Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

The Detective Boys, accompanied by Wakasa-sensei,

arrived at a newly opened campground,

There we met Furuoka Midori-san, Ashizawa Sumito-san,

Urushibara Fumiaki-san, and Danno Kuninori-san of the Shiraami University basketball team.

That night, while eating curry for dinner with the members of the basketball team...

Do you smell something burning?

Huh?

You're right.

Hey, look.

The tent's on fire!

Isn't that Urushibara's tent?

No way...

Seriously?

Water! Everyone get water!

Hurry!

After finally putting out the fire,

we visited the neighboring tent to ask

about the circumstances under which the fire started, when...

M-Managing Officer Kuroda?!

Sorry.

I was sleeping with earplugs in.

But I can tell at a glance what's happening.

Let's call the police immediately.

Any objections?

Wakasa Rumi-sensei?

Sensei?

Sensei?

Wakasa-sensei!

This woman...

Her right eye's blind.

Also, if you look closely at the hardened candles,

there's one with a hole near the tip,

and for some reason there's a V shaped burn

on the cover of the magazine next to the laptop.

Maybe someone set some kind of mechanism.

I see.

You're right.

Which means that person is one of you three

who visited his tent one at a time.

Oh, my.

Earlier you said you were sleeping inside your tent with earplugs in.

Actually, while nodding off,

I was watching through a gap in my tent flap

as you cheerfully ate your curry.

Since my tent was right next to the tent that burned,

I remembered the faces and order of the people who came this way.

But since I had earplugs in,

I don't know what the three of them discussed with the victim.

Surely you didn't ignore the tent engulfed in flames

so you could observe the person you're so interested in,

right?

No.

I made the mistake of falling asleep.

So why don't we ask you one by one again?

What did you discuss with the victim then?

When the countdown reaches zero, use your detective skills to produce an answer!

Both Kuroda and Wakasa are suspicious!

In any case, let's get to the bottom of the fire!

Always determining the one truth

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

his name is Detective Conan!

Mystery of the Burning Tent

"Mystery of the Burning Tent, Part Two!"

By the time I visited Urushibara-kun's tent, he was already hammered.

Furuoka Midori (22) Basketball Team Manager

No matter what I said, he just shouted, "Shut up, go away!" at me.

We didn't have a proper conversation.

Were the lights inside the tent off then?

Yes.

It was still light out,

and he said he was going to read comics before going to sleep.

But why'd he have so many candles inside his tent?

No matter how you look at it, that's way too many.

It was his job to bring matches and candles.

I see.

In that case...

Was it also Urushibara-san's job to bring all those comic books?

Oh, those are mine.

Urushibara-kun said he wanted to read them while camping.

But if I'd known this would happen,

I would've dragged him out of his tent.

I should've made him eat curry with us instead of reading comics.

When I visited the tent,

he didn't respond no matter how many times I called out to him.

Ashizawa Sumito (22) Basketball Team Member

At first I thought he was ignoring me,

but after hearing Furuoka-san's story,

I thought he must've gotten drunk and fallen asleep.

He never wakes up once he passes out from drinking.

It's so bad, people would draw things on his face during training camps.

Were the lights on inside the tent then?

I don't think so.

Oh, but after I left his tent,

the lights suddenly came on.

He was doing squats inside his tent.

Squats?

Yeah.

He said he always did squats before going to bed.

We saw that, too!

He had his hands behind his head, like this.

He was repeatedly doing bending exercises.

We saw his shadow on the tent wall.

I see.

If that's true,

then that would mean the victim was still awake then.

Yeah.

Which means the last person to visit the victim's tent...

Hold on!

Danno Kuninori (22) Basketball Team Manager

I didn't set Urushibara's tent on fire!

When I went to his tent to lure him out with the smell of curry,

he didn't say anything, just like when Ashizawa visited.

I tried to talk to him, but he just silently did his squats.

I thought he was doing them while using headphones to listen to music or something.

Now that I think about it, maybe he did hear me.

It was like he was telling me to go away.

His squatting movements got more and more intense.

His movements got more and more intense?

Why did the victim Urushibara-san stay in his tent

instead of eating curry with everyone else?

We got into an argument.

He and I had a complicated relationship.

Complicated how?

Well, during basketball practice, his elbow...

Hey.

Danno-san claimed he used to be the ace of the basketball team.

Is that true?

Yeah, he was.

He received a lot of attention from professional teams

for being able to dunk at his height.

Really?

But...

If not for the injury he suffered to his right eye at Urushibara's hands,

he may have ended up playing for a foreign team.

But ironically, thanks to that injury,

I was promoted from sub to starter.

Now I'm the ace.

And since Danno quit playing,

he started spending more time with our manager Furuoka-san,

and now they're dating.

Y-Yeah.

Danno was always surrounded by groupies,

but the moment he became a manager, every last one of them left.

Inspector Yuminaga!

What is it?

Did you figure something out?

It's about the tape on the victim's fingers you asked about.

What?

The surface was burned,

but most of the adhesive side survived, so we removed it.

We didn't find any trick or mechanism.

I see.

Hey, Inspector Yuminaga.

Could I see that photo?

Yeah, sure.

Thanks.

I knew it.

That person...

Hey, kid.

Did you notice something again?

Oh, but...

I could be confused.

Confused, huh?

Guys!

They've completely forgotten about the case.

I did it!

Sheesh.

What are you guys doing?

Hey, Conan.

Wakasa-sensei just showed us.

So we've been making it together.

Look.

A balancing acorn.

That's it. This is it!

This is what the culprit used

to deceive our eyes

and naturally set fire to the tent.

Give us a break, Detective.

We're not the ones who set fire to Urushibara's tent.

We did visit his tent one at a time before it caught fire,

but he didn't answer any of us.

We know Urushibara was inside since we saw his shadow doing squats on the tent wall,

but we couldn't have set the tent on fire from the inside unless we'd gone inside.

And the zipper on the tent entrance

was zipped all the way down and locked, right?

Doesn't that make the tent a locked room?

Urushibara-kun was pretty drunk.

Maybe he got drunk while doing squats

and kicked the lantern over?