Volume 3

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Volume 3
Information
Release date:	October 18, 1994
Chapters:
ISBN:	ISBN 4-09-123373-2
Publisher:	Shogakukan
English release date:	January 4, 2005
English ISBN:	ISBN 1-59116-589-X
English Publisher:	Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
Hercule Poirot Kogoro Mouri
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Volume 3 was released on October 18, 1994 in Japan. The book contained only two stories, the Hatamoto Family Case and the Monthly Present Case.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Professor Agasa Shinichi Kudo

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Hatamoto Family Case

Characters introduced

Natsue Hatamoto
	22 years old Second daughter of Gozo Hatamoto's deceased eldest son, Shoichi

Joji Hatamoto
	41 years old French chef

Gadgets introduced

Stun-Gun Wristwatch
	Contains a single tranquilizer dart that can put someone to sleep

File 020 - The Hatamoto Family

Conan and Ran enjoy the view from a luxury cruise ship, the Hatamoto family who had rented the boat completely to themselves were charitably giving them a ride back to Tokyo since Kogoro forgot the departure time of their original boat. Conan and Ran notice another passenger, Natsue Hatamoto,who was crying over the railing the ship. Natsue says that she is thinking about her parents who were killed in an accident last year. Just as she is saying that she wants to put on a happy face, she is joined by a man, Takeshi Hatamoto, who turns out to be her new husband. Natsue explains that they just got married on Hatamoto island, the island that everyone just came from. The island is owned by their family and that they use the land to honor their ancestors and because of that, it is a tradition that all members of the family get married on that island. Just then the yelling of Gozo Hatamoto, the head of the family, can be heard directed at his son-in-law Kitaro Hatamoto, husband to the eldest daughter Mariko, about their being people on the boat that are not of the Hatamoto family. Gozo calls Kitaro out on deciding things for himself rather than listening to orders. Natsue's uncle, Joji Hatamoto, muses that Gozo's bad mood is likely from Joji cooking Western rather than traditional food. Both Natsue and Takeshi try to complement him on his food, but Joji asks Takeshi about the flower in his pocket. Takeshi says that Natsue picked it for him on the way back from the wedding ceremony. Natsue says that it was her dream to give the flower that only blooms on that island to the person she loves. From a distance Ichiro Hatamoto, Natsue's cousin, sketches her on a canvas. Gozo notices this and calls him out on it saying "like father, like son" and that he should stop trying to pretend to be an artist. He then asks that Takeshi come to his room later to talk and walks off. After he leaves, the disdain his descendants feel for him is revealed as Kitarou's wife: Mariko, Natsue's older sister: Akie, and Akie's husband: Tatsuo, argue over who will inherit everything after Gozo finally dies. Tatsuo claims to have threatened the butler, Kenji Suzuki, and found out what Gozo is going to do with the company assess that the Hatamoto family owns. Akie whispers shocking information to Mariko and mentions that there is only the twenty-four hours of the cruise to try to change anything.

Later that night, Takeshi goes to Gozo's room just like he was asked. Gozo first compliments Takeshi before pointing out one of his habits of scratching his face when he blushes. He says that Takeshi's habit is similar to that of his father's, Isao Zaiki. Gozo calls him on his fake identity and asks for his demands. To avenge his father?, money?, Gozo's life? This conversation is overheard by a shadowy person in the hallway. In another part of the ship Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and about half of the Hatamoto family sit in the dining area drawing up a family tree of the Hatamoto family. Natsue says that her whole family was at the wedding ceremony, except her dead father: Shouichi, and mother: Miyuki. Natsue notes that Takeshi is late coming back from Gozo's room and Akie says that Natsue is thinking about suspicious things. Other members of the family start coming into the room, but Takeshi and Gozo are still absent. Natsue asks Ran if she also has a sweetheart to which she says that she does and looks over at Conan for confirmation, since she told him previously. Ran then begins to describe Shinichi as "really smart, good at soccer, and ready to help at any time" as well as "a better detective than my father". Upon hearing that Kogoro is a detective everyone in the Hatamoto family turned in shock. Gozo apparently hates detectives. The butler walks off to try to find Gozo and finds Takeshi's flower on the floor in the hallway outside Gozo's room, the door is locked. Takeshi finally shows up to the dinning area and Natsue notices that his flower is missing. The butler uses his key to open Gozo's door and lets out a scream. Everyone rushes to the room and sees Gozo on the floor, dead from a chest wound.

