Detective Conan 724

Chapter 724

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Title: File 724 An Eye for an Eye
Text: Why is she mad?

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Policeman: Inspector Yokomizo!

Policeman: I've spoken with the employees at the inn's front desk!
Yokomizo: And?

Policeman: At around 5:30 this morning, Natori-san left her room key with the front desk...
Yokomizo: Oh...

Policeman: And at about 2 in the morning, Teradou-san called an employee to his room because his air conditioner was broken...
Unpei: Well, it turned out I wasn't using it right...

Yokomizo: And what about Tanzawa-san getting change at the front desk at around 4:30?
Policeman: That was true as well! He got a 1000 yen bill broken down into 100 yen coins...

Yokomizo: Hey! There really wasn't anyone who came back to the inn over the bridge before we got here?
Employee: N-no...

Right margin: Conan has figured out the trick of the lake-top sealed room...

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Employee: The only people who went through were the police and the guests after you had questioned them...
Yokomizo: I see...

Yokomizo: Then we know that...
Yokomizo: these three were in the inn this morning.

Yokomizo: Then this kid must have been wrong in his reasoning that...
Yokomizo: the murderer is one of them and they hid out at the lake-top open air bath all night lying in wait for Tetsuyama-san to come so they could beat him to death.

Conan: Oh, about that...
Agasa: *yawn*
Mitsuhiko: Oh, professor!
Ai: You're up...

Agasa: Hey, you should've woken me up when you went to go to the bath...
Mitsuhiko: This is no time to be worrying about the bath!
Genta: Things have gotten bad!

Policeman: Then the murderer must have snuck into the open air bath through the lake and fled back into the lake after murdering Tetsuyama...
Yokomizo: Yeah! Those kids said they didn't hear anyone jumping into the lake...
Yokomizo: but we can't rely on them.

Yokomizo: Okay! Go search for information from around the lake...
Conan: That won't be necessary...

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Conan: Because the murderer is right here...
Conan: before my very eyes!

Agasa: Hey, hey. I don't know anything about a murder!
Conan: That doesn't matter. Just pretend to speak along with my voice.

Yokomizo: Huhhh? You're the old man who brought those kids here, right?
Yokomizo: Why are you butting in all of a sudden...?
Agasa: Ah, no, I'm...

Conan: There is clear proof that someone spent the night hidden in the open air bath.
Conan: Are your eyes completely useless!?

Yokomizo: Proof?
Conan: The plastic tea bottle that for some reason had water in it that was in the dressing room...
Conan: and the used matches floating in the lake!

Conan: It's winter! It's too cold to wait outside.
Conan: That said, even if you went in the bath area from the veranda, the lights and heating would be turned off after hours, so the chill of the winter night would have penetrated the changing room!
Conan: There's only one way to keep warm...

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Yokomizo: D-do you mean they got in the hot spring!?
Conan: Precisely!
Conan: Seeing that they finished the tea and even filled it up with water from the sink in the dressing room...
Conan: they must have gotten in the bath many times over the night.
Conan: Because the bath makes you thirsty.

Yokomizo: Then what about the used matches floating in the lake...?
Conan: That was from when they took a smoke to keep awake! They did it on the veranda so as to not leave the smell of smoke in the bath area.
Conan: The bath opens at 5 in the morning. If they fell asleep, they might not wake up in time.

Yokomizo: That would make you suspicious because you have cigarettes!
Unpei: Hey, hey. I...

Conan: No, whoever it was just threw the used matches in the lake...
Conan: so there would be cigarette butts floating there too.
Yokomizo: But you just said...

Conan: All I said was that they took a smoke; I didn't say they smoked cigarettes!
Yokomizo: Huh? If it wasn't cigarettes, then...
Mishio: A pipe...

Mishio: W-wait a second!
Mishio: If they were smoking a pipe then...
Conan: That's right...

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Conan: The one who spent the night hiding in the lake-top open air bath...
Conan: was the late Tetsuyama-san!!

All: Ehh!?

Yokomizo: Then what about when Tetsuyama-san came through here at just past 4:30?
Conan: That was the murderer!
Conan: They were masquerading as Tetsuyama-san!

Conan: In other words, the murderer used the fact that you wouldn't think the victim would spend a long, uncomfortable time hiding in the place they would soon be killed in waiting for their killer to arrive.
Conan: They used a mental trick!!

Yokomizo: Hey! Is that true?
Yokomizo: You let Tetsuyama-san through the entrance to the open air bath, right?
Employee: Well...
Employee: I think it was actually him!

Employee: He had that unique walk...
Employee: and that stern, daunting aura to him...

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Conan: But at the time this floor was dimly lit...
Conan: and he was wearing a knit cap and glasses and had a towel wrapped around him like a scarf, right?
Employee: Y-yes...

Yokomizo: I see. So it could have been an actor or former actor who knew him really well playing the part...
Unpei: W-wait!

