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| − | [[Masumi Sera]] reveals that she has a second brother whom she has been calling regarding case solutions.<ref name=859p6-7>Manga Volume 81, File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref> | |
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| − | == Description and known facts ==
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| − | [[File:Akai Middle Brother's hand.png|thumb|right|The middle brother's hand and cellphone]]
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| − | * He does not look like [[Shuichi Akai]] or [[Masumi Sera]], who presumably resemble their mother. The middle brother looks more like their father.<ref name=859p6-7/>
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| − | * The middle brother is older than Masumi, but younger than Shuichi.<ref name=859p6-7/> Neither of their ages have been revealed, but Masumi attends class with Ran and Shinichi who are 16-17, and [[Subaru Okiya]] claims to be 27. The brother's former high school classmates are currently 28 and 29 years old, suggesting that the brother is probably similarly aged. Although if that were the case, then Akai would be older than 27.
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| − | * He is apparently in the middle of an important job and won't tell Masumi where he is.<ref name=859p6-7/>
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| − | * He is very intelligent; note that Sera characterizes the already intelligent Akai as "strong" in contrast to the middle brother. He advises Masumi on cases via cellphone.<ref name=859p6-7/> He was able to correctly deduce over the phone that Masumi's deduction was unreliable in [[Volume_81#Steamy_Relations|a bathroom murder case]]. While the middle brother is not a detective himself, his intelligence seems to be well-known among the students from his high school, as he apparently has solved some mysteries in his class during his time studying there.<ref name=872p3>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: "The Red Woman"</ref>
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| − | * In one panel, we see the middle brother responding to Masumi's message using his right hand and a black cellphone. Unless the brother is disguised, this would imply he has light skin. The use of the phone with the right hand is not an absolute indicator of handedness because sometimes characters with known handedness will use phones with their off hands.<ref name=860p16>Manga [[Volume 81]], File 10 (860), pg 16: "The Smell of Kerosine"</ref>
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| − | * The middle brother recognizes Conan and knows he is a good detective.<ref name=860p16/> After an exchange of information regarding deductions, the brother asked Masumi who she was referring to. Masumi shows the brother Conan's picture thinking he will be surprised. The brother replies back that "if it's him, then there's no problem". Masumi is very surprised and wonders how her brother knows Conan. Her suspicion makes sense because Conan didn't exist prior to Shinichi shrinking.<ref name=861p4>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 4: "Just like Magic"</ref> The brother later sends another text to Masumi, which makes Masumi react "Ah, I see. So ''that's'' how it is."<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref>
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| − | * According to Masumi, the middle brother's surname had been "Sera", which he got from his mother's side, until he graduated from high school. His current surname in the present timeline is presumably something else.<ref name=872p3/>
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| − | == Plot Overview ==
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| − | === Sera's phone call during Detective's Nocturne (Manga: [[Volume 76|798-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]])===
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| − | After Sera took down the kidnapper with her motorcycle she either made or received a call from an unknown person. Given her pattern of contacting her brother regarding cases, she may have called him concerning this one.
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| − | === Bathroom murder case's failed deduction (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]])===
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| − | Sera had called her brother regarding the "adultery case" she was about to investigate and was overheard by Eri. After the murder was discovered, Sera relayed her brother the facts of the case and her deduction by phone call. He told Sera her deduction was unreliable.
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| − | === Bowling Alley drowning murder (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]])===
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| − | Conan asks Sera who she called during the last case, and she tells Conan about the existence of her second oldest brother who is very smart. Confronted with another murder case, Sera texts her brother about the situation and her logic. Sera also informs her brother than Conan seems to have figured out the case, but she isn't sure of her answer since her confidence has been shaken as of late. Her brother texts Sera asking who she keeps talking about. Sera sends him a picture of Conan and the brother replies that "it is no problem" if it is Conan doing the deducing. Sera meanwhile wonders how her brother knows Conan. Sera later receives one final text from her brother to which Sera thinks "so '''that's''' how it is". At the end of the unseen message is a PS asking if she has "already met the wizard." Sera looks over at Conan and thinks "You could say so..." while sending a reply.
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| − | == Possible Suspects ==
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| − | Assuming the middle brother is between 16 (assumed lower range for Masumi's real age) and 35 (assumed upper range for Akai's age based on his appearance and reasonable full-blooding sibling age separation) the following characters could qualify as suspects in reverse order of their introduction date.
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| − | === Minor or New Character ===
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| − | It's possible the middle brother is a minor character who was a suspect or witness in a case, but did not distinguish himself or demonstrate his intelligence. It's also possible for the middle brother to be a character who has not been introduced yet, but will be later in a flashback.
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| − | === Characters introduced in the Bourbon Arc ===
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| − | <!--Only as an Anime suspect; he was introduced in File 613 in the Manga, and the beginning of the Bourbon arc in the Manga is File 622-->*[[Kansuke Yamato]]: Nagano police inspector (35)
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| − | *[[Subaru Okiya]]: Engineering student (27) (Revealed to be [[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise<ref name=898p3>Manga Volume 85, File 5 (898): pg 3: "Scarlet Epilogue" </ref>)
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| − | *[[Sugihito Enomoto]]: Poirot Café waitress [[Azusa Enomoto]]'s brother (28)
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| − | *[[Taka'aki Morofushi|Taka'aki Morofushi (Komei)]]: Nagano police inspector (35)
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| − | *[[Holmes' Revelation|Ashley Ares]]: [[Minerva Glass]]' tennis coach (30)
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| − | *[[Kogoro-san is a Good Man|Ryohei Onda]]: [[Kogoro Mouri]] imposter/University student (21)
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| − | *[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]]: [[Black Organization]] member Bourbon (29)
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| − | *[[Wataru Date]]: Deceased Tokyo Metropolitan Criminal Investigation First Division police officer (would be ~29 if alive)
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| − | *[[Shukichi Haneda]]: [[Yumi]]'s semi-ex-boyfriend (28)
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| − | *[[Unknown child]]: Mysterious child living with Sera (appears to be of middle school age – 12-15)
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| − | ==== Subaru Okiya ====
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| − | Although Subaru Okiya was revealed to be Shuichi Akai, it is possible Akai disguised as his middle brother for some reason. However, Sera would not have wondered how he knew Conan because she was with Subaru and Conan earlier during a case. Okiya's most recently seen phone is black and similar to the one the older brother holds.
