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| image              = Volume 22.jpg
 
| image              = Volume 22.jpg
 
| releasedate        = February 18, 1999
 
| releasedate        = February 18, 1999
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| chapters            = 212-221
 
| isbn                = 4-09-125492-6
 
| isbn                = 4-09-125492-6
 
| publisher          = [[Shogakukan]]
 
| publisher          = [[Shogakukan]]
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{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
 
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
 
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
 
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{Char|Inspector Megure}}
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{{Char|Juzo Megure}}
 
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
 
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
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{{Char|Natsue Hatamoto|display=Natsue Hatamoto (background)}}
 
{{Char|Yukiko Kudo}}
 
{{Char|Yukiko Kudo}}
 
{{Char|Yusaku Kudo}}
 
{{Char|Yusaku Kudo}}
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== Wedding Murder Case ==
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== Gadgets ==
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== Chapters ==
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=== Wedding Murder Case ===
 
{{ref anime|141-142|The Night Before the Wedding Locked Room Case}}
 
{{ref anime|141-142|The Night Before the Wedding Locked Room Case}}
  
=== File 212 - Uneasiness ===
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==== File 212 - A Matching Set ====
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Kazuha sees the body and starts screaming; this attracts the rest of the family to the two rooms. Katagiri is terrified by the body and falls unconscious; her fiancé, on the other hand, seems completely unbothered by Shigematsu’s death. Kogoro orders everyone to stay out of the room as he calls the police, while Conan and Heiji confirm that all the windows in the two rooms are locked. Since Ran has not seen anyone jump out of the mansion, and the keychain on which hangs the key to the door of the two rooms is found on the body, Conan and Heiji conclude that they are facing a locked room murder case. Yurie asks why the possibility of suicide can be ruled out, and Heiji explains that the stab wound is fatal and leads to immediate death, so in case of a suicide the murder weapon should be close to the body. However, in reality, the weapon is nowhere to be found. <br>
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At this point, Kikuhiko says that despite the butler’s death, his wedding shall go forward as planned. This disrespectful decision stuns the rest of the people present, but Kikuhito apparently cannot care less, as he insists on this decision and comments that letting the wedding go forward can actually console the soul of Kigematsu. This earns him a punch in the face from Sakuraba. So much force is used that Kikuhiko is sent flying; he eventually  slams into a window, breaking the glass and suffering injuries on his face. As he attempts to get up and take revenge, his father, Mikio, orders him to exercise restraint. Mikio then hammers him for his shamelessness, and also makes it very clear to Sakuraba that he disapproves of his use of physical force against his master. <br>
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The police arrive, prompting Mikio to head to the front door of the mansion to admit them. Meanwhile, Conan and Heiji notice that Rebecca is, for some reason, in the room as well; she was hiding behind Shigematsu’s body until now. <br>
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The police join them in the investigation. Takagi reports that all other servants except for Sakuraba were having dinner at the time of the murder, for which they could not have killed him. So, the only suspects are Mikio, Kikuhiko, Yurie, Katagiri and Sakuraba. As for the murder weapon, since it is not in the room, Megure orders his men to search the mansion and the gardens thoroughly. Conan and Heiji accompany a few police officers to the garden, but not to look for the murder weapon: they appear more interested in understanding the case. They both have noticed four suspicious things, listed below:
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# The murderer did not leave the weapon in the room. If he did, maybe the police will think that Shigematsu committed suicide.
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# The murderer dragged Shigematsu’s body from the dark room to the well-lit one.
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# The murderer only turned on the lights in one room.
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# Rebecca was in the room at the time of the murder. <br>
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As they ponder, they see Sakuraba asking a police officer whether he can join the search for the murder weapon as well. That officer refuses, and Kikuhiko, who has silently approached Sakuraba, avenges the facepunch; he throws Sakuraba onto the ground, and orders him to stop creating problems. As he leaves gleefully, Kazuha and Ran help Sakuraba get up; it is then when Kazuha notices that he and Katagiri are wearing the same necklace. This draws the attention of Conan and Heiji; they believe that this is not a coincidence, and that it is key to solving the case.
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==== File 213 - The Evidence... ====
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The police fail to find the murder weapon after a thorough search, so Megure orders them to do it all over again. Kogoro suggests that perhaps a burglar intruded into the mansion, was caught by the butler, killed him and escaped; Takagi and Heiji dismiss this possibility, saying that the security system of the mansion is excellent, and that it would not make sense for a burglar to devise a complex plan and make a locked room. Heiji also reasons that since a lot of blood must have splattered out of the body, the clothes that the murderer was wearing must be heavily stained, for which if the police can find the weapon, they might find bloodstained clothes as well. He then asks Megure about the alibi of the five suspects; it turns out that none of them has a valid one. <br>
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Presently, a crime scene investigator informs Megure that there is a bloodstain on the latch of the window of the room. Megure (and Heiji) thus approach the window; after a careful examination, they deduce that the bloodstain was left when the murderer touched the latch with his blood-stained glove. This implies that, perhaps, the murderer left the room through the balcony (that the window leads to). Heiji thus goes to the balcony to investigate. Conan is already there, and he has found a broken piece of glass (broken because Kikuhiko slammed into that window a while ago) with a tiny hole through it. They both believe that this is an important piece of clue, and thus start searching for “the thing” that must appear on the balcony. They are interrupted by Mikio, though; he asks Megure whether the police can return to him the body of Shigematsu; he was a close friend of the couple, and Mikio thinks that it is pitiful for his body to just sit in the middle of the room (Megure, of course, has to decline this request, as autopsy has to be performed first). This prompts Heiji to mention that, according to his mother, Shigamatsu was actually the one that Mikio’s wife loved and the reason why she would come to Morizono family’s mansion so frequently (when she was a young adult). However, Mikio thought that his future wife came for him. Under this belief, he proposed to her; she was, little by little, overwhelmed by his courtship, and since all the parents approved of their getting together, they married in the end. <br>
  
