[Putting aside for a moment the fact that the murder methods they engineer rely on an absurdly high degree of coincidence—where trying them in the real world would get exposed in mere minutes—such methods can only be considered feasible in theory within an anime, completely lacking any practical viability in reality.]
[More importantly, there is an ancient Chinese saying: a dark, windy night is the ideal time to carry out a murder.]
[Isn’t a criminal act like murder best executed by making the corpse vanish and obliterating all evidence?]
[Isn’t it far more advantageous if no one ever discovers the crime was committed in the first place?]
[Yet, every single culprit in the Case Closed world operates under a completely nonsensical mindset.
When committing murder, not a single one hides in the shadows.
Instead, they boldly strike right in front of other people, and immediately after killing, they deliberately set things up so that the victim’s body is discovered without delay.]
[It’s as if they’re terrified the police won’t realize the killer is standing right among the handful of people gathered at the scene.]
[It’s as though they’re afraid law enforcement will fail to narrow down their suspect pool.]
[I truly cannot comprehend why these criminals are so hopelessly obsessed with crafting alibis.
Is an alibi really that essential?]
[Is it so difficult to just strike covertly, dispose of the body along with all physical evidence, and dump the remains into the open sea?
That kind of clean disappearance ought to be the ultimate alibi.]
[What’s even more baffling is that certain culprits clearly know the famous detective Kogoro Mōri is standing right next to them, yet they stubbornly press forward with their murder plots anyway.
Some even go out of their way to use Kogoro Mōri as the key witness for their manufactured alibi.]
[To be completely honest, I sometimes suspect that the real objective of these criminals isn’t revenge or murder at all, but purely to provoke Kogoro Mōri and the police force.]
[Because if they possessed any common sense and sound logic, a murder would be handled in total secrecy, where the perpetrator would pray that nobody ever realizes the victim is dead.]
[The killer would simply let time wash away every single trace.]
[Years or decades down the line, when someone finally stumbled upon the victim’s remains, the body would already be a pile of dried bones.
With all clues and evidence long swallowed by time, the police wouldn’t have a prayer of solving the cold case.]
[If it were just one or two individuals acting this way, it might be somewhat understandable.
But practically every single criminal behaves in the exact same manner.]
[Because of that, I genuinely believe the people populating this Case Closed world have something fundamentally wrong with their thought processes.]
[Take the café murder case, for example.]
[Damn it!
If anyone had a shred of common sense, who goes into a café just to commit a murder?]
[It’s not like it was a terror attack launched by a terrorist cell.]
[The most absurd part was that the murderer, Jūzō Tonoyama, actually believed he could craft an alibi to slip past suspicion.]
[What level of psychological breakdown drives a person to walk into a café to kill his own lover, especially using such a sloppy, reckless method?]
[Once the cardiac artery was pierced, Yayoi Himeno’s blood had already pooled outward in massive amounts.]
[Anyone walking into that restroom would immediately spot the pool of blood.
A normal person’s reaction would be identical to Wakaōji’s: either screaming in sheer terror or instantly calling the police.]
[The only person who could remain calm without alerting the police after witnessing that pool of blood was the killer himself.]
[Therefore, the individual who entered the restroom right before Wakaōji, saw the blood, and neither screamed nor called the police had to be the murderer.]
[And the person who used the restroom directly before Wakaōji was none other than Jūzō Tonoyama.]
[Such straightforward logic didn’t even cross the mind of a brilliant, elite attorney like Eri Kisaki.]
[It feels as though her intelligence was forcibly nerfed by the anime’s author.]
[Or perhaps her line of reasoning was led astray by that little brat named Conan Edogawa.]
[In short, that episode easily ranks as one of the most illogical installments in the entire run of Case Closed.]
[At the end of the day, the Case Closed anime just repeatedly showcases case deductions that look complex on the surface, but are actually completely ridiculous underneath.]
[There really isn’t anything substantial worth spoiling.]
[The only things genuinely worth leaking are details like Shinichi Kudō’s current whereabouts, the true identity of the Black Organization’s leader, and similar major secrets.]
[However, I have no intention of telling you any of that, Ran.]
[So, I choose not to talk about it.]
Reading through this passage, the female leads across the crossover anime world could not help but roll their eyes in unison.
They had to admit that Hayashi Rin’s breakdown was entirely accurate; the logic of the people in the Case Closed world was genuinely absurd.
Isn’t the sole purpose of fabricating an alibi to clear oneself of criminal liability?
Yet the perpetrators constantly struck right out in the open, as if afraid others wouldn’t be able to single them out as prime suspects.
Didn’t that directly contradict the original purpose of making an alibi?
Anyone acting like that clearly had a split personality or a severe mental disorder.
Thus, Hayashi Rin’s assessment hit the nail right on the head; motives like revenge or jealousy were merely convenient pretexts.
The true goal of those culprits was clearly to taunt Kogoro Mōri and challenge law enforcement.
Otherwise, no rational person with a working brain would ever pull off such a foolish stunt.
Right at that moment, a melody suddenly began playing from the pages of the Diary, and a man’s singing voice drifted out into the air.
[On my head I’ve got horns, behind my back there’s a tail,]
[Nobody knows how many secrets I carry around.]
[I am a little green dragon, I’ve got so many little secrets,]
[I am a little green dragon, I’ve got so many little secrets.]
[I have so many secrets, but I’m not telling you,]
[I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you!]
Dropping that cheeky nursery song right at this moment, paired with Hayashi Rin’s thoroughly smug, teasing vocals, felt monumentally irritating.
The heroines holding their respective Diary copies burst into quiet laughter, thinking to themselves: ‘That poor girl named Ran must be completely blowing her top right about now, isn’t she?’
Sonoko Suzuki and Kazuha Tōyama immediately threw their arms around Ran Mōri: “Ran, calm down!
Take a deep breath!”
Sonoko Suzuki pleaded frantically, “Ran, please!
If you keep smashing the furniture like this, my family’s financial group is going to go bankrupt paying for repairs!”
Kazuha Tōyama stared at the Diary, thinking: ‘This guy is unbelievable.
Why does he go out of his way to antagonize Ran?
Does he really have zero fear of getting beaten half to death by her?!’
Fresh text continued to materialize across the pages.
[Beyond that, I’m personally not very optimistic about the romance between Ran and Shinichi Kudō.]
[Before I crossed dimensions, the anime had already surpassed a thousand episodes, yet the relationship between those two still hadn’t produced any real fruit.]
[That’s because Shinichi Kudō is the kind of guy who places criminal cases way above his own romantic partner.
In his heart, the person he loves doesn’t hold a candle to an ongoing criminal investigation.]
[Whenever he encounters a case, his rational judgment gets completely blinded.
He ignores everything else around him, and as a direct result, he has dragged Ran into life-threatening danger time and time again.]
[At the same time, those reckless actions have repeatedly put Ran’s closest friends, like Sonoko Suzuki and Kazuha Tōyama, in mortal peril on numerous occasions.]
[If it weren’t for the fact that they are primary heroines blessed with ironclad Plot Armor in this world, ordinary people in their shoes would have died a dozen times over.]
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