0 Detective Conan Episode 1104: The Real Culprit is on The Run

Episode 1104: The Real Culprit is on The Run

Scenario: On another peaceful morning, the Detective Boys were hanging out on the park, playing football cheerfully, while rejoicing the cozy day. Accidentally, Genta used excessive strength to kick the football, which led the ball to land midst the bush. Ayumi thus went inside to fetch the football. And luckily, she found the ball effortless, but just as she raised her head to observe the vincinity, she was utterly astounded - right next to the fallen football, there was a rather "fresh" corpse lying on the ground...

He was hit by a large rock, evidently picked up from the park. An abundance of blood was splattered around the crime scene.

According to the investigation by Detective Takagi, the victim is apparently a loan shark and runs a financial business in a nearby building. He always wears luxury clothes and equips expensive accessories (such as his golden watch); however, they found his wallet in his dead body to be empty, and those so-called luxury goods disappeared as well. So they boldly assume the murder to be a robbery, and from someone who probably could not afford the high interest rate of the loan the victim offered.

Detective Boys follow the blood traces.

Conan claimed that no one entered his sight ever since two o'clock, when the Detective Boys began playing football in the park, which means, it would not be possible for the culprit to flee after murdering Takamatsu. Despite that, Genta pointed out a shortcut path he knew for exiting this park - this offered Conan a breaking point in this elusive case. He found some blood on the plant, nearby the path they took to exit the park, so it could be deduced that instead of escaping through the proper gateway, the culprit used the shortcut. Following the traits left by the culprit, since there were loads of blood ejected from the crime scene, the culprit must have a considerable amount of blood on them, traces of blood are bound to be retained on his getaway. And, in fact, there were dozens! Ayumi used her perceptive keen eye and found several of them, until the blood stain indications ended. On the huge crossing road, they met Takagi and Chiba again, and learned the fact that the investigation might come into a halt due to the miniscule clues they had found.

Conan felt rather discouraged; he compromised, he insticaged everyone to go home. Mitsuhiko was puzzled: he could not believe that Conan actually gave up on cracking the case, which shocked him completely. Haibara explained that probably Conan realised the case was not suitable for a detective to unravel, as it is a random indiscriminate murder committed by a random culprit, which does not have any relationship to the victim, so victim's friend circle could not be inquired about, and as a result, no suspects can be narrowed down to. At this instant, they just got to see a lady cleaning the mess near a metal pole; it was supposedly caused by a guy riding a bicycle, who bumped into the pole. Conan's sorrow had transformed into pure chuckle in just a heartbeat - he got it, the truth, and the trick the culprit used to flee in the middle of the city pavement with a bunch of witnesses, and had a large amount of blood stained on their clothes.

0 Detective Conan Episode 1103: The Teen Novel That Smells Like Guilt

Episode 1103: The Teen Novel That Smells Like Guilt

Scenario: This time, Kogoro took over an unusual affair, from a well-known novelist who specialises in teen novels particularly, named Chu Masamura. He requested Kogoro to investigate regarding a deceased, who is called Taizo Yasuki, who died recently during a car accident. He persistantly emphasised his need, to ascertain all of the late Yasuki's friends and acquaintances, especially those "questionable" ones.

Kogoro thus set off to work, he inquired around the Yasuki residence and saw a man dressed in a formal suit, talking to Yasuki's mother, and that person turned out to be the new Haido City assembly member, who is named Hiroki Kataoka. So Kogoro interviewed him with some questions within his office. Kataoka confessed the fact that Yasuki and he were classmates during high school, but not very close, apparently. But no matter how Kogoro inquired further, the assembly member insisted on the same statement, so he had to call off the investigation forcibly right there. Before leaving, Kataoka handed Kogoro some flyers to help spread the news about him being the new assembly member for Haido City.

