The Butler and the Mystery
| Chapter 1113 | |
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| Title: | The Butler and the Mystery |
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| Japanese title: | 執事と謎 (Shitsuji to Nazo) |
| Original release: | June 7th, 2023 |
| Shōnen Sunday issue: | #28/2023 |
| Volume: | 104 |
| Pages: | 16 |
| English title: | The Butler and the Mystery |
| English release: | June 7th, 2023 (Simulpub)[1] |
| Prev chapter: | « The Spilled Truth |
| Next chapter: | The Butler and the Young Lady » |
| List of chapters | |
The Butler and the Mystery (執事と謎 Shitsuji to Nazo) is the 1113th chapter of the manga of Detective Conan. It was written by Gosho Aoyama, drawn by him and his assistants and first released in Shōnen Sunday #28/2023 on June 7, 2023 and was released as part of Volume 104 on October 18, 2023. It was released in English by Viz Manga on the same day under the name The Butler and the Mystery.
Contents
Characters
Introduced
Featured
Settings
- Japan
- Unknown location (between Tokyo and Nagoya)
- Nozomi Shinkansen Train
- Unknown location (between Tokyo and Nagoya)
Plot
The story opens with Heiji, Kazuha and Momiji playing cards in a car of a Nozomi train on the Tokaido Shinkansen line on their way to Tokyo. After Heiji loses again against Momiji, her butler Muga Iori, sitting in the row in front of them, proposes a game of karuta, which Heiji declines, since it would take too much space in the small train. Kazuha asks why Heiji and Momiji followed her on the train, since she was only going to Tokyo to meet Ran. Heiji avoids the question, while thinking in his head that he followed her since Conan told him that Kazuha and Ran were suspiciously searching scenic spots together, and that Heiji should probably not miss on the occasion to know what they are up to. Momiji says that she has an upcoming game of Hyakunin Isshu[2] in Tokyo, but she reveals in her thoughts that she lied and simply wanted to be with Heiji. While tailing Heiji and Kazuha, Iori saw them buying tickets, and Momiji asked him to book the whole train save for two seats for him and his mistress. Heiji and Kazuha are thus surprised that the train is rather empty. Suddenly, a drunk man with sunglasses and a face mask spills his can of beer on Iori, and apologizes, offering a set of tissues, but the former politely declines and goes to the restroom to clean himself. After Iori asks Heiji to take care of Momiji while he is gone, Momiji clings on to his arm, frustrating Kazuha. In the washroom, Iori rolls up his right sleeve, which reveals stitching marks on the length of his arm, and he remembers something the young mistress told him:
Great things come from little things, you know? I need you at your best to protect me
—Momiji Ooka, some time ago, to Muga Iori.
Suddenly, an abandoned cellphone starts ringing in the stall and Iori picks it up. He answers by saying that this is not his phone, but an eerie voice says that it is indeed him that he was looking for, Iori from the PSB who now works as a butler. The voice asks Iori to put a headset in his pocket, but when he refuses to comply, the voice asks him to look back at their seats. From the end of the hallway, Iori sees a hand holding a bloodstained knife poking out from behind Momiji's seat, which is a threat from the voice that he will kill her if Iori does not do as he says. Horrified, Iori complies. First, he throws his phone in the trash as instructed. Then, he goes to car 14 and sees an unconscious middle-aged man. When Iori realizes that the man is dead, the voice laughs and asks him to retrieve the flash drive in his pocket and put it in the washroom where he found the abandoned phone. Then, he must stay with the dead man until it reaches Tokyo in two hours. Before carrying out these last two instructions, Iori inspects the body and deducts that the assailant first threatened the victim and tried to take the flash drive, but when he fought back, he was accidentally stabbed to death through his heart. The assailant then muffled his cries and since they could not find the flash drive, the assailant and the accomplice hatched a plan to have Iori find the flash drive for them, having recognized him as the former PSB agent. They could not search themselves, since they still had blood on them and did not want to get caught by the other passengers. After understanding the two criminals' goal, he starts searching the body, but only finds a lightly bloodstained ballpoint pen and a train ticket. The assailants then reveal over the phone that that seat was not his original seat and that the actual one is in the front of the train. Iori goes there, and notices a briefcase, which he manages to open with a paper clip. Inside the briefcase is a towel, an electric razor, a toothbrush, clothes and a notebook containing business cards. On the last page of the notebook, the dead man wrote that he had found the last piece of evidence in the Tsurugi allegations case. Iori remembers the case: The secretary of Tsurugi, a diet member, committed suicide some time ago claiming responsibility for a series of crimes. While investigating the rest of the briefcase, Heiji asks him what he is doing, away from his seat and with someone else's belongings. When the voice over the earphone starts panicking, Iori makes a lie to Heiji and says that it is a briefcase of a friend he met in the train during its stop at Nagoya. However, Heiji seems to not have believed his lies, as he walks away and says to Conan over the phone that "turns out they were right"...
Trivia
- The cover of Shonen Sunday #28/2023 shows Momiji dressed in a black maid suit, surrounded by small Heiji, Kazuha, Conan and Iori also dressed in butler uniforms.
- The North Star brand of beer held by the drunk man is in fact Sapporo.
See also
References
- ^ In America, it was still June 6th when the release was made. https://www.viz.com/vizmanga/case-closed-chapter-1113/chapter/39177?action=read
- ^ Momiji being a professional karuta player was first seen in Movie 21, which even though is not canon, has elements that were incorporated per the original author's will.
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