Detective Conan 726

Chapter 726

01

Text: Where exactly was the poison!?
Title: File 726 Miraculous Trick

02

Takagi: The one who died was Urai Taruto-san, 53 years old...
Takagi: He was the president of the Urai Confectionery.

Takagi: and the sponsor for this party.
Megure: Oh...

Megure: I heard from the coroner it was poison...
Takagi: Yes, it was an acute medicinal poisoning caused by a cyanide compound.

Megure: And the only people next to the president when he collapsed were Ran-kun and Conan-kun...
Megure: who were brought by Mouri-kun...

Megure: and the president's wife and vice president of the Urai Confectionery, Urai Hoshie-san.
Hoshie: Yes, that's right.

Right margin: The president was poisoned in the middle of the party...

03

Hoshie: It was while Mouri-san was on stage giving a speech.
Box: Urai Hoshie (49) Urai Taruto's Wife

Hoshie: My husband suddenly gave a loud groan and collapsed.
Hoshie: And then he stopped moving...
Text right of Taruto: Gwaaah...

Satou: The one right next to him at the time was you, isn't that right, ma'am?
Hoshie: Yes...I was reading Ran-chan's palm...

Takagi: Palm reading?
Megure: She was palm reading?
Ran: Ah, yes!
Ran: She was telling my future while holding my left hand with both of her hands...

Satou: If both of her hands were occupied, she couldn't have given him the poison by hand.
Takagi: Yes...
Megure: Did she say anything to the president at that time?

Megure: Asking him to drink something...
Megure: or to eat something...
Ran: No, not really...
Ran: She said she read his palm in the mornings before he woke up is all...

Conan: But, Sis Ran. While she was reading your palm didn't she say...

04

Conan: "Are you listening?"

Megure: Are you listening?
Ran: Oh, at first I thought she was talking to me, but apparently she was actually talking to the president.
Hoshie: He was zoning out while Mouri-san was giving his speech is why...

Conan: But the president's response was kind of weird!
Megure: Weird?
Conan: He didn't say "Yes, I'm listening" or "No, I'm not listening".

Conan: He said...
Conan: "Yeah, probably."

Mouri: That is an odd response to whether he was listening to my speech or not.
Hoshie: He might have given that vague response because he wasn't paying attention...
Hoshie: After your speech, he was planning on making an important announcement.

Hoshie: Specifically, that we were getting divorced and the company was splitting.

05

Takagi: Ehh!?
Takagi: Is that true!?

Hoshie: Yes...The Urai Confectionery had gotten fairly large and we often butted heads over our differing ideas regarding management policies.
Hoshie: But then, he cried begging me to rethink this.

Hoshie: He said he didn't care if the company split, he just didn't want us to get divorced.
Hoshie: He said he couldn't live without me.
Takagi: Then...
Takagi: You don't mean...

Satou: It's possible he became depressed...
Satou: and killed himself.

Hoshie: If so, it's most unfortunate.
Hoshie: I was the sour pro and he was the sweet pro.
Hoshie: I thought he would understand if I told him we could each carry out our fields of expertise to their extremes.

Ran: Come to think of it, I heard from my friend...
Ran: that you and the president won a sweets contests.
Hoshie: Well, my husband did...

06

Hoshie: I got second.
Hoshie: I didn't win.

Ran: Eh? But...
Ran: Huh?
Hoshie: More importantly, if you're going to search me, could you hurry up and do it?
Megure: Eh?

Hoshie: If someone poisoned my husband, I would be the first suspect since I was next to him.
Hoshie: So I might still have evidence of having possessed the poison on me, right?
Megure: Well, yes...

Hoshie: But if you could search me in the staff room beyond that door over there, it would be a huge help.
Hoshie: I'm sure the media is rushing to the entrance to this assembly hall after they heard there was an incident.

Hoshie: And if I came out escorted by police, it would look like I was being arrested.
Megure: Th-that's true...

Megure: Okay, we're counting on you, Satou-kun!
Satou: Yes, sir!

Satou: Excuse me!
Satou: Could you let us through?

SFX: Wobble

07

Hoshie: Ah...
SFX: Topple

SFX: Craaash

Hoshie: Ow, ow...
Satou: Are you okay?
Hoshie: I wish I hadn't come in such high heels...

Satou: Do you need to lean on my shoulder?
Hoshie: No, I just sprained it a little.

Hoshie: Can we hurry up and finish this?

08

Man: Inspector Megure!

Man: We're going to take it for further testing to make sure...
Man: but it doesn't seem there was any poison mixed into the food or drink on the table.
Megure: I see...

Takagi: Well, I doubt he had even a sip of his wife's lemon tea.
Takagi: He's famous for not liking sour things.
Megure: I-is that so...?

SFX: Gulp...

Takagi: Are you hungry?
Megure: Y-yeah. I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast.
Megure: I was called here while I was on the way to get some dinner.

Mouri: But don't you always have a bento made by your wife for lunch?
Megure: Midori and I had a bit of an argument before I left today...

Midori: I asked you if you have anything to give me today!
Megure: And I told you: why would I!?
Megure: Well, it was a stupid argument, so don't ask what it was about...

09

Hoshie: Oh, those are the gift bags for the White Day Party.
Hoshie: You can have one if you want.

Satou: Oh, no thanks.
Satou: White Day? What's that?
Yumi: It's a day of judgment where it becomes clear as day how much your boyfriend loves you!!

