Yeah.
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Heave ho! Heave ho!
Heave ho! Heave ho! Heave ho!
The steam locomotive's moving!
It's always so cool!
Tamaki Yujiro (65)
Oh, no. It's already 11.
Hurry, kids.
Okay!
Heave ho! Heave ho!
Right now at this moment, light pierces the darkness!
Overcome all limits with your cool reasoning skills!
Amidst the whistling, a case occurs at everyone's favorite used bookstore!
Always determining the one truth
with the body of a child and the mind of an adult,
his name is Detective Conan!
The Whistling Bookstore 2
"The Whistling Bookstore 2!”
Mizutani
I've come from Tamaki Book Cafe to buy books.
Mizutani Akiko (50)
I've been waiting for you.
Please, come in.
Wow! There are so many books!
So, which books would you like to sell?
All of them, please.
Very well.
Now then.
Let me take a look.
Even the cheapest are worth 5,000 yen.
The expensive ones are worth over 20,000 yen.
No way. They're that valuable?
They're rare books. They're worth at least that much.
Rare books?
Valuable books that aren't very common
because they're old and unusual or limited editions.
Right?
Yeah.
For example, only 500 copies of this book were published in 1920.
There are currently many copies on the market, but this one is in good condition.
I don't care what they are.
Will you buy all of them?
Excuse me, but are these books yours?
No, they belong to my husband.
Does your husband know you're selling them?
Seems you don't have his permission.
It's fine. He's in the hospital.
They're just taking up space.
What? Are you saying you won't buy them?
No. Personally, I'd very much like to purchase them.
But please get your husband's permission to sell them.
Pretty, aren't they?
Yeah.
I took them using my phone's camera.
They're very good.
What happened?
There was a little bug inside a book.
That's a silverfish.
A silverfish? What's that?
Silverfish, written using the characters for paper and fish.
Silverfish
(Paper + Fish)
They're bugs that like to eat the glue in the binding of books.
They're fish even though they're bugs?
Look closely at its body.
With its silver scale-like skin and the way it wiggles its body to move, it looks like...
Now that you mention it, it does look like a fish.
How filthy. What should I do?
It's all right. They're easily dealt with.
You need this and some kind of paper.
Yujiro-ojisan, use this.
Thank you.
Then you do this.
It smells good.
Smells like lavender.
Silverfish dislike the smell of herbs, especially lavender.
Simply place a lavender-scented piece of paper in the bookshelf,
and the silverfish will go away.
Wow!
How informative!
I should try that at home.
Well, we should get going.
Thank you for coming.
Sawada Ryosuke (35)
Welcome. Sit wherever you'd like.
How much are these books worth?
An appraisal? Let me see.
These are all rare books.
Excuse me.
Would they be worth 500,000?
Don't be absurd.
It depends on their condition,
but all together they'd be worth over 200,000 yen.
That bastard...
I can't accurately appraise them without seeing them in person.
If possible, please bring them here.
I'll be waiting.
What a truly relaxing space.
Tamaki Ichiro (35) Yujiro's Son
Yoshikawa Michiko (27) Ichiro's Girlfriend
Thank you for coming.
Would you like another coffee?
I suppose I would.
Is Yujiro-san not here today?
He's in the back.
He's currently checking and mending all the books he bought yesterday.
Hey, you came.
Are these books...?
Yeah, they're Mizutani-san's books.
You bought the rare books, too?
No. Apparently the husband asked that she not sell the rare books,
so I bought everything else.
Really?
Dad, someone named Mizutani-san is calling for you.
It's me.
What? Really?
No, nonsense.
I understand. I'll head there immediately.
Is something wrong?
The rare books were stolen.
What?!
But why did she call you?
It seems she believes I stole them.
Mizutani
Hand over the books you stole!
Calm down.
Start by telling me what happened when the books were stolen.
I went out for lunch with a friend today.
We finished eating around 1 PM.
I came home immediately and discovered
the window was broken and the books were missing.
You called the police, right?
Yes.
The police said it must've been a professional based on how the window was broken.
