Officer Takagi had come prepared and pulled out his notebook. "The exact cause of death will have to wait for the autopsy, but judging from the general condition of the body, he likely died between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. The cause of death was probably drowning."
There was slight bleeding in the victim's ears, and a considerable amount of mushroom-like foam had accumulated around his nose and mouth. These tiny white bubbles, formed when respiratory mucus was churned up by violent breathing, often remained for a long time and were a common sign of drowning while still alive. Their presence at least showed that the victim had not been dumped into the water after death.
Mouri Ran had never expected that the diving star whose autograph she had finally worked up the nerve to ask for that afternoon would die so miserably in the water that very night.
She touched the out-of-print signature in her little notebook, deeply moved as she lamented life's unpredictability. "A diver should be a very strong swimmer, right? How could he suddenly drown?"
Jodie: "..." Probably because someone had gotten their hands on him.
But she could not jump to conclusions either—what if, what if this really was just an accidental case?
Conan noticed something and crouched down, pointing. "There's something strange about his forehead. It looks like he hit something—look, there's blood too."
"He hit his head, then drowned?"
The two pieces of information came together in his mind. Inspector Megure looked up at the diving platform overhead and suddenly understood. "I see! It looks like he accidentally smashed his head against the platform while practicing diving, then lost control of his limbs, fell into the water in a daze, and drowned just like that."
President Saeki and her pretty boy were nearby as