Volume 2

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Volume 2
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
Kogoro Akechi Ran Mouri
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

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

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Professor Agasa Inspector Megure Gin Vodka

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Mysterious Shadow Case

Gadgets introduced

Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes
	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.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 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.

After 3 days of easy work by following that man around, 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 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.

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 500,000,000 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.

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

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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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.

Clues that lead Conan to this conclusion

1. Yutaka was the only suspect and had a motive due to his company's debt
2. In the photographs he noticed that after Tuesday Masaki began using his left hand rather than his right indicating a fake
3. If Masaki had been killed on Tuesday before Yutaka left on his trip, then Yutaka no longer has a solid alibi

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.

People

Masaki Negishi
	Victim (burned) 42 years old

Yutaka Abe
	42 years old Masaki Negishi's friend

Masami Hirota Case

Characters introduced

Masami Hirota
	Mysterious client

Unnamed woman (Appears in silhouette)
	Masami's sister Member of the Black Organization

Gadgets introduced

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

File 013 - The Missing Man

Masami Hirota

Conan heads over to 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 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 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.

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

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Gin confronting Akemi Miyano.

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.

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.

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 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.

People

Kenzou Hirota
	Victim (strangled) Believed to be Masami's father and Akira's brother

Detective
	Hired by Akira Hirota to find Kenzou Hirota

Akira Hirota
	Victim (poison) Believed to be Kenzou's brother

Scary Building Case

Characters introduced

Ayumi Yoshida
	6-7 years old Detective Boys member

Genta Kojima
	6-7 years old Detective Boys member (self-proclaimed leader)

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
	6-7 years old Detective Boys member

Gadgets introduced

Elasticity Suspenders
	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.

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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.

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.

People

Murdered man
	Victim Mansion owner

Prisoner
	Half-crazed man

Woman
	Mysterious woman

Cover in other countries

United States

Catalonia

France

Germany

Italy

Spain

Finland

Norway

Sweden

China

Rep. of China (Taiwan)

Malaysia (Chinese)

Malaysia (Malay)

Hong Kong

Korea

Vietnam

Indonesia

Thailand

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

See also

• Manga
• Volume 1-10
• Detective Conan