Chapter 312
＜420＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：16
Please think about it carefully. Although taking someone's heart while they are still alive is unimaginable to most people, we will start with the most normal situation this time - heart transplant surgery, which is a treatment method used to save the lives of terminally ill patients and improve their quality of life.
＜421＞ Name: Escape from Overtime Hell 09/17 20:16
However, heart transplant surgery requires corresponding equipment to maintain the patient's life, otherwise it is no different from murder.
＜422＞ Name: Cause 09/17 20:16
Heart transplant surgery is just a reference example to support the reasoning I will present later.
Patients who undergo heart transplant surgery need corresponding equipment to establish extracorporeal circulation to ensure their survival. However, the reasoning that needs to be considered this time is not whether the deceased can survive after the heart is taken away, but how the murderer can reasonably control the amount of bleeding and the location of the blood traces to hide the possibility that there is another person at the scene.
＜450＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：18
...I asked the medical staff at the unit to confirm it.
The amount of bleeding during surgery is usually very small, or even non-existent. If there is heavy bleeding, it is usually because there was a large wound before entering the operating room or the doctor made an error during the operation.
Therefore, when there is no need to ensure the survival of the deceased, just taking away the heart and stopping the bleeding can ensure that no additional blood will appear before the murderer leaves the scene. It is obviously inappropriate to use hemostatic forceps to deal with this situation, so a very easy-to-disperse method of stopping the bleeding should be used.
——For example, simply and roughly tightening the blood vessels with thread.
If it is not tied, it will loosen after a while. If the white thread is soaked in a pool of blood - the only scene information released by the police to the outside world is the photo. It is impossible to discover such tiny details only by the photo, so before the police release more details, this method is also a possibility.
As for why the deceased did not resist, just like anesthesia before surgery, the murderer probably fed the deceased drugs such as sleeping pills to make him lose consciousness, and then committed the crime against him.
Of course, just like the above content, as long as the police release the results of the toxicology test, it will be clear whether the reasoning has been overturned.
＜451＞ Name: I can’t move anymore 09/17 20:18
However, since the murderer could have let the victim take sleeping pills, wouldn't it be more convenient to just poison him?
＜452＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：18
So even though there are two broad ifs, I personally feel that the first if of taking out the heart alive is unlikely - but since we can't deduce the truth due to insufficient clues, of course we have to put all possibilities on the table.
After all, doesn't the most absurd possibility sometimes become the only truth?
＜453＞Name: Anonymous Hope 09/17 20:18
Then I support the idea that the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime took away the heart of the dead and that is the truth of this case (laughs).
After all, in terms of the degree of absurdity, the story of a murderer is the most absurd one.
＜454＞ Name: Kuebiko 09/17 20:18
That being said, except for the three-way intersection that overlaps with the activity range of the Living Festival Kaguya-hime, and the fact that there is no trace of a second person, there are no more obvious clues pointing to the Living Festival Kaguya-hime, right? Moreover, although there is a better alternative for the first inference, it also proves that humans are also capable of doing such a scene, right?
＜460＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：19
Next is the second type——
The murderer is the one who took the deceased's heart after his death.
Although there are many ways to kill people, based on the situation at the scene, there are only two ways for the deceased to die under this if.
The first one is murder by poisoning;
Second, shooting.
＜463＞ Name: Cause 09/17 20:19
First of all, considering the circumstances at the scene and the need for the murderer to hide his own traces, the possibility of close combat was ruled out - in this way, whether the victim was strangled, stabbed to death with a knife, or strangled with a rope was impossible.
Moreover, according to the photos taken at the scene, it can be confirmed that there are no obvious injuries on the deceased's limbs, head, and neck.
By the way, since destroying the corpse after death is most likely an act of revenge by the murderer, the following reasoning is based on this point.
＜468＞ Name: Prayer for extension of deadline 09/17 20:18
Just think of it as reading a third-rate suspense novel...
Let me see your reasoning.
After all, even on this website, there are people who think that Kaguya Hime Komatsuri does not exist, or that this case has nothing to do with Kaguya Hime Komatsuri, right?
＜470＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：20
In addition to the pool of blood, another reason to rule out the possibility of close combat is the murderer's act of revenge.
