Kobayashi-sensei's Love

Chronology
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Episode 583-585 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	583: Kobayashi-sensei's Love 584: Inspector Shiratori's Lost Love 585 (First Half): Timeless Sakura's Love
Japanese title:	小林先生の恋 (Kobayashi-sensei no Koi) 白鳥警部の失恋 (Shiratori-keibu no Shitsuren) 時を超える桜の恋 (Toki wo Koeru Sakura no Koi)
Original airdate:	August 14, 2010 (Kobayashi-sensei's Love) August 21, 2010 (Inspector Shiratori's Lost Love) August 28, 2010 (Timeless Sakura's Love)
Season:	19
Manga source:	Volume 67: File 9 (705) ~ Volume 68: File 1 (708)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Sumiko Kobayashi Ninzaburo Shiratori
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Ninzaburo Shiratori
Next Conan's Hint:	Bellowing (Kobayashi-sensei's Love) Giraffe (Inspector Shiratori's Lost Love) Sparrow (Timeless Sakura's Love)
Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Organizer:	583 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 584 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 585 Yasuichiro Yamamoto, Seiki Taichuu
Storyboard:	583 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 584 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 585 Yasuichiro Yamamoto, Seiki Taichuu
Episode director:	583 Masakazu Yamazaki 584 Minoru Tozawa 585 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	583 Kana Miyai, Yumiko Ishii 584 Keiko Sasaki, Chiemi Hironaka 585 Nobuyuki Iwai, Tomomi Kamiya
Music
Opening song:	SUMMER TIME GONE
Closing song:	Hello Mr. my yesterday

Kobayashi Sensei's Love spans two and a half episodes, with the latter half of 585 being dedicated to The Kirin's Horn That Vanished into the Dark

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Sumiko Kobayashi Ninzaburo Shiratori Ai Haibara Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato 100px Detective Chiba Yumi Miyamoto Inspector Megure

Case

Situation

Officer Takagi comes back to the police department after an all night stakeout and gets reprimanded by Officer Sato for his poorly appearance. She then starts fixing his necktie, onyl for him to get flustered when he notices a grupo of other male policemen (save for Shiratori) giving him death glares out of jealousy.

The other policement start gossiping in the hall about how they've kissed and had lunch together, and then Shiratori arrives. As the "Sato Miwako Defense Line" group, they try yo rope Shiratori into their antics but he doesn't take the bait and walks out. One of the policemen says he's dound out that Shiratori has a girlfriend, and adds how she looks exactly like Sato - said girlfriend is Sumiko Kobayashi.

Shiratori calls Kobayashi at work and tells her to be careful at night, since there's a purse snatcher in the area. She asks him why he's so concerned and is flustered when he mistakenly thinks she's bothered. The Detective Boys, Ai and Conan are there since they're on cleaning duty, and the younger kids are happy to find out the call's from Shiratori and try to clue her in the supposed encounter she and Shiratori had in the past, but while she feels that they've met before, she can't exactly recall when or where.

Later that day, the Detective Boys and Kobayashi-sensei go to see a summer festival's fireworks display. Kobayashi-sensei gets left behind since she arrived late and the fireworks had already started, but as she's looking for the children she overhears a quarrel. Then, she walks into the alley the voices come from... then sees the figure of the culprit run away in the shadows and finds the victim, a woman who has been stabbed to death.

Murder
	Location: Alley Victim: Akira Sumida Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Kikuna Kagitani, Ryoko Takimoto, and Ryusuke Kodama

In the middle of the fireworks Conan realises that Kobayashi hasn't arrived. He goes look for her and arrives to the alley, where he hears Kobayashi scream. With her hands covered in blood, Kobayashi looks at her side and sees the culprit again; then Conan arrives and he or she is gone.

The next day, the kids and Kobayashi are in the police station. Upon her arrival Kobayashi is mistaken as Sato by Yumi, and later by Chiba. Shiratori arrives and explains the situation, leaving the two dumbfounded about the physical similarities and the completely different behavior of both women.

