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yeah, classic murder mystery 
Hen na E - Vol. 3 Ch. 9 - The Art Teacher's Final Drawing
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it took me 40 minutes because I'm dumb LOL
and probably going about it all wrong. The "something" I found could be something that I 'wanted' to find/see and I'll feel like a fool once the solution shows up
.My other issue is that there should be more sketches he made, and maybe the culprit took them for whatever reason. Unless he died as soon as he got to the mountain, there's no way he only made one sketch.
I've been trying to look if there were any significants to the 20th and 21st because the opening was "that day was supposed to become one of his best days ever". Nothing so far from the blog.
Reading back previous chapters, there's also a hint about the blog. Takeshi told his mom that there's a secret to his username "nanashinoren" .
The reporter's note might provide more insight and hints on how to solve the puzzles.
Time to wear my tinfoil hat again. Tsama has generously given us a timeline of events, so thanks Tsama.
Anyway, let's look at the timeline. Yuuta is born in 2009, and Yuki and Takeshi were married in 2007. This means Miura's murder happened 15 years before they are married. Yuuta's granny is way too old to be Miura's student so we can obviously rule that out. Then there is Yuki. If Yuki is a student at Miura's high school, she would be in her early 30s by 2007, 15 years later. Takeshi mentioned that Yuki is 6 years older than him in chapter, this does fit the current theory of "Yuki is the interviewed student", but that feels too simple, too obvious. There is also the fact that it doesn't really fit with the backstory of this entire story that has been established.
I think we can agree that the story of A-ko mentioned in chapter 1 is 100% related to this entire case. A-ko is told by the counselor to have murdered her own mother as a kid, and that the counselor said that A-ko should be a mother by now (2012). This implies that A-ko is 100% not the granny. Setting aside how the granny looks that much older than the counselor in chapter 1, the choice of words of "seems to be living happily as a mother" would feel incorrect with how old the granny is. You would think the counselor would say grandmother instead of mother.
This points towards A-ko being mostly likely Yuki, especially with how both A-ko and Yuki having a connection in drawing (which seems to be inherited by Yuuta). This now returns me to my previous point. If Yuki is truly the student of Miura that is interviewed, she shouldn't be the culprit of Miura's murder from what we know so far of her personality. Miura was murdered because he probably saw something he shouldn't see, and thus silenced. A high-schooler Yuki whose only murder was supposedly her own mother has no reason to do anything that she doesn't want to be seen. This isn't like Detective Conan where one of the interviewed people is the culprit, that would make it too obvious, which makes me believe the interviewed people are red herring.
My current theory is that there are actually two crimes in the backstory. One that is committed by Yuki (if she is truly A-ko), and one that is committed by the granny (hence why she hides her face and identity). In the picture that Miura drew, there is something that looks like two people standing in the middle of the drawing, which lends more credence to my theory that Miura saw something and got silenced for it. Given that he was stabbed repeatedly, my theory is that this is related to whatever crime Yuuta's granny committed (she has propensity to stab someone), and thus why she was being hidden by Takeshi. I think, very ironically, that if Yuki is A-ko, then her murdering her mother mentioned in chapter 1 might not be related at all to why she is killed. The reason Yuki is killed might be related to the granny's backstory instead and Yuki is just an unfortunate victim (who might just go along with it because of her guilt over killing her mother). Or it's the reverse, Yuki's death is related to her past, but the granny ironically got dragged into it atop of whatever she did and now she has to juggle both problems and hides her identity because of it.
But who knows, I might be very wrong lol.
Note: Uketsu is going to release the 4th work in the Strange series "Strange Map" at the end of this month, so yeah, more mystery shenanigans abound.
First of all, I think we can strike Miura's wife being Yuuta's granny. As we know now, the grandma's existence is hidden by Ren/Takeshi, so if she committed a crime to do with her husband's death, I think she won't be so readily interviewed by a reporter like that if she did kill her husband. Also Miura's surname is, well, Miura, not Konno. While changing surname is a thing in Japan, I don't see any reason why Miura's wife would change her surname and her son's all of a sudden (in Japan it's mandatory for one household to have the same surname, hence Yuki also being Konno Yuki). In fact I think changing surname would be even more suspicious.
Anyway, let's look at the timeline. Yuuta is born in 2009, and Yuki and Takeshi were married in 2007. This means Miura's murder happened 15 years before they are married. Yuuta's granny is way too old to be Miura's student so we can obviously rule that out. Then there is Yuki. If Yuki is a student at Miura's high school, she would be in her early 30s by 2007, 15 years later. Takeshi mentioned that Yuki is 6 years older than him in chapter, this does fit the current theory of "Yuki is the interviewed student", but that feels too simple, too obvious. There is also the fact that it doesn't really fit with the backstory of this entire story that has been established.
