Volume 30
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| Release date: | December 18, 2000 | ||
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| 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 | ||
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Volume 30 was released on December 18, 2000 in Japan.
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
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
People
Kaitou Kid and the Murder
Characters introduced
File 299 - The Meeting
Kogoro has been invited to a detective meeting by an unknown person who sends him money, and who calls himself "the one God shot off, the offshoot of illusions". Kogoro gets enraged as the shortcut the gas station's old man had told them to take actually leads nowhere and is completely muddy from the rain. Suddenly, they emerge on a road, and Conan says the old man didn't lie as they notice not far away the place where Kogoro, Conan and Ran are heading to : the dark and mysterious "Twilight Mansion". Ran is afraid to go there as she believes the old mansion may be Count Dracula's one, but Kogoro replies they're in Japan therefore they might rather meet Yamanba, the mountain's sorceress, than Dracula, and abruptly brakes as they see Yamanba right in the middle of the road. The "Yamanba" is actually an old woman whose car broke down and who asks Kogoro for a lift to Twilight Mansion, where she believes Kogoro goes as well. As Ran asks her dad to go quicker as she really needs to go to the washroom, the old woman asks her why she didn't do it when she was at the gas station, saying that "people who move up the ladder are always those who grasp the opportunities that open up before them, and who don't wait for another ones to come, as it might never be the case again". As Conan asks the old woman to speak her mind, she says Kogoro's car's ashtray is empty, and a cigarette butt seems to have fallen from it not long ago. This means the driver is a heavy smoker and his ashtray was probably full to the brim; if the ashtray is now empty it can only mean it had been emptied very recently, probably at the gas station further down. She adds a gentlmen kindly accepting to give a lift to a poor old lady would never be so ill-mannered as to throw his butts through the window on his daughter's side and in front of her. As Kogoro asks her who she is, she introduces herself as Furuyo Senma, the famous detective who solves mysteries sitting peacefully on a cosy armchair, just by listening to the narrative of the criminal facts. Senma adds she knows Sleeping Kogoro very well by reputation, and takes the ashtray away as she hates cigarette smoke and doesn't want Kogoro to smoke until they've arrived
As they turn up, Kogoro comments on the spooky and faded mansion which must only belong to a monster. He also marvels at the numerous vintage cars lined up on the parking lot, and puts his hand over an Alfa Romeo, only to be scolded by Harufumi Mogi, a detective who tells him it took him years to acquire it and doesn't want any stranger to touch it. Senma and Mogi know each other, and Mogi seems to be the adventurer kind, as he was shot in Chicago not long ago during work. Mogi says he's too young to settle down and just wants now to eat a quality dinner as promised by their host. Suddenly, they hear Shukuzen Oogami, the "gourmet detective", yelling at Aki Ishihara, the mansion's recently hired maid, that he doesn't accept the cook's absence due to illness as he loves good dinners and only came for that. As the maid tells him she bought all the ingredients though, Oogami says he'll cook the dinner himself instead, being both a cuisine and mystery expert. Ishihara says to Senma's group there are six detectives there - excluding Conan. As Ran thinks Shinichi may have been invited, Ishihara says Shinichi Kudo could not be reached and Heiji Hattori had mid-term exams to prepare and then had to turn the offer down. These two people's desistance allowed for Conan and Ran to come with Mouri.
Ishihara says she has never met her boss, the host, she was hired after a mysterious job interview. She had come for the interview as usual, waiting with heaps of other candidates as it was a golden and very well-paid job opportunity, and she saw every candidate leaving the interview room in disappointment, systematically failing. When it was her turn at last, she entered and just saw a computer with a list of instructions and people to invite. Suddenly, a message was displayed on the computer saying she was taken on. She only exchanged mails with her boss afterwards concerning the other steps and preparations of the evening. Senma's interest seems aroused by the story, so is Mogi's, who adds he got excited when he noticed the old blood splatters on the entrance door. Another detective, a woman called Ikumi Soda, tells them there are blood splatters scattered here and there in the whole mansion, walls, floor, items, etc. Someone tried to wipe them out, the blood may belong to one or two people at least. Soda is dressed in forensic lab's clothes, spraying luminol over the blood stains to bring them out, because she's a former police investigator, as a young detective named Saguru Hakuba says. Hakuba's tamed hawk named Watson has developed a taste for blood due to Hakuba's bringing him everywhere on crime scenes during his murder investigations back in England. Hakuba adds he came back to his native country to check if the legend was true, that they are in a house where a massacre happened 40 years ago, and they're probably the first ones to open this well-hidden mansion's doors again after the events.
Ishihara then takes Senma's group to their respective rooms and suggests the other guests should go and relax in the lounge, while the dinner is being prepared. Mogi and Hakuba are playing snooker - Hakuba is very skilled at it - while Senma and Kogoro are playing chess, and Ran, Conan and Soda are playing cards. Ran shows the worthy cards sequence she got, and Conan comments to himself she's still such a jammy beggar. But Soda tells her she cheated as there are six cards in her hand : the jack card is stuck to another card...with blood. Mogi says the mansion's objects stayed in the same state as they were during the bloody massacre, for 40 years, which gives Ran goose bumps and she starts with surprise as Ishihara abruptly enters the lounge to invite them to the dining room, where the host is waiting for them - they all look forward to it, except Ran.
The host is already sitting, wearing a frightening phantom's hood with only two eye slits. He invites them to sit down where they wish, as Oogami tells Ishihara to bring the dishes in the order he told her previously. The host says he invited all of them because he wants them to find the hidden treasure of his mansion, the millions he hoarded during his whole long life. He wants them to search it at the risk of their own lives. All of a sudden, all the cars on the parking lot explode and burn, so does the only bridge connecting the mansion to the rest of the world. The host says he cut off their retreat to play some time with them, and to reverse the chased-chaser roles : he tells them there's no phone in the mansion neither any mobile phone network around. It's a dead or alive game : only one person can be told how to escape Twilight Mansion, the one who will retrieve the treasure, and get the half of it as a reward too.
Mogi takes off the host's hood in anger, who is revealed to be a mannequin with a loudspeaker fixed to it. As the host tells them to enjoy the last dinner of their existence, Mouri asks who he really is and all five detectives are surprised he didn't get earlier their host's identity: "the one God shot off, the offshoot of illusions". Offshoot means a non-desired child, whether human or animal. Illusions have to do with sorcerers, wizards, manipulators, ghosts or even demons. "God shot off" means this child stands alone in the darkness and is a crime expert. In the Bible's New Testament, the "shot off" or rejected ones are the lost sheep, and a sheep's or a goat's child is called a kid, therefore Kid the Phantom Thief, Hakuba's rival, the one detectives would love to catch, the elusive one who uses tricks and is never caught by the police, even called supernatural, and wearing "innocent" white clothes in the dark, is their host.
File 300 - Tragedy
File 301 - Murder
File 302 - Sting
People
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
To avoid alerting the thief who is watching nearby, Conan whispers something to Genta. After that the detective boys splits up and Genta is let alone. Looking at his reflection in a shop window, he realizes something and runs to a department store.
People
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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. A man is strangled to death with a necktie and found 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
Cover in other countries
See also
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