If the murderer had engaged in close combat with the deceased and successfully killed the deceased with an object at hand, the deceased would definitely have been inflicted with multiple wounds on the body by the murderer using the murder weapon, and the wounds would have been in different locations; there would not have been a situation where there were no obvious scars on the limbs and head as shown in the scene photos.
However, due to incomplete clues, we do not know the real reason why the murderer took the victim's heart - revenge is only the most likely possibility.
Therefore, in order to facilitate the subsequent reasoning, we temporarily define the characteristics of the murderer as follows:
A type that holds grudges against the dead and has a special obsession with dirty things.
＜475＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：20
Let’s start with the possibility of poisoning.
Let's go back to the day when the incident happened.
The deceased may have been attending a party with friends, or had an argument with family, or may have been working - so he was still on the empty street late at night.
But before he could return home or go any further, he collapsed at this fork in the road.
Although it looks cool to use cyanide or chemicals to kill enemies on the spot in movies and TV shows, the death is so fast that the people at the scene will definitely be suspected, and the police can basically find the location of the poison 100% - so in order to hide their tracks, the murderer in this case would definitely not use these fast-acting poisons.
In other words, the crime scene was at a three-way intersection - a very accidental thing.
Because the murderer could not determine where the victim would go when the poison took effect - the murderer could only follow the victim, but could not force the victim to wait for death at the fork in the road.
＜476＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：20
However, the fact that the deceased fell at the fork in the road was an accidental event in this possibility, but it was definitely a favorable development for the murderer.
＜477＞ Name: Don’t want to go to work 09/17 20:20
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＜478＞ Name: Kuebiko 09／17 20：20
Just as we associate the scene with the living sacrifice of Kaguya Hime, the murderer will certainly use the existence of ghost stories to hide his traces!
＜480＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：21
That's right.
At the fork in the road, a corpse with a part of its body missing—
Anyone who hasn't studied this strange story over and over again will definitely believe that this was done by the living sacrifice Kaguya-hime, right?
After all, the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime is a story about taking parts of others to reassemble a complete version of oneself.
Even if Kaguya-hime does not exist and is a character played by someone else, there will definitely be police officers who pay attention to ghost stories and will be misled in this direction.
In this way, the suspicion on the real criminal is reduced - it is the same principle as copycat crimes. There have been many similar incidents before, so even if it was done by other people, as long as there are enough similarities, there is a high probability that it will be attributed to the first perpetrator.
After all, the person who is suspected to be playing the role of Kaguya-sama and the murderer of this death case have not been revealed in the information released by the police so far - because when it comes to copycat crimes, as long as the first perpetrator or the subsequent perpetrators are caught, it will be possible to tell who committed each of the cases.
As for the method of removing the heart without affecting the formation of a pool of blood, it has already been mentioned in the previous possibility.
＜481＞ Name: Prayer for extension of deadline 09/17 20:21
What about the if of the shooting?
＜482＞ Name: Cause 09/17 20:21
If it was a shooting, it means the murderer had planned from the beginning to frame the case on the living sacrifice Kaguya.
After all, gunshot can determine the location of death.
＜483＞ Name: Holiday Prayer 09/17 20:21
However, if it was a shooting, the sound of the gunshot would wake up the nearby residents, right?
Although most residents of XXX town do not have a nightlife and rarely go out at night, the sound of gunfire would definitely alarm the local residents, right?
＜484＞ Name: Cause 09/17 20:21
Silenced gun - anyone who can get a gun must also have channels to get a matching silencer.
Although it is not completely silent, as long as the dead person's heart is hit at a distance, it will not alert local residents to go out to check the situation.
＜485＞ Name: I can’t move anymore 09/17 20:21
The bullet head and bullet casing can be taken away by the murderer, but what about the bullet marks on the body?
＜486＞ Name: Cause 09／17 20：21
Although the murderer is assumed to be a type with a special obsession with the mind...
However, this possible murderer decided to imitate the scene of the living festival Kaguya Hime attacking the dead before committing the crime.
Because the pool of blood had already formed before the murderer took the victim's heart, the murderer could safely hide any trace of his presence here by simply avoiding the pool of blood.
In order to make the scene look like a living sacrifice where Kaguya Hime attacked the dead, the murderer would make the wounds on the corpses look less like those caused by humans - the part of the tissue where the bullet entered was cut off and taken away by the murderer during the treatment process.
As for where all this tissue ends up—as I said at the beginning, the stomachs of wild animals are a good place.
Isn't it?