The Taste of Irony

**The Taste of Irony** is the nineteenthcase of Criminal Case: Mystery in the Americas. It is the eighty ninth case overall. The first case in Caribbean Netherlands. It is situated in Oranjestad, Aruba.

* Previous Case: Beneath The Cold (in the Caribbean)
* Next Case: Secrets Unveiled
* Partner: Amaya Fleckenburg

## Plot

In the beautiful city of Oranjestad, which was known for it’s scenery and the historic Dutch architecture was under the threat of Raymond and the other goons of Cobras Azuis das Ruas. At the station, Amaya was back with Lovisa and joined us to investigate further. Amaya says that Pavati has returned to Canada and will be back soon. Simultaneously, we get a call from a alcohol shop owner whose name was Felicia de Bruyn, saying that Someone have been found murdered when she opened the shop. So we decide to investigate the alcohol shop, and find a body of a young man, probably in late 20s, his head looked bashed in. Amaya looks at him and says "He was so handsome, how can someone kill him", we send the body for autopsy. We decide to grill Felicia how the body ended up here, she says that she only moved to Aruba, three months ago and bad luck is following her. She says that she only came here only to sale this shop, but she couldn’t get out. We ask her about the victim and she says his name was Bastiaan de Grouwer, and he was her regular costumer, and big consumer of the champagne, she says that recently he got into quarrelling with someone at her store, but she was unable to see the face. Later, we go through Bastiaan's belongings and there we found his shoulder bag. There we find out some contract that Bastiaan had done with a certain Constantijn Meijer, who was a successful champagne producing owner in Oranjestad. Though we were surprised to know what Bastiaan really has to do with this champagne making business. We debrief Constantijn about this contract, he says he is already running out of time, but says that Bastiaan had some really new flavour of champagne that would make him so wealthy he says that he wanted Bastiaan to produce it, but he wasn’t going to pay him, saying he was so easy to fool, and leaves the area. Amaya says that nepotism is so common in these douchebag businessmen.

Following that, Lovisa was arguing with someone on her phone, we ask her who was she shouting and she said that some random man is telling to "sleep with her", and she is insulting him, and Amaya goes along with it. Later, we find out fingerprints of a certain Ruslan Abdullayev, on Bastiaan's wallet, even though the money was still in place but we still decide to talk to him. Ruslan says that he also worked at the alcohol store saying that Bastiaan had dropped his wallet and he went to return it, he also says that Bastiaan became his good friend saying that he will give him a job in his champagne producing company, though before anything could happen, he was murdered, he also says that Constantijn kept forcing him to make several bottles of champagnes even before the contract and didn’t pay him. Amaya then feels that maybe Constantijn is the killer but she is also knows that nepotism is very common and she can’t be just blaming people for no reason. She also mentions that this is the first time that she fell sad for no reason even though Bastiaan was a new person and we hadn’t met him before. Manuel was seen trying to fit into a suit and with his messy hair saying "Would you marry me Alejandra", Amaya laughs saying what he is up to he is saying he is just trying to polish his speech saying when right time comes. Later we went to get the results, we were informed that Bastiaan's entire head is filled with glass shards, and approximately 14 champagne bottles were used to murder him, Amaya was flabbergasted to know why would someone murder him like that, but she says she is just sad and I can’t get over it. At the precinct, we were discussing details, Lovisa comes to us saying our beloved Felix may be involved with the investigation.

Mid-investigation, Lovisa says that Felix might be involved with his investigation. Amaya says she is a liar probably trying to set her against him. Lovisa says that Felix had talked to Bastiaan claiming they were old friends. Amaya surprised on that asks Felix if what he said was right, Felix says that it was, he claimed that they both studied together in university and got along well, even goes further to say that they took things further one night, Amaya says she doesn’t want to know about it, but asks him if he knew anything, he says that they were planning a reunion since we were in Aruba but now he is dead, though he says that he was very excited about the success of champagne formula, but says he was very naive, who got fooled by many times. Amaya feels angry on Felix saying he loves to talk about his past lovers with her, saying he may have a huge tool but he is a fool, Lovisa says why she didn’t tell her about this and she says it was none of her business. After we talk to Felix, we proceed further with our investigation. Floramaria calls us in her office and says that a woman named Helena Maduro wants to talk to them about something. We debrief Helena who was angry on us saying that we couldn’t find out Bastiaan's murderer, we ask her how she was related to him, she says that she was his fiancée and they were going to get married. She says that he was a gentleman, saying that he was already successful enough but someone had killed him and ruined her entire life, she says that someone had been bothering him for quite a time and we should know who did it. Amaya says that she feels suspicious on Felicia, saying the name already makes her suspicious on her, though we can’t just accuse her like that.

