Volume 88

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Volume 88
Information
Release date:	December 18, 2015
Chapters:
ISBN:	ISBN 978-4-09-126540-1
Publisher:	Shogakukan
Featured Detective & Keyhole
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Kogoro Mouri Yoko Okino Ryusuke Higo Inspector Megure Detective Takagi Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Masumi Sera Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Sayo Ohashi Katsumasa Ogura Unknown child (background) Yumi Miyamoto Naeko Miike Shukichi Haneda Detective Sato Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Shinichi Kudo (background) Inspector Yamamura Rei Furuya Azusa Enomoto Shuichi Akai (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

A Secret of the Big Couple

File 927 - Illusion in the Back Room

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Conan tranquilizes Kogoro and reveals that the culprit is Akimichi Yamada. He killed Asuka during the second search when he went down to the storage room, then used Higo's and Asuka's phones for the trick, as well as a vacuum, a vacuum compression bag, Asuka's clothes, and the corkscrew from his sommelier's knife. Ai finds a discarded phone and bag to provide the evidence. Yamada killed Asuka because Asuka had discovered that he was a fraud who wanted to expand the business with the extra money he'd accrued by buying cheap wine that he presented as expensive.

Higo and Yoko are not dating each other—the watch they were looking at on the cover of the tabloid article was a mutual gift for a retiring high school teacher of theirs, and they were meeting with Asuka to ask him to write a message on the watch.

Ai is thanked by Higo for finding the evidence, and says he's tempted to have her take Takahiro Sanada's place on Big Osaka. The next day, Ai seems determined to prove herself a soccer player, and is enjoying Yoko's music again.

People

Teiya Asuka
	Victim (throat slit) 31 years old Former football player Ryusuke's acquaintance

Akimichi Yamada
	43 years old Sommelier

Reiko Banba
	27 years old Waitress Konoe's ex-girlfriend Asuka's girlfriend

Yasuto Konoe
	28 years old Waiter Banba's ex-boyfriend

A Killer in Ramen Ogura

File 928 - The Strange Customers of the Ramen Restaurant

Ran, Sonoko, Masumi, and Conan were walking home after school, talking about last night's ramen show and the ramen that made it to the finals. The girls decide to have ramen for dinner, and Masumi recommends going to the restaurant which has "ramen that's so terrific, it's to die for", which is the same restaurant Conan and Kogoro went before. (They also went to the previous restaurant in Haido City to eat dinner, and they solved a poisoning murder case. After that case, the restaurant moved to Beika City.)

As they ate, Conan notices three other people eating in the restaurant: Yuna Shono, Sosuke Mizushina, and Osamu Nakanishi. After those three left, Conan asks Sayo Ohashi about them, and she and Katsumasa Ogura tell them they were suspects of a robbery-murder which resulted in the death of a woman in the neighborhood. Though those three were released, two policewomen still suspect them, as they stop by this restaurant every day. The two of them turn out to be Yumi Miyamoto and Naeko Miike, who suddenly walk into the restaurant and ask Sayo whether any of those three acted like they got richer. She tells Yumi they acted normally.

When Ran asks the policewomen what they were doing, they tell the whole group they cornered the culprit of the robbery-murder into this restaurant. A week ago, they were patrolling a neighborhood in their car and noticed a suspicious person in front of a house. They attempted to capture that person but had no luck. However, that day there was a meeting for all of the shop owners, so the streets were empty and all the stores had their lights shut off... except for the ramen restaurant! They went into that restaurant, saw Yuna, Sosuke, and Osamu, and detained those three people. At the same time, they told Detectives Sato and Takagi to go that house where the suspicious person was in front of, only to learn that a woman who owns that house lied dead in front of the entrance. The window of the house was broken, and inside was a mess. Since the woman was a hostess, and she came home to get something she had forgotten, the policewomen speculate that she surprised a robber on the front porch was killed in the process.

Logically, the culprit would be the person who came in the restaurant last and looked like he or she was in a hurry. However, the day when the woman was killed, Yuma, Sosuke, and Osamu entered at around the same time, and the policewomen came in after quite some time. That was because Yumi tripped while chasing the suspicious person.

Here Ran, Sonoko, Masumi, and Conan learned that Katsumasa and Yumi knew each other because she and Shukichi Haneda used to come to this restaurant when it was back in Haido City. As Yumi ponders loudly about Shukichi, Masumi tells her about her older brother, who, like Shukichi, wears round glasses, likes ramen, has a stubble, and is excellent as memorizing things.