I was at the store all day today.
I couldn't have stolen from you.
That confirms Yujiro-san's alibi.
We can't be sure yet.
He could've gotten someone to steal them.
I wouldn't do that.
Those books were at our house for nearly twenty years.
But the moment you appraised them, they were stolen.
How do you explain that?
Well...
She really suspected him.
I know.
Hey, let's catch the real culprit.
Now, now. Let the police handle the investigation.
Huh?
What is it?
I can't find my phone.
It must be at the cafe.
Should we go back to get it?
Someone's probably still at the store.
Sorry. Could we do that?
I'm sorry, but the store is closed for—
You came to get some books appraised the other day.
I want to know their exact value.
Very well. Allow me to take a look.
These are truly good books.
They're in good condition.
You can get a good price for these.
Anyway, what a coincidence.
I just recently appraised the same book.
I wasn't expecting to appraise them two days in a row.
Oh, whoops.
Sir, where did you get these books?
What does it matter? Hurry up and appraise them.
You stole these from Mizutani-san's house, didn't you?
No!
I'm sorry, but I'll be calling the police.
What? These are my books!
You can tell that to the police.
W-Wait!
Stop!
Did something happen?
Let's check it out.
Is it a case?
Yujiro-ojisan.
Yujiro-san, are you hurt?
You kids again?
We came to the cafe next door to get something.
Then we saw the crowd.
This isn't my blood.
Then...
He's a suspect in this case.
What?!
What's going on?
I called the police.
She discovered the body.
I clearly saw him standing next to the body.
Inspector Megure, we've identified the man.
The victim was Sawada Ryosuke-san, thirty-five years old.
He lives nearby and is unemployed.
What's the cause of death?
A cerebral contusion caused by a blow to the head.
The weapon is almost certainly this bloody rock found at the crime scene.
Were there fingerprints on the weapon?
None. But...
What?
We found traces of hand cream on the weapon.
Hand cream?
Yes.
Come to think of it, I heard those who work with books
frequently apply hand cream to prevent chapped hands.
Isn't that right?
Yes.
Do you have some with you now?
Yes.
Do you mind if we examine this?
No. Go right ahead.
Chiba, take this to forensics.
Yes, sir.
Now then, could you explain what happened?
Yes. I received a phone call from him.
He asked me to come to the park.
What time was that?
Around 7 PM.
When I arrived, he was on the ground.
I ran to him, but he was already...
And your clothes got bloody then?
Yes.
But why did the victim call you?
He didn't tell me why.
But I think it had something to do with those books.
Those books?
Dad!
Sorry for making you worry.
Officer, those are them.
There are about ten books inside.
This evening, he brought them to be appraised.
Come to think of it...
What's wrong?
I think there was a picture of these books on the victim's phone.
Found it. This is it.
This photo.
He showed it to me when he came to my store.
The victim came here previously?
Yes. The first time he only showed me the photo.
I told him I couldn't appraise them without seeing them in person.
I see.
By the way, how much are these books worth?
2,500,000 all together.
What? They're that valuable?
That's the paper I gave you!
What does that mean?
Ayumi-chan gave him that notepaper at Mizutani-san's house to combat silverfish.
I noticed the same thing and suspected he was the thief.
What thief?
This afternoon, some rare books were stolen from Mizutani-san's house.
Is that true?
Yes.
So the victim stole the books from Mizutani-san's house
and came here to sell them.
That's why I attempted to call the police.
But he rushed out of the store.
Later, he called me to tell me to come to the park.
I see.
Huh?
What is it, Conan-kun?
Could you show me that phone again?
What?
You're hopeless.
Thanks.
I knew it.
The black stain in the photo isn't on the actual book.
Which means...
There's no scratch on the lens.
What's this?
A button?
Hey, wait!
What is it, Chiba?
There were signs the victim was involved in a struggle.
One of his buttons were missing.
That must be it.
Tamaki-san, how do you explain this?
We got into a bit of a tussle when I tried to call the police.
It's possible it came off then.
