Tsukumo Bomb Strategy Analysis

Tsukumo Strategy Document In this document I will analyze Tsukumo's “Bomb Strategy”, the main antagonist from the manga “Massacre Happy End”. Tsukumo is in a tough position, he's trying to both prove that kusakabe is the killer and stop the curse somehow. Obviously simply jailing kusakabe up isn't ideal as it could stagnate time, and killing him has no guarantee of stopping the time loop. Simply put, he had way too little info. But there was a much more knowledgeable person on the matter - Kusakabe himself. So Tsukumo’s goal here is to make kusakabe give him all the information about his ability or make him want to end the curse himself. Obviously he'd prefer option 1 and he tries to make it happen, but it's the option less likely to happen. His very first act after bringing Kusakabe to the police station is sending a letter to Yae (Kusakabe's pillar of emotional support) to keep her updated on everything, showing by this point he has already started thinking about how he can utilize her in his manipulation of Kusakabe. On the 3rd day of his interrogation of Kuskabe he definitively realizes Kusakabe has set up a timer and he has fallen into his trap, meaning he'll fail. So he began setting up his strategy of killing Yae and making Kusakabe turn his hatred towards the curse itself, rather than Tsukumo, himself or any other individual. He went to the hospital and made some blueprints of the building and placed them within his apartment to authenticate the validity of the …