File 021 - The Secret of the Impenetrable Room

Conan declares murder.

Kogoro leans down to confirm Gozo's death while Hatamoto family members look on. Natsue tries to run into the room but is stopped when Kogoro exclaims that no one is to enter the room until he says that it is okay. Because rigor mortis of the jaw had not set in yet, but the pupils had begun to dilate and the body temperature is dropping, Kogoro says that Gozo only died about 40-50 mins ago. Ran says that her dad's detailed description is because he used to work as a detective for a police homicide department. Kogoro asks Kenji the butler if he has an alibi, and Ran confirms that he was working in the dining area around 40-50 mins ago at 8pm. Kenji then says that the door was locked and that he is the only one who had a key to that room. Because none of the windows were open, it makes the room a sealed room. Several of the Hatamoto family members begin to think that it was suicide and that he chose to do so on this trip because his corrupted business had caught up with him. Natsue and Joji seem to disagree with this. Kogoro then points out that if it were a suicide that there would be a weapon found in the room. Tatsuo and Akie continue to think up ways that it could be suicide and that Gozo may be trying to cast doubt on the family. Even Joji seems to change his mind and think that it could be a suicide. However, Conan declares that it was definitely a murder and points to some blood drops that were on the floor of the door frame. This meant that Gozo was stabbed while the door was open and that its possible that Gozo closed and locked the door to get away from his attacker. Because this is the most likely scenario, any one of the people on the boat could have done it. However just before the time of the crime, Kogoro, Conan, Ran, Natsue, and Kenji were all in the dining hall. This meant that the killer was any one of the remaining Hatamoto family members, except Natsue, making seven suspects.

Kogoro then asks Kenji if he had noticed anything when he first came to the room. Kenji then produces the flower that Takeshi previously had been wearing in his pocket and says that it was on the floor in front of the door. With suspition cast on Takeshi, everyone begins to point out that he is a strong suspect being that he was late to the dining hall, very pale looking, and that Mariko had overheard the conversation about him using a fake identity, that he is the son of Isao Zaiki. Kitaro explains that Isao was the president of the Zaiki corporation and committed suicide after Gozo took over his company ten years ago. Isao's only remaining son was then placed in custody somewhere. Kogoro then begins his deduction on how Takeshi tried to avenge his father by marrying Natsue and becoming a member of the Hatamoto family and waited for a chance to kill Gozo. Takeshi confirms that he is Isao's son but denies killing Gozo, Natsue runs off crying. Takeshi tries to give chase but is stopped by Joji. The family continue to accuse him while Conan looks for more clues. He asks Kenji about where the flower was when he found it. Then Conan notices something odd in the blood splatter.

File 022 - The Location of the Inheritance

The odd thing that Conan found in the blood was a piece of bread crust. He asks Kenji if the wedding's feast had any bread as part of the meal. Kenji says that they had magnificent French cuisine with bread, made by Joji since he is the manager of a French restaurant. Everyone ate the mean except for Gozo who disliked Western style food, especially bread which made him sick. Conan remarks that if Joji is a chef that he must have his own kitchen knives and Kenji says that a as a child that Conan needs to stop prying. Elsewhere on the boat Tatsuo, Akie, Joji, and Kogoro lock Takeshi into a storage room that locks from the outside. Tatso asks Kogoro if everything they have is enough to convict him and Kogoro points out that they still haven't found the murder weapon, but that it may have been thrown into the ocean.

