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| “ | One of those two girls is the one who killed Kirisawa Koushirou. | ” |
Half Murderer is third case in Manga Kindaichi Case File : Short File Series. Created by Seimaru Amagi and Yozaburo Kanari as Author and Fumiya Sato as Mangaka.
Story[]
The case begins when Kyoko Kaya asks Kindaichi to help him investigate a murder that happened at the Bianca Hotel. While Kindaichi is initially hesitant, she manage to convince him by promising to show him the content of her box if he agree. The previous night, the master of the Mugetsuryu Ikebana School was murdered and his body was found on the emergency stairs.
The case seemed straightforward when a hair belonging to the culprit was found on the victim. However, it turned out the daughters of the victim were twins, possessing the same DNA. Furthermore, since they weren't his blood daughters, they both had a motive as Koshiro was planning to marry to Akemi Todo which could have cost them a lot of money.
Kaya also points out the puzzling behavior of the culprit who deposed sunflowers on the entrance of the stairs and didn't chase the victim, instead letting him bleed to death after he fled. Kindaichi has to figure out why the culprit took such weird actions and which of the twins did it.
Characters[]
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| Hajime Kindaichi | Miyuki Nanase | Ryuji Saki | Kyoko Kaya | |
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| Koshiro Kirisawa | Beniko Kirisawa | Midoriko Kirisawa | Akemi Todo | |
Suspect List[]
- Beniko Kirisawa (20)
- Midoriko Kirisawa (20)
- Akemi Todo (36)
- Koshiro Kirisawa (54)
Cases[]
First Case[]
Conclusion[]
| Spoiler warning! This article contains plot details about an upcoming episode. |
The culprit is Beniko Kirisawa. She was afraid of being abandoned by Koshiro after he remarried. She also felt frustrated that Koshiro planned to make her sister the heir of the school despite Midoriko not being interested and Beniko trying to be the perfect daughter.
She had vertigo which explained why she didn't chase the victim once he fled to the stairs. The sunflowers were dropped to be easily seen from far away so she could check whether he was dead with binoculars (though they might also has been placed as a message to the victim's soul). It is also revealed by Akemi that they were in fact his true daughters.