Detective Conan 717

Chapter 717

01

Title: Monkey and 9
Text on the left: There's a clue to the Tori Man in this handbag!?

02

Megure: I see...
Megure: He's called the Tori man because of the "tori" in "Bird Fair" and in "stealing"...

Megure: But this time he tried to take a life...
Takagi: We've found out who the man he stabbed is!

Takagi: Masuko Shirou-san, a 21 year old resident of Haido...
Takagi: He's trying to get into the literary department at Touto University.

Megure: Oh...I'd heard the victim had been taken to the hospital, but he's come to?
Takagi: No, he hasn't...

Right margin: The Tori Man stabbed a man and fled...

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Takagi: The daypack the Tori Man threw at his pursuers had his bag in it.
Takagi: His license was in his bag, so we were able to find out his parents' contact information and confirm it over the phone.

Megure: So how is he?
Takagi: Luckily, it was only a light wound. His psychological stress when he was stabbed caused him to pass out temporarily.
Takagi: But the doctor said he'll come to in a bit.

Megure: Well? Why are you all here?
Sonoko: For revenge!!
Ran: Sonoko's bag was taken by the Tori Man at this shrine during the Second Bird Fair.

Sonoko: So I came back here to Ranburi Shrine!
Sonoko: I knew he'd come here again thinking that you wouldn't expect it!
Conan: No, you just came here to get a new fortune...

Sonoko: Of course, I managed to get my bag from the Tori Man's daypack!
Takagi: Um, that's evidence, so you can't have it back yet...
Megure: But that means this wasn't a copy-cat criminal.

Takagi: Yes...We'll have to have the other victims from the First and Second Bird Fairs come and confirm it, but most likely this was the same Tori Man as before...
Megure: But our only clue is that he was wearing a Hyottoko mask...
Conan: There are more!

Megure: Eh?
Conan: When the man who was stabbed here heard people saying he was stabbed by the Tori Man...

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Conan: He said it wasn't "tori"...
Conan: but it was "monkey"!

Megure: M-monkey?
Conan: And then he showed me 9 fingers like this...

Conan: So the criminal must have something to do with monkeys and the number 9, right?
Megure: Monkey and 9...
Takagi: Nine monkeys...
Takagi: Ku...saru...
[TN: 9 + Monkey can be pronounced "ku" + "saru" and the verb "kusaru" means "to rot".]

Takagi: Could the criminal be rotten...?
Megure: Well his personality is certainly rotten...
Chiba: Inspector Megure!! The Tori Man has been captured!!

Megure: R-really!?
Chiba: Well, there are 3 of them...
Takagi: 3 of them?

Chiba: The people chasing after him saw him flee into a park bathroom...
Chiba: and they reported it.

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Megure: So by the time you got the report and came running here, these onlookers were already here...
Megure: and the only people in the bathroom were..

Megure: those three men?
Police: Yes...
Police: According to the witnesses, the Tori Man did enter that men's bathroom.

Police: We checked the bathroom after they came out...
Police: and we found a bloody knife, a down jacket, and a Hyottoko mask abandoned in the supply closet.

Police: So the Tori Man was definitely in there!
Megure: Yes...
Police: Also, the onlookers say that they were afraid so no one entered the bathroom before we arrived.

Police: So the Tori Man has to be one of those 3...
Megure: I see...
Megure: Well then, let's question them 1 by 1.
Megure: We'll get their names and what they came here for.

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Hino: M-my name is Hino Tatsuo...
Hino: I bought this rake at the Bird Fair and was headed home when I stopped here to use the bathroom.
Box: Hino Tatsuo (45) Visitor to the Shrine

Hino: My stomach hasn't been too good lately.
Hino: See, I even have some medicine with me.
Sonoko: Y-you're the Tori Man!!

Hino: Eh?
Sonoko: Your face looks exactly like a monkey's!!

Takagi: I-it's true he has a monkey face.
Megure: Yes...
Sonoko: Hey, hey. Aren't you looking for the Tori Man not a monkey?

Sonoko: This is about what the man who was stabbed said!!
Ran: He said it wasn't "tori"; it was "monkey"...

Hino: Huh!?
Conan: But that wouldn't have been about his face, right?

Conan: The Tori Man was wearing a Hyottoko mask, so he wouldn't have seen his face, right?
Takagi: Th-that's right...

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Sarukawa: I wasn't here for the Bird Fair...
Sarukawa: I-I came here for game trading...

