The Unfortunate and Suspicious Victim

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Episode 1088 (Int. Episode 1146)
Information
Title:	The Unfortunate and Suspicious Victim
Japanese title:	不運で不審な被害者 (Fūn de Fushin'na Higaisha)
Original airdate:	June 24, 2023
Filler case:	#395
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ai Haibara
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Daypack
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Masaharu Okuwaki
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Nariyuki Takahashi and Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Kumiko Watanabe as Juria Okamoto Atsushi Kakehashi as Jupita Okamoto Katsunori Okai as Ren Mizutani Yuji Mikimoto as Kotaro Saimon Masaya Fukunishi as Yuzuru Kariba Shinako Obana as Old woman Haruka Shamoto as Female store clerk Shinnosuke Musashi as Staff
Music
Opening song:	RAISE INSIGHT
Closing song:	…and Rescue Me

The Unfortunate and Suspicious Victim (不運で不審な被害者 ,Fūn de Fushin'na Higaisha)) is the 1088th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ai Haibara

Case

Situation

Inside the Doterasu Shrine, a lad named Jupita Okamoto seemed to be praying for something. Just as he was about to leave, he encountered a pungent, rubbery thief who had a knife held in their hand, provoking Jupita to hand them all of his money. Jupita got scared and started to run in the opposite direction, towards the staircase that leads to the exit of the shrine, going down. The theif then swiftly gripped Jupita's wallet and cut the iron chain attached to it, attempting to steal the wallet. With a slight kick from the theif, Jupita fell off the stone staircase from the shrine.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Doterasu Shrine Victim: Jupita Okamoto Age: 20 years old Method: Pushed from stair Suspects: Juria Okamoto, Kotaro Saimon, Ren Mizutani, and Yuzuru Kariba

The Detective Boys, who heard that fatal scream established by the victim, arrived to check it out instantly. There was also a witness, who was an old woman who saw Jupita fall from the top of the shrine pavement with her own eyes. Conan instructed others to call the police and an ambulance, although the theif had already fled.

Yuzuru mocking Kotaro for not writing hits in years.

Accordingly, Jupita, the injured man, got sent to Beika Central Hospital, and when his older sister, Juria Okamoto, asked about her brother's condition, the doctor claimed that he did not pose a danger to his life. Nevertheless, Juria could never come up with a reasonable explanation for his brother's ending up in Beika City, as per previous phone calls, Jupita told her that he was in Waiha City from beginning to end. And the most suspicious thing is that these two cities are in fact situated in entirely opposite directions. With this incredulous doubt in mind, their teacher, Kotaro Saimon, arrived to check Jupita's condition. From their words and deeds, Conan noticed that both of them seemed to hate the city of Beika. When Conan inquired about it, they explained that their enemy, Yuzuru Kariba, was currently living in Beika City. He was also a songwriter and was formerly Kotaro's strudent. However, due to some issues, Kotaro dismissed him because he was fed up with Kotaro. Somehow, he got quite popular after he left his teacher and was even appointed chairman of the Japanese Songwriters Association. And by using his position inside the industry, he started to spread slander about Kotaro since he wanted to get revenge for the dismissal. Another disgraceful thing is that most of Yuzuru's works were plagiarised, he claimed that he could not endure that, as this brought some negative impacts among the association, and made more songwriters attempt to imitate his success. Juria also mumbled that it was all because of Yuzuru that she broke up with his ex-fiance, Ren Mizutani. 

Although Juria had some connections with Beika City, the victim, Jupita, surprisingly did not have any connections with Beika. Why would he come to Beika out of nowhere? Well, Conan thought of an explanation for it: since Ren must have met Jupita when he was engaging with Juria, he must be thinking of going and finding Ren in Beika and trying to make them together once again. This speculation was then supported by Kotaro's testimony, he disclosed that one day Jupita murmured about putting them back together to him. For further acknowledgement, Juria decided to phone Ren and ask if Jupita really intended to visit him. But anyhow, Ren said no in a scornful manner.

The store clerk recalling the scenario when Jupita was buying the knife.

To get more clues, they went to the nurse's station, where they had Jupita's possessions. And on the back of Jupita's clothes, it was fairly dirty. Kotaro deduced it might have been stained onto it during his fall. A receipt from a general store near the station was also found in his pockets, so they got there and consulted about Jupita. The store clerk admitted seeing a Jupita in the store and recalled him buying a knife earlier. He placed the newly purchased knife inside his daypack after the purchase. Then where was the daypack? It was not found inside the nurse's station. Luckily, the shrine caretaker handed in the daypack that Jupita was wearing when he visited the shrine and claimed it to be a lost item.

Eveyrone showed the investigation's progress to Juria and Kotaro. Conan also asked Juria to check Jupita's call history and confirm something. Strangely, the last number he called was their association. When she asked what the content of the call was to the association staff, the staff said they were unsure if it was from her brother, but the association really received an anonymous, disturbing call from a withheld number. A sentence was uttered through the speakers, with their voice altered: "Kariba Yuzuru will suffer the warth of god!"

With this shocking clue, everyone had to think that it was Jupita who threatened Yuzuru and tried to plot his murder. This could also explain why he came to Beika, why he would buy a knife in the general store, and why he was most likely praying for his murder to succeed in the shrine, moreover, the motive would be easy as well, as he loved his sister so much, thus, he wanted to get rid of the nasty guy and make his sister and Ren together. Yet, Conan felt that there were some flaws in this assumption. If he did all of this, then the alibi he tried fabricating in the phone call would be of no use, also the police could also easily track the phone number that phoned the association, and the most puzzling thing, if he wanted to conceal his intent, then why would he reveal his face when purchasing the knife?

