Detective Conan 718

I doubt I'll be posting a translation tomorrow, so I'll say this now: Merry Christmas!

Chapter 718

01

Title: File 718 Innocence

Text right of Ran: Hey, wait!
On paper: Lovely Fortune

02

Ran: C'mon...
Ran: Where's the cleaners...?

Ran: Hm?

Guys: Hey, old man!
Guys: Were you just gonna bump into us and keep going?
Man: I-I'm sorry...

Guys: If you're really sorry, then hand over your wallet!
Man: Ehh!?
Guys: Don't worry! We're just gonna take enough for a couple of drinks!

Ran: If you're mugging him, I'll tell the police!
Guys: Huh?

Guys: Ohh. You're pretty assertive, aren't ya...
Guys: Pretty cute, too!
Guys: Wanna come have some fun with us?

Ran: Th...
Ran: These guys...
SFX: *clench*

Right margin: Because she believed the fortune, Ran isn't using karate...

03

Ran: As he is the sensitive and old-fashioned type, a woman who displays the feminine virtues of old Japan will get to him...
Ran: Showy fashion or strong-minded actions are off limits! If you can appeal to him as a neat and clean woman...
Ran: you will definitely get closer to him.
On paper: Lovely Fortune

Ran: Oh...What I mean is, you shouldn't break the law...
Passersby: What's going on? A fight?
Guys: Tch.

Guys: Hey, let's go!
Guys: Yeah...
Guys: Watch yourselves!

Man: Th-thank you!
Man: You saved me...
Ran: Oh, don't worry about it...

Ran: Strong-minded actions are off limits!
Ran: Be graceful, be graceful...

04

Mouri: What!?
Mouri: You know who the Tori Man is?

Sonoko: So you know what the "monkey" and "9" that the man who was stabbed told you meant?
Conan: Yeah! The truth is, the stabbed man knew who the man who stabbed him was!

Conan: That's why he said it wasn't "tori"; it was "monkey"...
Conan: and showed me 9 fingers!

Sonoko: So it's the guy with the monkey face, Hino Tatsuo?
Sonoko: If he knew him, he'd know what he looked like...
Conan: But he has nothing to do with the number 9.

Sonoko: So it was Sarukawa Hisami?
Sonoko: His nickname was Kyuu-chan...
Conan: If he was close enough to know his nickname, I bet he would've just told us the nickname or said the criminal was Sarukawa!

Sonoko: But the only one left is Mizunoe Shinji.
Mouri: What does he have to do with monkeys or the number 9?
Conan: Hey... Isn't the kanji used for "bird" in "Bird Fair" the one from the Chinese zodiac?

Conan: Then which kanji is used for the monkey?
Sonoko: Umm...

05

Sonoko: It's the one used in the verb "to say"!
Sonoko: That's the "shin" in Mizunoe Shinji!
Text in background: Mizunoe Shinji
[TN: The highlighted one is the "shin" in Shinji.]

Mouri: But what about the number 9!?
Conan: We were taking about the name of Koshien stadium before, right?

Conan: Because the stadium was built in 1924 which was the Koshi year...
Conan: it was given the name Koshien!

Sonoko: The Koshi year?
Mouri: The sexagenary cycle!
Mouri: By matching the ten calendar signs of Ko, Otsu, Hei, Tei, Bo, Ki, Ko, Shin, Jin, and Ki with the twelve zodiac signs of Shi, Chu, In, Bo, Shin, Shi, Go, Bi, Shin, Yu, Jutsu, and Gai, you can make 60 different year names in a cycle!
[TN: Just look up the Chinese Zodiac or the Sexagenary Cycle for more information on this than you could ever want to know.]

Mouri: And Koshi is the first one of the 60...
Mouri: So they gave it the name Koshien because it happened to be built on the first year of the cycle...
Conan: So what would the 9th year be?

Mouri: The 9th would be... Koshi, Otchu, Hei'in, Teibo, Boshin, Kishi, Kogo, Shinbi, and the 9th is...
Mouri: Jinshin...