Megure: Trading?
Takagi: It's where you tade items or maps in video games!
Sarukawa: A-a lot of people come to the Bird Fair, so I thought I'd be able to make a lot of trades.

Sarukawa: Look, I made trades with 10 people today! I was checking what I got in the bathroom!
Megure: Anyway...what's your name?
Takagi: You haven't told us yet.

Sarukawa: It's...
Sarukawa: It's Sarukawa...
Box: Sarukawa Hisami (20) Freeter
[TN: The "saru" in Sarukawa means "monkey".]

Sonoko: Monkey!!
Ran: Sonoko...
Sarukawa: But no one calls me that! My given name is Hisami and my nickname is Kyuu-chan...
[TN: Nine in Japanese can be pronounced "kyuu".]

Megure: Kyuu...?
Sarukawa: Eh?
Takagi: Before passing out, the victim indicated the number 9 as well as the word "monkey"...

Conan: But someone who had their bag stolen wouldn't know the name of the criminal...
Megure: T-true...

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Shinji: My name is Mizunoe Shinji...
Shinji: I stopped at the bathroom on the way to buy a rake for the company I work at...
Shinji: I didn't get to go buy it during the Second Bird Fair...
Box: Mizunoe Shinji (32) Company Employee

Shinji: The truth is, I came to buy it during the First Bird Fair, but before I could buy it, the bag I had my wallet in -was stolen by the Tori Man.
Megure: So you're a victim?

Shinji: Yes...So recently I've only been eating convenience store meals for lunch... Like today, look...
Megure: We can check if he's a victim right away, right?
Takagi: Yes...we just have to check the Tori Man's daypack...

Shinji: Huh?
Shinji: Where'd the receipt go?
Megure: Is there anything in your bag that was stolen that would prove that it's yours?
Megure: Like your license or ID?

Shinji: I think the bankbook in my name is in there.
Shinji: Here's how my name is spelled.

Megure: Okay! Go check!
Chiba: Yes, sir!
Sonoko: Well, you don't seem to have anything to do with monkeys or the number 9...

Shinji: Well, in animal fortune-telling I'm the monkey...
Ran: A-animal fortune-telling...
Sonoko: That's old-fashioned...

09

Megure: By the way, what rake did you two come to buy?
Ran: You were attacked by the Tori Man at the Second Bird Fair, right?
Ran: W-well...

Conan: They came for a fortune called the "Lovely Fortune"!
Megure: Lovely Fortune?

Sonoko: I-it's a fortune that they only put out at the Bird Fair...
Ran: I-I have mine with me...

Ran: Huh?
Ran: There's a button mixed in with my change...

Ran: Where did it come from...?
Sonoko: Ran! Get him!!
Ran: Aaaaah

Mouri: What happened?
Sonoko: It was a purse snatcher!

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Ran: This button might be from the Tori Man's clothes!!
Takagi and Megure: Ehh!?

Ran: He ran into me, remember!?
Ran: His button must have come off then and I picked it up with my change and put it in my bag!
Sonoko: But it might've already been on the ground, right?

Megure: But if it is his, it's some pretty good evidence!
Megure: If one of these three has a piece of clothing with the same type of button missing from it...
Megure: that person is definitely the Tori Man!

Megure: We'd like to investigate your houses right away.
Megure: Is that okay?
Hino: Yeah, that's fine.
Sarukawa: I'll have to explain the situation to my mom...
Shinji: If it'll remove me from suspicion, I don't mind.

Megure: Take a picture of the button and send it to the investigators so they can check!
Takagi: Yes, sir!

Conan: Odd... Suddenly finding out that Ran had picked up a button belonging to the Tori Man should have been a shock...

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Megure: What!?
Megure: They didn't find it!?

Megure: There really wasn't a piece of clothing missing that button in any of the houses?
Takagi: No... They didn't have a warrant, so they just took a quick look around...
Takagi: But they didn't find anything.

Takagi: Also, they asked their son, mother, and wife, and no clothing has suddenly gone missing.
Megure: That means it's unlikely they disposed of the clothing afterwards...

Takagi: Yes...So the button Ran-san picked up must have just been there by chance...
Ran: I-is that so...?

Takagi: And according to their respective family members...
Takagi: Hino-san was on a trip to Sendai on the day of the First Bird Fair.

Takagi: Sarukawa-san was at his part-time job during the time the crimes took place at the First and Second Bird Fairs.

Takagi: Mizunoe-san was on a business trip to Nagasaki on the day of the Second Bird Fair...
Takagi: and it seems he made a report on what was stolen from him at the First Bird Fair.
Megure: I see...
Megure: In other words...