Afterwards, Kogoro learned that Yasuki loved reading books in bookstores, but when Kogoro reached out the bookstore owner, the owner said that Yasuki had quit the bookstore for some time already, with the reason of writing his own novel. Everything had returned to the starting point - novel, so Kogoro visited his client Masamura's apartment. As he pushed the door open, what he saw was only Masamura's cold dead body lying in front of the apartment entrance.

Right beside the victim, there was a tiny notebook deposited, which has "215, 222, SAME" written on it.

Kogoro felt exceedingly confounded, and was still reckoning the meaning with regards to the casual characters on the notebook, and failed to notice the culprit behind him... The culprit sprayed pepper particles onto Kogoro's face and knocked him down afterwards.

The content in Masamura's notebook.

In Haido Central Hospital, Kogoro was being awakened by Ran and Conan. Inspector Megure was accompanying him as well, whilst checking out Kogoro's condition. Although he was prayed by the culprit with pepper sprays, his health issue was not problematic. When Conan asked him about the culprit's identity, Kogoro murmured that he did not get the chance to see the face of the culprit. Just at this instant, Conan perceived that the door of Kogoro's sickhouse slid faintly, but when he went to check, no one was outside. Is this an illusion or a reality？According to Megure, Masamura has been receiving threatening letters for months now; most of them were telling him to cease the serialisation of his new novel, which was about a group of boys attacking adults with metal bats as though it were a game, and the setting was from 20 years ago. On the other side, Takagi called upon Yasuki's house and inquired of Tasuki's mother, about the mystical novel he had been writing before his death. The name of it was "Middle-aged Man Hunting Days".

Based on this title, Kogoro was able to surmise that, Masamura probably plagiarised Yasuki's manuscript when he showed him for suggestions; this explains why he would only dare to begin serialising this novel after Yasuki's death. What is more, after some time, he started to receive numerous threatening letters, which made him think that the plot within Tasuki's novel might not be made-up, but rather, a real-life experience of his. In this aspect, the people sending those threatening letters might be the other perpetrators who were involved in that incident 20 years ago. Therefore, Masamura approached Kogoro to investigate Yasuki's friend circle, in order to back up his assumption.

Everyone discussing about the case in the hospital.

Detective Sato found out that Hiroki and his classmates, Yoshinari Yoshito, did dreadful matters during their student times. Accordingly, she went around to talk to these two: Hiroki was quite cocksure and declared that "his inetgrity is spotless", but went hysterical after hearing those "accusations"; Yoshito on the other hand, is fairly calm in contrast, but also denied the statement.

Kataoka's fliers and the threatening letter.

The content of the threatening letter is as follows:

• Cease serialisation of your novel "Scary Little Monsters" in "Del Mondo" magazine immediately.
• If you refuse to comply, consider yourself forfeit!
• Not just yours either. Your family and friends, too. Consider yourself forfeit!

It was time for Kogoro to take the temperature, and the nurse walked into Kogoro's sick house and remarked that Kogoro really looked like his late father, and he showed a photo of her and his father. In that photo, she was holding a stuffed toy shark in her hand, smiling along with her father. Later on, Conan solved the "code" written on Masamura's notebook. He offered that all clues were inside the novel that Masamura was serialising - 215 is the date of when that described incident in the novel took place. It was also snowy on that day; the man that the boys attacked had a stuffed shark, which matches the romanji, S-A-M-E. But there was still a mystery unsolved regarding the 222.

The same novel by Kaori Shinmei in episode 493.

Takagi confirmed the alibis of the two suspects; they all had one when Masamura was murdered. Kogoro also pondered deeply: how could the culprit enter Masamura's apartment with him on guard due to the received thretening letters? After some thinking, Conan dashed into the library and was searching for something on the computer; it was about the incident from 20 years ago. But he realised that there were not even a tinge of snowflakes falling on the 15th of February, and instead, the attack actually happened on the 22nd of February, according to the online newpaper Conan found. After looking depper into it, he figuered out the truth completely, and was about to reveal the unmitigated tragedy...

