Princess Ori

* Anime
* Manga

**Princess Ori** (オリヒメ, *Orihime*) is the Orion constellation idol who was invited to a meteor shower viewing party at the Nandan Observatory.

## Biography

### Island Observatory Murder Case

Princess Ori quietly listens to Takumi Jumonji's wish to hold the meteor shower viewing party to overcome the past tragedy and honor his father's will and everyone's heartfelt support of it. Those things move Ori to tears and introduces herself afterward to Totomaru Isshiki, Ron Kamonohashi, John Grizzly, Kayoko Onodera, Minami Unno, and Eisaku Donzawa.

Then, Ron opens the dome, setting the telescope in motion, and Jumonji tells everyone that the party will be held on the roof at 11 p.m. During the party, Princess Ori goes to Toto to tell him that Ron is about to hula hoop although he is painfully full; she asks him to convince Ron to stop. Later, Ori watches the meteor shower with the others, sans Ron who left early, and cries at the sight.

Two hours after the meteor shower, the observation dome opens and moves and a gunshot is heard from inside it. Princess Ori runs to the observation dome when she hears the commotion, and Jumonji, Toto, and Grizzly break open the locked door. In the meantime, Unno has brought flashlights because Jumonji had told her to.

Jumonji, Totomaru, and Grizzly inspect the room and find Onodera and Ron lying unconscious on the ground, the telescope between them. There is also a gun next to Ron. Everyone rushes to the bodies. Grizzly confirms Onodera's death, and Princess Ori screams at the sight of the corpse. Her scream wakes up Ron from his sleep. He says that he does not remember anything after leaving the party and lying down in his bed.

While Princess Ori, Unno, Jumonji, and Donzawa stay by the door, Grizzly and Toto inspect Onodera's corpse. Grizzly says she died right before she was found; she was shot in the back, and the bullet pierced her heart. He confiscates the gun, and Donzawa points out that it is the model gun from the lobby.

Then, Toto and Grizzly examine the dome. All the lights have been shot out. There is no ladder which means nobody escaped through the ceiling; the motion detector was also not set off. The exhaust port is too small for anyone to escape through. Because there are no other exists, Grizzly declares that Ron must have been the murderer. The door was locked too after all. Surprised, Ron sits up and then finds the master key in his pocket. Grizzly orders Toto to arrest Ron, and Jumonji to contact the mainland police.

At some point, Princess Ori was interviewed by Grizzly. She told him that, from midnight on, she was broadcasting a performance from within the building. She finished it forty minutes later and went to the kitchen to get something to drink. There, she met Unno. They were talking when they heard the commotion at 1 a.m.; Ori then went to find out what happened.

Later that night, Toto gathers everyone in the lobby where he informs them about Grizzly's murder and the results of his examination of the roof: He found the same gun that was used to kill Onodera there; the culprit must have stolen it from Grizzly. Toto then verifies everyone's alibis: Jumonji was in his room and ran outside when he heard the gunshot. Donzawa was in the first-floor bathroom and met Jumonji in the lobby on his way to find the gunshot's source. Neither Unno nor Princess Ori heard the gunshot; Unno was sleeping with earplugs in, and Ori wore headphones to check the sound of her performance recording. Thus, none of them have an alibi. Ron then declares to everyone that the culprit angered the one person they should not have.

Princess Ori later seeks out Totomaru and Ron in the observation dome. She is worried that the typhoon could knock out the power and wanted to know whether they knew where the flashlights were. Totomaru says that Unno should know that, but Princess Ori tells him that she already asked her and she was upset that she was asked yet again to bring someone flashlights; Unno then told her to search for them on her own. When Ron hears this, he solves the case and thanks Ori for it. She is truly the Orion constellation idol as she hunted down the mystery for them.

Afterward, Totomaru gathers everyone in the observation dome to arrest the killer. It is the one person who immediately knew to run outside and not go up the roof from where the gunshot had come; the one who ran out of the building without an umbrella to conceal his already-soaked state: Jumonji.

Jumonji also pretended that he needed to go to his room during the party. He looked for Onodera, then attacked and drugged her before he carried her to the observation dome. Afterward, he placed Ron, whose food he had laced with sleeping medicine beforehand, next to the telescope. Jumonji put the master key in Ron's pocket and glued the dome's door shut. Onodera, who was given a lighter dose of the drug, woke up before Ron. Because it was pitch-black, she tried to turn on the light, but Jumonji had destroyed the lamps earlier. She then went to the door; however, because it was glued closed, she thought it was locked, and when she turned the key, she locked the door. With the lights broken and the door locked, Onodera went to open the dome's ceiling. As a result, the telescope turned and triggered a mechanism that set off a gun which then shot her in the back and immediately killed her.

The gun had been positioned in an air vent, and Jumonji had put the model gun from the lobby next to Ron. When everyone's attention was on Onodera's corpse, Jumonji retrieved the real gun from the vent. He later used it to kill Grizzly.

Jumonji wants to know if Totomaru has any proof that he is the murderer. Totomaru counters this with a question of his own: Before they broke open the dome's door, Jumonji told Unno to get flashlights. How did he know about the dome's broken lights? After all, only the killer could know this.

Jumonji confesses and reveals that Onodera was, in fact, a journalist who investigated unsolved crimes. She wanted to find out the truth about the tragedy from ten years ago and had been coming to the observatory for this reason for years, and when she left the viewing party, she actually searched Jumonji's room for clues. Because Jumonji had been hiding the truth for all those years and did not want Onodera to learn and expose it, he murdered her. He killed Grizzly because he kept on investigating although the initial situation incriminated Ron until he figured out that Jumonji is the true culprit.

His confession triggers Ron's Kill on Sight ability. Ron holds out the gun to him and tries to pressure him to take it and shoot himself, but Toto tackles Ron before the ability takes hold of Jumonji. Jumonji then takes out a cyanide capsule and swallows it. Ron shakes him and demands to know why the trap was for him and if he anticipated his presence here. Jumonji tells him that he did and that no matter how much he struggles, he will never escape "his" grasp. Ron wants to know what he means, but Jumonji only says that the sun is rising before he "dies."

Afterward, Totomaru calls the local police again and then informs everyone that they are on the way; this relieves Princess Ori. After the police arrives, Toto questions her one more time. When they are done, Princess Ori tells him that he shines like a "first-magnitude star" when he is working. She then "comet dashes" away, leaving him quite baffled behind.

## References

1. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 9, pages 18-21
2. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 9, pages 27-35
3. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 10, pages 3-16
4. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 11, pages 5-6
5. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 12, pages 8-14
6. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 12, pages 23-26
7. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 13, pages 3-20
8. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 13, pages 22-23