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Yusuke Sakon
	27 years old; Office worker; Aki's boyfriend;

Aki Kano
	Victim (poison); 26 years old; Sotoba Chemicals researcher;

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The Whereabouts of the Goodbye (サヨナラの行方 ,Sayonara no Yukue^?) is the 1159th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Gadgets

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

On a Sunday morning, without a clear start of why, Yusuke Sakon has been calling his girlfriend Aki Kano while running to her apartment. Her apartment was closed, so he asks the building manager Hayashi for a spare key to her room. When they open the room, however, she is found dead inside. The police find a cup of coffee containing cyanide, suggesting the cause of death. They also find an investigation report made by Kogoro, so he is summoned to the scene.

Suicide?

Location: Apartment

Victim: Aki Kano

Age: 26 years old

Time: Sunday morning

Cause of death: Cyanide poisoning

Suspects: None known

The police rule her death as a suicide, even though no suicide note was left behind. Yet all other evidence points to a suicide, but is this really the truth?

Kogoro confirms that ten days ago, he was hired by a man claiming himself to be Yamada on behalf of Aki Kano to investigate Sakon if he had been cheating on her or not. The investigation shows Sakon is having an affair with Michiru Kuga. There are evidence supporting the theory that Kano was desperate upon reading the report, and committed suicide:

The security of Sobota Chemicals, where she worked, noticed her coming into the workplace during non-working hours.
Tadashi Otsubo, the head researcher of the Sobota Chemicals, reported that the missing amount of cyanide was more than enough to send a person to the afterlife.
The previous night, Kano went out to meet her best friend Hiroko Nishida for, apparently, her final goodbye.

At the same time, in her recent search history, there are notable words such as “stalker” and “accidental homicide”. Conan and Kogoro find this detail confusing, so they ask some of her acquaintances for extra information:

Otsubo mentions Kano was followed a few times by a man wearing sunglasses and a mask. He also believes there are no reason for her to commit suicide because of the publication of a research she and Otsubo have been doing for six year, which is going to happen on the next day.
Nishida does not answer Kogoro’s question about Kano’s stalker, as in her perspectives, the more important question is that her friend committed suicide because of Sakon’s infidelity. This is because Nishida knew her friend would try to break any of Sakon’s affairs instead of just saying farewell.

Suddenly, Conan reminds Kogoro to inform Kano’s death to the one named Yamada, only for the two to discover through a camera footage nearby that he was in fact, Sakon. So the two arrange a meet up with Megure, Chiba, Takagi, and Sakon to reveal the truth behind.

People

Yamada
	Contacted Kogoro on behalf of Aki for a private investigation

Michiru Kuga
	23 years old Yusuke's new girlfriend Wealthy family daughter

Tadashi Otsubo
	45 years old Sotoba Chemicals head researcher

Hiroko Nishida
	26 years old Aki's friend

Hayashi
	Building manager

Resolution

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Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	مَقصدٌ الوداع	Farewell destination
French (Subbed)	Direction l'au-delà	Towards the afterlife
Thai	หนทางแห่งการลาจาก	The Whereabouts of the Farewell

