Do you need me?

#Hi_from_reality
Art&concept by Ol Albireo
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Do you need me?

Extra puzzles-2. Smiling killer.

'I see a trail, follow it,' Mergen said.
'I'm coming your way,' Shan relayed, 'Rodon?'
'Yeah, all is right, the camera says he's on the third floor,' the criminalist echoed.
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'Get out through the roof. You have seven minutes,' an unaddressed notification popped up on the man's gadget.
The sleek man got up and walked quickly, but not hurriedly, toward the roof.
'Why are you helping me?' He wrote back to the stranger.
'I don't want you to get caught.'
'Why? Do you need me?'
The killer realized that only a future client, someone who needed his services, would help him.
The dead cherry look froze on the received answer. Needed? He hadn't thought about it. He'd never needed anyone.
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'There's no one here. Gone' - Shan cast a cold glance around the café hall.
Mergen shook his head.
'Again. It's as if he knows when we're around,' the detective chuckled, 'does he feel you?'
Shan hesitated and nodded briefly.
'Not as if. He knows.'

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