Volume 99

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Volume 99
Information
Release date:	April 14, 2021
Chapters:	1048-1058
ISBN:	ISBN 978-4-09-850513-5
Publisher:	Shogakukan
Featured Detective & Keyhole
Mao Mao Yuya Kazami
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Volume 99 was released on April 14, 2021.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Masumi Sera Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ai Haibara Rei Furuya Sumiko Kobayashi Rumi Wakasa Kanenori Wakita Yoko Okino Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Mary Sera Yumi Sekizawa Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Yuya Kazami Azusa Enomoto Tsutomu Akai (disguise in flashback) Vermouth (flashback) Minerva Glass (flashback/TV) Shuichi Akai (flashback/background) Shinichi Kudo (flashback/background) Ninzaburo Shiratori (background) Renya Karasuma (shape/background) Shukichi Haneda (background) Kohji Haneda (flashback) Man #1 (flashback) Man #2 (flashback) Ginzo Nakamori (background) Kaitou Kid (background) Subaru Okiya (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Detective Boys Badge Wristwatch Flashlight

Chapters

Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case

File 1048 - Why Are You Crying...?

Vermouth disguises as Mary's husband to lure Mary out.

File 1049 - It's Unbelievable!

Vermouth feeds Mary the drug with her mouth directly, which is created by her sister. Mary then jumps into the river due to the effect of the drug being very instant. After that Mary shrank tries to go back to Sera.

File 1050 - Apprentice & Wizard

  Show spoilers »

The culprit is Mitomu Kushiyama. The motive is that he has been blackmailed by Hanasaki. He was the one who stole Rumi's half-eaten food and drinks and had been caught by Hanasaki. He made the dry marker functional again by using nail polish. He poisoned his cake piece and then bent the strawberry on Hanasaki's slice. He knew that Hanasaki would be irritated by the bent strawberry to want another slice, but due to a recent scandal, he didn't want to make a scene and switched the slice secretly with Kushiyama's.

Mary's shrinking happened around the time of Holmes' Revelation arc. Mary and Sera witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during Minerva's match on TV and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi ten years ago at the beach. The two realized that Conan was Shinichi and that despite being shrunk, he had the way of returning as Shinichi to board a plane to London. Mary ordered Masumi to get closer to him to get the antidote.

Sera managed to steal the box, but the antidote isn't in there, as Conan put it somewhere else, predicting Sera's movement.

People

Yumi Sekizawa
	17 years old Teitan High School-Second year student Shinichi, Ran, Sonoko and Masumi's classmate

Remi Sekizawa
	21 years old Model Yumi's sister

Mitomu Kushiyama
	28 years old Remi's manager

Tsuguo Hatsune
	21 years old Pastry chef Remi's former middle and high-school classmate

Mizutoshi Hanasaki
	Victim (poison) 32 years old Hair and make-up artist

Trapped at Hatoyama Farm

File 1051 - The Eerie Farm

Amuro receives a call for help from Kazami. Detective Boys along with Kobayashi and Wakasa are heading to Hatoyama Farm to learn how to take care of chickens. They are joined by three other fellows along with Amuro on the bus. Upon reaching, they learn that the farm appears closed and no hens are to be seen. Ayumi spots a chicken and gets lost in the forest in an attempt to grab it. She finds herself among a bunch of trees, to which a bag of explosives is tied. Meanwhile, the rest split up and start searching for her. Amuro picks up a shogi piece lying on the ground. They come across Umisuke Hatoyama, the younger brother of Gisuke Hatoyama, the owner of the farm, who shows them Ayumi stuffed in his bag and threatens her life with a knife. He locks them in a basement, where Kazami is being held captive as well. Conan points out the dead body lying on a bed.

File 1052 - Clumsiness and Suspicions

The dead figure is Gisuke Hatoyama. Conan figures out that it was death by suicide, and that the victim was researching something considering the highlighter marks on his hands. Kazami informs about his presence on the farm. They contact the other group, Haibara, Genta and Rumi via the detective badge and make them aware of their situation. Having no means to call the police, they end up entering the farm by breaking the window glass. Genta points out to Rumi that her back pocket has a hole, and wonders about Amuro picking up some wooden pieces. Ayumi gains consciousness and recounts what she saw. Conan pieces two and two and arrives at the truth.