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Megure: None of them could have carried out the crimes that occurred at all three Bird Fairs.

Takagi: Also, I just got a report from the hospital. The victim has regained consciousness.
Megure: Oh! And?

Takagi: He says he doesn't have any memory of being stabbed by the Tori Man or the "monkey" and "nine" message he left.
Megure: I-I see...

Chiba: Inspector, it was there!
Chiba: Mizunoe-san's bankbook was in the Tori Man's daypack!
Shinji: S-so it was there!

Chiba: Yes! It was in someone else's bag, so it took a while to find.
Megure: Someone else's?

Chiba: Yes. We had the victims from the First and Second Bird Fairs confirm which bag was theirs...
Chiba: But there were a lot of things that were in the wrong bags...
Sonoko: Come to think of it, there was a handkerchief I didn't recognize in my bag...

Sonoko: And the fortune that should've been in there wasn't...
Chiba: Was that the Lovely Fortune? It was in someone else's bag!
Chiba: I think it said, "As he is the sensitive and old-fashioned type, a woman who displays...

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Sonoko: Wahh!! You don't have to say what it said!!
Ran: The sensitive and old-fashioned type...?

Megure: But why were the contents mixed up...?
Takagi: I'm sure the Tori Man just took the contents out and just randomly put them back in!

Megure: So? Have you confirmed that those were the bags the Tori Man stole during the First and Second Bird Fairs?
Chiba: Yes...
Chiba: So it seems this was definitely the same guy...

Sarukawa: It seems obvious now, doesn't it?
Hino: Yeah...
Hino: The person who gave the false information about the Tori Man fleeing into that bathroom is among the onlookers!!

Shinji: Indeed...
Shinji: Because none of us could have been at all three Bird Fairs.

Hino: So, can we leave?
Sarukawa: Isn't that fine?
Shinji: My wife must be worried about me...
Megure: Yes...You can leave for today...

Hino: Outta the way!
Hino: C'mon!!
Conan: Odd...

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Conan: The contents being in different bags isn't odd...
Conan: but why would he go to the trouble of carrying them around?
Conan: If he got captured while carrying them, they'd be incriminating evidence.

Conan: Those three's reaction at hearing that Ran may have picked up one of the Tori Man's buttons also seems odd.
Conan: If one of them is the Tori Man, you would think he'd be sweating over whether one may have come off even if one hadn't...

Conan: Sweating...
Conan: Sweat...

Conan: That's right. He was sweating as he ran....
Conan: So he tricked us so we wouldn't notice that...

Conan: Wait...Even if he's the criminal...
Conan: He couldn't have shown up at all 3 Bird Fairs, could he?

Conan: That would mean that there's another Tori Man besides him...
Conan: But the Tori Man's daypack had all the stolen items in it...

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Conan: And what did "monkey" and "nine" mean then?
Conan: What did that message mean?

Ran: What is it Conan-kun? That's a pretty intense look...
Conan: Oh, um...
Conan: I was thinking about what "monkey" and "nine" meant...
Mouri: Monkey and nine...

Mouri: Nine makes me think of baseball stadiums...
[TN: Nine = "kyuu" and baseball = "yakyuu".]
Mouri: But I can't think of any with "monkey" in their name...

Ran: D-dad! Why are you here?
Mouri: I saw that the Tori Man had shown up at the shrine you went to...
Mouri: and I was worried so I came to get you!

Mouri: They're really overplaying this on the news...
Mouri: Especially with the message the stabbed man left!
Conan: I don't think it has to do with baseball stadiums.
Sonoko: Speaking of baseball stadiums...

Sonoko: Why does Koshien Stadium...
Sonoko: have the name "Koshien"?

Sonoko: Is there a place called Koshien near there?
Ran: Yeah! There's a train station called Koshien Station and stuff, right?
Conan: No! Those were named after Koshien Stadium was made.
Conan: During the year Koshien Stadium was built...

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Sonoko: What about that year?
Conan: That's it!
Conan: That's what it was...

Conan: The victim knew the criminal...
Conan: That's why he called him the 9th monkey...

Mouri: Okay, let's go!
Ran: Ah, dad! Just take Conan-kun and Sonoko back!
Ran: I'm going to go get the clothes we had dry cleaned!

Mouri: You can just do that tomorrow!
Ran: You have to go to your friends wedding tomorrow, right?

Right margin: Ran isn't using karate because of the fortune and now the Tori Man is staring evilly at her!?