Detective Conan 736

Chapter 736

01

Heiji: Hey, old man!

Heiji: I'm pretty sure a family called Inubushi lives around here. Do you know where they live?
Old Man: Inubushi...

Old man: Why do you want to know?
Heiji: We were just thinking we'd break the curse of the demon dog...

Old man: My advice to you is to give up.
Old man: You'll get burned if you stick your heads into this just for fun.

Heiji: Ohh...
Mouri: Well? Where do they live?

Old man: You can see the castle-like roof halfway up the mountain, right?

Margin: Volume 68 is on sale now!!

02

Old man: That's the Inubushi house...
Old man: It's a mansion cursed by a dog...
Title: File 736 The Inubushi Family
Text: The spiraling hatred continues in the 3rd entry of "The Curse of the Demon Dog"...

03

Kazuha: Hey, Heiji...
SFX: Rrrrrr
Heiji: What is it?

Kazuha: Is it true that that guy named Shinichi who was one of the adopted children of the Inubushi family had a pearl in his mouth...?
Heiji: Yeah...

Heiji: He probably bit the pearl on his tie pin off in his dying moments...
Heiji: in order to leave a clue to who killed him.

Heiji: Isn't that right, kid!
Conan: Yeah!
Conan: His saliva was on the tie pin, so it might've been his dying message!

Mouri: Might have been...?
Mouri: So it isn't for sure?
Heiji: No...His saliva was on it, but there was no mark from him biting it.

Heiji: So the pearl might've just been on there kind of loose so it was easy to get off...
Heiji: Or...

04

Conan: Or the murderer was using it as a message...
Conan: and purposefully put it in the victim's mouth.

Conan: Right, Bro Heiji!?
Heiji: Yeah!

Ran: You two are getting along as well as ever!
Kazuha: I know. It's like you're Heiji's assistant.
Conan: Don't call me that...

Mouri: Well, either way, it must have been someone with a grudge against the Inubushi family.
Mouri: The victim, Shinichi-san, had given up his right to the Inubushi inheritance and moved back to Tokyo.

Heiji: That's right. If the criminal was trying to get rid of the other adopted children to get more of the inheritance...
Heiji: because the rich old man called Inubushi Tsunechika left his inheritance with his wife, Satomi-san, who collapsed from illness, Shinichi-san would be unrelated.
[TN: I translated the verb talking about the wife meaning "collapsed" as "died" in Ch. 734 because it's often used as a euphemism for death, but, as you'll see later in the chapter, that was incorrect.]

Ran: There were 8 adopted children right?
Kazuha: Yeah, they all claim to be Tsunechika-san's child, but they all have different mothers.

05

Kazuha: So is one of them really a fake who's trying to get revenge for something?
Ran: Well, even an actual child could hold a grudge.
Ran: It does sound like they were neglected for a long time.

Mouri: Well? How many of those 8 have died?
Heiji: Let's see. There was Shinichi-san who was killed making it look like charcoal suicide...

Heiji: Before that, there was a woman named Miwako who drowned in a pond...
Heiji: Apparently, there was no trace of a fire around the pond, but the grass was all burnt...

Heiji: And the first one was a man named Keiji who was chased off a cliff by the flaming demon dog!
Heiji: They all had something to do with fire...

SFX: Afraid

Conan: If you're scared, you should have stayed home...
Ran: But...when I hear a scary story, I want to know how it ends...
Kazuha: I'm the same, but it really is scary...
Mouri: Hey, now. It's too late to turn back now.

Miyuki: No! Turn around!!

06

SFX: Rrrr
Mouri: Eh?
Miyuki: There's a cliff up ahead! You need to stop!!

Mouri: Wah!

SFX: Brakes

SFX: Stop

Heiji: Th-that was close...
Miyuki: Geez...
Miyuki: There was a sign up a ways back.

Miyuki: Even when you're taking a peaceful drive through the woods with your family, you need to be careful!
Miyuki: Someone fell from there and died recently!
Mouri: Ah, no...

07

Mouri: We're actually on our way to the Inubushi place to investigate that accident...
Miyuki: Eh?

Miyuki: I'm...
Miyuki: part of the Inubushi family.
Box: Inubushi Miyuki (28) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family

Heiji: Wow...

Heiji: It really does look like a Japanese castle...
Miyuki: Apparently, people around here call it the Inubushi Castle!

Conan: It doesn't really look like a mansion that's cursed by a demon dog!
Ran: Y-
Ran: Yeah...
SFX: Grrr

Kazuha: K-
Ran: Kyah!
Dog: Woof woof

08

Ran: Eh?
Dog: Woof woof

Ran: Oh, it's so cute!
Kazuha: It's an Akita dog!
Miyuki: Don't do that, Hachi!
Miyuki: These people are with a police detective who's come to investigate Brother Keiji's accident.
Dog: Woof woof

Mouri: Actually, I'm not a police detective...
Takako: You're the one doing something you shouldn't!
Takako: Miyuki-san!
Dog: Woof woof

Takako: If you call a dog's name and pay attention to it when it barks when it shouldn't, it'll think you're praising it.
Box: Inubushi Takako (47) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family
Takako: How many times do I have to tell you that?

Miyuki: S-sorry...
Takako: More importantly, why are the police here again?
Takako: Another police detective was here the other day. He concluded it was an accident and left.

Mouri: Oh, I'm not a police detective....
Heiji: Something happened that made us think it wasn't an accident, so we came here to ask you about it!

