Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

Detective Conan Episode 808 "The Kamaitachi Inn (Part 1)"

I'm asking about a case.

Mori Detective Agency

Haven't you got any bloodcurdling-ly interesting cases?

Oh, well...

There is something, but I haven't found any information yet.

And I can't get Hattori caught up in investigating Rum of the Black Organization.

Hey!

Are you listening, Kudo?

Yeah.

Are you sure you haven't lost your edge

since confessing your feelings to the detective agency girl?

You know, your instincts for sniffing out cases.

Or your antenna, you could call it.

Do you have anything, then?

If I did, I wouldn't be calling you!

No, you must have something.

What?

And you're bringing it to me.

Why?

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I could ask you the same thing!

What do you think you're doing to my Kazuha?!

With the same feelings we've always held still in our hearts,

we fly powerfully into our twentieth year.

Right in front of mine and Hattori's eyes, stabbings happen one after another.

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

his name is Detective Conan!

The Kamaitachi Inn

"The Kamaitachi Inn, Part One!"

You're right.

You can really taste the ginger in this kuzuyu.

It warms you up.

Doesn't it?

It said in an article that this inn's kuzuyu is really good.

What do you want, anyway?

The kuzuyu.

It's suppose to be good for hangovers, too.

I meant surely you didn't invite the great detective Mori Kogoro

to an inn deep in the mountains of Nagano just to eat this slimy stuff!

Well, no.

You've got a case, right?

Yeah.

First, look at this photo.

What is this?

A person. No, an animal?

It's kind of creepy.

Look closely at what it's got on its back.

A sickle. And speaking of animals that have sickles,

there's a demon that rides in on whirlwinds and cuts people clean in half.

The kamaitachi.

Ka...

Kamaitachi?

But I thought kamaitachi have sickles for fingers.

Isn't this a person carrying a sickle?

Look at his feet.

The water's spraying.

The background is the outdoor bath here at this inn,

but this is a photo taken from the same angle by the writer who published the photo.

Compare them.

He's clearly walking on the surface of the water.

H-He's right.

Maybe he lined up a couple transparent platforms in the bath.

The water here is clouded like the Shirahone Hot Spring,

which makes all kinds of tricks possible.

He didn't do anything to the bath.

And the photo was taken with analog film, which is difficult to edit.

I even had an expert look at it, so it's definitely the real thing.

Are you the writer who took this photo?

Nakama Daigo (35) Writer

Yeah. I'm Nakama Daigo, a writer for IZUNA magazine.

I'm here today to take a picture of the kamaitachi myself.

I see.

It's gotten really cold lately.

What does the cold have to do with kamaitachi?

The kamaitachi legend is popular in snowy regions.

So if it snows tonight, he might come riding in on the snow and wind.

I'm leaving!

What?!

It'll be fine.

Even if he does appear, we can beat him up with my aikido and your karate.

W-We're talking about a creature armed with a sickle that flies around!

He'd get us first!

It's all right.

The kamaitachi never existed in the first place.

You're here because you received so many complaints about your phony photo, right?

Koyanagi Midori (26) Writer

Besides, that photo was mixed in with a bunch of voyeuristic photos

of the outdoor bath printed in another one of your publisher's magazines.

It's so dubious, I could laugh.

Then why are you here?

I write for a rival magazine, so I came to write an article on your hack writing.

Naturally, I won't let you stage anything, either,

to make this non-existent kamaitachi seem like it exists.

He does exist.

Ono Kohei (7) Landlady's Son

I saw the kamaitachi running across the hot spring.

Is that true?

Yeah. I tried to chase him, but I can't walk on water.

In fact, I almost drowned because I couldn't move,

like a spell was cast on me or something.

When I woke up, I was lying down in the hallway, soaking wet.

Really?

Oh, Kohei.

What are you doing?

Mom.

Did you already finish decorating the room?

Ono Takami (34) Inn Landlady

We're celebrating your birthday tomorrow with your friends.

Yeah. I'm about to do it.

Then go and do it.

Okay.

Jeez, your hands are badly chapped.

Are you okay, Takami?

Yeah. I've been working more since my husband passed away last year.

Are you two...?

Do you know each other?

Yeah, we were classmates in middle school.

Sorry for publishing that weird photo in the magazine.

I hope it hasn't caused you trouble.

No. Thanks to the photo, we've been getting more guests.

Though because of the kamaitachi, fewer people have been using the outdoor bath.

Ono Bonzo (72) Ladylady's Father-in-law

Kamaitachi, my ass.

This couldn't be worse.

Sir.

Hmph. That monster will only bring in more customers for a while.

It's not a fundamental solution to our money problems.

That's the only way to bring in more customers.

Right, landlady?

I already told you I'm not doing it.

Well, once the fuss dies down and you can't keep the business open anymore,

you'll change your mind.

Though it'd be a different story if that kamaitachi actually killed someone.

N-Nyotaimori?

He wants you to get naked so customers can eat sashimi off your body?

Yes. He said it'd double the number of guests.

I've only ever seen that in dirty historical dramas.

If it got out, you'd be charged with public indecency.

I'm sure he's only joking.

When we got married, my family and theirs merged our inns, and business was good.

But since my husband died, a lot of regulars stopped coming,

and it's true that we're in the red.

But, Takami, you can't do a nyotaimori.

Why don't you sell something, then?

Like antique pots or something.

Come to think of it,

there is a large sickle in the storehouse that a famous swordsmith

modeled after a foreign grass sickle.

Wouldn't that be worth good money?

About how big is that sickle?

The blade is 60 centimeters long.

The handle is as long as I am tall.

C-Could it be?

The sickle the kamaitachi was carrying in the photo?

Where's the storehouse?

Next to the outdoor bath.

Show us there.

Okay.

Well? Pretty interesting, right?

Yeah.

Then give me the audio file.

No, not yet.

Let's go, Conan-kun.

Heiji, we'll leave you behind.

Oh, okay!

Got it.

It should be around here somewhere.

But it's not here.

This storehouse is covered in dust.

You'll start a fire if you smoke in here.

Don't worry.

Why don't we split up and help you look?

O-Okay...

Oh, fine.

Ow!

Sheesh.

Huh?

It's snowing!

Wow, you're right.

But snow means...

The kamaitachi is coming, right?

Didn't you say you were going to wait outside?

Isn't this it, Takami?

Yes, that's it. This is the sickle.

It certainly is antique.

Looks valuable.

My late husband said it was worth 10 million yen.

Huh? What?!

The light bulb broke.

Ow!

What?

Dad?

Heiji?

I don't know what happened, but something cut my arm.

And the back of my hand.

You're right.

You're both bleeding.

That was the lady writer's voice.