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Masumi Takamori, a classmate of Kindaichi's during their grade school years, runs into Kindaichi while dealing with some trouble of her own, and she hands him two tickets for her upcoming fashion show in the process of ending their conversation in a hurry. Kindaichi, with Miyuki in tow, attend the fashion show that's set to take place in the French manor hotel in Nagano prefecture with the tickets Masumi gives them, all while a serial murder case that has been already ongoing even as Masumi was talking to Kindaichi is also carried over at said fashion show.
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* ForcedIntoEvil: The culprit has Masumi conscripted into doing the dirty work of [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink slipping poison]] via {{Blackmail}}.


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* MurderByMistake: The killer tries to put a poison in a glass of their intended target. However, the glass is filled with wine [[PlotAllergy the target has an allergy for]] and the poor guy next to him offers to drink the intended target's wine. Cue the killer's inner panic. It turns out to be [[InvertedTrope inverted]]: The killer was blackmailed by ''the intended target'' and the poor guy was the target all along.
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** The culprit has been acquainted with the present-day sommelier since their own grand school years.

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** The culprit has been acquainted with the present-day sommelier since their own grand grade school years.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: A rather literal example; The culprit makes herself look like she is targeted by making Masumi poison her wine glass, but she has a valid excuse to not drink the wine because she's allergic to grapes. Her real target is Kimisawa's competitor Mitsuhiko Rokujo, who is a known flirt and who's been trying not-so-subtly to poach the culprit to his company, by playing mind games so that Rokujo offers to drink the wine in her stead. This is done so that no one including Masumi will think she's the culprit.

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* PlayingTheVictimCard: A rather literal example; PlotAllergy: The culprit makes herself look like uses her grape allergy to create a poisoning scenario where she is targeted by making Masumi poison her wine glass, but she has a valid excuse to not drink ends up being seen as potential victim instead of the wine because she's allergic to grapes. Her real target is Kimisawa's competitor Mitsuhiko Rokujo, who is a known flirt and who's been trying not-so-subtly to poach the culprit to his company, by playing mind games so that Rokujo offers to drink the wine in her stead. This is done so that no one including Masumi will think she's the culprit.killer.

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* ChildhoodFriend: While Hajime and Miyuki encompass this trope from start of the series, the central character is their mutual childhood friend in elementary school.

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While Hajime and Miyuki encompass this trope from start of the series, the central character is their mutual childhood friend in elementary school.school.
** The culprit has been acquainted with the present-day sommelier since their own grand school years.



** A much more [[PlayedForLaughs lighthearted]] example takes place near the end of the case arc. On the way to the class reunion, Kenmochi reveals that the sommelier, who has known the culprit since childhood, sent a bouquet of flowers to the culprit as her birthday present, only for the culprit to tell him that her birthday wouldn't come for ''another month'', causing the sommelier to respond with a BigWhat and feel embarrassed.

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** A much more [[PlayedForLaughs lighthearted]] example takes place near the end of the case arc. On the way to the class reunion, Kenmochi reveals that the sommelier, who has known who's a ChildhoodFriend of the culprit since childhood, culprit's, sent a bouquet of flowers to the culprit as her birthday present, only for the culprit to tell him that her birthday wouldn't come for ''another month'', causing the sommelier to respond with a BigWhat and feel embarrassed.embarrassed, much to the culprit's amusement.
--->You're forgetful as ever!

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* ChildhoodFriend: While Hajime and Miyuki encompass this trope from start of the series, the central character is their mutual childhood friend in elementary school.



* HeKnowsTooMuch: The last one of the murder victims is targeted for threatening the culprit with secrets said victim has learned from one of the earlier victims in an attempt to get out from the culprit's control.

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* HeKnowsTooMuch: The last one of the murder victims is targeted for threatening the culprit with secrets said victim has learned from one of the earlier victims in an attempt to get out from the culprit's control. To be fair, even without the threat the victim's doomed from the start anyway...


