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=== File 010 - An Advantageous Shadow ===
 
=== File 010 - An Advantageous Shadow ===
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To keep [[Conan]]'s cover as a child, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] enrolls Conan in 1st grade at [[Teitan Elementary School]].He is embarrassed by the class calling his name funny but quickly goes to his seat. Bored by the simple curriculum, during P.E. Conan decides to test the new gadget Agasa gave to him earlier (the [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes]]), using moderate power while playing soccer. To his and his classmates shock, the soccer ball shoots through the goal net and knocks over a large tree. On his way home, grumbling to himself about Agasa's lack of moderation, Conan notices [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] shadowing someone. He tells Conan to go home but knocks over a trash can attracting the attention of the guy he is following. Out in Gunma Prefecture, Akaoni Village many people are celebrating Himatsuri (fire festival) by making a large bonfire, however they suddenly see a body emerge from the flames.  
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To keep [[Conan]]'s cover as a child, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] enrolls Conan in 1st grade at [[Teitan Elementary School]]. Bored by the simple curriculum, during P.E. Conan decides to test the new gadget Agasa gave to him earlier (the Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes), using moderate power while playing soccer. To his and his classmates shock, the soccer ball shoots through the goal net and knocks over a large tree. On his way home, grumbling to himself about Agasa's lack of moderation, Conan notices [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] shadowing someone.  
  
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After 3 days of easy work by following that man around, Kogoro receives payment of 500,000 yen. [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] wonders if Conan has brought them good luck, and when Kogoro asks how long Conan is going to be staying, explains that Agasa told her that Conan's parents are out of the hospital but left overseas on urgent business. Kogoro also finds Conan's face oddly familiar from when Ran was in gradeschool, but his train of thought is interrupted by a news report that Masaki Negishi age 42, the man Kogoro had been following, was found murdered at the fire festival in Akaoni Village.
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After 3 days of easy work, Kogoro receives payment of 500,000 yen. [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] wonders if Conan has brought them good luck, and when Kogoro asks how long Conan is going to be staying, explains that Agasa told her that Conan's parents are out of the hospital but left overseas on urgent business. Kogoro also finds Conan's face oddly familiar, but his train of thought is interrupted by a news report that Masaki Negishi, the man Kogoro had been following, was found murdered at the fire festival in Akaoni Village.
  
 
=== File 011 - A Perfect Alibi ===
 
=== File 011 - A Perfect Alibi ===
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Kogoro, Ran, and Conan go to the police station, where they find [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] questioning Yutaka Abe, the man who hired Kogoro to tail Masaki. He received 500,000,000 yen as the beneficiary of Masaki's life insurance policy. When asked why the person who wanted Masaki followed is receiving the life insurance Yutaka responds that it was a game. The two men had known each other for 20 years since college. Three months ago they had made a bet to see who would live longer. He said that he hired Kogoro because Masaki had been worried about his life being in danger. Yutaka excuses himself as the president of a small business he has to go back to work because he is busy, but asks if Kogoro could quickly find the person that killed his friend.
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Kogoro, Ran, and Conan go to the police station, where they find [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] questioning Yutaka Abe, the man who hired Kogoro to tail Masaki. He received 500 million yen as the beneficiary of Masaki's life insurance policy. He said that he hired Kogoro because Masaki had been worried about his life being in danger. Although Yutaku is the primary suspect for the murder, he has a perfect alibi - being out of the country when Masaki was found dead. Kogoro swears to expose Yutaka because Kogoro can't stand to be used as part of a killer's alibi, and they return home to examine the photos of Yutaku's trip and those photos Kogoro took while tailing Masaki. As he does, Kogoro grows suspicious of Conan's conveniently helpful innocent comments, but Conan distracts him by 'childishly' mixing the two photo batches together. With Kogoro distracted, Conan looks for a hint to break Yutaka's too-perfect alibi, and notices something about one of the photos.
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However Yutaka is the only suspect they have and his action of paying Kogoro such a large amount of money for a small job doesn't make any sense. Kogoro tells Ran and Conan that Yutaka's alibi is perfect and that he had been used to make it. Kogoro had been following Masaki until Wednesday night, and the body had been discovered on Thursday night in the fire. Therefore the murder must have happened sometime after he stopped tailing him. During that time Yutaka had flown to Kyushu on a company trip from Wednesday morning until Friday night making his alibi perfect. When examining the photos back at the agency Conan points out nearly every photo has a clock in it. As he does, Kogoro grows suspicious of Conan's conveniently helpful innocent comments, but Conan distracts him by 'childishly' mixing the two photo batches together. Ran asked if the person being tailed really was the man that was burned in the fire and Korogor reveals that the victim's ID card had been found on the ground near the bonfire and that the dental records were a match. Conan finds this to be weird because normally criminals would hide things like that to prevent identification. He begins to piece the clues together before picking up a photograph on the table which shocked him.
 
  
 
=== File 012 - The Picture Speaks ===
 
=== File 012 - The Picture Speaks ===
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Conan notices differences between some of the photographs of the Masaki that Kogoro took while he was following him. Then he lined them up by day and talked himself through the timeline again. He had found a crack in the alibi. Just then Kogoro squeezes his head and tells him to stop making mischief. Kogoro then announces that Yutaka's company is currently in debt by 300,000,000 yen which gives him a motive for killing Misaki for the life insurance. Then he plans to take the remaining money and take a vacation overseas, leaving at 9pm only 3 hours from now. Conan sneaks off to a local market to use his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to summon Kogoro and the police to Narita International Airport. While Kogoro and Ran search for Inspector Megure in the crowd, Conan sneaks off and makes it so that an announcement about a Yutaka Abe meeting a Masaki Negishi in the parking lot is heard over the loudspeakers. 
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Conan finds a discrepancy between some of the photos, but can't tell Kogoro without being suspicious. To solve the case, since Yutaka plans to pay off his company's debts and leave the country that night, Conan uses the [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to summon Kogoro and the police to Narita Airport.  
  
