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Why would she have that condition? You tell me. I'll agree with you on the bolded part. Still, the thought of any of these characters being de-aged is not going to be the first thought that will occur to me, in relation to them. No—hence why I just re-used what I wrote, earlier. Interesting... it then leads back to, is Post-Coma Hyoue Rum, or isn't he? If so, there's the connection to Rum I was talking about. Maybe there's a flashback to the accident, and maybe Sakurako remembers something about Rum, if Rum lost his eye in that accident, whether he's Post-Coma Hyoue or not. No, Post-Coma Hyoue could still be Rum and still be connected to Sakurako like Jimmy suggested. As for Mr. Akai... that's... more complicated, I think, but I wouldn't dismiss it. But doesn't that become "too obvious," as well? Gosho has given equal time and weight to Rumi's name, and the fact that Elena had a mirror like Koji's dying message one, as I see it. Gosho just told us these things in a single panel, and left it at that. Mary would have to be in disguise to be Amanda's bodyguard—Rumi? Nope. And what of the hint? What does "Asaka Rum" mean, if Mary was Asaka?

You haven't gotten there yet, but there is a later point in the series where we get a case with extensive inner monologue/thoughts from Kogoro and nope, he straight up says there in thoughts that he has no idea why it happens, why he feels a stinging sensation before passing out, that he can really never remember anything and that he just accepts it because it works for him. That's the case that disproved any theory that Kogoro could be the Boss or BO for me, since he can fake his dialogue/reactions etc., but faking the inner thoughts would be massive cheating from Gosho (yeah, yeah, multiple personality disorder, schizophrenic etc, but Kogoro has never shown signs of something remotely like that, so just pulling that out of nowhere would still be cheating imo) and think of him what you want, he wouldn't go to such methods to fool the reader á la David Cage.