Once the whole group was back together Akie points out to Mariko how lucky she is that Takeshi killed Gozo. Because Mariko is the eldest daughter of the family, her husband stands to take over the Hatamoto Group company, which means that her son can paint as much as he wants because he will eventually gain control of the company after his father. Joji asks them to stop talking about money on the same night that their family member died, but then Mariko gossips more. Joji had left the Hatamoto Group to become a chef and still came back to ask Gozo for money for the restaurant, but was rejected immediately. Then Kenji interjects. Apparently Gozo had created a will that was to be used in the case of an accident that will be made in a few days from the company headquarters. They come to the conclusion that all of the inheritance will go to Natsue. Kenji says that the company will be handed over to the person of Natsue's choosing. Tatsuo gets really angry and reveals that he only married Akie for her money. Kogoro remarks that they shouldn't get all worked up because the criminal was caught and Joji walks away laughing saying that they all got screwed over in the end.

Ran confronts Natsue outside. Natsue is in a deep dispair saying that she believed in Takeshi and that she allowed him to marry her and kill her grandfather. She says that she can't believe in him anymore. Ran refuses this, and says that for some reason she doesn't think that Takeshi is bad person, because he choose Natsue. Just then Conan hears a strange noise from the lower deck like the sound of something hitting the water, followed by a thudding noise. Ran and Natsue follow Conan down to where they discover Tatsuo's body. Kogoro pronounces him dead, however this causes a problem, the supposed killer Takeshi, is still locked in a room. When they get to the room they find the door unlocked and Takeshi gone.

File 023 - Family Obliteration

Akie holds tightly to her husband Tatsuo's body. Conan, Kogoro, and Joji return from the storage room to report that Takeshi had escaped. Ran reports to her father that she and Natsue were the ones to discover the body due to Conan hearing a sound on the lower deck. The sound was like something hitting water, followed by a thudding sound. The cause of Tatsuo's death was ruled to be brain damage caused from a blow to the head by something like a steel pipe. Kogoro explains that the thudding noise was when Tatsuo was hit and the water sound must have been the killer throwing the weapon into the sea. Because of the chance of the killer being still on the boat being still being high, Kogoro suggests that they all gather in the dining hall. Kogoro says that since Takeshi is the killer and killing for revenge that he may come after the rest of the family.

While in the dining hall Akie begins to blame Natsue for her husbands death. Mariko points out that since Natsue's husband has killed Gozo, all of the inheritance falls to Natsue. She says that she doesn't want anything to do with the money. Then Conan makes his announcement, "Takeshi hasn't been proven to be the killer". Conan points out that Takeshi was locked in a room that is locked from the outside and that someone on the outside must have opened it for him. There must have been an "accomplice". (Takeshi is shown hiding in the engine room gasping for breath). Kogoro points out that at the time Tatsuo was killed everyone except Natsue was on their own and anyone of them could have released him. Akie demands to know why she is being suspected in her own husbands murder when Mariko pipes up and declares that she knows that Akie was seeing another man. Akie counters that her earlier argument with Tatsuo was about inheritance and that Mariko was the one who made a bigger fuss about that. Natsue tries to calm them down and Ran happens to observe Ichiro's drawings. Ichiro had been sketching Natsue during this argument. Akie then accuses Ichiro of killing Gozo for destroying his painting that had been entered into a contest. She also accuses his father Kitaro. Kogoro breaks up the argument and says they will arrive to Tokyo in half a day and that Takeshi will have no where to run and they will find the truth then.

Ichiro excuses himself to go to the restroom but is stopped. Ichiro says he will be fine because he is not a coward like his father. This prompts Conan to ask Kenji if anything had happened between Gozo and Kitaro. Kenji explains that Kitaro wanted to leave the Hatamoto family as he did not have the ambition to become the manager of a company, which made Gozo really mad. However even if Gozo had not resisted, his wife Mariko would not forgive him. Time ticks by and Joji brings up an idea. Maybe the person who let Takeshi out of the storage room was Tatsuo himself. Currently the inheritance all goes to Natsue, but Tatsuo wanted some of that inheritance. He could have gone to the room to figure out a way to create a false story to get Takeshi off the hook for murder as long as he was willing to hand over the inheritance. Takeshi then could pretend to agree and then kill Tatsuo on the lower deck. Then Kitaro points out that it has been more than 20 minutes already and Ichiro has not come back from the bathroom. As they prepare to go check on him a blackout occurs. Many of them fumble around in the darkness until arriving at the bathroom door as soon as the lights come back on. Ichiro is on the floor of the bathroom bleeding from his leg.

