Life Is For Lust

**Life Is For Lust** is the twelfth case of Criminal Case: Mystery in the Americas. It is the eighth second case overall. The first case in Caribbean. It is situated in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda.

* Previous Case: Foreshadowing of Deception (in Central America)
* Next Case: Envy To Nowhere
* Partner: Manuel Belanger

## Plot

In the city of St. John's, it was a small city of 22,000 people but quite lively, though we couldn’t expect Cobras Azuis to try to cause any ruckus here. Back at the station, Manuel says that he was bored back home and wanted to investigate, and now he is here so now the fun begins, though not for much. We hear from someone that there is a body lying in a restaurant, famous for its seafood. Manuel feels nauseous but we had to go, in the restaurant, there was foul smell of fish and Manuel says even the smell of fish disgusts him, so we collect the body whose name read Justin Mahoney, who was the waiter. So we send the body for autopsy, and we later talk to the manager Marlene Ashworth, we ask him about Justin, he tells us that Justin was their most useless waiter, who was lazy and even flirted with female customers, we ask Marlene why she hadn’t kicked him out yet, she says that someone like him only had the talent to wait customers and that was his only skill so she couldn’t fire him, even though he was given several discipline notices. Manuel says that Marlene was savage for insulting Justin in that way, but now he couldn’t stand here in this hideous fish market. After we talk to Marlene, we investigate Justin’s phone and there we find out that he was in a heated argument with Venancio Ruiz, Manuel gets shocked and says it was Floramaria's son, who happened to be in Antigua with his girlfriend, but now it seemed that why would he be associated with him, so we find and debrief him.

As usual, Venancio says he is glad to meet them, we ask him about Justin, he says he doesn’t want to talk about how bad service he had, and how he had flirted with his girlfriend, soon to be wife. He says that he heard about the famous seafood restaurant, but his destiny was worst as Justin was serving them, saying that he brought food late, and even flirted with his girlfriend, which caused him to beat him up in front of everyone, and everyone recognised him, he later says that his girlfriend and it was probably that Justin added something into it. Manuel then says guys named Justin are mfs, saying "Like that Justin Bieber, ugh I don’t know what girls saw in that ugly freak". After we talk to Venancio, we get to Jacques, he tells us that the victim was allergic to fish and he found poison in the fish he had been forcibly consumed, but he also tells us that he find the DNA of a girl named Samantha Dwayne on his lips, and it’s possible it was a kiss, so we track her down and talk to her about her life with Justin. We debrief Samantha about her life with Justin, and her initial reaction was that he deserved it, Manuel then sighs and says "No surprise there about fake Justin Bieber", Samantha says that she only kissed Justin because he was leaving Antigua, because he had impregnated her two friends and wanted to flee, but she just kissed him after eating fish hoping he would die, we were suspicious on her so according to the rules, she had to remain in custody until further investigation. At the precinct, we were discussing details, Lovisa approaches us saying there has been a protest outside the restaurant.

Mid-investigation, Lovisa comes to us saying there has been a protest outside the seafood restaurant, and we should stop but Manuel says he cannot stand the smell of fish, but either ways we go there and see people protesting outside, mainly three people, claiming that the food was contaminated and a lot of them got sick, so we stop them. After that Manuel says that smell of fish is the worst feeling ever, later he sees Froy munching on one and he says "Stop it bro", and then he continues to eat so. After that, we search the victim's apartment, there we find out several kinds of crazy stuff, as if not for a Justin, but there we see an eviction notice, signed by a certain named Bentley Denver, who happened to be Justin's landlord. So we debrief him about it, he tells us that Justin was never paying him rent, always being late though he was formally evicted but came back after a lengthy ass apology which was a lie. Manuel then sighs and says guys named Justin should be extinct. After the commotion, we decide to pay Braxton a visit, there he looked quite better, but Carla looked quite down, we ask her if she was alright, and we notice her coughing, Braxton says that Carla woke up the entire night for looking after him, and she is now weak, so Mary Ann advises her to rest which she does.

Following that, we proceed to find more clues, and come across none other than Pavati Amozoc, and like always, she was involved into a cause linking to the victim about sexual harassment. We debrief her about this, she was holding her documents while talking to someone and then she stops, she tells us that she is already running late for Justin's trial, but we inform her he is dead, Pavati takes sigh of relief saying that he was a menace anyways, saying that one of her clients was abused by him, and got pregnant with his child, and she had aborted the baby according to the rules, but Pavati says that Justin was a hard case to crack but he is dead so that what matters. After we talk to him, we visit Hayden too at the lab where he was being treated, Hayden's condition was still the same though fever had cooled down but he was still weak. Manuel pats his shoulder and wishes him good health. After talking to Hayden, we figure out that Marlene had actually fired Justin just today and threatened him not to spill the secret, they were hiding, so suspicious on her, we interrogate her about the secret she talked about. In her defence, she says that Justin had been adding Lazarus in people's food but they were notably member of a gang, we then ask her about their getup and she says they wear blue masks, we know it was Cobras Azuis but we also had to fine Marlene for adding Lazarus into their food, though whatever her motive be. After that Manuel says he feels a little bit hot and he removes his upper shirt so Alejandra passes by and presses his arms and says "Sexy ass arms, wish you pin me down with them", Manuel says "Tonight maybe". At the precinct, we were discussing details, Amaya approaches us saying Justin had called her names on her post on social media.

