not follow his orders."

Elle squinted her eyes after hearing that. The Dark Knight was really evil. They would do anything for their gains. They didn't care about the lives of other people.

"I told Beatrice everything about the bio-weapon facility. I advised her to leave and stop working there so she resigned. I'm sorry Mr. Morgan. This happened because I asked her for help. We planned to bring down the organization by revealing the existence of the bio-weapon facility to the authority."

Phantom was just trying his best not to go wild. He failed to protect his wife. He didn't know any of this. Beatrice never told him anything. Beatrice decided not to involve her husband because she knew that what she was about to do was too dangerous and risky.

" I gave her a sample of bio-weapon and an antidote. She showed them to the police. Beatrice became a whistleblower. We made a terrible mistake. I underestimate the Dark Knight's power and influence." Mr. Carter gritted his teeth as he recalled everything.

"The Dark Knight has spies in the police department. So they learned everything, am I right?" It was Erick who spoke up.

Mr. carter closed his eyes and nodded his head. That was the sad truth. They didn't anticipate it.

"Because of that, the Dark Lord ordered to assassinate Beatrice and her family." Mr. Carter said with a heavy heart.

The living room was engulfed by deafening silence after he said those words. Now, everything made sense now. Phantom realized many things after hearing this story from Mr. Carter.

"I blamed the wrong person. The Dark Lord manipulated everything from the start. No wonder, even the police didn't get any clue about the true culprit. They made it looked like a mere robbery rather than murder or assassination." Phantom said through his gritted teeth.

Then Phantom turned to Elle. "I think your father learned about this. He said to me that I killed the wrong man who was responsible for my family's death. He was about to tell me what he had discovered when that massacre happened."

A cold glint flashed through Elle's dark eyes. She also suspected that the Dark Knight had something to do with her family's death.

"The Dark Knight called the hit on my father. My father must have learned something about this." Elle didn't know how to feel about this.

"Wait, did you say that you gave my wife an antidote?" Phantom asked Mr. Carter.

Mr. Carter nodded at him as a response.

"So, this explained why I still survived after I exposed myself with the bio-weapon. I think I accidentally drank it without knowing it's an antidote for bio-weapon. When I found the lifeless body of my wife, I found a small transparent bottle in her hand with a purple substance. Thinking that it was a poison, I drank it with one go. But I didn't die. Nothing happened to me."

"Yeah, I think. That's the antidote I gave to her. That's the only case that could explain why you survived after being exposed to the bio-weapon." Mr. Carter confirmed it.

"So, Mr. Carter, how are you able to escape from them? What happened to your family? The Dark Lord had threatened you using your family. Why did you escape?" Elle asked him with intrigue.

There was a gleam of sadness and regret when Mr. Carter remembered his family.

"I wanted to avenge Beatrice's death but I couldn't move freely because I was heavily guarded by Dark Knight's men. I tried to gain the Dark Lord's trust once again to claim my freedom. It took me five years to achieve it."

"I started to implement my plan. I looked for a trustworthy man in the police department who was not a member of the Dark Knight Organization. I already learned my lesson. Luckily, I met someone, a very respectable and skillful man in the field of crime investigation. A man with a good heart, a true man of the law." Mr. Carter paused as he reminisced the past.

He couldn't help but smile and feel nostalgic as he remembered the man.

"That person was Agent Cedrick Falcon." Mr. Carter said.

Phantom: "..."

Erick: "..."

"T-That man… h-he is my… father." 

Mr. Carter: "..."