Detective Conan 727

Chapter 727

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Title: File 727 Happy White Day
Text: Did she use this!?

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Hoshie: Anyway!
Hoshie: When my husband cried out and collapsed...
Hoshie: I was the only one next to him.

Hoshie: And he died from acute poisoning due to potassium cyanide, so you would think that I had poisoned him...
Hoshie: but, at that time, I was holding Ran-san's left hand with both my hands to read her palm, so I couldn't have given him the poison.

Hoshie: Also, a container with potassium cyanide in it and oblates were found in my husband's car...
Hoshie: and the same type of oblate was found between his back teeth.

Hoshie: So the only explanation is that he carried the poison in wrapped in the oblate and committed suicide by putting it in his mouth during the party, right?
Megure: Y-yes...

Hoshie: Then could you hurry up and release the guests we invited to the party?
Hoshie: The suspicion on me has been cleared up after all...

Hoshie: And if I had done it, I wouldn't have invited a famous detective like Mouri-san to the scene of the crime...
Mouri: Th-that's true...

Right margin: Conan has realized what the miraculous trick the president's wife used to poison him was...

03

Conan: But if that was part of your trick...
Conan: it's a completely different story...

Hoshie: Eh?
Mouri: Ah, no...
Mouri: That wasn't me...

Mouri: Wait, wait!
Mouri: After my voice comes from somewhere else...
Mouri: there's always a little prick on the back of my neck...

SFX: Psh

Mouri: Haheen.
Mouri: Oh, yeah. Sometimes it's on the forehead...
SFX: Beep beep

Ran: D-dad, is this...
Ran: the usual thing...?

Megure: H-hey, Mouri-kun...
Satou: What do you mean by her trick?
Conan: I mean, of course...

04

Conan: her trick to pull of the murder!!
Conan: The trick Hoshie-san used to poison her husband, President Urai!

Hoshie: By trick...are you saying I used you, Mouri-san?
Conan: Yes...Well, the one you actually used was my daughter Ran who I brought with me...

Conan: If my daughter said that your hands were full reading her palm and that the president didn't move after he collapsed...
Conan: I would believe her more than anyone and I would no longer consider you a suspect.

Conan: Doing it during my speech was another part of your trick.
Conan: If I hadn't been away up on the stage, your trick would have been easier to see through...
Hoshie: B-but what trick are you talking about?
Hoshie: What could I have possibly done then...?

05

Conan: You spoke to your husband...
Conan: saying "are you listening," didn't you?

Hoshie: I already told you, that was...
Conan: As everyone here knows, the president liked to do something showy at the party like a magic trick or a skit.
Conan: And he really didn't like sour things.

Conan: Before the party, you gave him the idea to...
Conan: surprise everyone by eating the extremely sour Spy Chocolate White and have it look like it was nothing, didn't you?
Hoshie: Ridiculous...Just the other day, he ate a sour cake and was laid up in bed.
Hoshie: There's no way he could eat that chocolate.

Conan: Do you know about...
Conan: the miracle fruit?

Chiba: Oh, I've heard of it! It's a berry that makes sour things taste sweet when you eat it!
Satou: They were popular a few years ago...

Conan: It's a small red berry from west Africa...
Conan: that contains the glycoprotein miraculin that effects your taste buds so sour things temporarily taste sweet. It pretty much is a miraculous berry.

Conan: If you roll it thoroughly across the top of your tongue, its effects will last for an hour or two.
Conan: That's why you asked your husband who had eaten one beforehand...

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Conan: if the effects of the miracle fruit...
Conan: were still working!!
[TN: As I noted last chapter the verbs for "listen" and for "working" (as in "to be effective") are pronounced the same in Japanese.]

Megure: Then you mean the poison was...
Conan: Yes...The most suitable thing on the table to check was the lemon on the glass of his wife's lemon ice tea.

Conan: She had prepared a lemon by removing a section of the fruit and replacing it with cyanide wrapped in an oblate...
Conan: so that when the president put it in his mouth, the poison would melt out.

Conan: In other words, she wrapped the lemon in something and snuck it in her pocket,
Conan: switched it out with the lemon from her lemon ice tea, hid the original lemon in her napkin, and waited for my speech.