Mid-investigation, Amaya tells us that Justin showed lust on her on her recent photo, saying he wants to grab her melons, Manuel was cross about this saying he wish to resurrects Justin and beat him a pulp, later we hear from the office that someone was shouting, when we go there we see Floramaria saying "VENANCIO JOSÉ RUIZ, I did not raise you to become an abomination", we ask Floramaria why she was shouting on Venancio, she says she heard about his recent involvement in the case and was mad about it, we tell her that the victim was a big ass mf and had caused problems to him, Venancio says he has something to tell us. So we debrief him about what he wanna tell us, he says that he found out that there is a hidden treasure somewhere here and it is worth $45 billion, Manuel says that it might be a lie just to lure kids, but Venancio says that it has been a famous myth that the treasure was once owned by cobra kings, but we don’t know for sure. After we talk to him, we figure out that there has been rumours since a lot of times about the treasure and no one has unearthed it. Following it, Floramaria says that there has been another issue with Pavati, regarding one of her clients, saying she wants to talk about them in detail. So we debrief Pavati, she says that she didn’t tell us before but Elaine had sued Froy for $5 million even though legally she was not entitled to her, Pavati says that she was being threatened by women that she should support their cause whenever they are in case against men, but she knew Elaine was the wrong one here, Manuel says that even after Elaine haunts us, so we proceed to find another clues for incriminating the murderer.

In the end, we had enough evidence to incriminate Bentley Denver for the murder. Upon admitting, he says that he killed Justin because he had ruined their life, he begins saying that when he gave his apartment for rent to Justin, he seemed like a nice man, who showed commitment to his promises, and says that he paid the first month’s rent but starting the second month, he started to reveal his true colours, missing on rent and complaining about lack of facilities in the apartment when it clearly had everything someone would want, but he forced him to give him his money or else he would defame his company, but he had evicted him, and few days after he came to his doorstep begging for getting back, and there he noticed his 20-year-old daughter who was quite beautiful, at the same time his desires subsided and asked him for marrying his daughter, but he refused though he allowed to get back at him, as time passed, he noticed that his daughter was struggling with issues, and was quite disturbed, so he asked her about it, but she refused to tell so, in coming days when he returned from a work trip from Italy to his apartment to check on Justin, but to his surprise he found his daughter tied up, and he asks her what happened and she tells him that Justin has been repeatedly abusing her as part of payment to him, saying he wouldn’t pay him rent but pay him with having his daughter's chastity, Bentley says he had his range built up inside him, and wanted to finish off Justin, so last night while the restaurant was being closed he went there and Justin was closing it, he got into fight with him and pinned him down and forcibly fed him poisoned fish and he died there like a fucking loser, Bentley says he is proud that he killed someone who abused his dear daughter and other's daughters.

Judge Kingston sentenced him to 20 years in prison. After the trial, Manuel says that Froy has disappeared somewhere, then later Rafael comes to us, he says that Braxton's youngest brother Rodrigo isn’t replying to him and he is quite worried because it’s not the case, later Amaya tells us that she recently got a call from Braxton's family saying that his father has been hospitalised due to something, but we don’t know. After that Amaya also mentions that Felix wants to date her but she doesn’t, but Manuel says him to avail the offer but Amaya teases him with why he doesn’t and he replies that he has Alejandra. Following that, we receive a call from Froy who says that he is inviting us to a fish restaurant, and we should come mainly Lovisa, Amaya, Manuel and probably Mary Ann, but Manuel says fish and him are the worst enemies so definitely not, so it was just the two. Much later, Venancio approaches us saying that the treasure he had tell them earlier about actually belongs to Cobras Azuis and it’s remnants are somewhere here, Manuel rolls his eyes and says "Ugh, Cobras Azuis' crimes have the same energy as me going in bed with girls back in university”. Venancio laughs off but then Alejandra comes to us, she wore a black strapless dress and winked at Manuel who froze, but Alejandra looks at his man-tool and says "Damn big". Following the commotion, we visit Braxton again, who looked better, he says that he sees weird dreams these days, saying he says that all of us are dying and he is alone, he gets emotional but Manuel gives him a hug saying he should go outside with him.

While Amaya and Lovisa go the restaurant, there we see Froy with a girl, who had purple hair, probably dyed, he introduces her as Melanie Hastings, a ballet dancer from New Zealand, Amaya looks at her and says she is better than Elaine, Melanie meets us saying it’s very cool to meet detectives for the first time in her life, saying she watched several detective shows as a child, but didn’t get into it. Back at the department, Manuel and Braxton returned whereas Alejandra grabs Manuel outside to somewhere in a house, and we don't know what happened inside. After that, Froy returns with the girls and Manuel was just looking weird as if not, Froy quickly judged what happened and says "Holy would have been wild", after that random ass cackling, we also visit Hayden, who looked better and the doctors discharged him, so we felt so much better. Rafael later tells us that Braxton's father is now in better phase. Floramaria says that Pavati tells her that she has unveiled some secret about Cobras Azuis saying that the treasure has some dark secret behind it, which actually links to one of her case, she rolls her eyes and says why can’t women do everything by themselves. Much time after, Amaya says she recently heard about some rocket being launched by Yılmaz Aerospace Co., and coincidentally at the same time we receive call from Mert Yılmaz, who invites us to see the most advanced rocket unveiling in Barbados, so we head there.

## Suspects

Marlene Ashworth

Restaurant Manager

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect eats seafood
* The Suspect wears perfume

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect wears purple

Venancio Ruiz

Floramaria's son

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect wears perfume
* The Suspect works out

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect wears purple

Samantha Dwayne

Tango Dancer

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect eats seafood
* The Suspect wears perfume
* The Suspect works out

Bentley Denver

Self-made Millionaire

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect eats seafood
* The Suspect wears perfume
* The Suspect works out.

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect wears purple.

Pavati Amozoc

Human Rights Lawyer

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect eats seafood
* The Suspect wears perfume
* The Suspect works out

## Killer's Profile

* The Killer eats seafood
* The Killer wears perfume
* The Killer works out
* The Killer wears purple
* The Killer has B- blood type