Detective Conan 737

Chapter 737

01

Title: File 737 Balls
Text: Are the mysterious flames left at the scene flames of a curse and a grudge!?

02

Mouri: B-
Mouri: Burning footprints!?

Mouri: Were there really burning footprints at the top of the cliff?
Heiji: Yeah, there were.

Heiji: There were spots of flame for about 20 meters from the edge of the cliff.
Heiji: It was just like a burning demon dog had run through.

Ran & Kazuha: Ehhhh!?
Mouri: Hmph! But you didn't see the actual demon dog, right?

Mouri: Someone could've just used oil to set those fires to make it look like a burning demon dog had been there!
Conan: No...

Margin: What did Conan and the others see on top of the cliff...?

03

Conan: I couldn't smell any oil.
Conan: And the space betwen the flames widened and the flames themselves got bigger as they approached the cliff edge.
Conan: So it really was like something burning passed through as it got bigger...

Conan: Isn't that right, Miyuki-san!?
Miyuki: Yes!
Ran: Th-then...

Ran: There really is...
Kazuha: a cursed demon dog!?

Kazuha: Saki-san said something about a "burning dog" after she fell from the cliff...
Heiji: You idiot!
Heiji: There's no such thing as a demon dog.

Heiji: That was a trick!
Heiji: Someone did something clever to make it look like a demon dog had been there!
Conan: In order to pass off their crime as the work of the demon dog!

Yamamura: Exactly!

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Yamamura: In this age of digital TV broadcasts, we can't be getting worked up over a demon dog.
Yamamura: That's more old-fashioned than analog broadcasts!!
Ran: I-Inspector Yamamura!!

Yamamura: Get it...? Because digital broadcasts are replacing the analog ones!
Heiji: Who's this guy...?
Mouri: A detective of the Gunma Prefectural Police...
Conan: Oh, that's right. We're in Gunma...

Miyuki: Excuse me, how is Saki-san doing...?
Yamamura: The last I heard was that she was being taken by ambulance to the hospital...

Tomoaki: That would be the hospital I work at...They called me on my cell just a bit ago.
Tomoaki: She died in the ambulance.
Box: Inubushi Tomoaki (42) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family

Miyuki: N...
Miyuki: No way...
Box: Inubushi Miyuki (28) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family

Yoshiya: I don't know if someone's controlling that demon dog or what...
Yoshiya: but someone is clearly picking a fight with our family.
Box: Inubushi Yoshiya (34) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family

Takako: That's right. Out of the 8 adopted children...
Takako: 4 of us have been killed now.
Box: Inubushi Takako (47) Adopted Child of the Inubushi Family

05

Mouri: Well, for now, of those four, I'd like to hear some alibis from you three.
Mouri: Where were you and what were you doing at 7 PM when Saki-san fell from that cliff?

Mouri: Miyuki-san was showing us the dog's grave at the bottom of the cliff at the time...
Mouri: so she already has an alibi!

Yoshiya: Seven's when I take my bath.
Takako: I'd stepped out for a bit to check on Saki-san because she was late getting back.
Takako: She's gotten lost quite a few times before.
Tomoaki: I was with mother checking her temperature and blood pressure giving her her liquid food.

Tomoaki: And she's bedridden...
Tomoaki: so you shoudln't have ask her where she was.
Box: Inubushi Satomi (74) Head of the Inubushi Family

Mouri: It looks like you two don't have anyone to verify where you were.
Yoshiya: That's right.
Takako: We have three maids, but they'd all gone home by then.
Yamamura: Mouri-san! Asking those questions is a job for the police!
Yamamura: Please don't steal my part!

Takako: Oh, he isn't with the police?
Mouri: Ah, no...
Mouri: I never got a chance to tell you that...
Yamamura: He's Mouri Kogorou...

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Takako: M-
Yoshiyo: Mouri...
Tomoaki: Kogorou!?

Miyuki: The famous detective, Mouri Kogorou!?
Mouri: W-well...
Mouri: Yeah...

Heiji: Oh? The atmosphere just changed quite a bit...
Takako: It was just a bit of a shock.

Miyuki: Before Shinichi-san left the house he said that...
Tomoaki: He said that he'd asked someone he knew with a connection with the police to solve the mystery surrounding the events in our family so we needed to be prepared.

07

Yoshiyo: But I never thought it would be the famous Sleeping Kogorou...
Heiji: Well, it was actually me...

Mouri: By the way, did anyone here go out to Tokyo on the day Shinichi-san was killed in his home?
Miyuki: All 4 of us did.

Mouri: Eh?
Miyuki: We were trying to convince him to come back here.
Takako: He seemed to suspect one of us, so we asked him why.

Yoshiyo: But he was afraid to say anything.
Tomoaki: It was as though he was saying one of us was the murderer.

Takako: We heard he had been killed from Saki-san as soon as we got back.
Mouri: So you were together the entire time you were in Tokyo?
Miyuki: No. We went there together, but we came home seperately.

Takako: How about you finally tell us what it was you figured out from Shinichi-san's case.
Takako: You were acting like there was some connection with Keiji-san and Miwako-san's deaths...

Heiji: We don't know if there's any connection yet, but, when he died, Shinichi-san...
Heiji: had the pearl from his tie pin in his mouth!

08

All: A ball!?

Yamamura: Hm? What is it!?
Miyuki: Oh...well...
Miyuki: When Keiji-san fell from the cliff just like Saki-san did, there was...
Miyuki: a pachinko ball next to him.

Yamamura: A pachinko ball?
Yoshiyo: He liked to play pachinko, so we just thought it had fallen out of his pocket.
Tomoaki: B-but then...