The group is questioned as witnesses by the police, along with three suspects. All the suspects have personal motives to murder the victim, the pawn shop owner Akira Sumida: Kagitani, because Sumida callously called her late mother's ring that she pawned as a "worthless item" and claimed she had sold it when she was actually wearing it; Takimoto, because she was tricked by Sumida into buying a fake antique plate for half a million yens, which was revealed to be a cat's plate worth only 300 yens; Kodama, because Sumida repeteadly and menacingly ordered him to return the money that she loaned him...

In the middle of the investigation, Kobayashi goes to the rest room with Ai and Ayumi. While waiting for the girls to be done, Kobayashi briefly sees Satou and Takagi walking by and is excited by how similar they are in looks. Before she can do anything, however, she also overhears the male policemen from the beginning saying that Shiratori was part of the "Miwako Sato Ultimate Defense Line" head and that they believe Kobayashi is a replacement for Sato. Kobayashi slumps to her knees in disappointment, much to the worry of the girls.

Shiratori has Kobayashi listen to the three culprit's voices and has determined none of them was the voice that shouted out. For worse, Chiba hasn't been able to find a truck that was close by and might have something to do. When done with the interrogation, Kobayashi says she cannot do anything else to help storms out of the police station, coldly refusing Shiratori's offers to escort her. (Chiba does so, under Shiratori's request, so she won't be attacked by the actual culprit.) Shiratori doesn't understand why is she so angry, so Ai deduces that Kobayashi must have seen Sato and heard the rumors that Shiratori is only settling for Kobayashi in place of Sato, which must have hurt her deeply. Shiratori is shocked since he's completely sure that Kobayashi is his "girl of destiny" and not Sato, and the kids try to convince him to speak up. The situation is made even more awkward when Sato and Takagi arrive to the scene... because Sato had heard about Kobayashi and wants Shiratori show her support to his "bid" to her affections.

Shiratori attempts to rectify the misunderstanding and confronts Kobayashi in the school, revealing how they met many years ago in a bookstore when confronting a pair of thieves. Kobayashi is unable to remember the event, however, and replies it must have been Sato after all, running away into the school grounds since she still has work to do. The children tell Shiratori not to give up, and decide to help him catch the culprit so he can recover Kobayashi's favor.

Later that night, at the school, Kobayashi receives a phone call from a supposed ex-pupil and member of the band, asking to meet her at the music room since he feels nostalgic and wants to see it again. Kobayashi is the only teacher around and accepts, then recalls that the person didn't tell her his name and that the music room was remodelled few ago... and then a presence behind her shocks her...

People

Akira Sumida
	Victim (stabbed) Pawn shop owner

Kikuna Kagitani
	25 years old Freelance Worker

Ryoko Takimoto
	31 years old Small Restaurant Manager

Ryusuke Kodama
	27 years old Host Club Worker

Resolution

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Kobayashi enters the music room where the culprit proceeds to attack her. However, Kobayashi manages to incapacitate the culprit with a suplex and she is revealed to be Sato in disguise. The Detective Boys and Shiratori appears, revealing Sato replaced Kobayashi in the hallway and naming the culprit to be Ryusuke Kodama.

The Detective Boys reveal that Kobayashi's testimony was correct, and that she mistook Kodama to be a woman in the alley due to his long hair (which he has cut short) and the position of his arm making him seem as if he had breasts. Conan explains the woman's voice that was heard belonged to the victim, and that 09 was actually OS and stood for the first two letters of Osaka Nico Nico transportation. Shiratori reveals that they questioned the truck driver, who saw the victim and Kodama entering the alley. Kodama confesses and explains that Sumida once was his sponsor in his promising career as a baseball player, but when he hurt his shoulder Sumida started to get more demanding in regards to the money she loaned him; she apparently planned to kill Kodama to receive money from his life insurance to settle his debt.

Kodama claims that the murder of Sumida was in self-defense, but Shiratori refuses this explanation because according to the law, self-defense relies in lack of actual killing plans like Kodama's, and he's used a baseball bat to kill people instead of fulfilling his dream. Shiratori does this in a manner than triggers Kobayashi's memories (young Shiratori told similar things to the shoplifter he and Kobayashi stopped), and she finally remembers their chance encounter. When she says so, Shiratori says that he's loved Kobayashi even from before the children before them were born, and she accepts his feelings. The next day Shiratori refuses to go have lunch with Chiba, Sato and Takagi since Kobayashi has made him a bento lunch.

Gallery

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See also

• Season 19