Special Volume 6
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| Release date: | January 28, 1999 |
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| Original Work: | Gosho Aoyama |
| Manga: | Eiichi Yamagishi |
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-142536-4 |
| Publisher: | Shogakukan |
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Special Volume 6 was released on January 28, 1999 in Japan.[1][2]
Cast
Gadgets
Corpse
File 1
People
River Jump Suicide
File 2
Bomber
File 3
Code
File 4
Disguised Suicide
File 5 - Part 1
Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are enjoying their time at the Historic Fudo Falls Inn and Resort, located on the shores of Fudo Lake in the gently rolling hills of northern Japan. During their stay, Kogoro encounters award-winning author Miyabi Shoko, who is enjoying fame from her previous work but is also suffering from exhaustion. Along with Miyabi are her two companions: magazine editor Katsuya Otaka and Kanaya Chisato.
Miyabi is currently working the finishing touches to her latest story while Katsuya states that he chose Fudo Inn for Miyabi to work in a peaceful environment. She states that Katsuya had alternative motives for bringing her here which was to cut her times to rest and play and just focus on her work. Orlando offers her to go on an hour-long hike through the hills. Walking on the trail for an hour will lead one to the beautiful Fudo Falls. She asks Kogoro’s group to join them, to which they accept. Katsuya asks that everyone meet at the dock by one o’clock.
The group meets as planned and they trek for 10 minutes to Fudo Falls. Kogoro, Conan, and Ran head for the boat dock on the lake while Orlando and Makayla venture off on their own. Kogoro asks Kanaya if they have a romantic connection to which she claims no knowledge of. Katsuya rejoins the group soaking wet, but without Miyabi. They ask for her whereabouts but Katsuya claims to have fallen in the creek and walked in a different direction while Miyabi walked off on her own. They search for her, believing she is nearby, but to no avail.
Kanaya states that Miyabi has a tendency to leave abruptly without telling anyone, even at parties, but her behavior has been unsettling since they arrived. Katsuya insists that they continue on with the boat ride believing Miyabi went back to her hotel room and is sleeping; all agree. With everyone onboard, the boat’s rim sits very close to the lake’s surface. Kanaya snaps pictures of everyone on the boat.
After the boat ride through Fudo Lake, everyone returns back to the docks and heads back inside the hotel expecting to find Miyabi, but she herself is nowhere to be found. Kanaya goes to Miyabi’s room and finds it empty. Believing she may be in the back, Kanaya exits the back door and makes a grisly discovery. She screams, causing the others to rush to her aid. They find Miyabi’s semi-surmerged lifeless body in the open air bath covered in bloody water.
A highly disturbed Kogoro takes charge and goes to investigate, noticing a bloody sharp straight razor blade near the bath. He pulls Miyabi’s arm out of the water and discovers cuts to her wrists, coming to the conclusion that Miyabi did herself in. Kogoro commands Ran to call the police as Kanaya breaks down in tears over Miyabi’s sudden death. Kogoro examines the body and states that Makayla had been deceased for a little over an hour. Around that time, everyone was on the boat riding around Lake Fudo. That’s when it is believed that Miyabi came back to the inn after returning from the waterfall, and she tragically took her own life.
The belief that Miyabi committed suicide is a rather confusing statement in itself. Although she was suffering from epilepsy and writer’s block, nothing warranted a dramatic event as this. Miyabi was invited by Katsuya to give her a change of scenery and pace, but not even he could have thought that it would turn out this way.
Ran returns with news that the police has been delayed in arriving on the scene due to the sudden landslide that’s blocking their only entrance. Kogoro remains in control of the case as Conan notices something odd with the clothes baskets and slippers in front of the door of Miyabi’s room. The clothes Conan changed out of have disappeared. The clothes and shoes that Miyabi wore aren’t present either. Conan wonders if Miyabi could have came outside bare naked but Kogoro strongly disagrees. Kogoro now believes that Miyabi’s life wasn’t taken of her own accord, but by someone else’s and was made to look like suicide.
Both Katsuya and Kanaya deny any involvement in Miyabi’s death. Katsuya states that everyone was together when they met at Fudo Falls. Moreover, according to Kogoro himself, Miyabi’s time of death was a little more than an hour ago, during which, everyone was in the middle of Fudo Lake on the boat. There is, given the circumstances, no way that one could have murdered Miyabi and returned to the inn, body in hand, without avoiding detection.
Kogoro points out that while everyone was together for a while, they also had some free time. Katsuya, now bearing a confident grin, was the last person to see Miyabi alive as they both ventured deeper into the woods. Kogoro begins applying pressure on Katsuya, flat out accusing him of murdering Miyabi at the waterfall, took her corpse to the inn, and dumped her body in the open air bath while making it look like a suicide. Conan waits for the bombshell as Katsuya not only denies again, but also states that it is impossible.
Kanaya is quietly removed from Kogoro’s suspect list as tensions between him and Katsuya continue to rise. Katsuya states that he is innocent of all wrongdoing Kogoro is accusing him of because it would take one hour to walk from Fudo Inn to Fudo Falls, two hours on a round trip. Even by use of a boat through Fudo Lake, the waterfall to the inn is 30 minutes to and an hour tops back, and Katsuya was never seen carrying a corpse in his hands. Kogoro is left temporarily speechless.
Katsuya taunts Kogoro for not noticing the routes and questions his status as a great detective, causing him to grow more frustrated by the second. With all his basis covered, Kogoro has no choice but to remove Katsuya remove from the suspect list as well, but Conan believes that he is the killer. Accepting the proposal and challenge laid before him, Conan calls Katsuya’s moves excellent, while thinking to himself how he will expose the method and him as the cold blooded monster he truly is as Kogoro and Katsuya have an intense stare down.
File 6 - Part 2
Search for the Treasure!!
File 7
Strange Kidnapping
File 8
Harakiri
File 9
Cover in other countries
References
- ^ "名探偵コナン 特別編コミックス". Koware Site Detective Conan Branch. http://www.koware.net/data_room/b_tokubetsuhen_data/tokubetsu_top.htm. Retrieved on 2010-06-26.
- ^ "名探偵コナン 特別編コミックリス". Mouri Kogoro Detective Agency. http://conan.aga-search.com/501-33-3tokubetsuhen.html. Retrieved on 2010-06-26.
See also
| Volumes of the Special Manga | ||
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