Detective Conan 707

Chapter 707

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Text on the left: This week is in love comedy mode, too...
Title: File 707 The Cherry Blossom Girl is...?

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Recording: "Oh...I sold that cheap ring right away...
Recording: This one looks similar, but it's a different one...It costs about 20 times as much."

Recording: Was how she responded while wearing my mother's ring!!
Recording: Well!? Don't you want to kill her now!?

Shiratori: That was the first suspect, Kagitani Kikuna-san...
Kobayashi: I see...

Shiratori: This is the next one...
Recording: He said it was just a well-made replica worth about 300 yen...

Recording: And the smell was from cat food. It was the plate she had used to feed her cat...
Recording: But I don't hold a grudge at all!!

Text in the right margin: Kobayashi-sensei is in complete misunderstanding mode...

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Shiratori: That was the second suspect, Takimoto Ryouko-san...
Kobayashi: I see...

Shiratori: Last up is the third suspect, Kodama Ryuusuke-san...
Shiratori: He's a man, so we don't think he had anything to do with this, but we'll check just to be sure...
Kobayashi: I-if he has nothing to do with this, why bother...?

Shiratori: I-I suppose...

Shiratori: So do you recognize the voice of one of those 2 women?
Shiratori: Does either one match the voice of the criminal you heard yell, "Just hand it over!! I'll kill you!"?

Shiratori: We made sure to give you the portions of the recording where the suspects were worked up...

Shiratori: D-do you want to hear them again?

Ayumi: S-sensei...
Mitsuhiko: What's wrong?
Genta: You heard the criminal, right?

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Kobayashi: I don't think it was either of those voices...
Kobayashi: The voice I heard was a deeper woman's voice...

Shiratori: I-I see...
Kobayashi: So you should search for another suspect...
Kobayashi: Or maybe you should talk to the people on the truck that looked like a moving truck that I saw...

Chiba: About that truck...

Chiba: We searched for moving trucks and transport trucks matching your description...
Chiba: But there weren't any with a big 0 and 9 on it...

Kobayashi: Th-that can't be...
Shiratori: There wasn't even one?
Chiba: Well, there were...
Chiba: But not any that were in the area when the murder occurred...

Chiba: Are you sure you didn't see the numbers wrong?
Chiba: When partially blocked by a wall, a 5 and a 9 look very similar...
Kobayashi: I...

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Kobayashi: I wouldn't mistake them just because they were similar!!
Kobayashi: Not me!!!

Conan: "Not me"...?
Shiratori: W-well, it's possible that the truck was in the area for some reason outside of work...

Shiratori: If you investigate further, you may find it...
Chiba: I of course made sure to thoroughly ask them questions along those lines, but got nothing...

Chiba: Also, I talked to the residents in the area...
Chiba: None of them called for a moving truck or transport truck...
Kobayashi: Then...

Kobayashi: are you saying I'm just...
Kobayashi: making fun of the police because I feel like it!?

Shiratori: N-no, that's not...
Kobayashi: Anyway, I've told you everything I saw and heard, so I'm going home...

Shiratori: Ah, I'll take you in my car...
Shiratori: You might run into one of the suspects...
Kobayashi: I'll be fine...

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Kobayashi: I can protect myself...
Kobayashi: Could you just leave me alone?

Ayumi: S-sensei...?

Conan: I think it would be better if someone went with Kobayashi-sensei... The criminal saw her face...
Shiratori: Y-yeah...

Shiratori: Chiba-kun, can I leave that to you?
Chiba: S-sure...
Chiba: But is this really okay?

Shiratori: Yeah...
Shiratori: It looks like she's mad at me...

Genta: Why is she mad at you?
Mitsuhiko: Did you say something bad to her?
Shiratori: W-who knows...
Ai: I can only think of one reason...

07

Ai: Maybe Kobayashi-sensei met Officer Satou?
Shiratori: Eh?