File 024 - Trap-Springer In The Dark

Kogoro hit by the stun-dart.

Ichiro's parents rush to his aid. Ran says that the wound looks shallow and that if you treat it quickly it should be okay. Natsue rushes off to find the medical kit. Ichiro denies seeing his attacker. He says the lights went out and that it felt like someone was there with him and suddenly he was stabbed. Conan asks specifically if he could see his attackers face and Ichiro says that it was pitch black, no lights at all. Then they notice Joji's knife on the ground nearby covered in blood. (Even in the Japanese version of the volume, the knife is engraved "George H." presumably because he was a Western Chef). Joji denies that he attacked Ichiro and that the attacker used the darkness to attack. Because everyone else on the boat was in the dining room, the only person that could have attacked Ichiro is Takeshi who is roaming around the ship. Then Kogoro interuprs and says that there is another way and for everyone except Natsue, Ran, and Ichiro to follow him to the power room.

In the power room they find that a candle timing mechanism had been set up to make the power go off at a certain time. Once the candle had burned through a piece of rope, the weight attached to the power lever would fall and pull the breaker switch off. After this explanation he again says that any one of the remaining family members could have rigged up this switch, as well as Takeshi. The remaining family members return to the dining hall while Kogoro, Ran, Conan, and Kenji serch the ship for Takeshi. Conan comes up with the idea to search the personal rooms of the family members. They start with Mariko and Kitaro's room. Kenji reveals to them that Mariko and Kitaro are cousins that have had a really good relationship ever since they were children. This was yet another thing that Gozo was very violently in opposition towards. In Joji's room they find his knife case, which is missing two knives. The first one was found when Ichiro was stabbed, but where is the other one? In Ichiro's room they find a canvas with another drawing of Natsue. Ran flips through several other drawings that are also of Natsue. Conan picks up several items and asks Ran what they are. It turns out they are charcoal pencils and a clump of something being used as an eraser. They check Natsue's room and then move to Akie's room and don't see him. When considering the idea that he may not be on the ship, Conan opens the closet doors and then quickly slams them shut again. When Kogoro asks if he had found something he says that he didn't and holds his arms out to block the closet. On the way back Conan asks Kenji a question which we don't hear. Kenji then says that only he and Gozo knew about what ever the question pertained to. Conan recounts the three incidents...

• Gozo was murdered in his cabin, found nearby was a piece of bread, but no weapon
• Tatsuo was murdered on the lower deck, along with a water sound and then a thudding sound, no weapon
• Ichiro stabbed in the pitch blackness of the bathroom with absolutely no lights.

Conan comes to his conclusion but is limited for time because of the boat fast approaching Tokyo. He then pulls out his new gadget from Agasa, the Stun-Gun Wristwatch. He lures Kogoro back into Akie's room and tranquilizes him. Conan then informs Ran that her dad has something really important to say and that everyone needs to meet at Akie's room in about 10 minutes. He hurries back inside and adjusts Kogoro so that he is propped up in a chair and adjusts his Voice-Changing Bowtie to Kogoro's setting, no.59. When everyone arrives he announces in Kogoro's voice that he knows who the Criminal is.

File 025 - The Dream That Will Not Come True

Conan impersonates Kogoro with the bow-tie.

Joji, Mariko, and Akie continue to accuse Takeshi of the crimes, but Conan-as-Kogoro tells them not to be so hasty and that they need to re-examine the evidence.

