Minami Unno

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**Minami Unno** (海野 南, *Unno Minami*) is the cook of the Nandan Observatory.

## Biography

### Island Observatory Murder Case

After Eisaku Donzawa, a guest, upset Unno, she went to Nandan Observatory's observation dome. She yells "I'll kill you!" right when director Takumi Jumonji and two more guests, Totomaru Isshiki and Ron Kamonohashi, come into the room. Unno explains that she does that every time she gets pissed off to release stress because the dome is soundproof when it is closed. She tells them about Donzawa scolding her because the stars on his mug are "weird," and asks aloud what a "brown sugar dish" is supposed to be. Ron says that he requested it, and when Unno realizes that he is a guest, she vehemently apologizes.

Then, astronomy chairman Donzawa, astronomical photographer Kayoko Onodera, and BLUE instructor John Grizzly join them after having heard the ruckus. Jumonji introduces Grizzly and Totomaru to everyone as they are here to act as bodyguards to keep the party safe. Ron asks why someone like Grizzly has been invited to be a bodyguard, and Onodera and Grizzly inform him about the tragic and unsolved Nandan Observatory Murder Case.

Jumonji reveals that the director back then, who also died in the tragedy, was his father and he is holding the viewing party to overcome that tragedy because this is what his father would have wanted. Afterward, Princess Ori arrives as well, and Ron opens the dome, setting the telescope in motion. Jumonji then tells everyone that the party will be held on the roof at 11 p.m.

Unno prepares the buffet and later stares at Ron for eating his strange meal sitting although it is meant to be a standing party. She also watches the meteor shower with the others, sans Ron who left early.

Two hours after the meteor shower, the observation dome opens and moves and a gunshot is heard from inside it. At some point afterward, Jumonji orders her to get some flashlights, and Unno returns with them when Jumonji, Grizzly, and Toto managed to break open the dome's door.

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 Unno screams at the sight of the corpse. When Donzawa points out the gun next to Ron, Unno remarks that she knew he was suspicious; after all, only a weirdo would request and eat a brown sugar dish. Ron wakes up from his sleep to defeat his dietary customs. He adds that he does not remember anything after leaving the party and lying down in his bed.

While Unno, Jumonji, Princess Ori, 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 to retrieve his shoes beforehand so that he does not injure himself on the glass shards on the ground. While Totomaru is gone to quickly fetch Ron's boots, Unno asks Jumonji why he invited a murderer. He replies that Totomaru brought him along and that it is not his fault. Grizzly then asks Jumonji to contact the mainland police.

At some point, Unno was interviewed by Grizzly. She told him that she was in the kitchen between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. making stew. Princess Ori joined her in the kitchen at 12:40 a.m., and they were talking when they heard the commotion from the gunshot.

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.

Later, 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 Unno. Later, the local police arrives and takes Unno's testimony.

## Etymology

* The name "Minami" means "south" (南).
* Her surname "Unno" means "sea, ocean" (海, *un*) and "field, wilderness" (野, *no*).

## References

1. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 9, pages 11-22
2. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 9, pages 28-30
3. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 9, pages 33-35
4. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 10, pages 3-16
5. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 11, pages 5-6
6. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 12, pages 8-14
7. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 13, pages 3-20
8. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 13, pages 22-23