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Detective Conan Episode 982 "Welcome to Bocchan Restaurant (Part Two)"
The day Ayumi-chan took a badly injured cat to a vet,
Bocchan Restaurant
at a restaurant called Bocchan Restaurant,
head receptionist Uranari-san was found murdered.
Uranari Koga Ushio (36)
Judging by the situation,
the culprit was someone working at this restaurant
that recreates the world of Natsume Soseki's novel "Bocchan."
Suspicion initially fell on the manager Red Shirt,
who was involved in a romantic rivalry over the waitress Madonna-san.
Madonna Toyama Chiaki (24)
Red Shirt Akazawa Zenichi (60)
Bocchan Shima Rokusuke (22)
But we learned waiters Bocchan, Yamaarashi, and Nodaiko
Yamaarashi Hotta Izumi (32)
Nodaiko Yoshikawa Kozo (43)
all had motives for murder and didn't have alibis.
However, the next day, Red Shirt was found hanging from the neck,
and the police determined that he was the culprit
I offer my own death as an apology to the man I killed
and killed himself when he realized he couldn't escape his guilt.
But I won't be fooled.
It wasn't Red Shirt who killed Uranari-san,
and Red Shirt's hanging was faked by the true culprit.
The search for the truth begins now.
The rhythm on my lips is footloose!
The rhythm of my detective skills is perfect!
Behind the restaurant murders are relationships that extend beyond the novel!
Always determining the one truth
with the body of a child and the mind of an adult,
his name is Detective Conan!
Welcome to Bocchan Restaurant (Part Two)
"Welcome to Bocchan Restaurant, Part Two!"
How do you know that?
The night before last, Uranari-san was actually killed here.
Because that cat happened to be here at the same time,
they were harmed by the culprit.
The culprit who stabbed Uranari-san used a car or something
to transport the body to Bocchan Restaurant
in order to convince us that Sanshiro Lake was the crime scene.
So they could frame Red Shirt, who lives at the restaurant.
Yeah. No culprit deliberately makes themselves look suspicious.
You're right.
Which means Red Shirt is innocent.
Then there was no reason for him to kill himself.
Which means...
That suicide was faked by the true culprit as well.
So that Red Shirt would be framed and the investigation would end.
But who among Bocchan, Yamaarashi, and Nodaiko is the culprit?
In any case, we should tell Inspector Megure and the old man about our reasoning so far—
Conan-kun!
I want us to be the ones who find the culprit who was so cruel to that kitty.
You're right.
Let's find the culprit responsible for that and nail both of them at once.
Indeed.
Yeah.
Let's go talk to those three again.
Yeah!
Got it.
The autopsy discovered something strange about Red Shirt's body.
Something strange?
It's about the ladder that was left by his feet.
When a person is hanged using a step of that height,
not much force should be applied to the neck.
But there were signs that a rather strong force was applied to the body's neck.
What does that mean?
I'm not sure, but it's possible that a third party was involved.
Which means...
I see! Red Shirt's murder was made to look like a suicide,
and the culprit is one of Bocchan, Yamaarashi, or Nodaiko.
What?
They're in the waiting room.
The police and Mori-san are talking to them.
They beat us to it.
So, you don't have alibis for around midnight last night,
which is the time of Red Shirt's death?
What's with the weird phrasing?
You think we did it?
Didn't the boss kill himself?
No. Judging by the strength of the force applied to his neck,
we believe there was a third party involved.
A powerful force was applied to his neck?
They didn't just lift the body and hang him by the neck?
Then how did the culprit...?
The motive for Red Shirt's murder was revenge for Uranari-san's death.
Revenge?
I feel like he's already wrong based on his assumption that Red Shirt killed Uranari-san.
Furthermore, how did he come up with revenge?
You guys know that we hated Uranari.
He yelled at us all the time.
Why would we consider revenge?
He's just claiming he hated him and actually enjoyed being yelled at.
The culprit had that kind of peculiar side to them.
Are you serious?
Uh, regarding the motive...
There's no way we'd kill the boss!
This guy's an ill-natured twisted man,
and this guy's an effeminate crybaby.
And I'm inflexible and stubborn.
There aren't many jobs that we can do.
But the boss hired us one year ago.
He said he was opening a place called Bocchan Restaurant and asked if we wanted to work there.
