Shigeki Kuronuma (黒沼 繁樹) is a legal adviser and lawyer to the wealthy Takeshi Higaki.
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When Yuika, who was his lover, misunderstood that Kuronuma was in distress and entered the snowy mountains, even though it was a winter mountain, she met Sekura, Masui, and the Dozaki brothers who were lightly equipped and fainted. Four people took the equipment for themselves under the pretext of emergency evacuation and left her to freeze to death.
Although they killed someone, it was clear that they could not be charged with a serious crime, so after much thought, Kuronuma decided to take revenge. In the incident, he disguised his motive as inheritance purpose and drew his next life into accomplice, and while making an alibi while using Kazushi.
As a lawyer who is well versed in law, his tricks are quite clever and nasty. With the trick of simultaneously playing two roles and one role for two people.
Throughout the series, the culprit has never been a person who wears a mask on a daily basis (if you look at the two roles of the true culprit) . He became the first true culprit to break the unspoken pattern of the series . It can be said that the blatant suspicion is also misleading on the contrary.
After the crime was exposed due to a minor mistake by Tsuguo, he tried to commit suicide by jumping into the snowy mountains, but was saved by Hajime, Yamada , and Takahashi . After that, he chose to live and atone for his sins.
Kindaichi couldn't lift Sekura's kerosene tank, and Miyuki lifted her own tank without any problem, which was supposed to be the same weight. This is because the Sekura's tank contained not with kerosene but the torso of Sekura's corpse. In other words, because the tank that Kindaichi tried to hold was heavier, it seemed as if Miyuki had more power than him. Also, originally, Kindaichi was supposed to be the one carrying the tank containing the corpses . However, because he couldn't lift the kerosene tank containing the heavy corpse, Kenmochi was forced to take his place.
Furthermore, Hajime focuses on the "sunflower-patterned mug" that Tsuguo threw at the criminal. The reason why he chose it when there was something better to throw. Actually, it was his dying message showing the sunflower = lawyer badge.
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- Kuronuma is unusual as a culprit as throughout the series, the culprit has never been a person who wears a mask on a daily basis.