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* PlayingTheVictimCard: A rather literal example; The culprit makes herself look like she is targeted by making Masumi poison her wine glass, but she has a valid excuse to not drink the wine because she's allergic to grapes. Her real target is Kimisawa's competitor Mitsuhiko Rokujo, who is a known flirt and who's been trying not-so-subtly to poach the culprit to his company, by playing mind games so that Rokujo offers to drink the wine in her stead. This is done so that no one including Masumi will think she's the culprit.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: The last one of the murder victims is targeted for threatening the culprit with secrets said victim has learned from one of the earlier victims in an attempt to get out from the culprit's control.
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* IWillWaitForYou: A non-romantic example. Yurie shows the culprit a signed official agreement that would allow the culprit to have an independent fashion brand as the case arc is concluding and states that she'll wait for the day the culprit has served her time to let her take over said independent fashion brand.
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* HopelessWithTech: The culprit is bad with using computers. This ends up providing solid evidence for Kindaichi to incriminate her.
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* BrutalHonesty: The police captain, who once assumed Kindaichi was the culprit from the case in which he had to [[ClearMyName prove his innocence]] and is now involved in yet another mystery murder case, is not mincing words with Kindaichi over his track records of being a MysteryMagnet, even though he's no longer an InspectorJavert.
-->Whenever you're around, there's always a strange case! Just get the Hell away from Nagano once you're done here!
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The culprit's final murder plan involves having the tubes being connected to Yurie's life support unplugged with a kick to the table where said life support system is. Unfortunately for the culprit, the whole story of Yurie being on life support is merely a lie to have the culprit LuredIntoATrap.
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** Finally, one of the victims had tried to force Yurie into submission after catching her helping the culprit load and dump the body of the guy who tried to blackmail the culprit. Yurie decided to feign cooperation with him in return, before PoorCommunicationKills and the culprit mistakenly believed the Yurie would betray her, kick-starting the murder case in turn.

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** Finally, one of the victims had tried to force Yurie into submission after catching her helping the culprit load and dump the body of the guy who tried to blackmail the culprit. Yurie decided to feign cooperation with him in return, before PoorCommunicationKills set in and the culprit mistakenly believed the Yurie would betray her, kick-starting the murder case in turn.



** On the way to the class reunion, Kenmochi reveals that the sommelier, who has known the culprit since childhood, sent a bouquet of flowers to the culprit as her birthday present, only for the culprit to tell him that her birthday wouldn't come for ''another month'', causing the sommelier to respond with a BigWhat and feel embarrassed.

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** A much more [[PlayedForLaughs lighthearted]] example takes place near the end of the case arc. On the way to the class reunion, Kenmochi reveals that the sommelier, who has known the culprit since childhood, sent a bouquet of flowers to the culprit as her birthday present, only for the culprit to tell him that her birthday wouldn't come for ''another month'', causing the sommelier to respond with a BigWhat and feel embarrassed.
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** On the way to the class reunion, Kenmochi reveals that the sommelier, who has known the culprit since childhood, sent a bouquet of flowers to the culprit, only for the culprit to tell him that her birthday wouldn't come for ''another month'', causing the sommelier to respond with a BigWhat and feel embarrassed.

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** On the way to the class reunion, Kenmochi reveals that the sommelier, who has known the culprit since childhood, sent a bouquet of flowers to the culprit, culprit as her birthday present, only for the culprit to tell him that her birthday wouldn't come for ''another month'', causing the sommelier to respond with a BigWhat and feel embarrassed.

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* IWillWaitForYou: A non-romantic example. Yurie shows the culprit a signed statement that would allow the culprit to have an independent fashion brand as the case arc is concluding and states that she'll wait for the day the culprit has served her time to let her take over said independent fashion brand.

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* IWillWaitForYou: A non-romantic example. Yurie shows the culprit a signed statement official agreement that would allow the culprit to have an independent fashion brand as the case arc is concluding and states that she'll wait for the day the culprit has served her time to let her take over said independent fashion brand.



* ShaggyDogStory: After the sommelier offers the leftover Romanee-Conti to Kindaichi and Miyuki for free, they prepare to drink it, only for the sommelier to take it away upon sensing something odd while smelling it before he reaches the conclusion that the wine is some local wine being placed inside a Romanee-Conti bottle. That being said, this incident helps Kindaichi to solve the mystery.