Sonoko: It has the same "shin" as in Shinji!
Conan: How would you say it with the kun-reading?
Conan: Like saying Heigo as Hinoe-Uma...

Mouri: Let's see. I think Jinshin's kun-reading is Mizunoe-Saru...
Mouri: Mizunoe?

06

Sonoko: Mizunoe Shinji!
Mouri: That's really straightforward!!

Conan: And to prove it...Mizunoe was going to show us the receipt from the convenience store but stopped, right?
Shinji: Huh? Where'd the receipt go?

Conan: That's because the receipt in his pocket got wet with sweat from when he was running away from the people chasing him!
Conan: If he showed us the wet receipt, we'd know he'd been running!

Conan: All that was found abandoned in the park bathroom was the knife, a down jacket, and the Hyottoko mask!
Mouri: I see... So he had a change of clothes prepared in the bathroom in advance...
Mouri: but he didn't change his pants.

Sonoko: But wait!
Sonoko: Didn't Detective Takagi say that Mizunoe didn't go to the Second Bird Fair because he was on a business trip?

Sonoko: And he made a report that his bag with his bankbook in it was stolen by the Tori Man at the First Bird Fair.
Conan: That's true...

Conan: The Tori Man here at the Third Bird Fair that stabbed that man was Mizunoe...
Conan: but the Tori Man at the First and Second Bird Fairs was...

07

Conan: the man who was stabbed!
Sonoko: Eh!?

Conan: Maybe that man threatened Mizunoe-san. He could have used the bankbook he stole from Mizunoe-san to do so...
Mouri: If he had been taking bribes or embezzling, then he could have been called out by a letter saying to hand over a bunch of money if he didn't want what he'd done to be leaked...

Sonoko: So is that why the man who was stabbed went to the trouble of bringing all the things he stole before in the day pack?
Mouri: Yeah, most likely, Mizunoe said to bring everything he'd stolen along with his bankbook and to meet here.

Mouri: Then he killed the original Tori Man, took the stolen items, and ran away disguised as the Tori Man because he wouldn't be a suspect as he had an alibi for the Second Bird Fair...
Conan: Oh! And the man who was stabbed was trying to get into the department of literature, and the bankbook only had Mizunoe's name and address on it, so "Monkey" and "9" were what came to mind!

Sonoko: So...could he be saying that he can't remember anything now be because...
Mouri: Yeah, because, when he was stabbed, he gave those hints towards the man who stabbed him without thinking...
Mouri: but, after he came to and thought about it calmly, he realized that, if it was found out who did it, it would be found out that he was actually the Tori Man, so he decided to keep quiet.

Conan: But there's no proof...
Conan: It'd be nice if someone had picked up something the Tori Man had dropped or something...

08

Sonoko: That's it! The button Ran picked up after bumping into him at the Second Bird Fair!
Sonoko: If they found the piece of clothing it came off at the stabbed man's house, it would be proof, right?

Sonoko: Proof that he was the Tori Man at the Second Bird Fair!
Mouri: Well, if he confesses because of it and tells us about Mizunoe, that'll settle everything...
Conan: Wow, you two! What great reasoning!!

Conan: I guess it's to be expected of the Reasoning Queen and Sleeping Kogorou!
Sonoko: Yeah, I guess.
Mouri: Of course!

Sonoko & Mouri: Wait, I get the feeling he didn't mean that...

Conan: Anyway, let's tell Detective Takagi about the button and have him check it out!
Conan: He can check if the piece of clothing it came from is in the stabbed man's house!

Ran: Hoo...
Ran: Maybe we sent a little too much out for cleaning...

09

Mouri: What!?
Mouri: You gave the button back to Ran!?

Mouri: Why!? It was evidence!!
Takagi: Well... we didn't know that at the time...
Takagi: Ran-san thought it might have come from some of your clothing, so she asked if she could have it back to check...

Mouri: Hey, that Mizunoe guy isn't going to attack Ran to try to destroy the evidence is he?
Sonoko: It's Ran, so she'll be fine!
Takagi: She's strong...
Conan: Odd...