0 Detective Conan Episode 1102: The Akabeko and the Three Lucky Men

Episode 1102: The Akabeko and the Three Lucky Men

Scenario: Conan, Ran, and Sonoko visited an exhibition by an up-and-coming artist, Motoko Bekobe. Motoko has been releasing avant-garde works that combine traditional akabe with modern art, and are evidently attracting further attention across the globe. The three of them first saw a ceremony in the New Beika Modern Art Museum, there were several men dancing, wearing loincloths, cheering up for the big day. They constantly uttered the peculiar motto "Akabeko Bekoe", hinting everyone about Bekobe's success.

Bekobe's exhibition ceremony with dancers wearing loincloths.

After the event had ended, they shifted their steps and diverted their sight onto the actual exhibition. Within the hall, they could clearly see all kinds of Akabekos, which varied in size and colour and all possessed extraordinary imagination and creativity, despite the fact that there were barely any of those classical red ones. Conan thus began to explain the legend of this craft: it was apparently a folk craft from the Fukushima Prefecture, with persistant wobbling heads; it was a toy made for children around the Aizu region of Fukushima; during the Edo Period, a temple named Enzo-ji Temple was destroyed by earthquakes and needed reconstruction; it became an elusive issue back then since it was hard to transport materials up the cliff, which supposedly a red cow turned up out of nowhere to help the workers transporting these materials contributed to the rebuild of the temple. Just as Ran and Sonoko were astonished by the "weird facts" Conan knows, an abrupt scream kicked in from the staff room. When they dashed towards there to check the situation out, they found Motoko Bekobe's body lying on the floor, accompanied by some sort of "dying message".

Her left hand was holding an akabeko, and she wrote the katakana word "Fuku" with blood using her right hand.

At first they thought it would be a piece of cake to target the culprit, since the hint "Fuku" may tell it all. However, the three possible candidates for this murder all contain the initial "Fuku" in their names, so the dying message is quite meaningless in this aspect. The only way for cracking this case is to interrogate them with questions.

- Junya Fukui, Bekobe's ex-boyfriend, now working as her dancer, although they broke up some years ago, he still treated her as a business co-worker as he claims "he does not like mixing business matters with personal affairs". (Additional clue found out by Conan: he is currently on debt, and was urged for the return of the money)

- Toshiharu Fukumoto, Bekobe's business partner, runs everything for Motoko, including handling negotiations, aquiring materials, and managing her schedule. He occasionally slips out Hakata dialect, since he was originally from Kurume in Fukuoka, although he intended to speak standard Japanese. (Additional clue found out by Conan: he went to the bathroom after some time, went into one of the compartments and caught Conan's attention)

- Hajime Fukura, Bekobe's former co-worker, but his attitude was fairly atrocious when he was answering the police's inquiries. Also made Sonoko suspect him to be the culprit.

Conan reviewing the clues.

After some time, Sonoko found a shocking clue on the internet - the webpage of Bekobe's art workshop had quite conservative statements, which completely contravened Bekobe's creative concept as an artist who mingles both traditional Akabeko and modern art. Sonoko deduced that the two of them were probably at odds in some matters. "I must hurry. Before anyone else interferes," Fukura thought. He was holding a metal stick and was about to smash the most famous "blue cow" masterpiece by Bekobe.

Conan arrived there timely and impeded this attempted crime, he did not like Bekobe's art work because, in his perspective, it disobeyed tradition, and he could not see the aesthetic of combining traditional art and modern art. Takagi arrested him for interference of public duties. Behind him, Sonoko was asking why he would destroy Behobe's artwork and murder her as well, but Fukura denied killing Bekobe. She then called him a loser. Ran felt that it was not suitable to call him that, but Sonoko said that "no matter how you prettify him, words only mean one thing". Conan heard it and mulled over... Akabeko Workshop, Fukushima, Akabeko, Fukuoka, the dying message "Fuku", along with the akabeko holding on the victim's left hand, and lastly, Sonoko's remark of "words only mena one thing". Conan understood everything.