Episode 1169: The Mystery of the Man-Eating Classroom (Part 1)
Scenario: Agasa and Haibara are watching the news reporting the firearm store robbery that happened yesterday when Haibara suddenly asks Agasa if he is free on Wednesday the 16th, to which he explains that he will be teaching one of his acquaintances how to use the remote meeting control from the afternoon to evening, much to her dismay as that could mean that no one will be there for her in Parents’ Day visit at school.
On the Parents’ Day visit at school, Conan, Haibara, and the Detective Boys are walking to the school, with each of them having different feelings for the day: Ayumi is very excited because her dad is anticipating comparing her height increase, which had been noticed yesterday, with her fellow classmates. Mitsuhiko is excited as well because he wants to perform well in front of his parents. Genta is not, however, as his mom said that she would punish him if he dared to fall asleep in the class ever again. Haibara doesn’t care that much because her parents have gone since she was born. Conan reveals that his mom has returned to Japan by chance and she is going to the class today, much to the Detective Boys’ anticipation. Conan then secretly tells Haibara that his mom insisted on attending the class upon receiving the school announcement (and of course, she will attend under the name of Fumiyo Edogawa). He also expresses with her that he hasn’t grown up even a millimeter ever since he is shrunk and asks if it was due to the APTX-4869, to which she reassures him that it wasn’t even though she is not sure about it herself.
Later, they meet Maria, who is trying to buy an adhesive tape, when they are in a store for some school supplies, it turns out that the girl wanted to tape the timetable that is torn on one side and neglected by everyone in the class, even Kobayashi and Rumi Wakasa. They also happen to meet Takuma, who is buying a new writing pad as he broke the old one after slipping on the brick edge of the school flower bed.
The group begins to pay for the items they have purchased, Haibara's pencil stinger case cost her 258 yen, she pays 1000 yen and receives back 500 coin yen, 2 coins 100 yen, 4 coins 10 yen and 2 yen in change, while Maria’s adhesive tape costs her 302 yen, she gives 500 and receive coin 100 yen, coin 50 yen, 4 coins 10 yen and 8 yen in change.
In a classroom hallway, a boy named Kaisuke Danno is telling some others about a boy who died of choking whilst to avoid being caught sneaky eating red-handed in the class turned into an angry spirit haunting the class of his. It is told that once you step in the haunted class, you will hear a voice saying that: Feed me! Or I will eat you! And to stop the angry spirit from doing that and make it leave for somewhere else, you have to leave snacks at the desk after school. Danno continues by saying that the angry spirit is currently haunting this school, which is not trustworthy to Conan, Mitsuhiko, and Genta, whom Danno has met earlier when he tried buying some snacks before class. Just as the story is on its high note, Kobayashi and Rumi inform the children that class 1’B and 1’A are going to attend the PE class together.
Before lunch time, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko see Maria is not as excited for the parents’ day visit at school as others when they are taking food cart to the class, this is explained as Maria expresses her worries for her mom, who assured to come to the class even though she is in the hospital recovering from a back injury due to having tried so hard to attend their recent recital a week ago. In the class, Takuma does not wait in line for food like others as he is looking at something outside the window, which is later known as he has accidentally spoiled a tulip in the flower bed where he slipped but it is currently noticed by only two girls (and probably Conan as well), but he’d eventually get in line as others and have the meal. While having a meal Danno also has flashbacks of the story that actually happened to him but Genta did not believe him at all.
On lunch break, Mitsuhiko sees smoke outside the window and informs the teacher, Conan also goes to the window and witnesses the tulip flower bed burning for some reason. Just as when Conan, Rumi, and Kobayashi arrive at the flower bed with Conan holding a fire extinguisher, Haibara has already done it by jumping out of the window and using the water from the class flower vase. And just as when the four are discussing how it can burn, Danno interrupts as the curse of man-eating class that no one believed has come true.
Examining the scene shows that a honeysuckle flower pot was accidentally kicked by Haibara when she jumped outside the window, and there is one potato chip under the said pot after being kicked. Conan then recalls the three events, with one of them could be related to the burning flower bed mystery:
- Danno was stopped by Genta when he was trying to buy a package of the same potato chip. However, there are still chances that he had bought it in between and was the one to burn the flower bed to make his rumour more trustworthy.
- Takuma was indeed responsible for the lost tulip as he was scared upon hearing a girl in front of Conan mentioning about the flower bed losing one of its tulips. And he could be the one responsible for the burn of the flower bed as a way to cover up the lost tulip incident.
- Maria’s mom attended the recital that Maria also participated in and is now in the hospital recovering from the back injury. She could be the culprit and the purpose was to postpone the parents’ day visit at school.
The lunch break is over in 30 minutes and just about Rumi is suggesting that they inform this to the principal and the parents, Conan decides to ask the two 10 minutes of it so that he could solve the mystery and continue the event as usual. Then he asks someone to take his notebook and pencil for him so he can make one comparison table of what could the three students do before the flower bed burned, but his pencil suddenly out of stinger so he asks Haibara for one and Takuma volunteers to bring it for him, not knowing about his moist hand when giving the stinger box for Conan until the latter notices this. Next, Conan asks someone to bring him the stopwatch from the family economy class, and a 10 yen coin as there is something wrong with that stopwatch but he suddenly stops as he declares that he has known the one responsible for the flowerbed burning mystery.
