Volume 90

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Volume 90
Information
Release date:	August 18, 2016
Chapters:
ISBN:	ISBN 978-4-09-127330-7
Publisher:	Shogakukan
Featured Detective & Keyhole
The Phantom Thief Detective Yamaneko Vermouth as Azusa Enomoto
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Subaru Okiya Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Jodie Starling Fusae Campbell (background) Kohji Haneda (PC/background) Asaka (background) Shuichi Akai (flashback/background) Shinichi Kudo (flashback/background) Kogoro Mouri Gin Vodka Vermouth Rum (silhouette background) Yoko Okino (background) Masumi Sera Mary Scotch (flashback) Rei Furuya Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Azusa Enomoto Ai Haibara (flashback) Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Makoto Kyogoku (background) Misao Yamamura (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters

File 949 - Sweet Scent

As the case seems similar to the 17 years ago's one with Kohji Haneda, Conan asks Okiya/Akai the reason why he joined the FBI. Okiya replies it has to do indeed with the 17-year-old case in which his father had been involved. Okiya says his father wasn't from the FBI, but refuses to tell Conan more about it...unless the latter tells him about his true identity. Conan says he'll tell him when the case is solved and closed - even though Conan believes it's useless as Akai probably already knows the entire truth.

Kazunori Senba tells the police he wants to go back home as they don't need him anymore. But the police insists on him staying a little longer for some more questioning, and Chiba tells Okiya and Agasa Senba is the one who found out Hiyama's corpse, he injured his foot stepping by accident on shattered glass in the crime's room. Okiya asks Senba if his right leg still hurts him, and Senba replies he actually injured his left foot, though he had an accident last month during which his right leg was badly injured, and still hurts actually. Takagi tells Senba Okiya is just Agasa's assistant, the one who invented the fancy scissors Hiyama had in hand when dying. Senba refuses to tell Okiya about the events as he's not from the police, but Conan tells Senba Okiya just wants to check if the scissors' special function actually worked, because the mechanism could have been activated if the culprit has done something weird around Hiyama's body.

Senba then accepts to recount what happened : he came in Hiyama's house and was searched by the bodyguards who checked if he had metallic objects on him. Senba then went to the central lodge and opened the door, then he waited in the corridor a minute or two, but Hiyama never came. Senba called out for him but still nothing. Afterwards, he wandered around the lodge, checking the rooms one after the other, until the bathroom, only to find Hiyama's corpse there, and the room as it is now. Senba says as soon as he saw Hiyama's head was bleeding he rushed to rescue him. Okiya says then it's strange he went straight ahead without noticing the clearly visible shattered glass on the floor. Senba says he didn't notice it as he had barely cracked the door open to check the room rapidly. It wasn't directly in his field of vision, then he stepped on it by chance. But Conan says it's still weird as since the glass was shattered near the entrance, probably slung to the murderer's face by Hiyama, then if Senba had cracked the door open and immediately opened it wide afterwards to rush to Hiyama, the glass would have been swept aside by the door movement, implying Senba had really faint chances of stepping on a bit. Senba says he actually made a mistake : he now remembers the door to be open when he came, explaining why he directly saw Hiyama and ran to help him without noticing the glass.

Senba notes Conan's undeceived gaze at him and tells him he's not the murderer despite his insinuations. He says if he had killed Hiyama he would be covered in blood, his clothes would be dripping bloody. Senba shows Conan his clothes in aevidence but Conan notices Senba's shirt buttons are ill-fastened, as if done in a rush.

File 950 - The Clipped Letters

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The culprit is Kazunori Senba.

Upon realizing the victim's dying message on the glass cup is very similar to the missing letters on the mirror in Kohji Haneda's room, Conan and Subaru each rearrange the missing letters and discover Haneda's dying message:

Since the dying message was "P T O N", the answer to it must contain all of the missing letters of "U MASCARA"
PUT ON MASCARA - P T ON = U MASCARA
U MASCARA - ASACA (for "Asaka" in English) = U M R
Which can be rearranged to make RUM
making the answer "ASACA RUM"

People

Amanda Hughes
	Deceased (APTX 4869?) Kohji's big fan Wealthy American

Asaka
	Missing person Amanda's bodyguard Possible Black Organization agent

Kunihisa Hiyama
	Victim (bludgeoned) 61 years old President of real-estate company