Conan: Then she asked the question, quickly removed the lemon from the president's mouth when he collapsed, hid it,
Conan: and, while everyone's eyes were focused on the president, she put the lemon in her napkin back on her glass!

Conan: That way, when the police came and investigated the table, they wouldn't find any sign of poison on it.

Conan: By the way, when you first took your lemon ice tea, you purposefully took the 3rd glass back because its lemon was the same size as the one you had put the poison in.
Conan: Am I wrong?
Hoshie: That's a detective for you. You even notice the small things.

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Hoshie: But I only chose that glass because it's a habit of mine.
Hoshie: Does no one else have the habit of choosing one farther back rather than the one in front without even thinking about it?
Chiba: I-I do!
Chiba: I always do that with convenience store milk...

Hoshie: And if my husband took the lemon from my glass and put it in his mouth, I think someone would have noticed...
Conan: No, no one would have seen it. He would have made sure to do it when no one would notice.
Conan: If someone saw that he was fine with something sour, it would ruin the surprise.

Conan: But there is proof that you put the original lemon in your napkin!
Conan: I purposefully threw my cigarette causing it to burn the paper napkin!

Megure: Investigators, is that true?
Investigator: Yes...
Investigator: This is it.
Conan: Take a close look at it!

Conan: The burn mark starts off straight but starts to round out partway in, right?
Conan: That's proof that the lemon was there.
Conan: Just like how invisible ink works, that area burns more easily!

Megure: Then where is the lemon the poison was in?
Satou: I searched her, but I didn't find a lemon or anything...
Conan: Most likely...

Conan: she took the poison lemon from the collapsed president's mouth and temporarily hid it in her shoe.
Conan: And when she passed by the table with the glasses on it in order to undergo her search...

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Conan: she purposefully knocked the lemon ice tea glasses on the floor,
Conan: pretended to sprain her ankle, took the poison lemon out from her shoe, and mixed it in with the ones on the floor!

Satou: I see...she hid a leaf in the forest...
Megure: Go retrieve that lemon!
Chiba: Yes, sir!
Takagi: No...

Takagi: Mouri-san asked me, and I already found it!
Takagi: A lemon with one of the sections of fruit removed and with a faint cyanide reaction.

Takagi: If we find the president's saliva and your and his fingerprints on it...
Megure: that would be definitive proof.
Hoshie: Heh...

Hoshie: I used a lemon because of his resentment towards sour things, but it seems I failed...
Hoshie: It's not an easy thing to hide.

Megure: His resentment towards sour things?
Hoshie: Yes...
Hoshie: My husband and I met at a confectionery school.
Hoshie: He was a teacher and I was one of his students.

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Hoshie: One day, after many years, two people from the school were chosen for a sweets contest.
Hoshie: I was one of them.

Hoshie: But I could see the result before it began.
Hoshie: The man chosen for the other participant was clearly going to win.

Hoshie: The sour sweets he made were superb.
Hoshie: He had even been scouted to be a patissier for a famous overseas restaurant.

Hoshie: I never thought he would kill himself the day before the contest.
Hoshie: At the time, I thought he must have had various worries as a genius...
Hoshie: I made sure to stir myself up for his sake and I won.

Ran: So when you said you got "2nd" before...
Hoshie: Yes...if he had been there, I would never have won.
Hoshie: And a few years after that, I married my husband who had been overjoyed at my victory.

Hoshie: I married the man...
Hoshie: who drove him to suicide...

Ran: Drove him to suicide...?
Hoshie: When my husband was laid up in bed because of the sour cake he ate, he confessed it to me.
Hoshie: He hates sour things because it reminds him of that man...

Hoshie: He ate his pie...
Hoshie: before the contest...

10

Taruto: This is too sour...
Taruto: Is your tongue working right?
Hoshie: and told him that...

Hoshie: He completely trusted my husband so he became neurotic and took his own life.
Hoshie: My husband told me in tears...
Hoshie: that he did it to let me win and he never thought it would kill him.

Hoshie: And he didn't even know...
Hoshie: how much that man and I loved each other...

Chiba: Oh, Mouri-san!

Chiba: Your reasoning was as amazing as ever! As expected of you!
Ran: I never would have thought you had thrown your cigarette on purpose!
Mouri: W-well, yeah!
Mouri: On purpose?