 
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While Kogoro and Megure figure out that neither of them actually cracked the alibi, Conan confronts Yutaka alone and explains how Yutaka faked the alibi. He revealed to him that Masaki actually died on Tuesday night before the company trip was supposed to start. The timeline went as follows: Kogoro began following the real Masaki on Monday, then again on Tuesday, the real Masaki was killed Tuesday night, Kogoro then followed a fake Masaki on Wednesday, and the body was discovered Thursday night. The body having been burned made it hard to approximate the time of death, meaning that Kogoro's statements would make it seem that he died on Wednesday night or Thursday morning. That way Yutaka could return on Friday from his trip and claim innocence.
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While they figure out that neither of them actually cracked the alibi, Conan confronts Yutaka alone and explains how Yutaka faked the alibi: Kogoro started following Masaki on Monday. Tuesday night, Yutaka murdered Masaki, but hired an impersonator to pretend to be Masaki through Thursday, when Masaki's body was found. When Yutaka returned on Friday from his three-day trip with photos suspiciously full of clocks he had an alibi that appeared solid, except for one thing:
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* The photos of Masaki on Monday and Tuesday show him as a right-handed person, while on Wednesday the fake Masaki was left-handed.
  
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Clues that lead Conan to this conclusion
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Because Conan is only a child, Yutaka admits to the truth but believes no one will believe Conan, until Conan reveals that he recorded the confession. Yutaka snaps at having been tricked, and Conan uses his shoes and a spare tire to leave Yutaka unconscious in the parking lot with the tape recorder playing. Kogoro and the police find him like that while Conan hides nearby. The next day, Kogoro mentions that Yutaka claimed he was beaten by a kid, and Conan is the closest child around... but Ran, seeing Conan asleep on the desk with the kid's TV show [[Yaiba]] playing, says it's impossible.
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#In the photographs he noticed that after Tuesday Masaki began using his left hand rather than his right indicating a fake
 
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#If Masaki had been killed on Tuesday before Yutaka left on his trip, then Yutaka no longer has a solid alibi
 
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Because Conan is only a child, Yutaka admits to the truth but believes no one will believe Conan, until Conan reveals that he recorded the confession. Yutaka snaps at having been tricked, and Conan uses his shoes and a spare tire to leave Yutaka unconscious in the parking lot with the tape recorder playing. Kogoro and the police find him like that while Conan hides nearby.  
 
 
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The next day, Kogoro mentions that Yutaka claimed he was beaten by a kid, and Conan is the closest child around... but Ran, seeing Conan asleep on the desk with the kid's TV show [[Yaiba]] playing, says it's impossible.
 
  
 
=== People ===
 
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=== File 013 - The Missing Man ===
 
=== File 013 - The Missing Man ===
 
[[File:Volume 2 File 013.jpg|125px|thumb|right|Masami Hirota]]
 
[[File:Volume 2 File 013.jpg|125px|thumb|right|Masami Hirota]]
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[[Conan]] heads over to [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]'s house and is reading the newspaper and comments on how the cases never stop coming. The headline of his newspaper reads that three criminals that have stolen 10 billion yen have not been caught yet. Conan then mentions that [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] will get all of the credit for cases he will solve. Agasa then hands him a new pair of [[Criminal Tracking Glasses]] that have the ability to track criminals with in a 20km radius. The tracker itself acts like a sticker and can be placed on Conan's jacket button for sake keeping. When Conan returns to the detective agency he finds a young woman named Masami Hirota begging Kogoro to find her father. She says that her father works away from home in Tokyo at a taxi company but has been missing for the past month. She says that looking for him has caused her to miss school in Yamagata. She pulls out a picture of her father and says that his name is Kenzou Hirota, 170cm tall and age 48. He has 4 cats named Kai, Tei, Gou, and Ou. Conan attempts to place the transmitter on [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] but trips on a cord and lands on the couch next to Masami. His tracking sticker lands on her watch. Masami begins crying saying that her mother died when she was little and that her father was her only relative. Over the next week Kogoro checks with the Taxi company and with several local stores but comes up empty. Conan notices that Kogoro has the horse races playing on TV in the background and that one of the horses is named "Goukaiteiou". He then puts together the names of the cats and comes to the same name. He passes it off as a coincidence but Ran thinks that the cats were named after the horse and that Kenzou must have loved horse racing. The three of them go down to the Tokyo Horse Racing Track and find Kenzou in minutes. Rather than approaching him, Kogoro suggests that they just follow him home and then tell Masami later. When Masami arrives Kogoro tells her that he was living in an appartment in Nerima, Tokyo. Conan notes that Masami has more makeup on and looks more grownup. Ran calms him by saying that she probably dressed up to see her father. When her father sees her approaching he stands shocked and drops his garbage bag. The two reunited walk back inside the appartment and Kogoro and Conan start to turn back. Then they notice a man in a large coat and sunglasses that appears to be stalking them but he leaves. The chapter ends with Kenzou Hirota hanging from the ceiling by a rope with his cats walking around his feet.
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While [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] fiddles with [[Conan]]'s glasses, Conan reads the newspaper headline of a 10 billion yen bank robbery and comments on the never-ending stream of crime — which, when Conan solves any, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] gets the credit for. After receiving the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses]] from Agasa, Conan returns to the Agency to find Masami Hirota begging Kogoro to find her father, Kenzou. Uninterested in searches, Conan decides to test his tracker-sticker on [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], but slips and accidentally puts it on Masami's watch. Ran and Kogoro assure Masami that they will find her father quickly, but only after a week has gone by does Conan realize that Kenzou named his four cats after a racehorse. Ran sees Conan's notes and convinces Kogoro to go to the racetrack, where they find Kenzou. Masami comes immediately at the news, though Conan notices she looks more grown-up than before. As they leave the two to their reunion, Conan sees a suspicious man watching them... and later that night, Kenzou hangs from a noose, dead.
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=== File 014 - The Sad Girl ===
 