=== File 213 - The Evidence... ===
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Conan understands the significance of this story, and thus begins thinking. Heiji interrupts him and comments that the situation involving Katagiri, Sakuraba and Kakuhiko bears some resemblance to the story. Conan seemingly agrees with this analysis, but he chooses to not continue talking about this topic; he insteads asks whether Heiji has found “the thing”. As the answer is negative, Conan suggests that Heiji, with the help of a rope, try to jump off the balcony to reach that of the room below. Heij manages to do so easily; additionally, on the balcony of the room on the second floor, he is able to see something hanging on the branches of a tree in the garden. They immediately head there to determine what that object is (after an incident in which Conan fell from the balcony and survived only because Sakuraba arrived in time to save him); it turns out to be a bloodstained shirt tied up by a long, thin string. By loosening the string, the detectives discover that the shirt is coating a kitchen knife and a pair of gloves (both, of course, have a large amount of blood on their surfaces). Conan also notices the presence of a piece of one-sided tape on one end of the string; with this, the detectives are confident that they know who the murderer is and how the room was locked. But something doesn't feel right: a lot of details are still unexplained. <br>
  
=== File 214 - The Last Laugh ===
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Rain starts pouring down, and Ran and Kazuha suggest that unless they want to be completely soaked, Conan and Heiji should get back to the mansion. The word “rain” makes them think about “rain shutter”, and this in turn makes them realize that the truth behind the murder is actually different from their previous conjectures. Under this improved theory, the identity of the murderer changes, and definite evidence is lacking. Therefore, Conan and Heiji decide to devise a trap so that the murderer will hand over the evidence himself (or herself). This begins with the two detectives summoning everyone into the room where the murder took place and declaring Sakuraba to be the murderer.
  
=== People ===
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==== File 214 - The Last Laugh ====
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<spoiler>The actual murderer is '''Kikuhito Morizono'''.</spoiler>
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==== People ====
 
{{BeginBox}}
 
{{BeginBox}}
 
{{People|Akio Shigematsu|Akio Shigematsu manga.jpg|
 
{{People|Akio Shigematsu|Akio Shigematsu manga.jpg|
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* 57 years old
 
* 57 years old
 
* Head of the Morizono family}}
 
* Head of the Morizono family}}
{{clear}}
 
 
{{People|Kikuhito Morizono|Kikuhito Morizono manga.jpg|
 
{{People|Kikuhito Morizono|Kikuhito Morizono manga.jpg|
 
* 26 years old
 
* 26 years old
* Eldest Morizono son}}
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* Eldest Morizono son
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* Kaede's fiancé}}
 
{{EndBox}}
 
{{EndBox}}
  
== Unpublished Novel Case ==
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==== ''Major events'' ====
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* Ran and Kazuha's friendship grows after Ran quickly changes shirts to prove to Kazuha that she didn't wear the striped pattern because Heiji did.
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* Kazuha is still very jealous of Ran, and still thinks she has feelings for Heiji, after finding out that Ran and Heiji are wearing the same style striped shirt. Kazuha's feelings for Heiji are once again briefly explored.
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=== North Star Murder Case ===
 
{{ref anime|144-145|The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno}}
 
{{ref anime|144-145|The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno}}
  
=== File 215 - The Northbound Train ===
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==== Characters introduced ====
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{{NewChar|name = [[Kyohei Nishimura]]|image = Inspector Nishimura.jpg|description =
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* Inspector from Hokkaido Prefecture Police}}
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{{clearleft}}
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==== File 215 - The Northbound Train ====
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==== File 216 - Search The Train!? ====
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==== File 217 - To Be Continued... ====
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==== File 218 - The Last Station ====
  
=== File 216 - Search The Train ===
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<spoiler>
  
=== File 217 - to be continued... ===
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The culprit is '''Toshinori Kaetsu'''. Fumiyo Akechi is revealed to be Yukiko Kudo in disguise.
  
