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Chapter 175: Differences in Judgment (12)

In order to better identify the condition of the body, the Kanagawa Prefecture police set up the men's locker room adjacent to the hot spring area as a temporary investigation room.

Police laid clean tarps on the locker room floor.

Then, in cooperation with detective Masumi Sera, he took out all the body parts from the bag and placed them on top.

The deceased was cut into twelve pieces in total.

The limbs and head connected to the torso were all severed.

The arm is divided into three parts: the upper arm, forearm and palm.

The legs are divided into the thigh and the calf connected to the foot.

The last one was the head that was cut off directly from the neck.

The torn human body was placed on top of the waterproof cloth, giving a huge visual impact to everyone who saw it.

After seeing this scene, many criminal police officers couldn't help but cover their mouths and made retching sounds in their throats.

"This murderer is too cruel, isn't he?"

"He must have a deep hatred for the deceased! Otherwise, how could he do such a thing!"

"Oh my god, I'm afraid I won't be eating raw food for a long, long time."

"That detective is so amazing. I heard he's just a high school student, but he didn't even frown in the face of this situation."

Akikawa Sosuke heard the whispers of the detectives around him and shifted his gaze from the corpse to Sera Masumi.

Originally, Akikawa Sosuke was still curious about how Conan would make inferences when he couldn't understand Conan's hints at all.

Unexpectedly, by such a coincidence, this "handsome" detective with amazing fighting ability happened to appear here.

'Looking at the reaction of the Death God Elementary School Student just now, he obviously didn't know that this handsome detective would appear here, so this must be a coincidence.'

"Is this the protagonist's luck?"

"But it seems that this handsome detective is not here for vacation."

Akikawa Sosuke thought to himself and shifted his gaze to the detectives who were looking embarrassed.

He also noticed a detail.

That is, whether it was the detectives around, Conan or Sera Masumi, they all called the dismemberer the murderer.

In other words, they believe that the person who dismembered the body is the murderer who killed the deceased.

This was slightly different from Akikawa Sosuke's judgment.

"The parts that the dismemberer cut except the neck were all movable joints of the human body, so there is no doubt that he was trying to cover up the deceased's posture when he died."

"But the problem is that it seems that the murderer is someone else, so the dismemberer must have another reason for cutting up the body—"

Akikawa Sosuke turned his gaze away from the detectives and turned to the head and torso with the neck cut open, which were placed on the waterproof cloth.

'Cover up the wounds that caused the death of the deceased.'

Akikawa Sosuke, who thought he had obtained enough information, pretended to be unbearable and quietly retreated from the locker room door.

He stayed in the lobby on the first floor under the surveillance of the criminal police.

"If my guess is correct, the dismemberer and the murderer should be different people."

'The dismemberer dismembered the body in order to conceal the real cause of death and the posture of death.'

'But in order to let the police find the body earlier, he threw the bag containing the body into the hot spring.'

"It would be fine if the person who dismembered the body was the murderer."

'Why would the dismemberer, who is not the murderer, rather bear the crime of destroying and abandoning a corpse, and even risk being identified as the murderer, in order to cover up the deceased's posture when he died?'

Through the somewhat contradictory behavior of the dismemberer, Akikawa Sosuke realized that there might be other unknown reasons behind this dismemberment case.
——The other side.

After carefully observing all the body parts, Conan and Sera Masumi fell into deep thought.

"If the deceased was standing or lying flat when he fell into rigor mortis, then the wounds on the thigh and torso should also be perpendicular to the body."

"Since the incision in this part is slanted, it means that the deceased was in a sitting position when he fell into rigor mortis."

"In this case, the murderer cut the thigh and calf for the same reason. He did not want people to see that the deceased was in a sitting position when he died."

Conan analyzed.

When a person is standing, his calves, thighs, and torso are perpendicular to the ground.

But when sitting, the calves and thighs, and the thighs and torso are perpendicular to each other.

Therefore, in order to conceal the victim's sitting posture, the murderer needed to cut from the femoral tibia joint and hip joint.

"But if you're just sitting there, there doesn't seem to be any need to cover up."

"The most important thing is probably the posture of the arms and neck."

Masumi Sera thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what the sitting posture was like, so he had to cover it up by dismembering the body.

Indeed, there are some very special sitting postures, and one can determine the state of the deceased at the time of death just by looking at it.

For example, if a person is sitting in the driving seat and dies while driving and develops rigor mortis.

Then even if there is no car, as long as we look at the posture of the deceased after rigor mortis, we can determine that the deceased was driving when he died.

But the problem is that Masumi Sera has already determined that the deceased died in the hot spring hotel.

It is naturally impossible to assume the driving posture in a hot spring hotel.

Apart from this, Sera Masumi could not think of any other sitting posture that would reveal the deceased's state at the time of death.

"It seems that we still need to determine the location of the deceased's death first, and then determine the deceased's posture at the time of death based on the state of the crime scene."

Conan said.

"Speaking of which, boy, have you noticed that the neck of the deceased was the only one that was not cut through the movable joints?"

Masumi Sera stared at the hideous cut on the dead man's neck and spoke in a low voice.

"Ah."

Conan nodded slightly.

"I think that either the posture of death of the deceased had nothing to do with the neck, and the murderer cut the neck of the deceased in order to confuse the audience."

"Or there must be some special reasons that forced the murderer to choose another location to cut the neck."

After Conan finished speaking, he and Sera Masumi left the men's locker room area.

The information provided by the body is sufficient, and the next step is to begin investigating the crime scene.

The two went to ask Inspector Okamura about the progress of the surveillance confirmation.

This dismemberment case was the same as yesterday's poisoning case. The murderer had only the time to dispose of the body between 0:30 and 5:00 in the morning when the cleaner finished cleaning.

If the residents want to go downstairs, they will not be able to avoid the cameras.

The police were also able to determine the floor where the person who dumped the body lived.

However, this time the camera was unable to provide any useful intelligence.

The criminal police checked the elevator surveillance and staircase surveillance from 0:30 to 5:00, and did not find anyone going downstairs carrying bags or suitcases large enough to hold the bags.

(End of this chapter)