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After the sommelier offers the leftover Romanee-Conti to Kindaichi and Miyuki for free, they prepare to drink it, only for the sommelier to take it away upon sensing something odd while smelling it before he reaches the conclusion that the wine is some local wine being placed inside a Romanee-Conti bottle. That being said, this incident helps Kindaichi to solve the mystery.mystery.
** On the way to the class reunion, Kenmochi reveals that the sommelier, who has known the culprit since childhood, sent a bouquet of flowers to the culprit, only for the culprit to tell him that her birthday wouldn't come for ''another month'', causing the sommelier to respond with a BigWhat and feel embarrassed.
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** PlayedForLaughs as the case arc starts with everyone in Kindaichi's class having a four-legged race, with Miyuki remarking after the fact that Kindaichi made the same suggestion back in their grade school years and he received injury for getting a bit too perverted during the race, though the one he gets in the present day is a bit worse as Miyuki kicks him on the nose and gives him a nosebleed when he gets too close to her crotch.

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** PlayedForLaughs as the case arc starts with everyone in Kindaichi's class having a four-legged race, with Miyuki remarking after the fact that Kindaichi made the same suggestion back in their grade school years and he received injury for getting a bit too perverted during the race, though the one he gets in the present day is a bit worse as Miyuki kicks him on the nose and gives him a nosebleed when he gets too close to her crotch.crotch, even if by accident.



* ShaggyDogStory: After the sommelier offers the leftover Romanee-Conti to Kindaichi and Miyuki for free, they prepare to drink it, only for the sommelier to take it away upon sensing something odd while smelling it before he reaches the conclusion that the wine is some local wine being placed inside a Romanee-Conti bottle.

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* ShaggyDogStory: After the sommelier offers the leftover Romanee-Conti to Kindaichi and Miyuki for free, they prepare to drink it, only for the sommelier to take it away upon sensing something odd while smelling it before he reaches the conclusion that the wine is some local wine being placed inside a Romanee-Conti bottle. That being said, this incident helps Kindaichi to solve the mystery.
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* HistoryRepeats: Played for both [[PlayedForLaughs comedy]] and [[PlayedForDrama drama]], though not withal.
** PlayedForLaughs as the case arc starts with everyone in Kindaichi's class having a four-legged race, with Miyuki remarking after the fact that Kindaichi made the same suggestion back in their grade school years and he received injury for getting a bit too perverted during the race, though the one he gets in the present day is a bit worse as Miyuki kicks him on the nose and gives him a nosebleed when he gets too close to her crotch.
** PlayedForDrama due to Masumi having a confrontational encounter with someone from her past she'd rather leave behind that ends with her killing the guy (though it turns out she only manages to knock him out). Then it turns out that the life experiences between Masumi and the culprit who manipulates her are eerily similar, to GenerationXerox levels.
** In addition, it's implied that Yurie had gone through a similar life experience, causing her to take so much pity on both Masumi and the culprit, though not confirmed due to prolonged time passage.

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* HypocriticalHumor: An exchange between Kindaichi and Miyuki takes place after the murder case concludes while they wait for Kenmochi and Masumi to show up:
-->'''Kindaichi''': How long is Uncle gonna make us wait, eh? Is he even gonna come?
-->'''Miyuki''': Just relax. He even got permission from Mr. Akechi, so he'll be here.
-->'''Kindaichi''': It's already been 20 minutes since the agreed time!
-->'''Miyuki''': Have you forgotten you once made me wait for two and a half hours?
-->'''Kindaichi''': That's 'cause some stuff came up!
-->'''Miyuki''': Someone like you has no right to say that!



* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Zigzagged and PlayedForLaughs at the end of the case arc.

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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Zigzagged [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] and PlayedForLaughs at the end of the case arc.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Zigzagged and PlayedForLaughs at the end of the case arc.
** In order for Masumi to be able to join Kindaichi and Miyuki for the class reunion, Akechi gives Kenmochi permission to allow her to participate in the occasion under the condition of Kenmochi's supervision, and Kindaichi states that it'd be on Kenmochi's neck if anything goes wrong. That part goes well, though.
** On the other hand, the people at the reunion start ordering more expensive food entrees once they confirm Kindaichi is footing the bill, much to his exasperation.
--->'''Kenmochi''': *wink* Good luck with that, Mr. event sponsor!
--->'''Kindaichi''': '''What the heck? Cut it out, I'm not on an unlimited budget here! THIS IS BULLYING!'''
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* {{Blackmail}}: Present many times throughout the case arc.
** Both Masumi and the murder case culprit are on the receiving end of this from someone in their respective past before the confrontations turned deadly.
** The culprit also uses Masumi's confrontation and the ensuing concealment and dumping of the dead body to manipulate her into doing the dirty work of [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink slipping poison into cups to get the intended targets killed]].
** Finally, one of the victims had tried to force Yurie into submission after catching her helping the culprit load and dump the body of the guy who tried to blackmail the culprit. Yurie decided to feign cooperation with him in return, before PoorCommunicationKills and the culprit mistakenly believed the Yurie would betray her, kick-starting the murder case in turn.