=== File 218 - The Last Station ===
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</spoiler>
  
=== People ===
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==== People ====
 
{{BeginBox}}
 
{{BeginBox}}
 
{{People|Yasuji Asama|Yasuji Asama manga.jpg|
 
{{People|Yasuji Asama|Yasuji Asama manga.jpg|
* Victim
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* Victim (bludgeoned)
 
* 39 years old
 
* 39 years old
 
* Passenger}}
 
* Passenger}}
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* 32 years old
 
* 32 years old
 
* Passenger}}
 
* Passenger}}
{{clear}}
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{{People|Fumiyo Akechi|Fumiyo Akechi manga.jpg|
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* 37 years old
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* Passenger}}
 
{{People|Azusa Izumo|Azusa Izumo manga.jpg|
 
{{People|Azusa Izumo|Azusa Izumo manga.jpg|
 
* 49 years old
 
* 49 years old
* Keitaro Izumo's wife}}
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* Keitaro's wife}}
 
{{People|Inspector Nishimura|Inspector Nishimura manga.jpg|
 
{{People|Inspector Nishimura|Inspector Nishimura manga.jpg|
 
* Inspector from Hokkaido Prefecture Police}}
 
* Inspector from Hokkaido Prefecture Police}}
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{{People|Woman|Woman 217 manga.jpg|
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* Deceased (drug)
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* Toshinori's girlfriend}}
 
{{EndBox}}
 
{{EndBox}}
  
== Sonoko's Camera Case ==
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=== Sonoko Attempted Murder Case ===
 
{{ref anime|153-154|Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story}}
 
{{ref anime|153-154|Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story}}
  
=== Characters introduced ===
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==== Characters introduced ====
 
{{NewChar|name = [[Makoto Kyogoku]]|image = Makoto Kyogoku.jpg|description =
 
{{NewChar|name = [[Makoto Kyogoku]]|image = Makoto Kyogoku.jpg|description =
 
* 18 years old
 
* 18 years old
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{{clearleft}}
 
{{clearleft}}
  
=== File 219 - Go On, Sonoko! ===
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==== File 219 - Go On, Sonoko ====
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==== File 220 - The Sleeping Beauty ====
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==== File 221 - The Prince of Kicks ====
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<spoiler>
  
=== File 220 - The Sleeping Beauty ===
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The culprit is '''Tadahiko Michiwaki'''. He kills brown-haired girls out of resentment toward the brown-haired girl who broke up with him. However he target Sonoko for another reason. When he was killing he latest victim a train passed by behind him and he felt light from the air cables. He mistook it for a flash from a camera and when he soon after saw Sonoko pass by the trails with a camera, he assumed that she took a picture of him with the victim, so he approached the group with the intention of destroying that picture. He even feared that Sonoko was going to show it to Shinichi, when she talked about the picture of Ran. And since all of Sonoko's pictures were of couples, he thought that she might have taken the picture in the belief that it was another couple in an intimate moment.
  
=== File 221 - The Prince of Kicks ===
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</spoiler>
  
=== People ===
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==== People ====
 
{{BeginBox}}
 
{{BeginBox}}
 
{{People|Tadahiko Michiwaki|Tadahiko Michiwaki manga.jpg|
 
{{People|Tadahiko Michiwaki|Tadahiko Michiwaki manga.jpg|
 
* College student}}
 
* College student}}
{{People|Shoji Terabayashi|Shoji Terabayashi manga.jpg|
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{{People|[[Shoji Terabayashi]]|Shoji Terabayashi manga.jpg|
 
* Detective from Chiba Prefecture Police}}
 
* Detective from Chiba Prefecture Police}}
 
{{EndBox}}
 
{{EndBox}}
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==== ''Major events'' ====
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* Makoto is revealed to be a karate champion, saving Sonoko from a serial killer.
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* Sonoko's budding romance with Makoto begins here, as he confesses his love to her, and they become a couple.
  
