Volume 30

Chronology
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Volume 30
Information
Release date:	December 18, 2000
Chapters:	296-306
ISBN:	ISBN 4-09-125500-0
Publisher:	Shogakukan
English release date:	July 21, 2009
English ISBN:	ISBN 1-4215-2198-9
English Publisher:	Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
John Thorndyke Saguru Hakuba
Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Volume 30 was released on December 18, 2000 in Japan.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Juzo Megure Yumi Miyamoto Kaitou Kid Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Sumiko Kobayashi Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku (background) Shinichi Kudo (background) Gin (background) Mrs. Kojima (background) Kikuemon (background) Ray Curtis (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Police Escort Murder Case

File 296 - Straight Ball Match

While traveling home on the Shinkansen from Osaka, Conan, Ran, and Kogoro ran into Officers Sato and Takagi, who were transporting a criminal. Later, a bomb was found on the train which Officer Sato went to investigate. At that time, while she was in the bathroom with it, Officer Takagi had to take the criminal to the bathroom. And then, he apparently committed suicide but...

File 297 - The Open Closed Room

Conan doesn't believe in the suicide theory and investigates the three men who went to the bathroom, as one of them may be the murderer.

File 298 - Time Trap

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The culprit is Akira Akashi. He tries to escape but is knocked down by Takagi and Sato. He wanted to silence Ogura to prevent the police from tracing back the drug network he and Ogura were in. Ironically, Akashi's capture enabled the police to do it indeed. Takagi and Sato get severely scolded by Megure for leaving a suspect alone, which resulted in his death, and he decides to cut down their wages. Yet, the two's love relationship seems to be set fair, and Ran is impressed at Takagi's "direct balls and not curved ones". She wants to learn this lesson and apply it with Shinichi.

People

Senzo Ogura
	Victim (stabbed) Drug dealer

Tatsuro Iwakuni
	47 years old Passenger

Norio Tokuyama
	51 years old Passenger

Akira Akashi
	29 years old Passenger

Kaitou Kid and the Murder

Characters introduced

Saguru Hakuba
	17 years old Detective Kaito Kid's rival

Renya Karasuma
	Millionaire Previous Sunset Mansion owner

File 299 - The Meeting

Kogoro has been invited to a detective meeting by an unknown assailant who sends him money. There are six detectives there excluding Conan. They are in a house where a massacre happened years ago. One of the detectives are killed and they are stranded in the mansion as the bridge has been cut and the cars have been burned. It also appears that the unknown assailant is using the name Kaitou Kid.

File 300 - Tragedy

Renya Karasuma

That mansion once belonged to Renya Karasuma, the billionaire who mysteriously died forty years ago.

File 302 - Sting

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The one who killed Ogami is Furuyo Senma.

Senma and Ogami were co-conspirators and had arranged for the detectives to arrive in an attempt to have them find the treasure for them. Senma's archaeologist father had disappeared looking for the treasure, so she wanted to know what the treasure was at all costs. Sensing that Ogami's greed had got the best of him and that he would kill her after they had found the treasure, she poisoned him using his nail biting habit. She had planned to fake her death, have the other detectives find the treasure and then have them kill each other, but they were not fooled. All the detectives who killed each other are alive all along.

Instead, she is tricked into confessing to Conan, who reveals the true secret of the treasure: the entire mansion is actually made of gold. After solving the case, Kogoro was revealed to be Kid in disguise and escapes before Conan could capture him.

People

Furuyo Senma
	Victim (explosion) 63 years old Detective

Harufumi Mogi
	Victim (poison) 39 years old Detective

Shukuzen Ogami
	Victim (poison) 51 years old Detective

Aki Ishihara
	Victim (kidnapped) 23 years old Maid

Ikumi Soda
	Victim (poison) 29 years old Detective

Renya Karasuma
	Multi-millionaire Previous mansion owner Died 40 years ago

Kyosuke Senma
	Furuyo's late father Archaeologist Missing

Watson
	Saguru's pet hawk

Genta's Shadow Case

File 303 - Genta's Misfortune

Genta has been acting weird at school lately. He is hiding under his futon at home, and doesn't eat his lunch instead of racing to finish first which is worrying his teacher Kobayashi. When he leaves school, Genta climbs over the wall and runs, like he is trying to lose someone. When the Detective Boys confront him, he tells them someone is trying to kill him. Earlier, he had heard the sound of someone's footsteps keeping pace with him in a tunnel. Later he was pushed off a bridge, and a burning car hurtled towards him. As he was telling the Detective Boys this, they reached a place outside a store where Genta likes to play a Yaiba Game machine. A large bolt falls nearby, barely alerting the Detective Boys in time to avoid part of the store's "BAKER" sign hurtling to the ground. Conan examines the support cable, and determines it had been deliberately cut and someone was indeed after Genta's life. They go to a burger restaurant and Genta reveals the man he thinks is trying to kill him is the purse snatcher the police are after. Genta had seen the man sometime earlier, before he was a wanted burglar, but had forgotten where it was. Genta does remember a golden haired man was with him when he saw the thief. Genta also explains that he went to a crime scene where the snatcher struck five days ago and saw his golden-haired witness in the crowd. He took the witness to the police and told them the story, but the witness denied seeing the thief. Genta later gets a mysterious phone call: "If you tell anyone that you saw me, I will kill you!! You, your family, and everybody that you know!" Genta tries to recall where he saw the thief. He remembers the witness sitting beside him, but doesn't remember the thief sitting down. Genta was sleepy at the time. The things he remembers about the thief are that he was holding a cigarette in his left hand, meaning he is left handed. He was also wearing a tee-shirt with a skull and the numbers 202 in digital clock-like numerals. Genta notices one of the customers at the burger place has a similar tee-shirt, only with the numbers 1999 instead. Conan asks the man where he got his shirt, and the man tells him it is from the Bones clothing store. The Detective Boys run to find the place, but unfortunately the criminal had followed them into the restaurant and overheard everything.