Tomoaki: When Miwako-san drowned, there was...
Tomoaki: a ping-pong ball floating in the pond.

Heiji: Three different balls...
Mouri: So the pearl wasn't his dying message...

Conan: it was a message left by the murderer!

Ran: Th-then could it be that...
Kazuha: that was, too?
Heiji: Hm?

09

Ran: W-we found it after Saki-san was taken to the ambulance!
Kazuha: There was a marble next to the dog's grave!!

Heiji: A marble?
Conan: Do you have it with you?
Ran: We thought it was an offering, so we put it on top of the grave...

Heiji: Then we need to go see that marble. Inspector, will you come with us?
Heiji: There's something I want to ask you.
Yamamura: O-okay...

Heiji: Kazuha, you wait here!
Conan: You, too, Sis Ran!
Kazuha: Eh? We're going too!
Ran: We're the ones that found it!

Heiji: Fine, come if you want!
Conan: If you want to meet the demon dog, that is!

Ran: Th-
Ran: That's right...
Kazuha: We'll wait here...

10

Heiji: Oh...
SFX: Rrrrrr
Heiji: So there was a record of a call from the Inubushi house on Saki-san's cell phone.

Yamamura: Yes. It was from about 2 hours before she fell from the cliff.
Heiji: Well, that makes those 4 even more suspicious.

Heiji: The murderer probably suddenly asked her to buy something once she was out there so she would come back late...
Heiji: and then had the dog attack her once it was dark.

Mouri: Hm? Don't you mean "those 3"?
Mouri: Miyuki-san has an alibi.
Conan: She's suspicious, too!

Conan: If Saki-san was attacked by a dog, she could have secretly used a dog whistle while she was with us.
Conan: She was righ at the bottom of the cliff!

Heiji: The only person who isn't suspicious in that house is the bedridden old woman!
Yamamura: Why have you been taking control of everything?
Yamamura: Are you Mouri-san's assistant like Conan-kun?

Heiji: W-well, something like that...
Conan: C'mon, stop calling me that...

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Ran: S-sorry...

Ran: We came uninvited and then ate dinner, too...
Miyuki: Oh, I don't mind.

Kazuha: I wonder if Heiji and the others will be back before dawn...
Ran: Who knows...

Miyuki: It's going to be hard from now on.
Miyuki: Saki-san did most of the food preparation and cleaning up afterwards...

Miyuki: And because she used to do it...
Miyuki: Uuh...
Ran: I-is there anything we can help with?

Miyuki: Then could you...
Miyuki: feed Hachi?

Miyuki: I asked Takako-san and the ohers, but they refused...
Ran: Eh? Why?
Kazuha: Takako-san seemed used to dogs...

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Miyuki: She is. She owned a dog before coming here, so she knows a lot about them.
Miyuki: But she's on the phone arranging the funeral, so she said she couldn't do it.

Miyuki: Tomoaki-san was bitten by a dog a long time ago so he reeeeally doesn't like dogs!
Miyuki: He always gets so nervous around them and it just makes Hachi bark at him even more...

Miyuki: Yoshiya-san is allergic to dogs...
Miyuki: so he can't stop sneezing and his nose starts to run when he's near them.

Miyuki: So usually Takako-san, Saki-san, or I would do it.
Miyuki: But can you do it tonight?
Kazuha: Sure! We don't mind!
Ran: Where's his dog house?

Miyuki: It's a bit far away...
Ran: Far away? You don't mean outside the house, do you?

Miyuki: Don't worry! It's on the edge of the garden, but it's inside the fence, so the demon dog can't get in!
Ran: O-okay...

Miyuki: Okay, I'll make his food.
SFX: Pour
Kazuha: Wow. That's neko-manma...

13

Heiji: No matter how you look at it...

Heiji: it's just a plain old marble.
Mouri: A pachinko ball, a ping-pong ball, a pearl, and a marble...

Mouri: What is the murderer trying to say!?
Yamamura: Oh, I know!
Yamamura: When you talk about dogs and balls...

Mouri: Hey...This isn't going to be another lame play on words, is it?
Yamamura: Eh?

Heiji: C'mon, just say it!
Heiji: I wanna hear it.
Conan: It might be a good hint!

Yamamura: No!
Yamamura: It really IS lame, so I won't!
Heiji & Mouri: Eh?

Mouri: Hey, c'mon! Don't act like that!
Mouri: Just say it!
Yamamura: I'll neeeever say it!

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Kazuha: This really is a big garden...
Ran: Yeah...

Ran: There it is! That's the dog house, right!?
Kazuha: Yeah!
Kazuha: And Hachi's there!

Kazuha: Hachi! We've brought you your dinner!
Hachi: Woof
Hachi: Woof

SFX: Eat eat

Kazuha: Don't leave any behind!
Ran: We were asked to make sure you ate it all.

Ran: He's so cute!
SFX: Whine
Kazuha: Yeah!
Kazuha: If only the demon dog was this cute...

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Kazuha: Eh?
SFX: Grrrrr

Hachi: Woof
Kachi: Woof
Ran: Wh-what is it?

Hachi: Woof
Kazuha: What's that?

SFX: Movement
Kazuha: Th-there's something glowing over there, isn't there?
Ran: Y-yeah...
Hachi: Woof
Hachi: Woof

16

SFX: Roar

Ran & Kazuha: K-

Ran & Kazuha: Kyaaaaaah!
Box: To be continued in Issue 28

Margin: Are Ran and Kazuha going to be dinner for the demon dog!?