Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

Lately...

Ran's been acting strange.

She's oddly excited.

Curious, the old man and I decided to follow Ran on her outing.

Ran met Sonoko and Sera at a café,

where they began discussing some kind of trip.

Furthermore...

I wonder if we'll get to see Okita-kun.

Okita?!

You mean that guy who's just like Kudo-kun?

Yeah.

Come to think of it,

he said he lives in Kyoto's Kamigyo Ward.

Which means...

Is Ran...

...going to Kyoto to see Okita?!

There's no way.

It's incidental.

She's just incidentally meeting Okita on her trip to Kyoto.

Maybe we'll incidentally run into Shinichi-kun, too.

Yeah.

I-Incidental?

Seeing me is incidental?!

While this was happening, we heard a scream from the back of the café,

Saraie Daiki (33) Waiter

where the body of waiter Saraie Daiki-san was discovered.

That locker with the broken padlock...

Was that the victim's?

Yes, that's Saraie-kun's locker.

Which means the culprit may have been after its contents.

It's been badly ransacked.

Do you have any idea what was stolen?

I'm not sure. Only its owner would know for sure.

Why is this the only locker with a padlock?

He's been using it since he started working here.

I did think he was overly cautious.

The culprit really smashed the padlock.

How were they able to break it like this?

Time is the y-axis, and I'm the x-axis!

Inscribing love and cases with deductive reasoning!

More than the padlocked locker,

the girl's trip to Kyoto has captured my interest!

Always determining the one truth

with the body of a child and the mind of an adult,

his name is Detective Conan!

The High School Girl Trio's Secret Café

"The High School Girl Trio's Secret Café, Part Two!"

I see pliers, a hammer, screwdrivers, and a spanner.

None of those could break a padlock like that.

You're right.

The only other thing in here are these screws and nails.

Sorry.

Naomura Isuzu (27) Waiter

I remember now!

Huh?

Something Saraie-san kept carefully locked in his locker.

It was his tablet.

He often typed on it while smoking.

Maybe that's what was stolen.

What was he typing?

I asked, but he never told me.

It was his blog.

Motosu Toshinori (38) Customer

His blog.

That man wrote a food blog under the handle "the Stuffed Professor."

He made lots of posts disparaging rival restaurants.

I've seen that blog.

It's pretty popular for its funny writing, right?

That's right.

That's why it's so difficult to handle.

My restaurant is hard up because of that blog.

I see.

That's why you stopped Sonoko-kun

from telling him the address of Poirot and its delicious sandwiches.

Yeah.

Why do you and the manager have different family names when you're siblings?

Is it because the manager is married?

No, I'm getting married next month.

Hasunuma Tamao (40) Manager

My brother's father-in-law was apparently a stubborn man.

He said he wouldn't let him marry his only daughter

unless he took his name and took over the restaurant.

He had no choice.

Come to think of it,

Isuzu-chan, since your family started its own branch of the restaurant,

have they not been victimized by that man's blog?

Yes. They're barely keeping the place open.

But the restaurant is as deserted as ever.

They're apparently drowning in debt.

So you say.

Are you sure that business isn't going under because of his blog,

so you killed him?

Then I would've complained to him like Motosu-san instead!

I-I was the restaurant's poster girl.

I had no idea Saraie-kun was running that kind of blog.

Even though you lived with him for a year.

H-Hey, that's irrelevant right now.

You lived together?

You were living with the victim?

Well, yeah. It was five years ago.

Then it's possible

he was threatening to show embarrassing photos of you from when you two dated...

to your fiancé unless you paid him.

What?!

If he was causing mischief with his blog, then it's all the more likely.

He didn't have any money problems.

He was going to become the new manager after I got married and quit my job.

He mentioned that to me, too.

He said since he'd be the next manager,

I wouldn't have to worry about money if I became his girlfriend.

Which means the culprit is the former chef.

How did I carry this vase back here?

I returned my keys when I quit.

Which means you had a key once.

You had the opportunity to make a copy.

I-I told you, I dislocated my wrist.

You can fake that easily by wrapping yourself in bandages,

and make it seem like it was dislocated all along.

Then ask the hospital!

They should have X-rays!

I see. So that's how it is.

But any of them

could've pulled off this trick.

Who did it?

Hey, Ran.

Don't you think he's acting different?

Who is?

Over there. Him.

The brat with the glasses.

Normally he interrupts with stuff like "huh?"

Or "that's weird" when there's a case.

Yeah, but...

Conan-kun seems to be thinking about the case.

I've seen him scowling.

What's going on? You can't figure it out?

No...

I don't have a clue.

I figured out the trick.

Unfortunately, I don't know who the culprit is yet.

The culprit?

Oh, I figured that out when we entered the changing room.

And the trick they used, too.

What?!

Then when you say you don't have a clue...

It's your trip.

She said it's an unusual trip I'd experience when I'm older.

What kind of trip is that?

What? You're worried about that?

An outsider?

You're saying this murder was committed by an outsider, Inspector?

I'm saying it's possible.

B-But all three of them

had motive to murder Saraie-san.

Yeah.

The former chef Motosu Toshinori-san

had his own restaurant harshly criticized on the victim's blog.

The waitress Naomura Isuzu-san was being harassed by the victim.

The manager Hasunuma Tamao-san is getting married next month,

and it's possible her ex-boyfriend, the victim, was threatening her.

But when the nearly 30 kilo vase that is the murder weapon is filled with water,

I doubt any of them could lift it.

And there aren't any tools here

that could be used to break the padlock on the victim's locker.

But, Inspector,

no one else could have brought the vase back here.

This window was open when Saraie-san's body was discovered.

It's possible he opened it to smoke,

but the manager said

she may have forgotten to confirm that it was locked.

If it was left open,

then someone could have entered through the window at night and carried the vase here.

They could've seen Saraie-san smoking with the window open from outside,

entered through the service entrance,

and clubbed him to death using the vase.

An incredibly strong someone who could swing a water-filled vase

weighing over 40 kilos and smash the padlock.

That's a decoy.

What?

I doubt the culprit was particularly strong at all.

Right, Conan-kun?