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* GenerationXerox: The culprit has been able to manipulate Masami because of their similar thought processes, which seems to be induced by their eerily similar backstories of being abandoned by their mother, going through a period of "darkness", before being rescued by Yurie, who took them under her wing and gave them a new life as a model and designer under her brand. Later, it is implied that Yurie took so much pity on them because she herself had gone through a similar life experience.

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* FrameUp:
** The culprit's plan is to manipulate Masumi into [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink slipping poison into cups to get the intended targets killed]] before setting the latter up to look like the murderer for the next victim.
** In addition, the case arc starts out with someone from Masumi's rough past showing up for {{Blackmail}}, before Masumi kills the guy. It turns out Masumi merely knocked the guy out, and the culprit killed the guy for real while Masumi was out buying a suitcase to hide the guy, in order to force Masumi to do the dirty work of slipping the poison from behind the scenes.
* GenerationXerox: The culprit has been able to manipulate Masami Masumi because of their similar thought processes, which seems to be induced by their eerily similar backstories of being abandoned by their mother, going through a period of "darkness", before being rescued by Yurie, who took them under her wing and gave them a new life as a model and designer under her brand. Later, it is implied that Yurie took so much pity on them because she herself had gone through a similar life experience.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Two of the victims are murdered via poison being placed inside cups that the culprit tricks the victims to drink.
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* IWillWaitForYou: A non-romantic example. Yurie shows the culprit a signed statement that would allow the culprit to have an independent fashion brand as the case arc is concluding and states that she'll wait for the day the culprit has served her time to let her take over said independent fashion brand.

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* GenerationXerox: The culprit has been able to manipulate Masami because of their similar thought processes, which seems to be induced by their eerily similar backstories of being abandoned by their mother, going through a period of "darkness", before being rescued by Yurie, who took them under her wing and gave them a new life as a model and designer under her brand. Later, it is implied that Yurie took so much pity on them because she herself had gone through a similar life experience.



* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer thought her boss/mother substitute was about to betray her. She then discovers the boss was trying to [[MamaBear protect her]]. Fortunately the boss survived and they made amends.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer thought Yurie, her boss/mother substitute substitute, was about to betray her. She then discovers the boss Yurie was trying to [[MamaBear protect her]]. Fortunately the boss survived Fortunately, Yurie survives and they made make amends.

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** It ends up being zigzagged, however, as the sommelier offers it to them for free.[[note]] Neither of them gets to drink any at all, though.[[/note]]

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** It ends up being zigzagged, however, as the sommelier offers it to them for free.[[note]] Neither of them gets to drink any at all, though.though -- [[ShaggyDogStory the wine turns out to be some cheap local product in a falsely branded bottle]].[[/note]]


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* ShaggyDogStory: After the sommelier offers the leftover Romanee-Conti to Kindaichi and Miyuki for free, they prepare to drink it, only for the sommelier to take it away upon sensing something odd while smelling it before he reaches the conclusion that the wine is some local wine being placed inside a Romanee-Conti bottle.
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* IWasJustJoking: When the sommelier suggests for Kindaichi to have some wine while the latter is drawing a blank regarding the murder case, Miyuki offers to treat him a glass of wine, in spite of Kenmochi's disapproval due to Miyuki and Kindaichi both being underage. Kindaichi agrees to Miyuki's offer... before asking for the Romanee-Conti that was served during the earlier part of the fashion show. Miyuki [[DopeSlap punches him on the back of the head]].
-->'''Miyuki''': '''''HE DIDN'T MEAN YOU COULD HAVE THAT SUPER-EXPENSIVE WINE!''''''
-->'''Kindaichi''': Kidding! [[LampshadeHanging I'm just kidding]], Miyuki!
** It ends up being zigzagged, however, as the sommelier offers it to them for free.[[note]] Neither of them gets to drink any at all, though.[[/note]]
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Masumi Takamori, a classmate of Kindaichi's during their grade school years, runs into Kindaichi while dealing with some trouble of her own, and she hands him two tickets for her upcoming fashion show in the process of ending their conversation in a hurry. Kindaichi, with Miyuki in tow, attend the fashion show with the tickets Masumi gives them, all while a serial murder case that has been already ongoing even as Masumi was talking to Kindaichi is also carried over at said fashion show.