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• Gozo was stabbed in a cabin room locked from the inside. From the blood on the door frame he concludes that the criminal stabbed him and he fled into the room and locked the door. Then there was a flower found outside the room which causes a problem with Takeshi being the killer. Gozo was stabbed outside the room but no blood was found in the hall. If the killer had dropped it in the heat of the action and ran off, who cleaned up the blood? However if the killer had stayed and cleaned the blood they would notice they dropped the flower. This meant that the killer dropped it there on purpose to frame Takeshi.
• Tatsuo was beaten to death on the deck but there was no weapon to be found and no proof. Nothing suggests that it was a planned murder. (Conan holds up the case of knives showing two knives missing). The key here are the two sounds Conan heard. The thudding sound was the murder occurring so what was the water sound before it? This was the sound of something being thrown into the water. The killer was disposing of the knife used to stab Gozo, but was witnessed by Tatsuo and killed for it. the store room was locked from the outside so there is no way that Takeshi got out on his own. The murderer let him out to cast further suspicion.

To let Takeshi explain himself, Conan orders him to show himself. He comes out of Akie's closet. He says that heard Natsue scream (upon finding Tatsuo's body) and thought that she was in trouble and realized the door was unlocked. He ran to the deck and saw that Tatsuo had been murdered and though that he would be blamed again. Since then he had been hiding in Akie's closet. Then comes the third incident. The killer's bubble of protection became removed because someone would realize that Takeshi was let out by someone else and that there was an "accomplice". He came up with another plan to cast suspicion away from himself.

• Ichiro was then stabbed in the pitch dark bathroom. Ichiro's exact words after being stabbed were that it was "pitch black" and he "couldn't see the face of the attacker", there was "no light at all". This is problematic because then the attacker could not see either, but still managed to hit him. Unlike the first two crimes, the weapon was found at the scene because he couldn't carry it off.

The person who stabbed Ichiro in the darkness was Ichito Hatamoto himself. This also meant that Ichiro was the one that killed Gozo and Tatsuo as well. The darkness was created so that he didn't have to identify the person who attacked him. If Takeshi would somehow be found innocent, then identifying Takeshi as the attacker would be found out to be a lie. The proof that Ichiro committed the crimes was a piece of bread left at the first crime scene. Because he is an art student and was doing a charcoal sketch before the murder occurred, he would have been using clumps of bread as an eraser. Bread crumbs would have accumulated in his shirt cuff and fallen off during the first murder. To top it off the piece of bread found has traces of charcoal still on it. No one could have set him up for the crime because Gozo quickly shut the door, meaning that the killer could not have planned to drop the bread. The motive for the crime was not discovered until the very end. Conan holds up Ichiro's sketch book which is full of images of Natsue. Out of embarasment of his family seeing the pictures he grabs the sketches from them. Ichiro was in love with Natsue, his cousin. He had gone to Gozo to ask for the ability to marry her but was turned down. Gozo had agreed to let Natsue marry Takeshi just to spite him. Earlier when he was sketching Natsue at the beginning, Gozo had told him to give up on his dream referring to his love for Natsue not his art. (The "like father, like son" comment was because Ichiro's own parents were cousins as well). He cast suspicion onto Takeshi for taking away his one true love. The ship then arrives at Tokyo as the red sun shines down on the family's day of grief and despair.

People

Natsue Hatamoto
	22 years old Second daughter of Gozo Hatamoto's deceased eldest son, Shoichi

Takeshi Hatamoto
	24 years old Natsue's husband Married into the Hatamoto family Originally "Takehiko Zaiki"

Gozo Hatamoto
	Victim (stabbed) 72 years old Director of the Hatamoto group Head of the Hatamoto clan

Kitaro Hatamoto
	47 years old Mariko's husband Vice-president of Hatamoto Construction Married into the Hatamoto family

Joji Hatamoto
	41 years old Gozo Hatamoto's second son French chef

Ichiro Hatamoto
	Victim (wounded) 21 years old Only son of Kitaro and Mariko Hatamoto Art student

Mariko Hatamoto
	43 years old Gozo Hatamoto's eldest daughter Kitaro's wife

Akie Hatamoto
	26 years old Daughter of Gozo Hatamoto's eldest son, Shoichi Natsue's older sister

Tatsuo Hatamoto
	Victim (beaten) 26 years old Akie's husband Musician Married into the Hatamoto family

Kenji Suzuki
	64 years old Hatamoto family butler

Monthly Presents Case

File 026 - The Curious Presents

Ran suspects Conan.