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| − | ==== Taka'aki Morofushi ====
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| − | Taka'aki Morofushi is intelligent and has light skin. He was still working in Nagano as a police officer though, so Sera should be able to find out where he was and what he was doing. Sera also lacks a Nagano accent, something that might be expected learning Japanese with a family who lived in Nagano for a period of time. (Koumei's lived in Nagano as a child.) Koumei's most recently seen phone is a white clamshell phone. It is improbable that the middle brother is Morofushi though, given that he appeared in front of the middle brother's classmates without being recognised - and that the brother was supposedly unable to help them in investigating the Red Woman occurrences, but Morofushi was there to apprehend the killer. Also, Morofushi is 35 years old, much older than the middle brother.
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| − | ==== Tooru Amuro ====
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| − | Amuro's intelligence matches the middle brother's expected level; however, Amuro's dark skin contradicts the light-colored hand holding the phone when texting Masumi. Amuro has a white iPhone lookalike. However, on page 15 of Chapter 800<!--, as Amuro thinks, "Why here...", there are markings around his eyes (albeit very small) that resemble those of Akai and Sera, suggesting he may be related to them. Furthermore-->, his thoughts (i.e., "Why [is Sera Masumi] here..." suggests he knows Sera. Sera doesn't see Amuro, so it is unclear if she knows him or not. Also, Bourbon, like Vermouth, is often in disguise, and either Amuro's dark skin or the light-colored hand holding the cell phone can be makeup or a disguise. However, since Amuro actually wanted his "older brother," Shuichi Akai, to be dead, it somehow contradicts the fact that he's the middle brother.
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| − | ==== Shukichi Haneda ====
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| − | Shukichi is very intelligent and noticed Conan was an excellent detective on their first meeting. While Shukichi being famous and recognizable may contradict Sera not knowing where he is or what he is up to, it should be noted that his semi-ex-girlfriend still has no idea that he is a renowned Shogi Player<ref name=902p14-15>Manga [[Volume 85]], File 9 (902): pgs 14-15; "A Brilliant Move"</ref>, thus allowing for the possibility that, like Yumi, Sera has not made the connection; since Sera said that she doesn't know where her middle brother is, she is either lying about it or really hasn't seen him—if the latter is true, then Shukichi could be her brother, as they haven't met during Shukichi's two appearances so far. He has the right age range for the brother. If you remove the "k" in Shukichi you get Shuichi—it's possible that that their parents wanted them to have similar names. [[Subaru Okiya]]—who is really [[Shuichi Akai]], and not given to displays of genuine happiness—smiled at the news that Shukichi had attained all seven Shogi titles, and the [[Unknown child]]—who very well could be the mother of Sera and Akai—fell asleep watching Shukichi's Shogi match and was visibly ecstatic when Shukichi won the match. If one takes into account the difference in personality between Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, this could apply to Shuichi Akai, who is serious about taking on criminals and does so for a living, which fits Sherlock's personality, and Shukichi Haneda, who appears to be far less serious, in general, living a more leisurely existence, with Yumi describing him as a "a mooching stay-at-home freeloader<ref name=847p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 8 (847): pg 4: "Until I Collect All Seven"</ref>," which fits Mycroft's personality, as does his intelligence.
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| − | The most important clue is when Yumi and Sera together describing Shukichi and her brother respectively, they have a near identical similarities. Both is wearing round glasses, has stubble, always wearing a 'messy jersey', have an excellent memory, and have an exactly same favourite saying.<ref name=928p4>Manga [[Volume 88]], File 2 (928): pg 13: "The Strange Customers of the Ramen Restaurant"</ref> This may be a hint that Shukichi and Sera's brother is a same person. It was pratically confirmed in the ramen shop case were Masumi calls her brother for help with the case and Yumi calls him because he was a witness and he has Yumi put on hold right as Masumi's brother answers then he gets back to talking to Yumi right as the brother hangs up on Masumi which shows he was talking to both Masumi and Yumi..
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| − | ==== Unknown child ====
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| − | The mysterious child who looks like a member of the Akai family might be the brother after being shrunken by [[APTX 4869]].
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| − | == See also ==
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| − | *[[Akai family]]
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| − | *[[Shuichi Akai]]
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| − | *[[Masumi Sera]]
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| − | *[[Unknown child]]
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| − | <ref name=847p>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 8 (847): "Until I Collect All Seven"</ref>
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| − | <ref name=857p>Manga [[Volume 81]], File 7 (857): "My Deduction"</ref>
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| − | <ref name=858p>Manga [[Volume 81]], File 8 (858): "A Problematic Deduction"</ref>
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| − | <ref name=898p>Manga [[Volume 85]], File 5 (898): "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref>
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| − | <ref name=902p>Manga [[Volume 85]], File 9 (902): "A Brilliant Move" </ref>
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