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Yoko Asano (浅野 ゆう子 (あさの ようこ) Asano Yōko) is the mathematics teacher at Shinokura Academy. She's accused of being the culprit of all the series of cruel pranks and soon the murder of Shinokura Academy students. She gives Hajime the task to solve the ongoing mystery.
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Personality[]
She has both kindness and sternness, and in order not to forget the students who graduated normally, but also the students who committed suicide, she keeps a photo album with detailed personal information written on it, and commemorates them.
History[]
She has many people who adore her, but there are also many who dislike her as much. She was called a perverted woman with a hobby. First, she asked Hajime to investigate and solve the chicken hanging case, but she was taken away many times as the prime suspect in murder cases, and her grandfather was the leader of the prison group hanging, which is the origin of "hanging school". is also known.
Thanks to Hajime, it turns out that she is innocent, but as per the Furuya clan's plot, she is dismissed by Kume and leaves the school. She plans to make a fresh start as a cram school teacher in her hometown, but is exposed as the true culprit of this incident is "Hell's Lullaby" . A few months ago, she witnessed one of the students, Fukamachi, being bullied, and after that, the two began to consult with each other several times. One day, she finds herself attracted to Fukamachi as a woman, and falls in love with him. However, due to bullying by Furuya and others, he commits suicide by hanging himself. Fukamachi died and she was spending her days in disappointment. One day, she heard words she shouldn't have heard.
Fukamachi didn't commit suicide, but the truth that he was killed by Furuya and others and the moment she saw the three of them saying this with a devilish smile , something inside her broke. Driven by hopeless despair and hatred, she vows revenge on Furuya and the others.
The precision of her tricks, double and triple psychological tricks, the feat of being arrested by the police on purpose and then being released immediately, using Kindaichi's reasoning powers to completely deceive him halfway through.
By using her position as a teacher, the system that changes seats for each test, and the indifference of the students to other students, Muroi is the only one to take the next test, so that he can live later than he actually is. pretended to be.
In addition, by delaying the discovery of Muroi's corpse, he decomposed the corpse and interfered with the accurate estimation of the time of death. Secured alibi simultaneously in two incidents.
In the chicken incident, in addition to checking the numbers, it was also a dry run to see if the answer sheets for the previous few tests would be bloodied and discarded. Since it turned out that ``only Muroi's answer for a certain time was missing,'' it was necessary to dispose of it in a way that did not draw attention to the answer itself.)
In this way, her plan itself is all perfect, and the evidence is nothing but external factors.
If it weren't for Muroi's cheating answer and Nito's (drama version, Furuya)'s writing pressure, Kindaichi would have lost completely. In fact, the plan to use one's reasoning power to completely deceive and lead to the wrong truth, even if it was halfway, was something that even some criminal artists could not do, and it was a success. She is the only one before and after.
After her arrest, she attempted suicide many times, but with the truth of Fukamachi's posthumous work "Lullaby" and Kindaichi's encouragement, she regained the will to live.
Relationships[]
Victims[]
Total victim : 3
- Naoki Furuya (Hanged)
- Nobuyuki Nito (Hanged)
- Yaichi Muroi (Hanged)
Etymology[]
- The name Yoko means "child" (子) (ko).
- Yoko's surname Asano means "shallow" (浅) (asa) and "field, wilderness" (野) (no).