Detective Conan 696

File 696: Goth-loli

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Mihiro: Sorry, Yuika…

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Mihiro: About Kadowaki-kun… // If I had been more responsible… / I wouldn’t have gotten you into that mess…

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Yuika: It’s fine, Mihiro… I don’t want to talk about a man that hits on his friends… // I’m just glad I was able to break up with him…

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Yuika: Anyway, did you buy new clothes? // The clothes you’re going to wear tomorrow?

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Mihiro: I did! // I bought really cute goth-clothes!

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Mihiro: I’m actually… // wearing it right now!

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Mihiro: I can’t wait for you to see it!

Yuika: Me neither… // Let’s meet where we always do…

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Mihiro: Yuika… // We’re… / best friends, right?

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Yuika: What are you saying! // We’ll be friends until death!

<beep>

Yuika: Until death…

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Mouri: Oh, geez…

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Mouri: Why the hell… // do I, Mouri Kogoro, a great detective… // have to go shopping with young girls…

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Ran: Stop complaining!

Sonoko: You should be happy to be surrounded by young girls!

Conan: Plus…

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Conan: It’s not like you have any work to do…

Mouri: Shut up! I was going to organize the TV dramas I recorded… // And I needed to go check out the new pachinko parlor… / And the GI horserace was today…

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Sonoko: Basically, you had nothing to do anyway…

Mouri: What?

Ran: Stop wasting your money on betting and pachinko!

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Mouri: I won’t forgive YOU if you waste money on really expensive clothes!

Ran: It’s fine! I only buy cheap and cute clothes!

Sonoko: Yeah!

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Mouri: Just make sure to show me everything before you buy it!

Ran: Wha?

Sonoko: I don’t know about that…

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Mouri: What!? You better not be trying to buy some sexy clothes that you can’t even show me! // Like a china dress that shows off your legs or something…

Conan: That’s only your fetish…

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Ran: Don’t worry about it! // It’s not sexy at all…

Sonoko: I bet he’ll be shocked when he sees it…

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Café staff: Welcome!

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Mouri: What is that? She’s so creepy looking like a witch or something…

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Ran & Sonoko: SO cute!

Mouri: Wha!?

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Ran: It’s goth-loli!

Sonoko: It’s so cute!

Mouri: Goth… / loli?

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Conan: It means gothic Lolita and it’s mostly black clothing that look like they’d be worn in vampire movies or those gothic types of stories… // and they said on TV that it’s really popular fashion among young girls these days!

Mouri: I see…

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Conan: I bet it would look good on Haibara…

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Mouri: You two aren’t planning on buying that kind of monster-like clothes, are you…?

Sonoko: No! We’re buying cuter clothes!

Ran: Clothes like a doll would wear…

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Conan: Which means they’re going for Lolita fashion…

Mouri: I don’t get it but I won’t allow you two to join that kind of costume crowd!! // Huh?

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<Ring>

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Café staff: Here you go!

Mouri: Uh…

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Mouri: That customer… // She didn’t leave because I criticized her clothes, did she…?

Café staff: Oh, no… // She said her friend hasn’t arrived yet… // so she’s going to the restroom… // The restroom is outside…

Mouri: Oh, I see.

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Sonoko: Okay, so… // we’ve all finished up!

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Sonoko: Shall we head out?

Ran: We want to have enough time to check everything out!

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Conan: That goth-loli lady hasn’t come back yet…

Mouri: Eh?

Conan: She should come back to her seat soon if she’s meeting someone…

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Mouri: Women always take too long in the bathroom…

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Café staff: Welcome!

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Yuika: Did a goth-loli girl come in? //She’s my friend…

Café staff: She did come in! / She went to the restroom…

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Yuika: Oh no, I’m 10 minutes late… // What did Mihiro order?

Café staff: Oh… // She looked at the menu… / But said she’d order once you got here…

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Yuika: Okay… // Then I’ll wait until she comes back too… //Wah! // Oh no…

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Yuika: I’m so sorry!

Café staff: Oh, it’s okay! We’ll clean it up…

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Mouri: Come on, let’s go!

Conan: Uh… // Yeah…

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Mouri: Hey! // Hey! // Hey!!

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Mouri: What’s going on!? // Everyone’s wearing some crazy-looking clothes…

Conan: That’s Harajuku…

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Mouri: You two better not be planning to… // Where’s they go!?

Conan: Oh, they said to wander around while they go shopping!

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Mouri: What are they thinking? I didn’t need to come out then!

Conan: No, I bet the reason is…

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Conan: To carry stuff…

Sonoko: Let’s go here next!

Ran: This is so cute!

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Mouri: What’s so cute…?

Ran: Don’t look!

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Mouri: Then you hold it!

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Sonoko: Huh?

Ran: Wha…

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Ran: Oh no!

Sonoko: It’s ice cream!

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Sonoko: What language is that?

Ran: It’s too fast, I dunno...

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Conan: These guys are thieves!

Ran: The… // thieves?

Conan: They use a trick that’s commonly used on Japanese tourists!

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Conan: If you get ice cream on your clothes, you’ll let go of your bags in order to clean up. // Then, while one speak to you in a foreign language really fast to keep your attention, the other one takes your bags and runs…

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Conan: I saw it on TV!

Ran: Really…

Mouri: Hey! Wait!!

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Ran: What do we do…?

Sonoko: We can’t go shopping in these clothes…

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Mouri: Why don’t you change into what you just bought?

Sonoko & Ran: Huh?

Mouri: Why not? You just bought it!

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Ran: Listen up, you two!

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Ran: You can’t laugh, no matter what!!

Mouri: Okay…

Conan: We might be taken aback though…

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Ran: Oh… // there are so many people here…

Sonoko: They’re all doing the same thing…

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Woman: Come on already!!

Sonoko: Huh?

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Ran: What’s wrong?

Woman: She’s been in there for half an hour already!

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Ran: Maybe she’s unconscious or something from a heart attack…?

Woman: What!?

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Sonoko: In a situation like this…

Ran: Sonoko!?

Sonoko: You should climb over and…

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Mouri: WHAT HAPPENED!?

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Sonoko: Inside… // the stall… // go… // goth-loli!

Mouri: Wha?

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Conan: There’s a trace left from a cord on her neck… // and there are “Yoshikawa lines*” from the victim clawing at the cord…
*”Yoshikawa lines” is a term used by the police to describe scratch marks left by the victim to imply they tried to save themselves. It’s named after professor Yoshikawa, who discovered them as a means to determine a suicide vs a murder.

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Conan: Strangulation…

To be continued in Issue 30