 
== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
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== Cover in other countries ==
 
== Cover in other countries ==
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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* [[Manga]]
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* [[Volume 21-30]]
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* [[Detective Conan]]
  
* [[Volume 21-30]]
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{{Volumes}}
  
 
[[Category:Volumes]]
 
[[Category:Volumes]]
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[[de:Band 22]]
 
[[de:Band 22]]

Latest revision as of 10:43, 5 April 2024

Volume 22

Volume 22.jpg

Information
Release date: February 18, 1999
Chapters: 212-221
ISBN: ISBN 4-09-125492-6
Publisher: Shogakukan
English release date: March 18, 2008
English ISBN: ISBN 1-4215-1674-8
English Publisher: Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
Detective 22.jpg
Shozo Totsugawa
Keyhole 22.jpg
Yusaku Kudo
Aoyama's death & Conan side images
Aoyama 22.jpg
ConanSide 22.jpg
Chronology
Prev volume: « Volume 21
Next volume: Volume 23 »
List of chaptersList of cases

Volume 22 was released on February 18, 1998 in Japan.

Cast

Gadgets

Chapters

Wedding Murder Case

File 212 - A Matching Set

Kazuha sees the body and starts screaming; this attracts the rest of the family to the two rooms. Katagiri is terrified by the body and falls unconscious; her fiancé, on the other hand, seems completely unbothered by Shigematsu’s death. Kogoro orders everyone to stay out of the room as he calls the police, while Conan and Heiji confirm that all the windows in the two rooms are locked. Since Ran has not seen anyone jump out of the mansion, and the keychain on which hangs the key to the door of the two rooms is found on the body, Conan and Heiji conclude that they are facing a locked room murder case. Yurie asks why the possibility of suicide can be ruled out, and Heiji explains that the stab wound is fatal and leads to immediate death, so in case of a suicide the murder weapon should be close to the body. However, in reality, the weapon is nowhere to be found.

At this point, Kikuhiko says that despite the butler’s death, his wedding shall go forward as planned. This disrespectful decision stuns the rest of the people present, but Kikuhito apparently cannot care less, as he insists on this decision and comments that letting the wedding go forward can actually console the soul of Kigematsu. This earns him a punch in the face from Sakuraba. So much force is used that Kikuhiko is sent flying; he eventually slams into a window, breaking the glass and suffering injuries on his face. As he attempts to get up and take revenge, his father, Mikio, orders him to exercise restraint. Mikio then hammers him for his shamelessness, and also makes it very clear to Sakuraba that he disapproves of his use of physical force against his master.

The police arrive, prompting Mikio to head to the front door of the mansion to admit them. Meanwhile, Conan and Heiji notice that Rebecca is, for some reason, in the room as well; she was hiding behind Shigematsu’s body until now.

The police join them in the investigation. Takagi reports that all other servants except for Sakuraba were having dinner at the time of the murder, for which they could not have killed him. So, the only suspects are Mikio, Kikuhiko, Yurie, Katagiri and Sakuraba. As for the murder weapon, since it is not in the room, Megure orders his men to search the mansion and the gardens thoroughly. Conan and Heiji accompany a few police officers to the garden, but not to look for the murder weapon: they appear more interested in understanding the case. They both have noticed four suspicious things, listed below:

  1. The murderer did not leave the weapon in the room. If he did, maybe the police will think that Shigematsu committed suicide.
  2. The murderer dragged Shigematsu’s body from the dark room to the well-lit one.
  3. The murderer only turned on the lights in one room.
  4. Rebecca was in the room at the time of the murder.

As they ponder, they see Sakuraba asking a police officer whether he can join the search for the murder weapon as well. That officer refuses, and Kikuhiko, who has silently approached Sakuraba, avenges the facepunch; he throws Sakuraba onto the ground, and orders him to stop creating problems. As he leaves gleefully, Kazuha and Ran help Sakuraba get up; it is then when Kazuha notices that he and Katagiri are wearing the same necklace. This draws the attention of Conan and Heiji; they believe that this is not a coincidence, and that it is key to solving the case.

File 213 - The Evidence...

The police fail to find the murder weapon after a thorough search, so Megure orders them to do it all over again. Kogoro suggests that perhaps a burglar intruded into the mansion, was caught by the butler, killed him and escaped; Takagi and Heiji dismiss this possibility, saying that the security system of the mansion is excellent, and that it would not make sense for a burglar to devise a complex plan and make a locked room. Heiji also reasons that since a lot of blood must have splattered out of the body, the clothes that the murderer was wearing must be heavily stained, for which if the police can find the weapon, they might find bloodstained clothes as well. He then asks Megure about the alibi of the five suspects; it turns out that none of them has a valid one.

