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

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