"You mean, this guy committed suicide?”
"Death in the secret chamber. If it was suicide, it makes sense.”
Officer Megure, who had no opinion of his own, nodded with some doubt and some trust.
Anyway, whatever the detective said was true!
"Suicide?"
"The victim was stabbed in the back."
"If I commit suicide, how am I supposed to stab myself in the back?”
Maori Kogoro questioned loudly.
"That's right!"
"It's impossible for a person to stab himself in the back.”
"So, it should still be a homicide case!”
Officer Megure clapped his hands and nodded.
"Uncle, take this knife and try to stab me in the back.”
Makoto Higashino took out a sharp kitchen knife from the kitchen and handed it to him.
"Stab you?"
"Is that so?"
Maori Kogoro moved slowly and stabbed him in the back.
"Stop!"
Makoto Higashino suddenly shouted.
Everyone's gazes also gathered over.
"Don't move!"
"And then?"
"What are you trying to say?"
Although Maori Kogoro did not understand, he maintained a stabbing posture.
"Uncle, why is the way you held the knife different from the way the victim was stabbed?”
Makoto Higashino asked with a smile.
"Different?"
"How is it different…"
Weng!
Maori Kogoro looked at the dead man on the ground and stopped talking.
His mind went blank as if he had been electrocuted.
It was also a pointed kitchen knife, but he held it with the blade facing down.
The blade of the knife on the victim's body was facing upwards.
How could a normal person hold a knife with the blade facing up?
This was too strange!
"Brother Mao Li, what exactly happened?”
Officer Megure urged anxiously.
"Police Chief Mu Mu, try using the knife.”
Maori Kogoro did not answer, but handed him the knife.
"Me?"
"What's wrong?"
Officer Megure took the kitchen knife and held it in his hand.
However, he still did not understand.
"Your blade is facing down."
Makoto Higashino reminded.
"Blade facing down?"
"Isn't this normal?"
"Who holds a knife with the blade facing up?”
Officer Megamu said in a bad mood.
What were these detectives up to?
"Yes!"
"And it's right in front of you!"
Maori Kogoro pointed at the dead man on the ground.
He was stabbed in the back, but the blade was facing upwards.
If it was a murder case, why would the murderer hold the knife with the blade facing up?
This was a human instinct to protect themselves.
Facing the blade upwards was equivalent to leaving the danger to himself. It didn't seem like something a murderer would do.
Moreover, even if they did not use their brains or think, a normal person would naturally choose to face the blade down.
"This…"
"It's indeed very strange!"
Officer Megure nodded as if he had understood what she meant.
"It is indeed strange, but this still doesn't prove that the victim committed suicide.”
Maori Kogoro said.
"What if that's the case?"
Makoto Higashino took the kitchen knife and placed it on the ground with the tip facing up.
Then, he picked up an apple with his other hand and smashed it at the tip of the knife.
Instantly!
The sharp kitchen knife pierced through the apple.
"This, this is…"
Gulp!
Maori Kogoro swallowed his saliva.
"What is this?"
"Tell me, Brother Mao Li, Brother Dong Ye!”
Officer Megure urged.
He kept calling him 'Younger Brother', and had already treated Dongye Makoto as one of his own.
"If that's the case, then this chair makes sense.”
Maori Kogoro was like a poor student who had been taught the steps to solve a problem by a teacher. He understood everything in an instant.
"I mean, the victim had the knife fixed to the floor.”
"He stood on the chair and fell back hard.”
"Using gravity, using your own weight to stab a knife through your own back and complete a murder.”
Makoto Higashino said indifferently.
"But, what is the reason for doing this?”
"If you wanted to commit suicide, you wouldn't have to go through so much trouble, right?”
Officer Megure asked in confusion.
Was this dead person bored?
Or did he want to deliberately cause trouble for the police?
"Of course it's to frame her!”
Makoto Higashino smiled as he looked at Yoko Okino, who was standing in the distance.
"The victim died in Miss Yoko's house, so she must be the first suspect.”
"A popular idol was taken away by the police as a suspect in a murder case.”
"Even if she's acquitted in the end, her reputation will be ruined, and her career will definitely plummet!”
"The victim didn't expect that Miss Yoko would bring so many people home, so she was cleared of suspicion.”
Makoto Higashino explained.
"I see!"
Officer Megure nodded.
"Damn it, he actually wanted to harm the cute Miss Yoko!”
"This guy is too despicable!”
Before Okino Yoko and Yamagishi Ei could say anything, Maori Kogoro was already filled with righteous indignation, as if he wanted to whip his corpse for revenge.
"But, we didn't find any tools to fix the knife at the scene.”
A police officer from the forensics department asked curiously.
"Can't we just use ice cubes?"
"Use ice to stabilize it first. When the ice melts into water, it will disappear from the scene.”
"This is also the reason why the temperature of the air conditioner is so high. It is not to affect the judgment of the time of death, but to accelerate the melting of the ice and destroy the evidence.”
Makoto Higashino explained.
It was a very simple principle and a very simple technique.
Suicide cases disguised as murder often appeared in all kinds of reasoning anime, TV series, and movies. He had seen it countless times.
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