Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

As I was warning FBI investigator Jodie

that Organization member Amuro Toru, codename Bourbon,

was investigating Kusuda Rikumichi,

we were informed her friend Shibuya Natsuko-san was pushed down some stairs.

We hurried to the crime scene,

and found she was attacked not at the stairs,

but at the elementary school where she worked.

Three suspects were called in for questioning.

And then...

She asked me to investigate her stalker.

Bourbon?!

Are you two English teachers or something?

Actually, they're FBI agents.

They're helping us with the investigation.

Really?

FBI, huh?

The USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation.

I see you guys in movies and TV shows all the time.

Their investigators show up at crime scenes to steal all the credit,

smugly interfere with the investigation, offend the local police, and irritate the viewer.

What?!

I'm not talking about you.

That's just the story I happened to see.

This kid...

These guys tried to...

Camel.

Calm down.

We don't want him to know the FBI knows he's a member of the Organization.

Yeah...

Propelled forward by the years spent together.

Charging full speed ahead without slowing the pace.

Amuro says something strange, but the mystery of the answer sheets comes first!

Always determining the one truth with the body of a child and the mind of an adult,

his name is Detective Conan!

The Scarlet Pursuit

The Scarlet Pursuit!

Like I said...

I really was organizing the gym's storage until after 8:30 last night.

Sugamoto Yoshiharu (30) Elementary School Teacher

It was late, so I came to the staff office to walk Shibuya-sensei home, but she wasn't here.

Had you agreed earlier to take her home?

Uh, no.

I just thought she'd feel safer going home at night with a man around.

You once confessed your feelings for Shibuya-sensei, and she rejected you.

Sh-She told you?!

No, I heard from the other teachers

when I came here to investigate Shibuya-sensei's stalker.

You were my prime suspect.

Are you Natsuko's stalker?

No, it's not me!

I protected her from bad guys!

Protected her?

Yes.

I sort of escorted her home every day.

Rather, I made sure she didn't notice me and watched over her.

It was so cute when she'd sense me and look around.

I knew I had to protect her.

That's what you call a stalker!

Could she have pointed this out and made you angry?

N-No! She really wasn't here after 8:30!

Besides, didn't she have graded answer sheets inside her bag?

As a fellow teacher, I know she's not supposed to take those home!

Answer sheets?

Ueno Akiyo (39) Child's Guardian

Oh, yes. When I met her last night, she was grading them.

Perhaps she was only half-listening to my warning.

I see.

You mentioned you met with Shibuya-sensei to ask her not to seduce your son.

What grade is he in?

He's probably a first grader like Conan-kun.

Natsuko mentioned she'd become the homeroom teacher for class 1-C.

A first grader falling in love with his teacher?

Sounds cute.

Are you out of your mind?

O-Out of my mind?

I warned her to be more modest precisely because he's still an impressionable child!

Also, my child is in the fifth grade, not the first!

What?

He had a crush on a different class's homeroom teacher?

Shibuya-sensei is fluent in English because she studied in the United States.

She teaches English to the upper grade levels, as well.

I see.

It's just like my ex-husband.

He spent his money on a half-girl he met at a bar.

After taking all his money, she abandoned him.

I don't want my son to follow in his footsteps.

But everyone around me is trying to corrupt him...

C-Corrupt him?

I'm sorry, but could I borrow a handkerchief?

I forgot mine in the taxi on the way here.

Y-You're welcome to use mine.

Thank you.

The taxi?

You don't own a car?

I had to sell it to pay off my husband's debts.

I still renew my license, though.

Y-Your car was stolen?!

Yeah.

When I tried to go to work this morning,

Kandachi Fujiyuki (41) Child's Guardian

my garage door was broken, and my car was gone.

Did you report it?

Yeah, immediately.

I had to take the train to work and a bus here.

Now I'm suspected of murder, too.

It's a huge nuisance.

Natsuko is still alive.

What?

H-Hey, you can't smoke in here!

I see.

You said you came here before nine last night.

Yeah.

Like I said, the school was dark and the gate was locked.

It was probably after that stalker or old woman got her and took her away.

It's possible you took her away

after Ueno-san left and before Sugamoto-san arrived.

I guess so.

Anyway, I came at the appointed time, but she wasn't here.

So your appointment with Shibuya-sensei was around nine?

Yeah.

But there was an unsent message on Shibuya-sensei's phone reading,

"We're meeting at 8:30. Can you still come?"

Wasn't this meant for you?

I don't know.

If you're asking, then there must not have been an addressee.

Maybe it was meant for the old lady, and she arrived while she was writing it.

Even if it were for me,

the equations filling her head with numbers must have confused her.

It sounds like she was grading tests.

So these are the answer sheets in question.

Yes.

Forensics has them right now, so all we have are photos.

They may be simple problems, but all these numbers could confuse a person.

Right?

But what Natsuko said was true.

What?

Look.

That drawing on the top right.

In America, they write "excellent" on tests that score 100.

But in Japan, they draw flower circles.

I see...

Is that all?

What?

Is that all, FBI?

What do you mean?

What about you, German?

I'm asking if that's all you can deduce from this photo.

Well, in Japan they draw flower circles for correct answers.

The answer sheet on top must be graded correctly.

It looks like we're the only ones who noticed.

We?

Isn't that right,

Edogawa Conan-kun?

Huh? What do you mean?

After you saw the photo, you started staring right at the culprit.

What? Then...

You know who did it?

Yes, more or less.

But it's finally clear now.

I always wondered why she hired a detective to investigate her stalker

when her friend works for the FBI.

What do you mean?

Are you calling me unreliable?

M-Maybe she couldn't ask.

We're here on vacation.

On vacation, huh?

If you don't have visas, you must not have many days left.

If you're finished enjoying the sights, I wish you'd get out...

...of my Japan.

Hey, Zero.

I mean, Amuro-no-niichan... Come here.

Listen, you're an enemy, right?

Of the bad guys...

Zero.

My childhood nickname really was Zero.

You seem to have the wrong idea about me.

Th-The wrong idea?

Now let's solve this mystery.

First, look closely at the photo of the answer sheets.

Notice anything?

The wrong idea?