=== File 014 - The Sad Girl ===
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Ran tries to call Masami Hirota to ask how everything turned out after reuniting with her dad, but can't seem to reach her because the phone number has been disconnected. Kogoro says that he never needed to call the number because she was always the one that called him. This gives them a bad feeling that is made worse when Conan comments that it's possible her father ran away again. The three rush over to the appartment that Kenzou Hirota had been living in only to discover from the landlady that he had died the night before. She also tells them that she wasn't aware that Kensou had a family and that he had paid for a whole years rent in advance in brand new bills. She thinks that it is possible that Masami may be dead as well because the inspector had told her that Kenzou was murdered. At the police station Kogoro learns from [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] that Kenzou was strangled before being hung from the ceiling and that fingerprints were found on both the rope and the ceiling that were not the victims. Megure things that the motive may have been money because everything was removed from the apartment except for the victim's cats. They do know that the hand prints around the victims neck show that the killer was a very large man. Also they had found Masami's glasses near the scene of the crime. Outside the mysterious man in a coat and sunglasses watches them leave the police station.
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When Ran can't reach Masami Hirota to ask how everything turned out, her bad feeling prompts Kogoro to take them back to the apartment where they found Kenzou Hirota — where they hear that Kenzou was found dead the night before. Kogoro learns from [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] that evidence suggests a near-giant of a man was the murderer, and no sign of Masami was found besides her glasses. As Kogoro tries to console Ran that Masami may not be dead, Conan suddenly remembers the tracker he put on Masami's watch, and goes off alone to find her. Just after he reaches the tracker's location, a Pachinko parlor, he runs into a giant man and is knocked of his feet. The glasses' batteries run out before he can recover and try to pinpoint Masami's location further. After a failed search, he returns home. Ran looks out the windows as she worries about Masami, and notices a tall, suspicious man who was following them the day before. Assuming he murdered Kenzou, Ran jumps out the second story window, chases the man to his car, and kicks out the window glass to apprehend him — only to learn that the man is also a private detective, who had been hired to find Kenzou by the giant man Conan encountered at the Pachinko parlor.
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While Kogoro tries to convince Ran that Masami could still be alive but kidnapped, Conan remembers that he accidentally dropped his tracking sticker onto her watch. Conan quickly switches on his glasses and runs towards the signal. This leads him to a crowded Pachinko parlor, just as the batteries run out he runs smack into a giant man who tells him not to run around so much. Conan continues to search the parlor but is thrown out by one of the workers. As Conan returns to the detective agency he finds Ran intently staring out the window. She noticed the strange man in the coat and sunglasses that had been tailing them ever since they had reunited Masami with her father. Before Kogoro and Conan could even get to the stairs, Ran jumps out the window and stops him from getting away by car. When Kogoro gets a hold of him, he reveals that he too is a detective and wondered if Kogoro had also been hired to look for Kenzou. The person who had hired him, however, was the giant man that Conan had bumped into in the Pachinko parlor.
 
  
 
=== File 015 - Follow the Giant! ===
 
=== File 015 - Follow the Giant! ===
 
[[File:Volume 2 File 015.jpg|175px|thumb|right|Holmes's ideals]]
 
[[File:Volume 2 File 015.jpg|175px|thumb|right|Holmes's ideals]]
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Back inside the detective agency, the other detective tries to explain the situation. He says that he tired to run because Ran jumped from the window and ran after him. Kogoro asks how he could be scared with that kind of face and then takes the mans sunglasses. The other detective has very girly looking eyes and Kogoro can no longer take him seriously at all. The detective explains that he was hired to find Kenzou, but once he located the apartment Kogoro was already there reuniting him with Masami which the detective found odd. The person who hired the other detective said that he was Akira Hirota and that his elder brother Kenzou had left from Kyushu for Tokyo, not only that but that he was Kenzou's only blood relative. Kogoro responds that Masami was supposed to be his only blood relative and that he had come from Yamagata. Then the other detective brings up Kenzou's suspitious behavior, that he had been driving his taxi along the same route night after night with no passengers at dangerous speeds. Kogoro asks what the other detective's employer looks like and gets the response that he is a giant. Kogoro then recalls that Inspector Megure had said that Kenzou was killed by a giant. They conclude that Akira killed Kenzou and then took Masami somewhere. Conan remains confused at how his tracker had lead him to this giant man. That would mean that Akira had Masami's watch and possibly that Masami might be dead. Conan remembers that his glasses tracking ability had run out of power and went to Professor Agasa to get them fixed. Conan seems rushed and Agasa tried to calm him by reminding him of the Billion Yen robbery case that had happened recently. One of the guards tried to stop the criminals on his own and got killed. He says that the current case had escalated and that Conan needs to remember Sherlock Holmes' ideals: calmness, composure and diligence.  
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As the suspicious detective explains himself, it comes to light that Masami and the giant man both claimed to be Kenzou's only living relative, each with different histories. The giant claimed to be Akira Hirota, younger brother. Another suspicious point is that Kenzou used to drive a particular route every night, without passengers, at reckless speeds. When Akira's great height is mentioned, Kogoro agrees with the detective's suspicions that Akira murdered Kenzou, but the contact addresses were all fakes and so there are no leads. Conan confirms to himself that Akira was the man at the pachinko parlor, but before he can track Akira down he must get Agasa to recharge the tracker's battery. Agasa warns Conan about the dangers, and about how a bank guard and now Kenzou are both dead, and uses Holmes's ideals to convince Conan to take Kogoro as backup.
  
