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| − | + | The Shinkansen arrives at Tokyo Station and the suspects strongly voice their desire to be dismissed. With the answers still out of their reach and Takagi's job security in extreme jeopardy, Kogoro assures him that he will gladly hire him as his assistant. Suddenly, Kogoro's face contorts and he falls against the wall. Conan positions himself behind the detective and begins his deduction. | |
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| − | + | Kogoro begins by reaffirming Sato’s previous deductions. He adds that the murderer told Ogura to head to the bathroom by using the newspaper that he was holding. By holding the newspaper sideways and between his arm, the contents of the articles would be covered and the article's titles were fully displayed. Kogoro declares the title of concern to be the one saying “World Cup [[Ray Curtis|Hero]] Under Police Interrogation,” and explains that the only thing that the murderer had to do was to point at the words “World Cup” in order for Ogura to notice its initials, "W.C." Note that the initials for bathroom are also "W.C." Therefore, the murderer is the one who bought a sports newspaper: '''Akira Akashi'''. Sato doubts the validity of this inference by pointing out that the connection between “World Cup” and “bathroom” is not that strong, and Kogoro agrees. He argues that precisely because of this reason, Akashi left the fake bomb in another bathroom. This way, Ogura was bound to hear this word while listening to the conversation between the train attendant and the police officers. With the in-advance exposure to the word, Ogura then would be very likely to make an association between “Word Cup” and “W.C.” when Akashi passed. Kogoro adds that Akashi probably saw Ogura with Sato and Takagi at the train station. Knowing that Ogura would leak critical information to the police, Akashi decided to silence him.<br | |
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| − | + | Sato suddenly pulls on Kogoro’s face, forcing Conan to act out the pain. Sato joyfully explains that this is her first time seeing the Sleeping Kogoro, and has always wondered whether he is really asleep. Iwakuni and Tokuyama are surprised to learn that the man before them is none other than the famous Kogoro Mouri, but Akashi says derisively that he does not care about who Kogoro is, and that the police have no evidence that can ascertain his culpability. This prompts Kogoro to ask Akashi why, when the three suspects were complaining about them being suspected, he was able to describe the murder scene accurately despite supposedly having never seen it. Akashi becomes quite unnerved, but eventually is able to fend off Kogoro's attacks by claiming that such a thing can easily be deduced by listening to Takagi’s descriptions and by paying attention to how the police usually transport criminals. He then reiterates that despite allegedly stabbing someone in close proximity, there is no blood on his clothing. Kogoro replies that that is natural, as, before killing Ogura, Akashi had made Ogura read his newspaper. This could easily be done by telling Ogura that there was an article about him. In this way, the newspaper would become a barrier between Ogura and Akashi stopping blood from flying back onto the attacker. The evidence for the use of this trick is that ink, forming words and sentences, could be found on Ogura’s hand.<br> | |
| + | Akashi dismisses the deduction, and shows his sports newspaper which is free from bloodstains and holes. Kogoro says that Akashi still has a newspaper because he bought two, one in Osaka’s train station, and another sometime before that. He points to the newspaper Akashi is holding and says it has a different headline from the one that he bought (i.e. Akashi’s has the headline “World Cup Hero Under Police Interrogation” and Kogoro’s has the headline “World Cup Hero Officially Under Arrest”), meaning that Akashi definitely did not buy it from the station. The detective explains there is a difference in the headlines because Japanese newspapers are delivered to convenience stores and households much earlier than to train stations—meaning that if there is a rapidly-developing event, edits will be made after the convenience store/household delivery but still before the train station delivery.<br> | ||
| + | Sato surmises that Akashi's fingerprint-riddled newspaper was torn to shreds and flushed down the toilet. Still, the evidence is recoverable by searching the train's waste tank. Knowing that he has been fully exposed, and noticing that the train has just arrived at the station, Akashi tries desperately to escape. Conan picks up Tokuyama’s empty coffee can and kneels down to adjust his [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|kick shoes]], but Takagi is quicker. He grabs the can from Conan and hurls it forcefully in the direction of Akashi, hitting him on the back of the head. The murderer falls to the ground and is apprehended by Sato, and Takagi comments that fastballs were more effective after all. | ||