Unpei: Then this actress is just as suspicious!!
Unpei: If she wore multiple layers, she could take on his figure...
Unpei: she wouldn't have to say anything to have his sternness!

Unpei: And she's the one that promised him over the phone...
Unpei: that she would get in the women's bath with him first thing in the morning!
Unpei: If that promise was only if he snuck into the women's bath, it would all fit, right?

Conan: That's true...
Conan: but only if it was actually her that Tetsuyama-san was talking on the phone with then.

Yokomizo: If it was actually her...? Are you saying she lied?
Conan: Yes...If she didn't say that, she couldn't cover for the person it actually was!
Conan: And there are only three people with a connection to Tetsuyama-san staying in this inn.

Conan: The one who saw Tetsuyama-san on the phone talking about the morning sun shining on the lake-top open air bath was Teradou-san.
Conan: And if we completely rule out Natori-san as who he was talking with...

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Conan: The only one left is...
Conan: Natori-san's manager, Tanzawa-san!!

Mishio: Wh-what are you saying? I wasn't lying...
Conan: Most likely what Tanzawa-san said on the phone was...

Conan: "Natori-san is going to the lake-top open air bath first thing in the morning!
Conan: If you want to see her naked, hide in there all night!"

Conan: The plan worked because, as her manager, he would know her schedule!
Conan: Because Tetsuyama-san said, "You've finally come around."
Conan: he must have requested to see her naked in the past.

Conan: Of course, Tetsuyama-san could have come first thing in the morning and hid in the women's bath...
Conan: but Tanzawa-san must have explained that, if Natori-san learned that he had gone to the open air bath, she might be more cautious.

Conan: Then, while Tetsuyama-san was waiting on the veranda of the women's bath, Tanzawa-san come dressed as Tetsuyama-san...
Conan: and lured him into the bath area saying that that spot wouldn't work or something like that and beat him to death with a blunt object.

Conan: Then he stripped his body naked and carried him so his head was on the bath rocks!
Conan: He poured water from the bath on the body as if he had been in the bath...
Conan: and made it look as if he had slipped on the soap and died an accidental death!

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Conan: Then he went out on the veranda and hid behind the outdoor air conditioner...
Conan: He must have been planning on entering the bath when some women entered the bath and panicked upon seeing the body...
Conan: because some of his hair might have fallen in the bath area.

Conan: But the kids came before the scheduled time...
Conan: and instead of panicking, they sealed off the entrance to the bath.

Conan: When Mitsuhiko and Genta went along that path to see what was going on in the bath before any other guests came by, they passed him by because it was still dark outside.
Conan: After that, he managed to slip into the crowd of guests, but he couldn't find a chance to get into the bath area.

Conan: So Tanzawa-san had no choice but to...
Mishio: Wait a second, old man! You're saying this as if you saw it all...
Unpei: Do you have any proof?

Conan: Yes. The proof is...
Ayumi: What are you doing hiding behind here, Conan-kun?

Conan: Geh...
Mitsuhiko: Is that the bowtie that changes your voice?
Genta: Are you talking for the professor?
Ayumi: Can you not say it with your own voice?

Ai: You've got it wrong! The professor doesn't know about the case...
Ai: so Edogawa-kun is whispering advice to him!
Ayumi: Oh!

Conan: Thanks, Haibara...
Ai: Don't worry...

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Ai: I won't let people peek on you like you do...
Conan: Peek...?

Conan: Oh...you don't have to worry about that!
Conan: All I saw was your butt!

Yokomizo: Butt?
Yokomizo: What about butts?
Agasa: Um, uh...
Conan: Crap...I said that in the professor's voice...

Conan: B-BUT Tanzawa-san knew something only the murderer would know...
Conan: That's why he pushed to the front of the crowd trying to get into the bath area! That's the proof!!

Yokomizo: Huh? Anyone would want to know what had happened in there since those kids were sealing the entrance!
Conan: But that's the women's bath.
Conan: If someone screamed, you would want to force your way in, but normally you would have a women go in first to see what had happened!

Conan: But Tanzawa-san knew...
Conan: that there was only Tetsuyama-san's body and some small kids in the bath area.

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Conan: If you end up seeing some kid naked...
Conan: it's no problem!

Ayumi: Wh-what's wrong, Ai-chan?
Mitsuhiko: There's some ominous energy coming from her...
Genta: Y-you scare me...

Mishio: That's your proof? Don't make me laugh!!
Conan: You know about the unmoving proof...
Conan: that Tanzawa-san has on him even now, don't you?

Conan: You covered for him by saying that that ring had a large jewel on it.
[TN: For some reason I translated it as "tiny" last chapter. That was just me being stupid.]
Conan: The silver ring that Tetsuyama-sensei would wear at important times!

Yokomizo: Covered for him?
Conan: Yes...If he was wearing a ring with that big a jewel on it, you would normally notice it.