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Conan returns to the agency and tells them that he had found Akira's hideout on the way home from school. They all jump in a taxi and Conan activates his tracking glasses. (Akira is shown sitting in a dark room with crushed beer cans and a bottle, counting money. "I had to kill both of them, but still got the money"). The taxi stops in front of Enjyo City Hotel. The receptionist tells them that Akira is in room 802 and they go straight to the elevator. A young woman with long hair pushing a cart with four large cases on it came out of the elevator and the cases fall off. They help her restack the cases and hurry up to Akira's room to find the door unlocked and Akira dead of cyanide poisoning, the can still in his hand. Conan notices five small cases and begins to put the clues together. Kogoro calls Megure from the hotel room phone and finds out that Kenzou never had a daughter, also that he was raised here in Tokyo. Conan says he figured it all out.
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Telling Kogoro that he found Akira's hiding place on the way home from school, rather than that he's directing the taxi via his glasses, Conan brings Ran, Kogoro and the other detective to the tracker's location, a hotel. After acquiring Akira's room number, their use of the elevator is postponed by a woman with a cart of multiple stacked suitcases that spill as she tries to move forward. By the time they reach the room, they find it has been left unlocked, and Akira is dead from potassium cyanide in his drink. Kogoro calls Inspector Megure about Akira's corpse before they can continue searching for Masami, dead or alive. Conan inspects the drink, the pile of empty briefcases haphazardly stacked nearby, and realizes how they connect to the contradictory stories, Kenzou's the erratic taxi driving, and Megure's news that Kenzou was a bachelor with no children.
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=== File 016 - A Devil-like Woman ===
 
=== File 016 - A Devil-like Woman ===
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Conan begins to put the clues together. Why would two people be searching for Kenzou at the same time? Now one is dead and the other is missing. There are also five mysterious cases in the room. If the three had no blood relation then there is only one way to overlap all of the clues.
 
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[[File:V2-7 Such an awkwardly shaped panel.PNG|150px|thumb|right|Gin confronting Akemi Miyano.]]
 
[[File:V2-7 Such an awkwardly shaped panel.PNG|150px|thumb|right|Gin confronting Akemi Miyano.]]
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Conan comes to the conclusion that the three people must have been the Billion yen robbers that had been in the newspaper recently but not been caught.  
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Conan concludes from the above evidence that Kenzou, Akira, and Masami are the 10 billion yen bank robbers; after Akira killed Kenzou, Masami must have killed Akira and then left with the money. Confirming that Akira's death was recent, Conan remembers the woman on the elevator, who had the right number of similarly shaped cases and looked similar to Masami. Conan races in pursuit, followed by Ran, who gets them a taxi to follow Masami's taxi from the hotel to the docks. As they go, Conan mentally berates himself for not having realized that Masami's oddly grown-up look indicated a rushed disguise, and Kenzou's shock was at being found by the partners he'd back-stabbed. Ran and Conan lose Masami at the docks, but continue looking desperately.
  
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Meanwhile, Masami meets with Gin and Vodka, who call her Akemi Miyano. She asks why the "sleeping pills" she'd been given to dose Akira with apparently killed him, to which Gin replies that such is their way and then asks where the money is. Akemi refuses to reveal the location without them giving up her sister, since she'd done the job on the condition that the two of them could leave after. Gin answers that her sister, as a "top brain" in the organization, is too indispensable to have ever considered giving up. Akemi refuses Gin offer of one last chance to reveal the money cache.
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However, now Akira was dead and Masami was still missing, so this means that she ran off with all of the money. Conan confirms that the man died recently meaning that Masami could not have gone far. He recalls the woman getting out of the elevator with many cases and runs after her. Ran and Conan see her get in a taxi and they cut line t catch the next one and give chase. While in the taxi Conan recalls Masami's behavior. The second time they saw her she had been rushed and didn't get her disguise quite right. Not only that, Kenzou was shocked to see her, he wasn't shocked because his daughter had found him, he was shocked because his partners had located him. The taxi chase ended in a shipyard and Conan runs off.
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Conan and Ran catch up to Akemi just as she falls from being shot, with the only evidence that anyone else had been present is the gun on the ground nearby. Ran goes to call the ambulance and the police and guide them back to the scene, leaving Conan trying to save Akemi until he silently realizes from the sheer amount of blood on his hands that it's too late. As a result, when Akemi recognizes him and asks how he knew where she was, he tells her the truth of the transmitter and his deduction. He answers her shocked inquiry about his identity with the truth of Shinichi Kudo, as well, and she tells him about how the [[Black Organization|organization]] behind her death wears black, like crows. With her last words, she tells Conan where to find the money and begs him to retrieve it before the organization can get it. She dies just as Ran returns with help; only her fingerprints are found on the gun, and after the money is recovered the police conclude that she killed herself from the guilt of her apparent crimes. Conan is the only one who knows otherwise, and he swears to someday pull the men in black out of the darkness.
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Elsewhere in the shipyard Masami is confronted by none other than Gin and Vodka. They reveal her real name as Akemi Miyano. She starts to yell at them saying that the supposed sleeping pills that she had given to Akira had killed him. Gin asks where the money is and she tells them that she left it somewhere. They had made a promise to her that once the heist was over that they would release her younger sister from the organization. She demands to see her sister before she hands over the money. Gin says that is not possible because the sister is an indispensable member of the organization and they never planned to let her go. Gin then pulls a gun on her and when she wouldn't give up the location of the money, he fires. Conan rounds the corner just in time to see her fall to the ground but Gin and Vodka are already gone with out Conan seeing them. Ran runs off to call an ambulance, while Conan explains how he found her though the transmitter. Conan reveals his real identity as Shinichi to her because he knows that she won't make it. She then tells him about the [[Black Organization|organization]] that she works for and about how they wear black that makes them look like crows. The last thing she says before she dies is that Conan needs to get to the money at the hotel desk before they do.
 
