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Situation
While on the way to dinner Conan and company come across a bunch of people dressed as Kamen Yaiba fans. They are invited to the party where an attempted murder and suicide appears to occur, but Conan begins to wonder if there is more than meets the eye to this.
| Attempted Murder
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Mansion
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| Victim:
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Osamu Honda
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| Suspects:
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Katsuji Mishima
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| Mishima fired at Honda with his gun, but Honda was wearing a bullet proof vest which he didn't get killed.
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| Suicide?
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| Location:
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Mansion
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| Victim:
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Katsuji Mishima
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| Cause of death:
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Gunshot wound
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| After Mishima fired at Honda with his gun, he raises the gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Could this really be a suicide?
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Resolution
Conan knocks out Kogoro with his stun gun wristwatch and begins to reveal his deductions with the voice changing bowtie. It was no suicide but it was actually a murder. Someone had this planned out right from the beginning. The person could have suggested, something like this to Mishima, that they should put up an act at the party, so that they could give people a scare. For this act, they quarreled before everybody so as to lay the setting for today. The killer is Osamu Honda. Honda first modified two guns of the same model and then prepared two different kind of bullets. First which would be a real bullet, and the other one an empty bullet. The gun that Honda gave to Mishima before the whole thing was the one with the empty bullets. Before the official opening for the party in the morning, Honda met Mishima at the temple and handed over the gun to him and brought the gun that had the real bullets inside. Honda's excuse would be that he needed to check the gun. That means that the gun on Honda's waist is Mishima's gun. The gun that Honda gave to Mishima wasn't sealed at all because he was afraid it would be involved afterwards. Honda chose today when he wasn't wearing Kamen Yaiba costume but wearing a Laser Police instead. That's because only the Laser Police bear guns. Also, it wouldn't be strange if he wore a bullet-proof vest. Just when Mishima dashed in, Honda purposely moved a few steps so that the other people wouldn't be caught in the fray. That also let Mishima get a good aim at his target. Mishima had no knowledge of guns when he fired a gun, he should have felt like something was wrong. Honda had considered the gunshot and the movement and has practiced with Mishima. So when Honda saw Mishima being shot down, he misunderstood it, since it had the same effect as when they were practicing. It all went as they had planned beforehand. Mishima didn't commit suicide because when someone who really wanted to commit suicide, would press the gun to his temple and pull the trigger. That way, there should be burn mark on his temple. Mishima doesn't have any burn mark on his temple, because even it was an empty shot, it would have some fireworks. So at that time he didn't want to hurt himself and didn't press the gun against his head. As evidence, the crime scene investigator found that they were other fingerprints on the gun besides Mishima's. The fingerprint and the fingerprint on Genta's Detective Boys Badge (which Conan gave it to the crime scene investigator to check it) is the same. The other fingerprint belongs to Genta. Genta never touched Mishima's gun but why were Genta's fingerprints found on the gun is this what happens: Before Honda went to the party, Conan and the Detective Boys met Honda at the temple. At that time, Genta did touched the gun. That means, that the gun Honda had on was later used by Mishima at the party. It proves that Honda's gun has been swapped with Mishima's.
Some time ago Mishima, who was a Kamen Yaiba fan to the point of mental illness, had stolen Honda's little brother's extremely rare Kamen Yaiba poster while he was riding his motorcycle; the poor boy ran after Mishima's moto and was hit by a truck, dying two days later. In his last words, the younger Honda begged his brother to "capture that Kamen Yaiba".
Honda joined many fan clubs to find who had caused his brother's death. A year and a half after the accident, he found his brother's poster in Mishima's apartment; Mishima himself lied and said it was a gift from his own brother, though Honda knew that Mishima had no siblings. Honda then engineered the meeting of Kamen Yaiba fans to trick the mentally-inbalanced Mishima into first shooting him, then committing suicide under the belief that it was all an act.
Dub changes
- The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:
- Yasuyuki Tsutsumi - York Taylor
- Madoka Saotome - Melanie Seymour
- Osamu Honda - Stu Hogan
- Katsuji Mishima - Sam Michener
- Hiroshi Honda - Henry Hogan
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