Detective Conan 738

Chapter 738

01

Title: File 738 Footprints
Text: Ran and Kazuha are the demon dog's prey!?

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SFX: Run run run
SFX: Pant
SFX: Pant
SFX: Pant
SFX: Pant
SFX: Pant

SFX: Roar

SFX: Woof woof
SFX: Roooar

SFX: Hit

Margin: The "Burning Demon Dog" has appeared before Ran and Kazuha!!

03

SFX: Fall
Ran: K-
Ran: Kazuha-chan!?

SFX: Roar

SFX: Grab

Ran: Stand up!!
Ran: The entry hall's right over there!!

SFX: Run run run...

SFX: Slide

04

SFX: Shut

Takako: Why are you making so much noise?
Ran: I-it was the demon dog!

Kazuha: The demon dog was in the garden!
Miyuki: The demon dog?

Yoshiya: Don't be ridiculous! It couldn't appear on the grounds here!
Miyuki: D-do you think it jumped the fence or something?
Tomoaki: A-anyway, it's dangerous so we should stay inside for now...

SFX: Woof woof
Ran: Th-that's Hachi...
Kazuha: Is he in trouble?

Kazuha: I'm gonna go get him!
SFX: Slide
Ran: M-me too!
Takako: Wait, you two!

05

Mouri: Sure enough...
Mouri: The grass was burned...

Heiji: Someone even made it easily burnable by using herbicide to kill it...
Conan: Also...

Conan: The rope on the edge of the cliff was cut...
Conan: and the sign was taken down!
Sign: Danger!! Cliff up ahead.

Yamamura: The sign at the fork in the road down there was knocked over, too...
Sign: Inubushi House
Mouri: I see...

Mouri: Without the signs or the rope, if you were being chased by a dog in the dark...
Mouri: you probably would just go straight off the cliff!

Yamamura: The problem now is the burning demon dog that attacked her...
Mouri: Hmph! There is no demon dog!

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Mouri: It's just a mental trick!!
Mouri: Someone is just making it look like there's a demon dog by using the old story about the dog's curse and these burning footprints!
Mouri: They just have to put fluorescent paint on the dog to make it glow!!

Yamamura: F-Fluorescent paint...?
Mouri: Yeah! It makes things glow that don't normally. They just mistook it for the dog being on fire!!

Yamamura: Then what about the flaming footprints?
Yamamura: I don't smell any oil.
Mouri: They could've just lit them all one by one with a blowtorch, right?
SFX: Ring
SFX: Ring
SFX: Ring

Heiji: Oh, Kazuha?
Heiji: We're gonna be here for a bit longer, so don't wait up for us if you're tired...

Heiji: What!?
Heiji: The demon dog appeared at the mansion!?

07

Heiji: Really!?

Heiji: The dog was really on fire?
Kazuha: Y-yeah...

Kazuha: Right, Ran-chan!?
Ran: Yeah!
Ran: It wasn't fluorescent paint or anything like that!

Ran: They're gone now...
Ran: but it left burning footprints behind it...
Yamamura: Sure enough...
Yamamura: It's just like what was left behind at the top of the cliff...

Mouri: Well? Where did the dog come from?
Kazuha: From behind there!

Kazuha: And it chased us all the way to the entrance hall!
Yamamura: Yeah, I can see the footprints!

Conan: This is odd...
Kazuha: Eh?

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Conan: Look. From the interval, there should be some here, too.
Conan: But there's a gap here and only here!

Conan: And the ground looks disturbed here...
Ran: Isn't that where you tripped, Kazuha-chan?
Kazuha: Yeah. And when I fell...

Kazuha: there was this weird smell.
Heiji: A weird smell?
Heiji: Like what?

Kazuha: It was like rotten onion...
Kazuha: It didn't smell good at all.

Heiji: Rotten...
Conan: onion!?

Ran: Oh. And after we escaped to inside the mansion...
Ran: we went right back outside...

Ran: and it was like I was looking at something living...
Conan: Eh?
Yamamura: Well of course! It was attacking you...

09

Ran: No... Not the demon dog. The burning footprints.
Ran: They were making a really dry sound and it looked like they were hopping up and down.