At the shop, the salesperson explains that they sold a variety of shirts like that with different text such as "Escape", "Help", and "1999" because of the doomsday prediction in 2000, but none that say 202. The salesperson doesn't remember anyone unusual either. Genta does remember a few more details about the thief though. The thief was reading a newspaper, the place allowed smoking, and Genta never took his eyes off of him meaning it was a place where it wouldn't be unusual to watch someone without making them uncomfortable. From those clues, Conan realizes the answer.

File 304 - Genta's Trap

Conan says Genta saw the murderer in a glasses’ shop. Indeed, the murderer didn’t react at all and didn’t notice Genta was looking at him, since he had taken off his glasses to have them cleaned, and couldn’t see anything without it. Genta says he’s never been in a glasses’ shop in his whole life, and Conan answers he happens to fail at deductions sometimes, though he whispers something into Genta’s ear, while the killer is observing them further back. As Genta still tells Conan he’s made a mistake again, Conan sighs powerlessly and asks Genta to warn his friends if anything ever comes back to his mind. Walking back home on their way, Mitsuhiko, Genta and Ayumi talk about the case again and Genta buys himself some ice cream. He suddenly realises something when wiping the ice on his cheek. Then Genta spots France’s three-color flag above a French restaurant, and asks Ayumi if she isn’t reminded of something when thinking about the blue, white and red colours. Ayumi thinks about Conan’s usual outfit but Genta suggests Conan can’t be the killer, and recalls those three coulours with something spinning amidst. As Mitsuhiko and Ayumi leave Genta alone to go home, the latter is being followed by the murderer, and becomes aware of the truth when looking at his reflection in the mirror of a shopwindow. He rushes to a place located at the sixth floor of a train station’s building, and hardly manages to slip into the lift.

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Inside, Genta also meets the blond-haired witness and tells him they must go to the police together once again as he’s finally found out where he saw the killer. The man suggests they have a little chat together in a secluded place before going there, and discreetly pulls a dagger out of his pocket. Suddenly, one of the two other people in the lift starts pointing at the witness, saying he recognises that man named Someda. As the lift opens, Conan and the DB turn up saying that Someda is the murderer, and Genta met him in a place full of mirrors, explaining why he wasn’t spotted looking at the murderer as it was through a mirror’s reflection, behind him, and the « 202 » accordingly becomes a « 505 », actually a « SOS » shirt. Someda then isn’t left-handed but right-handed. Conan reveals Genta went to a very common place where people are usually sitting in front of a mirror, and can’t move, explaining why they often get drowsy at times : a barber shop. Which is why the ice cream on his cheek reminded him of the shaving foam on the male customers’ cheeks, and the three blue, white and red colors spinning are the traditional front window of a barber’s. Genta didn’t realise the dark-haired man with glasses turned into a blond-haired one – due to having his hair dyed and styled in another way – with false glasses, and with actually the same outfit, but Genta couldn’t know it as customers usually put on a white coat when having their hair done, and moreover Genta slept then he could see nothing at all.

Genta then believed Someda was another man who had seen the real murderer. Conan says there’s a witness of all of that, it’s the man of the lift, actually the barber in disguise. The barber never watches TV and didn’t notice the wanted posters left by the police in the streets, only by chance, if he had he would have immediately reported Someda to the police, as he was the one who dyed the mugger’s hair. Actually, Someda’s true hair are blond and he had dyed it dark rapidly on purpose at home, along with wearing a mask and glasses, and afterwards went to the barber’s to get his normal hair style and color back after his muggings, not to be found by the police. Conan adds that some fingerprints have been found on one of the stolen handbags, and if they happen to correspond to Someda’s, that’s the evidence.

Actually, the DBs had planned to lure the murderer by claiming aloud they hadn’t found anything about the case, while Genta « suddenly » realised something then and rushed to the station where his friends already were. And the trap is revealed when Someda tries to stab Genta in anger, as the woman in the lift grasps his arm, and Conan says the place is crowded with police agents, and the woman is actually Sato in disguise, who neutralises Someda.

After the case, Haibara tells Conan Gin is left-handed.

People

Man
	Purse snatcher

Kamiyo Someda
	Blond guy Witness

Pottery Class Case

File 305 - On the Bottom...

Ran, Sonoko, and Conan attend a pottery class. Sonoko wants to make pottery for Makoto, while Ran wants to make some for Shinichi. They meet the workshop's two apprentices, Motoo Mino and Kikuyo Kasama, along with the workshop's owner and Motoo's father-in-law, Muneyuki Mino, who is amazed at Ran and Conan having met the renowned potter Kikuemon (vol. 16). Some time after, Motoo is found strangled to death with a necktie in a closet.

File 306 - Surrounded by Hints

Conan knows who the culprit is, to the point of confronting the culprit when they're all alone, but still has no evidence. He tries to find evidence to prove it was him.

People

Muneyuki Mino
	62 years old Potter

Kikuyo Kasama
	29 years old Muneyuki's assistant

Motoo Mino
	Victim (strangled) 31 years old Office worker Married into Muneyuki's family

Cover in other countries

China

Finland

France

Germany

Hong Kong

Indonesia

Italy

Korea

Malaysia (Chinese)

Malaysia (Malay)

Norway

Rep. of China (Taiwan)

Singapore (English)

Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)

Sweden

United States

Vietnam

See also

• Manga
• Volume 21-30
• Detective Conan