File 1053 - Light

It turns out that the three men are searching for a meteorite. The film that Mitsuhiko saw on Kanou's phone was a report of a falling meteorite. In the farm office Wakasa, Haibara and Genta find papers proving that the late owner was researching meteorites. They find traces of ink from a broken yellow highlighter and traces of a hiking boot stepped on it. Conan remembers that the three men were all wearing hiking boots. They also find a pallasite meteorite that is broken in half due to having been throwing onto the floor. Haibara suspects that the farm owner, Gisuke, may have attempted to fake a meteorite due to his financial situation, but Genta notices a stack of magnets on the table and wonders why have them if the owner knew that they wouldn't stick to the pallasite meteorite. Kazami guesses that Gisuke entrusted the real meteorite to someone he thought could appraise it, but when the appraiser returned the stone with a negative result, they had a fight which ended with the yellow highlighter being dropped to the floor and stamped upon. Later Gisuke figures out that the appraiser had taken the real meteorite for himself and given back a pallasite. In despair over having been scammed, he killed himself. Conan and Amuro agree to Kazami's theory and figures out that Umisuke locked them down, not to kill them, but to keep them out of his way so he could avenge his brother's death by killing the scammer.

Conan comes up with a plan to single out the scammer who drove Gisuke to suicide.

File 1054 - The Strong One is...

  Show spoilers »

The culprit who drove Gisuke to suicide is Takashi Nanbu.

Conan explains the truth of the case. He makes Haibara prepare a pseudo backlight to tell apart the high lighter marks on the papers that were stepped upon. They reach the place where Umisuke had gathered the three suspects. Conan asks him to make them kneel and point the backlight at their boots, to tell apart those who had stepped on the highlighter in the room. Rumi manages to disarm Umisuke’s mobile phone, which was to be used to set off the bombs. The police arrive later and those trapped in the basement are rescued.

After the case, a Detective Badge is flicked into the basement, making Amuro checks it out in the basement when the trap door is suddenly closed. A silhouette of Rumi is shown attacking Amuro inside the basement. Amuro who had been knocked out regains consciousness after the kids wake him up. Rumi apologizes and says she lost her grip and accidentally let go of the trap door. Amuro hearing that, is left wondering whether it was all an illusion or not. It is also shown a shogi piece form on Rumi's back pocket which means it was indeed her who was inside the basement, retrieving her lost bishop shogi piece.

People

Junya Hitsuka
	34 years old Magazine writer (?)

Takashi Nanbu
	56 years old Meteoriticist (?)

Shougo Kanou
	43 years old Meteorite hunter (?)

Umisuke Hatoyama
	37 years old Gisuke's brother Confines Kazami, Rei & Conan's group

Gisuke Hatoyama
	Victim (hanged) Umisuke's brother Owner of Hatoyama Farm

Kogoro in a Dilemma

File 1055 - Kogoro, Caught in a Dilemma

Kogoro ends up eating an expired piece of sandwich, which leads to stomach problems. He has to leave the conversation with Yoko Okino, who was describing the case she had witnessed in detail. She had been on a location scout at a villa, along with her producer, Wanya Heijima. They were met there with three others, who were former residents of the villa. Heijima’s sister was married into this villa, and she had mysteriously disappeared years ago there. Yoko recalls the incident that night at the villa when she heard footsteps. She went to check and found a blood trail leading down the passage. She followed it and found that it stopped mid-way. By that time, the rest of them arrived, except Nukiyasu Baba. They searched for him, but he was nowhere to be seen. But a picture of a laid-out playing card was sent to Fuugo Baba’s smartphone. Later the police broke in through the attic window, and found Nukiyasu cold dead, with a crossbow bolt lodged in his back.

Wakita overhears the case from outside and shows interest in the case.

File 1056 - A Locked-Room Murder in the Attic

Yoko shows them the group photo of the four who were present with her that day. She mentions the past the brothers shared about playing card games in the attic, hiding from their strict parents. And also that Nukiyasu called his brother Fuggo Ace, despite him not being a pitcher in the past. She shows a photo of Hejima’s sister, wearing long sleeves dress and sunglasses, who also went missing two years ago. She recollects one odd thing that Hejima said about the number of pine trees being less and also that Fuggo called Heijima the real Ace.

