Detective Conan 713

Chapter 713

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Title: File 713 The Vermilion Bird
Text above Conan: Will he continue to be at Kid's mercy!?

02

Ayumi: Conan-kun!!
Ayumi: Wake up!!

Ayumi: Conan-kuuun!!

Suzuki: What are you doing!?
Suzuki: Have the lights not been fixed yet!?

Nakamori: Calm down!!
Nakamori: No one move from where you are!!

Shinkai: Wait. What's going on!?
Masui: Did Kid come!?
Hisumi: Dunno...

Text in right margin: Conan was knocked unconscious by a surprise attack.

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Mitsuhiko: Ah!
Genta: They came back on!

Nakamori: Hey, hey, hey!

Nakamori: The Qilin's Horn...
Nakamori: has been stolen!!

Suzuki: You're kidding!
Suzuki: But the 4 keys are still stuck on the wall!!

Suzuki: How could it have been stolen...?
Ai: I don't know that yet...
Ai: but during the minute that the blackout lasted, he or his companions must have been rushing around in the darkness...

Ai: They definitely reached the four pedestals with the key holes in them...

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Nakamori: Th-this is...
Nakamori: Kid's card!!!
On card: I've taken the Qilin's Horn. -Kaitou Kid

Nakamori: When did this get here!?
Guard: Inspector! There's a card on this pedestal, too!

Guard: There's one here, too!

Guard: And here!!

Nakamori: A...
Nakamori: All four of them!?

Guard: Inspector Nakamori!!
Nakamori: Hm?

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Guard: There was an ingenious trick used on the breaker in the main building...
Guard: That's what caused the blackout...

Guard: Inspector! Over here!

Guard: It seems that all the storm shutters had small bombs set on them with timers...
Nakamori: Damn you, Kid...

Nakamori: You didn't just cause darkness with the blackout...
Nakamori: you also blew off the windows in order to let the rain and wind in to cause a commotion.
Nakamori: Then you used the chaos to escape!

Nakamori: Anyway, we need to get the one Kid took out to a hospital!!
Nakamori: Take him in one of our vehicles!!

Nakamori: The rest of the vehicles are to track Kid!!
Nakamori: He can't use his hang glider in this typhoon, so he can't have gotten far!!
Guard: Ah, but...

Nakamori: Hm?
Guard: According to information we just received...

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Nakamori: What!?
Nakamori: The road is blocked from a landslide!?

Nakamori: Are you sure!?
Guard: Yes...
Guard: It'll take 2 or 3 hours to clear it.

Nakamori: But if he was given poison or something...
Ai: It wasn't poison!

Ai: Look! It was a stun gun...
Ai: This is what knocked out Edogawa-kun...

Suzuki: I see... Damn him. He put the child that was the most threat to him to sleep...
Suzuki: I'm sorry...
Nakamori: What do you mean, "I see"?

Nakamori: This is mostly because you made a big deal in the media about this jewel that was only found last week.
Nakamori: You should have gotten it properly guarded first...
Suzuki: It was a month ago...

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Nakamori: Eh?
Suzuki: I heard that the wonderful piece of amber known as the "Qilin's Horn" was sleeping in this temple a month ago...
Suzuki: When I bought it, I made sure to change the date in the announcement...

Suzuki: I wanted it to look like I'd found the perfect bait to catch him with...
Suzuki: and that I got carried away and, in my senility, accepted his challenge without getting it properly guarded!

Nakamori: So the reason there's artificial lighting in here...
Suzuki: That's right. I expected him to cause a blackout!
Suzuki: And I knew about the little set up he'd done on the storm shutters!

Suzuki: The weak electrical current running to the 4 pedestals and calling the Boys' Detective Squad were all tricks I used..
Suzuki: to make him take me lightly...
Suzuki: and to tempt him into this old temple!!

Suzuki: The wood in the lattice on these windows may look rotten and about to fall apart...
Suzuki: And the walls look they'd break if you hit them...
Suzuki: But there's steel inside them!!

Suzuki: Also, the 2 doors you can get in and out through are set to lock and have sensors in them...
Suzuki: If you try to force them open, it'll set off a piercing alarm!

Suzuki: Since that alarm didn't go off...
Suzuki: It means Kaitou Kid and his companions...

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Suzuki: are still in here!!

Nakamori: K...
Nakamori: Kid is...

Shinkai: still...

Ayumi: in here...

Suzuki: Okay, Inspector Nakamori. It's your turn!
Suzuki: I want a full investigation of everyone in here except the children.
Nakamori: There's something I want to know before that...

Suzuki: Hm?
Nakamori: How did Kid steal the amber horn...
Nakamori: from that qilin statue!?

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Nakamori: If he didn't take the 4 different colored keys that you stuck to the wall just before the blackout...

Nakamori: stick them in the keyholes on the same colored pedestal in one of the four corners of this temple...
Nakamori: and turn them all at the same time...
On top pedestal: Green
On right pedestal: Red
On left pedestal: Black
On bottom pedestal: White

Nakamori: he shouldn't have been able to see the qilin statue hidden in the pillar in the center!

Nakamori: Even if Kid made duplicate keys somehow...
Nakamori: How did he do it in the dark where he couldn't see the pedestals or the keyholes!?

Suzuki: Don't the children have lights? The ones on their watches!
Suzuki: They said they were going to guard the pedestals, so they probably used those lights to...
Mitsuhiko: We didn't use the lights!!

Mitsuhiko: We used our bodies to block the keyholes like this.
Genta: Haibara told us not to use our lights even if the rest of the lights went out...
Ayumi: We were waiting in front of the pedestals before it got dark!
Ai: If we had lit up the keyholes, it would have been like showing him where they were.

