Volume 64

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Volume 64
Information
Release date:	April 2, 2009
Chapters:	664-674
ISBN:	ISBN 4-09-121892-X
Publisher:	Shogakukan
English release date:	October 10, 2017
English ISBN:	ISBN 1-42159-445-5
English Publisher:	Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
Inspector Zenigata Kiyonaga Matsumoto
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Volume 64 was released on April 2, 2009 in Japan.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Futoshi Ejiri Iwao Ida Subaru Okiya Gin (background) Vodka (background) Jugo Yokomizo Sango Yokomizo (background) Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Juzo Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Kazunobu Chiba Kiyonaga Matsumoto Jinpei Matsuda (background) Masayoshi Sato (background) Azusa Enomoto Sonoko Suzuki Jirokichi Suzuki Ginzo Nakamori Shintaro Chaki (background) Kaitou Kid Lupin (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Chapters

Ikkaku Rock Case

File 664 - Ikkaku Rock

After a day of highly successful sea fishing (on some island within the boundaries of Kanagawa Prefecture), Okiya comes in a large boat to take the Detective Boys back to the mainland. They are all expecting Agasa, and so are surprised to see Okiya, and Haibara is additionally scared, as she insists that Okiya has the special “smell” that uniquely belongs to Black Organization members. Conan (behind whom Haibara is now hiding), on the other hand, is not worried at all, and says to Haibara that maybe her opinion is preconceived. Okiya does not seem to notice Haibara’s fear of him, and helps her go onto the boat when she slips; Haibara seems genuinely surprised by the fact that nothing bad happened to her and that Okiya seems nice.

The boat starts sailing. It is near evening, and the driver, Iwao Ida (whom the Detective Boys got to know in file 45) suggests that the Detective Boys come to the deck to enjoy the stunningly beautiful sunset glow. They obey happily, and while looking at the sun falling down the horizon, they spot something spiking out of the sea. Ida explains that the spike is actually a tiny odd-shaped isle called “Ikkaku rock”, and that according to legends it is the horn of a sea-dwelling dragon. This dragon is said to dislike fishermen so much that she will try to sink any boat approaching (for this reason boats tend to avoid the seas around Ikkaku rock), but likes children very much. Upon hearing this, Ayumi and Genta both shout that they want to visit it; as a result, to Ikkaku rock they go. As they approach, another boat appears, and Ida reckons that the three people (called Yusaji Kaita, Rokusuke Oto and Shuhei Aosato respectively) on that boat are divers trying to become friends with some rich entrepreneur’s daughter. They seem to be looking for someone, and when Aosato comments that “it does not appear to be near here” they sail away.

The boat eventually reaches the island, and Okiya and the Detective Boys immediately start exploring. Okiya finds a rock that has been carved very recently, and the carvings are katakana characters meaning “mackerel, carp, sea beam, flounder”; meanwhile, Conan finds a single flipper inserted into the gap between two rocks. He immediately senses something wrong, as leaving the flipper here means that the person that depended on it to reach the isle could not return, and the carvings might be some sort of message. Therefore, Conan decides to run to the other side of the isle to see whether anything is going on there, and he ends up finding the body of a woman who died a few hours ago of dehydration. Beside the body there is a diving tank and a scuba regulator, and the part of the scuba regulator that is supposed to make contact with the mouth is clean despite the woman having lipstick on. Conan and Okiya believe that this means that someone (for some unknown reason) replaced the regulator after the woman’s death but did not call the police, which makes it likely that they are dealing with a murder case.

File 665 - Mackerel · Carp · Sea Bream · Flounder

Jugo Yokomizo arrives at the crime scene and comes to the same conclusion as Conan and Okiya after examining the body. He is then told about the strangely inserted flipper and the carvings, but cannot figure out their carver or their purpose. Conan argues that the carver was definitely the victim: there is a wristwatch on the isle whose abrasions are of a width that matches the width of the carvings, and there is a clear mark on the wrist of the victim whose width matches that of the watch. Furthermore, since the wristwatch is well-hidden, it is unlikely that the murderer carved to confuse the police, as he (or she) would want to leave the isle as quickly as possible and thus simply toss the watch aside after carving. Conan then hands the wristwatch to Yokomizo, who notices the initials H.A. on the back of the watch, the words “Akamine angle … club” and an indiscernible word between “angle” and “club” that has been removed by rubbing that part of the watch against some surface.

