Invited by Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha,
Ran and I came to Yadori Village in Shizuoka
to help unearth Tokugawa's buried treasure.
But that night, the legendary monster known as the Nue appeared,
and Someji Yasukatsu-san was murdered.
Tanzawa Michiki-san was also murdered in his hotel room.
And...
What are you doing over there?
The police told you to stay inside the room.
Yeah, but we're worried about the dog.
When the nue's cry sounded earlier,
we heard him barking and scratching at the wall.
Come to think of it, when we first heard the nue's cry...
He was barking then, too.
But when the monster appeared...
He wasn't barking.
I see.
So that's how it is.
Curtains rise as the headliner appears!
He beautifully dances his mystery-solving steps!
After solving the mystery of the Nue, what will Heiji say to Kazuha?
Always determining the one truth
with the body of a child and the mind of an adult,
his name is Detective Conan!
Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend (Resolution Arc)
"Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend, Resolution Arc!"
Heiji.
We brought what you asked for.
Three sets of sheets from an unused room, a deck brush,
a mop, and a toolbox.
Then there's a cardboard box and the spray used to remodel the hotel.
We also borrowed a permanent marker and sewing set from Masuko-san,
and some glue and a knife from Tsurumi-san.
Good work.
Thanks.
Oh, right.
In the desk drawer of the room Ran and I moved into
there was an old photo.
Isn't that the excavation team from sixteen years ago?
Yeah.
And it may be our imagination,
but the foreigner in the middle of the photo
kind of looks like Tsurumi-san.
Tsurumi Hajime (22) Documentary Writer
You're right.
So, what are you going to make with all this stuff?
Isn't it obvious?
We're going to summon...
...that monster again.
What?!
What is Heiji thinking?
This doesn't feel romantic at all.
Yeah.
Ow.
Hurry up, Kudo.
Otherwise the sun will rise.
Yeah, the trick's too obvious unless it's done at night.
Huh?
Oh, yeah. You're right.
Hey, there isn't some other reason you don't want the sun to rise yet, is there?
N-Not especially.
Sheesh.
What's wrong with you?
You woke me up while I was fast asleep.
It's only four in the morning.
But Hattori-sama asked me to gather everyone in front of the hotel...
Takekuma Densuke (58) Yadori Village Mayor
...because he discovered the identity of the nue.
The identity of the nue?
Is that true?!
Come to think of it, the forensics team and my men were sneaking around.
Masuko Fumie (46) Author
Without telling you what they were doing?
What? Yes.
I-Isn't that...?
It's the same.
Stay Out Danger!
It's burning just like it was when the monster appeared.
Th-There's even a sign there.
Wh-Wh-What is this eerie sound?
Th-This is it.
It's the nue's cry.
Heiji, where are you?! Help!
I'm right here.
What? Where's here?
Right here.
What?
I'm right here.
H-Heiji, you...g-grew?
No, dummy. Come over here and take a closer look.
B-But standing in front of you...
Th-There's a black monster...
Oh, this isn't a monster.
Take a look.
It's an ordinary dog wearing a bear skin.
What?
I found this skin in the back of a closet.
Look. There's even a snake tail attached to it.
In any case, come over here.
Then you'll understand.
Come over there?
T-Try not to step on us.
Huh?
What?
No way. What is this?
What's going on?
We sewed some sheets together,
drew some windows on them in extreme perspective,
and hung it from the window.
For the parts sticking out, we stuck pieces of cardboard to the sheets
and spray painted them the same color as the wall.
And since that tree's in the way, you can't see the building.
When there's smoke in the air, you can't see the trees behind us.
On top of that, in the darkness of night, it's no wonder we were fooled.
Officers, you can put out the fire now.
Thanks.
So the forensics team and my men
were secretly helping him put together this trick.
The finishing touch is this sign.
They trained the dog to carry away this little sign
when he heard the nue's cry,
and left the real sign with giant teeth marks
next to Someji-san's body,
so it'd look like a giant monster killed Someji-san
and disappeared, leaving the sign behind.
Remember how this dog barked
when he heard the nue's cry?
He was barking because he wanted to go to the sign, but couldn't.
