A/N: Wow I can't believe it's literally been YEARS since I last updated this story. Lol so sorry for that like 3 year wait but here's the next chapter…hope you enjoy and feel free to leave a review if anyone's still out here.

Disclaimer: I don't own DGM trust me we'd never get updates if I owned it.

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The Subtle Art of Murder

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As Kanda observed the crime scene in front of him he stood shocked to his core, in the couple of years he'd been working as a police detective he'd never seen a crime scene such as this one. Lulu Bell, a high profile makeup tycoon, had been murdered in her bedroom. Police arrived to her apartment after receiving a call from her assistant stating that she hadn't been at her office nor in contact with anyone for the past three days. They expected to find her apartment empty perhaps a note for an assistant or something stating where she'd gone to, what they didn't expect was to find her dead in her bedroom. When they arrived on the scene and inspected her bedroom they found her naked tied to the headboard with her face completely carved off and surrounded by white roses that were splattered with blood. If that wasn't bad enough upon closer inspection they found that her arms and feet had been pierced through with what appeared to be makeup brushes and that the words "Pretty Hurts" had been carved out underneath her breasts as well as a couple other beauty sayings all over her body. But what was probably the most horrifying was that there was a big gaping shaped hole in her chest and right where her heart should be there was an empty cavity.

The longer Kanda looked at the scene the more convinced he became of the fact that whoever did this was someone who had held a vendetta against Lulu Bell herself. It's the only way that he could explain why there were so many personal touches such as the white roses, the brushes, and the beauty sayings. Whoever had done this to her was also no stranger to murder and or torture, in order to have carved out her heart they would've needed tools strong enough to cut through her ribs and the precision with which they had carved out the heart shape was either due to an abundance of time (meaning they knew that no one would come looking for Ms. Bell anytime soon) or due to skill.

"Johnny can you give me an estimate as to how long she's been dead" Kanda said as he continued to look at the crime scene before him.

"I would say that she's been dead somewhere between 2-3 days. Her body has only just started to go through some of the initial stages of decomposition and while there are some carvings on her body that have scabbed over there are others where the carvings seem to be barely starting to scab. This paired with the fact that the roses surrounding her seem to still be pretty moderately fresh would indicate that it can't be more than 72 hours since she was murdered but only an autopsy will be able to confirm this." Johnny said as he passed Kanda some zoomed in pictures of the small details of the crime scene.

"Have the body autopsied as soon as possible and get back to me if you find anything that could give us a clue as to who could've done this." Kanda then turned to look at Reever. "Does this building have cameras that could show who was last here with Ms. Bell?"

"They do and I've asked the head security guard to send us any and all footage from the past 96 hours that could possibly help us in identifying her murderer."

"Good, make sure that those tapes are reviewed as soon as we get our hands on them." Kanda said as he looked straight at Lulu's faceless body. "I want to find the bastard who thought they could get away with something like this in my city."

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Meanwhile Allen laid on his apartment bed laughing as he looked at a picture featuring his beautiful friend Lulu Bell. "Oh Lulu if only I'd gotten a chance to take a picture of your face when I showed you who I was. God you must've been pent up since you were almost all too willing to invite me back to your apartment." Allen shook his head and laughed even more. "If only you'd followed your own advice and played hard to get maybe you wouldn't be dead...no I'm sorry you'd probably still be dead but thank you for making it so easy for me."

Allen got up from his bed and searched for a red sharpie, when he finally found one he crossed and x over Lulu Bell's eyes and pinned her picture along with the other pictures of the Noah Family. "Only 12 more to go...I wonder who will be next"

At that moment Allen heard a ping come from his phone. It was a news story alert regarding Lulu Bell. The news headline read "Lulu Bell, famous makeup tycoon, murdered at 24"

"Well that didn't take long" Allen muttered as he threw his phone on his bed. "Hmm I guess I'll either have to lay low or strike while the iron is hot what to do what to do..."

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News reporters had shortly surrounded the building where Lulu Bell lived as soon as news broke out that she'd been murdered. They waited in anticipation for a statement from either the building, the police, or anyone who could give more insight regarding her murder.

As Kanda watched them from the 12th floor from the building he couldn't help but sigh in irritation. He'd almost hoped that news regarding Ms. Bells murder wouldn't have broken out until he and his men had left the building but it seemed that that just wouldn't be the case.

"Reever?" Kanda asked before turning around trying to find said man.

"Yes?"

"Schedule a press conference with the news media in 2 hours, in the mean time ask them to vacate the area."

"On it."

Two hours later Kanda stood in front of what seemed like a sea of news journalists.

"As all of you have heard, this morning at 8:45 am Lulu Bell, owner and CEO of (insert beauty name here) was found murdered inside of her condo. Any and all details regarding her murder will remain undisclosed to the general public. However as of right now we are looking into possible suspects and are doing everything we can so that the person who did this is brought to justice. That will be all."

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"...That will be all"

As the conference came to an end Allen paused the TV and stared at the screen, he was bewitched by the long haired man who had just given the press conference over Lulu Bell's murder. He couldn't quite put his finger on it but something about the man intrigued him he didn't know whether it was his long dark raven hair, his sharp jawline or the authorative voice in which he had said that the murderer would be brought to justice. Everything about that man made him want to...ruin him. He wanted to ruin the man so far beyond saving to the point that the only one who could ever understand him, the only one who could ever love him, and the only one who could ever satisfy him would be Allen himself. He had already played his first card down and now it was the detectives turn, he knew he was going to have a good time taking down the Noah family one by one but now that this detective was on the case he was even more excited. He was going to turn this into a game, a game the detective wouldn't know he was playing until it was too late. Allen was now practically giddy with anticipation, it was then that a sudden thought hit him and he chuckled out loud at the absurdity of it. 'I guess this is what you call love at first sight'.

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As Kanda sat in his office hunched over all the information about the crime scene he felt a sudden chill go through him. He felt unnerved for a second but then decided to just brush it off. "I should turn up the thermostat later on." Unbeknownst to him he'd just become the prey of the most dangerous predator in town.

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A/N: How was it? I feel like I'm rusty after three years of not writing but hey at least I still tried I hope you guys enjoyed this and hopefully it won't take me so long to update again but who knows…anyways in case I don't update again in a while thank you so much for reading up to this point and for favoriting and liking this story.