Kazunori Senba
	50 years old First discoverer Former dagashi shop owner

Soul Detective Murder Case

File 951 - The Soul Detective

Conan believes that the bodyguard Asaka was the black organization member Rum. The website with the information about the murder has been taken down. Then Kogoro gets a phone call from a TV-producer who invites Kogoro to a talk-show with the Soul Detective Gaito Hotta, who claims that he is going to solve the Koji Haneda murders by calling Koji Haneda's spirit. Conan joins along with an excuse of wanting to eat in the restaurant in the hotel, where a meeting with Hotta is going to take place.

File 953 - As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness

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"Mama!?"

The clue about Asaka

The culprit is Sanpei Kokuri. The motive was that Hotta used his late sister's corpse for his show. A few years ago Kokuri's sister committed suicide in the mountains due to a break-up. But her body was never found. Later Hotta was making a show in the mountain (most likely in connection with a missing person case, that Conan and Kogoro discussed in the taxi) and 'found' the body claiming to have 'felt' it's spirit. Kokuri realized that Hotta must have found his sister's body a long time ago, but instead of reporting it to the police, he had buried it to use it in his show. So he killed Hotta in revenge for having humiliating her.

Masumi calls Mary "Mama", indicating that she is her mother.

The only information that the victim had was that he believed Asaka to be a woman. He was going to pretend that he had summoned Kohji's spirit and have it say that a woman was going to kill him. The culprit said that someone saw Asaka holding "that small mirror". Mary consider that detail as 'boring'. Mary is not willing to trust Conan, stating that he isn't the same boy they met, and she orders Masumi to switch hotel.

Conan considers that if Asaka is Rum, then perhaps what Haibara said about being feminine refers to looking girly on the outside but strong like a man on the inside. If Rum had been a bodyguard 17 years ago, then they must be old now. Conan also ponders the possibility that Mary is Rum after having shrunken, being girly yet strong and older than she looks.

Gin suggests Kogoro to be finished off

Later, Gin and Vodka discuss about the murder case and The Case of Kohji Haneda. Gin comments that Rum screwed up in that case, in fact Gin is intrigued that Kogoro went to investigate the murder case and stick his nose in the Organisation's matter. Gin says " It's like encountering a demon in the darkness, if that guy is the demon we should finish him off while he sleeps".

People

Gaito Hotta
	Victim (stabbed) "Soul Detective"

Sanpei Kokuri
	35 years old Tohto TV director

A song named ASACA

File 957 - Truth of the Betrayal

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Rokumichi Hado's death is in reality a suicide, but his manager Kanae Enjo tried to make it look like a murder. Rokumichi killed himself after being overwhelmed with the regret of having accidentally caused his old girlfriend to miscarry their unborn child; said girlfriend was Kanae, who found his corpse and desperatly tried to make it look like a murder, in hopes of distracting others and not have their sad past revealed.

People

Rokumichi Hado
	Victim (hanged) 39 years old Rock musician

Kanae Enjo
	40 years old Rokumichi's manager

Okuyasu Fuse
	58 years old Record label president Rokumichi's friend

Hirokazu Kajiya
	51 years old Magazine reporter

Curse of the Nue

File 958 - The Monster of Yadori Village

Heiji is invited to a village in Shizuoka Prefecture to investigate rumors of Tokugawa-era golden treasure buried there. Ran, Conan, and Kazuha tag along. They hear about the death of a local man named Charles Abel, whose last words were "Nue", a creature from Japanese mythology. While staying in a decrepit hotel in the area they hear the "Cry of the Nue" from outside.

People

Densuke Takekuma
	58 years old Mayor of Yadori Village

Michiki Tanzawa
	Victim (poison) 62 years old Archaeologist

Yasukatsu Someji
	Victim (slashed) 55 years old Historian

Fumie Masuko
	46 years old Novelist

Hajime Tsurumi
	22 years old Reporter

Charles Abel
	Deceased (cave-in accident) Foreign miner

Dog
	Golden retriever Former owner was Charles Abel

Cover in other countries

Germany

Italy

Vietnam

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Indonesia

France

See also

• Manga
• Volume 81-90
• Detective Conan