Presently, a crime scene investigator informs Megure that there is a bloodstain on the latch of the window of the room. Megure (and Heiji) thus approach the window; after a careful examination, they deduce that the bloodstain was left when the murderer touched the latch with his blood-stained glove. This implies that, perhaps, the murderer left the room through the balcony (that the window leads to). Heiji thus goes to the balcony to investigate. Conan is already there, and he has found a broken piece of glass (broken because Kikuhiko slammed into that window a while ago) with a tiny hole through it. They both believe that this is an important piece of clue, and thus start searching for “the thing” that must appear on the balcony. They are interrupted by Mikio, though; he asks Megure whether the police can return to him the body of Shigematsu; he was a close friend of the couple, and Mikio thinks that it is pitiful for his body to just sit in the middle of the room (Megure, of course, has to decline this request, as autopsy has to be performed first). This prompts Heiji to mention that, according to his mother, Shigamatsu was actually the one that Mikio’s wife loved and the reason why she would come to Morizono family’s mansion so frequently (when she was a young adult). However, Mikio thought that his future wife came for him. Under this belief, he proposed to her; she was, little by little, overwhelmed by his courtship, and since all the parents approved of their getting together, they married in the end.

Conan understands the significance of this story, and thus begins thinking. Heiji interrupts him and comments that the situation involving Katagiri, Sakuraba and Kakuhiko bears some resemblance to the story. Conan seemingly agrees with this analysis, but he chooses to not continue talking about this topic; he insteads asks whether Heiji has found “the thing”. As the answer is negative, Conan suggests that Heiji, with the help of a rope, try to jump off the balcony to reach that of the room below. Heij manages to do so easily; additionally, on the balcony of the room on the second floor, he is able to see something hanging on the branches of a tree in the garden. They immediately head there to determine what that object is (after an incident in which Conan fell from the balcony and survived only because Sakuraba arrived in time to save him); it turns out to be a bloodstained shirt tied up by a long, thin string. By loosening the string, the detectives discover that the shirt is coating a kitchen knife and a pair of gloves (both, of course, have a large amount of blood on their surfaces). Conan also notices the presence of a piece of one-sided tape on one end of the string; with this, the detectives are confident that they know who the murderer is and how the room was locked. But something doesn't feel right: a lot of details are still unexplained.

Rain starts pouring down, and Ran and Kazuha suggest that unless they want to be completely soaked, Conan and Heiji should get back to the mansion. The word “rain” makes them think about “rain shutter”, and this in turn makes them realize that the truth behind the murder is actually different from their previous conjectures. Under this improved theory, the identity of the murderer changes, and definite evidence is lacking. Therefore, Conan and Heiji decide to devise a trap so that the murderer will hand over the evidence himself (or herself). This begins with the two detectives summoning everyone into the room where the murder took place and declaring Sakuraba to be the murderer.

File 214 - The Last Laugh

People

  • Major events

    • Ran and Kazuha's friendship grows after Ran quickly changes shirts to prove to Kazuha that she didn't wear the striped pattern because Heiji did.
    • Kazuha is still very jealous of Ran, and still thinks she has feelings for Heiji, after finding out that Ran and Heiji are wearing the same style striped shirt. Kazuha's feelings for Heiji are once again briefly explored.

    North Star Murder Case

    Characters introduced

    File 215 - The Northbound Train

    File 216 - Search The Train!?

    File 217 - To Be Continued...

    File 218 - The Last Station

    People

  • Sonoko Attempted Murder Case

    Characters introduced

    File 219 - Go On, Sonoko

    File 220 - The Sleeping Beauty

    File 221 - The Prince of Kicks

    People

  • Major events

    • Makoto is revealed to be a karate champion, saving Sonoko from a serial killer.
    • Sonoko's budding romance with Makoto begins here, as he confesses his love to her, and they become a couple.

    Trivia

    • The title for each chapter are worded as the following in Case Closed:
    • File 212 - The Same
    • File 214 - The Trapped Quarry
    • File 215 - The Northern Star
    • File 216 - Give Yourself Away
    • File 218 - The Terminal Station
    • File 219 - Go Serena
    • File 220 - Sleeping Beauty

    Cover in other countries

    • China
    • Finland
    • France
    • Germany
    • Hong Kong
    • Indonesia
    • Italy (Comic Art)
    • Italy (Star Comics)
    • Korea
    • Malaysia (Chinese)
    • Malaysia (Malay)
    • Norway
    • Rep. of China (Taiwan)
    • Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)
    • Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)
    • Sweden
    • Thailand
    • United States
    • Vietnam

    See also

    Volumes of the Manga
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