Volume 74
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| Release date: | December 14, 2011 | ||
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| Chapters: | 774-784 | ||
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-123428-5 | ||
| Publisher: | Shogakukan | ||
| English release date: | April 14, 2020[1] | ||
| English ISBN: | ISBN 1-97-470962-0 | ||
| English Publisher: | Viz Media | ||
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Volume 74 was released on December 14, 2011 in Japan.
Cast
Gadgets
Chapters
Bomber's Request
File 774 - The Book with the Unturned Pages
People
Major events
- Masumi shows interest in learning about Conan and Sleeping Kogoro.
- Conan realizes that Masumi is female.
Target on Tape
File 775 - Video Site
While Ai and Ayumi admire the curry they prepared together with the Professor at his home, Conan researches the value of a vase from the Professor's collection online. Meanwhile, Genta and Mitsuhiko return with several shopping bags but are intercepted outside the house by Masumi Sera. She asks questions about the recent case and is particularly interested in Shinichi Kudo's involvement. The boys have no answer when she asks why they aren't allowed to talk about his appearance. However, Masumi notices the curtains moving in the Kudo house and suspects that someone has secretly moved in. Genta and Mitsuhiko dispel this suspicion by pointing out Subaru Okiya, who is watching the conversation from Shinichi's house at that very moment.
Upon arriving at the Professor's, Genta immediately asks about the food, while Mitsuhiko wants to know what Conan is doing. When Genta angrily kicks a ball against the wall, it ricochets into the curry pot, splashing Ayumi in the face. After receiving a slap as punishment, Genta sets off with Ai, Mitsuhiko, and Conan to buy ingredients for another batch of curry. However, Conan immediately splits from the group to get meat at the butcher shop; they agree to meet up later at the Beika supermarket. Unbeknownst to them, Ai, Mitsuhiko, and Genta are being followed by Subaru Okiya, who also spots a car with two occupants on the opposite side of the street.
While Ayumi is showering in the Professor's bathroom, he hears the doorbell ring. Shortly after, when Ayumi — now wearing Ai's clothes — goes looking for the Professor, she gets a fright as she leaves the bathroom. Meanwhile, at the supermarket, Genta and Mitsuhiko tell Conan about their encounter with Masumi; she claims to have seen Ai Haibara in the Professor's footage. However, she is certain that the person never showed up and intends to call the professor again to confirm this. When no one answers, Conan — worried that the Black Organization might be behind it — immediately rushes back to the house.
Followed by the other three members of the Detective Boys, he finds Agasa unconscious. After regaining consciousness, the professor explains that someone incapacitated him with a stun gun. Shortly thereafter, Genta notices that Ayumi has disappeared, and Conan discovers that the professor's antique carpet is missing as well. Suspecting a kidnapping, Conan decides to review the video recording the professor had made of his vase. In the video, he spots Ai — just as he had previously seen Masumi; her reflection is visible in the lens of the professor's glasses, revealing that she was the one doing the filming. Conan becomes convinced that Ai was the kidnappers' actual target from the very beginning.
File 776 - A Vase and a Cat
At Hiroshi Agasa’s home, the Detective Boys and Professor Agasa realize that the perpetrators might have mistaken Ayumi for Ai after seeing the Professor’s videos online. Ai considers the possibility of the Black Organization’s involvement, but Conan reassures her by pointing out that the Organization would never have left the Professor alive after such an action. Subaru Okiya is also listening in on this conversation via headphones from the Kudo residence.
Meanwhile, prompted by a remark from Genta, Conan and Ai turn their attention back to Ayumi’s kidnapping. Just as Agasa is about to call the police, a ringtone suddenly sounds from inside the vase; it is Ayumi’s mobile phone, which contains a clue. When Conan opens the phone, he finds a photo of a cat and a message asking for help in finding the animal. The group splits up to search but fails to locate the cat by evening. Although the perpetrators had not responded to Conan’s earlier inquiries, he later receives a tip regarding Ayumi’s whereabouts. He passes the location on to Ai, Genta, and Mitsuhiko so they can find her.
Back at the Professor’s house, the three children speculate about the perpetrators' motives based on the clues Ayumi left behind. Unable to reach a conclusion through discussion, they set out to find the culprits. Their investigation focuses on three pairs of people who had visited the Professor a few days earlier regarding the vase. Two young sisters had briefly tapped on the vase and offered to buy it for 5,000 yen, while two middle-aged men — after examining it closely — had warned against selling it too cheaply and pointed out its true value. The third pair — a father and son — had inquired about the vase's value; when Agasa estimated it at 500,000 yen, they mocked him, prompting the Professor to kick them out of the house. He is certain that one of the three couples asked him questions in private, but he cannot recall exactly which couple it was.