After we were with that, we proceed to find more clues, though there wasn’t any clue that linked to anyone. Later Braxton says that stupid Zet brought something with him and it’s actually related to our case, he says that Felicia had sent him a note in which she said he should reveal his real identity and even forced him to do so. Amaya was angry saying that Felicia probably forced him to go with bed with him or did something worse with him. She was making assumptions herself though we decide to grill her for what she meant. Felicia gets angry saying that we are accusing her for no reason, she says that she thought that Bastiaan was her deceased brother, because they resembled each other a lot and she thought he was actually him but under fake identity, but she realised he wasn’t him, and now she feels sad realising she messed up with the wrong person. Amaya says she is sorry for all the ruckus she had caused for her, she asks him how did her brother die, but she says she can’t tell it just now because she doesn’t want too. After we talk to Felicia, Amaya says she made wrong assumptions about her saying now she wants to apologise to him. After that Manuel comes to us, his strong perfume made Amaya's head swing, she says that he should go away from here, because that strong scent is giving her migraine, Manuel says she is such a noob who can’t handle this. After that little fight, we proceed further, where we see Braxton chanting some words "Take me to 12 June 2010", we see him from there and he disappeared, later came back. He was jumping with joy, he came to us saying he made a Time Machine, Amaya says that might just be a glitch but he says that he is actually successful and now we can compete with Raymond and Rüdiger. At the precinct, we were discussing details, Mary Ann frighteningly approached us saying Raymond had detonated a nuclear bomb in the city.

Mid-investigation, Mary Ann tells us that Raymond probably has planted a nuclear bomb somewhere, and this is no good news. When we go to search the city for the dumb, we heard a loud explosion, when we follow it, Felix was lying there, he was probably going to be unconscious, but says he wants to tell something. Amaya was hallucinating saying she feels something is going to happen, so we talk to Felix, who possibly would pass out, but apparently he did not, and looked quite fine. Felix says that this wasn’t a nuclear bomb that but normal and he was actually the done who did for no reason, Amaya was flabbergasted to know why would he do that, he says that he was being threatened by Raymond that everyone would be killed if the bomb won’t be detonated though his air was to kill everyone in Oranjestad, but he only wanted to kill himself but he changed his mind at the last minute, though the bomb still went off even though it wasn’t harmful and was just a gas one, Amaya was weirded out that what exactly have happened to him so she decided to send him to custody because he is acting quite strange. After we talk to him, Lovisa says that Braxton is over the moon because he invented time travel. Amaya says she has to see it herself. She barges in Braxton says we should totally see it, so he asks us what date should we go to, and Amaya says "15 September 2004". While Braxton sets the Time Machine, he asks Amaya to hold his hand and then they suddenly find themselves in Roseau, and Amaya sees herself when she was born, but the next blink, we were back. Amaya was shocked that it actually works and now we could be in equal competition with Cobras Azuis. We proceed to find more clues

In the end, we had enough evidence to incriminate Ruslan Abdullayev for the murder. Upon admitting, Ruslan starts to laugh hysterically that he killed Bastiaan because he was going to go get rich and he would be dirt poor. He says that both of them worked together on the new flavour of champagne, and wanted to sell its formula to Constantijn who wanted them to work under him, though it was him who told him to not pay Bastiaan, and pay him in double figures but Constantijn didn’t do anything of it. He says that he was getting jealous of the fact that he was becoming successful and he even kicked him out from partnership because he was illegally taking money from Constantijn, and when he was kicked out by Bastiaan, he had to work in this alcohol shop, and kept his eyes on Bastiaan, so he could take his revenge. When he continued to visit the alcohol shop to sell his champagne, he got jealous and added poison in them, and five people succumbed to it, but there was no suspicion on him since for many months, the city's water system was contaminated and government said it was because of that, the deaths happened. He further says that jealously drove him to all high levels saying that Bastiaan would live a wealthy life and he would be working as a cleaner in the alcohol shop, he couldn’t bear it so he decided to kill Bastiaan, he called him to the shop last night before closing and confronted him that he has betrayed him, but when Bastiaan said that it’s his own fault that he is like that, but he got angry and smashed Bastiaan's head with fourteen champagne bottles, after he was laying dead he hugged his body because of the victory he had received

