#01: Presenting The Detective

It was his first homicide scene in the area. Ever since he completed TESL, he has always been working way up north of the country. Recently, he had been transferred to Central City for personal reasons and had only just started working for a few days. Detective Ben stared at the disasterous scene in front of him. Blood splattered everywhere, the furnitures' arrangement were tossed upside down and a body lay cold in the middle of the living room. The stench of blood filled up his nostrils as he took a deep breath.

"The man's name was John Elliot, working as a manager of a jewelry store nearby. We believe robbery was the main objective here," explained an officer standing next to Ben. "It's safe to say that the cause of death is from the loss of blood through multiple stabs on the body. We've got a crazy one this time." Ben just nodded. He continued to observe the surrounding closely from where he stood, trying to grasp an image of what had happened in the scene.

Ever since he was young, Ben had a unique sense of observation. He was almost always accurate in deducing a flow of events, just through looking and 'feeling'. Many called his psychic, but normally he would just say it's intuition. After looking around for another minute, Ben called out towards the officer. "Nik, is there any other trace of blood other than here in the living room?"

"Well," replied Officer Nik coolly as he flipped through his notebook. "We did find bloody footprints leading outside the lawn, but something was quite weird about it." This made Ben excited. He had always loved mysteries. "Show me," he asked. Both of them headed inside the large living room, with Nik leading them toward a glass sliding door. As they reached there, Ben observed the floor closely.

"You see," explained Nik. "These footsteps lead towards the lawn, but when we checked outside the blood traced stopped halfway." Nik was now pointing outside towards a neatly cut lawn. Ben was following the footsteps closely, from the floor of the living room towards the grassy area. He was surprised to see that the steps seemed to disappear midway, right in the middle of the lawn. According to Nik's further explanation, there were no possible signs of the steps' owner taking off its shoes or jumping towards the ledge. It was as if the person had floated into mid air.

"Hmm...now that is strange." Ben was about to continue giving his thoughts on the case, when his cellphone rang.