The Detective Memoir of Monkey and Rake

Chronology
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Episode 592-593 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Monkey & Bamboo Rake's Stolen Items
Original airdate:	October 23, 2010 (Part 1) October 30, 2010 (Part 2)
Season:	19
Manga source:	Volume 68: Files 9-11 (716-718)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Wataru Takagi Inspector Megure 100px Detective Chiba Kazumi Tsukamoto

Plot

Part 1

Kogoro and Conan are taken by Ran and Sonoko to a Rooster Festival at the Ranburi Shrine. Ran and Sonoko sneak off to have their love fortunes predicted. Sonoko reads Ran's fortune which strongly suggests her to be feminine and avoid mannish conducts. Sonoko is then robbed by a man wearing a hyottoko mask who flees with her purse towards Ran. Ran, hesitant by her love fortune, does not incapacitate him with karate and allows him to escape. Kogoro explains the man has been dubbed as the Rooster Man and is a serial robber at Rooster Festivals. Ran and Sonoko takes Conan with them to visit the festival again to have their love fortunes retold. A woman's scream is heard and they discover that the Rooster Man was spotted and stabbed a man before escaping.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Ranburi Shrine grounds Victim: Shiro Masuko Suspects: Rooster Man Shiro Masuko was stabbed by the rooster man. He falls unconscious.

Before losing consciousness, the stabbed man, Shiro Masuko, tells Conan its not rooster but saru and shows him nine fingers. Conan investigates the backpack left behind by the Rooster Man and discovers all the possessions stolen by him. The police arrive and are able to narrow down the Rooster Man to three suspects after witnessing him run into the bathroom. Ran finds a button belonging to the Rooster Man from her previous encounter and has the police investigate which suspect is the owner of the button.

Part 2

It was discovered the button did not belong to any of the suspects.

People

Shiro Masuko
	21 years old Aspiring philosophy student at Toto University

Tatsuo Hino
	45 years old Shrine visitor

Hisami Sarukawa
	20 years old Part-time worker

Shinji Mizunoe
	32 years old Company employee

Resolution

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As Conan investigates, he is able to deduce Masuko's message when he realizes it is related to the Chinese zodiac and reveals to Kogoro that the culprit is Shinji Mizunoe. Conan explains that the ninth sign of the Chinese zodiac refers to monkey and is written as shin in Han. Nine also dictates the Sexagenary cycle where the ninth celestial stem Rén (壬?) can be read in as Mizunoe in Kunyomi. As for Mizunoe's alibi, Conan explains Masuko was the original Rooster Man and Mizunoe only impersonated him in an attempt to murder him. Conan suggests to Kogoro to have the police investigate to see if the button belongs to Masuko. They discover Ran has the button and realize Mizunoe may attack her for it.

Ran is tasered by Mizunoe and has her wallet taken from her, who reveals to her that Masuko had stolen Mizunoe's account book and, having realized that Mizunoe was embezzling money for his company, tried to blackmail him. Masuko had originally become the Rooster Man in order to blow off the stress from his rigorous university entry exams.

Before intending to kill her, Mizunoe finds Ran's love fortune and reads its content, which suggests Ran to be herself. Ran realizes Sonoko read her own love fortune in place of Ran's, and with her hesitation gone, Ran easily incapacitates Mizunoe.

See also

• Season 19