The area behind the main shrine.

The two of them were now convinced Jupita was the culprit and intended to plot a murder in Beika City. Kotaro helped carry the dayapck into the station for evidence preservation. Even so, Conan still felt that Jupita's actions were quite inconsistent if he was the culprit. And when he checked Jupita's daypack again inside the nurse's station, a bandanna abruptly appeared, and he remembered very clearly that this bandanna was not inside the daypack when he got it from the shrine. The Detective Boys decided to split up and investigate the case separately, Haibara and Conan got the information that Jupita loved cooking; Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi visited Yuzuru's mansion and learned that Yuzuru still had not returned since he left this morning; and the household maid also pointed out that an extra metal pipe appeared leaning near the entrance wall with no reason. They then went to the shrine and knew where the daypack was found, and it happened to be behind the shrine. At the back of the main shrine, they found some weird marks on the ground; random leaves are located on top of the land. The Detective Boys then reached the conclusion that Jupita was once here since the ground marks matched the dirt stain on Jupita's clothes they saw. On the other side, Conan found Ren and informed him that Jupita would never show up, no matter how long he waited. Ren looked at him in perplexity.

People

Juria Okamoto
	26 years old Rising songwriter Jupita's older sister Kotaro's student

Jupita Okamoto
	Victim (fell- injured) 20 years old Student Juria's younger brother

Ren Mizutani
	28 years old Juria's ex-fiance

Kotaro Saimon
	71 years old Veteran songwriter

Yuzuru Kariba
	36 years old Songwriters Association chairman Kotaro's former student

Old woman
	Witness

Woman A
	General store clerk

Woman B
	Kariba household maid

Man A
	Doterasu shrine caretaker

Man B
	Songwriters Association staff

Resolution

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On the rooftop, Conan started his deduction show. He first denied the fact that Jupita was trying to murder Yuzuru. Because if everything was genuinely the same as the earlier deduction, his actions would not be considered consistent and would not make sense. Conan bluntly stated that there was another person, who was the true culprit, called X. They were the actual people who plotted Yuzuru's murder. Therefore, Jupita was framed.

The plan from X

Location where X hid Jupita.

X first learned that Jupita was going to Beika City for some reason and approached Jupita in disguise just after Jupita had left the general store. X then instigated him to go to the Doterasu Shrine, where everything happened. Whilst giving him beverages contaminated with sleeping pills. And after Jupita was asleep, X carried him to the back of the shirne, which was where the Detective Boys discovered the strange marks on top of the dirt ground. By hiding him in a place that was such off the beaten track, plus the shrine itself was quite remote, it was almost guaranteed that no one would see him during the stint of period. As a consequence, Jupita would not have an alibi if he constantly hid at the back of the shrine building. Later, X stole Jupita's daypack and took his bandanna out of it. This bandanna belongs to the victim, and it was quite important for X's further moves. After stealing his bandanna, X called the association right away, so Jupita's phone could have the call history recorded.

X waiting for Yuzuru to come home with the metal pipe.

Within that time, when Jupita was hidden at the back of the shrine, X went straight to Yuzuru's mansion. X wanted to kill Yuzuru after all, the metal pipe that remained near the entrance wall was left by X to hit Yuzuru as he went home. Considering Jupita would not have a testimony during the period when X was murdering Yuzuru, the probability of him being the culprit thus rose sharply, meanwhile utilising how much he loved his sister, the motive naturally appeared. Lastly, if X only needed to drop the bandanna that belonged to Jupita after he killed Yuzuru, the perfect frame-up would be complete.

The midway accident

X never imagined that the durg they slipped into Jupita's beverage was not so effective, therefore, Jupita eventually woke up and poked around the shrine playfully. This was out of X's conception. The first thing Jupita did as he woke up was to go and pray for the shrine, and the scenario described in the beginning of the text happened: Jupita was attacked by a mugger. Since he got carried away to the hospital by an ambulance, it was a perfect alibi, and X's plan got totally disrupted, so they had to terminate what he was doing and rush to the hospital. Yes, X is Kotaro Saimon.

He wanted to kill Kariba as revenge for plagiaryzing his lyrics and for betraying his master and the association. And he was the one who helped return Jupita's daypack back to the nurse's station, so he had sufficient opportunity to put the bandanna back. As Conan explained, he made up two pieces of evidence that point the culprit arrow at Jupita for murdering Yuzuru. One being physical and another being virtual. The virtual one would be the call history, which testified that Jupita was the one calling the association. However, he could not revert this, as everything online is unerasable, so the only evidence he could undo was the bandanna stolen from him beforehand.

Why did Jupita come to Beika City

Jupita cooking inside Ren's house

The reason that Jupita came to Beika City was indeed to meet Juria's ex-fiance, Ren denied Juria in the phone call because he promised Jupita to hold back this towards Juria. Jupita bought the knife not to commit a crime but to cook a recipe invented by him recently and show it to Ren. He had to buy a knife since Ren did not have a decent one at home. And that was only the excuse for visiting Ren, the genuine reason was to convince him to get back with his sister. That was why he prayed for success inside the shrine for making her sister and Mizutani a couple again.

Aftermath

While Conan was revealing the truth, Kotaro received a phone call from the association regarding Yuzuru, he was finally caught by the police for his tax evasion, and the police were also going to investigate his accusations of plagairism too.

In the end, everyone was inside Ren's house, and the recovered Jupita was cooking his newly invented dish with excitement. Juria and Ren started dating as well, and Jupita promised everyone that he was going to make something tasty.

See also

• Season 31