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Based on past victims' claims stating that the attacker is roughly 150cm in height, the [[Megure]] begins to suspect Haruyoshi Shirakawa as the culprit. [[Conan]] asks how the victims knew their attacker's height; [[Sato]] and [[Takagi]] explain that the victims noticed the attacker was roughly equal in height to themselves—who are 151-153cm tall. Conan examines the photographs of the previous three victims and comments that the second victim, Hitomi Endo, is not dressed for the cold weather. He theorizes that she only momentarily exited a warm environment to use the public bathroom—the warm environment likely being a car. Megure realizes that if Conan is correct, the past three victims were all attacked upon exiting a car. He order Takagi to reach out to the Endo for confirmation. [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]] then appears from the crowd and says their presence is spawning rumors of a cold-blooded killer on the loose, and suggests they reopen their investigation tomorrow. Sato agrees, offering to once again coordinate a [[Wikipedia: Sting operation|sting operation]]. Megure barks at her, saying he will not tolerate another such operation. Seeing his subordinate's intransigence, Matsumoto questions Megure if he is still burdened by a case from the past. <br>[[File:CH285_AttackerApproaches.png|thumb|right|150px|The attacker closes in on their next victim.]] | Based on past victims' claims stating that the attacker is roughly 150cm in height, the [[Megure]] begins to suspect Haruyoshi Shirakawa as the culprit. [[Conan]] asks how the victims knew their attacker's height; [[Sato]] and [[Takagi]] explain that the victims noticed the attacker was roughly equal in height to themselves—who are 151-153cm tall. Conan examines the photographs of the previous three victims and comments that the second victim, Hitomi Endo, is not dressed for the cold weather. He theorizes that she only momentarily exited a warm environment to use the public bathroom—the warm environment likely being a car. Megure realizes that if Conan is correct, the past three victims were all attacked upon exiting a car. He order Takagi to reach out to the Endo for confirmation. [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]] then appears from the crowd and says their presence is spawning rumors of a cold-blooded killer on the loose, and suggests they reopen their investigation tomorrow. Sato agrees, offering to once again coordinate a [[Wikipedia: Sting operation|sting operation]]. Megure barks at her, saying he will not tolerate another such operation. Seeing his subordinate's intransigence, Matsumoto questions Megure if he is still burdened by a case from the past. <br>[[File:CH285_AttackerApproaches.png|thumb|right|150px|The attacker closes in on their next victim.]] | ||
Meanwhile, [[Sonoko]] asks Kogoro for the car keys, wanting to load her items in the car before going to use the bathroom. As the girl opens the car door, a [[The Criminal|silhouette]] notices something about her, and expresses deep anger. Sonoko finds the main bathroom closed for sanitation, and is forced to head for the one on the eighth floor. <br> | Meanwhile, [[Sonoko]] asks Kogoro for the car keys, wanting to load her items in the car before going to use the bathroom. As the girl opens the car door, a [[The Criminal|silhouette]] notices something about her, and expresses deep anger. Sonoko finds the main bathroom closed for sanitation, and is forced to head for the one on the eighth floor. <br> | ||
| − | Back at the parking lot, the police move Aizawa's body, but drop one of her shoes in the process. Conan | + | Back at the parking lot, the police move Aizawa's body, but drop one of her shoes in the process. An officer comments on how the shoe does not fit her feet, which causes to Conan notice something odd about her choice of footwear. The boy deduces the likely culprit, but finds them missing from the scene. <br> |
Nearing the department store's closing time, the lights turn off, leaving Sonoko in the darkness. Behind her, the culprit ominously approaches, wielding their signature dented metal bat. | Nearing the department store's closing time, the lights turn off, leaving Sonoko in the darkness. Behind her, the culprit ominously approaches, wielding their signature dented metal bat. | ||
==== File 286 - An Unexpected Motive ==== | ==== File 286 - An Unexpected Motive ==== | ||
| − | <spoiler>Conan | + | <spoiler> |
