One God Less

**One God Less** is the 20th case in Around The World, the 5th and final case to occur in Paris, and the 174th case overall.

## Plot

After arresting a killer back at the gym, the team's chief, Luke Whatever, got a call from Lucas Botrael, a respectable Parisian gentleman, saying that a friend of his was found dead in the Boulet mansion. Albert Albu and the player rush over there, only to find billionaire Pascal Boulet, the mansion's owner, crushed by a vault. The team immediately finds Martin Lefrancois, Pascal's adopted son, as well as the only benefactor of Pascal's will, and we start interrogating him, as he is the prime suspect in the investigation. However, Martin does tell the duo that the place Pascal spent the most time at was the mansion's living room. We immediately rush over to the living room, only to find a duster belonging to the housemaid, Bernadette Niel. We return the duster to Bernadette and tell her about her boss's demise. We later search Pascal's bedroom, where we find a business card belonging to Ryan Carr, who tells the team that he visited Pascal for business. We also find panties from Sabine Gribelin, who tells the team that she slept with Pascal a few times, as they are together. We also find out that the vault used to kill Pascal was left in Martin's room. Martin tells the team that he has no idea what we're talking about, and he tells the duo that he needs to quickly use the bathroom. He leaves and we wait. We hear a scream as we find another vault on the floor. This time, it crushed Martin to death. On the crime scene, we find a note saying "Pascal, I love you." from Bernadette. We talk to Bernadette again and tell her that Martin has been murdered too. In response, Bernadette tells the team that she was in love with Pascal, who rejected her advances. We also meet up once again with Ryan after finding a threat to Pascal from him. Ryan tells the team that Pascal was rude during his visit and he had enough. Hence, he sent the threat. We also find a break-up note between Sabine and the victim. Sabine tells the team that since Pascal was going to leave his will to his adopted son, Martin, Sabine got furious and broke up with him. Lucas then comes running to us, telling the team that he found an empty slot where the vaults were in Martin's room and that there could be evidence left behind the killer there. We follow him to the empty vault slots, where we find enough evidence to arrest the killer.

## Killer And Motives

The killer turned out to be Bernadette.

Upon admitting to the murder, Bernadette told the duo that Pascal was her father who abandoned her long ago, as he couldn’t afford to take care of a daughter. She then said that after he suspiciously became a billionaire, he adopted a son, Martin Lefrancois. Bernadette later got a job as Pascal’s maid, so she could tell him the truth about where she’s been this whole time. Pascal laughed and said he already had a child and that he didn’t need another one in his life, and that she only wanted his money. Bernadette became depressed for months and realized the biggest revenge was to kill him so she could get the money. Bernadette later told Martin everything, saying that they should split the will. Martin agreed and their plan was set. He also told her that Pascal treated him horribly and he wanted him out of his life, as he isn’t pure “Boulet” blood. Martin sprayed pepper spray on Pascal’s eyes, blinding him, while Bernadette dropped the safe on Pascal, crushing him to his death. Bernadette then found Pascal’s will, saying his money would go to Martin, and then his long-lost daughter, wherever she was. After the team took the body and Martin was walking to the bathroom, Bernadette grabbed another safe, this one from Martin’s room, and dropped it on him too, crushing him to his death as well.

Bernadette was sentenced to life in prison.

## Additional Investigation

The team uncovers the rest of the will to see who gets Pascal's money and house, and we realize that it now belongs to Lucas since Sabine broke up with him, Martin's dead, and Bernadette's in jail. We tell Lucas the news and says that he refuses to keep the house, and donated all but a billion dollars to charity. We also decide to research who Martin's biological father is. The team's coroner, Becca Doe, tells the team that she found a DNA match to Martin's father, Georgy Antonov, in Russia. We then decide where to go next, before we get a call from an old friend, Lily Sutherland, who we haven't seen since Gus Washington's murder back in England. She tells us that she just found a high-ranking Russian aristocrat dead and that we're the best ones for this case. We pack up and head to Russia.

## Summary

### Victims

* Pascal Boulet
* Martin Lefrancois

## Suspects

Lucas Botrael (Traits: 1, 2, 3)Martin Lefrancois (Traits: 2, 3)Bernadette Niel (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)Ryan Carr (Traits: 0)Sabine Gribelin (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 5)