"You have a case."
The girl startled as it was sudden. She was caught slacking off during work hours, playing games on phone.
The man before her looked at her in dissapointment. It was not the first time.
"Luna, can you be serious? You were slacking off." He said.
"I was not. I took a 5 minutes break! I just needed to collect daily reward." She argued.
The man rolled her eyes.
"Aren't you like, 27?"
"Sir, the case." Luna said as she grabbed the bunch of papers.
"Yes, about the case. It's a murder case."
"A murder?" Luna asked as she read the details on the paper.
"Yes, a murder. Not only that, it's made to look like a sucide. The group assigned to it earlier was able to identify that is was murder but they weren't able to identify the suspect."
"So, our team is assigned?"
"Yes. You are needed. We need your Deduction skills."
Luna then reviewed the file for a hour before speaking up.
"Ben, i don't think I can help." Luna said as she closed the file.
"What? You are the only Homicide detective in our team!" Ben complained.
"I didn't mean it like that. The case is already solved."
Ben blinked a few times in surprise Before asking "What?"
"It's obvious. You should read the file once more." Luna said while handling the file to Ben.
"I don't think so. I read it five times already." Ben said as his expressions became frustrated.
"Page 7, uhh which states that the victim is left handed." Luna said as she grabbed mechanical pencil beside her.
"Uhh yeah what about it?" Ben asked.
Luna took the file from his hands then flipped some pages forward and backwards from the file and circled a line.
"Page 2, it describes that the knife had handprints of right hand. That's probably what made you think it's a murder case right?"
"Well… yeah?"
"No. Not necessarily. Look at the wound angle." Luna flipped to a labeled diagram and underlined a line. "There are hesitation marks. No murderer ever leaves hesitation marks. People stabbing themselves do."
Ben blinked. "So… it's suicide?"
Luna shook her head, flipping pages again. "It's suicide, but there's more."
She stopped at the medical record page and underlined a section.
"He was under treatment for depression. On medication."
"That doesn't automatically make it suicide," Ben said.
"Yeah, but look here." She tapped a lab analysis page. "Traces of two banned chemical stimulants in his system. These aren't prescription. Someone supplied them."
Ben's eyebrow twitched. "Banned? How do you know that?"
"Because they're produced only in the Western Biotech Zone. Page nine says he took his bike for travel, but the GPS record shows the bike never left the city. So he couldn't have gone there."
Ben stared at her. "Wait—how did you even see that?"
"It's in the footnote," Luna deadpanned and underlined it.
He leaned closer. "I didn't even notice that
"No one did. But if he couldn't travel, someone brought the substances to him. They don't just magically appear in your room." Luna flipped to the neighbors' statements. "They said he was acting strange lately. That matches stimulant misuse."
She scribbled a small circle around a detail.
"Also, he withdrew cash three months ago. His wallet only had 20 rupees. He didn't have the money to buy illegal chemicals. Someone must've sold it cheap or given it to him. Probably someone from the university."
Ben listened as his face slowly transformed into realization.
Luna tapped her pencil twice. "So yeah. He overdosed, got impaired, and the hesitation marks confirm self-inflicted injury. Death is suicide. But we now have a supplier involved."
Luna glanced at the time. "I should go. It's late."
"I think we did it!" Ben said as closed the file and raised his hand. Luna looked at his hand and then raised her hand too as thier hands collided and resulted in a clap.
"Then let me not go to the crime scenes. My observation skills are bad and whenever I am involved, i literally almost get killed."
"Don't overreact. But, I'll manage it."
"I am not overreacting! It has happened to me four times already!"
"Alright alright. I will write a report."
"And take credit!"
"No. I'll just wrote report written by me, deduced by the dedicated officer Luna." Ben said.