He recruited us just after looking at us while I was walking around town.
We may have despised Uranari,
but we didn't quit because our considerate boss paid us a high salary.
But now that he's dead, this restaurant is done for.
What are we supposed to do?
What kind of idiot would hurt themselves like that?
Exactly.
I-I see...
Those three probably aren't lying.
They didn't kill Red Shirt.
Besides, even if it's possible that they hated Uranari-san enough to kill him,
they wouldn't have tried to frame Red Shirt for it.
In other words, those three are innocent of both murders.
But that leaves zero people who had motive and no alibi.
Who's the culprit?
Who hated Uranari-san enough to kill him?
And kill Red Shirt in order to frame him?
It could be the opposite.
The opposite?
It was Red Shirt that the culprit wanted to kill.
To do that, it was best to make it look like a suicide,
but they needed a motive for suicide.
So in order to create a false motive,
they murdered Uranari-san and directed suspicion towards Red Shirt.
That sounds possible.
But regardless of who their true target was—
If all the waitstaff are innocent,
that means someone else must be the culprit, right?
Maybe this guy hated him.
He's being made to dance even though he's the head chef.
Tanuki...
We brought a gift for the little detective crew.
Tanuki Tanuma Toyoo (58)
He must've come to spy on us.
Also, you like these, don't you?
I don't like grasshoppers!
You were eating them earlier.
By the way, where were you last night and the night before last?
Sleeping at home. What about it?
Nothing.
They're confirming the alibis of everyone involved.
Kiyo Kiyohara Uni (71)
Then no one can verify mine. I live alone.
We were lucky again.
You were at my place last night, right?
You stayed over again?
What is it?!
What's gotten into them?
Did you figure out who the culprit is?
Is it Tanuki after all?
What I figured out is how the culprit hanged Red Shirt.
So you didn't find the culprit?
You can't expect things to go that smoothly.
What were you going to say earlier?
About regardless of whether it was Uranari-san or Red Shirt?
Either way, maybe the culprit used their romantic rivalry against them.
It doesn't sound like there were any other problems between them.
Their romantic rivalry started when that lady started working here six months ago, right?
I believe she said it was because her younger sister died of an illness.
She wanted to fulfill the desire of her sister who loved the novel "Bocchan,"
and said she wanted to work here.
So she applied for the job instead.
The sister passed away from subarachnoid hemorrhaging, right?
Yeah. Is it a rare disease?
No, not really.
But if she was her younger sister, then she must've still been young.
What is it?
I see. If they really wanted to...
You seem to have figured something out.
The question is how to prove it.
If that's true, that would explain everything.
But we need evidence.
Yeah. Let's split up and investigate.
I'm counting on you guys.
Waiting Room
Hardware Store Beika
They don't have it here.
Let's check the next store.
Toto General Hospital
Outpatient Reception
Hardware Store Manaka
All right.
We've got all the evidence now.
But we're still missing the key piece.
Well, it's just speculation, but that's—
How long are you brats going to stay here?
Mori-kun, can't you give us a break already?
Are you almost there, Mori-san?
Can't you go to sleep soon?
Regarding the motive,
ultimately we'll have to get the culprit to admit it.
What?
You're saying I lied?
About Red Shirt and Uranari-san.
Is that true?
Did they both harbor romantic feelings for me?
You didn't know?
I thought they were simply pretending
in front of our customers as part of our business strategy.
That was a lie, wasn't it?
After all, you pushed them towards becoming romantic rivals.
We checked.
With Bocchan, Nodaiko-san, and Yamaarashi-san.
Of course Red Shirt and Uranari had feelings for her.
After all, she made both of them think she liked them.
It's only natural that they became romantic rivals.
You set it up beforehand, didn't you?
In order to frame Red Shirt for Uranari-san's murder.
I don't know why you think I did it, but I have an alibi.
Both the night before last when Uranari-san was killed
and last night when Red Shirt was hanged, you stayed at Kiyo-san's house.
The night before last you just happened to visit,
and last night it was because the murder scared you.
Isn't that what you said?
Because it's true.
But even if you stayed over, it was still possible for you to do it.
Both cases happened in the middle of the night.
As long as you slipped out while Kiyo-san was asleep...
Kiyo-san said so herself.