Ayumi: Come to think of it, sensei's mood has been off ever since we came back from the bathroom and she was waiting in the corridor alone...
Ai: Yes...That's probably where she met or saw Officer Satou...
Ai: who looks just like her...

Ai: Also, if she heard that you used to be entranced with Officer Satou...
Ai: There's only one thing she would think...

Ai: She would think that you are only being nice to her because she looks like Officer Satou...
Ai: And that she is a replacement.
Ai: Right?

Shiratori: Ah, but...She's not a replacement...
Shiratori: Kobayashi-sensei is the person I'm destined for...
Conan: But it's true you mistook Officer Satou for the person you were destined for, isn't it?

Shiratori: Well, I can't deny that...
Mitsuhiko: Isn't it about time you told her?

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Mitsuhiko: You need to tell her that you're destined for each other because you protected her from shoplifters in a bookstore when you were kids!
Genta: It's not good to put on airs!
Ayumi: If you act carelessly, you might lose her!!

Shiratori: I agree with you of course...
Shiratori: But it isn't easy finding the right time to tell her that...

Satou: Hey!
Satou: Love Inspector.
Shiratori: Eh?

Takagi: How'd it go with the suspects' voices? Has she heard them yet?
Shiratori: Y-yeah...
Shiratori: But none of them were a match...
Satou: I see...

Satou: So? Where's this teacher that you're so worked up over, Shiratori-kun?
Takagi: Oh, um, Satou-san was insistent about meeting her...
Takagi: Should I introduce her?

Takagi: I'll take this atmosphere as a no...

09

Kids: Goodbye, sensei!
Kobayashi: Okay, bye!

Kobayashi: Haa...

Ayumi: Sensei isn't looking too good...
Mitsuhiko: I guess Inspector Shiratori still hasn't told her about being destined for her.
Genta: Then should I go tell her?

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Mitsuhiko: You can't do that!
Ayumi: If it isn't from him, it isn't romantic!
Genta: But, at this rate, she'll never know!

Ai: Well, isn't that fine?
Ai: He'd just have be keeping a giant lie and who he really was from the person he loves...
Conan: Hey...

Ayumi: But...why wasn't the criminal's voice there?
Mitsuhiko: Yeah...They said that only those three people had a grudge against the victim, Sumida-san, and didn't have an alibi...

Genta: Three...? But we only heard two voices?
Mitsuhiko: That's because the third suspect was a man and the criminal's voice that sensei heard was a woman, so they could rule him out!

Conan: By the way, that man, Kojima Ryuusuke...
Conan: used to be a high school baseball player who had people excited at Koshien. But he hurt his shoulder and didn't get drafted, so he now apparently works at a host club...

Conan: But he didn't give up on his dream and played on a baseball club team while not in work trying to work his way up. However, before that happened, he hurt his shoulder even worse and quit the club team...
Ayumi: Ohh...
Mitsuhiko: You know a lot about him...

Conan: Yeah...I secretly asked Officer Takagi earlier...
Ai: And the other two...?

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Conan: Let's see. The first one, Kagitani Kikuna-san, is a freeter.
Conan: She used to be a Ladies' Leader!
Conan: But she was just in a traffic accident so her license is suspended...

Mitsuhiko: L-Ladies' Leader...
Conan: Yeah...With just a word, she could easily gather 100 people...
Ayumi: Th-the criminal wouldn't be someone like that, right?

Conan: Who knows... It seems that the trial and solatium for that accident took a lot of money...
Ai: And the other one?

Conan: Takimoto Ryouko-san is the hostess of a small restaurant and the daughter of a wealthy family...
Conan: So it seems she was trying to get back the money she was tricked out of with the fake plate. She had spent a lot of money on gathering lawyers and was preparing to sue Sumida-san...

Conan: She even caught a cold from not sleeping well and discussing things with her lawyers...
Conan: She apparently still had a mask on when she came to the police headquarters...
Mitsuhiko: A mask?

