Volume 2
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| Release date: | July 18, 1994 | ||
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| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-123372-4 | ||
| Publisher: | Shogakukan | ||
| English release date: | November 3, 2004 | ||
| English ISBN: | ISBN 1-59116-587-3 | ||
| English Publisher: | Viz Media | ||
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Volume 2 was released on July 18, 1994 in Japan.
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
Mysterious Shadow Case
Gadgets introduced
File 010 - An Advantageous Shadow
To keep Conan's cover as a child, Professor Agasa enrolls Conan in 1st grade at Teitan Elementary School.He is embarrassed by the class calling his name funny but quickly goes to his seat. Bored by the simple curriculum, during P.E. Conan decides to test the new gadget Agasa gave to him earlier (the Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes), using moderate power while playing soccer. To his and his classmates shock, the soccer ball shoots through the goal net and knocks over a large tree. On his way home, grumbling to himself about Agasa's lack of moderation, Conan notices Kogoro shadowing someone. He tells Conan to go home but knocks over a trash can attracting the attention of the guy he is following. Out in Gunma Prefecture, Akaoni Village many people are celebrating Himatsuri (fire festival) by making a large bonfire, however they suddenly see a body emerge from the flames.
After 3 days of easy work by following that man around, Kogoro receives payment of 500,000 yen. Ran wonders if Conan has brought them good luck, and when Kogoro asks how long Conan is going to be staying, explains that Agasa told her that Conan's parents are out of the hospital but left overseas on urgent business. Kogoro also finds Conan's face oddly familiar from when Ran was in gradeschool, but his train of thought is interrupted by a news report that Masaki Negishi age 42, the man Kogoro had been following, was found murdered at the fire festival in Akaoni Village.
File 011 - A Perfect Alibi
Kogoro, Ran, and Conan go to the police station, where they find Inspector Megure questioning Yutaka Abe, the man who hired Kogoro to tail Masaki. He received 500,000,000 yen as the beneficiary of Masaki's life insurance policy. When asked why the person who wanted Masaki followed is receiving the life insurance Yutaka responds that it was a game. The two men had known each other for 20 years since college. Three months ago they had made a bet to see who would live longer. He said that he hired Kogoro because Masaki had been worried about his life being in danger. Yutaka excuses himself as the president of a small business he has to go back to work because he is busy, but asks if Kogoro could quickly find the person that killed his friend.
However Yutaka is the only suspect they have and his action of paying Kogoro such a large amount of money for a small job doesn't make any sense. Kogoro tells Ran and Conan that Yutaka's alibi is perfect and that he had been used to make it. Kogoro had been following Masaki until Wednesday night, and the body had been discovered on Thursday night in the fire. Therefore the murder must have happened sometime after he stopped tailing him. During that time Yutaka had flown to Kyushu on a company trip from Wednesday morning until Friday night making his alibi perfect. When examining the photos back at the agency Conan points out nearly every photo has a clock in it. As he does, Kogoro grows suspicious of Conan's conveniently helpful innocent comments, but Conan distracts him by 'childishly' mixing the two photo batches together. Ran asked if the person being tailed really was the man that was burned in the fire and Korogor reveals that the victim's ID card had been found on the ground near the bonfire and that the dental records were a match. Conan finds this to be weird because normally criminals would hide things like that to prevent identification. He begins to piece the clues together before picking up a photograph on the table which shocked him.
File 012 - The Picture Speaks
Conan notices differences between some of the photographs of the Masaki that Kogoro took while he was following him. Then he lined them up by day and talked himself through the timeline again. He had found a crack in the alibi. Just then Kogoro squeezes his head and tells him to stop making mischief. Kogoro then announces that Yutaka's company is currently in debt by 300,000,000 yen which gives him a motive for killing Misaki for the life insurance. Then he plans to take the remaining money and take a vacation overseas, leaving at 9pm only 3 hours from now. Conan sneaks off to a local market to use his Voice-Changing Bowtie to summon Kogoro and the police to Narita International Airport. While Kogoro and Ran search for Inspector Megure in the crowd, Conan sneaks off and makes it so that an announcement about a Yutaka Abe meeting a Masaki Negishi in the parking lot is heard over the loudspeakers.
The next day, Kogoro mentions that Yutaka claimed he was beaten by a kid, and Conan is the closest child around... but Ran, seeing Conan asleep on the desk with the kid's TV show Yaiba playing, says it's impossible.