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| + | Megure arrives with a large number of police officers, and the apprehended culprit is taken to the police station for questioning. He turns out to be a highly valuable source of information; not only does he candidly admit that he killed Ogura so that Ogura would not leak smuggling routes to the police, but he also details those smuggling routes to the police himself. Thanks to this, Takagi and Sato get to avoid the worst possible consequences of their blunder, and escape with a punitive 10% salary deduction for three months.<br> | ||
| + | Sometime later, Sato complains to Yumi about her temporary salary deduction and permanent stain on her resume. While Yumi comforts her, Sato abruptly asks whether she likes Takagi. Yumi is dumbfounded by this question, and replies after being pressed that she does not like Takagi at all. Sato then says that she should stop playing with and torturing the poor sergeant and to go find a "proper man." From these words, Yumi is able to deduce that Sato does like Takagi, and she thus takes out her phone to relay the good news. However, she is reminded of Sato's rude suggestion about her dating life, and decides to withhold the information, wondering why she cares so much about the happiness of others. <br> | ||
| + | Takagi expresses his gratitude to Kogoro, clearly in a downhearted state. Sato swings by and pats him on the back before ordering his participation in a different investigation. Ran and Conan notice the Assistant Inspector's cheerful attitude and remark that something good must have happened. | ||
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| ‹ Volume 29 | List of Chapters • List of Cases | Volume 31 › |
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| Release date: | December 18, 2000 | ||
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| Chapters: | 296-306 | ||
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-125500-0 | ||
| Publisher: | Shogakukan | ||
| English release date: | July 21, 2009 | ||
| English ISBN: | ISBN 1-4215-2198-9 | ||
| English Publisher: | Viz Media | ||
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Volume 30 was released on December 18, 2000 in Japan.
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
Chapters
Police Escort Murder Case
File 296 - Straight Ball Match
One day after the events at the K3 restaurant, Conan, Ran, Kogoro, accompanied by Heiji and Kazuha, wait for the shinkansen back to Tokyo. Ran calls Shinichi about Ray Curtis' arrest, as the boy feigns his surprise about his idol's fall from grace.[1] Before Shinichi can hang up, Ran asks him to wait. She recalls Sonoko's question at the department store, asking if she wants to know how Shinichi feels about her.[2] Supported by Kazuha's encouragement, Ran hesitantly begins to ask, but is interrupted by her train's roaring arrival. Shinichi, seeing that Ran is no longer saying anything, bids farewell, leaving Ran blushing and Kazuha unsatisfied.
Once the Tokyo trio is properly seated, Kazuha pounds the window from outside the Shinkansen and shouts at Ran to approach her romantic pursuits by forgoing breaking pitches and instead purely focus on throwing fastballs down the middle. Ran fakes a smile to show that she has understood.
Seconds later, Ran hears voice murmuring the opposite, saying that throwing fastballs is risky. The groups turns to find sergeant Takagi pacing down the aisle in deep thought. Takagi explains that he and Sato are on a mission to escort an apprehended drug dealer, named Senzo Ogura, back to Tokyo. They expect his interrogation will yield the necessary information to bring down his criminal syndicate. As she explains this to Conan and company, Sato looks at Ogura expectantly, but Ogura remains emotionless and tells her dully that he wants coffee. Sato thus sends Takagi to buy coffee. While the sergeant checks his pocket for coins, he drops his ticket to Kazumi Sanada's magic show. Sato is surprised that Takagi likes such things, and the latter explains that Yumi, who had a spare ticket, had asked him to go with her. Sato expresses casual happiness for him, which disappoints Takagi. In truth, his planned "date" with Yumi was a lie. Yumi had formed a plan for Takagi to gauge Sato's feelings by observing her reaction to their date. She had told him that, with Sato, one must first test her with breaking pitches, not fastballs.