Having established that the fish names constitute a dying message, Conan further reveals that the victim is called Hikari Akamine, the only child of a banker who opened a branch in Kanagawa Prefecture only recently. Yokomizo is stunned by Conan’s knowledge of the victim’s identity, but before he has a chance to ask how Conan figured it all out he (and everyone else) is distracted by an approaching boat. It is the three young men that Conan and company encountered a while ago, and they explain (after Yokomizo tells them about the situation) that the victim is their friend, that they often dive together and that she disappeared during a dive three days ago, leaving them nothing but an email reading “you guys, take care of the rest!”. Yokomizo asks how they reacted to the message, and they say that they did nothing during the first two days, as it is not the first time that Akamine disappears and leaves such a message. Once, she reappeared on the second day after partying all night long on another boat, and was very unhappy when realizing that her friends had called the police (to search for her). They also reveal that Akamine prefers going into the ocean alone (as opposed to going in a group or finding a partner to form a pair, which is a safer and the standard practice) despite not knowing how to swim, and that her stubbornness imperiled her life during a dive half a year ago and resulted in the death of a diver and friend called Yoshiro. Yokomizo wants to know more about this person, but Aosato insists that he has nothing to do with the case at hand; thus Yokomizo asks instead about the band-aid that he has attached under the mouth. Aosato claims that he is just trying to cover the scar formed after popping a pimple the day before; he adds that he did so while navigating the Internet in a cybercafé (he wanted to see whether there was any news concerning Akamine) and supporting his chin on one of the hands.

At this point, Conan notices that all three divers have a wristwatch identical to Akamine’s; he thus knows very soon that the word between “angle” and “club” is “fish”. He believes that this word is related to the dying message, but does not know how. Meanwhile, the other members of the Detective Boys are trying to unravel the meaning of the dying message, with Mitsuhiko suggesting that by adding syllables to the fish names, new words emerge, and that by putting them together one can more or less construct a sentence. Haibara says that adding or deleting syllables could work, but that there must be a set of instructions contained in the dying message that tell people what to attach or remove and when (in other words, she is saying that Mitsuhiko’s arbitrary approach will likely not work, that they need something systematic). These words seem to make Conan and Okiya realize something, and they soon are able to decode the dying message and know who the murderer is. Conan thanks his friends for inspiring him, and Okiya remarks that children’s naive comments cannot be underestimated and dismissed.

File 666 - Thirst for Blood

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Conan and Okiya point out that the message sent from Akamine’s email address must have been written and sent by one of her three friends, as Akamine never returned to the boat and could not take her phone into the ocean. The divers agree with the logic, but argue that there is no solid evidence of anyone impersonating Akamine, because of which deducing from this that the murderer is among them is foolish. Conan, however, disputes what they are saying, and tells them that Akamine’s dying message indicates unequivocally that Shuhei Aosato is the murderer. He then challenges others to write the fish names mentioned in the dying message not in katakana but in kanji. The result is as follows: “サバ” (mackerel) becomes “鯖”, “コイ” (carp) becomes “鯉”, “タイ” (sea beam) becomes “鯛” and “ヒラメ” (flounder) becomes “鮃” (note that the left side of all four kanjis is “魚”, which means “fish”). The removed word “fish” on Akamine’s wristwatch means that one is supposed to read those four characters without the fish part (i.e. without “魚”), which leaves “青里周平”, which is the name of Shuhei Aosato written in kanji.

The accused dismisses their findings and says that this kind of word game means nothing, and notes that if Akamine wanted to incriminate him it would suffice to write his name down directly. Okiya says that leaving such a straightforward message risked it being erased, and Aosato argues that they have no evidence of him returning to Ikkaku rock after the dying message was written. Conan retorts that although nobody saw him come, that he came is almost certain by following logic. Conan conjectures that three days ago, Aosato, when diving with Akamine, damaged her tank in some way (and claiming that it was an accident) and took her to the nearest landmass - the Ikkaku rock. He then promised Akamine that he would return with help, but never did, and her inability to swim combined with the lack of traffic around the isle made sure that she could not leave and would eventually die on it. Conan further says that this theory explains the murderer’s need to come back to the isle after Akamine’s death to replace the (damaged) diving tank (and scuba regulator) with a functional one: otherwise, people would sow doubt on the abnormal state of the diving tank (“abnormal” probably becasue natural damage or wear-off does not resemble deliberate damage) and realize that her death was not an unfortunate accident (in which Akamine encountered problems while diving, was able to swim to Ikkaku rock but eventually died because no boat would approach and rescue her) but a well-crafted murder.

Aosato is tired of yet another evidence-free guess and repeats that nobody has ever seen him do something like that. But Okiya says that the evidence is right on him; namely, under the band-aid below the mouth. He explains that since the computer mouses in cybercafés are invariably on the right, the hand that Aosato used to support his chin must have been the left one. But the band-aid is on the right side of his face, which his left hand could not have reached. Yokomizo realizes that Aosato was lying, and thus tears off the band-aid; this reveals that what he was trying to hide is a lipstick mark. Conan explains that after replacing the diving tank, he had to dive back using the damaged one, which had lipstick on it and thus left a mark on his face. Yokomizo carries on where Conan leaves off and says that lipstick cannot be easily wiped off or washed away, which is why Aosato had to cover the mark with a band-aid.

