Offside is the Best Side

Offside is the Best Side (Tachiai wa furaingugimi tu) is the 5th episode of Kabukichou Sherlock anime.

Summary
After taking Pipe, John and Toratarou witness Lucy beat up a couple of hoodlums. Sequentially after that, they see her go into a sumo dojo and witness her offer a bag of treats to a sumo wrestler she’s a fan of. Back at the Pipe Cat, it’s learned that the sumo wrestler’s name is Omiyama. Mrs. Hudson divulges that in his youth he was in line to become a Yokozuna. Michel chimes in and claims that were until he broke his knee and since then he’s a shadow of his former self. Meanwhile, Lucy takes out a loan from the local Yakuza Kaneko to pay for her sister Mary’s cram school tuition. She then runs into James and after briefly talking for a bit they stop a sumo wrestler named Bunmaru from committing suicide. Bunmaru and he tried to kill himself for redemption for losing 2 million yen. The money was to pay contractors hired to restore the dilapidated Sumo Wrestling dojo he's a part of. So Lucy gives Bunmaru the 2 million yen she took out for a loan and takes out another 2 million dollar loan. Later Omiyama and Bunmaru visit Lucy at the Pipe Cat and offer their thanks for her generosity. On the day Lucy has to pay back her loan, Sherlock reveals by his Mystery Solving Rakugo the money Bunmaru lost was never explicitly lost. It was taken from him by his master, Omiyama.

Characters by Appearances

 * Mary Morstan
 * Lucy Morstan
 * Mrs. Hudson
 * Masaya
 * Pipe
 * Toratarou Kobayashi
 * John H. Watson
 * Omiyama
 * Michel Belmont
 * Kaneko Nobuo
 * James Moriarty
 * Bunmaru
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * Maki Hokari