Chapter 1: Enter the Bearded-Lady
19:34PM
A young man stood at the corner of Hyde Park with his back against a tree. He spoke tonelessly on the phone with his other hand in his pocket. "It's done. Yeah, I know him very well. He comes to the restaurant I work at."
"You want me to keep an eye on him? Literally or figuratively?"
"Sure I'll give you a discount but just this time." Sighing, he hung up the phone and crushed it beneath his foot and took off his gloves. He checked the time and clicked his tongue at how much time he had wasted at the park. His shift was supposed to start half an hour ago. Striding away hastily into a dark alleyway, his stained sleeves unnoticed.
Deep in the park, a large body lay strewn across with a faraway look on its face.
10:45AM
It was a sunny morning; people were gravitating towards the green island surrounded by concrete. A scream tore through the air. Now, the park was full.
The police were everywhere looking for any abnormalities and speaking to anyone who was in the park to see if they had seen anything, and nobody did. Nobody had noticed anything at all until the disfigured body was found today by two horrified joggers who had ventured deep into the area that was dense with trees. At the crime scene, it was a bloody mess with intestines ripped and cut out of the corpse's stomach thrown around carelessly but neat writing engraved on the victim's forehead. The head was chopped of its body and laid flat on the grass facing its body like it was witnessing the brutal torture done to its body. It was as if the victim's stomach had exploded. Why would 'PAID' be written on the victim's forehead?
"Just call him already." Grudgingly, a detective whispered to his colleagues.