Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

I'm amazed we can see them so clearly.

It was sunny today, and the weather's really good.

The humidity's low, so it's a little chilly.

All the conditions for clearly seeing the stars are being met.

Really?

Conan-kun, you know something about everything.

That's what my teacher told me.

You've got no dreams or sense of romance, kid.

It's beautiful!

Watch out, Sonoko!

So, why are we stargazing?

The Milky Way refers to the band of stars in the sky,

but Sonoko thought it was the name of a café.

She asked me which of their sweets are best.

What?

When she learned it referred to the stars, she said,

"I'm so embarrassed! We're going stargazing tonight!" and dug out her binoculars.

It seems like she's already bored though.

She's not looking at the sky.

Huh?

What is that?

What's wrong?

I-I saw a hand!

Someone's hand was in the flowerbed!

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

She coincidentally saw a pale hand and ring!

High school girl detective Sonoko is fired up!

Always determining the one truth

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

his name is Detective Conan!

High School Girl Detective Suzuki Sonoko

"High School Girl Detective Suzuki Sonoko!"

I don't see anything.

Calm down.

What happened?

Another hand grabbed an arm.

When they let go, it flopped down.

That was definitely the hand of a corpse.

Which way were you pointing the binoculars?

North.

I found the North Star and was looking directly beneath it.

I'm sure of it.

Let's go, high school girl detectives!

Sonoko, that's south.

That way!

High school girl detectives?

This way is north of the park.

This is the place I saw.

They hid the body here.

There's no sign of any body.

I'm sure of it. These are the same flowers.

They must've buried it behind the flowerbed.

Who buried what?

A body...

Who are you?!

I work here.

Sasaki Hiroto (40) Sasaki Studio Director

Who are you?

I see.

You build mannequins here.

Yes.

Here, have some coffee.

Thank you.

Minakami Rika (25) Assistant

Sorry for interrupting your work.

It's fine.

Sorry.

Does this look like the arm you saw?

You must've gotten confused.

That's impossible!

But, Sonoko, were you able to tell at a glance if it was a human hand or a doll's?

And could you have seen that flowerbed from the top of the slide?

What do you mean?

Huh? What?

What?

What?

You're right.

I can only see the clock.

Since you can't see it from here, you couldn't see here from there.

But I know I saw something.

You can see the slide from the roof.

Hold on. A flowerbed, right?

Is there one on the roof?

Not here, but the same flowerbeds are on the roof of the Yoshimura building behind ours.

Right, Rika-kun?

Huh? Yes.

This property used to be long and narrow,

but I split it with my friend Yoshimura.

The fastest way to his building is to cut through mine.

I'm going to finish that rush order.

Thanks.

Sorry for interrupting you in the middle of shopping.

We get some willful clients sometimes. It's a hassle.

They suddenly called to modify their order.

I just had her come back.

His building is three stories, too.

His work means he's good at designing flowerbeds,

so I had Yoshimura handle mine, too.

Yoshimura Reforestation Research Institute Main Entrance

The same flowerbeds are on the roof here.

Maybe Nanae-san's not home.

Is this Yoshimura person not here?

He's in Hakodate for business.

He's repairing the front of this building in the meantime.

She's Yoshimura's wife.

The three of us attended college together.

She always keeps her phone on her when she goes out. That's odd.

I'm worried.

About what?

If what I saw was on the roof, then the body's buried up there.

That's impossible.

The flowerbeds have the same design, but since they're on the roof, the dirt's too shallow.

But I know I saw something.

Did you really see the body being buried?

N-No, but that hand definitely didn't belong to a living person.

Excuse me.

Yoshimura?

Good timing.

There's something I wanted to ask you.

Yeah.

I tried calling, too.

I see.

Got it. I'm going inside.

We have spare keys to each other's buildings.

Yoshimura was worried about his wife.

She was supposed to call him now.

Does that mean she should be home?

Then maybe she really was...

You're jinxing it. Cut it out.

Right.

Nanae-san.

Her car's here.

Oh, I forgot.

The water pipe under the street out front broke.

Then she can't move her car.

What time did it break?

Nanae-san complained about it over the phone.

Since it was after Rika-kun went shopping, it must've been after 6:30.

She was all right until then.

Nanae-san.

Are you home?

This is Yoshimura's private living space.

What's this?

That's Nanae-san's phone.

The flowerbed's out here.

I can see the slide.

This must be the roof I saw.

There aren't any signs anyone buried a body.

But there's a spade over there.

Someone must've dug up the dirt to bury a body.

Ouch...

It's too shallow to bury a body.

Does that mean the culprit took the body somewhere?

You're still going on about that?

They'd transport it using a car.

It's the obvious choice.

They couldn't have done that.

The car's blocked in.

You're right.

By the time Sonoko looked through her binoculars,

the road was already under construction...

Sonoko, what's wrong?

I've got it!

Got what?

The body of Yoshimura's wife is still inside the building!

What?

The wife was murdered after the director called her.

But the killer couldn't use the road.

When they failed to bury the body in the flowerbed,

how did they dispose of the body?

There's one logical conclusion.

The culprit couldn't dispose of it.

Seriously?

In other words, the body should still be hidden in this building!

Listen, miss.

Was the wife's body hidden there?

Huh?

Or over there?

Hold on, Sonoko-neechan.

Or over there?

Anyway, Ran.