Ran receives a letter from Natsue Hatamoto of the Hatamoto Family Case, which mentions Shinichi as Ran's "detective boyfriend". Ran is pleasantly embarrassed, then wonders what happened to Shinichi, since he seems to have disappeared for too long to merely be on a tough case. Her thoughts are interrupted by a new client, who arrives bearing a small mountain of toys that accidentally drop onto Conan. He offers Conan a hand up, revealing a crease in the pad of his index finger, and then explains to Kogoro that he has been receiving one million yen and several toys every month for the last two years. His son just turned five, and enjoys the toys, but he hasn't been able to determine the sender and dares not touch the money. Conan asks whether it was one of the man's patients. After the man confirms he is a surgeon but none of the patients he could think of had sent the gifts, Conan explains that he knew without being told due to the scar-creases on the man's forefingers and the smell of disinfectant.

Ran is impressed and then unsettled at how Conan deduced just like Shinichi, but decides the connection is impossible. The surgeon also received a strange note that accompanied the last money payment, claiming the source will soon take what he's paid for. Conan comments on the oddity of the toys' lack of modern barcodes and used nature, which Kogoro realizes is unusual and must be deliberate, though he doesn't know why. Ran, watching the exchange, realizes that Conan led Kogoro's conclusions, and her suspicions renew.

File 027 - The Same Person

Kogoro dismisses the presents as a prank, but Dr. Ogawa is concerned that the supposed sender is an alias. The only clue is the letter, which Conan suggests refers to buying something - perhaps, Dr. Ogawa realizes, a valuable painting at the hospital. Kogoro latches onto the idea. At the hospital, Dr. Ogawa receives morning glories from the same anonymous sender, as he has on August 3rd for the last two years. Conan suggests to Kogoro checking Dr. Ogawa's patient medical records for anything significant on past August 3rd, which Ogawa reluctantly allows. Kogoro finds nothing useful in the records and leaves to examine the painting. Conan opts to stay behind.

Ran, still suspicious, pretends to leave and secretly observes Conan reviewing the records himself, completely unlike a child. Ran recalls Conan's behavior on previous cases, similar to Shinichi, and how Conan arrived the day Shinichi disappeared. Determined to make sure, Ran goes to ask Conan about his progress, and after Conan explains what he's found about the patients on August 3rd of three years ago, compliments him as if he were Shinichi. Conan starts to react to the compliment before he realizes with shock who Ran, now glaring, has accused him of being.

File 028 - The Mystery of August 3rd

Ran declares that she knows Conan must be Shinichi. Conan, panicking at the thought that his identity might get out to the men in black, grabs a "Gameman" and a video game cartridge and pretends to love playing it like any kid would. Ran isn't convinced, but then remembers several embarrassing moments if Shinichi were Conan after all, including how she confessed her feelings.

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As Ran is frozen with potential embarrassment, Conan realizes that the high score names on the game, Tomoya Ogino, matches a five-year-old boy who died on Dr. Ogawa's operating table three years ago on August 3rd. Conan realizes the implication and yells for Ran to retrieve Kogoro and Dr. Ogawa immediately, which convinces Ran that she's right even as she obeys. Conan explains his conclusions:

• Tomoya's father, Mr. Ogino, is sending is sending money and Tomoya's used toys every month, and also the morning glory flowers on the anniversary of his son's death. Mr. Ogino blames Dr. Ogawa for Tomoya's death and sends the 'gifts' out of resentment.
• The letter speaks of a transaction, which means Mr. Ogino will take the life of Dr. Ogawa's son, Yuta, in revenge, on the same day Tomoya died - today, August 3rd.

