Undead Murder Farce (アンデッドガール・マーダーファルス)

This isn't good. At this rate, we won't last even 20 minutes.

We'll all drown!

No, Lupin is known not to kill.

Mister Fogg, how far below the surface of the moat

is the floor of the tower's semi-basement?

Hm... The basement is about six feet below the surface.

The surface of the moat is about four.

Then at worst, the water will stop right before the ceiling.

W-We're supposed to stay in the water for that long?

When Lupin declared that he could open any lock,

I decided to seal away the locks.

He managed to control my train of thought with a few simple words.

What do they want us to do?

They want you to break through the wall of the basement.

What should we do, Reynold?

Fatima, you go.

I'm going to keep to the plan.

Understood. I'll go.

Hurry up and get here, Lupin.

Mister Fogg!

Hold onto the ceiling decorations!

Everyone, come to a wall!

I can barely see a thing!

Follow my voice! Or the sound of the water—

It's gone quieter.

Has the water stopped?

Wh-What the?!

It's gone.

Mister Fogg, if your watch is not broken, could you tell me the time?

It's 11:30 PM.

Free for All

Episode Seven

That's my eleventh loss.

But how did he get the safe?

It was impossible to get in or out of the room, and the safe was underwater!

He may not have completely gotten away yet.

As long as the bridge at the front entrance is blocked,

it's impossible to leave the grounds.

For now, let us head to the surface.

We need to warm up by the stove.

Mister Ganimard,

may I see your handcuffs?

Certainly.

What are you doing?!

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you all Arsene Lupin.

What?!

Come, now. That's impossible!

How did you figure it out? My disguise was perfect.

Your footsteps when we crossed the bridge were light.

That means your fat belly is fake.

But first, let's talk about the safe.

Yes, where did the safe go?

It wasn't taken out of the hole that I created.

True.

Through the vent, then?

But no adult should've been able to go through that duct.

Correct. And it had a metal grate over it!

But it the water pressure tore it loose.

Talented as the Phantom may be, he cannot get through that duct.

But the purpose of emptying the moat was not just to confuse our guards.

It also let him send a rope into the room

in a way that would not normally be possible.

But to pull the safe up with the rope, he'd need to have someone in the room.

But you even tugged on Ganimard's moustache!

I did. And that was classic Lupin strategy, you see...

The reason he showed up in my room with a disguise

was to make us think that his disguises could be easily seen through—

mere fake noses and wigs.

Now, then...

Who exactly wins in this situation?

You've caught me...

But I've stolen the diamond.

I win, of course.

You may have taken the safe, but you have not obtained the diamond.

One of Mister Fogg's handmaids delivered it to Baker Street this afternoon.

So the diamond is back at Baker Street?

No. As a gentleman, that wouldn't be fair.

I had declared to Lupin that I would hole up in the basement room

with the diamond, after all.

Then where exactly is the diamond?

Your left coat pocket.

What?!

All I have in here is my tobacco box...

It's gone!

To think he could pull that off on the fly...

Lupin's gone!

Find Lupin!

He should still be somewhere in the mansion!

Arsene Lupin is apparently a great thief in France,

but in Japan, we have Nezumi Kozo, Jinnai Kosaki,

and the most famous of all, Goemon Ishikawa.

There's this crazy story about how

Goemon Ishikawa was captured in Kyoto's Fushimi Castle,

and sentenced to be boiled to death in a cauldron.

That's all people ever talked about, which was no fun for his lackeys.

So they decided to steal every single pot and cauldron throughout Edo,

causing all kinds of trouble!

Now, the ones most inconvenienced by this

were the tofu vendors, who needed pots to boil their soybeans.

Realizing business would be over at this rate,

one old tofu vendor decided to use his head.

And what he thought up was...

A smoke bomb?

After all that planning...

Well, what was I supposed to do?

So, where's the diamond?

And where's the safe?

It's pretty heavy.

Ooh.

The Penultimate Night...

and the safe made of pure silver.

Truly, art created by something inhuma—

We're here, Tsugaru!

The old tofu vendor decided he'd use his head and catch the thieves.

He hid inside his giant cauldron and planned to stay up all night...

But he'd had a few drinks first, and ended up snoring loudly!

Two thieves heave-ho the cauldron outta there with the old man still in it!

Surprised, he poked his head out,

and shouted, "Dear, it's an earthquake!"

startling the two thieves!

Then the old man looked around him and said,

"Oh, no! They stole my whole house!"

And we call that little tale, "The Pot Thief."

Despite your warning, I decided to stick my neck out for this.

Wh-What are you?

I'm Aya Rindo, and I'm a detective who specializes in monsters.

Aya Rindo? But that's impossible. You—

You mistook that Parisian reporter for me.

In other words, you assumed that I was a normal human being with a body.

That's why I had Tsugaru go after you and lose on purpose.

No wonder he didn't put up much of a fight.

We had a meeting with Mister Fogg in the evening,

and I requested that he put me in the safe instead of the diamond.

So you were inside the safe this whole time.

I was holding the door shut with my teeth that whole time so it wouldn't open.

Though I was quite impressed with you flooding the room.

Well played.

But I haven't lost yet.

Do you think you can prevail against Tsugaru and Shizuku?

You there, with the blue hair.

Oni Slayer, was it?

Well, I have the Phantom of the Opera on my side.

Don't I, Erik?

Erik!

That bastard!

You've made such a mess.

Yeah, I'm done being a gentleman. Now some real trouble's shown up.

Too true!

One diamond, two monsters, and one phantom thief, eh?

I prefer things neat and clean.

I'll take you out with a single strike each.

Hey, that one wasn't me!

I don't have any more bombs planted!

Then...

The bridge has fallen!

The bridge?