Volume 18
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| Release date: | January 17, 1998 | ||
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| Chapters: | 171-180 | ||
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-125048-3 | ||
| Publisher: | Shogakukan | ||
| English release date: | July 17, 2007 | ||
| English ISBN: | ISBN 1-4215-0883-4 | ||
| English Publisher: | Viz Media | ||
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Volume 18 was released on January 17, 1998 in Japan.
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
Chapters
Actor's Apartment Case
Characters introduced
| Wataru Takagi | |
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File 171 - It Must Be Similar...
The media had arrived at the apartment. They want to know if it's true that Isami Nagakura was murdered.
File 172 - Two Rooms
People
Shinichi's First Love Case
File 173 - First Love...
File 174 - The Burning Truth
File 175 - Unlock Your Heart!?
People
Major events
It is revealed that Asami only confessed to Shinichi, to which he replied he's in love with "someone weird", a.k.a. Ran.
Missing Older Brother Case
Characters introduced
| Ai Haibara | |
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File 176 - The New Student...
Ayumi shares news of a transfer student joining their class to Genta and Mitsuhiko. While the children enthusiastically speculate on the personality and appearance of this mysterious new individual, Conan voices his general indifference. Ayumi recalls catching a glimpse of the student's surname at the school infirmary, a two kanji name reading, "Haibara (灰原)." Their teacher, Sumiko, then arrives at the entrance and welcomes Ai Haibara to the classroom. The girl, met with a shower of praise and applause, remains stoic. She calmly ignores Genta's offer to be her desk-mate and chooses an open seat next to Conan, much to the boy's confusion and surprise.
After school, the Detective Boys approach an aloof Haibara and inquire about her life. She says she lives on the twenty-second building of Beika's second ward, making her neighbors with Shinichi. Conan, however, does not recall seeing a "Haibara" name-plaque near his house. Ayumi and Mitsuhiko try to recruit Haibara into the Detective Boys, as Genta shows her his shoebox which is supposedly stuffed to the brim with various requests and letters. However, the box appears empty, much to the children's chagrin. As Genta wears his right shoe, he notices a hidden request note hidden inside and eagerly reads the contents.
The Detective Boys are summoned to classroom A where they meet a boy named Toshiya, who claims his older brother has gone missing. Despite consulting various detectives and the relevant authorities, his brother's disappearance has continued for close to a week. Sensing danger surrounding the circumstances, Conan leads the Detective Boys to Toshiya's house.
Once at the abode, the children search the brother's room, quickly determining that he has not run away from home as he has left his wallet. Ayumi then discovers a series of bizarre paintings under the boy's bed, which Haibara immediately identifies as a recreation of a Picasso painting. They continue to discover several skilled recreations of various famous artworks. Conan deduces that Toshiya's brother was not kidnapped for ransom money, as Toshiya himself would be a more suitable target. Additionally, he was likely not taken for his ability to produce artistic forgeries, as his skills in coloring and finer details are still amateur. The boy's attention is drawn to a lone image of Natsume Sōseki. Toshiya explains that his brother is a major fan of the author's work and has even presented his portrait of him at a town exhibition. Since the portrait was a copy of a pre-exiting image, his work was largely panned. Nevertheless, one woman showed interest in his work, a woman dressed fully in black. Conan's eyes light up with shock as he interrogates Toshiya about the woman, believing her to be a member of the Black Organization. Dropping his innocent child-like demeanor, Conan commands Toshiya to lead him to various locations his brother would frequent in close proximity. Meanwhile, Haibara observes the frantic boy with a blank expression.
Sometime later, the Detective Boys find themselves exhausted and gasping for breath on a city sidewalk, having searched several locations suggested by Toshiya. Ayumi proposes they rest at a nearby convenience store and hydrate themselves. Once inside, Conan notices a suspicious man dressed in dark clothing paying for a singular box of ¥230 cigarettes with a ¥1000 bill. Seen as the man has no reason to pay for the cigarettes at the cashier since there is a vending machine outside, Conan climbs onto the store desk and inspects the used bill. He holds the central circle to the light and confirms the bill lacks a transparent portrait of Natsume Sōseki, proving it is counterfeit. He casually notifies the clerk about his discovery before rushing out the door.
File 177 - The Lady In Black
The Detective Boys state their confusion about Conan's actions, wondering why they are tailing this man in black. Conan states that Toshiya's brother had perfectly forged an image of Natsume Sōseki, who is on the ¥1000 bill. If an underground counterfeit ring is currently up and running, the boy's missing brother may have a connection to its operations. Noting the possibility of the Black Organization's involvement, Conan decides that he must direct his friends away from the potential danger. He approaches the man in black and hands him a ¥1000 bill, saying he had dropped it on the street. The man spitefully grabs the note and walks away in silence. After disbanding the group and going his separate way, Conan sparks up his tracking glasses and tracks a transmitter he placed on the bill to a station-side vendor.
The clerk explains that the man in black bought a coffee with the ¥1000 bill and asked for change in ¥10 and ¥100 coins. She lacked the necessary ¥100 coins so she included a ¥500 coin and returned a total of ¥890. The man had then walked over to a nearby phone booth and continuously inserted coins to continue his call for about ten minutes. A janitor then approaches Conan, believing him to be the man in black's associate, and hands him a ¥50 coin he forgot to extract from the ticket machine. He recalls that he purchased a Tohto line ticket using a ¥500 coin and had received at least three coins in change (including the ¥50). Conan digests the given information and determines that the man must have bought a ¥320 Tohto line ticket, producing ¥180 in change, taking him to Daitoma station.