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The money is found where she left it. Every single bill of the one billion yen was accounted for and the trio's crime was made clear. The gun found next to Masami's body only had her fingerprints on it so the police concluded that she had killed herself over the guilt of the crime. Due to the darkness surrounding this case, Conan vows to crush the organization and pull them from the darkness.
 
 
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At school, Conan's classmate Ayumi invites him to go ghost-hunting with her and Genta at a supposedly haunted mansion. While both Conan and another classmate, Mitsuhiko, express skepticism at the existence of ghosts, they end up coming along. At the mansion, Genta reveals a hidden entrance that gives the access to a door, which is unlocked. Ayumi has second thoughts due to the dark interior and onset of rain, until thunder scares her to run inside. She trips and gets dirty from the dust, but is able to clean up in a nearby bathroom. While exploring, a door seems to open on its own, but it turns out to be due to an open window. Mitsuhiko goes to use the bathroom, and after hearing a strange noise forces himself to be brave and investigate. He discovers stairs leading down to the basement, and follows the sounds to a well-lit room. Upstairs, the other three hear Mitsuhiko scream and rush to investigate.
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At [[Teitan Elementary School]], [[Ayumi]] Yoshida asks Conan to go ghost hunting at a scary house at block number four. She has already enlisted the help of [[Genta]] Kojima who believes that Conan will be more dead weight than help. Ayumi explains that the owner of the mansion was killed around five years ago and the owner's wife and child moved somewhere else. Now evil spirits inhabit the house and people in the neighborhood claim to hear moans and someone found the skeleton of a missing dog nearby. Akyumi herself had seen a soul ball floating in the window. When she finishes, another student named [[Mitsuhiko]] Tsuburaya claims that the stories are all made up and that in this age of science you only see ghosts on tv. Genta then decides that Mitsuhiko has to come with them to prove that ghosts don't exist and Conan gets roped in by Ayumi.
 
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When they arrive at the house it is covered in crows. They then discuss what supplies they brought. Genta brought a metal bat, Ayumi brought snacks, Mitsuhiko brought flashlights and a compass, and Conan brought nothing. Mitsuhiko points out that the gate is locked but Genta leads them around the right side of the house where there is a secret entrance through the gate. The door is unlocked but Ayumi is scared to go inside, until a crack of lightning hits and she bolts in. She runs smack into a scary statue and falls down getting covered in dirt. Then she goes to the bathroom where the water seems to still be running. Genta then compares their adventure to a role-playing game where he is the hero, Ayumi is the fighter girl, Mitsuhiko is the sharp magician, and Conan is the villager. Conan doesn't like this title but Mitsuhiko and Ayumi remind him that the villager is a source of important information and that he actually is well suited to that job. A gust of wind blows through an open window and pushes a door open, causing the three to jump behind Conan in fear. Conan examines the ground below the window while Mitsuhiko says that he has to go to the bathroom and wanders off. He discovers a strange staircase leading down into the floor to a basement and can hear sounds. He goes down the stairs and peeks through the door and then screams. Conan and the others hear his scream and race towards the sound of his voice.
 
  
 
=== File 018 - The Disappearing Children ===
 
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When they can't find Mitsuhiko right away, Conan tells Genta and Ayumi to hide in a nearby room and not to leave. Conan is convinced that someone is living in the house even though it was supposedly empty for the last five years.
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While waiting for Conan, Genta and Ayumi eat nearly all of the snacks Ayumi brought. Genta remains hungry, however, so when he notices the scent of food he disregards Conan's orders and goes to investigate. Meanwhile, Conan finds a picture of the previous inhabitants — the owner who died, and the wife and son who purportedly moved away — but Genta screaming interrupts his musings. Ayumi also leaves the room to try to find Genta, but realized that the shadow approaching from around the corner that she thought belonged to him is too big; as she panics over who is coming, Conan grabs her from behind and pulls her into a small alcove in the hall. A shadowy woman with a candelabra and a cart passes by, but disappears into an apparent dead-end. Conan finds a handle for a trap-door in the floor, and uses the invention Agasa recently gave him, the [[Elasticity Suspenders]], to create the necessarily leverage to open it since he's not strong enough on his own. Conan and Ayumi descend the stairs and find a cell with a feral-looking man inside, only to realize they're trapped in the small area outside the cell because someone is coming down the stairs they just used.
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Genta begins to eat all of the snacks while thinking that his parents must be worried about them. Ayumi stops him so some can be saved for Mitsuhiko and Conan. Genta then smells something cooking from the hallway and decides to leave Ayumi there alone. In another room Conan finds a picture of the family that lived there. Then Genta screams loudly from somewhere and Conan goes running. Ayumi slowly creeps out of the room down toward Genta's voice and sees a shadow coming toward her. The shadow is of a much taller person than Genta so she shrinks back in terror. Just then Conan grabs her from behind and pulls her out of view of the person. The person walks by and Conan can see that its a woman with long hair holding a candle stick and pushing a cart. They follow the woman around a corner but she vanishes completely. Conan notices a break in the dust on the floor and then finds an embedded handle. The trapdoor is too heavy for him to lift so he uses the new gadget he got from Professor Agasa. Its a pair of elastic suspenders that can elongate or contract at the push of a button that Conan could use to tie up the bad guys. This time though, he uses them to hook on to a coat hook on the wall and pull the trap door up that way. He and Ayumi descend into the basement and open the door to find a cage like jail cell with a person inside. Then they hear someone coming and have no where to run.
 