People
Masami Hirota Case
Characters introduced
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Gadgets introduced
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File 013 - The Missing Man
Conan heads over to Professor Agasa's house and is reading the newspaper and comments on how the cases never stop coming. The headline of his newspaper reads that three criminals that have stolen 10 billion yen have not been caught yet. Conan then mentions that Kogoro will get all of the credit for cases he will solve. Agasa then hands him a new pair of Criminal Tracking Glasses that have the ability to track criminals with in a 20km radius. The tracker itself acts like a sticker and can be placed on Conan's jacket button for sake keeping. When Conan returns to the detective agency he finds a young woman named Masami Hirota begging Kogoro to find her father. She says that her father works away from home in Tokyo at a taxi company but has been missing for the past month. She says that looking for him has caused her to miss school in Yamagata. She pulls out a picture of her father and says that his name is Kenzou Hirota, 170cm tall and age 48. He has 4 cats named Kai, Tei, Gou, and Ou. Conan attempts to place the transmitter on Ran but trips on a cord and lands on the couch next to Masami. His tracking sticker lands on her watch. Masami begins crying saying that her mother died when she was little and that her father was her only relative. Over the next week Kogoro checks with the Taxi company and with several local stores but comes up empty. Conan notices that Kogoro has the horse races playing on TV in the background and that one of the horses is named "Goukaiteiou". He then puts together the names of the cats and comes to the same name. He passes it off as a coincidence but Ran thinks that the cats were named after the horse and that Kenzou must have loved horse racing. The three of them go down to the Tokyo Horse Racing Track and find Kenzou in minutes. Rather than approaching him, Kogoro suggests that they just follow him home and then tell Masami later. When Masami arrives Kogoro tells her that he was living in an appartment in Nerima, Tokyo. Conan notes that Masami has more makeup on and looks more grownup. Ran calms him by saying that she probably dressed up to see her father. When her father sees her approaching he stands shocked and drops his garbage bag. The two reunited walk back inside the appartment and Kogoro and Conan start to turn back. Then they notice a man in a large coat and sunglasses that appears to be stalking them but he leaves. The chapter ends with Kenzou Hirota hanging from the ceiling by a rope with his cats walking around his feet.
File 014 - The Sad Girl
Ran tries to call Masami Hirota to ask how everything turned out after reuniting with her dad, but can't seem to reach her because the phone number has been disconnected. Kogoro says that he never needed to call the number because she was always the one that called him. This gives them a bad feeling that is made worse when Conan comments that it's possible her father ran away again. The three rush over to the appartment that Kenzou Hirota had been living in only to discover from the landlady that he had died the night before. She also tells them that she wasn't aware that Kensou had a family and that he had paid for a whole years rent in advance in brand new bills. She thinks that it is possible that Masami may be dead as well because the inspector had told her that Kenzou was murdered. At the police station Kogoro learns from Inspector Megure that Kenzou was strangled before being hung from the ceiling and that fingerprints were found on both the rope and the ceiling that were not the victims. Megure things that the motive may have been money because everything was removed from the apartment except for the victim's cats. They do know that the hand prints around the victims neck show that the killer was a very large man. Also they had found Masami's glasses near the scene of the crime. Outside the mysterious man in a coat and sunglasses watches them leave the police station.
While Kogoro tries to convince Ran that Masami could still be alive but kidnapped, Conan remembers that he accidentally dropped his tracking sticker onto her watch. Conan quickly switches on his glasses and runs towards the signal. This leads him to a crowded Pachinko parlor, just as the batteries run out he runs smack into a giant man who tells him not to run around so much. Conan continues to search the parlor but is thrown out by one of the workers. As Conan returns to the detective agency he finds Ran intently staring out the window. She noticed the strange man in the coat and sunglasses that had been tailing them ever since they had reunited Masami with her father. Before Kogoro and Conan could even get to the stairs, Ran jumps out the window and stops him from getting away by car. When Kogoro gets a hold of him, he reveals that he too is a detective and wondered if Kogoro had also been hired to look for Kenzou. The person who had hired him, however, was the giant man that Conan had bumped into in the Pachinko parlor.
File 015 - Follow the Giant!
Back inside the detective agency, the other detective tries to explain the situation. He says that he tired to run because Ran jumped from the window and ran after him. Kogoro asks how he could be scared with that kind of face and then takes the mans sunglasses. The other detective has very girly looking eyes and Kogoro can no longer take him seriously at all. The detective explains that he was hired to find Kenzou, but once he located the apartment Kogoro was already there reuniting him with Masami which the detective found odd. The person who hired the other detective said that he was Akira Hirota and that his elder brother Kenzou had left from Kyushu for Tokyo, not only that but that he was Kenzou's only blood relative. Kogoro responds that Masami was supposed to be his only blood relative and that he had come from Yamagata. Then the other detective brings up Kenzou's suspitious behavior, that he had been driving his taxi along the same route night after night with no passengers at dangerous speeds. Kogoro asks what the other detective's employer looks like and gets the response that he is a giant. Kogoro then recalls that Inspector Megure had said that Kenzou was killed by a giant. They conclude that Akira killed Kenzou and then took Masami somewhere. Conan remains confused at how his tracker had lead him to this giant man. That would mean that Akira had Masami's watch and possibly that Masami might be dead. Conan remembers that his glasses tracking ability had run out of power and went to Professor Agasa to get them fixed. Conan seems rushed and Agasa tried to calm him by reminding him of the Billion Yen robbery case that had happened recently. One of the guards tried to stop the criminals on his own and got killed. He says that the current case had escalated and that Conan needs to remember Sherlock Holmes' ideals: calmness, composure and diligence.