Dr. Ogawa attempt to check on Yuta at his kindergarten near the hospital reveals that a man pretending to be Yuta's father just picked him up. Knowing they must still be nearby, Conan runs off to search on foot, followed by the others. At Beika park, Yuta happily receives a present from Mr. Ogino, who confirms Yuta's question that he'll take Yuta to a nice place very soon. As Yuta is distracted opening the gift, the man pulls out a knife hidden beneath his coat.

File 029 - Safe Before Your Eyes

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As Mr. Ogino prepares to send Yuta to join Tomoya in death, Conan and the other race across a raised bridge passing alongside Beika park. Dr. Ogawa sees Yuta and Mr. Ogino with the knife, but there's no way to get down into the park in time. Conan sees to boys playing with a soccer ball behind them, and uses his Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes to kick the ball past the horrified watchers and on to knock the knife straight out of Mr. Ogino's hand, shattering another tree in the process. Ran notices Conan on the ground afterwards and wonders if he did it, but there's no time to think further as they hurry down to where Yuta is.

Agasa creates Conan's alibi.

Mr. Ogino recovers the knife before they arrive, and threatens Yuta with it, claiming that Dr. Ogawa made a mistake responsible for killing Yuta and that he could never understand the feelings of a man who lost his son so young. He confirms that he sent the money, which was from Tomoya's life insurance, and the toys. Dr. Ogawa begs Mr. Ogino to hurt him instead if he must, rather that Yuta. Mr. Ogino seems too angry until Yuta finally realizes that Mr. Ogino sent the toys, and happily thanks him with a smile that reminds Mr. Ogino of Tomoya. Overcome, Mr. Ogino drops the knife and falls to his knees, crying, and admits that he was wrong. Kogoro order Ran to call the police, but Dr. Ogawa asks them not too, as he understands Mr. Ogino's feelings as a fellow father.

Returning to the Agency, Kogoro wonders why Mr. Ogino waited two years, which Conan unthinkingly dismisses as obviously wanting Yuta to be the same age as Tomoya first. Ran calls Conan on being "brilliant as always", which Conan nervously dismisses and then runs off with the excuse he has something to do. When he finally returns after dark, Kogoro is out and Ran offers to make dinner. She mentions a teacher from middle school while Conan is distracted reading a magazine, and he replies with a comment Conan shouldn't have known enough to make. Ran demands that he admit his identity, only for the phone to ring. Conan convinces her to reluctantly answer it, and the caller appears to be Shinichi, though it's really Agasa with the Voice-Changing Bowtie. Ran is more than happy to believe the alibi and her mood instantly improves, to Conan's relief and Agasa's silent chagrin.

People

Masayuki Ogawa
	Surgeon Yuta's father

Mr. Ogino
	Father of Tomoya Ogino

Yuta Ogawa
	5 years old Son of Dr. Ogawa

Trivia

• The video game Conan plays during the Monthly Presents Case is called Yaiba's Great Adventure, a reference to one of Gosho's earlier manga. The magazine Conan reads after he gets home is Shōnen Sunday, which Detective Conan is serialized in.
• The title for each chapter are worded as the following in Case Closed:

• File 021 - The Secret of the Locked Room
• File 022 - Who Gets the Fortune?
• File 023 - Family Massacre
• File 024 - Who Rigged the Darkness?
• File 025 - Unattainable Dream
• File 026 - A Strange Gift
• File 027 - The Same Person
• File 028 - The Mystery of August 3rd
• File 029 - The Nick of Time

• In ViZ's translation of this volume, Joji Hatamoto is occasionally referred to as "George", his name in FUNimation's dub of the anime. In addition to this, even in the Japanese version of the volume Joji Hatamoto's knife is labeled with the name "George H." presumably because he is a Western chef.

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See also

• Manga
• Volume 1-10
• Detective Conan