  
 
=== File 019 - The Underground Room's Nightmare ===
 
=== File 019 - The Underground Room's Nightmare ===
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The door begins to open and the woman enters carrying a tray of food that she had made along with an apple, a knife, and the candle stick. Conan and Ayumi duck behind a small storage locker in the corner of the room. The woman begins to comfort the man in the cage, telling him that his nightmares are over.
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Conan and Ayumi manage to hide behind the small cupboard outside the cell, and watch a woman enter with a tray of food. She tries to comfort the apparently haunted prisoner that the subject of his nightmares was over five years ago, and the dead don't come back.  
 
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She says that his troubles had all ended five years ago and that he needed to hurry and forget about it because once someone has died they don't come back. Conan realizes that they are talking about the case from five years ago where the owner of the house had been killed and that the two people were his wife and son from the photo he found earlier. The woman tries to get him to eat but he throws the food to the floor. She says that she isn't keeping him locked up to torment him, she is only protecting him. Ayumi then accidentally knocks over a broom which Conan stops from hitting the floor but was not able to prevent the bucket on top of the locker from falling. The woman calls to them to come out and that they can't hide anymore. Conan agrees and calls back saying that she is the wife from the photo in the study and that the man in the cage is the son. Conan then recounts the clues that lead him to knowing whats going on.
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Conan realizes that the man and woman are the wife and son of the deceased mansion owner. She tells her son she keeps him locked up for his own good, right before Conan and Ayumi accidentally give their presence away. She mentions that she found two other "little rats" and takes a knife to corner them, but Conan confidently confronts her about the truth, using the mole under her son's eye as evidence that the man in the cell is the same as the young man in the picture Conan found. He concludes that since she locked her son up to protect him, that the son is wracked with guilt over killing his father, but she doesn't want him to be a convict and won't let him turn himself in.  
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#the water and electricity bills were still being payed
 
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#the secret entrance that was hidden from view on the side of the house
 
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#the son in the cell and the mother guarding him
 
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He comes up with two possible scenarios that account for the clues
 
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#the wife killed her husband and the son is the sole witness to the crime, locked up to he can't go to the police
 
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#the son killed the father and the mother hid him to protect him from turning himself in to the police
 
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Based on the woman's reaction he decided that it was the second option and that the woman was hiding him to prevent him from being taken to jail. The woman then attacks Conan with the knife and was about to stab him when the jailed man called out for it all to stop. He then confesses to the crime of killing his father. He had come home five years ago from failing the university entrance exams for the third time in a row. His father had called him scum and before he knew it he had picked up a candle stick and beaten his father to death. The mother then made it all seem like a robbery gone wrong and put her son in the cell to protect him. He wants out of the cell to make up for his crime but the mother tells him to hold on a bit longer. Conan says that even if they hide down in the cellar that they will never be able to escape the crime.
 
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The next day the two turned themselves in.  
 
  
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The woman nearly stabs Conan, but her son begs her to stop and confesses to Conan that he did kill his father in a rage after he failed university exams three times in a row and his father called him scum. He wishes to atone, and Conan convinces her that unless she allows that to happen, while they might escape the police, they will never be able to escape the guilt of the crime — and she'll be forcing her son to carry that guilt for the rest of his life. The woman relents, and the next morning they turn themselves in to the police, Mitsuhiko and Genta are found safely sleeping outside the house, and all four kids are scolded. However, not long after, the three kids invite Conan to explore another spooky house. As the kids talk more about it, Conan realizes the house is actually the now-empty Kudou home.
 
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Soon night turned back into day. Genta and Mitsuhiko were found outside and fast asleep. The four children were scolded by their parents and had to promise that they would never sneak off again. However the next school day Ayumi comes in saying that she found another haunted house. The Etou house on block two. They say that its a creepy house overflowing with old books and the boy who lived there had been eaten by a monster. Conan asked about the name again and Ayumi explains that it was written with a katakana E and a kanji TOU. Conan then realizes that they are talking about his (Shinichi's) house and tries to stop them!
 
  
 
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== Trivia ==
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* The title for each chapter are worded as the following in ''Case Closed'':
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:* File 010 - A Lucrative Tailing Job
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:* File 011 - The Perfect Alibi
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:* File 014 - The Poor Girl
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:* File 015 - Follow the Big Man!
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:* File 016 - A Devilish Woman
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:* File 017 - Mansion of Horror
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:* File 018 - Disappearing Children
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:* File 019 - Nightmare in the Basement
  
 
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== Trivia ==
 
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* The title for each chapter are worded as the following in ''Case Closed'':
 
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:* File 010 - A Lucrative Tailing Job
 
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:* File 011 - The Perfect Alibi
 
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:* File 014 - The Poor Girl
 
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:* File 015 - Follow the Big Man!
 
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:* File 016 - A Devilish Woman
 
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:* File 017 - Mansion of Horror
 
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:* File 018 - Disappearing Children
 
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:* File 019 - Nightmare in the Basement
 
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==

Revision as of 02:10, 24 July 2014

Chronology
‹ Volume 1 List of Chapters • List of Cases Volume 3 ›
Volume 2

Volume 2.jpg

Information
Release date: July 18, 1994
Chapters:
ISBN: ISBN 4-09-123372-4
Publisher: Shogakukan
English release date: November 3, 2004
English ISBN: ISBN 1-59116-587-3
English Publisher: Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
Detective 2.jpg
Kogoro Akechi 		Keyhole 2.jpg
Ran Mouri
Aoyama's death & Conan side images
Aoyama 2.jpg
ConanSide 2.jpg

Volume 2 was released on July 18, 1994 in Japan.