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 == Case ==
 === Situation ===
-On a Sunday morning, Yusuke Sakon can’t contact his girlfriend Aki Kano while he is on his way there, so he asks the building manager of her apartment Hayashi to help open her room after he knew that the door was closed, only to find out that Kano is dead. The police arrive after and notice that there is a coffee cup containing cyanide and Kogoro’s investigation report nearby, causing him and Conan to arrive at the scene not long after.
+On a Sunday morning, without a clear start of why, Yusuke Sakon has been calling his girlfriend Aki Kano while running to her apartment. Her apartment was closed, so he asks the building manager Hayashi for a spare key to her room. When they open the room, however, she is found dead inside. The police find a cup of coffee containing cyanide, suggesting the cause of death. They also find an investigation report made by Kogoro, so he is summoned to the scene.
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-Kogoro confirms that 10 days ago, he was hired indirectly by a person named Yamada on behalf of Kano to do the requirement he received the next day to investigate if her boyfriend Yusuke Sakon cheated on her or not, to which pointed out a specific woman named Mitsuru Kuga. At first, it appears that Kano was so desperate upon knowing this that she committed suicide using the coffee cup containing cyanide, with some evidence even support this:
+Kogoro confirms that ten days ago, he was hired by a man claiming himself to be Yamada on behalf of Aki Kano to investigate Sakon if he had been cheating on her or not. The investigation shows Sakon is having an affair with Michiru Kuga. There are evidence supporting the theory that Kano was desperate upon reading the report, and committed suicide:
-*The security of where she worked mentioned that she came in yesterday though the place should’ve closed while the head Chemical researcher of that place Tadashi Otsubo reported that the missing amount of cyanide was enough to kill a person.
-*Last night, Kano went out to meet her best friend Hiroko Nishida for apparently a farewell
+* The security of Sobota Chemicals, where she worked, noticed her coming into the workplace during non-working hours.
-But her search on the phone feels odd as two out of three words are: stalker and manslaughter, so Conan and Kogoro decide to ask some of her accomplices:
+* Tadashi Otsubo, the head researcher of the Sobota Chemicals, reported that the missing amount of cyanide was more than enough to send a person to the afterlife.
-*Firstly, Otsubo mentions that Kano was followed by a man wearing sunglasses and masks sometimes. However, the most shocking thing is that she committed suicide before the publication of her most anticipated research results, which is Monday.
+* The previous night, Kano went out to meet her best friend Hiroko Nishida for, apparently, her final goodbye.
-*And for Nishida, she immediately asks the two about if it was because of Sakon’s infidelity that caused Kano’s death without answering if she had been told about the stalker from her friend, to which causes Kogoro to wonder about after telling his thoughts. Nishida states that this is unusual as if Kano ever catches him (or any love interest) cheating, she will try to break the affair while in reality, she committed suicide without doing anything else.
+At the same time, in her recent search history, there are notable words such as “stalker” and “accidental homicide”. Conan and Kogoro find this detail confusing, so they ask some of her acquaintances for extra information:
+* Otsubo mentions Kano was followed a few times by a man wearing sunglasses and a mask. He also believes there are no reason for her to commit suicide because of the publication of a research she and Otsubo have been doing for six year, which is going to happen on the next day.
+* Nishida does not answer Kogoro’s question about Kano’s stalker, as in her perspectives, the more important question is that her friend committed suicide because of Sakon’s infidelity. This is because Nishida knew her friend would try to break any of Sakon’s affairs instead of just saying farewell.
 Suddenly, Conan reminds Kogoro to inform Kano’s death to the one named Yamada, only for the two to discover through a camera footage nearby that he was in fact, Sakon. So the two arrange a meet up with Megure, Chiba, Takagi, and Sakon to reveal the truth behind.
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 * Contacted Kogoro on behalf of Aki for a private investigation}}
-{{People|Mitsuru Kuga|Mitsuru Kuga.jpg|
+{{People|Michiru Kuga|Michiru Kuga.jpg|
 * 23 years old
 * Yusuke's new girlfriend
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 === Resolution ===
-<spoiler>The one who had been stalking Kano was in fact, '''Sakon''' in disguise. And it is revealed that he fooled her into believing that he has caused manslaughter and couldn’t escape the feeling of guilt. It was at that moment when he suggested committed suicide together so their love could sustain in the other world. She '''{{font color|#ff0000|actually committed suicide}} and left a note that was later '''hidden''' by Sakon and he made it like it was a suicide because of being betrayed.
+<spoiler>'''Yusuke Sakon''' was the one behind Aki Kano’s stalker. He then made it so it seems like he murdered the stalker by accident, and couldn’t escape the feeling of guilt. He did that so he can suggest her that they should commit suicide together to "sustain their love" in the afterlife. She then '''committed suicide''' by drinking a cup of coffee containing cyanide, and left a suicide note about why she did so. Sakon simply ''hid'' the note to change the motive of her suicide: "Betryal".
 He admits it and says Kano was a thorn in his eye as she loved him too much, which angers Megure as he yells at him to show some remorse because of his crime. At that same moment, Conan is feeling heavy hearted when suddenly cherry blossoms create a gentle scene, ending the case peacefully.
-.</spoiler>
+</spoiler>
 == Gallery ==