As the Shinkansen approaches Mount Fuji, Conan and company notice a train attendant talking to Takagi and Sato in a serious manner. Sato leaves her seat to inspect the bathroom, finding a bag claiming to contain a bomb. Back at the seats, a group of passengers pass Takagi and Ogura, and the latter notices some sort of signal from one of them. Ogura tells Takagi that he needs to use the bathroom urgently, to which Takagi reluctantly agrees. Meanwhile, the bag begins to make a sound, sparking panic amongst the observing crowd. However, Sato pulls the zipper open and only finds a normal alarm clock. She begins interviewing passengers about the prank's perpetrators.
As train enters a tunnel, Takagi takes one of the handcuffs off Ogura and connects it to himself so that Ogura is able to use the bathroom. Several minutes after Ogura’s entry, Takagi impatiently asks whether he is done. Ogura grins and tells him that the police will be unable to obtain any information from him, for he will soon turn into a speechless bird. Concerned Takagi, throws the door open, and is astounded by the sight of Ogura having stabbed himself in the stomach. Takagi tries to call with Sato by phone, but fails to get a signal due to the tunnel. He has thus no choice but to transfer the handcuffs from himself to the railing, and leave Ogura on the toilet while he runs to get Sato. Conan, who is by Sato's side, overhears Takagi’s words and rushes to the toilet with the two police officers. Upon their arrival, they find Ogura dead with the bloody knife beside his inanimate body.
File 297 - The Open Closed Room
Takagi endures Megure's ire as he is blasted over the phone for his grave mistake. Kogoro and Sato debate the sergeants fate, floating the possibility of job dismissal. Takagi receives a call from Yumi asking about the results of their plan; he immediately squashes the conversation due to the severity of the situation.
Conan finds the knife beside the body pointing in a strange direction, and the coagulation of only some of the blood in the toilet. From these two clues, Sato deduces that Ogura has been murdered. She hypothesizes that the murderer planted the fake bomb in the other bathroom to act as a diversion. With one officer busy inspecting the bomb, a conspirer could more easily relay a message to Ogura in the seats, directing him to fake his suicide in the bathroom. A fake knife and bag of anticoagulant-infused blood was prepared inside of the bathroom to realistically portray a stabbing. Naturally, the accompanying officer would temporarily leave Ogura alone to call for help, giving the murderer plenty of time to enter the bathroom, kill Ogura, and destroy any remaining evidence.
Takagi agrees with Sato’s deduction, but points out that transmitting a message which must communicate several complex steps is a rather difficult task. Sato replies that the message could have been as short as “go to the bathroom” because of two reasons. First, between the two bathrooms near Ogura, one had just been searched by Sato, and thus could not be the one that the murderer was referencing. And second, the message did not need to explicitly state what to do, but rather that there was hidden in the toilet; instinct would suffice.
Therefore, remaining problem for Sato and Takagi is that they do not know who communicated with Ogura. Conan knows the answer to the first question; he carefully made observations of the people passing by Takagi and Ogura after Sato had left. Thus, thanks to him, Sato and Takagi are able to quickly find three suspects: Tatsuro Iwakuni, Norio Tokuyama and Akira Akashi. According to Conan and Iwakuni’s recollections, Akashi and Iwakuni were both holding newspapers when they passed Ogura, and Tokuyama was holding a bottle of canned coffee. Tokuyama had then picked up his own newspaper once he returned to his seat. Sato and Conan study the suspects' four items. Sato does not seem to find anything notable, and Conan is also initially stuck. However, he is eventually able to notice something important.
