Jiang Xia politely paused, waiting for the police to rush over and pull apart the suspects who were fighting. Only then did he continue regretfully:
"After luring President Kusaka into the courtyard, Mr. Nonaka took the opportunity to strangle him, used the stolen key to activate the security system, then put the key back into the victim's pocket."
Inspector Megure nodded as he listened, but at this point, he looked a little confused. "But wouldn't that seal the room? Yet when you found the body, I remember President Kusaka was lying in the middle of the wine cellar, right between two cabinets."
"What's so hard about that?" Suzuki Sonoko jumped in. "The security system only took effect after the window was closed again. But right after he killed the victim, wasn't the window still open?"
She gestured at the size of the wine cellar window. "That window looks pretty wide to me. It wouldn't be hard to stuff a person through it. Mr. Nonaka must have aimed carefully and tossed President Kusaka through the window into the center of the room—this would also explain why so many bottles of red wine got knocked down."
Conan's head hurt whenever he heard her and Mouri Kogoro's deductions, and he could not help interrupting. "Leaving aside how much strength it would take to throw someone that far, if that were really what happened, the body's legs couldn't have ended up tucked beneath it. And it definitely couldn't have happened to knock down bottles from only one side while leaving the cabinet on the other side completely untouched."
An officer from the Forensics Department nodded as well. "The victim had no impact injuries from a fall. He was purely strangled to death."
"I see..." Suzuki Sonoko nodded, but she was not discouraged. She was