Pen to Wappa to Jijitsu-kon - Ch. 9
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He was standing behind Tsugumi in the last page, couldn’t be him
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Dang it WAS her corpse, not a dummy body. I was wrong, and that was gruesome.
There are no other characters introduced in this arc, unless you count the other police officers, so unless it's a gag reveal (like "the culprit wouldn't admit to that!") then there's really no other choice. Honestly, if they do just point out the murderer at the beggining of the next chapter, then I'm officially calling BS. There are no solid clues shown here at all. The other arc at least had the missing ring on the culprit's hand (though the premise of a poison paralyzing and killing someone instantly is ridiculous and shows lack of reserach), this time nothing points to anyone at all.
There are bits that seem like clues, but ultimately, they're dead ends, examples:
- The statue is supposed to be the work of a graduate student of the victim. It might have been Suzuka before he became a teacher, but that's pure conjecture, we don't even know how old he is, much less if he knew the victim before his current job.
- The lipstick bit suggests that she was either going out or waiting for someone, but it could have just as easily been planted by the prepetrator.
- I was thinking the Yokohama pictures would be hiding some meaningful detail, like something pointing to it not really being Yokohama. It seems to be the opposite - the tower shown is a known landmark there. I also considered that maybe he'd be in different clothes between the pictures (due to the paint fiasco), but no, nothing obvious comes up. The pictures seem to provide a solid alibi if anything.
Since the time of death is only a rough estimate, she could have been murdered before the event. If we assume she was also supposed to be at the training event (again, no info), that would explain the lipstick, support this hypothesis and kind of point to Suzuka, since her being still at home would mean that he too wouldn't be expected there yet. However, we're not told at which hour the mentioned staff training started or when was the 30 min break, so this is again just a baseless conjecture.
There's also no real motive, unless we assume that the "young teacher" involved in the affair was Suzuka himself and he wanted to get her for messing it up. It still doesn't really make sense, since he pointed the finger at his would be lover... Also, he'd be a fool to even mention it without admiting his role in it, it's gonna come out anyway if it's such a well known incident.
So yeah, looks like the author has chosen the Kindaichi approach, where the manga simply does not show the crucial elements to the viewer, so that the conclusion is "shocking". Either that, or it's going to be an asspull, where the culprit has some flat out crazy "artistic vision" and that's why he's done it...
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Tfw no JK detective wifeI am just here for the romance.
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I re-read the chapter and found another clue: Suzuka wasn't wearing a tie in the Yokohama picture. Not a lot to go on tho.
What maybe happened: He killed her in Yokohama, put her in the car trunk and drove her home when he arrived at night. Would also explain why he stepped on the paint even though she was killed at noon.
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The quality of the raws is quite bad for this and the next few chapters, sorry~
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Suzuka's glasses changed from round to rectangular in the previous chapter. He also seem to have difficulty seeing things in this chapter. Page 9 spotting Goya from the photo, page 10 and 11 not seeing Kuchinashi's questions she wrote in her notebook until Kirisame prompted him.
My guess is Suzuka was the one who broke the sculpture, which relates to Goya's department and the victim Watahori. He is usually pretty careful, hence there were no evidence found at the scene. He then killed Watahori and somehow broke his glasses. When setting up the room he accidentally steppes on the paint tube due to the new glasses messing with his vision.
As for what was his motive, I think the person Goya was having an affair with was Watahori. Suzuka was the one disapproving of it and he killed Watahori and framed Goya.
My guess is Suzuka was the one who broke the sculpture, which relates to Goya's department and the victim Watahori. He is usually pretty careful, hence there were no evidence found at the scene. He then killed Watahori and somehow broke his glasses. When setting up the room he accidentally steppes on the paint tube due to the new glasses messing with his vision.
As for what was his motive, I think the person Goya was having an affair with was Watahori. Suzuka was the one disapproving of it and he killed Watahori and framed Goya.
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Man, I thought the previous chapter body was a mannequine but it was her, what abrutal way to abuse her body.
Everything points to glasses behind the culprit out of habit in reading detective works, but it looks almost too cliche.
Xwvivwx theory seems sound, the alibi remains a problem, even discarding the picture there are multiple witnesses.
Unless the alibi is just to save him around her time of death, is possible the time was faked by freezing her body, possibly in her own fridge, and for that her bones broke that way when she was brought out, or put in it, the mess in the apartment was to cover up the fridge.
The glasses breaking for some reason and him having to use bad spares works, the training took all day, he returned late and for avoiding suspicion placed her body in the dark, that made him break his original glasses when he slipped on the paint tube.
The letter was to frame the other teacher there, it should be easy to prove if the relationship was between them so lying about the victim ruining his marriage seems stupid, unless of course she did that by behind his lover, and glasses could only say he didn't knew the whole situation.
Murder out of hate because he loved her by hated how she was going for a married man, unable to kill a guy bigger than him he executed her.
Everything points to glasses behind the culprit out of habit in reading detective works, but it looks almost too cliche.
Xwvivwx theory seems sound, the alibi remains a problem, even discarding the picture there are multiple witnesses.
Unless the alibi is just to save him around her time of death, is possible the time was faked by freezing her body, possibly in her own fridge, and for that her bones broke that way when she was brought out, or put in it, the mess in the apartment was to cover up the fridge.
The glasses breaking for some reason and him having to use bad spares works, the training took all day, he returned late and for avoiding suspicion placed her body in the dark, that made him break his original glasses when he slipped on the paint tube.
The letter was to frame the other teacher there, it should be easy to prove if the relationship was between them so lying about the victim ruining his marriage seems stupid, unless of course she did that by behind his lover, and glasses could only say he didn't knew the whole situation.
Murder out of hate because he loved her by hated how she was going for a married man, unable to kill a guy bigger than him he executed her.
Noticed the tie too but with the second picture taken from the back, there's nothing to compare it to and he isn't wearing a suit at school, either the previous day or the next. If the author thinks that is enough to suggest that the tie was used to strangle her, then I'll seriously do the Picard maneuver
Your conjecture is fine too, though I'd expect to at least see a shot of the car or something (as it stands, who knows if he even has one - most Japanese use public transport) and definetly some info that she actually was at, or was supposed to attend the training. I'm not sure if it would explain the paint, unless you assume he never turned on the lights when carrying the corpse, which is weird since fumbling around in the dark won't help once he's already inside. Also, 22:30 isn't exactly late enough to significantly cut down on the chance that he bumps into someone - he could have been lying about the hour, but if there's no way to verify, then why even ask him?
Yeah, right now there's really nothing. This is will either be very funny or ball-shrivelingly stupid.
