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Opera House Murder Case (オペラ座館殺人事件 Opera Zakan Satsujin Jiken), alternatively titled The Opera House Murders, is the first story arc of The Case File of Kindaichi File series and the first main story arc of the entire story.
Story[]
When members of the Drama Club in Fudo High School travel to a private island, where an opera house is located, to hone their craft in preparation for the annual National High School Drama Contest, Miyuki gets Kindaichi to join the Drama Club members for the trip after three members unexpectedly quit. Neither of them, however, anticipated the events to take a dramatically deadly turn after the members arrive at the opera house.
Characters[]
Suspect List[]
- Yutaka Sendo (17) - 2nd Year Fudo High School Student.
- Shuichiro Kamiya (17) - 2nd Year Fudo High School Student.
- Ryoko Saotome (18) - 3rd Year Fudo High School Student.
- Mitsuhiko Fuse (18) - 3rd Year Fudo High School Student.
- Natsuyo Ogata (??) - Fudo High School Teacher.
- Harumi Kiryu (17) - 2nd Year Fudo High School Student.
- Yuji Arimori (17) - 2nd Year Fudo High School Student.
- Isamu Kenmochi (48) - Inspector of Tokyo Metropolitan Police HQ.
- Kagetsu (??) - Mysterious Guest.
- Orie Hidaka (17) - 2nd Year Fudo High School Student.
- Kazuma Kurosawa (??) - Owner of Opera House.
- Eisaku Yuki (42) - Doctor.
Cases[]
First Case[]
Second Case[]
Third Case[]
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Fourth Case[]
Related Case[]
Conclusion[]
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The culprit is Yuji Arimori. He falls off from his chair, on which Ryoko should have sat, in order to dogde a timed crossbow shot he he devised beforehand, unknowing that Kindaichi had forwarded his wristwatch by ten minutes thus showing himself as the killer. He, Fuyuko's lover, committed the murder because he and Fuyuko overheard Orie, Harumi and Ryoko belittling Fuyuko's not telling anyone about the sulphuric acid incident by saying Fuyuko is a "good girl" one day before Fuyuko's suicide.
In preparing the murder, he came to Uta island one day before drama club's training came and checked in as "Kagetsu". After forbidding anyone from entering his room, he secretly left the island using an inflatable rubber motor boat he carried in the big suitcase he left after ransacking the room so that he could come in the next day with other drama club members.
In order to kill Orie and gain alibi, he first recorded Orie's scream using the theatre's sound equipment during rehearsal. He then called Orie to the theatre stage before dinner and asked her to wait there. He also lowered the stage curtain and put Orie's recorded scream on timer set to play when everyone else inculding him was in the dining hall. Immediately after the scream was heard, he rushed to the theatre, dropped the stage light on her and raised the curtain. Hidaka didn't hear the scream herself because the stage curtain isolated sounds coming from entering the back of the curtain. However, Orie's voice tape as found by Ms. Ogata which resulted in Yuji killing her on impulse.
For Harumi's murder, he looped wire around Harumi's room window and strangled her from Orie's room located directly above Harumi's. Yuji climbed down using the wire, walked on muddy ground wearing Harumi's shoes to a nearby tree and hanged her corpse there. He left the scene through grassy area in order not to leave footprints.
He tried to trick everyone by making them believe Kagetsu jumped from the window to lower Ryoko's guard. This act, however, made Kindaichi suspicious of Yuji because no muddy footprint could be found on a window from where Kagetsu supposed to jump, making the first person Kindaichi met on the hall, Yuji himself, as the culprit.
Another Death After Conclusion[]
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(17 Feb 1993)
(Containing Chapter 1-4)
(17 Apr 1993)
(Containing Chapter 5-6)