Judge Kingston sentenced him to life imprisonment. After the trial, Manuel appears out of nowhere saying that the weather here is making him nauseous, saying he wants to take a catch a whiff of breeze and the coastal weather has made him nauseous, Amaya says he is such a frail little child, and he should cope with it. Later Felicia approaches us saying that she wants to tell them about something. So we listen to her and she says that she is actually working as a detective for the same agency as Felix and Natalia known as *Peacekeepers of Americas* saying that she joined this only to fight those who had been causing problem saying that she wanna prove herself better. Amaya again apologises to her saying that she felt trash for tarnishing her like that, but Felicia says it’s alright. Later, we see a young kid running in the department and Braxton chasing him, we ask him who is he, and he innocently replies that it’s his own younger self saying he went to 2020, and his stupid younger self came into the portal of Time Machine, later Froy catches 10-year-old Braxton and says "Where you going little man", and then kicks Braxton back into portal, and the present Braxton feels the man, and said "Damn you Froy, it hurts". Amaya says that Braxton should be aware that this Time Machine would be used to defeat Raymond and Rüdiger, though Esmeralda Luisa doesn’t look like that big of a threat. As we mentioned the hideous name of Rüdiger, he appears out of nowhere, flying he grabs Amaya by force and says "A tasty meal for tonight", while Froy and Manuel use the same weapon "Ho un cazzo piccolo", but that doesn’t seem to work, later when Rüdiger was getting away Esmeralda Luisa comes at us and uses her magic powers for Rüdiger to fall and everyone goes to catch Amaya and she lands safely, but Lovisa says "Girl you are so heavy". After that we see Rüdiger fell on the ground with him crying in agony, we laugh devilishly saying that he deserved it, but Rüdiger again disappears though for now he might stay away from us.

We ask Esmeralda Luisa that what powers she used on Rüdiger, she says that she has special powers for defeating him saying he can’t by defeated by normal weapons but special forces that needs to be employed, though we ask her why she saved Amaya for no reason, she says that she only did that because she doesn’t let women be hurt and it’s only men she wants to kill, whether be evil or innocent but her point is that she never really works accordingly to rules set by the Cobra Master that is supposedly the Cobra Creature, saying that the Cobra Master just succeeded their father to become one and they are now more evil. We thank Esmeralda for this, though she couldn’t just believe her like that. Much later, we visit Floramaria, who says that she is already hectic enough with the job saying that the Peacekeepers are allies but we should ask Felix about them. Since Felix was in custody due to his unsolicited and weird behaviour, we ask him harshly that what he is up to, he shyly replies that he wasn’t thinking right that time saying he was getting threats from Raymond that he will kill everyone and for that he has to put the bomb there though he changed his mind, we later ask him what are the aim of the Peacekeepers. Felix replied how do we know about it, he says Felicia told them, he says that the aim is to defeat Cobras Azuis but they are developing modern weapons to defeat them since Cobras Azuis is nearly impossible to defeat. Amaya says that if he is saying the truth, then she has no problem going in bed with him, but if he is a liar then she will kill him. At the station, Lovisa was arguing with Braxton over something, we ask them what are they fighting for, Lovisa says that he caught her intimate with a woman, and now he is gonna tell anyone, Amaya was shocked that why she didn’t her, but Lovisa blushes and says everyone here has a gf, so she doesn’t want to being add into that, but Amaya says she is a dumb girl for that.

After that, we decide to find some lead on what exactly is going to happen next, we don’t know where Raymond is, Mary Ann approaches at the same time saying she managed to track down the location of Raymond, but she is unsure whether he is there or not, though she mentions he was in Sint Maarten, but the location might be wrong. Later Froy comes to us, he tells us that Floramaria is telling her that her son Venancio us here, and wants to talk about something . So Venancio calls us and says to meet at certain place. Manuel now decides to volunteer, saying he has been bored sitting around like for no reason. So we decide to head at the café, there was something Venancio wanted to tell us though begged us to keep a secret, we were perplexed why would he want us to keep it but we ask him, he says that he found out that Cobras Azuis have been long planning to kill them, probably by nuclear weapons, saying they plan more sinister for South America, he also says that they plan to nuke countries there and have also launched another regime which included drug dealing, sexual trafficking, and much others, we ask him how does he know all, he says he has his own ways. We reach to the station, where Floramaria said we are going to Sint Maarten and because that’s where Raymond is at, so we pack our bags and head there

## Suspects

Felicia de Bruyn

Alcohol Shop Owner

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* The Suspect uses hand sanitiser
* The Suspect has a dog

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has a scar
* The Suspect wears plaid

Constantijn Meijer

Victim's Contractor

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* The Suspect uses hand sanitiser
* The Suspect wears sneakers
* The Suspect has a dog

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* The Suspect has a scar

Ruslan Abdullayev

Alcohol Shop Worker

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect uses hand sanitiser
* The Suspect wears sneakers
* The Suspect has a dog

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has a scar.
* The Suspect wears plaid

Felix Levesque

Detective

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* The Suspect uses hand sanitiser
* The Suspect wears sneakers
* The Suspect has a dog

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* The Suspect wears plaid

Helena Maduro

Victim's Fiancée

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* The Suspect has a dog

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has a scar
* The Suspect wears plaid

## Killer's Profile

* The Killer uses hand sanitiser
* The Killer wears sneakers
* The Killer has a dog
* The Killer has a scar
* The Killer wears plaid