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I'm just tired to make theories,I'll wait patiently for Gosho to reveal everything.I'm not saying you're right or wrong...But I do admire you for putting so much effort to explain how subaru could be two persons in deguises.

 

Concerning amuro's flashback  it was clear it was Elena,she looks exactly like the woman we saw in volume 42,and since Amuro said he met Ai's family...Gosho didn't exactly reveal anything about her,he just said he will explain later why Elena appears in Amuro's flashback.

 

As for the mystery girl,I personally think it's the middle brother.Conan guessed it's a girl but he could be wrong (just like he was with Sera).Also the girl seems to be very smart,and looks a bit sick.It could fit with what Sera said,since for her Akai is the strong brother ,and the middle bro is the smart one.

Finally her hair color is different from Sera and Akai,that also fit with what Sera said,about the middle bro who doesn't ressembles Akai and Sera.But I think Chekhov already listed all the possibilities concerning that little girl.^^

 

Just a side note,I think you should read Gosho's interviews,because he sometimes give important clues concerning the plot(for example he revealed that Amuro/akai rivalry isn't about Akemi...)

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Concerning amuro's flashback  it was clear it was Elena,she looks exactly like the woman we saw in volume 42,and since Amuro said he met Ai's family...Gosho didn't exactly reveal anything about her,he just said he will explain later why Elena appears in Amuro's flashback.

I'll check it out. But on the image I saw, her hairs were dark brown and had a different form from Amuro's "mother" (who appeared to be blond), so I thought it wasn't the same person.

 

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As for the mystery girl,I personally think it's the middle brother.Conan guessed it's a girl but he could be wrong (just like he was with Sera).Also the girl seems to be very smart,and looks a bit sick.It could fit with what Sera said,since for her Akai is the strong brother ,and the middle bro is the smart one.

Finally her hair color is different from Sera and Akai,that also fit with what Sera said,about the middle bro who doesn't ressembles Akai and Sera.But I think Chekhov already listed all the possibilities concerning that little girl.^^

The mysterious girl has the same eyes than Masumi ans Shuichi who look a lot like their mother. So it could be her or it could be family from her side (such as an aunt or a cousin). It could also be the middle brother, though that possibility bugs me a little. Masumi insists on the fact that they don't look alike, still they have the same eyes. I have mixed feelings about this possibility.

 

As for the sickness, APTX-4869's victims appear to be quite vulnerable when they're sick so it might not be so out of the ordinary. Also the two appearances of the girl (as a photo on the phone and then in real life) were very close so, with Masumi wanting Conan to see the picture (she might have put it on purpose at the time), it doesn't necessarily mean that she's been sick permanently. But it's just a guess, I can't draw any conclusion on that yet. Maybe the poison is truly destroying her body or anything, I don't know.

 

On the other side, maybe it seems a little foolish, but if I stick with the "there are two Subaru" theory, I think that the middle brother is the right-handed Subaru:

 

-Subaru is around the same age than the friends of the middle brother (27), which may not be so meaningless as it seems.

 

-The right-handed Subaru is shown to have much more affirmed detective skills and curiosity than his left-handed counterpart. In his first appearance, he brings the "Kinichi" lie and the disappearance of Shinichi into a conversation to have more informations about it. And the right-handed Subaru is shown to be acquainted with Yukiko and to have known about Shinichi's disappearance for some time, so surely he knew right from the start that the son of the owner is named Shinichi and that the whole "Kinichi"'s stuff was a lie (Akai would have informed him that his name was Kinichi according to what Ran told him). Strangely, he didn't seem to bother about it until now (but he would have been a different person who didn't really care) and the fact that Subaru pretends he didn't make the link with Shinichi before is in direct contradiction with Conan telling him about Shinichi when he handed over the keys of the house (something the second Subaru couldn't have known).

 

-Another clue is the attitude of Conan. He only started to suspect that Masumi could be Shuichi's sister after he learned about her middle brother. Before that, he was only wondering if he hadn't already met her somewhere before. It may be quite possible that Conan knew Akai had a younger brother and that he didn't suspect Masumi to be their sister because he didn't know that she had two brothers (and they may have never talked to him about having a sister also). As soon as she revealed it, his attitude changed and he asked her directly. But how would he have known about Akai's brother, Shuichi being the secretive type and not disclosing unnecessary informations ? I think that Conan has already met him as the right-handed Subaru and that they're both involved in this deception.

 

Now, it's only mere speculation but the middle brother having high skills of observation and deduction but not being a detective, he could have become a detective fiction writer like Yusaku Kudo. That would explain why Subaru talks like a detective novels writer in the current case, and his interest in the Academy Awards might be because he's also in competition. That would also explain how he got acquaintained with the Kudo. Of course, they could have only met recently through Conan, but the fact that Shinichi and Ran might have already met Masumi a long time ago leads me to think that they could have been acquaintained for longer than that. Of course, as I said, the idea of the middle brother being a detective novels writer is only a guess so far, but this hypothesis might work well with what we know so far. It's also the most evident alternative to a detective as a professional activity for someone with high skills of observation and deduction.

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I don't have time to a point by point rebuttal, Glass, but my instinct is that you are reaching too far, trying to make the situation more complicated than the clues suggest it is for the sake of having a complex solution. If you you want me to take a look at a particular point of the theory, I'll do so.

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  On 5/9/2014 at 2:19 PM, Balthazar said:

 

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There isn't much to translate about this file, things happen just like what the images show.