The nue's cry could have been produced the first
or second time using a cell phone or something...
But we heard its cry when Tanzawa-san was poisoned, too.
Hadn't you taken everything we could've used to make any sound then?
How did they create that cry?
It's this sound, right?
If you fill a wineglass with water
and trace the edge of the glass with a moist finger...
I've seen that on TV before.
In other words,
the only person who could've hung the cloth painted
with windows from that spot and made that sound
is the person staying in that room on the second floor who asked
for wine to be sent to their room.
It was you,
Masuko Fumie-san.
As an art school graduate,
you'd be able to draw realistic looking windows on the cloth.
And when we chased the monster around the back of the hotel,
since this area was burning,
you could've erased the evidence by setting the cloth on fire.
We did find its burnt remains, though.
But when did she paint those windows on the cloth?
She probably painted them beforehand and hid it in this room.
Beforehand?
Someone was coming here occasionally to feed the dog, right?
It was probably Masuko-san.
She had to train the dog to pull the sign out of the ground, too.
Masuko-san may have planted this tree for the sake of this trick, too.
B-But the second time the grass caught fire, she was in her room.
How did she start the fire?
Using metallic sodium.
What? Metallic sodium?
If you wrap it in something flammable like paper or grass and pour water on it,
it becomes extremely hot and catches fire.
When we put out the first fire, Masuko-san had a bucket.
If she had the sodium in the bucket,
she could have faked putting out the fire and strewn it over the grass in front of the hotel.
B-But how did she pour water on it?
You said it yourself, Mr. Mayor.
When the grass caught fire,
you heard the sound of a carbonated beverage being opened.
She opened a hole in the wine cork
and stuck a ball point pen tube emptied of ink in it.
Then she wrapped tape around the cork
so it would fit perfectly in the soda water bottle.
By shaking the bottle, she was able to shoot water at a distant target.
Hah, shoot water at a distant target?
That can't be—
What?
See?
You're right.
Wow.
I was able to make the same thing using the spare
bottle of soda water and wine cork the mayor bought.
And I used the same tape and pen Masuko-san had.
Furthermore, if you point the bottle upwards and release your finger...
See? It easily reaches the window above.
The window above?
Then Tanzawa-san was poisoned using...
That's right.
By attaching a two-pronged poison dart to the cork
and shaking the bottle while holding it in place with her finger,
she was able to poison Tanzawa-san by releasing her finger
when he stuck his head out the window.
And by attaching a string to the poison dart, she was able to quickly retrieve it.
In other words, here's what you did.
After hanging the cloth painted with windows from your second story room,
you invited Someji-san outside with a letter or something and murdered him.
You cut claw marks into his back,
left the sign with large teeth marks next to the body,
switched the real sign out for the little one,
poured kerosene over the grass in front of the hotel, and set it on fire.
When everyone came outside,
you used your phone to produce the nue's cry,
calling this dog wearing the bear skin,
who took the sign just like you trained him,
went around the back of the hotel, and headed back inside.
While pretending to put out the fire, you scattered metallic sodium in front of the hotel
and sprayed water on it without spraying it on us,
while we were keeping watch outside, to ignite the metallic sodium.
When Tanzawa-san stuck his head out of his window to look at the fire,
you poisoned him using the dart.
The first man was killed by a tiger, and the second by a snake.
You made it seem as though both of them had been killed by the nue.
You no doubt threw the knife you used to kill Someji-san in the lake,
but if forensics hasn't found the dart you used to kill Tanzawa-san,
it's probably still inside the pens you have on you.
You could've made a two-pronged dart
by tying sewing needles to a toothpick.
You're lucky the needles struck Tanzawa-san's chin.
It wasn't luck.
What?
It was 100%.
I practiced countless times so I could hit him,
no matter where he stuck his head out.
Y-You admit to killing them?
B-But why them?
Because they let him die.
Member of the excavation team and my husband,
Charles Abel.
W-Were they on the excavation team, too?
Yes.
When the cave-in occurred,
they left my husband behind
and fled even though he was still alive.
But they couldn't have helped it.