Aosato, knowing that his whole plan has been uncovered, finally admits guilt. He says that during the dangerous dive half a year ago, when the three divers on the boat lost sight of Akamine because of the dreadful weather, Yoshiro jumped into the sea to look for her. A while after, Akamine appeared beside the boat, demanded that she be dragged up and indicated that she had not seen Yoshiro. However, Aosato later found that that was a lie, which he believed suggests that she did not care about Yoshiro at all. He shouts that for that he stranded Akamine on this lonely isle, and that now he will repeat it. As he says so, he grabs Ayumi, produces a dagger, orders Yokomizo to make his subordinates leave and orders Ida to cut the tie and let his boat drift on itself (so that he could escape in his boat with Ayumi and nobody else could follow him). Conan finds dismayingly that none of his “weapons” is on him, and asks Haibara whether she has any. The latter is not able to respond properly, as she suddenly senses something and is horrified to the core. Haibara turns around, and sees Okiya calmly inform the murderer-kidnapper that the overwhelming majority of criminals that attempts to escape is eventually brought to justice, and that among the ones protected by Satan himself (i.e. the ones that manages to not be caught) most lives in a state of fear so mentally exhausting that they eventually commit suicide or turn themselves in. Okiya continues to say (while approaching Aosato) that for those reasons, the success rate of a fugitive is infinitesimal, and he also questions Aosato’s ability to withstand the immeasurable loneliness and pressure that accompanies an escape. Aosato is apparently shaken by the brutal truths that Okiya has uttered, and in an attempt to restore his confidence points his dagger at Okiya. This act turns out to achieve the opposite of what it intended to, as Okiya is completely unafraid; he hits Aosato’s extending arm and sends the dagger flying in the air. As Aosato stupidly watches his weapon fall into the bottomless sea, with astonishment written on his face, Okiya swiftly steals Ayumi from him and tells her kindly that the danger is over. As Yokomizo takes the defeated criminal away, Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko cheer for Okiya, but Haibara only gets more frightened. She hides behind an unconcerned Conan, holds onto him tightly and thinks to herself that Okiya is undoubtedly from the Black Organization.

People

Hikari Akamine
	Victim (dehydrated) Diver Only child of a banker

Rokusuke Oto
	23 years old Diver

Shuhei Aosato
	25 years old Diver

Yasuji Kaita
	24 years old Diver

Yoshiro
	Deceased Diver

Scar and Ginger Case

File 669 - Gari-kun

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Taisuke Hoya is actually Gari-kun, Kurumi Shodo's childhood lover.

People

Kurumi Shodo
	39 years old Head of the Shodo family

Taisuke Hoya
	40 years old Butler

Ryuhei Kusumoto
	42 years old

Sogo Banba
	41 years old

Maid
	One of the two maids working for Kurumi

Whistling Killer Case

File 670 - The One Who Whistles

In the flashback, Superintendent Matsumoto found the culprit that sang the song, "Let it be".

File 673 - The Common Pattern

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Takagi realizes Doji Hiramune was the Whistling Killer, but he got killed by Eiki Nabei, who wanted to avenge his father Susumu's murder. Takagi tries to arrest Nabei but the latter beats him up severely and confines him. Later on, the police storm the place and knock Nabei out, and Takagi is taken in emergency to the hospital. Later, in the hospital, Sato and Takagi shares their first kiss.

People

Superintendent Morimura
	Deceased (car hit) Superintendent of Tokyo Metropolitan Police

Doji Hiramune
	Victim (slashed) 41 years old Criminal psychologist

Tsuguharu Bokawa
	Deceased (slashed) 50 years old Boukawa General Hospital director

Maiko Bokawa
	62 years old Tsuguharu Boukawa's wife

Atsunori Mugita
	Deceased (slashed) 42 years old Associate professor of science and engineering, Tohto University

Hidekuni Mugita
	56 years old Atsunori Mugita's younger brother

Susumu Nabei
	Deceased (slashed) 34 years old Lawyer

Eiki Nabei
	25 years old Susumu Nabei's son

Dokuro Kibo
	Ex-con

Man
	Clerk at the Mahjong parlor where the victims played

Kaitou Kid and the Iron Tanuki

Characters introduced

Zengo Goto
	38 years old Bodyguard

Heist Info

Iron Tanuki
	Strongest safe

People

Zengo Goto
	38 years old Bodyguard

Masuhiko Akitsu
	32 years old Assistant

Mizuki Seto
	23 years old Maid

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  United States

See also

• Manga
• Volume 61-70
• Detective Conan