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Masumi Takamori, a classmate of Kindaichi's during their grade school years, runs into Kindaichi while dealing with some trouble of her own, and she hands him two tickets for her upcoming fashion show in the process of ending their conversation in a hurry. Kindaichi, with Miyuki in tow, attend the fashion show that's set to take place in the French manor hotel in Nagano prefecture with the tickets Masumi gives them, all while a serial murder case that has been already ongoing even as Masumi was talking to Kindaichi is also carried over at said fashion show.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer thought her boss/mother substitute was about to betray her. She then discovers the boss was trying to protect her. Fortunately the boss survived and they made amends.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer thought her boss/mother substitute was about to betray her. She then discovers the boss was trying to [[MamaBear protect her. her]]. Fortunately the boss survived and they made amends.amends.
* SneezeCut: After a French detective issues a deduction duel with Kindaichi before walking away:
-->'''Kenmochi''': A duel? Somehow that reminds me of a certain annoying superior...\\
'''Kindaichi''': Well, at least this guy has his funny and quirky side, unlike SOMEONE we know...\\
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"French Silver Coin Murder Case" is the seventeenth case arc in the Files Series of ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles''.

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"French Silver Coin Murder Case" (aka "The Burial Franc Case") is the seventeenth case arc in the Files Series of ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles''.



* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kindaichi joins the sports committee and insists on having the four-legged race included for the sports festival precisely so he can have such a race with two girls, one of whom being Miyuki. However, the race is difficult at best, especially for someone as athletically uncoordinated like Kindaichi, which results in an unfortunate accident after the three of them bump into three other people that ends with Kindaichi's ankle getting hurt, followed by Kindaichi getting too close towards Miyuki's crotch and Miyuki kicking Kindaichi straight in the nose and him getting a nosebleed in the end. Miyuki states after the fact that [[HistoryRepeats he made the same suggestion during the grade school years and similar results happened because of it]].

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kindaichi joins the sports committee and insists on having the four-legged race included for the sports festival precisely so he can have such a race with two girls, one of whom being Miyuki. However, the race is difficult at best, especially for someone as athletically uncoordinated like Kindaichi, which results in an unfortunate accident after the three of them bump into three other people that ends with Kindaichi's ankle getting hurt, followed by Kindaichi getting too close towards Miyuki's crotch and Miyuki kicking Kindaichi straight in the nose and him getting a nosebleed in the end. Miyuki states after the fact that [[HistoryRepeats he made the same suggestion during the grade school years and similar results happened because of it]].it]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: The murderer thought her boss/mother substitute was about to betray her. She then discovers the boss was trying to protect her. Fortunately the boss survived and they made amends.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kindaichi joins the sports committee and insists on having the four-legged race included for the sports festival precisely so he can have such a race with two girls, one of whom being Miyuki. However, the race is difficult at best, especially for someone as athletically uncoordinated like Kindaichi, which results in an unfortunate accident after the three of them bump into three other people that ends with Kindaichi's ankle getting hurt, followed by Kindaichi getting too close towards Miyuki's crotch and Miyuki kicking Kindaichi straight in the nose and him getting a nosebleed in the end. Miyuki states after the fact that [[HistoryRepeats he made the same suggestion during the grade school years and similar results happened because of it]].
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"French Silver Coin Murder Case" is the seventeenth case arc in the Files Series of ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles''.

Masumi Takamori, a classmate of Kindaichi's during their grade school years, runs into Kindaichi while dealing with some trouble of her own, and she hands him two tickets for her upcoming fashion show in the process of ending their conversation in a hurry. Kindaichi, with Miyuki in tow, attend the fashion show with the tickets Masumi gives them, all while a serial murder case that has been already ongoing even as Masumi was talking to Kindaichi is also carried over at said fashion show.
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