"Blue Gale was a work that had already been reserved..."
Taking advantage of the owners' absence to thoroughly search their house, Conan looked at his notebook with sudden realization.
This painting was very special among Takeyori Oikawa's series of works.
Generally speaking, most painters finished their works before releasing them, and putting them on the art market was the final step—not even a necessary one.
The first three paintings in Takeyori Oikawa's series had been the same. Only "Blue Gale" was different.
"Mr. Oikawa's wife was caught up in a tornado and eventually fell gravely ill and died..." Ran Mouri sighed as she looked at the newspaper in her hands.
Takeyori Oikawa had loved his wife deeply. It should be said that he had once had a happy family and a happy life.
He had developed well in the field of painting and could be considered successful in his career. He had also married the daughter of Haruhito, a renowned master of landscape painting, and gotten along well with his wife's family.
If not for that natural disaster, he might never have fallen into his current state of misery.
"Not only did she become seriously ill, but in order to save her, he sold off all the works he had on hand and even sold a piece of residential property. You could say he drained his entire fortune for it." Mori Kogoro's attention was entirely on the receipts they had found in Haruhito Kanbara's study. "This villa was funded by Haruhito Kanbara, because Takeyori Oikawa had practically no money left that he could use at the time."
Takeyori Oikawa had not kept those old hospital expense lists, perhaps because he did not want to recall the pain of losing his beloved.
Haruhito Kanbara, perhaps to remember his daughter, or perhaps