Meanwhile, Kogoro prepares a coded message to ask for tissue paper and sends it to Conan, who along with Wakita see through the code immediately.

File 1057 - The Reason for the Cipher

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The culprit is Himi Baba.

Conan explains how to decode Nukiyasu Baba’s playing cards message. It says “help, I am in the attic. Himi is the culprit” Nukiyasu was responsible for his wife’s disappearance two years ago. Two years ago, her brother-in-law and victim Nukiyasu murdered his wife Houka using domestic violence and hid her corpse. Himi confronted him that night with a crossbow in hand to confess to his crimes and shot him in the back. Himi chased him in her wheelchair and wiped the blood trail with a blanket using her foot. Nukiyasu’s coded message was understood by Fuggo, but he decided to play along to protect his wife and avenge her best friend’s death.

Wakita asks Conan if something like a missing shogi piece will catch his attention or not, to which Conan declines any interest. After the case, Amuro is seen at Poirot with a photo of Rumi which is taken from the Hatoyama Farm case.

People

Wanya Heijima
	39 years old TV producer

Nukiyasu Baba
	Victim (arrow shot) 46 years old Eldest son of the Baba family

Fuugo Baba
	44 years old Second son of the Baba family

Himi Baba
	43 years old Fuugo's wife

Houka Baba
	Missing person Wanya's older sister Nukiyasu's wife

Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case

File 1058 - A Deduction Show on TV?!

Yusaku decides to solve a serial murder case in a TV show. Unfortunately, both Yukiko and Yusaku got food poisoning before the TV shoot. Conan decides to turn down the TV shoot. However, a mysterious person, looking like Yusaku Kudo, appears in front of the Kudo Residence.

People

Saiko Yumekawa
	Announcer Atsumi's close friend Found Atsumi's body

Atsumi Morita
	Victim (bashed) 24 years old Apparel maker

Taiji Kiryuu
	Victim (strangled) 31 years old Freeter

Koretsugu Kanzawa
	Victim (stabbed) 47 years old Baker

Trivia

Locations

Settings featured in this volume:

England

• London (Flashback)
  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Flashback)
    • Kensington (Flashback)
      • Baglioni Hotel (Flashback)
  • London Borough of Lambeth (Flashback)
    • Vauxhall (Flashback)
      • SIS Building (Flashback)
      • Vauxhall Bridge (Flashback)

Japan

• Nagano Prefecture
  • Karuizawa
    • Old villa (Introduction)
• Tokyo
  • Beika Ward
    • Beika Town
      • Beika Drugstore (Introduction)
      • Café Poirot (Mentioned)
      • Iroha Sushi (Background)
      • Kudo Residence
      • Mouri Detective Agency
      • Teitan Elementary School (Mentioned)
    • Haido Town (Mentioned)
  • Chiyoda Ward
    • Kasumigaseki
      • Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
  • Unknown city or ward
    • Café Zoo-Too
    • Hatoyama Farm
    • Hotel Bond-Seven

Models

Baglioni Hotel

The hotel Masumi and Mary Sera stayed at in London is the real 5-star luxury Baglioni Hotel at the Hyde Park Gate, overlooking Hyde Park.

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  The Baglioni Hotel London in Mary's flashback...

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  ... and the real one.

Hatoyama Farm

The Detective Boys, Sumiko Kobayashi, Rumi Wakasa and Rei Furuya boarded a Toei Bus to get to Hatoyama Farm, which means that the farm has to be located somewhere in Tokyo or the Tama Area (Western Tokyo). This is later reinforced by the Metropolitan Police being in charge of Umisuke Hatoyama's arrest.

Villa in Karuizawa

The villa in Karuizawa Yoko Okino tells about is modelled after the Bansui-sō, which is located in the Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. The same mansion also already served as the model for Akako Koizumi's residence in Magic Kaito 1412.

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  The villa in Karuizawa Yoko tells about...

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  ... and the Bansui-sō.

Continuity

• To Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case (Manga: 1): It's revealed that by the time of Holmes' Revelation, half a year has passed since Shinichi Kudo shrunk.

Covers in other countries

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  Italy
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  Korea

See also

• Manga
• Volume 91-100
• Detective Conan