Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

Happy New Year.

Word on the street is the sandwiches

that waiter at Poirot makes are pretty good.

So this year, I'll present my meat and potatoes to the world,

sell a boatload, and make fistfuls of money.

Boatloads and fistfuls, boatloads and fistfuls, boatloads—

Once again...

...we appreciate your continued support in 2018!

Feel that bright morning sunlight!

Saturday is when the love and cases start!

It's been a while! Happy New Year!

I'll be keeping you in check again this year!

Always determining the one truth

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

his name is Detective Conan!

Kaito Kid and the Trick Box

"Kaito Kid and the Trick Box, Part One!"

Aha.

So this is "Mokujin,"

the trick box made by mid-19th Century tinkerer Samizu Kichiemon.

I'm delighted you're giving me this,

in addition to all those valuable books.

I'm not giving you the box.

I want you to open it.

Tomoyose Kimika (70) Widow

My husband, who passed away last month,

left something important to me inside that box.

I see.

Apparently my husband stuck the instructions

to open the box inside a book.

I'd like you to find that paper within the books I've given to you.

I see.

So, what's inside the box?

The world's largest moonstone, "Luna Memoria."

Yes...

It's exactly the kind of thing that moonlit magician-thief goes after.

A big jewel.

"To Kaito Kid,"

"Tonight the world's largest moonstone, Luna Memoria,

will be on display at the Suzuki Library."

"The jewel is inside a trick box made by Samizu Kichiemon."

"If you want to see it, you'll either have to open the box yourself,

or find the written instructions in the library."

To Kaito Kid!

"General Adviser to the Suzuki Conglomerate, Suzuki Jirokichi."

Jeez.

That old man is up to his old tricks again.

If you're going, you'd better hurry up.

You've been invited, too, right?

After all, you're the Kid Killer.

Yeah. I just got a message from Ran.

Wait, what do you mean by "too?"

I've been invited by the general adviser as well.

Since I'm a professional tinkerer,

he's asked me to open the box before Kid arrives.

I doubt you'd be able to open a Samizu Kichiemon trick box.

Huh? A-Ai-kun?

Samizu Kichiemon, huh?

Sounds interesting.

Subaru-san?

I was told last time that the vegetables weren't cooked enough.

So I came to share some of this thoroughly stewed meat and potatoes I made.

What?

You want to go, too?

No. I'll leave this here and go.

I'm not interested in thieves.

Though I do have some interest

in those who take lives rather than things.

He's always wearing those turtlenecks.

What's his deal?

Yikes.

Maybe he gets cold easily.

Turtlenecks are just about the only thing that cover his choker-shaped voice changer.

Kudo

Professor, what are you doing?

Sorry, sorry.

I couldn't find my license.

Suzuki Library

Ran!

You're late.

The kids are already here.

Sorry, sorry.

Dad caught a cold.

We had to stop at the hospital.

Is he okay?

I told him he didn't have to come.

It's just a head cold.

How could I not come after

he offered me front row tickets to an Okino Yoko concert?

Will you even be helpful in your condition?

He always comes through at the critical moment.

Yeah, right. I actually made it easier for Kid to sneak in...

How do front row tickets sound?

I'll be there!

By inviting more people for him to disguise himself as.

Ah.

Detective Mori, thank you for coming.

Come in and examine

the trick box for yourself.

Don't worry.

Inspector Nakamori and I have agreed that

he won't pinch any faces, and that the police

will wait outside.

What?

The inspector's not going inside?

Then there's no point in disguising myself as him.

In that case...

My mother said to pick...

The very best one and you are it.

I see.

So this is the trick box.

It's supposed to open when you push or pull a certain part.

It looks like an ordinary box to me.

I'll force it open!

Don't!

Ow!

Punished

I wouldn't expect any less from Samizu Kichiemon.

It's like a mini Iron Tanuki.

What is that thing?

It shoots out needles if you're careless with it.

I got these when I touched it earlier.

Then why don't we put it in a vice and cut it open?

It's just made of wood.

You mustn't.

That was made by the famous tinkerer Samizu Kichiemon.

The box itself is worth as much as the moonstone inside it.

But I thought moonstones weren't that valuable.

I see them going for about ten thousand yen online all the time.

What are you talking about?

My husband went all the way

to the source in Sri Lanka to buy the one in the box.

Its beautiful moonlight blue luster is a true example of—

Adularescence.

Moonstones that produce that optical phenomenon are valuable.

Furthermore, at that size,

it may truly be as valuable as a Samizu Kichiemon trick box.

I thought you weren't interested.

My curiosity got the better of me.

I'm surprised you got in.

When I told them I knew Professor Agasa,

they let me in without searching me.

That's how we're doing things this time.

We're turning away obvious Kid fans,

but we're letting in the general public.

We're also leaving the box on this table

without any guards posted.

Won't he run away with the box?

Don't worry.

When I push this switch,

the scale embedded in the floor activates.

If the weight removed by a person leaving

is even a gram off

from the weight added when they entered...

This happens.

How very Samizu Kichiemon-esque.

Naturally, if he quietly opens the box and attempts

to take just the jewel inside, the same thing will happen.

He won't be able to open it quietly.

When the box is opened, the music box inside it

plays a beautiful melody.

I heard a music box playing in the middle of the night,

and found my husband in the study opening the box, admiring the contents,

and then winding the key before putting it back together.

What song does it play?

The last time my husband opened the box was more than a decade ago.

I can't remember.

It's a famous melody everyone knows.

I think it may have been a nursery song or something similar.

Even if he slips through the bars

with the box and jewel,

the steel shutters installed at every exit

are programmed to shut along with the cage.

No one will be able to escape.

I see.

So she wants to open the box no matter what.

Even if it means getting help from Kaito Kid.

So, where are the written instructions for opening the box?

After my husband closed the box,

I saw him putting a piece of paper with a diagram