The Butler and the Young Lady
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| Title: | The Butler and the Young Lady |
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| Japanese title: | 執事とお嬢様 (Shitsuji to Ojō-sama) |
| Original release: | June 14th, 2023 |
| Shōnen Sunday issue: | #29/2023 |
| Volume: | 105 |
| Pages: | 16 |
| English title: | The Butler and the Lady |
| English release: | June 14th, 2023 (Simulpub)[1] |
The Butler and the Young Lady (執事とお嬢様 Shitsuji to Ojō-sama) is the 1114th chapter of the manga of Detective Conan. It was written by Gosho Aoyama, drawn by him and his assistants and first released in Shōnen Sunday #29/2023 on June 14, 2023 and was reprinted as part of Volume 105 on April 10, 2024. It was released in English by Viz Manga on the same day under the name The Butler and the Lady.
Contents
Characters
Introduced
Featured
Settings
- Japan
- Unknown location (between Tokyo and Nagoya)
- Nozomi Shinkansen Train
- Kyoto Prefecture
- Ooka Family Summer Villa (flashback)
- Unknown location (between Tokyo and Nagoya)
Plot
As the distance to Tokyo shrinks more and more, Iori is still searching the dead man's body for the flash drive. The man on the phone asks him how far he is in the search and becomes more and more impatient. They also confirm to the butler that the man did not have any other belongings since they were tailing him since before he got on the train. They reveal that the dead man screamed that something about "exclusive data that will bring truth to light" and Iori thinks that it must be related to the Tsurugi allegations. The voice over the phone then reminds Iori of the fate of Momiji should he fail his mission and asks him to search faster as there is only one hour left before reaching Tokyo.
The story then shifts to 3 years ago, at the summer villa the Ooka family recently bought. Iori, special agent of the PSB, defeats the last man in a group of thugs that entered the mansion in search of Mr. Ooka, the former Prime Minister of Japan. His superior calls him on the phone and asks for backup since two or three thugs barricaded themselves in the mansion annex with a hostage, but Iori declines, because he sustained a serious slash injury on his right arm. He stops the bleeding by making a tourniquet with his necktie and then heads to the kitchen and finds an underground storage in which he plans to rest for 30 minutes. As soon as he gets inside, he hears a sound and points his gun at it, before realizing that it is a young girl, Momiji Ooka, the granddaughter of Prime Minister Ooka. She hid in the storage to surprise the butler before he would prepare the tea, but he never came. Iori reveals that the reason he was there was because he was to protect the former Prime Minister for his seven-day vacation at the villa, but when they arrived, they were ambushed by a gang of thugs who thought that PM Ooka was there. Momiji says that her grandfather is not here and that she came here alone with her grandfather's car because she wanted to come see the new villa. Iori chuckles, realizing that the thugs thought that the Ooka came in his private car, but it was in fact only his granddaughter. Iori then receives a call from two agents heading towards the annex as backup and asks them to help him protect Momiji when she leaves the storage. He then dozes off, but is woken up by a loud sound. Three new criminals entered the building and Iori realizes he slept an hour instead of 30 minutes. He then hears the three thugs saying that they will kill the girl because the Prime Minister is not there and they were fooled. Inside the storage, Iori realizes that Momiji still has not left and is still hanging tight to him. She also covered his slash wound with her band-aids and turned off his alarm to let him sleep some more. When asked why, she says : "The Bigger can serve as the smaller, but even the smaller can serve as the bigger." The three thugs hear the voices from the storage and stand on it and knock on it. Momiji whispers to Iori that there are three criminals, including one that has not talked much. She attributes her ability to hear better to the fact that she plays karuta. As soon as the thieves open the trap door, Iori knocks out one of the thugs and kicks the second thug who was behind him. He does not see the third one, but just before he can attack him with his long sword, Iori turns back and kicks him unconscious. The second thug manages to wake up and escapes, not before saying that "[he] will pay for this, Iori-san of the PSB". The two agents from the PSB then arrive and help Iori.
Back to the train, Iori resumes his thoughts and remembers clearly that this voice on the phone is the same as that second thug that escaped. He checks the dead man's ballpoint pen again and notices a gap in the blood trace between clicker and the body of the pen, and realizes that the man must have written something before dying. He sees a tiny bloodstained hole in his pants and realized the man wrote on his body through his pants before dying. After taking the pants off the body, he sees a small squiggly symbol, which he recognizes as Waseda-style shorthand (早稲田式速記)[2]. He deciphers the symbol and the characters make out "く つ し た" (Ku, Tsu, Shi, Ta), meaning "socks". He then takes a look at the victim's socks and there is not USB key, but he notices an imprint on the foot similar to the shape of a USB key.
Heiji then arrives and interrupts Iori and tells him that they have ordered drinks and asks if he wants some. At the same time, he shows his phone conversation with Conan along with the USB key that he was looking for, and he and Conan who's on the phone surreptitiously propose him some help and ask him to answer some questions, while disguising it as Heiji asking him if he wants juice, which Iori responds by yes. Now that Iori can be helped by Conan and Heiji secretly without the man on the phone knowing, will the case be solved ?!
Continuity
Referencing
- The Butler and the Mystery (Manga: Volume 104, file 11 (1113)) : Flashback to the knife above Momiji and the death of Tsurugi's secretary.
See also
References
- ^ In America, it was still June 13th when the release was made. https://www.viz.com/vizmanga/case-closed-chapter-1114/chapter/39226?action=read
- ^ Type of shorthand used in Japan and invented in 1930 by Wataru Kawaguchi of the Waseda College of Stenography (早稲田速記医療福祉専門学校). It later became popular in education by correspondence in Japan. Shorthand refers to a type of writing where words are abreviated as symbols to make writing quicker. It is commonly used in courtrooms to record deliberations.
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