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I am going to try to push out a complete solution before Monday spoilers. Check back in later today for progress updates - I'm being interrupted by IRL issues, so I can't finish this all at once like I want too. Recap timeline: Long ago - Head waitress with child fired by Gifu One year ago - Husband of proprietor passed away One year ago - Kouhei nearly drowned in pool. One year ago soon after previous incident - storage shed broken into for the first time. Photographs when? "A few days ago" - a robber breaks into the warehouse Attack in warehouse Balloon popping Immediately after - scream heard. Murder found The photographed Kamaitachi The running on the water technique Large amounts of starch used for making kudzu soup stolen from the warehouse days earlier was added to the water of the pond. Nobody noticed because the water was already an opaque white, and stories of the kamaitachi dissuaded anyone from going to the pool. Starch turns the water into a shear-thickening fluid, which means that it behaves like a liquid when under little stress, but like a solid under high shear, as might be expected from a sudden application of weight. This allows people to run on it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw Drowning boy The child had difficulty swimming in the soupy "water" because it does not behave like regular water. It is rather viscous. The "kamaitachi" saved the boy and then washed his unconscious body off thoroughly afterwards so there would be no white starch residue. Why was this done? Practice for sure. To attract a neutral witness on a suitably snowy day with the right weather? To create a legend so that people will avoid the bath and thus finding out about the starch in it? The first cut incident Light bulb break method Gum on the lightbulb probably caused it to break. There a myth that sticking a piece of gum on a lightbulb will cause it to break after a delay. The gum was found by Yamamura and the forensics. I'm not sure why the culprit didn't recover it. Cut method The culprit could find Heiji and Kogoro in the dark using the lit up objects they were carrying. Kogoro had a lit cigarette in the hand he was cut in, Heiji was wearing a watch with glow in the dark hands on his cut forearm. Item used to cut was.... I don't know. Honestly it doesn't matter too much what it is because they didn't body search. The culprit could have tossed it anywhere the police wouldn't think to look or keep it with them out of fear. No one was wearing gloves wasn't wearing gloves, so it almost certainly has the culprit's fingerprints on it and tests positive for Heiji and Kogoro's blood. That makes it a vital clue to find. The culprit Almost certainly Midori. In order to see the faint glow of the watch, she equipped herself with orange tinted glasses. Orange tinted goggles, or in this case glasses, are standard crime scene equipment for looking at luminol other faint greenish/blue glow in the dark substances that are used to find bloodstains. Midori was not wearing anything glow in the dark, so she probably cut herself. Why was this done? To attract police. The later murder needs to be found quickly before more snow can fall and cover the prints of the people running to the annex the long way around and make them all suspects. Even better, if the murder was confirmed by the police, the culprit will have a very solid alibi. Other notes Note that Midori couldn't have known Heiji would wear a glowing watch, so the glasses must have been for another purpose - to see something else glowing in the dark. Also since Heiji and Kogoro were unexpected guests, it's possible that Midori had tagged the landlady and the other reporter with glowing paint somehow and would have aimed for them. The culprit broke into the storage area a few days earier to disable one of the lights so that once the one working lightbulb breaks, the entire shed will be dark. Second they needed to steal the starch for the kudzu soup to prepare the bath. Ran's and Kazuha's balloon popping incident Light bulb break method A BB gun or water gun filled with ice cold water could both break hot lights. What Conan said about only finding 3 BB pellets suggests to me that the BB gun was used on the light because it was not enough to hit the balloons. The culprit knew about the balloons in advance and the setup because they had seen it before and had pictures. Heiji described where the shot was from (the one pane of the paper sliding door that rools up) and where the gun came from (the storage shed). Balloon pop method The ice cold water wasn't water at all, it was acetone, a solvent which can dissolve plastic (aka nail polish remover). Acetone is put in a water gun and sprayed, when it contacts the balloon surfaces the balloon plastic weakens and the balloons pop. A spray from a water gun can hit many balloons at once, which explains Ran and Kazuha's observation that the balloons popped simultaneously. Room temperature acetone feels ice cold when it is on the skin because the heat of vaporization is so low that