Why didn't you mention that?
Because...
Hello?
Yes.
Yes. Understood.
It was a match for the hand cream on the weapon.
What? No way!
You fought with the victim,
and your hand cream matched the cream found on the weapon.
Given all the circumstantial evidence,
Tamaki Yujiro-san, could you come down to the station with us?
No way!
There must be some mistake!
What will you do?
At this rate, they really will arrest him.
I know, but I haven't found anything conclusive yet.
Oh, no. I left the water boiling.
It's fine. I'll turn it off.
Thank you.
Looks like you figured it out.
Yeah.
Wait one moment.
Yujiro-san isn't the culprit.
But the circumstantial evidence...
Hand cream is oil-based. It repels water.
If he held the weapon with a hand coated in cream,
and bludgeoned the victim, the section the cream stuck to would repel water.
No blood would be on it.
But forensics reported that there was cream found on the bloody section.
In other words, the cream was applied after the victim was struck.
But why?
Isn't it obvious?
So the real culprit could frame Yujiro-san.
Wh-Who's the real culprit?
The real culprit is the other person involved in the book theft.
Th-The other person?
Take another look at the picture on the victim's phone.
This is it.
See the dark spot on the photo?
You mean this?
But there's no stain on the actual book.
You're right. The actual book is clean.
In other words, the black spot was caused by a scratch or stain on the lens.
However, I didn't find a scratch on the victim's phone lens.
In other words, a different camera was used to take the photo.
I saw a photo with a similar dark spot in Mizutani-san's home.
You're right. You mean the pictures of the flowers.
Then the person who took this photo was...
Mizutani-san, could we take a look at your phone?
There's a scratch on the lens!
It proves Mizutani-san sent the photo of the rare books
to the victim and instructed him to steal them.
Well?
It's true. I had him steal them.
What? But why have your own books stolen?
To be precise, they aren't her books, but her husband's.
At first, she tried to sell the books while her husband
was in the hospital for some pocket money, but...
Yujiro-san declined to buy them.
Yes.
You're right about the book theft.
But the murder is different.
Or do you have evidence proving I killed him?
Your glasses.
My glasses?
When you went to turn off the stove, the steam from the kettle hit your face.
Only one of your lenses fogged up.
Hand creams are sometimes used to prevent fogging.
When you applied the same hand cream
as Yujiro-san's to the weapon in order to frame him,
perhaps you accidentally got some of the cream on one of your glasses lenses.
You're wrong!
If you applied the cream after striking him,
some blood should be mixed in with the cream.
If you carefully examine Mizutani-san's glasses, I'm sure you'll find
traces of the victim's blood.
Mizutani-san, could we examine those glasses?
I did it.
I planned to have Sawada sell the books and give him a bit of the money.
But when he learned the true value of the books,
he realized I was trying to cheat him.
He threatened to tell my husband everything if I didn't give him more.
So you killed him to keep him quiet?
Yes. Even if I paid him a fair share, he might continue to blackmail me.
Besides, if I paid him that much, that would leave less for me.
But why frame Tamaki-san?
If he'd just bought the books, I wouldn't have needed him to steal them.
So I deliberately hid that paper in the books when I had Sawada
take them to be appraised.
I did it so he'd immediately realize he was the thief.
I calculated that they would get into a fight.
Then I brought Sawada to the park and had him make the call.
I killed Sawada before Tamaki-san arrived and called the police when he found the body.
I thought I'd gotten away with it.
Class 1-B Seedlings
What's this book?
It's our class anthology.
There aren't many of them, so it's definitely rare.
We think it might be valuable.
Oh. It's a good book, but unfortunately, I can't assign a price to it.
What?
But if you become famous in a few years, it'd be a different story.
Hold onto it until then.
Okay!
In five years, maybe?
Can you become famous in five years?
Sure you can.
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H-Hey, wait.
This isn't a restaurant.
It's a bunny girl club!
There are black bunnies everywhere.
I wouldn't have brought Conan-kun if I'd known it was this kind of place.
I'm fine.
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