Before long, as Jiang Xia pulled open the car door, the word "seemed" could be removed—this president really was dead.
Mizunashi Rena walked over to Jiang Xia's side and peered into the car. To her surprise, President Teraizumi had no bullet hole in his forehead. His condition looked more like carbon monoxide poisoning.
"The engine wasn't off, and he was sitting inside the car," muttered the three small-company presidents who had run over to watch. "He must've been suffocated by carbon monoxide."
When a parked car was left running, its engine idled, and incomplete fuel combustion could easily produce large amounts of carbon monoxide.
If someone was then sitting in the sealed car with the air conditioning set to recirculate, the carbon monoxide concentration inside would rise rapidly, silently sending the occupant to their death.
"Will Of Heaven!" The three small-company presidents were thrilled. "It really is Will Of Heaven! We didn't even have to smash the car—he died in an accident all by himself."
Mizunashi Rena, however, felt something was wrong. If she had not encountered Gin and Vodka here, she probably would not have thought much of it. But Gin had just met with this president, and President Teraizumi had immediately "accidentally" gone to the afterlife... Though it did not quite fit Gin's usual killing methods, no matter how she looked at it, Mizunashi Rena found it hard to believe the two were unrelated.
Once she had doubts, Mizunashi Rena noticed something odd when she looked again: the driver's-side window was not sealed shut! It had been lowered by around five centimeters, leaving an opening in the car.
"But President Teraizumi's state of death really is highly typical of carbon monoxide poisoning..."
Mizunashi Rena frowned at the scene, feeling that everything about it was exceedingly strange. Combined with