Meanwhile, Takagi explains the situation to the suspects. They all conclude that the police do not have a good reason to suspect them, and are all vehement in their refusal to cooperate once the train reaches Tokyo. Sato and Takagi, knowing that there is little time left, become quite dismayed, but Conan, after learning that Kogoro bought canned coffee, cigarettes, a newspaper about sports (same copy held by Iwakuni), and a newspaper about horse racing (same copy held by Akashi), at Osaka Station, he becomes confident that he has all the information needed to solve the case.
File 298 - Time Trap
The Shinkansen arrives at Tokyo Station and the suspects strongly voice their desire to be dismissed. With the answers still out of their reach and Takagi's job security in extreme jeopardy, Kogoro assures him that he will gladly hire him as his assistant. Suddenly, Kogoro's face contorts and he falls against the wall. Conan positions himself behind the detective and begins his deduction.
Megure arrives with a large number of police officers, and the apprehended culprit is taken to the police station for questioning. He turns out to be a highly valuable source of information; not only does he candidly admit that he killed Ogura so that Ogura would not leak smuggling routes to the police, but he also details those smuggling routes to the police himself. Thanks to this, Takagi and Sato get to avoid the worst possible consequences of their blunder, and escape with a punitive 10% salary deduction for three months.
Sometime later, Sato complains to Yumi about her temporary salary deduction and permanent stain on her resume. While Yumi comforts her, Sato abruptly asks whether she likes Takagi. Yumi is dumbfounded by this question, and replies after being pressed that she does not like Takagi at all. Sato then says that she should stop playing with and torturing the poor sergeant and to go find a "proper man." From these words, Yumi is able to deduce that Sato does like Takagi, and she thus takes out her phone to relay the good news. However, she is reminded of Sato's rude suggestion about her dating life, and decides to withhold the information, wondering why she cares so much about the happiness of others.
Takagi expresses his gratitude to Kogoro, clearly in a downhearted state. Sato swings by and pats him on the back before ordering his participation in a different investigation. Ran and Conan notice the Assistant Inspector's cheerful attitude and remark that something good must have happened.
People
Major events
- Takagi wants to go on a date with Sato, via tickets to a show that Yumi gave him, but will he get up the courage?
- Shinichi calls Ran! Also, Takagi wants to take Sato on a date.
- Sato and Takagi's budding romance is explored.
Sunset Mansion Case
Characters introduced
File 299 - The Meeting
Kogoro has been invited to a detective meeting by an unknown assailant who sends him money. There are six detectives there excluding Conan. They are in a house where a massacre happened years ago. One of the detectives are killed and they are stranded in the mansion as the bridge has been cut and the cars have been burned. It also appears that the unknown assailant is using the name Kaitou Kid.
File 300 - Tragedy
That mansion once belonged to Renya Karasuma, the billionaire who mysteriously died half a century ago. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
File 301 - Murder
File 302 - Sting
People
Major events
- We see the infamous Black Star heist where Kudo and Kaito face off.
- A flashback is shown where Shinichi teams up with Megure to try and outsmart the Kid, which they almost do.
Genta's Shadow Case
File 303 - Genta's Misfortune
Genta has been acting weird at school lately. He is hiding under his futon at home, and doesn't eat his lunch instead of racing to finish first which is worrying his teacher Kobayashi. When he leaves school, Genta climbs over the wall and runs, like he is trying to lose someone. When the Detective Boys confront him, he tells them someone is trying to kill him. Earlier, he had heard the sound of someone's footsteps keeping pace with him in a tunnel. Later he was pushed off a bridge, and a burning car hurtled towards him. As he was telling the Detective Boys this, they reached a place outside a store where Genta likes to play a Yaiba Game machine. A large bolt falls nearby, barely alerting the Detective Boys in time to avoid part of the store's "BAKER" sign hurtling to the ground. Conan examines the support cable, and determines it had been deliberately cut and someone was indeed after Genta's life. They go to a burger restaurant and Genta reveals the man he thinks is trying to kill him is the purse snatcher the police are after. Genta had seen the man sometime earlier, before he was a wanted burglar, but had forgotten where it was. Genta does remember a golden haired man was with him when he saw the thief. Genta also explains that he went to a crime scene where the snatcher struck five days ago and saw his golden-haired witness in the crowd. He took the witness to the police and told them the story, but the witness denied seeing the thief. Genta later gets a mysterious phone call: "If you tell anyone that you saw me, I will kill you!! You, your family, and everybody that you know!"