Conan returns to the agency and tells them that he had found Akira's hideout on the way home from school. They all jump in a taxi and Conan activates his tracking glasses. (Akira is shown sitting in a dark room with crushed beer cans and a bottle, counting money. "I had to kill both of them, but still got the money"). The taxi stops in front of Enjyo City Hotel. The receptionist tells them that Akira is in room 802 and they go straight to the elevator. A young woman with long hair pushing a cart with four large cases on it came out of the elevator and the cases fall off. They help her restack the cases and hurry up to Akira's room to find the door unlocked and Akira dead of cyanide poisoning, the can still in his hand. Conan notices five small cases and begins to put the clues together. Kogoro calls Megure from the hotel room phone and finds out that Kenzou never had a daughter, also that he was raised here in Tokyo. Conan says he figured it all out.
File 016 - A Devil-like Woman
Conan begins to put the clues together. Why would two people be searching for Kenzou at the same time? Now one is dead and the other is missing. There are also five mysterious cases in the room. If the three had no blood relation then there is only one way to overlap all of the clues.
People
Scary Building Case
Characters introduced
Gadgets introduced
File 017 - The Scary Building
At Teitan Elementary School, Ayumi Yoshida asks Conan to go ghost hunting at a scary house at block number four. She has already enlisted the help of Genta Kojima who believes that Conan will be more dead weight than help. Ayumi explains that the owner of the mansion was killed around five years ago and the owner's wife and child moved somewhere else. Now evil spirits inhabit the house and people in the neighborhood claim to hear moans and someone found the skeleton of a missing dog nearby. Akyumi herself had seen a soul ball floating in the window. When she finishes, another student named Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya claims that the stories are all made up and that in this age of science you only see ghosts on tv. Genta then decides that Mitsuhiko has to come with them to prove that ghosts don't exist and Conan gets roped in by Ayumi.
When they arrive at the house it is covered in crows. They then discuss what supplies they brought. Genta brought a metal bat, Ayumi brought snacks, Mitsuhiko brought flashlights and a compass, and Conan brought nothing. Mitsuhiko points out that the gate is locked but Genta leads them around the right side of the house where there is a secret entrance through the gate. The door is unlocked but Ayumi is scared to go inside, until a crack of lightning hits and she bolts in. She runs smack into a scary statue and falls down getting covered in dirt. Then she goes to the bathroom where the water seems to still be running. Genta then compares their adventure to a role-playing game where he is the hero, Ayumi is the fighter girl, Mitsuhiko is the sharp magician, and Conan is the villager. Conan doesn't like this title but Mitsuhiko and Ayumi remind him that the villager is a source of important information and that he actually is well suited to that job. A gust of wind blows through an open window and pushes a door open, causing the three to jump behind Conan in fear. Conan examines the ground below the window while Mitsuhiko says that he has to go to the bathroom and wanders off. He discovers a strange staircase leading down into the floor to a basement and can hear sounds. He goes down the stairs and peeks through the door and then screams. Conan and the others hear his scream and race towards the sound of his voice.
File 018 - The Disappearing Children
Conan orders Genta and Ayumi to hide while he investigates. While he doesn't tell them, he's certain that the house is still being used for some reason due to:
- The existence of the secluded secret entrance,
- The water still being turned on after five years, and
- The window being open without evidence of wind or rain damage within the room.
While waiting for Conan, Genta and Ayumi eat nearly all of the snacks Ayumi brought. Genta remains hungry, however, so when he notices the scent of food he disregards Conan's orders and goes to investigate. Meanwhile, Conan finds a picture of the previous inhabitants — the owner who died, and the wife and son who purportedly moved away — but Genta screaming interrupts his musings. Ayumi also leaves the room to try to find Genta, but realized that the shadow approaching from around the corner that she thought belonged to him is too big; as she panics over who is coming, Conan grabs her from behind and pulls her into a small alcove in the hall. A shadowy woman with a candelabra and a cart passes by, but disappears into an apparent dead-end. Conan finds a handle for a trap-door in the floor, and uses the invention Agasa recently gave him, the Elasticity Suspenders, to create the necessarily leverage to open it since he's not strong enough on his own. Conan and Ayumi descend the stairs and find a cell with a feral-looking man inside, only to realize they're trapped in the small area outside the cell because someone is coming down the stairs they just used.
File 019 - The Underground Room's Nightmare
Conan and Ayumi manage to hide behind the small cupboard outside the cell, and watch a woman enter with a tray of food. She tries to comfort the apparently haunted prisoner that the subject of his nightmares was over five years ago, and the dead don't come back.
People
Cover in other countries
Trivia
- The title for each chapter are worded as the following in Case Closed:
- File 010 - A Lucrative Tailing Job
- File 011 - The Perfect Alibi
- File 014 - The Poor Girl
- File 015 - Follow the Big Man!
- File 016 - A Devilish Woman
- File 017 - Mansion of Horror
- File 018 - Disappearing Children
- File 019 - Nightmare in the Basement
See also
References
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