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Your points in order, Charlot.And this is what I am thinking about - if sensitive to perfumes, how could one spend a long time in a house with so many unpleasant smells? I see two options:
1) he did not stay in the house for too long
2) or, he did stay long, but could the setup be totally opposite? He uses Drakkar in general because he won't be able to tell when he is starting to smell, but in fact, he suffers from anosmia, or hyposmia?
(I have to look specifically through every condition that can cause anosmia. Some are interesting).Anosmia - Wikipedia
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I think the perpetrator has quite a number of odd traits. Maybe he was persuaded to stay in the house because of the physical trauma only. I can imagine him sleeping after a profuse discharge of emotions. Eating? Hardly likely unless there is something wrong with your olfactory nerve.
(I am not going to go through all smells, but think of all - mixed in a small house where one person has been strangled, and three, brutally stabbed. I hope that Haruko being 70, she was partially spared of intensity of the smell, as the olfactory nerve gets older with age, but a man of 15-20 with normal smell would be very much affected. So I am trying to sort out what that man could have. We don't know his face, nor even the race, but something about him we can probably guess, even now. BTW, I think if he were local and mafia-connected, he's be dead a long time ago, such a liability).
1) We know that he stayed in the house almost certainly between 10:38pm(ish) to 1:23am. That's a fairly significant amount of time given that Mikio was alive at 10:38pm and the whole family was likely dead by 11pm. An extra couple hours-worth of extreme risk. But like I said the other day, it seems as if the papers are saying he left BEFORE dawn. This was always the more likely scenario to me vs him staying until daybreak and leaving JUST BEFORE the grandmother discovered the bodies. For all his crazy risks, the killer doesn't seem stupid. And that would have been stupid.
2) Your ideas about his sensitivity to smell are interesting. I simply have no clue to this beyond the fact that his clothes held *traces* of Drakkar Noir. He may not have been wearing it that night but had previously worn it before.
3) We don't know he slept at any point. It does seem, however, as though he sat on the couch. My best guess is that he was hurt and exhausted. He was possibly in shock. We know for a fact he lost a fair amount of blood. He was very possibly panicking. Maybe if he felt taking on more sugar would help him in some way, or to stay awake. But basically, we actually don't know that much of what he did considering he was in the house for a couple of hours after the murders beyond tossing documents, eating/drinking, patching himself up, using the toilet, and using the computer. That shouldn't all take 2 hours.
4) I think of all the possibilities, the one connecting him to the Yakuza is among the least likely. I'm yet to hear one SINGLE plausible explanation for why the local mob would have any interest in the Miyazawas. Much less contract a young man to kill them with a sushi knife. And even then, if they were to kill him after these botched murders, where is the report of that crime? Surely, that's a body we're missing etc.