Pen to Wappa to Jijitsu-kon - Vol. 1 Ch. 7

[MewOne]

I bet its a drawing of him nude

 

[NotSomeone]

Not "your bad" at all. I raised that possibility in another chapter's thread, but as I suspected, the author doesn't research anything about his own plot devices. Aconitine is indeed "fast acting" but that means it acts in the ballpark of about 2 hours rather than dozens, mere seconds is just impossible to even circulate where it needs to go. Not only that, it's not a magic spell to be able to "totally paralyze" someone immediately after injection. When the symptoms would begin manifesting, the guy should still be able to move, have difficulty breathing and overall begin to suffer - nothing happens at once, nevermind instantly. Who in their right minds would still pretend to be a corpse under such circumstances? Also, a small needle coated in the stuff could hardly deliver the 2 mg or so of the substance to be fatal. This is more and more like Scooby Doo indeed...

Yeah, they could've just said "It was an extremely fast acting poison" instead of naming it.
Also, the police would not rule it as suicide that fast even in this case.
1. How did he get his hands in Aconite? Did he research it? Where did he buy it?
2. If the poison was injected in his arm through a needle, that detail would 100% show up in autopsy

 

[finalm]

Yeah, they could've just said "It was an extremely fast acting poison" instead of naming it.
Also, the police would not rule it as suicide that fast even in this case.
1. How did he get his hands in Aconite? Did he research it? Where did he buy it?
2. If the poison was injected in his arm through a needle, that detail would 100% show up in autopsy

I wouldn't have mattered, honestly. A poison that paralyzes in mere seconds simply does not exist, that's too fast to even engage the mechanisms in the body to cause any symptoms. The most rapid acting poisons known to man (like cyanide or strychnine) still need a couple of dozens of minutes at best.
1. That's actually simple. It's produced by a plant called wolfsbane, also know as monkshood. As far as I know, you can legally cultivate them in most jurisdictions.
2. It would be visible even to the casual observer, since the injection happened at the time the police were on the scene. Even if there was no blood, there would be a mark. If the police in this series would be 1/10 as competent as regular cops, there would be no intrigue at all...