Ai notices that the professor's video appears online right next to a video featuring a Russian Blue cat. Conan checks this and indeed finds a video showing Eri Kisaki's cat, Goro, as well as a vase. However, they rule out the possibility that Ran's mother is among the perpetrators in this case. Based on Ayumi's statement about having coffee poured in her face, Conan realizes the perpetrators' true intentions; he concludes that they were not interested in Ai, the vase, or the cat.
File 777 - Traces of Ayumi
Ai wants to leave the kidnapping investigation to the police, but Mitsuhiko disagrees, believing the authorities wouldn't believe them. Later, however — convinced that someone might have seen the perpetrators — he decides to involve the police after all. Genta supports this plan but wants to wait until after dinner, whereas Conan wants to act immediately to expose the culprits.
Ai is worried that her photo has surfaced online, but Conan reassures her that everything is fine. Privately, however, he realizes that Masumi Sera must have seen the image as well. At that very moment, she deletes the video from her computer.
People
Major events
- Masumi asks the Detective Boys about Agasa, Haibara and Shinichi's house, and she sees Subaru sneaking a glance at her from a window.
- Conan realizes that Masumi is suspiciously interested in Haibara, and this realization seems to be indeed true.
East vs. West
File 778 - Which One is the Great(er) Detective?
Heiji and Kazuha are coming to Tokyo (the purpose is unknown yet), and are expected to arrive at the Detective Agency shortly. Since Sera happens to be there, Ran tells her about Hattori, mentioning that he is often cited together with Shinichi Kudo as one of the greatest high school detectives in Japan. Sera therefore asks who is greater, a question that stumps Ran. Conan, on the other hand, says that while both are very skilled detectives, perhaps Shinichi is a bit greater. This annoys Heiji, who has been eavesdropping from outside the door, to a considerable extent, and he irrupts into the Agency to angrily yell that he is much greater than Shinichi. He then asks about the whereabouts of the “female detective that has been gathering information about Kudo recently”, and thus is introduced to Sera. He, like many others, is surprised that Sera is a girl, and comments (disrespectfully) that for a teenage girl her breasts seem to be underdeveloped. Sera is not offended by this comment, and responds that as her mother is completely free from this problem, she is sure that her chest will develop as well. Sera even asks Ran for confirmation, and the latter thinks to herself that she does not remember ever having seen Sera’s mother.
In the meantime, Kazuha is buying instant curry in a family restaurant nearby, as per her mother’s request. But someone has just died there, and she is stranded in the restaurant because “a strange foreign man” does not allow anyone to leave, prompting her to panickedly call Heiji for help. Sera learns about this and comments that the case is a good opportunity for comparing the abilities of the two detectives and seeing who is greater. Heiji is fired up by this proposal, and Conan smiles drily, and both agree to participate in this competition (of course, Conan is “only” Shinichi’s representative). They then head to the family restaurant with Sera, Ran and Kogoro, and Kazuha is there waiting for them. She details that the foreigner was the first to discover the body, speaks Japanese quite fluently and demanded the restrooms be closed temporarily. Kogoro finds him suspicious, but Megure, who has just surveyed the crime scene with Takagi, replies somewhat resignedly that the actual suspicious people are the likes of Kogoro who always break into a crime scene without permission. Kogoro is made very awkward by this comment, and so changes the topic and inquires Takagi about the cause of death. Takagi says that the deceased died of poisoning, as the candy in his mouth contained cyanide and there were more such candies in his pockets.
Presently, the foreigner in question shows up, and he turns out to be Andre Camel. Heiji again speaks without thinking first and asks incredulously and contemptuously why Conan would know such a “vicious-looking” foreigner. Conan thus informs him that Camel is an FBI agent (Sera finds this very interesting) on vacation, and Camel explains that he is there because (like Kazuha’s mother) he loves the curry prepared by the restaurant. Then, after Megure begrudgingly grants Kogoro’s request to see it, Camel takes the detectives to the crime scene. The deceased, whose identity is still unclear, is sitting on the flush toilet of a compartment, and Camel was in the one two compartments away. Camel thinks that the man committed suicide, as the man said that he should take personal responsibility for poisoning “Abe-chan”, moaned for a while and grew silent. Camel adds that he considered the possibility of murder, but found it unlikely because the deceased came to the restaurant alone, because when Camel rushed to the deceased’s compartment he saw nobody other than the deceased’s body, and because he only heard one voice talking from the beginning to the end (so maybe the deceased was on the phone telling another person that he felt guilty for having killed someone?). Camel also recalls that the deceased had a Kansai accent.
