Tsutomu Theory Time

[darkestabsol]

(No, I sincerely hope they’re not related. That’s not the theory.)

 

I feel like Gosho wanted us to notice that panel in file 1000 of Masumi doing this to Shinichi, and its similarities with what Hidemi and Eisuke did way back in 502 and 550. Yes, Masumi’s technique is different in that she uses both hands to grab the head while Hidemi and Eisuke only use one hand on the neck, and it could just be Masumi being extra touchy, but this seems a bit too touchy for even her. Masumi could also be using a variant version of this technique for all I know. And I wouldn’t put it past Gosho to bring up a detail from almost five hundred files ago, given things like Yumi’s ex boyfriend and Karasuma were mentioned hundreds of chapters ahead of them becoming relevant.

 

So, if it’s not a relative theory then what is it? How about this: it’s a hint that someone in the Akai family (Tsutomu in this theory) has ties to the CIA.

 

The technique shown was previously only seen being used by Hidemi and Eisuke, with Eisuke mentioning he learned it from his father Ethan. And we know Hidemi and Ethan are/were with the CIA. No other characters were seen using anything close to this technique until 1000. But why Tsutomu?

 

Because we don’t know what his job was. Subaru says he wasn’t working with the FBI, but leaves the implication that it was another agency. And notably, Amanda Hughes from the case with Kohji apparently had ties to both the FBI and the CIA, possibly explaining why a CIA affiliated Tsutomu was involved. And an American agency would give Tsutomu the ability to act on American soil, unlike a foreign agency. (And there’s nothing saying Tsutomu hadn’t become an American citizen to do this.)

 

But wait! Masumi never knew her father, how could she have learned this technique? Answer: an intermediary. Someone else in the Akai family picked the technique up off Tsutomu, and Masumi learned it off this second person. This could also explain why Masumi’s version is different: it mutated along the way like in a game of Telephone. I don’t know who this intermediary would have been, though. Possibly Mary or Shuukichi, given Shuuichi wasn’t exactly around a lot?