User blog comment:Firefist553/Review chapter 619/@comment-3422366-20110401210156

i don't think that Decken killed Otohime...it was the 'princess'(shirahoshi) who had an encounter with the poisonous fang of decken and it was 'ill timed' as her mother, the Queen, had just died (most probably because of a separate incident which will be revealed in the subsequent chapters)and it was sad that the princess could not even attend her funeral service as she was being protected against decken.