Genta tries to recall where he saw the thief. He remembers the witness sitting beside him, but doesn't remember the thief sitting down. Genta was sleepy at the time. The things he remembers about the thief are that he was holding a cigarette in his left hand, meaning he is left handed. He was also wearing a tee-shirt with a skull and the numbers 202 in digital clock-like numerals. Genta notices one of the customers at the burger place has a similar tee-shirt, only with the numbers 1999 instead. Conan asks the man where he got his shirt, and the man tells him it is from the Bones clothing store. The Detective Boys run to find the place, but unfortunately the criminal had followed them into the restaurant and overheard everything.
At the shop, the salesperson explains that they sold a variety of shirts like that with different text such as "Escape", "Help", and "1999" because of the doomsday prediction in 2000, but none that say 202. The salesperson doesn't remember anyone unusual either. Genta does remember a few more details about the thief though. The thief was reading a newspaper, the place allowed smoking, and Genta never took his eyes off of him meaning it was a place where it wouldn't be unusual to watch someone without making them uncomfortable. From those clues, Conan realizes the answer.
File 304 - Genta's Trap
Conan says Genta saw the murderer in a glasses’ shop. Indeed, the murderer didn’t react at all and didn’t notice Genta was looking at him, since he had taken off his glasses to have them cleaned, and couldn’t see anything without it. Genta says he’s never been in a glasses’ shop in his whole life, and Conan answers he happens to fail at deductions sometimes, though he whispers something into Genta’s ear, while the killer is observing them further back. As Genta still tells Conan he’s made a mistake again, Conan sighs powerlessly and asks Genta to warn his friends if anything ever comes back to his mind. Walking back home on their way, Mitsuhiko, Genta and Ayumi talk about the case again and Genta buys himself some ice cream. He suddenly realises something when wiping the ice on his cheek. Then Genta spots France’s three-color flag above a French restaurant, and asks Ayumi if she isn’t reminded of something when thinking about the blue, white and red colours. Ayumi thinks about Conan’s usual outfit but Genta suggests Conan can’t be the killer, and recalls those three coulours with something spinning amidst. As Mitsuhiko and Ayumi leave Genta alone to go home, the latter is being followed by the murderer, and becomes aware of the truth when looking at his reflection in the mirror of a shopwindow. He rushes to a place located at the sixth floor of a train station’s building, and hardly manages to slip into the lift.
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Major events
At the end of the case Haibara thought it was the organization who followed them but discovers that the blond man was right-handed and tells Conan to always remember that Gin is left-handed.
Pottery Class Case
File 305 - On the Bottom...
Ran, Sonoko, and Conan attend a pottery class. Sonoko wants to make pottery for Makoto, while Ran wants to make some for Shinichi. They meet the workshop's two apprentices, Motoo Mino and Kikuyo Kasama, along with the workshop's owner and Motoo's father-in-law, Muneyuki Mino, who is amazed at Ran and Conan having met the renowned potter Kikuemon (vol. 16). Some time after, Motoo is found strangled to death with a necktie in a closet.
File 306 - Surrounded by Hints
Conan knows who the culprit is, to the point of confronting the culprit when they're all alone, but still has no evidence. He tries to find evidence to prove it was him.
People
Cover in other countries
References
- ^ K3 Murder Case (Manga: Volume 29: 293-295)
- ^ Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: Volume 28-29: 284-286)
See also
| Volumes of the Manga | ||
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