Cast

Gadgets

Mysterious Shadow Case

Anime Episode 38: Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case

Gadgets introduced

Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes.jpg
  • Stimulates feet muscles for extra power

File 010 - An Advantageous Shadow

To keep Conan's cover as a child, Professor Agasa enrolls Conan in 1st grade at Teitan Elementary School. Bored by the simple curriculum, during P.E. Conan decides to test the new gadget Agasa gave to him earlier (the Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes), using moderate power while playing soccer. To his and his classmates shock, the soccer ball shoots through the goal net and knocks over a large tree. On his way home, grumbling to himself about Agasa's lack of moderation, Conan notices Kogoro shadowing someone.

After 3 days of easy work, Kogoro receives payment of 500,000 yen. Ran wonders if Conan has brought them good luck, and when Kogoro asks how long Conan is going to be staying, explains that Agasa told her that Conan's parents are out of the hospital but left overseas on urgent business. Kogoro also finds Conan's face oddly familiar, but his train of thought is interrupted by a news report that Masaki Negishi, the man Kogoro had been following, was found murdered at the fire festival in Akaoni Village.

File 011 - A Perfect Alibi

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan go to the police station, where they find Inspector Megure questioning Yutaka Abe, the man who hired Kogoro to tail Masaki. He received 500 million yen as the beneficiary of Masaki's life insurance policy. He said that he hired Kogoro because Masaki had been worried about his life being in danger. Although Yutaku is the primary suspect for the murder, he has a perfect alibi - being out of the country when Masaki was found dead. Kogoro swears to expose Yutaka because Kogoro can't stand to be used as part of a killer's alibi, and they return home to examine the photos of Yutaku's trip and those photos Kogoro took while tailing Masaki. As he does, Kogoro grows suspicious of Conan's conveniently helpful innocent comments, but Conan distracts him by 'childishly' mixing the two photo batches together. With Kogoro distracted, Conan looks for a hint to break Yutaka's too-perfect alibi, and notices something about one of the photos.

File 012 - The Picture Speaks

Conan finds a discrepancy between some of the photos, but can't tell Kogoro without being suspicious. To solve the case, since Yutaka plans to pay off his company's debts and leave the country that night, Conan uses the Voice-Changing Bowtie to summon Kogoro and the police to Narita Airport.

People

  • Masaki Negishi
    Masaki Negishi manga.jpg
    • Victim (burned)
    • 42 years old
  • Yutaka Abe
    Yutaka Abe manga.jpg
    • 42 years old
    • Masaki Negishi's friend

    • Masami Hirota Case

    Anime Episode 13: The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case
    Anime Episode 128: The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case

    Characters introduced

    Masami Hirota
    Akemi Miyano.jpg
    • Mysterious client
    Unnamed woman
    (Appears in silhouette)
    Shiho Miyano.jpg
    • Masami's sister
    • Member of the Black Organization

    Gadgets introduced

    Criminal Tracking Glasses
    Criminal Tracking Glasses.jpg
    • Can locate his transmitters
    • Tracks location of the Detective Boys' badges

    File 013 - The Missing Man

    Masami Hirota

    While Professor Agasa fiddles with Conan's glasses, Conan reads the newspaper headline of a 10 billion yen bank robbery and comments on the never-ending stream of crime — which, when Conan solves any, Kogoro gets the credit for. After receiving the Criminal Tracking Glasses from Agasa, Conan returns to the Agency to find Masami Hirota begging Kogoro to find her father, Kenzou. Uninterested in searches, Conan decides to test his tracker-sticker on Ran, but slips and accidentally puts it on Masami's watch. Ran and Kogoro assure Masami that they will find her father quickly, but only after a week has gone by does Conan realize that Kenzou named his four cats after a racehorse. Ran sees Conan's notes and convinces Kogoro to go to the racetrack, where they find Kenzou. Masami comes immediately at the news, though Conan notices she looks more grown-up than before. As they leave the two to their reunion, Conan sees a suspicious man watching them... and later that night, Kenzou hangs from a noose, dead.

    File 014 - The Sad Girl

    When Ran can't reach Masami Hirota to ask how everything turned out, her bad feeling prompts Kogoro to take them back to the apartment where they found Kenzou Hirota — where they hear that Kenzou was found dead the night before. Kogoro learns from Inspector Megure that evidence suggests a near-giant of a man was the murderer, and no sign of Masami was found besides her glasses. As Kogoro tries to console Ran that Masami may not be dead, Conan suddenly remembers the tracker he put on Masami's watch, and goes off alone to find her. Just after he reaches the tracker's location, a Pachinko parlor, he runs into a giant man and is knocked of his feet. The glasses' batteries run out before he can recover and try to pinpoint Masami's location further. After a failed search, he returns home. Ran looks out the windows as she worries about Masami, and notices a tall, suspicious man who was following them the day before. Assuming he murdered Kenzou, Ran jumps out the second story window, chases the man to his car, and kicks out the window glass to apprehend him — only to learn that the man is also a private detective, who had been hired to find Kenzou by the giant man Conan encountered at the Pachinko parlor.

    File 015 - Follow the Giant!