 

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No break next week.

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Ok, that's exactly what I was expecting in a way: Gosho Aoyama is definitely playing with the readers' expectations. Nothing is as it appears to be. So now, the point is how this whole thing could work together.

 

My guess right now:

 

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  On 5/9/2014 at 8:21 PM, Chekhov MacGuffin said:
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  On 5/10/2014 at 3:08 AM, Detective Max17 said:
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Semi-crosspost from DCTP

 

For people who never visit cbox
Translation of the whole file made by imbalance01 and grid.
http://hastebin.com/raw/awopoyoyig

 

My head hurt. I understand now the complains that disguise make deduction impossible.

 

Whoops. another crosspost. Now deal with handedness of Akai suspects

http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12248&p=814787#p814787

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This one is still a mystery to me: why is everyone only dealing with Subaru's handedness now, in the current case ?

 

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I mean, it's not like mere speculation or anything. It was directly shown black on white (or anyway we translate the expression "noir sur blanc" in english) in the manga.

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  On 5/10/2014 at 4:03 PM, Glass Heart said:

This one is still a mystery to me: why is everyone only dealing with Subaru's handedness now, in the current case ?

 

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I mean, it's not like mere speculation or anything. It was directly shown black on white (or anyway we translate the expression "noir sur blanc" in english) in the manga.

To be fair, I don't think a lot of people think the Okiya before Scarlet Showdown was Shuuichi only part of the time as you propose. I've seen you and maybe one other person try to run with the idea, and right now, there is no one at DCTP talking about it. Most of the few people who noticed any right-handed action from Okiya prior to now chalked it up to sometimes characters use their off hand, or trying to fool Sera while she is around. There is interest about handedness in this case because many people think Okiya is someone else in disguise, which gives Akai the freedom to move. That's why it is coming up again.

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To be fair, I don't a lot of people think the Okiya before Scarlet Showdown was Shuuichi only part of the time as you propose. I've seen you and maybe one other person try to run with the idea, and right now, there is no one at DCTP talking about it. Most of the few people who noticed any right-handed action from Okiya prior to now chalked it up to sometimes characters use their off hand, or trying to fool Sera while she is around.

I wonder. I don't think Gosho Aoyama would do such a thing without a reason, especially since, in these two cases, Subaru was seen as right-handed all the time, not just sometimes.

 

I could agree that he tried to fool Masumi if that only occured in that instance, but it preceded directly the Belltree Express case where he was also right-handed in front of Yukiko Kudo and Ai Haibara. And that's where it doesn't fit: Subaru would have no reason to fake his righthandedness in front of Yukiko who is his accomplice and in front of Haibara whom he tried to convince that he was Shuichi Akai. There is also the matter of the disguise that Yukiko created: we've seen nothing about it and Subaru already had his disguise so he didn't need her (that was also part of the reason why I thought that Subaru was also another person than Akai before the current case brought that matter again). And if that Subaru was indeed another person, he surely couldn't have been Yusaku Kudo or even Yukiko considering that he discovered Conan's secret during the right-handed Subaru's first appearance.

 

I can't think of these things having no importance, especially with this kind of resolution. Gosho Aoyama seems to know what he is doing. I may be wrong by thinking that Subaru's different main hand indicates that he is in fact two people (though it seems a logical conclusion to me in this kind of situation), but at least there should be some plausible explanation about it. Otherwise, the author wouldn't have done it.

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I dont think i can convince you with this, Glass Heart. But I believes Gosho is not that consistent with handedness or anything. In mere 2-3 file I goes over. I already uncover a mistake (Amuro look over his right, then left shoulder). And I remember about Sonoko magic dress in the latest case with Makoto.

I think Gosho think "This time I will give clues that Okiya is left handed, and once my fans should get the idea I can drop my concentration to deal with something else"

Also, one of the reason for off-handedness is convenience. Manga has to put as much detail in one panel as possible, which limit perfectness of logic.

 

BTW, English file is released

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The cell notification that Yuusaku won is definitely important to something. I am not convinced Ran and Kogoro's timeline is happening at the same time as what we are seeing at the Kudo house. Maybe some clock checking could confirm that.

I have a feeling Okiya is using a mike, just like Hattori in the Vermouth arc. The actions with the hand in front of the mouth and coughing are too similar. Someone is speaking for Okiya, and Okiya is blocking his mouth to keep Amuro from noticing this. The face mask is a distraction to keep Amuro from noticing that Okiya's voice is being projected and he is not saying the words. At the same time Yuusaku might be relaying what to say to whoever is disguising as Yuusaku (Yukiko?) in America. That would explain the amount of equipment in Conan's hideyhole. He has to coordinate a chain of voices, plus keep an eye on the FBI...

If Shuuichi is asking for Camel to keep the speed and direction steady, it might be to set up for some quick sniping at the chasing cars rather than a jump like I first thought. I want to know why Shuuichi thought Amuro would go after the FBI agents (and how both he and Amuro knew they would go driving) instead of someone like Sera.

Also, I am a bit concerned that Amuro's friends aren't wearing any black. There is no reason that lower level agents are bound to wear black, but it's just a detail that concerns me. (And those guys in front of the Kudo house are definitely news/paparazzi. Look at their vans.)

I am not sure about where Conan is. It looks like a small space.

Chapter 900 might be reserved for the moment that Sera/Ai meets Akai.

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