Conan: You would never think that the dark ring Tanzawa-san is wearing on this left middle finger was it.

Conan: When you said you would be checking people's possessions, he stuck his left hand in his left back pocket and realized he had left the ring in there.
Conan: So he fumbled with the ring in his pocket...

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Conan: and put it on with the jewel on the inside of his hand...
Conan: so you wouldn't realize that it was Tetsuyama-san's ring!

Yokomizo: But why did he go out of the way to take the ring?
Conan: Because the silver had sulfurized and darkened!

Conan: This is a sulfur hot spring!
Conan: Its surface reacted with the hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide and produced black sulfurized silver!
Conan: When he saw Tetsuyama-san's blackened silver ring, he knew he had to take it off!

Conan: He wanted it to look like Tetsuyama-san had just come to the bath, and it would make people suspect that he had been in the hot spring for a long time.
Conan: But well, in a highly concentrated sulfur hot spring, it would turn black just like that.

Yokomizo: But he really is stupid for forgetting about it!
Conan: He couldn't help it! He had completely become Tetsuyama-sensei.
SFX: *step out*

Conan: Tetsuyama-sensei always holds his pipe in his left hand, so he's probably left-handed!
Conan: So he ended up putting it in his left back pocket that he doesn't usually put things in.
Conan: He meant to only keep it in there until he threw it in the lake along with the blood-stained yukata, haori, and weapon.
Conan: I saw him press the vending machine button with his left hand and he called me "boy".
Conan: You had already completely become Tetsuyama-sensei at that point, right?

Junsaku: Yeah, it was hard.

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Junsaku: Because I had never played a role
Junsaku: of someone who was that narrow-minded before.

Unpei: Hey! Don't tell me you had a grudge about him taking you off of the lead part in that movie 5 years ago...
Junsaku: Yeah...If you put it simply, that was my motive.

Junsaku: The part I was taken off of was the middle-aged hitman part in "Source of Scarlet" which was restarting filming now.
Junsaku: Since I was so highly praised in the young man series, I thought it was only natural that I would do it.
Yokomizo: Wasn't it because he thought it was too soon for you to do that part?

Junsaku: Yeah...I thought the same thing.
Junsaku: He said I was too young, I didn't have enough of an aura, and that I didn't project enough sorrow.
Junsaku: He said I needed to have more experience.

Junsaku: That's why I quit acting and even went as far as to become her manager!
Junsaku: I experienced the troubles of being low-class that I hadn't experienced in my time as an actor.
Junsaku: I thought that that was what he must have meant!

Junsaku: And when I heard that he was doing "Source of Scarlet", I called him saying that I could play the lead...
Junsaku: but he was so drunk he didn't realize I was the one he was talking to.

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Tetsuyama: Have Tanzawa Junsaku play the lead hitman?
Tetsuyama: No, I can't use him. He's too good.
Tetsuyama: I can't have him giving such amazing performances that exceed what was in the script like he did in the young man series.

Unpei: H-he seriously said that!?
Junsaku: Yes...No matter what I did, I couldn't play the hitman in the middle-aged series...
Junsaku: Unfortunately, that was only as long as he was alive...

Junsaku: I decided to become an actor when I saw the black and white "Source of Scarlet" as a kid, so I wanted to play this role no matter what.
Junsaku: But looking on it now, maybe it was too much for me to play it.

Junsaku: If I had completely become the hitman after killing him...
Junsaku: I wouldn't have made this mistake!

Junsaku: Mishio! You need to play your part!
Junsaku: It's an important role to expand your horizons as an actress.

Mishio: I can't...
Mishio: While filming, I completely become my part even in my private life.
Mishio: That's what you taught me to do.

Mishio: The part of a cold-blooded hostess who tries to kill the hitman without moving an inch...
Mishio: in order to suppress the fact that she was the client who requested a killing...

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Mishio: is no longer a part I can play.

Agasa: Okay! Make sure you don't leave anything behind!
Kids: Okay!!

Conan: Hey, professor!
Conan: Come here a second...
Agasa: Hm?

Conan: Ever since I got in the hot spring earlier and changed, my butt has been stinging.
Conan: Can you take a look at it?
Agasa: Sure...

Agasa: Speaking of the hot spring, Ai-kun came to the men's dressing room earlier.
Conan: Hm?
Conan: Why?

Agasa: Who knows...She said she was looking for something.

Agasa: Hmm?
Agasa: It's red and a little swollen...
Conan: S-seriously?

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Ai: It's from chili powder.
Conan: Eh?

Ai: If you wash it with water, it'll go away.
Agasa: Oh, there's chili powder on the inside of your underwear.
Conan: Eh?

Ai: Well, don't worry about it. Seeing some kid naked...
Ai: is no problem, right?

Conan: Damn her...

Right margin: "An eye for an eye"...is how Haibara does revenge.