After a bit of conversation between the two, Yumi explains to everyone that she fell because the culprit threw a hose that was 2 m long and had a diameter of approximately 3 cm. She and Naeko believed at first that the hose was the murder weapon, because they saw the culprit swing the hose like a lasso on the front porch of the deceased woman's house. Additionally, there was tape residue on the tip of the hose, which suggests that something was attached to the hose and was used to beat the woman to death. However, there was no blood anywhere on the hose, so the policewomen dismissed that possibility.

File 930 - Excessive Seasoning

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Conan and Masumi arrive later at Ramen Ogura just after Sosuke Mizushina does. A couple then arrives, as well, and they start discussing the murder-robbery case. They begin to unravel the trick with Conan and Masumi's help, and imply indirectly that Sosuke Mizushina is actually the culprit. He runs to the bathroom and looks for the glass shards that he had retrieved with the hose vacuum trick and had hidden in the toilet water tank. Suddenly, Masumi kicks the door inn and the couple show him an arrest warrant, revealing themselves to be Takagi and Sato in disguise. It turns out that the one million yen earrings were in the soy sauce and Mizushina was trying to retrieve them by coming back to the shop and using as much sauce as he could until he found them.

As Mizushina is arrested, Masumi suddenly leaves and Ogura tells Conan that he wasn't able to give her her handkerchief back. It had the name "Mary" embroidered on it, which is the reason why he kept calling her "Mari", because he didn't know English very well and didn't know the correct pronunciation for the name was "Mearii". Conan thinks that Mary is the unknown child's name, but he then considers the option that it could be Sera's real name. He does recall a certain Mary in his memories, but can't remember exactly who she is.

People

Yuna Shono
	34 years old Hostess

Sosuke Mizushina
	29 years old Freeter

Osamu Nakanishi
	48 years old Company employee

Atsuko Tonda
	Deceased (blunt force trauma) Hostess

Takao
	Mysterious man

Satoko
	Mysterious woman

Zombie Movie Murder Case

File 931 - Zombie Blade

One night, Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are watching a zombie movie Kogoro rented. The next morning, Kogoro takes them on a drive to the rental villa that was used for that same movie. As Kogoro explores the villa, Heiji and Kazuha unexpectedly arrive as well.

Heiji and Kazuha tell the trio that there was a couple who also came to this villa on a pilgrimage, and after a while they drove off. They accidentally ram over something that flew in front of them; Kazuha describes that "something" to be a rotten zombie with a broken neck and tattered clothes. Heiji and Kazuha learned about this incident from Goro Otaki.

Later, the staff that filmed the movie Kogoro, Ran, and Conan watched last night arrive at the same villa to film the trailer for its sequel. Kogoro begins to act strangely, as if he became a zombie, but that was because on the way to the villa, Kogoro stopped and went into the forest. He was starving, and so he unknowingly bit a poisonous mushroom called Omphalotus Japonicus. The five of them had no choice but to borrow a room in the villa for Kogoro to rest in. Ran and Kazuha decide to quietly watch the filming.

After the filming, the staff wondered where Takashi Harawaki is, so Conan and Heiji went to search for him. In a room, they find his dead body, holding a cell phone that is still recording.

File 932 - Funeral Procession of the Departed

Conan and Heiji tell everyone that Takashi died from potassium cyanide poisoning about 30 minutes to an hour ago.

File 935 - The Darkest Place is Under the Candlesticks

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The culprit is Ria Kawabata.

People

Tetsuto Naito
	38 years old Movie director

Ria Kawabata
	29 years old Actress

Takashi Harawaki
	Victim (poison) 30 years old Producer

Kyoko Ejiri
	Victim (throat slit) 30 years old Camerawoman

Orie Baisho
	29 years old Lighting technician

Masahachi Ninomiya
	29 years old Soundman

Joji Naito
	Deceased (starvation) Tetsuto's younger brother

Girls Band Murder Case

Masumi remembers meeting a man nicknamed Scotch

Characters introduced

Scotch
	Member of the Black Organization Agent of the Secret Police

People

Someka Kibune
	25 years old Guitarist

Tadako Fuekawa
	24 years old Bass guitarist Vocalist

Rumi Kogure
	24 years old Keyboardist

Hagie Yamaji
	Victim (strangled) 25 years old Drummer Bandleader

Akane Shuto
	Deceased (suicide? or traffic accident?) Vocalist

See also

• Manga
• Volume 81-90
• Detective Conan