Mayor

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The **mayor** is the village chef of Yada Village and Mii's grandfather.

## Biography

### History

Fifteen years ago, Shepherd Feier came to Yada Village for research. The mayor took him in and told him about the dam construction plans. Shepherd then suggested to use the legend of Yadagami-sama's powers to play some pranks to prevent the construction. The mayor took his suggestion and hid the construction machinery in the mountains; he later thanked Shepherd for giving him this idea.

Four years later, Shepherd returned to the village with Spitz because he was running away from a certain organization who wanted him dead as he had learned some forbidden information during his fieldwork. The mayor offered to hide Shepherd in the mountains to repay him for his help years before. Ever since, the villagers have been hiding and supplying Shepherd.

### Yadagami-sama Murders Case

A surveyor comes to Yada Village to tell the mayor and the residents about the government's plan to sink the village to build a dam. Sometime later, Spitz Feier, Ron Kamonohashi, Totomaru Isshiki arrive, and the mayor greets them. Ron wants to know what the commotion is about, and the mayor informs him that the surveyor has come to evict the whole village because of dam construction plans. He then tries to calm down the villagers who are not pleased by the surveyor's presence and announcement; they claim that his actions will enrage Yadagami-sama.

The surveyor says that he has only come to do some preparatory surveying and that he will start his work tomorrow; he adds that he will sue anyone who interferes with his work and the dam plans before he leaves. When the surveyor is gone, the mayor tells Spitz, Ron, and Toto that they can stay the night. However, they will not stay in the hut like Spitz did in the past because the surveyor was already accommodated there. Instead, they will stay at the mayor's house.

While they head to the mayor's house, it starts to pour. The mayor tells Ron, Toto, and Spitz that they call such sudden, heavy rain "Yadagami-sama's Scowl" and explains that the deity must be angry about something. Right before he lets them in, his granddaughter Mii arrives.

That evening, the mayor and Mii eat dinner on their own while Spitz, Totomaru, and Ron eat theirs in their room. At some point, they run out of their room, past the mayor and Mii, and out of the house and to the hut to check on the surveyor, but they do not find him there.

The next morning, the surveyor's corpse is found in the waterfall basin outside the village. Around his neck are marks that look like a snake's scales. Toto, Ron, and Spitz investigate the death alongside the local police. When Spitz wonders out loud what it was that they saw in the hut last night, the mayor arrives to tell him that it was Yadagami-sama. He is certain that the god teleported in and out of the hut and dragged the surveyor out of it. Mii then joins them in the basin and demands to know why her grandfather is not stopping them from coming here; after all, only villagers are allowed near the waterfall.

Spitz says that he did not know that as he came to the waterfall every time he visited. The mayor tells him that they gave him special permission because of his brother. He adds that this is an exception too because somebody died before he explains to Mii that Spitz has become a detective and that Totomaru is a detective from Tokyo. Mii asks who Ron is then, and Spitz replies that he is his hobby buddy; they collect rare wrapping paper together.

Afterward, Ron asks Mii what she was doing by the waterfall yesterday. She and the mayor lead them up to the Yadagami Shrine, and she says that she was making an offering there. Ron is surprised that they really seem to believe in the deity which upsets the mayor and Mii. They defend Yadagami-sama, and the mayor says that the god's punishment of the surveyor is proof of its existence. A group of angered villagers arrive to defend the god as well, and Ron, Spitz, and Totomaru leave the waterfall because of that.

Later that day, they gather everyone at the shrine, and Toto explains what happened: Not Yadagami-sama killed the surveyor—the mayor did.

The mayor took a picture scroll of Yadagami-sama from the shrine and attached it to a tatami mat in the hut. He stood the mat on end and held it in place with a string; one end of it was pinched in the door's frame, the other tied to a rock and then dangled out of the window. He made sure Toto, Ron, and Spitz would be in a room in his house from where they could see into the hut and spot the image. When they went to the hut and opened the door, the string was released and fell into the river, weighted down by the rock. The tatami mat fell down into place on the floor; that was the loud sound they heard. And the shrine was temporarily closed yesterday to hide the fact that a scroll was missing.

Toto, Spitz, and Ron deduced this because Ron dropped a bottle of brown sugar on that tatami mat last night. However, when they found it today, the bottle was not there where its stain was. This means that someone must have lifted the mat, and the bottle slid down it. They know it is the mayor because he made sure to have Ron, Spitz, and Totomaru in that specific room to get witnesses for his trick and because the mayor immediately spoke of Yadagami-sama when Spitz wondered who or what they could have seen in the hut last night; he did not even consider the surveyor although their conversation rather pointed to him than to the deity. Ron adds that the mayor used rope from the shrine to strangle the surveyor before pushing him into the basin. The rope's placement looks different from yesterday; therefore, someone must have moved it.

The mayor confesses. He says that he killed the surveyor because he hated him and wanted to stop the dam construction. Totomaru challenges his words, asking if this is truly the sole reason, but before the mayor can reply, Ron's Kill on Sight ability is triggered. He orders the mayor to fall into the waterfall, and the mayor, dazed, complies. Totomaru manages to stop him on time, but then, the ground under them crumbles. Totomaru holds onto the edge and the mayor to prevent them from falling. Someone throws a rope to them, and Mii, Spitz, and Ron pull them up.

The mayor is arrested. He tells Mii to please find happiness before the police takes him away. Later, Shepherd reveals to Spitz, Mii, Ron, and Toto that the mayor killed the surveyor because of him. The surveyor realized that the mayor was hiding Shepherd for a reason and extorted money from him to keep the secret. He eventually escalated his intimidation and threatened to reveal the whereabouts of Shepherd; this drove the mayor to kill the surveyor. Ron thinks that the mayor actually did not just want to protect Shepherd, but rather his granddaughter's feelings for him.

## References

1. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 20, pages 15-17
2. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 18, pages 15-19
3. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 18, pages 22-25
4. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 19, page 3-8
5. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 20, pages 3-13
6. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 20, pages 18-20