He wrote the name of a monster on a piece of paper.
It's not nue.
It's "tetsuno" (metal), isn't it?
What?
Charles was trying to write that he found a metal hairpin,
but as a foreigner he'd never seen one before.
After writing the word "metal,"
he meant to show the team the hairpin
and the piece of paper to ask them what it was.
Since he wrote the word slowly using a permanent marker,
the ink bled through,
making the team think he wrote "n-u-e" instead.
I see.
You used that misunderstanding to bring them here.
You wrote in your letter that Charles may have found metal jars instead.
Metal jars?
Did you forget?
"In the morning and evening sun, two thousand jars glitter with a thousand golden coins"
is how the nursery song goes.
A jar containing a thousand golden coins would make a fine treasure.
And the two of them came, drawn by that possibility,
without realizing they'd be murdered.
Yes.
I planned to forgive them if they didn't come,
but they shamelessly came like the miserable wretches they are.
You invited a detective so he'd testify that the monster
actually exists and a young woman
so she'd be frightened when she found the creepy notebook
the foreigner used to practice his hiragana.
You predicted that Tanzawa-san would offer to trade rooms
with the girl when she became frightened.
A room containing Charles' possessions
may have held some clue to the metal jars.
Th-Then why'd she invite me
when I had nothing to do with any of this?
Probably because Masuko-san's your mother.
What?
She wanted her son to watch as she avenged his father.
The dog probably likes you
because he sees his dead owner in you.
I-Is this true?
You idiot. Of course not.
I invited you for fun
after reading one of your awful articles.
So you'd better write a better one this time.
About the idiot woman who got a taste of her own medicine
when she tried to use a monster legend.
It's just like the legend.
What?
According to one theory,
the nue was the mother of Minamoto Yorimasa,
who transformed into the beast so her son could slay it.
Huh?
Is that you, Ran-san and Conan-kun?
Uh, yes.
There was a major case.
Where's Mori-san?
Where are you? Where are you, Mori-san?
He's not here.
You just noticed?
Hey, Conan-kun.
Huh?
Have you seen Kazuha-chan?
She headed towards Kurogane Lake with Heiji-niichan.
But I think you should leave them alone for now.
"Watch how I do things."
He said something like that.
What?
Why did you bring me here, Heiji?
If you're planning to show me another weird monster, give me a break.
No, idiot.
I'll only say it once, so listen closely.
Listen, Kazuha.
Okay.
The morning sun turned the surface of the lake gold.
That's it. That's what it means.
Huh? What?
"In the morning and evening sun,
two thousand jars glitter with a thousand golden coins."
The name Kurogane refers to the metal jars.
In other words, the lake itself is a metal jar.
When the light from the rising and setting sun strikes the lake, it turns gold,
and the waves look like coins scattered across the surface.
Really?
But that's not what I came to talk about.
Huh?
I didn't realize it until the incident at the Ebisu Bridge,
but it seems I...
have...
Evacuate the civilians to a safe area!
Huh?
Wh-Wh-What?
Operation Capture the Nue begins now!
Th-The self-defense force?
Th-They actually came!
If they did come, I guess it would be the Hamamatsu ADSF.
S-So, what were you going to say?
You were right.
I was just going to say that gruel does taste better when you mix the egg into it.
Right?
Gruel always tastes better when you mix it.
Ran-chan!
What did Hattori-kun say?
Heiji says it tastes better when you mix the egg in.
What?
I told you so!
Author Masuko Fumie Arrested For Murder High School Detective Hattori Heiji Finds The Truth!
Huh. Looks like you're making quite the splash.
My future...
husband.
Ooka Momoji (17) Kyoto Senshin High School Second-Year
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Oh, no. What should we do?
Could something bad be happening again?
The Buddha is warning the living
that misfortune is coming.
It's nothing for a detective to involve himself in.
What?
"The Mysterious Prophetic Buddha!"
The next episode of Conan is "The Mysterious Prophetic Buddha!"
Tanuki
Next Conan's hint!
A tanuki!
Can I say it now?
Don't miss the next episode!
Yeah, go ahead.
Gruel can be such a cruel joke.