Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

Thank you so much for towing our car.

The mechanic will have an easier time finding your car

Saeki Ryohei (24) Goto Research Lab Assistant

at the station up ahead than in the middle of the mountains.

We were planning on stopping there to pick up groceries anyway.

Are you guys going camping?

Komada Takahiro (22) Goto Research Lab Assistant

Our college lab always goes camping together.

Goto Shoji (50) College Professor

Our professor enjoys this kind of thing.

Really?

Komada-kun, you should get a smartphone already.

Inoue Haruka (23) Goto Research Lab Assistant

I will once this one breaks.

It takes too long to exchange data with you.

Try putting yourself in our shoes.

S-Sorry.

Oh, right.

This time we're also celebrating the publication of our professor's paper.

Really? That's amazing.

The world must be ending if that perverted drunkard is being recognized.

H-Haruka-san, he'll hear you.

He won't wake up. He always gets like this when he's drunk.

Besides, it's not like you guys like the professor either.

Hey, what are you talking about?

Maybe you all actually think,

"If only the professor would disappear from this world."

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

Inscribing love and cases with deductive reasoning!

The conversation inside the car is rather ominous!

I hope nothing happens!

Always determining the one truth

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

his name is Detective Conan!

The Murderous Carpool

"The Murderous Carpool!"

Thank you so much.

Excuse me. These are for you.

Oh, you didn't need to.

I wanted to thank you for your help.

Where's your friend?

Saeki-kun? He's over there.

Looks like we're leaving soon.

We should go.

Hey, wait.

Mori-san, are you all right?

Yes, thanks to you.

That's good.

Senpai, I'm putting some bags in the car.

Oh, thanks.

I was just thinking about bringing the car around—

Professor?

Professor, are you all right?!

Damn! His phone's stuck!

Wh-What should we do?

What happened?

His phone was stuck.

The strap was caught on his neck.

He's dead.

Did something happen?

Ran, call the police.

G-Got it.

Everyone else, please get out of the car.

Don't touch anything at the crime scene.

It's wet...

Metropolitan Police Department

So after you returned from shopping at this store you always stop at,

Goto-san, who had been sleeping inside the car, slid down in his seat,

causing his phone strap to strangle him, resulting in his death?

Yes, that's right.

Komada-san, you were the last person to get out of the car.

Yes.

While getting out of the car, I thought the air inside was a little cold,

so I draped a blanket over the professor.

Did you notice anything then?

Anything out of the ordinary?

Come to think of it, I didn't recognize the air cushion the professor was using.

He said he'd hurt his back recently, so maybe he bought it for today.

Inoue-san, you returned to the car before entering the store.

That's right. I forgot my phone, so I went to go get it.

But the professor was asleep.

He was snoring loudly.

Not that I went inside and got a good look at him.

Isn't that right, miss?

Yes.

What?

You were with her?

Yeah. I dropped my wallet inside the van,

so I followed Inoue-san.

My wallet was on the seat, so I left immediately,

but I did hear some loud snoring.

In other words, he fell from his seat after that.

Finally, Saeki-san, you went to the convenience store next door

to buy cigarettes after you finished shopping?

Yeah, I'd just run out.

I returned to the car after having a smoke over there.

We saw him smoking cigarettes. Right, Ran-neechan?

Yeah. From right around here, when we gave them our gift.

Come to think of it, did Goto-san always drink that much?

Every time he'd be plastered by the time we arrived.

He said he couldn't sleep unless he drank.

The professor took sleeping pills,

but he was a shallow sleeper.

Alcohol and sleeping pills, huh?

So that's why there aren't any signs of a struggle even though he was strangled.

Anyway, it seems strange to me that Goto-san's phone was found

open between the seat and headrest when the body was discovered.

Goto-san was probably making a call.

A call?

It's possible the drunk Goto-san tried to place a call,

but his hand slipped, and his phone ended up in that gap.

Maybe it was that.

Do you know something about that?

I got a call from the professor while I was shopping.

I thought he wanted me to get something,

Incoming Call Goto Shoji

but he didn't answer, so I hung up.

11/17 Goto Shoji

I knew it!

Takagi-kun, investigate Goto-san's call history immediately.

Yes, sir.

He got what was coming to him.

Haruka, behave.

Oh, Saeki-kun, but aren't you relieved?

Now that the professor who refused to give you credits is gone,

you'll get that job you were promised.

That has nothing to do with this!

And, Komada-kun, the professor was awfully verbally abusive towards you.

How did you really feel about him?

N-No way in particular...

Well, you complained that you wouldn't forgive the professor for sexually harassing you!

That's right. That's why I feel relieved.

You must feel the same way.

Don't you remember what he said last time he was drunk?

Listen up.

You idiots should shut up and listen to me.

I can change your futures with a single word.

Th-That was...

Honestly, I couldn't take it anymore.

In the first place, he...

It sounds like all three of them felt quite resentful towards the professor.

We'll need to investigate carefully.

Inspector.

Ah, Takagi-kun. How did it go?

We found a call placed to Saeki-san in Goto-san's phone history.

We're certain it was during the time he was shopping.

I see.

Mori-kun, did anyone approach the car while you were here?

No. I was next to the car the whole time since I was waiting

for the roadside assistance, but I didn't see anyone.

If Goto-san died after placing the call,

and no one approached the car after that...

Then it must've been an accident.

Hey, don't you think it's strange?

C-C-Conan-kun, you shouldn't be in there!

Oh, sorry.

I dropped something inside the car.

Sheesh. You're always barging into crime scenes.

Uh, so, what's strange?

The air cushion Goto-san was using.

Huh?

What's so strange about this?

They said he may have bought it because he hurt his back.

Yeah, but there's a hole in it even though it's brand new.

I was wondering about that, too.

I thought it had a hole because it was old.

And when I first looked at it,

the surface of the cushion was slightly damp.

There weren't any other wet spots on the seat.

Isn't that strange?

There's nothing strange about it.

It was damp because Goto-san spilled liquor on it.

And the cushion was defective, so a hole opened while he was asleep.

It made him lose his balance and fall from his seat.

Well?! You got a problem with that?!

Now, now, Mori-kun.

This was definitely an accident.

An accident!