| − | + | Conan deduces that the killer targets ganguro drivers who wear platform boots. The reason Aizawa's shoes did not fit on her feet was because they were not her original boots. The killer had stolen her boots to prevent the police from realizing their victims' common denominator. Sato recalls that Aizawa's platform boots were a contributing factor in her accident, having hampered her ability to step on the breaks. She also remembers that the deceased boy's father's name was "Sadakane." Realizing the security guard, '''Yoshio Sadakane''' is missing from the crowd, Megure orders his men to find him. <br> | |
| − | + | Conan says that he knew Sadakane was suspicious as you cannot recognize if someone is wearing platform shoes while they are driving. Thus, the culprit must be someone who readily observes people entering their car—like a parking lot security officer. He adds that because the victims were wearing platform boots, they stood roughly 10-15cm taller, meaning the culprit, who they claimed was roughly their own height, was not 150cm tall, but closer to 160-165cm (Sadakane is 167cm tall). Kogoro questions why Sadakane would wait for Aizawa to appear at the parking lot instead of going to her house. Matsumoto states that because Aizawa was nineteen-years-old at the time of her accident, the police did not publicly reveal her address.<br> | |
| − | + | Ran worriedly looks around for her friend, causing Conan realize Sonoko is also wearing platform shoes. Ran calls Sonoko and learns she is currently climbing the department store stairs. During their conversation, Sonoko notices a presence behind her and dodges a bat swing. She lets out a scream and throws her phone at her attacker's face, knocking off their mask and revealing Sadakane's face. Hearing her scream through the call, Conan relays Sonoko's emergency to the police who immediately begin their search for her.<br> | |
| − | Megure | + | Megure, Sato, Ran, and Conan eventually locate Sonoko's phone in the stairwell, while Takagi nears the electricity box, hoping to restore the lights. However, just as the light switch is pulled, the city is experiences a blackout, continuing the darkness. Sadakane corners Sonoko and swings his bat but misses again, causing a bowl of small items to shatter against the floor. Conan and Sato deduce the sound came from the destruction of pet-store items and rush to the fourth floor. However, Megure, who deduces that the sound instead came from falling [[Wikipedia: Go (game)|Go stones]], heads for the correct floor and successfully defends Sonoko from a strike, suffering a direct blow to the head. He slams Sadakane's bat to the floor and lambasts him for his heinous actions. |
| − | + | </spoiler | |
| − | + | Sometime later, Matsumoto, Kogoro, Ran, Sonoko, and Conan visit the police hospital to see a recovering Megure. While walking down the hallway, Matsumoto reveals details about the past case that haunts Megure. Twenty years ago, a serial killer committing multiple hit-and-run attacks against [[Wikipedia: Sukeban|sukeban]] girls who wore long skirts. One day, a girl volunteered to act as the bait for a sting operation, wishing to avenge her friend who fell victim to the killer's attacks. The police refused, but with no way of stopping her from attempting to lure out the culprit, Megure was assigned to protect her. Despite having a bodyguard, the killer still attacked, ramming both Megure and the girl with his car. Although Megure managed to remember the license plate which led to the culprit's arrest, the price of victory was high. While Megure suffered an injury to his head, the girl was left in a critical state. Thus, to this day, Megure wears his fedora to cover his scar—wishing to seal the traumatic case away. Ran and Sonoko are moved by the story, assuming the girl died. However, Matsumoto is quick to correct them, saying the girl is still very much alive and became Megure's wife, [[Midori Megure]]. As if on cue, Midori approaches the group and greets Matsumoto. Learning of the girl's survival, the group's perspective on the story changes, now believing that Megure wears his fedora not to conceal his trauma, but rather to prevent people from teasing him about his marriage. | |
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| Release date: | September 18, 2000 | ||
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| Chapters: | 285-295 | ||
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-125499-3 | ||
| Publisher: | Shogakukan | ||
| English release date: | May 19, 2009 | ||
| English ISBN: | ISBN 1-4215-2197-0 | ||
| English Publisher: | Viz Media | ||
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Volume 29 was released on September 18, 2000 in Japan.
