History Recap / TheKindaichiCaseFilesKyotoBeautyFloristMurderCase

"Kyoto Beauty Florist Murder Case" is a case arc in the "The (37-year-old) Kindaichi Case Files" spin-off series of ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles''.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Played with. Kaoruko tries to kill the culprit when the latter confronts her with the truth behind Sakurako's death and threatens to tell the police if Kaoruko doesn't come clean, only for the culprit to kill her in self-defense in the ensuing struggle. It's played straight(er) with Ganryuu, however, as his accidental discovery about something that turns out to be where Kaoruko's missing head is hidden at the time drives the culprit to kill him (and his overall {{Jerkass}} attitudes do nothing to dissuade the culprit).

* TheAlcoholic: PlayedForDrama with Ganryuu and the culprit's stepfather.

* AttemptedRape: [[TheAlcoholic Ganryuu, while drunk]], once tried to rape the servant while she was sleeping. He was thwarted because the matriarch knocked on the door at that moment.

* MamaBear: Part of the culprit's backstory involves his mother baring his [[DomesticAbuse stepfather's abuse]] whenever her husband got drunk and violent, and the last straw came when her husband attacked him, which ended with her being in prison after stabbing her abusive husband to death.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Possibly played with in the sense that he didn't really ''earn'' the "mighty" status, but the account from the chef and the servant give to Kindaichi and Marin makes it clear that the financial status and the legacy of the Kyougoku family has plummeted after Ganryuu took over the family head position following his brother's untimely death. It never manages to BreakTheHaughty, however, as Ganryuu simply resorts to doubling down with his bossy, {{Jerkass}} attitudes toward the remaining members in the household, be they family, staff, or disciples, right up until the culprit murders him.

** The culprit's stepfather tended to get violent after getting drunk. While [[DomesticAbuse the culprit's mother put up with it when the violence was aimed at her]], [[MamaBear she fought back the moment the culprit was targeted]], ending with his stepfather being stabbed to death and her in prison.

*** While Kaoruko does her best to act responsible, she has a wilder side that got loose in the past, causing her to have physical relationship with quite a few men. She tries to start from scratch after the responsibility of upholding the flower-arrangement art style has fallen on her shoulders, but things don't go her way. The desperation of keeping her family afloat eventually drives her to murder her sister while trying to make it look like a suicide.

* MamaBear: The culprit's mother bared his [[DomesticAbuse stepfather's abuse]] whenever her husband got drunk and violent, but the last straw came when her husband attacked her son, which ended with her being in prison after stabbing her abusive husband to death.

* SequelHook: This case arc ends with Kindaichi being handed an event promotion project... in [[HistoryRepeats Hotel Europa, Hakodate, where Kindaichi already had to solve some murder mystery case in the past]].

* CainAndAbel: In this case, it involves twin sisters. Kaoruko, the older of the two, turns out to have murdered her younger twin sister, Sakurako.

** Part of Ganryuu's issues comes with his alcoholism, which exacerbates his already bad temper. The chef and servant of the family both encounter it firsthand (he brandished a kitchen knife at the chef in his drunken stupor, though thankfully the chef wasn't attacked; he also tried to rape the servant once after getting drunk, and it was lucky for her that the matriarch knocked on the door at that moment and jolted him back to his senses), as they inform the police chief during investigative interviews about the murder case.

After Kindaichi inadvertently "volunteers" himself into the promotional project for a flower-arrangement art school in Kyoto and Marin volunteers to join him to help out, the two of them reach the house of the Kyougoku family, where one such school is located. Before the promotional project can take place, however, a murder mystery takes place...

** Seiryuu and Ganryuu play this straight. Seiryuu, the more responsible sibling, managed to keep the flower-arrangement art school going strong in the family with his mastery of the art and his kinder nature during his lifetime, before his untimely demise puts the burden of the family head on Ganryuu, his younger and more foolish brother, whose lack of expertise on the flower-arrangement art, much more spendthrift ways, and overall prickly attitudes have caused the Kyougoku family to be in sharp decline, both in financial status and in reputation.

* DomesticAbuse: Part of the culprit's backstory involves having to grow up with a stepfather who was abusive to his mother. It only ended on one fateful day, when his stepfather physically attacked him and his mother killed her husband in the ensuing struggle.

** Seiryuu and Ganryuu play this straight. Seiryuu, the more responsible sibling, managed to keep the flower-arrangement art school going strong in the family with his mastery of the art and his kinder nature during his lifetime, before his untimely demise puts the burden of the family head on Ganryuu, his younger and more foolish brother, whose lack of expertise on the flower-arrangement art, much more spendthrift ways, and overall prickly attitudes has caused the Kyougoku family to be in sharp decline, both in financial status and in reputation.

* SlashedThroat: Both Sakurako and the current head of the Kyougoku family are killed this way.

** On the night before the meeting is scheduled to take place, Kindaichi, Saki, and one other former high school classmate are out drinking. Kindaichi wants to stop early, but Saki and the other guy coax him into continuing, so Kindaichi relents under the premise of "having the last one". Cue the three of them having ''a lot more'' than "the last one" in the next panel.

** En route to Kyoto, Kindaichi thinks to himself that he's going to Kyoto for work and "it's not like a case is going to spring up". Too bad for him that he's such a MysteryMagnet that a case ''does'' spring up shortly after he and Marin arrive, which develop in such a way that the promotional project ends up getting scrapped.

** En route to Kyoto, Kindaichi thinks to himself that he's going to Kyoto for work and "it's not like a case is going to spring up". Too bad for him that he's such a MysteryMagnet that a case ''does'' spring up shortly after he and Marin arrive, which develop in such a way that the promotional project ends up getting scraped.

* TemptingFate: On the night before the meeting is scheduled to take place, Kindaichi, Saki, and one other former high school classmate are out drinking. Kindaichi wants to stop early, but Saki and the other guy coax him into continuing, so Kindaichi relents under the premise of "having the last one". Cue the three of them having ''a lot more'' than "the last one" in the next panel.

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