Ryuta Saki is Hajime's and Miyuki's kouhai (junior) in Fudo High School. He is also a member of its Mysteries Research Club, and accompanies Hajime in many murder cases.
Appearance[]
Personality[]
He first appeared in School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case and was a first year student who belonged to Fudo High School's Mystery Club. He always use his own video camera to take pictures of things around him.
This behaviour makes him a bit creepy, like voyeurism-like peeping through shadows and crevices, and hiding his presence and sneaking up on others. However, the images captured by the camera were a great help to Kindaichi's deduction.
Compared to his little brother Ryuji Saki, Ryuta is somewhat gloomy and not as straightforward as his brother.
History[]
School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case[]
He's a shady guy who always carries around a video camera. In the drama version (Michieda version), due to the change in the setting of the times, he is shooting videos with a smartphone fixed to his selfie stick.
According to Kenmochi, who confirmed his alibi, he seems to be already living alone in his first year of high school. However, it was later revealed that he had a family, so it's a mystery why he lives alone even though Fudo High School wasn't particularly far away. It's likely the educational policy of parents who want to encourage independence.
He had heard about the "Seventh Wonder" from his cousin, who was an alumnus of the same school. However, although he was silent, probably because he was afraid of the curse, he finally opened his mouth when Kenmochi heard about it.
Western-style Hotel Murder Case[]
It seems that he was completely impressed by Kindaichi's excellent reasoning in his first debut, and at the request of Inspector Tawarada, he followed Kindaichi and Miyuki and came to Hakodate.
Although he recorded the state of the incident on a video camera by himself as an assistant, he accidentally filmed the definitive evidence of the criminal's trick, and when he noticed it, he was strangled to shut his mouth.
However, despite his only two appearances, his death received a bigger response than expected from readers.
The author also realizes that his existence brings about a great advantage in terms of theatrical performance, ``being able to re-present important scenes to the reader as images captured by a video camera''.