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
Chapters
Girl Clubbing Case
File 285 - The Small Suspicion
The police identify the victim as Tae Aizawa, her boyfriend as Noriyuki Shirokawa, and Noriyuki's friend as Yuri Konno. Ran says that the only person she passed before seeing the body was a security guard, named Yoshio Sadakane, who says he left his post to use the bathroom. Noriyuki's father, Haruyoshi Shirakawa, who is the owner of the department store, appears and lightly accuses Sadakane of being the killer, stating that the guard had worked at a rival department store recently, and thus committed the murder to taint his store's reputation. Before stepping away, he coldly tells his son to look for a new girlfriend, one who is not "tarnished" like Aizawa. Kogoro asks Konno about what the man was implying, and she replies that one year ago, Aizawa had accidentally run over a child who was playing in the parking lot, resulting in the boy's death.
Based on past victims' claims stating that the attacker is roughly 150cm in height, the Megure begins to suspect Haruyoshi Shirakawa as the culprit. Conan asks how the victims knew their attacker's height; Sato and Takagi explain that the victims noticed the attacker was roughly equal in height to themselves—who are 151-153cm tall. Conan examines the photographs of the previous three victims and comments that the second victim, Hitomi Endo, is not dressed for the cold weather. He theorizes that she only momentarily exited a warm environment to use the public bathroom—the warm environment likely being a car. Megure realizes that if Conan is correct, the past three victims were all attacked upon exiting a car. He order Takagi to reach out to the Endo for confirmation. Kiyonaga Matsumoto then appears from the crowd and says their presence is spawning rumors of a cold-blooded killer on the loose, and suggests they reopen their investigation tomorrow. Sato agrees, offering to once again coordinate a sting operation. Megure barks at her, saying he will not tolerate another such operation. Seeing his subordinate's intransigence, Matsumoto questions Megure if he is still burdened by a case from the past.
Meanwhile, Sonoko asks Kogoro for the car keys, wanting to load her items in the car before going to use the bathroom. As the girl opens the car door, a silhouette notices something about her, and expresses deep anger. Sonoko finds the main bathroom closed for sanitation, and is forced to head for the one on the eighth floor.
Back at the parking lot, the police move Aizawa's body, but drop one of her shoes in the process. An officer comments on how the shoe does not fit her feet, which causes to Conan notice something odd about her choice of footwear. The boy deduces the likely culprit, but finds them missing from the scene.
Nearing the department store's closing time, the lights turn off, leaving Sonoko in the darkness. Behind her, the culprit ominously approaches, wielding their signature dented metal bat.
File 286 - An Unexpected Motive
People
Major events
- Shuichi Akai is mysterious and silent in his first appearance.
- Haibara is incredibly scared, and freaks out, a member of the Black Organization is on the hijacked bus!
- Haibara thinks of her past, and her sister, Akemi.
- Jodie's incredible skills as an FBI agent are on display, as she helps Conan by taking down the bus hijackers.
- Haibara stays on the bus when it is about to explode, wanting to commit suicide. However, Conan runs in the bus and saves her, jumping out of the window, telling her that she cannot give up.
- The Black Organization appear at the tail end, talking to Vermouth.