Conan: I haven't been able to get a hold of Ran-neechan by phone!!
Sonoko: Eh!?

10

SFX: *beep*

Mizunoe: Coin purse...
Mizunoe: Coin purse...

Mizunoe: Here it is!
Mizunoe: This is it!

Mizunoe: If I get rid of this button...
Mizunoe: there will be no reason to suspect me.

Ran: Mizunoe-san...
Ran: It was you, wasn't it?

Ran: Ah!
Ran: That button!!
Mizunoe: Yeah, that's right...

11

Mizunoe: This button belonged to the Tori Man...
Mizunoe: who I tried to kill today!!

Ran: Y-you tried to kill the Tori Man...?
Ran: I thought he was stabbed by the Tori Man...
Mizunoe: That man was the Tori Man!

Ran: Ehh!?
Mizunoe: That bastard. He looked over the bankbook he stole from me and noticed it!
Mizunoe: He noticed that I was embezzling money from my company...

Mizunoe: But when the exact same amount of money is being sent each month to a company that doesn't exist, shouldn't somebody notice?
Mizunoe: Because that was the bank account of a fake company being used to embezzle!

Mizunoe: Heh, that bastard. He said he'd return the bankbook but that he didn't know which bag was mine, so I told him to bring everything he'd stolen so far so I could find it myself.
Mizunoe: That way I could be the Tori Man for one night.

Mizunoe: Unfortunately, he survived, but he's not gonna say anything.
Mizunoe: He's just a coward who told me he stole these things because of the stress of studying for his entrance exam.

Mizunoe: I'm sure you think it's odd...
Mizunoe: that I would sit here telling all of this to you.

12

Mizunoe: But, young lady... That's because I'm going to kill you.
Mizunoe: Right here and now.

Conan: Ran!
Conan: Ran!!

Conan: Ran!!!

Ran: You should turn yourself in...
Mizunoe: Oh?

Ran: So far, no one has died, but if you commit any worse crimes...
Mizunoe: Heh. Begging for your life?

Mizunoe: Yeah, I guess you wouldn't want to die...
Mizunoe: You're young enough that you haven't had enough of love and romance.
Mizunoe: There was a Lovely Fortune in here that hadn't been unsealed...

13

Ran: Hadn't been unsealed?
Ran: When Sonoko...
Ran: took my fortune from me...

Ran: did she just pretend to read mine...
Ran: and actually read her own?

Mizunoe: As a souvenir for the underworld, I'll read it for you.
Ran: Eh?

Mizunoe: As he has a sharp mind, in order to capture his heart...
Mizunoe: just be yourself.

Mizunoe: If you try to dress yourself up as and pretend to be too cutesy or sweet, he'll see right through it, so watch out!
Mizunoe: If you make sure to keep your natural innocence...

Mizunoe: and push ahead with who you truly believe you are...
Mizunoe: your feelings are sure to reach him!

Mizunoe: That's all!

14

Mizunoe: Kahah

15

Conan: Ran-neechan!

Takagi: Looks like there was nothing to worry about...
Mouri: But what was with that showy move...?

16

Ran: A spinning-body kick!
Ran: Kazumi-senpai taught it to me before!

Conan: Oh, I see...
Ran: Oh, this man is actually the criminal...
Takagi: Yeah, we know!

Sonoko: But Ran! Aren't strong-minded actions off limits?
Ran: That was from your fortune!
Ran: Mine said...

Ran: Ah!

Sonoko: Let's see...As he has a sharp mind, in order to capture his heart, just be yourself.
Sonoko: If you try to dress yourself up as and pretend to be too cutesy or sweet, he'll see right through it, so watch out!
Sonoko: If you make sure to keep your natural innocence and push ahead with who you truly believe you are, your feelings are sure to reach him!

Sonoko: Wait, this is pretty nice!
Sonoko: Trade with me!
Ran: No!

Ran: But well...
Ran: I guess girls just have to be strong!

Conan: You're a little too strong...

Right margin: Pushing ahead too much is just like Ran, though!!