Mouri: Well, today is White Day. It feels like I made a clear distinction between right and wrong!!
Megure: White Day...

Megure: I guess I'll call Midori...
SFX: Beep beep beep beep

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Megure: Oh, Midori? It's me...
Midori: Ohh, it's the mean inspector who loves his cases more than his wife...
Midori: Whaddya want?
Megure: Are you drunk...?

Midori: Do you really think I could stand to NOT be drunk right now!? You moron!!
Megure: The shelf 2nd from the top next to the fridge!!

Midori: Eh?
Megure: I was planning on giving it to you when I got back, but I ended up being out late...

Megure: It represents my feelings for you!
Card: To Midori
Megure: Please take it!

Megure: Oh, and...I haven't had anything to eat since this morning, so make sure there's plenty to eat!
Midori: Okaay!

Mouri: Oh, Ran! I'll be hanging around for the police interview, so get Takagi or someone to drive you home!
Ran: Okay...
Mouri: And while you're at it...

Mouri: Drop by Eri's place and leave this!
Ran: No way! Is that a White Day present?

Mouri: Don't misunderstand! These are the cookies I couldn't give to Yoko-chan, and it would be a shame if they went to waste.
Ran: Okay, okay!
Conan: That's clearly different wrapping paper than on the one for Yoko-chan...

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Conan: Was Aunt Eri not happy?

Conan: Her face looked a bit stiff...
Eri: Th...
Eri: Thanks...
Ran: Don't worry! She was just trying keep from smiling!
Ran: It shows that she was reeeally happy.

Satou: And meanwhile with Takagi-kun...
Takagi: H-huh?
Takagi: I forgot the way from here...

Satou: Can't you just look at the car's navigation system?
Takagi: Oh, well...this car's system hasn't been working right lately...

Satou: I guess I have no choice...I'll use the map and navigate for you!
Satou: Which district is the Mouri Detective Agency in?
Takagi: Th-the 5th District...

Card: To Miwako

Satou: White Day cleeeared!
Takagi: Please look inside your car's glove box every once in a while!
Takagi: I put that in there 3 days ago...

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Ran: Detective Satou sure was happy!
Conan: Y-yeah...

Conan: H-hey, Sis Ran...
Ran: Don't worry!

Conan: There's no way Shinichi cares about White Day...
Conan: I'll just have a long talk with Sonoko about it and forget about it...

Ran: Oh, an email from Sonoko...
Ran: What is it?
SFX: Beep
SFX: Beep

SFX: Beep

Sonoko: I got something in return from Makoto-san for White Day!
Sonoko: He said he got the White Star for me!
On phone: I got something in return from Makoto-san for White Day! He said he got the White Star for me!

Ran: Oh, no...
Ran: What am I going to do...?

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Ran: I can't...
Ran: call Sonoko about it now...
Sign:
Mouri Kogorou
Ran
Edogawa Conan

Ran: U...
Ran: Ue...

Conan: Ah...
Conan: No..

Conan: Huuuuh!?

Conan: There's something in the door's mail slot!!
Conan: Was that there when we left?

Ran: I-it couldn't be...
Ran: Shinichi!?

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Ran: Of course not...
Ran: It's an envelope from the tax office...

Ran: What could it be? Did we miss something in our return?
Ran: If I remember, the deadline for the final income tax return is March 15th...

Ran: Wait, that's tomorrow!!
SFX: Rip

Ran: Hm?

Ran: Cough drops...
Bag: White Cough Drops

Shinichi: Since your voice sounded a bit nasal last time we talked...
Shinichi: take some of these and get better! -Shinichi
Note: Since your voice sounded a bit nasal last time we talked take some of these and get better! -Shinichi

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Ran: White Day...
Ran: I'd like to say I wasn't expecting anything in return...
Ran: but getting something...
Ran: really does feel like your feelings reached him...

SFX: Bite

SFX: Crunch

SFX: Snap

Ran: And that makes you really happy.
Sonoko: So? Did you get me White Day marshmallows or anything, Makoto-san?
Makoto: Um, well, I'm kind of in the middle of a victory interview right now...

Right margin: Giving your feelings form and expressing them that way may be pretty important.