Hummingbird

**Hummingbird** (ハミングバード, *Hamingubādo*), also known as **Sannou** (山王, *Sannō*), is a talent kidnapper who kidnaps geniuses from all kinds of fields. He never asks for ransom; he simply wants them to display their talent at his home.

## Biography

### Early life

Hummingbird's wife passed away giving birth to their daughter. As his daughter turned out to be as musically gifted as her late mother, Hummingbird raised her to be the next top pianist. However, his strict schedules and his inability to realize that his daughter was becoming more and more lonely eventually broke her: She closed off her heart and became an empty shell, unable to live without medication.

Hummingbird noticed that his daughter's soul was stirred when she saw geniuses displaying their talents on the television. He then made it his mission to seek out exceptional talents and convince them to talk to his daughter to aid her recovery. Whenever his daughter was alone with one of those geniuses, she would talk and laugh and be like herself again before she was broken. Those conversations benefitted the geniuses as well as talking to Hummingbird's daughter helped them to get over their own heartbreak.

Among the geniuses Hummingbird kidnapped were the world's best barista, a five-star chef, and a modern artist.

To kidnap Nyo-Nyon, Hummingbird booked a concert venue where she would perform soon, using the pretense that his company would like to host a party there; in fact, he only wanted to hide his greeting card and a guitar at the venue like that.

### Genius Composer Kidnapping

At some point, Hummingbird gets himself access into Masatatsu Oyama's mansion. He offers him coffee and tells him about his daughter. Oyama agrees to talk to her; he also carves Hummingbird a buddha statue.

Two days after he kidnapped Oyama, Hummingbird cancels his booking of the concert venue after he hid the card and guitar, but still pays in full. The next day, Hummingbird releases Oyama, and heads to Nyo-Nyon's concert. In front of the venue, Hummingbird is approached by Ron Kamonohashi and Totomaru Isshiki because Ron wants to guess his occupation. He correctly guesses that he is Hummingbird, but then says that he must be a wealthy heir who admires the talent kidnapper. Toto apologizes for Ron's behavior, and very amused by the encounter, Hummingbird leaves.

The day he announced he would kidnap Nyo-Nyon, Hummingbird arrives at her mansion as "Sannou" from the Yamanashi Prefectura; Police. Because the mansion straddles both in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and the Yamanashi Prefecture, the Yamanashi Police received an announcement from Hummingbird as well. Reluctantly, Namazu from the Metropolitan Police Department agrees to work together with "Sannou" and his team.

Sannou joins Namazu, Ron, Toto, Nyo-Nyon, and Mitsubashi inside the mansion for tea. Nyo-Nyon informs them about the mansion's unique built and its history. Then, Nyo-Nyon takes them to the composition room on the top of the clocktower. Namazu inspects the room and then says that she can stay there; there, she will be safe from Hummingbird. They lock Nyo-Nyon in the composition room. Afterward, Sannou and the others return to the living room. An hour later, the smoke alarm is set off, and Sannou is the first to hurry upstairs to get to Nyo-Nyon. When he, Namazu, Ron, and Toto arrive there though, she is already gone.

While Namazu goes to find out whether his officers found anything outside, Sannou, Toto, Mitsubashi, and Ron search the mansion for clues. In the storage room, they notice that the curtains are gone. Totomaru finds Nyo-Nyon's laptop and asks Mitsubashi if she can see anything unusual in the composition on which Nyo-Nyon was working when she was kidnapped. Mitsubashi says that the song is not very good yet before she states that the song is unfinished and that, with her limited knowledge of music, she cannot comment much about it. Her words catch Hummingbird's attention.

Later, Namazu returns and informs everyone that the officers spotted nobody at the bottom of the hill. He says that this must mean that the culprit is still in the area around the mansion, but Hummingbird replies that he has deduced that the culprit must be inside the mansion. Then, he accuses Mitsubashi of being Hummingbird as she was the last to go up the tower after the alarm went off and knows the mansion best: With her knowledge, she could have used the mansion's blind spots to kidnap Nyo-Nyon. Mitsubashi protests against the accusation, but Hummingbird insists that she has to be taken to the Yamanashi Prefectural Police to be interrogated. Namazu agrees. However, Ron and Toto say that there are holes in Hummingbird's deduction and that the culprit is someone else.

Then, Toto presents his deduction: Mitsubashi cannot be the one who kidnapped Nyo-Nyon as she is, in fact, the true Nyo-Nyon. Mitsubashi admits that she is the true genius composer and that "Nyo-Nyon" is only a singer her agency hired because she threatened to retire if she had to reveal her face to the public. Afterward, Hummingbird takes Totomaru, Ron, and Mitsubashi in his car to the foot of the hill. On the drive, Ron continues "Toto's" deduction: "Nyo-Nyon" jumped out of a window after hearing the fire alarm and was caught by the Yamanashi police officers who are accomplices of Hummingbird. He also reveals that "Sannou" is Hummingbird.

Hummingbird parks the car on the side of the road and admits that he is indeed the talent kidnapper. He tells them about his daughter and the reason he has been kidnapping all these geniuses. Then, he lies to Totomaru that "Nyo-Nyon" is in the trunk of his car. While Toto and Ron get out of the car and look, Hummingbird escapes.

## Trivia

* Hummingbird has become passionate about making his own coffee after hosting the world's best barista.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, page 18
2. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, pages 5-6
3. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, pages 14-16
4. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, page 19
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, page 2
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, page 6
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, page 13
8. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, pages 2-4
9. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, page 16
10. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, page 5
11. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, pages 8-10
12. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 31, pages 17-18
13. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 32, pages 2-4
14. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 32, pages 5-19
15. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 33, pages 5-8
16. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 33, pages 13-19
17. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 34, pages 3-18