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Originally Posted by ALPHA-Beatrice
I still can't fathom why Krauss, assuming he's embezzling money from Krauss, allows his corpse to stay in his father's room for a year and a half?
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Because, in case he is actually kept in the study, this is the safest room to keep him. His occult hobby leaves enough room to put all kinds of incenses, perfumes and horribly smelling substances in the room that cover any smell that Kinzo's corpse might produce. Considering that there are enough stories of corpses being discovered years after people died in their own apartment and the study is practically a fortress it's not even necessary that any odor would be noticeable if only slightly concealed.
Also, visitors only come to the island on a rare basis and with the obvious assistance of the servants it's not hard to create the illusion of "hermit Kinzo" for at least a while. On the mainland or outside the mansion, somebody could have stumbled over the digging site, a dog or bird might have dug up a bone, even in the ocean there's the risk of him being washed ashore somewhere else.
Also, it is exactly that point that Kinzo needed to be alive for Krauss' purposes.
He not only used the Ushiromiya fortune as collateral but also the island itself. As soon as Kinzo had been declared dead, people would have come to collect on Krauss and that would have shown that he has nothing and would have thus lost even their home.