Normally I wake up to use the bathroom during the night,
but oddly, these past two nights I've slept soundly until morning.
As though she'd been drugged with sleeping pills.
You created a fake alibi
and first invited Uranari-san to the park the night before last.
Why did you want to meet in the middle of the night?
I...
You stabbed him to death.
Then...
In order to make it seem like the crime scene was here,
you threw Uranari-san's body into the lake.
Ultimately, suspicion fell on Red Shirt, who lives at the restaurant, just as you planned.
You created a motive for Red Shirt's suicide.
Last night, you asked Red Shirt to meet you, knocked him out,
and killed him by stringing him up with a rope.
Then you made it look like a suicide.
Inspector, this was found on the altar in Red Shirt's home!
That's probably the weapon used in Uranari's murder.
After killing his romantic rival Uranari,
he realized he couldn't escape his guilt, so he took his own life.
If you just wanted Red Shirt's death to look like a suicide,
you could have lifted the unconscious Red Shirt
and wrapped a rope around his neck.
But you chose that method because you wanted to get revenge with your own hands, didn't you?
The police told us.
Madonna seems plain,
but she wrestled as a student.
With your strength, you could've done it.
But if I lifted a person using the rope,
wouldn't there be scrapes on the branch?
You used ice, didn't you?
For example, ice shaped like a horse saddle.
This wouldn't leave any scrape marks behind,
and the ice would melt by morning.
But there were traces left of the ice.
The branch was strangely damp, and Red Shirt's hair was wet, too.
There's one more thing that proves your guilt.
You had to make sure the ice wouldn't melt before you used it.
You needed a cooler and dry ice.
The store employee remembered you buying them.
Since you're so pretty, you must've made an impression.
Madonna
My alibi isn't ironclad.
I am strong, and I did buy a cooler and dry ice.
But why would I kill the two of them?
I have no motive.
Really?
You really have no idea?
You told me about your younger sister.
Subarachnoid hemorrhaging can appear in young people,
but it also happens if you hit your head really hard.
I looked into the circumstances of your sister's death.
Natsumi was pushed four days ago by two drunk men.
She hit her head then.
I can't think of anything else.
That may be the cause.
Even if the patient seems fine at the time, they sometimes suddenly pass away later.
If she'd been seen by a doctor immediately,
they may have been able to determine if it caused her symptoms,
but now that it's been several days...
No...
Her life was taken, but they'd never be charged.
So you swore revenge, didn't you?
And those two drunk men...
You were close with your sister, weren't you?
Very close, right?
Yes.
After all, she was my only sister.
It was her birthday.
Toyama Natsumi (21) Madonna's Younger Sister
The problem is the girl who plays Madonna.
Yeah. The current girl does a good job,
but she leaves something to be desired.
Natsumi!
Ouch...
I'm sorry.
Are you all right?
I'm totally fine.
Aren't there any suitable girls around?
A Madonna.
I wonder what they mean by Madonna.
More importantly, are you sure you're okay?
You always make too big a deal out of things.
But four days later, Natsumi passed away.
It may not have been malicious, but those two killed my sister.
So you looked for them.
Madonna.
That word was my only clue,
and it led me to Bocchan Restaurant.
I got a job, spent six months developing their romantic rivalry,
and with these hands...
Though ultimately, you Detective Boys figured it out.
But this is for the best.
If I'm not punished, it would be a lie.
If I'd forced Natsumi to go the the hospital six months ago,
maybe she wouldn't have died.
Excuse me. I'm sorry, but we're questioning everyone again.
You have something you want to tell them, too, right?
After the store closed, those guys...
Formed a theater company, right?
I'm glad you got better, kitty.
Mii-chan!
What?
Mii-chan!
Sis, Mii-chan came back!
That's great!
Episode Preview
"Fairy Lip."
A pixie's...
Are you with the police?
Lips...
He's coming after all!
He can actually read the kanji.
He may have rigged it in some way.
Lips...
I see. In that case...
Kid vs. Komei: the Targeted Lips (Part One)
The next episode of Conan is "Kid vs. Komei: the Targeted Lips, Part One!"
Fairy Lip
Next Conan's hint!
Fairy Lip!
Next time.
Don't miss the next episode.
Kid and...
Komei?
Lips?
Indeed.