Tesso no Ori - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - The Rat Monk

[MangaDex]

 

[sssr]

OK, the suddenly-appearing dead monk trick is pretty obvious now. He was killed while meditating, then allowed to freeze in the pose, then the killer who is another monk or someone dressed up as one hung him on the tree with some sort of time-delay release system. In order to do this he needed to pull some acrobatics and got spotted "flying".

 

[Lehw]

This police detective have a really bad personalities but he is drawn quite funny looking,
Sekigahara have such biased opinion on Enokizu lol, for me it make sense why doctor Kuonji call him because he did technically do his job and his abilities to able know information that only the culprit or enablers know, so if you want at least a clue to the underlying cause of why the crime happen then yeah Enokizu
The monk got killed by being hit on the neck, its that punishment thing Japanese monk do if they see you not properly meditating

 

[Pagemistress]

Ah, so now we have the murder method. He was strangled with a noose and a rather long and high up one, seeing as that poor lady said it looked like he flew up into the air. Of course, that was likely simply him being pulled up. Additional evidence lies in the direction of the strangulation mark on the neck being on a slant.

Once dead, his body was placed in a meditating position before rigor mortis and cold set in. The rope was used again, probably wrapped around his body now as opposed to just his neck, to hoist him into the air, likely using a tree branch, hence her later seeing him floating in the air.

The body later was most likely lowered to the ground, possibly into the garden directly, as if it was carried there footprints would be seen, to make it appear as a mystery corpse. I'm not sure how the rope was removed at this point, I admit.

I have no ideas as to who and why yet, but I have watched enough crimeshows with that murder method to be at least strongly positive about it being the cause.

 

[Pagemistress]

I'm throwing out strangulation with a rope of some kind of the murder method.