Volume 4 by Feelings to Protect

Author:Feelings to Protect
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-12T16:00:00+00:00

Which makes adipocere –

'Body fat candles?'

'That isn't it. After a person dies, if they are left under specific temperature conditions, such as a hot and humid location, the fat decomposes, becomes fatty acid, binds with the calcium or magnesium in the water and the whole body becomes something like soap.'

'Soap?'

It didn’t really fit in Gotou’s mind.

'Yes. In that state, the human body becomes like a wax figure and can be kept in that shape without decaying.'

Wasn’t this completely occult?

'Oi, old man!'

Gotou spoke up in disbelief.

'It's true. It's not sorcery or witchcraft – it's been proven in the medical field and is completely accepted,' said Hata as he sipped his tea.

Is that so – he hadn’t known.

No, that was wrong. Though it made sense for Hata, Yakumo and Ishii were the strange ones for knowing something like this.

Well, in any case he understood adipocere now. However, he still didn’t understand.

'What does that have to do with burning bones?'

'In order to burn a body including the bones, there are two methods. The first is burning the body at above six thousand degrees, as mentioned before.'

Hata raised a finger.

'And the other?'

'Burning the body at a low temperature for a long time. Well, it would be about ten hours.'

Ten hours –

'If there was a fire for that long there, it would've definitely spread to the school.'

Hata let out a creepy giggle at Gotou’s objection.

'You know about candles, right?'

'Of course I do.'

'Wax wraps around the string that makes the wick. When you light the wick, the wax melts as the wick slowly burns.'

Even Gotou understood that. But –

'People aren't candles.'

'Gotou-san, you should study a bit more,' interrupted Yakumo as he raked his fingers through his hair.

'What did you say?'

'Just that your knowledge is inadequate, Gotou-san. The human body is built incredibly similar to a candle.'

'What do you mean?'

'You can think of the fat underneath the skin of the human body as wax and the clothes a person wears as the wick,' said Yakumo, as if it were obvious.

So the wick was on the outside? It was the opposite of a normal candle. When the clothes caught fire, that heat would burn human body fat and it would burn out like a candle.

'But would it be that easy?'

'If thinking about it normally, it probably wouldn't go that well, no matter how similar the two are. Though it was different in the past, the clothes that are supposed to make up the wick are now made of materials that are difficult to burn,' said Hata as he scratched his chin.

'Then it won't work, right?'

'Now we return to the topic of adipocere.'

Yakumo put his index finger to his brow.

'Adipocere…'

'The fat in that corpse had probably saponified into adipocere.'

'Ah!'

Gotou unconsciously raised his voice at Yakumo’s explanation.

I see. The fat in the body decomposed by becoming adipocere, seeped into the clothes and made them easy to burn.

But –

'Why didn't the fire spread?'

Even if the fire started from the adipocere, there should have been other things to burn.

'It was a low-temperature fire,' replied Hata matter-of-factly.

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