Chapter 173: Reasons for Dismemberment

chapter with Google translator, because AI gave rise to problems with rights and terms

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Conan was driven a little crazy by Akikawa Kyousuke.

He suddenly felt that Akikawa Kyousuke's mother keeping this extremely stupid Akikawa at home was actually a form of protection for him.

Moreover, if it weren't for the fact that Akikawa Kyousuke's sister is the undisputed number one in the Japanese entertainment industry today, Okino Yoko.

I'm afraid it's just based on Akikawa Kyousuke's face.

It will be eaten up in a few minutes.

"But come to think of it, if Akikawa was really smart, how could he have provoked Koichi Nishihara to want to kill him in the Imperial Theater?"

'After taking the role of Sae Otani from Koichi Nishihara, Akikawa went to thank Koichi Nishihara. This is something that ordinary people cannot do.'

In his mind, Conan completely equated Akikawa Kyousuke with a fool.

The easiest way is obviously to shoot Akikawa with an anesthetic needle, and then use the bow-tie voice changer to convey the reasoning to the detective at the scene through Akikawa Kyousuke's voice.

But after all, this case has just begun, and he hasn't even seen the suspect.

So Conan gave up the idea of ​​using the anesthetic needle.

'What should I do? I came out of the bath without my phone, and the only adult I know around me is a drooling guy.'

Just when Conan was at a loss and was wondering whether he should risk exposing his reasoning ability and run to give a hint to the police inspector from Kanagawa Prefecture.

The voice coming from the door of the hot spring hotel instantly cheered Conan up.

"Sorry, there's been a case here, so tourists are temporarily not allowed to enter."

"I know, that's why I came here."

"ah?"

"My name is Masumi Sera, and I'm a detective. I believe I can help you officers."

Sera Masumi's slightly neutral voice sounded extremely pleasant to Conan's ears at this moment.

He quickly ran to the door and shouted to Sera Masumi:

"Ms. Sera! Ms. Sera!!"

Upon hearing this, Sera Masumi looked behind the detective.

The girl's pretty face did not show the slightest bit of surprise when she saw Conan.

She didn't know in advance that Conan and his group came to Hakone to take a hot spring bath.

Instead, Masumi Sera, who was riding a motorcycle, was attracted by a police car with flashing lights, and then saw a familiar yellow first-generation Beetle car here.

So she guessed that Conan, Professor Agasa, and the little guys from the Junior Detective League should be in this hot spring hotel.

"Ms. Sera is a very famous detective in Tokyo. She has helped the Metropolitan Police Department solve many cases!"

"If the officer doesn't believe me, he can search Miss Sera's name on the Internet!"

Conan ran to the door and said to the detective.

After hesitating for a moment, the detective finally decided to make a supplementary report to Inspector Okamura first.

After waiting for his superior's consent, he allowed Sera Masumi to enter Kozenan.

As Conan and Masumi Sera were walking towards the crime scene, he told Masumi Sera what had happened today.

"Akigawa Kyousuke is here too?!"

Masumi Sera, who had never shown much emotion after hearing about the decomposed corpse, showed a very surprised expression after hearing that Akikawa was also here.

"Yeah, he just happened to get a job performing here, so he came here."

Conan said.

"What a coincidence!"

Masumi Sera thought to herself.

She never expected that she came to Hakone from Tokyo to investigate Akikawa Kyousuke's mother.

As it turned out, Akikawa Kyousuke himself happened to be here as well.

"Nice to meet you again, Mr. Akikawa."

"Hello."

Masumi Sera saw that Akikawa responded to her greeting with a stiff expression.

She knew that Akikawa probably still had a lot of concerns about herself and Conan.

"Akikawa, please wait a little longer. I will soon be able to find the murderer of your mother."

Masumi Sera thought to himself, then walked into the men's hot spring area without any hesitation and came to a pile of bags filled with various limbs and arms.

After quickly scanning a few bags, she looked at Inspector Okamura.

"Hello, I heard that the bag containing the arm and right leg was floating on the water at first."

"That's right."

Okamura nodded.

"The other bags sank to the bottom of the water, but this bag floated on the surface, which means that there was excess air in the bag."

"This indirectly reflects that the murderer was in a very tight time when he was packing the bodies, and he was quite panicked, so he wanted to deal with the bodies in a hurry, which revealed his flaws."

"I just saw a camera facing the entrance of the hot spring hotel. The most reasonable scenario is that he chose to dispose of the body in a hot spring area where there is no surveillance in order to avoid surveillance."

"So the crime scene and the person who dumped the body should be inside the hot spring hotel."

Upon hearing this, Inspector Okamura immediately felt that what Sera Masumi said made sense.

He quickly gave orders, asking a criminal police officer to check the surveillance, and other police officers to search the rooms one by one.

Since dismemberment is such a bloody and cruel act.

The other party should still leave a lot of traces.

Immediately afterwards, Sera Masumi began to carefully observe the body parts in the bag.

A policeman came forward and was about to hand the gloves to Sera Masumi.

Then I saw Sera Masumi took out a pair of white gloves from his pocket and put them on his hands.

Faced with the body parts that made even the detectives look embarrassed, Masumi Sera reached out calmly and grabbed the remains to examine them.

"The cut surfaces of all the wounds were very neat, and there were basically no signs of multiple cuts."

"This shows that the murderer must have been very strong to be able to cut the body open at the joints with one knife."

"But if you look closely at the body, you can see that although all the limbs were cut off with one knife, the cutting surfaces between the limbs are different."

"For example, the incisions on the neck and wrists were made with the blade perpendicular to the body."

"The incisions at the ulnar joint between the upper arm and forearm, the femoral tibial joint between the thigh and calf, and the hip joint between the thigh and torso are all at oblique angles."

"It means the angle of the knife was tilted towards the body."

"I don't think this is a coincidence."

"This should be because the murderer was unable to perform normal cutting on these parts due to some special circumstances."

"The parts where the murderer stabbed were basically all 'movable joints' of the human body that can control flexion and extension."

"Plus, the deceased had been dead for more than ten hours, so I thought of a possibility."

"That is, the murderer actually cut all the movable joints in order to cover up the fact that the deceased could not change his posture due to rigor mortis after death."

Masumi Sera looked at the body parts in the bag and spoke.

　In Japanese, "Miss" and "Mr." are both pronounced as "桑", and there is no audible gender distinction. The description in the book is only to reflect the speaker's judgment of the other person's gender.

(End of this chapter)