Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

Detective Conan Episode 977

Invest in Goldfish For a Happy Life!

Damn you! You tricked us!

Kitamura Mitsuru (58) Hardware Store Manager

What you did was swindle us!

Give us back our money!

Bando Atsuko (42) Housewife

Swindle? Don't make such disreputable accusations.

Tsuchida Yoshihiro (48) Investment Company President

You entrusted our company with your precious money after signing a contract with us.

You're lying! You never intended to return our money!

Invest in goldfish, huh?

I'll kill you! I swear I'll kill you!

Step back. Step back, please.

Nagase Ayako (28) Office Worker

Please calm down, Kitamura-san.

I'm sorry, everyone, but please leave for the day.

Kajiura Yuto (35) Tsuchida's Secretary

We'll get in touch with you at a later date.

Nozomi. I'm almost finished with work. Wait outside.

Makimura Nozomi (24) Kajiura's Girlfriend

Okay.

As you saw, those people come every day.

Lately I've been fearing for my personal safety.

I see. That's why you hired me to be your bodyguard.

President Tsuchida, do your actions not violate the law?

The law?

It's their fault for being greedy and handing over their money.

What do you think? I'll pay you generously.

Let's go, kid!

Mori-san!

You've misjudged me!

Mori Kogoro isn't rotten enough to sell his soul to the devil!

The rhythm on my lips is footloose!

The rhythm of my detective skills is perfect!

A crooked company president is practically a conman!

Incurring someone's hatred leads to a case!

Always determining the one truth

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

his name is Detective Conan!

The Broken Fishbowl

"The Broken Fishbowl"

Mister, that was cool of you.

"I'm not rotten enough to sell my soul to the devil!"

I'm always cool.

Anyway, the bus sure is late.

The job sucked, and the bus isn't coming.

It's one misfortune after another.

Give me a break.

What was that?!

What's wrong?

Th-That...

It's no use. He's dead.

They used a statue wrapped in a towel.

Yeah.

They prevented the victim's blood from getting on them.

This towel...

Hey.

Over there, too.

It's no use.

I don't believe it. Two of them...

Yuto-san!

No... Yuto-san...

Stay back.

No! Yuto-san! Yuto-san!

You mustn't!

Hello? Yes.

Goldfish?

Yes, goldfish.

The victim President Tsuchida lied about importing rare goldfish from abroad,

and gathered a large sum of money.

In other words, he was running an investment scam.

Yes. The investors were furious.

I believe the culprit may be one of his clients.

Got it, Mori-kun.

We'll follow that lead.

Yes, sir.

Hey, kid! Don't come in here.

Sorry.

Jeez.

Oh, Inspector.

This is his office worker Nagase Ayako-san.

You were the first one to discovered the bodies.

Yes.

When I returned after buying the items the president requested,

President Tsuchida was...

Then there's Makimura Nozomi-san.

She was the girlfriend of the other victim Kajiura-san.

At the time of the murders, where were you?

Waiting outside for Yuto-san.

That's when I heard a scream.

Whoa!

Miss, use this.

Thank you.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Why don't you rest in the other room?

It's all right. I'd like to help with the investigation.

But even if the president Tsuchida-san had incurred the hatred of his clients,

why kill Kajiura-san, too?

Let go!

I have nothing to do with this!

What's going on, Takagi-kun?

They were in the building, so I had them come as potential witnesses.

This is Kitamura Mitsuru-san, the proprietor of Kitamura Hardware,

and housewife Bando Atsuko-san.

You!

Damn you! You tricked us!

What you did was swindle us!

Give us back our money!

Yes.

I heard they were related to President Tsuchida's goldfish investment.

And 30 minutes earlier when the murders occurred,

Kitamura-san was at a bicycle parking lot near this building.

Yeah, I parked my scooter there.

When I tried to leave, I found that my tire was flat.

I called a bike shop and was waiting for them.

Can anyone verify that?

No!

Bando-san, how about you?

Me?

I...

In other words, neither of you have alibis,

but you have clear motives.

Motive? In that case, let me be clear!

Tsuchida took the entirety of my store's working capital!

That trash deserved to be killed!

I had all my son's tuition money taken from me!

It's only natural that he was killed!

But I swear I didn't do it!

Me neither! I have nothing to do with this!

In the first place, did anyone see me at the crime scene?

Well?

See? I've got nothing to do with this!

But I was waiting for Yuto-san at the convenience store parking lot

across from this building.

I think I saw someone through the window while I was there.

You saw someone through the window?

Yes, someone heading towards the president's office.

The president's office! That's where President Tsuchida was murdered.

Was it a man or a woman?

It was too far to see that much.

Besides, it may have just been my mistake.

That's it!

What is it, Mori-kun?

Inspector, I've got it.

I know how the culprit entered the office

and why they had to kill Kajiura-san after killing President Tsuchida.

First the culprit entered through the front entrance.

They crossed the window facing the convenience store

and headed towards the president's office.

We know that from Nozomi-san's testimony.

When the culprit entered the president's office at the end of the hallway,

they bludgeoned the detestable President Tsuchida with all their rage.

They tried to flee immediately.

But that's when another tragedy occurred.

Yes, they were discovered by Kajiura-san,

who entered from the main office.

The culprit rushed at Kajiura-san

and used their knife to kill the fleeing Kajiura-san in this office.

Huh?

I see. Which means Kajiura-san was...

Killed because he happened to see the culprit.