Ron Kamonohashi

Ron Kamonohashi (ロン, Kamonohashi Ron) is a talented detective and the student with the highest grades in BLUE's history. As his detective license was revoked after an incident five years ago, he has partnered up with Totomaru Isshiki to still be able to solve cases.
He is a sixth-generation descendant of Sherlock Holmes and a ninth-generation descendant of James Moriarty.
==Physical description==
Ron is a thin, slender man with disheveled black hair and sky-blue eyes which are usually hidden behind his bangs. However, when he deduces something, Ron pushes his hair to the side and reveals his eyes. Whenever Ron pressures a murderer into killing themselves, a strange glaze lays itself over his eyes.
 He is also quite athletic as he works out every day for four hours.
Before the Bloody Field Trip Case five years ago, Ron's hair was short and neatly slicked back. According to Totomaru, he looked quite dapper then. The incident also left Ron with a large scar on his neck that looks like a "96."
Ron often wears his regular loungewear which consists of a white shirt, black cardigan, gray sweatpants, and black slippers. He also owns a lot of clothing that depicts platypuses or features the names of Japanese sweets: anmitsu kanten, kuromitsu, yomogi mochi, mochigome, sakura, kashiwa mochi, and mochi.
==Personality and traits==
Ron is very passionate about solving mysteries. He possesses many skills and qualities needed to be a detective, e.g. he has outstanding deductive abilities and an excellent memory. However, Ron is quick to anger, and his fixation on cases makes him apathetic to everything else, standoffish and rude to other people, and easily bored when he has no cases to solve. Although he hated people even as a baby, Ron still cares about other people's lives. Thus, when he lost his detective license after the Bloody Field Trip Case and was branded a murderer, Ron became depressed and spent the next five years in isolation.
After Ron meets Toto, he gradually begins to change and warm up to others, though he still likes using people for his own gain.
Moreover, Ron has various idiosyncrasies. For example, Ron lies down next to corpses and "talks" to them, swearing that he will be their avenger, while he examines them. He does this to pay them his respect. He also likes to disguise himself when he accompanies Toto on cases, and sing "Kamo-Kamo" when he is happy. According to Kiku, Ron has had a "crazy" personality since before his expulsion.
He loves brown sugar syrup and puts it on everything he eats whenever he can; he also drinks black sesame paste to prevent anemia. Ron knows how to make a wide variety of brown-sugar-flavored foods and drinks. He even has a brown sugar business card.
Ron is very fond of platypuses. Not only does he get upset when someone mistakes them for ducks, he also owns several pieces of clothing (i.a. swimming accessories) and many objects (i.a. a handkerchief, a hand-puppet, and a mug) featuring them. There is also a platypus in the logo of "Kamonohashi Sweets."
==Biography==
===Early life===
Later, Ron enrolled in BLUE and became part of its 87th training term. There, he met Kiku's son and got to know Kiku for that reason.
Already in his first year, Ron became the student with the highest grades in the academy's history and was able to solve a case no other student had before. Everyone expected greatness from him, and Ron pledged that he would use his talent to be a lifelong detective.
Once, Ron snuck into BLUE's autopsy room to take a look at a real corpse. When there was none, he laid down on the autopsy table for a nap and later woke up to Hirsch talking on the phone. Ron pretended to be asleep until Hirsch attempted to dissect him; he then ran away, and Hirsch chased after him with a scalpel.
==Skills and abilities==
* Kill on Sight::File:AS 'Kill on Sight' T-shirt.png Ron's ability to pressure murderers to kill themselves. It is his "fatal flaw" that has cost him his detective license.
* Deductive skills: As a descendant of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and BLUE's best student, Ron has excellent observation and deductive skills. Because of that, his case resolution rate is 100%.
* Criminal profiling: Ron has a great understanding of criminals and their feelings and mostly considers the culprit's state of mind first when investigating cases. 
* Lockpicking: It was his favorite class at BLUE.
* Fighting: Ron is a good combatant.
* Archery: He is rather skilled at archery, though he has not practiced it for over ten years. Ron is especially interested in "the mental aspect of it, and how it forces you to face yourself."
==Quotes==
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* "The culprit has blended into this group after causing chaos and fear... And is probably smirking underneath the mask of fear they're wearing... But... You're going to regret it. You've angered the one person you shouldn't have."
* (To Sannou) "You think so? Isn't this just the start of the game? You can't catch them if they don't come... no matter the bird..."
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Case solved=
* "We realize what's important... only after we've lost it."
* "All of the tricks... are in the TV."
* (To Princess Ori) "You're just like Orion, the master hunter from Greek mythology... and you've hunted down the mystery for us."
* "If you stand out for the wrong reasons... then your life will go wrong, too."
* "The phone we're looking for... is making a call."
* "Living legends... are created by living people."
* "Don't... look down on salt."
* "After seventeen years, this last supper... has revealed a foolish Judas."
* "Believers can be saved... or they can be knocked off their feet."
* "Guilty people... make people guilty."
* "Just like an arrow... the truth is in the palm of the shooter's hand."
* "Hidden things... have value because they've vanished."
* "Calamities and revenge... come once you've forgotten about them."
* "Memories preserve mysteries... and the void develops them."
* "When she learned that the illusion floating in the darkness was reality... she realized that their friendship was also an illusion."
* "This building's curse variety... has sparked this detective's curiosity."
* "These Japanese sweets are brilliant to the eye... but the attainment of ambition is achieved in the mouth."
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==Etymology==
* Ron's surname "Kamonohashi" means "duck/wild duck, easy mark" (鴨, kamo), "from" (乃, no) and "bridge" (橋, hashi).
* "Kamonohashi" (鴨乃橋) also means "platypus" (鴨嘴 / かものはし) but is written in a different kanji. 
** For the series' announcement, Akira Amano's official Twitter account posted a picture of a platypus with the manga's release date.RKDD Release date announcement — Akira Amano on Twitter Ron also has a great fondness for platypuses.
==Trivia==
* Ron got interested in astronomy because his ancestor Sherlock Holmes did not know anything about the heliocentric theory or the solar system.
* He is a terrible shot with a gun and received nothing but failing grades in his firearms class.
* He can read very fast. For example, he read all of Takanori Aoe's academic papers in half a day.
* When Ron was three years old, he was unable to say "brown sugar" properly. He pronounced it "bwown sugar" instead.
* Ron can drive. He drives a car with the Union Jack on its roof.
* He used to be obsessed with the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier. He even said that if he ever built a vacation home, it would be in a country with a Le Corbusier building.
* When he was younger, Ron often went to Obon dances.
* He likes difficult cases and kuromitsu, and dislikes free time.
===Out of Universe===
* In the Shōnen Jump+ and MangaPlus online version of Chapter 3, his surname is mispelled as "Kamonohash" in his BLUE registration file. This mistake was corrected when it was re-released in tanbōkon format. The re-release also changed the "Expulsion" stamp from Japanese to English.
==See also==
* List of Ron's disguises
* Ron's to-do list
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