Hen na E - Vol. 4 Ch. 14 - As a Reporter

[MangaDex]

 

[Exkalamity]

Damn. He ded. And he left his own clue? I suppose next chapter we'll see how she got caught.

 

[Babymech2]

"As a reporter... What is it I do, again? Do I tell the truth? Do I use my words to inform and convince the public? Do I write? No, of course not - as a reporter I draw pictures."

 

[NerimaShinjuku]

Remember, MC is a terrible artist. Even those kids thought he sucked.

I think the drawing found was a copy of the Miura drawing that MC brought with him. We don't know what MC wrote on his own paper but presumably it was either taken by the killer or it wasn’t all that helpful since it took another 20 years to catch her.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[jrocker]

Damn the guy got himself murdered to it could be reopened and he left the note in order to get someone as smart to figure it out

 

[ARiceofGrain]

damn our mc (even if only for a lil while) really did sacc himself

 

[maddery]

What a terrible woman. Thankfully retribution came to her, even if it got delayed. Justice for our short-lived mc.

 

[fight2live]

damn

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Came here to type "damn". I was really hoping the newb reporter gonna get out of that safely too. Hopefully no statute of limitation bullshit coming.

 

[Umb3rus]

I gotta reread this at some point, there's probably so much foreshadowing that I missed

 

[alfirizkyr]

Holy hell.

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[aaaaa8]

People who sleep heavily are amazing, he got a rope wrapped around him multiple times without noticing, meanwhile I wake up from the sound of my cat moving
Anyway thanks for the chapter. I do wonder what the real secret behind the drawing is, since apparently his conclusion about it showing that Miura was still alive in the morning was wrong.....
The only thing I can think of is that it's saying something about the location of death being wrong??
maybe it's a grid with each square being a hiragana character lol, idk

"As a reporter... What is it I do, again? Do I tell the truth? Do I use my words to inform and convince the public? Do I write? No, of course not - as a reporter I draw pictures."

lmao

 

[Tsama0]

I think it's funny in a morbid sort of way that everyone's thoughts (including mine) were "damn." Alas, poor Iwata, we hardly knew ye.

The rest of the volume doesn't give any additional info about the murder, so I'll post my thought about Iwata's last "message." I suspect that, by drawing the same picture as Miura before he died, Iwata was trying to say that he was murdered in the same way as Miura. This was helped by Iwata replicating the events of the original murder down to the minute. Makes me wonder if granny/Naomi killed Iwata around the same time as Miura was killed (even though it's heavily implied, I hesitate to say Naomi murdered Miura since this isn't yet confirmed) since the "drawing shows the time of the murder" theory is now possibly out the window. Maybe through additional clues from Iwata's murder, the police (or maybe just Kumai) was able to figure out who killed Miura.

So I kinda get why Iwata drew the picture of the mountains. But if Iwata's theory was correct and Miura's drawing doesn't necessarily show the time of the original murder, then what was Miura trying to say? Still mulling over this.

 

[DF54235]

how did she put the ropes under him?

 

[nk2506]

So grandma is the real culprit, even though she had an alibi in the morning. This really suprise me. But after re-read, with how the author depicts grandma to look exactly like Yuki, I think the opposite is also true. The one appear with the son in the morning in chapter 10, was not the grandma but Yuki disguising as grandma. But if that is the case, i still dont know why Yuki involved in this case. Why killing Mr Miura with his wife when Yuki likes Mr Miura, shouldn't Yuki try to stop grandma from killing the one she loves.

 

[Tmacro]

As someone who has read the original book I really enjoyed and had a fun reading theories and how people interpret it, can’t wait for the next chapters! It’s a really good story and can’t wait to see peoples reactions

 

[chiliehead]

So it was the wife all along murdering everyone. Kinda seems like a real strong anti-rehabilitation message if she is also Ako. Iwata triggered too many death flags, but considering that only Yuki knew him, they both seem to collaborate (or it was enough for Yuki to simply tell Granny about the encounter). The point against collaboration is that there is little reason to kill Yuki years later, unless she wanted to come clean now that she became a mother and still thought about Miura. The friend might still have been involved initially but it seems like he was just murdered as a somewhat inconvenient bystander who annoyed Granny.

The reporter is pretty radical, just taking a bullet knife in order to frame her.