Mitsuhiko: That's it! She purposefully put on the mask to disguise her voice...
Conan: I thought so too at first, but it was a thin mask that her voice passed through well.
Conan: And it didn't really sound like her voice was muffled...

Ai: But if the voice of the criminal sensei heard was a woman's voice and it has to be one of those two women, then the one wearing the mask is much closer to being the guilty one, right?
Conan: That's where I'm stuck...

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Conan: How did she know it was the criminal's voice just from hearing it?

Mitsuhiko: I know! It's because she yelled, "Just hand it over. I'll kill you"!
Ayumi: And sensei said that the fleeing criminal had pretty big breasts...

Conan: But the victim, Sumida Akira-san, was a woman, too.
Conan: Sumida-san may have been the one who said "I'll kill you"!

Ai: That's right... there are cases where someone gets scared and kills someone when that person threatens them...
Conan: Also, there's the truck with a 0 and a 9 on it that sensei saw driving away from the scene...

Conan: Why can't they find it?
Mitsuhiko: Hmmm...The truck that came when the professor was helping his friend move didn't have any numbers on it...

Conan: Hm? You saw that truck!?
Mitsuhiko: No, I just asked about it.
Mitsuhiko: It didn't have any numbers on it...

Mitsuhiko: but the truck was from a transport company called "Osaka Nico Nico Transportation"...
Mitsuhiko: There were no numbers, but the company name was on it in big letters...

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Conan: The company...
Conan: name?

Mitsuhiko: The professor told me that the driver of the truck wasn't used to Tokyo and the truck's navigation system wasn't working right, so it took him forever to get there. They didn't get started until past 8 PM...

Ayumi: Hey, Genta-kun. You've been thinking for a while now...
Mitsuhiko: Is there something you can't figure out?

Genta: No, my cavity just hurts...
Ai: Then you should go get a dentist to look at it!

Conan: I see...
Conan: Could it be that...

Conan: Kobayashi-sensei!
Conan: By any chance...
Kobayashi: Why are you here?

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Conan: Eh?

Conan: Inspector Shiratori...

Kobayashi: I told you I have nothing more to tell the police...
Shiratori: Yes, but...
Shiratori: Afterwards, we did a lot of investigating and we're really pretty sure that the criminal could only be one of those three people...

Shiratori: So I thought you should listen to the voices of the suspects one more time...
Kobayashi: That isn't necessary!

Kobayashi: Didn't I tell you? The owner of the voice I heard isn't any of them...
Kobayashi: Or are you saying I'm lying...?

Shiratori: That was a lie...
Kobayashi: What!?

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Shiratori: My coming here to have you listen to their voices again was just an excuse...
Shiratori: I really came to see you again...

Shiratori: So that I could clear up a misunderstanding of yours...

Kobayashi: I-I didn't make any misunderstandings...
Genta: Oh!
Mitsuhiko: This is going well!!

Ayumi: Go for it, Inspector Shiratori!!
Shiratori: The truth is, when I met you before, it wasn't for the first time...

Shiratori: I met you a long time ago...
Shiratori: When you were a girl in a bookstore warning some men not to shoplift...

Kobayashi: Bookstore?
Kobayashi: Shoplifting?
Shiratori: Yes...
Shiratori: And I got them to leave with what I said...
Shiratori: That's why I became a police officer! It's because I saw you being so brave...

Kobayashi: Brave...
Kobayashi: Police officer...
Shiratori: Do you remember?

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Kobayashi: I'm sorry, but I don't...
Shiratori: Eh?

Kobayashi: And that girl...
Kobayashi: It wasn't me. Are you sure it wasn't actually Officer Satou?

Kobayashi: Well, I'll be going...
Shiratori: Ah...

Shiratori: Wait...

Text in right margin: Kobayashi-sensei is getting more and more heartbroken. And the criminal's shadow? What's going to happen!?