09

Heiji: Right, Mr. Police Detective!?
Mouri: Hey, now...
Miyuki: Maybe they're talking about Shinichi-san's death in Tokyo...
Takako: Yes...

Takako: Is this about the nonsense Shinichi-san said before leaving this house...
Takako: about someone using the curse to eradicate the Inubushi bloodline?

Takako: Well, there's no curse, so you don't need to worry.
Takako: And if mother heard about that, it would only worry her.
Mouri: Eh? Satomi-san is here?
Mouri: I was sure she had been hospitalized...

Miyuki: She's here.
Miyuki: But she's bedridden and doesn't speak much...

Tomoaki: It was a stroke...

Tomoaki: She's been like this ever since she collapsed last month.
Box: Inubushi Satomi (74) Head of the Inubushi Family

Tomoaki: She really should be hospitalized...
Tomoaki: but with her age, she's being looked after here.

10

Tomoaki: Oh, I'm Inubushi Tomoaki.
Tomoaki: I'm a public physician at the Inubushi Hospital near here.
Box: Inubushi Tomoaki (42) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family

Mouri: So are you one of the 8 adopted children?
Tomoaki: Yes. The hospital I used to work for was shut down, and I was out in the cold...
Tomoaki: until Mother Satomi saved me.

Heiji: Well? Did Satomi-san ever say...
Heiji: that anyone seemed to be a fake or anything?
Tomoaki: No...
Tomoaki: I don't recall anything...

Yoshiya: Hmph! Maybe that old man Shinichi was the fake!
SFX: Slide

Yoshiya: He got scared of a rumor about some non-existent demon dog...
Yoshiya: and left the Inubushi house. He's a traitor!
Box: Inubushi Yoshiya (34) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family

Takako: What's wrong with you, Yoshiya-san!? Don't speak so rudely in front of mother!
Yoshiya: She can't hear us.
Yoshiya: She's asleep, right?

11

Conan: One's missing.
Ran: Eh?

Conan: There were 8 adopted children!
Conan: And three of them died, right?

Conan: Then there's Miyuki-san who was on the scooter...
Conan: Takako-san who was knowledgeable about dogs...

Conan: Tomoaki-san, the doctor...
Conan: and Yoshiya-san who just came in.

Ran: He's right. There should be one more.
Kazuha: I-it's not going to be someone wearing a creepy mask because they hurt their face, is it?
Heiji: That was Sukekyo of the Inugami Clan!

Takako: The last on is Saki-san! We had her go get some clothes from a cleaner that's pretty far away.
Miyuki: Would you like some tea while you wait?
Miyuki: It'll be harder to discuss everything if we're not all here.

Yoshiya: How about we tell you the origin of the Inubushi family's demon dog story?
Mouri: The origin?

12

Mouri: B-
Mouri: burned it!?

Mouri: One of the family's ancestors burned a dog to death?
Miyuki: Yes.
Miyuki: Apparently it happened in the Meiji era...

Miyuki: All the villagers went out to search for the daughter of the Inubushi family who had gone missing and they came across the Inubushi family's pet dog.
Miyuki: It was holding the daughter in its mouth and the daughter was covered in wounds and barely breathing.

Miyuki: The head of the family whipped the dog again and again in anger...
Miyuki: and in the end set fire to it.

Miyuki: But when they managed to revive the daughter, she said she had gotten lost in the mountains and collapsed when the dog came and saved her.
Miyuki: The head of the family regretted what he had done and erected a wonderful grave for the dog.

Miyuki: A few days later, there was a fire and the head of the family was the only one who couldn't get out and died. Ever since then, it's been said that a burning demon dog has cursed the Inubushi family.
Heiji: I see. So it's kind of like a legend.

Conan: So is that grave really there?
Miyuki: Yes. It's below the cliff where you all almost drove off earlier today.
Miyuki: Do you want to go see it?

13

Ran: It's true...
On grave: Here lies the brave, beloved dog of the Inubushi family, "Fusatarou".

Ran: It says "Here lies the brave, beloved dog of the Inubushi family, 'Fusatarou'."
Mouri: With this, having a flaming dog come after you really would make you think it was the curse of Fusatarou...

Kazuha: I think I'm going to ask him not to curse us!
Ran: M-me too!
Heiji: You're not gonna get cursed...

Conan: Hey...did the guy who fell off the cliff fall from here?
Miyuki: Y-yes...

Miyuki: It was right above the grave...

Conan: Ah...

14

SFX: Bam

Miyuki: S-
Miyuki: Saki-san!?

Miyuki: Stay with us, Saki-san!
Mouri: Saki-san? So that's the last of the adopted children!!

Saki: B-burning...
Saki: dog...
Box: Inubushi Saki (35) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family

15

Conan: B-burning dog?
Heiji: Kazuha! Call an ambulance and the police!!

Heiji: We'll go in the car with Old Man Kogorou to the top of the cliff!
Heiji: Eh? You can't just leave us girls alone at a time like this!

Miyuki: If you want to get to the top of the cliff, it'll be faster to go up the animal trail than to use the car.
Heiji: Then lead the way!!

Conan: You two stay with Uncle Kogorou!!
Ran: O-okay...

SFX: Run run run

Heiji: Okay!
Heiji: We're at the top!!

16

Conan: It's burning...
Heiji: And I don't smell any oil...

Heiji: It's almost like a burning dog walked by...
Conan: Yeah...

Text: Was it the curse of the burning demon dog!? Next Issue!!
Box: To be continued in Issue 27