Nakamori: And...while guarding them, no one came up to you?
Ayumi & Mitsuhiko & Genta: That's right!!

Nakamori: Hm?

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Nakamori: There's something glowing in this keyhole...
Mitsuhiko: Eh?

Nakamori: Th-this is...
Nakamori: fluorescent paint!!

Guard: Inspector! There's fluorescent paint in this keyhole, too!
Nakamori: Then does that mean...?

Nakamori: It does...
Nakamori: The ends of the 4 keys have fluorescent paint on them...

Nakamori: It must have gotten on them when they were put in the keyholes...
Suzuki: So he used the faint light from the keyholes...

Nakamori: Yes...he told his companions to put the keys he gave them in the glowing keyholes in the dark and he stole the Qilin's Horn...
Nakamori: Isn't that right?

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Nakamori: Kaitou Kid-san!!
Suzuki: Eh?
Suzuki: Me?

Nakamori: I'm right, aren't I!?
Nakamori: It's obvious that what Kid used weren't duplicates, but these keys here!

Nakamori: So you must have only put this in the wall lightly so you could use the keys right away.
Nakamori: And after you used the keys you put them back on the wall!!

Suzuki: Then how about you try and take it out!
Suzuki: It won't come out so easily!!
Nakamori: Hmph! You just put it in properly when you put it back!

Suzuki: If you suspect me, then search me!!
Suzuki: If I'm Kid, I should still have the Qilin's Horn on me, right!?

Nakamori: That's exactly what I was planning on doing.
Ai: Wait!

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Ai: How about the ones who checks him be from the Detective Squad?

Ai: If you and the counselor are Kid and one of his companions...
Ai: you could just pretend to do a search and trick us.

Mitsuhiko: That's right!
Genta: Everyone can relax if we do it!
Ayumi: You know we're not with Kid!!
Nakamori: True, but...

Ai: We'll check everyone else too.
Ai: Okay?
Shinkai: O...
Shinkai: Okay...

Ran: Due to certain circumstances, the program being broadcasted has been changed...
Ran: Please wait a little while longer...

Ran: It's been running that caption for a while now...
Sonoko: But it hasn't started back up yet...

Ran: But what was that weird noise?
Sonoko: It really hurt my ears...
Mouri: Huh? What noise?

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Suzuki: Wh...
Suzuki: What!?

Suzuki: You've checked everyone in here, but you didn't find the Qilin's Horn!?
Ai: Yes...

Ai: In case it was slipped there, we checked our own clothes...
Ai: and Edogawa-kun's pockets, but we didn't find it.

Suzuki: Odd...The lattice was made so the Qilin's Horn couldn't be brought out through them, so he shouldn't have been able to hand it off to a companion.
Nakamori: Like I said...

Nakamori: Kid has already escaped!
Nakamori: Open the door so we can chase him already!!
Suzuki: But...
Ai: That's true...

Ai: The jewel he was after is gone...
Ai: so it would be natural to think that he isn't here anymore either.

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Ai: It just doesn't make any sense...
Ai: Why did he knock Kudou-kun unconscious?

Ai: Well, sealing his most troublesome opponent's movements does give him an overwhelming superiority.
Ai: But, by putting him to sleep, he also can't get the pleasure of taking advantage of what he does...
Ai: Did he have some other reason for doing it...?

Ai: And I'm also curious about...
Ai: what Samizu Kichiemon carved into the pillar...

Ai: Those wishing for and seeking after the Qilin without going through the proper means...
Ai: should entrust themselves to the flow...
Carving: Those wishing for and seeking after the Qilin without going through the proper means should entrust themselves to the flow. - Samizu Kichiemon
[TN: I made the translation of the carving a lot more literal because last chapter I interpreted it incorrectly.]

Ai: Simply put, those who want to get the Qilin's Horn without using the normal way...
Ai: should entrust themselves to the flow...

Ai: The normal way most likely means using the keys...
Ai: but what does it mean by "the flow"?

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Ai: The wind?
Ai: The flow of the wind?

Ai: Wait...the wind is only blowing through here because Kid destroyed the storm shutters.
Ai: I see! Is that why he went to the effort of opening the windows?
Ai: Since he caused the blackout, he didn't really have to let the rain and wind in to cause a disturbance in here.

Ai: Even if Counselor Suzuki is Kid like Inspector Nakamori said...
Ai: could he really get the keys off the wall...

Ai: give them to his companions without a light...
Ai: have them all turn the keys at once without a signal...
Ai: and make the stolen jewel disappear like magic in the minute that the lights were out?

Ai: And does Kid really have companions here?
Ai: If he called a few companions to a sealed off area like this, there's a risk one of them could be captured.
Ai: If it was me, I'd want to avoid that risk.

Ai: Ah, I really am no good at this kind of thing.
Ai: I'm sure you'd be telling me...
Ai: about all the elementary things I was missing or something.

Ai: You're so smart, like a sparrow...
Ai: You're knowledge seems to be endless...

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Mitsuhiko: Sparrow...
Ayumi: Eh?

Mitsuhiko: "Sparrow" might be a hint to figuring out what this means!
Ayumi: Wh-what makes you say that?

Mitsuhiko: It's mostly gone...
Mitsuhiko: but the word "sparrow" was carved into that red pedestal!
Genta: Really?

Ai: Red sparrow...
Ai: The Vermilion Bird!!

Ai: Then could it be...
Ai: That the "flow" is...?

Text in right margin: Next Chapter: Can the Detective Squad track down Kid without Conan!?