    Holmes's ideals

    As the suspicious detective explains himself, it comes to light that Masami and the giant man both claimed to be Kenzou's only living relative, each with different histories. The giant claimed to be Akira Hirota, younger brother. Another suspicious point is that Kenzou used to drive a particular route every night, without passengers, at reckless speeds. When Akira's great height is mentioned, Kogoro agrees with the detective's suspicions that Akira murdered Kenzou, but the contact addresses were all fakes and so there are no leads. Conan confirms to himself that Akira was the man at the pachinko parlor, but before he can track Akira down he must get Agasa to recharge the tracker's battery. Agasa warns Conan about the dangers, and about how a bank guard and now Kenzou are both dead, and uses Holmes's ideals to convince Conan to take Kogoro as backup.

    Telling Kogoro that he found Akira's hiding place on the way home from school, rather than that he's directing the taxi via his glasses, Conan brings Ran, Kogoro and the other detective to the tracker's location, a hotel. After acquiring Akira's room number, their use of the elevator is postponed by a woman with a cart of multiple stacked suitcases that spill as she tries to move forward. By the time they reach the room, they find it has been left unlocked, and Akira is dead from potassium cyanide in his drink. Kogoro calls Inspector Megure about Akira's corpse before they can continue searching for Masami, dead or alive. Conan inspects the drink, the pile of empty briefcases haphazardly stacked nearby, and realizes how they connect to the contradictory stories, Kenzou's the erratic taxi driving, and Megure's news that Kenzou was a bachelor with no children.

    File 016 - A Devil-like Woman

    People

  • Kenzou Hirota
    Kenzou manga.jpg
    • Victim (strangled)
    • Believed to be Masami's father and Akira's brother
  • Detective
    Suspicious Man manga.jpg
    • Hired by Akira Hirota to find Kenzou Hirota
  • Akira Hirota
    Akira manga.jpg
    • Victim (poison)
    • Believed to be Kenzou's brother

    • Scary Building Case

    Anime Episode 20: A Haunted Mansion Murder Case

    Characters introduced

    Ayumi Yoshida
    Ayumi Yoshida.jpg
    Genta Kojima
    Genta Kojima.jpg
    Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
    Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya.jpg

    Gadgets introduced

    Elasticity Suspenders
    Elasticity Suspenders.jpg
    • Functions like a pulley
    • Can be used to lift heavy objects

    File 017 - The Scary Building

    At school, Conan's classmate Ayumi invites him to go ghost-hunting with her and Genta at a supposedly haunted mansion. While both Conan and another classmate, Mitsuhiko, express skepticism at the existence of ghosts, they end up coming along. At the mansion, Genta reveals a hidden entrance that gives the access to a door, which is unlocked. Ayumi has second thoughts due to the dark interior and onset of rain, until thunder scares her to run inside. She trips and gets dirty from the dust, but is able to clean up in a nearby bathroom. While exploring, a door seems to open on its own, but it turns out to be due to an open window. Mitsuhiko goes to use the bathroom, and after hearing a strange noise forces himself to be brave and investigate. He discovers stairs leading down to the basement, and follows the sounds to a well-lit room. Upstairs, the other three hear Mitsuhiko scream and rush to investigate.

    File 018 - The Disappearing Children

    Conan orders Genta and Ayumi to hide while he investigates. While he doesn't tell them, he's certain that the house is still being used for some reason due to:

    • The existence of the secluded secret entrance,
    • The water still being turned on after five years, and
    • The window being open without evidence of wind or rain damage within the room.

    While waiting for Conan, Genta and Ayumi eat nearly all of the snacks Ayumi brought. Genta remains hungry, however, so when he notices the scent of food he disregards Conan's orders and goes to investigate. Meanwhile, Conan finds a picture of the previous inhabitants — the owner who died, and the wife and son who purportedly moved away — but Genta screaming interrupts his musings. Ayumi also leaves the room to try to find Genta, but realized that the shadow approaching from around the corner that she thought belonged to him is too big; as she panics over who is coming, Conan grabs her from behind and pulls her into a small alcove in the hall. A shadowy woman with a candelabra and a cart passes by, but disappears into an apparent dead-end. Conan finds a handle for a trap-door in the floor, and uses the invention Agasa recently gave him, the Elasticity Suspenders, to create the necessarily leverage to open it since he's not strong enough on his own. Conan and Ayumi descend the stairs and find a cell with a feral-looking man inside, only to realize they're trapped in the small area outside the cell because someone is coming down the stairs they just used.

    File 019 - The Underground Room's Nightmare

    Conan and Ayumi manage to hide behind the small cupboard outside the cell, and watch a woman enter with a tray of food. She tries to comfort the apparently haunted prisoner that the subject of his nightmares was over five years ago, and the dead don't come back.

    People

  • Murdered man
    F18 Man2 manga.jpg
    • Victim
    • Mansion owner
  • Prisoner
    F18 Man1 manga.jpg
    • Half-crazed man
  • Woman
    F18 Woman1 manga.jpg
    • Mysterious woman

    • Trivia

    • The title for each chapter are worded as the following in Case Closed:
    • File 010 - A Lucrative Tailing Job
    • File 011 - The Perfect Alibi
    • File 014 - The Poor Girl
    • File 015 - Follow the Big Man!
    • File 016 - A Devilish Woman
    • File 017 - Mansion of Horror
    • File 018 - Disappearing Children
    • File 019 - Nightmare in the Basement

    Cover in other countries

    China
    Finland
    France
    Germany
    Hong Kong
    Indonesia
    Italy
    Korea
    Malaysia (Chinese)
    Malaysia (Malay)
    Norway
    Rep. of China (Taiwan)
    Singapore (English)
    Spain (Catalan)
    Spain (Spanish)
    Sweden
    Thailand
    United States
    Vietnam

    See also

    References

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