I think we can agree that the story of A-ko mentioned in chapter 1 is 100% related to this entire case. A-ko is told by the counselor to have murdered her own mother as a kid, and that the counselor said that A-ko should be a mother by now (2012). This implies that A-ko is 100% not the granny. Setting aside how the granny looks that much older than the counselor in chapter 1, the choice of words of "seems to be living happily as a mother" would feel incorrect with how old the granny is. You would think the counselor would say grandmother instead of mother.
This points towards A-ko being mostly likely Yuki, especially with how both A-ko and Yuki having a connection in drawing (which seems to be inherited by Yuuta). This now returns me to my previous point. If Yuki is truly the student of Miura that is interviewed, she shouldn't be the culprit of Miura's murder from what we know so far of her personality. Miura was murdered because he probably saw something he shouldn't see, and thus silenced. A high-schooler Yuki whose only murder was supposedly her own mother has no reason to do anything that she doesn't want to be seen. This isn't like Detective Conan where one of the interviewed people is the culprit, that would make it too obvious, which makes me believe the interviewed people are red herring.
My current theory is that there are actually two crimes in the backstory. One that is committed by Yuki (if she is truly A-ko), and one that is committed by the granny (hence why she hides her face and identity). In the picture that Miura drew, there is something that looks like two people standing in the middle of the drawing, which lends more credence to my theory that Miura saw something and got silenced for it. Given that he was stabbed repeatedly, my theory is that this is related to whatever crime Yuuta's granny committed (she has propensity to stab someone), and thus why she was being hidden by Takeshi. I think, very ironically, that if Yuki is A-ko, then her murdering her mother mentioned in chapter 1 might not be related at all to why she is killed. The reason Yuki is killed might be related to the granny's backstory instead and Yuki is just an unfortunate victim (who might just go along with it because of her guilt over killing her mother). Or it's the reverse, Yuki's death is related to her past, but the granny ironically got dragged into it atop of whatever she did and now she has to juggle both problems and hides her identity because of it.
But who knows, I might be very wrong lol.
Note: Uketsu is going to release the 4th work in the Strange series "Strange Map" at the end of this month, so yeah, more mystery shenanigans abound.
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My general thought is that, the drawing is made on some sort of piece of scrap paper since it doesn't look like something you would typically draw on if your like going all the way out to a special location to draw, as opposed to like a art book or a canvas. So he had to specifically use it because he had no alternative.it took me 40 minutes because I'm dumb LOL
The "something" I found could be something that I 'wanted' to find/see and I'll feel like a fool once the solution shows up
My other issue is that there should be more sketches he made, and maybe the culprit took them for whatever reason. Unless he died as soon as he got to the mountain, there's no way he only made one sketch.
I've been trying to look if there were any significants to the 20th and 21st because the opening was "that day was supposed to become one of his best days ever". Nothing so far from the blog.
Reading back previous chapters, there's also a hint about the blog. Takeshi told his mom that there's a secret to his username "nanashinoren" .
The reporter's note might provide more insight and hints on how to solve the puzzles.
I'm also a bit curious to what you think you might have found, if your willing to drop it under like a spoiler.
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I'm also a bit curious to what you think you might have found, if your willing to drop it under like a spoiler.
What I found looks like a person on top of another person.
What he saw was a bridge.
so.... yeah.... I'm starting to think I got it all wrong.
Reading all the comments, I agree the girl from the first chapter is Yuki because of the age. The councilor looks younger compared to the granny, so it didn’t fit. And maybe Yuki is the female student.
But I still think the culprit is the granny, who I think is Miura's wife. Because if not her, then there is no reason why the reporter (Kumai) stalks the granny, even though it has been decades since the case. If the culprit is Yuki, then she has already died, so there is no more reason for Kumai to stalk the granny.
Edit: Also, if the granny is the culprit, it will fit with why she didn't want to go to the police.
But I still think the culprit is the granny, who I think is Miura's wife. Because if not her, then there is no reason why the reporter (Kumai) stalks the granny, even though it has been decades since the case. If the culprit is Yuki, then she has already died, so there is no more reason for Kumai to stalk the granny.
Edit: Also, if the granny is the culprit, it will fit with why she didn't want to go to the police.
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