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This is more like 2 questions and 12 related points than a single "counter question," but okay. Why does it have to be Rum who's using Kogoro to try and find the uploader? A rival of Rum's within the BO would be just as interested in a big mistake from his past. A chance to show up Rum and gain the Boss' favor and approval, and all at Rum's expense? A rival of Rum's definitely wouldn't pass such an opportunity up. For all we know—whether Kanenori is Rum or another high-ranking BO member—the Boss didn't authorize Kanenori to go investigate Kogoro. This could be a completely independent effort, on his part—either to clean up his 17-year-old mistake... or to do what his rival, Rum, couldn't, to show him up, and show the Boss who is really worthy.

Huh, I didn't know this particular week also led to spoiler pics coming out early.

Too shady, if you ask me. While I do think he's BO—and a high ranking member, in fact—I don't think he's Rum.

You are correct—and this is highly irregular, since spoiler pics typically come out on Friday. I have no idea why we're getting these two to three days early. There are currently 7 spoiler pics available for viewing. If you already know where to go to see them, then off you go. For those of you who do not know where to go to see them, then send me a PM and I will point you in the right direction. Also—there is no break next week. MK File 36 will officially be released on May 17th, so we can expect spoiler pics for it on Friday the 12th (I don't dare to hope for a repeat of this week's early spoiler pic release, but you can mark Tuesday the 9th as the earliest possible date we can expect MK File 36 spoiler pics, if you like)

So you're saying its not a BO sense that Shiho/Ai has?

Perhaps you can tell us why you think it being part of the plan is more likely than it not being part of the plan. As far as we know, Amanda was the one with the connections that made the BO want her out of the picture. Are you saying Koji had such connections, as well? Or did Amanda being a big fan of his, and the fact that, at the time, they ended up in the same hotel, lead to the BO making his elimination part of their plan (in other words, he was killed because of association to their main target and, also, proximity at the time they planned to assassinate her)?

He escorted the dead Amanda?

And there's also technically nothing to back up the age claims of many other characters, one-off or otherwise. So is Muga Rum? Or were he and Rumi both arrayed against Rum that day, 17 years ago?

Except for Shuichi/Subaru, though, there's no precedent for ages being inaccurate. So would you still declare his age fake if Shuichi hadn't faked his age as Subaru?

If he is really 30, though, then he was 13 when Koji Haneda and Amanda Hughes were killed. So you have to either assume that this is a Shuichi/Subaru situation (where Subaru was introduced as a 27 year old (in File 623/Episode 509), but Shuichi is really 31-32), or argue with confidence that Amanda Hughes had a 13 year old bodyguard.

RULES 1. Please use spoiler boxes until a full English translation is available. 2. NO DIRECT LINK to any Japanese scans (RAWs) or English scans (Japanese spoiler images are allowed as long as the amount and quality of which are very far away from a full scan). HOW TO USE A SPOILER BOX? Just simply type the following: [spoiler]Text you want to write[/spoiler] MK File 34 spoiler pics: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/5082882485 Break next week, due to this coming week's edition of SS being a double issue (22-23). MK File 35 will officially be released on May 10th, so we can expect spoiler pics for it on May 5th.

Just to let everyone know—993 spoiler pics aren't yet out. Seems they're late, this week. EDIT: 993 spoiler pics are now out (and here's the link, since they're only 5 of them): https://tieba.baidu.com/p/5076294074?pn=1 993 will release in SS #21, this Wednesday—unfortunately, we won't get the next DC file (994) until SS #27 releases. Basically, we're in for a month of waiting.

Very nice!

992 spoiler pics are out... and only 4 in total (so far), so I will provide the link in this thread (please note—if two more spoiler pics show up on tieba.baidu, I will have to remove this link, due to my personal policy when it comes to linking to spoiler pics, and you will once again have to ask in PM for it): https://tieba.baidu.com/p/5061053796 No break next week—993 spoiler pics should be out on the 14th.

Ah, gotcha.

In Japanese? Do you mind PMing me a link to that? An amendment to this—my apologies for not saying this on Friday—there is a break this week. Thus, we won't see 992 spoiler pics until next Friday (April 7th).

991 spoiler pics are out—10 pics in all, so contact me via PM if you want to know where to go. Apologies to anyone who asked for the 990 spoiler pic links this past week and got no response from me—my internet was on the fritz, this past week.

RULES 1. Please use spoiler boxes until a full English translation is available. 2. NO DIRECT LINK to any Japanese scans (RAWs) or English scans (Japanese spoiler images are allowed as long as the amount and quality of which are very far away from a full scan). HOW TO USE A SPOILER BOX? Just simply type the following: [spoiler]Text you want to write[/spoiler] 990 Spoiler Pics are out—a full 11 pages of the file are now available (I'll provide the direct link to them in a PM, for those of you who don't know where to go to see them, already—it's currently my policy not to provide direct links to spoiler pics in threads if there are more than 5 of them... sorry, but there have been too many instances where I've linked to, basically, a complete Japanese file, which is not allowed).

And no links even in PMs, right? Again, my apologies to you, the other mods, and everyone—I, especially considering how involved I've been with DCW and DCTP, should've known better.

I say go for it (if you have the time, of course)!

Is that against forum rules? Alright... I think I can attempt to help without setting myself up to get banned because of absent-mindedness... It was 20 years ago that Vermouth killed Jodie's father, and the files/episodes that showed a flashback to this event were: File 426 and File 427/Episode 343 and Episode 344 File 433/Episode 345

Then I'm being just straight-up incompetent... and between here and DCTP, I've showed a lot of incompetence, when it comes to links. And now I've gone and messed up when it came to the most important thing—avoiding further debacles with entities like Funimation. So, to be on the safe side, I might as well just not link to anything again, now—who knows what I'll unintentionally screw up with that, next...

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They died 17-18 years ago. Hyoue wound up in a coma 10 years ago—7-8 years after they died. If she's Rumi, then she's really not acting like "Hell's Angel." And how come she's that young, now? If she's wearing a disguise, did a disguise expert help her with it, and, if so, who?

They just translated it into English like that so it would reflect that, in Japanese, Hyoue wasn't referring to a specific gender.