it evaporates extremely quickly. It also has a strong cleaning solution smell. I assume the balloons were marked with glow in the dark paint which the tinted glasses would help the culprit see. The culprit Since it requires shooting in the dark at illuminated stuff, probably Midori again. Definitely the same person as the murder. Why was this done? To attract attention and bring everyone together so that when the man's scream happens, the culprit can have a firm alibi because they were with everyone. The guns need to be disposed of. They couldn't have gotten far because the murder happened right after and the killer had other things to be doing. The bath would be an easy place to drop the things. Murder Incident Trying to think of if I forgot something Killing Gifu The culprit probably crossed the pond and killed Gifu rather than going around the long way and then came back by running across the water. I assume he was killed right before the balloon popping incident because it would wreck the alibi if the body was not extremely fresh and no footprints were visible in the snow. Perhaps Gifu was attacked through the paper door which would explain the slash and splash and the blood on the door? If he was backlit by the light in the room, then he could be seen clearly from outside the door without trouble (and the culprit would be hard to see). Gifu could have been killed with a weapon other than the scythe (although the scythe would work); any weapon that could be disposed of that would slash through the door would work. If another weapon was used, then the scythe would have been stabbed into the body after the culprit crossed for a third time to retrieve the audio broadcasting device before the police and detectives going around the long way could arrive at the crime scene. Finding the body The Gifu's scream was prerecorded from the foot massage tape mentioned in 911 page 11. That allows the culprit to have an alibi. The audio device placed in the annex that broadcasted the man's scream needs to be recovered before the police can find it, especially since the earlier incident in the storage shed was designed to attract their presence. That means the culprit needs to pretend to follow the others around the long way, but then fall behind so they can take the shortcut across the starchy bath soup to recover the device before the others arrive. After recovering the device, they then need to clean up their footprints. If they scrape clean the path clean with the scythe (as agreed upon by Heiji and Kogoro) and then wait in the dark (it has to be dark to hide, necessitating the lights be cut out by flipping the breaker) for the others to arrive they can rejoin the group and pretend they never left. The culprit then stabs the scythe into the body (that explains the discrepancy between the blood on the door where the murder took place and the current position of the body and scythe). The culprit The same person as the balloon shooter, probably Midori. The motive Gifu firing the woman with the child in the past. Maybe Gifu perved on her. Midori is probably the child from that time. Something bad probably happened to the mother and Midori wanted revenge. Other notes Koyanagi Midori is definitely the most suspicious here because of the way she tried to convince the detectives the foggy white pool was just normal water by throwing a rock in it. The recording device would have to be disposed of (in the bath?), or be something easy to hide like a phone. The specks of liquid on the rocks bt the bath were made by splashing water soup as the culprit ran across and jumped over.

I won't repeat disclaimer, same thing! I don't own them. X It was Haibara's idea, of remembering Conan's shoe, that jolted her memory of their neighbor, was on their side, telling them he also was worried. Heiji was told by him, as she asked to be discharged. Doctor insisting she should stay overnight. She said "Have no wishes in the dark hide away from confrontation." She already resigned, after having long conversation with professor. Professor then took her home, but to rejoin by Saburu, they weren't alone, Haibara was still scared, with hand trembling. "I have many thing to say to you both..." he confessing as Heiji and boys looked apprehensive at him. Heiji and friends watched defensively but Shinichi's best friend won't let Saburu in easily. Professor told them Saburu was their ally. They looked at him with shock, and Saburu smiled, as he owe them explanation. He did. They later learn he had Conan's shoe was planted with bug, professor turned surprised of relevation being told but accepted his participation was essential to rescue their detective.

Other ones! This time, I drew them with ballpoint pen and #1 pencils. I hope it made the drawings stand out more!

Here's some other stuff I made... You know how it's so cool to see yourself improve over time? Now, I draw weekly doodles on the corner of my agenda for this exact purpose! These are all cleaned up by the image editor on Imgur so the low quality of my iPad doesn't show, and the light pencil lines will.