"Burned to death, or..."
After a brief hesitation, Sakaki Makoto replied:
"Kunomatsu Ohta died of mechanical asphyxiation due to organ failure."
"oh?"
With a raised eyebrow, Megure Jusan understood a little:
"So, this is just a tragedy?"
"No, quite the opposite..."
With a serious expression, Sakaki Makoto gritted his teeth and spoke word by word:
"This is an inhumane and premeditated murder!"
Everyone was stunned and a little confused.
On the contrary, Conan and Hattori Heiji nodded in agreement.
Their conclusion is no different from Sakaki Makoto's.
With her arms folded, Miss Miyano stood aside and quietly admired her boyfriend's solo show.
"If the smoke from the flames had filled the entire room before Kunimatsu Ota died..."
Sakaki pointed to the inside of the corpse's wide-open mouth:
"The throat, lungs, and stomach of the corpse should all have carbon ash mixed with mucus!"
"Wait a minute..."
Megure Jusan raised his hand and interrupted:
"I can understand the throat and lungs, but why is there carbon ash in the stomach?"
"For a living person in the center of a fire, the water in his body will evaporate quickly, and he will subconsciously swallow his saliva in an attempt to replenish water, but..."
Shaking his head, Sakaki Makoto sighed:
"After inhaling toxic fumes, carbon ash will accumulate in the mouth, nose and throat. If swallowed, the carbon ash will enter the stomach along with the saliva."
Megure Jusan and Takagi Wataru looked at each other, stepped forward to observe the corpse, and suddenly realized:
"I see!"
"There is no carbon ash in the mouth and stomach of the corpse, so Ota Kunimatsu died before the fire, right?"
"Totally...wrong."
Sakaki Makoto, who had no hope in the Metropolitan Police Department, naturally could not say he was disappointed:
"When the fire broke out, Ota Kunimatsu was still alive, or rather..."
"He himself is the fire!"
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