Yumi: First, you casually give him chocolate on Valentine's...
Yumi: and a month later on March 14th, if you get something back, the bell of dazzling romance rings out.

Yumi: And if you don't, the footsteps of catastrophe draw near...
Satou: Th-the footsteps of catastrophe...?
Yumi: Well...It is a bit annoying that everyone has gone along with the sweets makers' plan!

Takagi: I'm sorry I wasn't thoughtful enough!!
Satou: Hmm...

Hoshie: Hey...Are you quite done with that heel?
Satou: Y-yes...
Satou: Please hand me the other one...

Satou: No, no!
Satou: I have to focus on my work!

10

Takagi: What!?

Takagi: The murderer ran up to him and killed him?
Ran: Precisely, inspector!

Mouri: From what I've heard, the president does a performance to surprise the party guests each year.
Mouri: He's done magic tricks, worn costumes, and done skits.

Mouri: In other words, when he first cried out and collapsed, it was just part of his act.
Mouri: Most likely, he was planning on doing a mystery involving the famous detective he had invited, i.e. me.

Mouri: He had no idea he was actually going to be killed afterwards.
Takagi: Then, who was the first person to run over to him...?
Ran: H-his wife...

Ran: She crouched down next to his face...
Hoshie: What is it, honey?
Hoshie: Are you doing a mystery skit this time?
Ran: and said that.

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Takagi: Y-you don't mean she...
Megure: directly put the poison in his mouth then?

Mouri: Yes. In other words, it was a crime that only his wife who knew what his skit was going to be could have done.
Hoshie: Oh, how can a famous detective of all people say something so ridiculous?

Mouri: Eh?
Hoshie: You were on stage at the time, so you may not have seen...
Hoshie: but, after my husband collapsed, he didn't move an inch and not sound came from his mouth.

Hoshie: If I had given him some poison then...
Hoshie: he would have struggled in pain...
Hoshie: and cried out, wouldn't he have?

Mouri: Hey, Ran! Is that true?
Mouri: You were right there, right?
Ran: Sh-she's telling the truth.
Ran: He didn't move at all. It definitely seemed like he was really dead.

Mouri: So that reasoning of yours was the absurd wrong version you often give before going into the real thing.
Mouri: Wrong version...?
Mouri: This is the version I actually remember, though...

SFX: Land

12

Mouri: Hot!

Mouri: Hoo hoo
Ran: Wait, where did the cigarette butt go!?
Megure: Well? What did the search find?
Satou: Yes, sir!

Satou: I couldn't find any trace that she had any poison.
Hoshie: Of course...

Megure: Then this really was...
Chiba: Inspector!

Chiba: A bottle with potassium cyanide in it...
Chiba: and a case of oblates was found in the glove box of the president's car!!

Megure: An oblate is the thing you wrap powdered medicines in that dissolves inside your mouth, right!?
Chiba: Yes!
Megure: And the coroner sent word saying that a partially dissolved oblate was found between the president's back teeth.

Satou: I see...He snuck the poison in by wrapping it in an oblate and putting it in his pocket. Then he took it when he decided it was time.
Takagi: It must have been suicide.

13

Conan: Hey, I think you should hurry up and call the restaurant!
Hoshie: Eh?

Conan: You and the president only drank during the party; you didn't eat anything.
Conan: You must have had a dinner reservation at a fancy restaurant.
Hoshie: We didn't have a reservation.

Hoshie: My husband was trying to watch his weight by not eating out in the evenings!
Hoshie: I made him a healthy meal every night.
Conan: Oh, I see.
Conan: Then what was on the menu tonight?

Hoshie: Eh?

Hoshie: Let's see. What was it...?
Conan: This party was supposed to end at 9 at night...
Conan: and you would be here even longer seeing off all the guests.
Conan: You must have already bought the ingredients.

14

Conan: Unless you knew this was going to happen from the beginning...

Hoshie: Wh...
Hoshie: Who is this kid!?
Conan: I knew it...

Conan: She's clearly the murderer.

Conan: But how did she give him the poison!?
Conan: When the president collapsed, she really did have both hands occupied reading Ran's palm.

Conan: If she had something set up...
Hoshie: Are you listening?
Conan: there's that sentence she muttered...

Conan: But what did she make him do by saying that?
Chiba: Achoo!

15

Chiba: Achoo!
Chiba: Achoo!
Satou: What is it, Chiba-kun? Allergies?

Chiba: Yeah. I took some medicine, but it isn't working.
Conan: Working...?
[TN: The verb I've translated here as "working" that literally means "to be effective" is pronounced the same as the verb for "listen" used when Hoshie said "Are you listening".]
Chiba: But if I take too much of it, it makes me sleepy.

Chiba: If only there were some miracle allergy medicine that didn't make you sleepy.
SFX: Sniff

Conan: Miracle!?

Ran: Oh, no!
Ran: Dad's cigarette is on the table!

Mouri: Oh, crap! It's burning the paper napkin!!
Ran: Eh? Isn't that the napkin the president's wife's lemon ice tea was on?

Mouri: Well, at least it didn't start a fire.
Ran: Geez!

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Conan: I see...
Conan: That's why she went out of her way to go through there.

Conan: Hey, Detective Takagi!

Conan: Uncle Kogorou wants you to search for something.
Takagi: What is it?

Conan: It's something the murderer tried to hide that is evidence of the miraculous trick the murderer used!

Right margin: What exactly is the miraculous poison trick!?