Ran: You saw it, right, Kazuha-chan?
Kazuha: Yeah, I did! It was like the footprints had souls in them!

Yamamura: I'm amazed you went outside. The demon dog could've still been there.
Kazuha: Yeah, but we were worried about Hachi!
Ran: We thought he was gonna be eaten by the demon dog.

Ran: I'm glad you're okay!
Kazuha: Hachi!
Hachi: Woof woof

Mouri: I know how the demon dog got in!
Yamamura: Eh?

Mouri: The backdoor!
Mouri: The bar on the door was off and it was open. Not to mention that the dog's footprints were there.

Mouri: In other words...
Mouri: The murderer who let the demon dog in the mansion through the backdoor...

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Mouri: was most likely...
Mouri: one of you 4 who were in the mansion!

Mouri: I mean, it couldn't have been...
Mouri: the bedridden old woman.

Conan: Hey, Sis Ran. Who asked you to go out in the garden to give Hachi his food?
Ran: It was Miyuki-san...

Ran: Oh, but the other 3 refused to do it...
Kazuha: so they could have predicted that we would be going to give him his food.

Heiji: Well, what we do know is that someone is raising a demon dog near the mansion.
Conan: Yeah. If it wasn't nearby, the murderer couldn't have had it attack so soon after they were asked to go out there.

Yamamura: Do you have any idea?
Yamamura: Have you ever heard a dog barking in the forest or anything?
Tomoaki: N-now that you mention it...

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Tomoaki: There was something that Miwako-san, the second one to die, asked me to check on.
Tomoaki: She said she had heard a dog barking in this strange cabin...
Tomoaki: but I was too scared to go in.

Mouri: What!?
Heiji: Where is that cabin!?
Tomoaki: I-I think it's right next to the pond where Miwako-san drowned.

Conan: Take us there right away!
Tomoaki: R-right now!?
Heiji: If we go now, we might be able to figure out the trick to the demon dog!

Mouri: That's right...
Mouri: If the murderer is one of you here, he or she wouldn't have time to destroy the evidence.

Tomoaki: B-but I'm on duty tonight, so I have to get back to the hospital...
Mouri: I'll take you by in my car after we check out that cabin.
Heiji: Going through the forest to the hospital alone would be too scary, wouldn't it?

Tomoaki: B-but... I followed Miwako-san there the other time so I don't know where that pond is.
Miyuki: I can take you to the pond!

Miyuki: I know this forest pretty well.
Miyuki: And it isn't far from here!

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Heiji: Oh...

Heiji: So this is the pond, huh?

Conan: Hey, was there really fire around this pond?
Yamamura: Yeah. Well, there was at least the burned remains of grass here and there.

Mouri: Well? Where's that cabin...?
Tomoaki: U-umm...

Tomoaki: Th-there it is!
Tomoaki: It's that old cabin over there!

Mouri: Well, let's check out the demon dog's hideout!
Miyuki: Watch your footing here!
Miyuki: The pond is deeper than it looks.

Heiji: Hm?
Heiji: You're not going?
Tomoaki: O-of course I'm not!
Tomoaki: I'm waiting in the car!

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Mouri: Hey, hey...
Mouri: What the hell...?

Mouri: The place is full of black magic books!
Heiji: And there's even a magic square drawn on the ground.

Conan: Someone was definitely keeping a dog here!
Miyuki: But who!?

Yamamura: So that someone cast a spell on that dog...
Heiji: Idiot! If you could kill someone with a spell, I'd quit the detective business!

Yamamura: But Ran-san and that other girl saw it.
Conan: Like we said. It's some kind of trick.

Tomoaki: Waaaah!

Heiji & Conan: Eh?

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Conan: Wh-

Conan: What!?

Tomoaki: Wah!
SFX: Roar

SFX: Fall

SFX: Stop

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Tomoaki: Waah!

Heiji: Don't struggle!!
Conan: Stay still!!
SFX: Cover

Miyuki: I-is he okay!?
Heiji: He's just a bit burned...
Mouri: B-but that thing we just saw...

Yamamura: w-was a demon dog...
Yamamura: wasn't it?
SFX: Burning
Box: To be continued in Issue 29

Margin: Who is controlling the demon dog!?