The Novelist Known as the Demon King
(Int. Episode 1071)
(Maō to Yobareta Shōsetsuka)
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi
Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba
Kousuke Okano as Ryunosuke Bito
Yasuhiro Takato as Haruo Chigasaki
Sanae Kobayashi as Miyuki Degawa
Masaki Aizawa as Shintaro Tawake
Hidenobu Kiuchi as Naoya Akaike
The Novelist Known as the Demon King (魔王と呼ばれた小説家 Maō to Yobareta Shōsetsuka) is the 1014th episode of the Detective Conan anime.
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Kogoro and Conan happens to walk by a famous writer's house. They see patrol cars surrounding the house and meet Megure and Takagi. Takagi reveals the famous writer was found shot to death in his house. Both Kogoro and Conan check the crime scene with Megure and Takagi.
Seemingly, the victim Tawake was shot while he was sleeping on the sofa. In addition, the victim was killed in a room that sunlight isn't permitted to pass through, due to the north-facing window the room possess. The estimated time of death is around noon, and most likely he was shot by the shotgun that was tossed nearby the sofa.
After a tremendous search with regards to the crime scene, Conan discovered several clues that might come handy towards the case. Firstly, there are blood stains scattered on that north-facing window. However, surprisingly, the curtains aren't contaminated by the blood stain. This implies that the crime might have been carried out with the curtains opened, and was closed by the culprit in all likelihood. If that is the case, then why didn't the culprit bother to do that?
Secondly, the house that is located in front of that north-facing window seems to be vacant, which all shutters of it are closed. This is a great environment for the cirme because that it will not be spotted by the neighbour, plus that there is also a construction going around nearby this conceals the sound of the shotgun. Last but not least, the forensics guy come accross with a wooden tiny bench which has blood deposited as well. Conan once again contemplates: "Why would that be necessary?"
After a while, Conan and the police meets the four apprentices of Tawake. Through their conversations, the police notices that they all call their teacher the "Demon King". The reason turns out to be that Tawake forces his apprentices to be ghost writers for him. That is, to write books for him, and publish it with only a few modifications of his. Furthermore, Tawake's reputation doesn't look so great according to his apprentices. He had always pledged them that they will gain the chance to debut one day if they persistantly write books for him. Nonetheless, that isn't the case as he lied towards them.
As the four of them have don't get along with the victim very well, they now become the crucial suspects of the case, this leads to the verification of their alibis. Finally, they were only able to comfirm Akaike's alibi. The rest was apparently writing when the crime was implemented, so they don't have alibis, they then get into a quarrel to blaim each other for the crime. Since the victim was fed with sleeping pills before his death, Akaike deduces the murderer must be an outsider because if the culprit is capable of slipping the pill, he will also be able to just directly poison him.
"Is this the truth?" Conan looked at himself in doubt. "Wait a minute.", bloodstain behind the cutains, the noisy construction area, the north-facing window, the contaminated wooden bench, as well as... The shotgun that belongs to the victim. The trivial clues now have joined together, Conan then picks up a small piece of aluminium foil up from the floor. All of his perplex have now faded away utterly, he chuckled: "I finally figuered out the trick that the culprit have used.".
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 Season 31 (2026)
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