Conan arrives at the station but fails to find any promising leads. He decides to inquire a nearby real estate firm about remote storage locations and their sale status. The agent denies any knowledge about such a property and instructs Conan to leave with his friends. Conan twirls around and sees that the Detective Boys have followed him, each one, with the exception of Haibara, sporting an unamused face. They explain that Haibara had deduced Conan's intentions and suggested they follow him. Toshiya then asks an agent if a novelist lives nearby. He explains that his house had recently received a frantic phone call from his brother about "being with people like Sōseki." The agent then recalls a man who physically resembles Sōseki owning a neighboring bookstore.
The Detective Boys investigate the bookstore and its owner but are quickly evicted from the establishment. Conan surmises that the owner is innocent, stating the store lacked the required printing equipment to effectively run a counterfeit-ring. Hearing the words "printing equipment," the agent recalls a station-side newspaper company that recently purchased several printers. When asked about the company's employees, the agent perfectly describes the woman in black. Ayumi and Mitsuhiko debate the newspaper company's connection to Sōseki, leading Conan to recite a famous Sōseki quote about hiding in plain sight—deducing that Toshiya's brother intended to relay such a message. With their sights set on the newspaper company, the group approach a nearby police box and inform the officers of their findings, but fail to be taken seriously. With no other choice, Conan calls Inspector Megure as Shinichi and informs him about the counterfeit ring. As the boy hangs up the phone, he is reminded of a former encounter with a female member of the Black Organization, an encounter that ended in a gruesome tragedy.[1]
Genta disobeys Conan's instructions to remain at the police box and ventures into the newspaper company's headquarters in search of the counterfeit ring. He is followed by the rest of the Detective Boys, who discover that the central room is devoid of any striking evidence for criminal activity. Haibara, however, finds various bottles of painting solution, indicating that attempts at counterfeit were conducted.
Meanwhile, the woman in black strikes the man in black, admonishing him for his recklessness. Nevertheless, he delivers the requested painting solutions, the final ingredient necessary for Toshiya's brother to produce perfect ¥10,000 counterfeit. A member of the operation then notices the five children in the room next door, their images captured by security cameras. The woman pulls out a firearm, intending to silence their little intruders. Back at the police box, Conan learns of his friends' actions and rushes after them.
Meanwhile, Gin drives his car down a busy city street while calling Vodka over the phone. The two discuss a potential liability, an individual who managed to escape their grasp and who could leak Organization secrets to the public. Gin orders their immediate capture, dead or alive.
File 178 - Code Name Sherry
Conan arrives at the newspaper company door but is stopped at gunpoint by a rotund man with sunglasses. Inside the headquarters, Mitsuhiko discovers a spreadsheet of incomplete ¥10,000 bills, giving credence to the existence of a counterfeit operation. The woman in black and her group of co-conspirators burst into the room and capture the children, intending to execute them one at a time to motivate Toshiya's brother to expedite his work. The woman approaches Ayumi first, gloating about Conan's capture and presumed death, sending the girl into a spiral of distress. Suddenly, the woman's gun is knocked out of her hand as the room door creaks open, revealing an unharmed Conan. He points to the man in an arm cast, identifying him as their original sketcher. Due to some accident, he injured his arm, forcing the gang to kidnap Toshiya's brother to finish the work on his behalf. He notices the painting solution placed beside the magnetic printer and surmises that the ring was intending to mass print thousands of counterfeit bills and exchange them for legitimate tender at various currency exchange machines, thereby ballooning their wealth. The woman in black expresses shock, confused as to how he evaded capture. Conan opens the door fully, allowing for the rotund man's tranquilized body to fall to the floor. He then activates his Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes and launches several paint cans into the ring members, incapacitating two men. The woman reaches for her dropped gun, but Haibara manages to grab the weapon first. She calmly raises the barrel and fires a deafening round past the mortified woman's face and into the building window, alerting the nearby police officers in the process. The Detective Boys, stand around speechless about what they witnessed, but their moment of shock is soon interrupted by the responding police officers.
Inspector Megure arrives twenty minutes later and arrests the members of the counterfeit ring. Conan relishes his victory over whom he assumes is in league with the likes of Gin and Vodka, but the woman denies any knowledge of such codenames. Megure explains that the group is a notorious counterfeit ring called the Silver Fox. The inspector inquires about the gunshot, and upon learning that it was Haibara's doing, he furiously reprimands the girl for her dangerous actions, causing her to cry.
Later that night, Conan walks a still downhearted Haibara home, internally expressing his annoyance about the lack of connection between the counterfeit ring and the Black Organization. As the boy bids the girl farewell, Haibara ominously drops her teary facade and says, "APTX4869." Conan, taken aback for a moment, asks for clarification. Haibara says it is the name of the drug he was given by the Organization, and that she was the one who produced the miracle poison. Conan, desperately concealing his panic, feigns ignorance about the girl's exposition. Nevertheless, with an overwhelmingly sinister tone, she states that she took the same drug, and that her codename is Sherry. All Conan can do is stare in shock and fear as Haibara correctly names him as "Shinichi Kudo."
People
Major events
Haibara reveals how she used to be a member of the Black Organization and was the one who created the APTX 4869 drug.
Murdered Professor Case
File 179 - The Girl Made of Lies
File 180 - Checkmate
People
Trivia
- The title for each chapter are worded as the following in Case Closed:
- File 171 - The Same?
- File 175 - To Win a Heart
- File 176 - The Transfer Student
- File 177 - Woman in Black
- File 179 - The False Girl
- File 180 - Checkmate
Cover in other countries
References
- ^ One Billion Yen Robbery Case (Manga: Volume 2: 13-16)
See also
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