As Camel finishes what he has to say, he notices Sera, whom he finds vaguely familiar. As for Heiji and Conan, they immediately begin case-solving. Conan admits that he has no idea what is going on, and that until the police obtains clues about the poisoning of Abe, he cannot do much. Heiji turns exultant as he hears this admission, and reveals (to an unnerved Conan) that he already knows that the case is a murder framed as a suicide and that the murderer is still in the restaurant.
File 779 - Abe-chan
Conan desperately wants to learn why Heiji knows what he knows, and Heiji yells that it is because he is a better detective than Shinichi is. After forcing Conan to say the same for several times, Heiji is satisfied and he discloses that since the deceased spoke with a Kansai accent, Camel misunderstood him. He was not in fact talking about him having poisoned “Abe-chan”, but about the person he was talking to having poisoned “Abe-chan”. Actually, even the “Abe-chan” part was a misinterpretation, and “Abe” is not a person, because there is a Kansai word meaning candy whose pronunciation is similar to “Abe-chan”. In summary, Heiji says, the murderer told his to-be victim to come meet him in the restaurant (they did not sit at the same table), summoned him to the restroom and poisoned him there without talking. Afterwards, the murderer would throw the victim’s phone into the flush toilet to complicate identification and remove sensitive phone calls, and with this the murder would conclude. Megure, who has been listening to the deduction as well, knows that thanks to Camel the murderer is still in the restaurant. He therefore orders Takagi to filter out likely suspects, based on the knowledge that the murderer should be a man around 40 years old (the deceased referred to the person he was talking to as “childhood friend” and he was a man in his forties).
Since his deduction is widely accepted, Heiji proclaims to have gotten a head start, and is confident that he will solve the case with ease (since the murderer is likely to be from Kansai just like him). This annoys Conan profoundly, but as he can find no flaw in Heiji’s deduction Conan can do nothing but stare at Heiji with disdain while Heiji pats his head. Meanwhile, Camel reports his circumstances to James and Jodie, and attaches to the message a photo of Sera (taken secretly). Jodie sees the picture and murmurs “a boy?”
Let us go back to the case. Takagi has found three customers fitting the description and without a valid alibi. Heiji volunteers to question them, and Megure (again) has to reluctantly accept something he does not like, this time because someone from Kansai might extract more information than he can. The suspects are called Rakutoshi Sugai, Tooru (alternatively romanized as Tōru or Toru) Akamasu and Sanpei Toujou respectively, and they all claim to be from Tokyo, and all are sweating because they have just ordered something very spicy (rice with curry, ramen and mapo tofu respectively; see note below). After the questioning, Megure and Takagi ask expectantly whether Heiji has found any clue, but Heiji has no insight to share with them except “I have noticed that they all ordered a spicy dish”. This leaves the two officers in disbelief.
As he mentions the word “dish”, Heiji and Conan realize that they have not had lunch yet, prompting Kazuha to call them to join her, Ran and Kogoro to eat. Heiji, instead of accepting the invitation, blasts them for not paying attention to the case. Kogoro dismisses his complaints by saying that each of them has ordered one of the main dishes of the three suspects for “investigation purposes”, also he concedes that they have not yet noticed anything special. Conan stares at the dishes for a while and is suddenly enlightened by something. He thus asks Kogoro what else was ordered by the suspects, and learns soon that both Sugai and Akamasu ordered coffee and cake, and that Toujou ordered a platter of fruits. With this piece of extra information, Conan is now confident that he knows the whole story, and Sera watches him smile confidently from behind, thinking to herself that Shinichi has won the competition.
Note: mapo tofu is a spicy Chinese dish whose main ingredients include tofu (i.e. bean curd), fermented black beans and meat, typically beef.
File 780 - The Magical Food
People
Major events
- When Conan gets that "look" after figuring out the culprit's identity, Masumi looks at him, unsurprised, and thinks: "We have a winner." Conan does not notice.
- Agent Camel gets the feeling that he's met Masumi before, so he takes a picture of her (with only the side of her head showing) and sends it to Agent Jodie and Agent James Black. Jodie says she has the same feeling about "him", but Black says he has never seen "her" before. When Camel asks how he knew Masumi was female, he responds "wise man's intuition".
- Camel gets involved in a murder case at a restaurant.
E-Y-E Illusion Case
Characters introduced
File 781 - EYE
File 782 - Baumkuchen
File 783 - Diamond Shapes
File 784 - On-The-Spot Investigation: The Vow
People
Cover in other countries
China 
China (2020 reissue) 
Finland 
France 
Germany 
Hong Kong 
Indonesia 
Italy 
Italy (La Gazzetta dello Sport) 
Korea 
Malaysia (Chinese) 
Malaysia (Malay) 
Rep. of China (Taiwan) 
Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2) 
Spain (Spanish, New Edition, combined volumes 73-74) 
Thailand 
United States 
Vietnam 
Vietnam (New Edition)
References
See also
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