The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall

Episode 558-561 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall
Original airdate:	December 5, 2009 (Three Visits) December 12, 2009 (Item in Hand) December 19, 2009 (The Late Koumei) December 26, 2009 (Empty Fort Strategy)
Season:	18
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kansuke Yamato Yui Uehara
Case solved by:	Taka'aki Morofushi Conan Edogawa Kansuke Yamato
Staff
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Yuji Takada as Kansuke Yamato Ami Koshimizu as Yui Uehara Sho Hayami as Taka'aki Morofushi
Chronology
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List of episodes

Characters introduced

Taka'aki Morofushi
	35 years old Inspector from local force in Nagano

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Kansuke Yamato Yui Uehara Professor Agasa Ai Haibara Sonoko Suzuki Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yusaku Kudo Azusa Enomoto

Plot

Three Visits

Yamato and Euhara takes Kogoro, Ran, and Conan to a mansion. Euhara reveals that the mansion was owned by a rich man in the past; The man one day decided to search for five talented people and gave the five a room in the mansion until they have reached their dreams. Euhara reveals that six people, Shūsaku Akashi, Aoi Kobashi, Naoki Midorikawa, Shōji Yamabuki, Takuto Momose, and Shirō Naiko, referred to each others as colors that sound alike to their names. They were called Aka (赤?, Red), Ao (青?, Blue), Midori (緑?, Green), Yamabuki (山吹?, Golden Yellow), Momoiro (桃色?, Pink), and Shiro (白?, White) respectively. Yamato reveals that the doors in the mansion swung outward and that someone used a pile of boxes filled with books to trap Akashi inside a room. They examine the room to find one wall of the room painted red and in the center of the room a white and black chair placed back to back and nailed into the ground with the white chair facing the red wall. Yamato's rival, Takaaki Morofushi whose name can be read in Chinese as Koumei, arrives and reveals he was the first to find the body as he was delivering flowers to the late Aoi who died from a heart attack in the storage room of the house. Conan reveals that the culprit knew the door would open outwards in the house and the location of the boxes of books which means the culprit is one of the three people who use to live in the mansion.

Item in Hand

Yamato tells Koumei to take Ran and Conan with him to investigate the four suspects. They learn that Akashi and Aoi were avid chess fan and that Aoi was adored by all her friends. After investigating the four, they believe Naiko is involved in the murder in some way and travel to his apartment to arrest him. Upon arrival, they find that Naiko has been strangled and that the culprit had spray painted the wall in front of Naiko red. Koumei then heads off to investigate the case on his own.

The Late Koumei

Koumei investigates the crime scene at the mansion and realizes who the culprit is. Before he could text his answer to Yamato, he is knocked unconscious by the culprit. The building is set ablaze and Koumei is saved by Uehara. At the hospital, Conan and Yamato deduced from Koumei's incomplete text "The late Koumei" was a saying which was alluded from the Battle of Wuzhang Plains; the moral of the story is that one can have great influence even after death. They believe that the culprit murdered Akashi to avenge Aoi's death. Conan and Yamato then realize what Akashi's dying message means.

Empty Fort Strategy

Koumei regains consciousness, together they conclude that they lack the evidence to capture the culprit and thus decide to empty the Empty Fort Strategy to lure the culprit out.

People

Shusaku Akashi
	Victim Illustrator

Naoki Midorikawa
	38 years old Actor

Aoi Kobashi
	Deceased Novelist Shusaku Akashi's wife

Shoji Yamabuki
	39 years old Fashion designer

Takuto Momose
	37 years old Computer graphic creator

Shiro Naoki
	Victim (strangulation) 36 years old Musician

Resolution

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Using the strategy to lure the culprit out, they created the sense that no officers are guarding Naiko's apartment and successfully lure Naoki Midorikawa. Yamato reveals that Akashi had katakana spray painted on his wall indicating Naoki to be the murderer. Naiko, who was meeting his old friends to ask for money, finds Akashi and having misread the message began to spray it over with red paint cans. He realized that the message was indicating Naoki, takes a picture of the message, and uses it to extort money from Midorikawa. Conan reveals that Akashi had prepared the room to indicate the murderer to be Midorikawa even if the message was painted over. Conan reveals that the white chair was facing the red wall while the black chair was facing the white wall. This corresponds to chess piece colors where white makes the first move. Conan explains that the message tells a person to look at the red wall then look at the white wall; Doing so causes one to see a green complementary color afterimage which indicates Midorikawa. Midorikawa confesses and explains that he blamed Akashi was Aoi's death since she got a heart attack from frantically searching for a portrait of herself. He reveals that Akashi had painted over the portrait since he lacked the money to buy more painting supplies and had Akashi told her, she would not have died. Koumei reveals that Akashi was working on a new portrait for her in secret and had intended to surprise her on her birthday. Midorikawa having realize his mistake breaks down in tears.

See also

• Season 18