Dog Lovers Case
File 290 - The Dog Lovers
In order for Haibara to take her mind off things after the bus hijacking case, Agasa suggests they all go and visit the son of an old friend who keeps pets and is organising a yard sale as he's about to depart to England. Teruya Kano introduces his dogs Arthur and Doyle to the kids, commenting on the fact that his father's dog, Conan, died recently. Some acquaintances come to visit Kano for the the sale : Yoshio Tsunashima, a dog lover, Aki Tosabayashi, who loves dog sports events, and Shino Hazuki, whose dog Christie loves Arthur. But Haibara fails to smile or even feel comfortable when being with some animals. She starts having morbid thoughts and Agasa wonders what to do to help her. Conan replies he told her everyone in the bus made his statement at the police and nothing particular happened. Though Haibara is terrified to the point of losing appetite and sleep, Conan maintains that if Haibara had really been spotted by the Org, none around her would have stayed alive within the 10 days following the events. Conan believes it's just a mere coincidence. The DB mutter something about Haibara and Conan that intrigues the latter. Teruya wants to show the kids something : whenever the clock rings noon, Doyle the Papillon dog automatically goes and sits on a blue cushion near the clock, waiting for his favourite cheese dish. But this time Doyle is to be found nowhere. Fearing the small dog might have gotten stuck somewhere, everybody searches for him. Conan notes the kiln in the garden is firing while it wasn't at all a few minutes ago. He rushes there and discovers Doyle's burned collar inside it.
File 291 - A Tiny Trace
Conan reassures Teruya : there's no corpse in the kiln, apparently someone played a bad trick on him, and Doyle must be somewhere else. Conan suspects Doyle may have been abducted as it is worth a lot of money, probably by the people who came visiting Teruya today. He doubts about the fact dog lovers would dare to burn alive a dog. The gate left open is accoridng to Conan a trick to have us believe a thief took Doyle and ran away, which is materially impossible. Shino Hazuki's shoes are found in the garden near the kiln, but she can't explain why. Everyone starts searching again for Doyle. Haibara once again plays the killjoy and scares the DB by saying she knows terribly well the feeling of being hunted down and hiding, in fear to be found one day or another. Conan takes her apart and Haibara tells him again she is 100% sure a Black Org member was in the bus on that day. Conan tells her he is 100% sure that it's absolutely not the case, none suspects anythings, because Conan, as a detective, has developed a nose for criminal and murder intents wherever he stands. Just as Haibara feels the Org members, Conan feels the criminals. Habiara seems to believe him when he says so, when he ensures that none had such feelings in the bus except the hijackers. But Haibara seems not to want to show it, and the DB keep on muttering. Eventually, Conan finds some sound-absorbing material in the kiln and declares he knows where Doyle is.
File 292 - The Disappeared Evidence
People
Major events
Haibara starts acting strange, and continues to do so for her next several appearances.
K3 Murder Case
File 293 - K3
Heiji invites Conan, Kogoro and Ran to Osaka to a restaurant's official opening evening party, on the initiative of three world-famous American sport champions : the boxer Ricardo Barreira, the baseball pitcher Mike Norwood, and a celebrity Shinichi/Conan surely loves : Ray Curtis, the "European Steel Gate" football player. Kazuha believes there's another girl in Heiji's life as he keeps hanging up the phone whenever she catches him in the midst of an important conversation. Conan knows that he is "the girl" actually. The three sport celebrities want to call the restaurant "K3" as K stands for Ricardo's Knock out, for Mike's strike out - aka K in professional baseball terms, and for Ray's goal Keeper. But Ed MacKay, an infamous American sports reporter, comes along saying the K of Kitanai ("dirty") is missing, as the three champions were all mixed up in shady bits of business. Ed MacKay is hated by most athletes as he keeps writing fake but very well drafted articles about supposed scandals on such or such champions.
After the incident, Ran asks for Ray to autograph a card for Shinichi, but Ray proposes her something better : a signed football shirt with his number, 8. Conan explains Kazuha Ray was still attributed the 8 number despite the 1 being normally given to goal keepers, as Ray was at first playing in the midfield, then the 8 number, but he was discovered with another skill for goal keeping, therefore he kept his former number. Mike wears a 99 shirt to hint at the 99 miles per hour, his pitching speed. As for Ricardo, the 4 on his gloves means his fights he would always win in 4 rounds. Ray also gives Ran a ticket to go and see him playing in Japan soon, a ticket Ran gives Conan.
After that, Ray gives Ran a walkie-talkie : she has to help him, Ricardo and Mike to switch on the lights of certain rooms of the hotel, in order to make a huge K that could be seen from the outside. As it is a surprise, the three champions are alone in the hotel. As the K is finished, a gunshot is heard, shattering a window to pieces. The three men rush to the balconies to check what happened. Conan and Heiji hurry to the corresponding room and find Ed MacKay shot dead by a gun. Conan notices MacKay left a dying message by gripping his belt and showing on his other hand a strange sign as if he had had previously a round item in the hand.
File 294 - The Last Possibility
Otaki from Osaka Police is called for investigation. Everyone wonders who could have murdered the reporter, and it's certainly not one of the three champions, as showed by Ran that it's impossible for any of them to move from their rooms, kill McKay, and then come back right after, as it would take at least more than 1 minute, and all three went on the balcony immediately after they heard the gunshot. Conan astounds Heiji by saying it's probably not one of the three players, maybe someone from the outside who pretended to belong to the media present tonight, or one of the guests. Otaki proceeds to the gunpowder checking of every guest and person, as a basic and non-automatic gun, without silencer, was used to murder McKay, and it spreads a lot of powder. Otaki even checked the athletes but their respective managers refused a complete body checking.
The three athletes had indeed been the target of MacKay scandal allegations : Ricardo was accused of playing fixed matches, Ray was accused of drug doping, Mike was accused of adultery and divorced. But all three married a Japanese woman after that and all three won their cases against McKay, Conan insists on that point, saying that they're probably not the culprits. Heiji rather keeps investigating the three men, the only one really resenting McKay and being alone in the hotel at that time. Conan tells Heiji not to bother searching tricky mechanisms, as himself went to check rooms and found none, no traces at all. Conan tells Heiji it is materially impossible for the three men to do the return trip over such a very short span of time. What's more, Ray suffers a knee injury, Ricardo isn't a rapid racer and Mike suffers from Achilles' heel pain, which makes accordingly their moving even slower.
Heiji finds strange that Shinichi is trying to find alibis to everyone as he usually does the complete opposite. Conan avoids answering and adds that knocking at the door and waiting for McKay to open takes even more time. Yet, Heiji and Conan find brooms and dustpans in a closet, and make a connection with the light switch. They suddenly realise something having to do with a certain person expert at using a certain object, who could be the murderer. Conan again doesn't answer and tries to put forward the fact that this object must have been found and it's not the case. When Heiji hints at the fact it's easy to conceal, Conan gets infuriated and tells him he's wrong and should just shut his mouth up. He runs away and tells Heiji he'll prove him he's wrong. Heiji remembers Conan telling him during the last Bikuni Case (Vol. 28) that even if something looks horrible to admit or just beyond human comprehension, if it's the truth it should be tackled directly and coldly, and not avoided, what Conan is actually doing with that person.
Conan comes across the three men coming out of the washroom. Conan sees Ray is still suffering from his knee injury, and suddenly decides to search the washroom's bin, where he finds the item he expected. He also hears Kogoro talking about certain restaurant chefs saying strange words having nothing to do at all with food. Conan lowers the gaze and thinks angrily to that person he calls a bastard.
File 295 - Red Card
People
Major events
- Conan is very excited to see the soccer player, who was his favorite soccer player growing up.
- Kazuha gets jealous when she sees Heiji talking to girls.
- When Conan and Heiji are investigating, anytime Heiji finds a clue that points to the soccer player, Conan tries to prove it as wrong. However, when Conan faces the facts, he tells Heiji that he wants to confront him alone. Conan has to confront the soccer player, who is the killer. Although it hurts him greatly, he does realize that justice comes before anything else, and is even hurt when the soccer player tries to weasel his way out of handing himself in. This depresses Conan. Later, Heiji helps cheer Conan up, and Kazuha comments on how they both look like brothers.
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See also
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