Detective Conan 747

Chapter 747

01

Title: File 747 The Holmes Code
Text: Can he decode the Revelation!?

02

Shinichi: I'm not going to make any progress doing this over the phone!
Shinichi: Wait a second! I'm on my way there!

Ran: Eh?

Margin: Even though he doesn't know when the effects of the antidote will wear off...

Ran: W-we can just do this by phone.
Ran: L-look. We've already found 3 of the letters.
Mouri: Huh?

Mouri: If he's in London, wouldn't it be faster to meet up with him and solve the code?

Mouri: Or is there some reason you don't want him here?
Ran: N-no, there isn't!!
Minerva: Oh...

03

Minerva: It's the girl from last night!
Ran: M-Minerva Glass-san!!
Mouri: Eh?

Mouri: Minerva Glass? The Queen of the Court!?
Ran: Should you really be walking around? Isn't your women's singles match tomorrow!?
Minerva: Yeah, I'm just getting a change of pace from the non-stop training.

Minerva: Did you resolve what you were worried about last night?
Minerva: That guy isn't your boyfriend, is he?
Ran: He's my father. And right now I'm more worried about a code.

Minerva: A code? So is my brother Apollo!
Minerva: He got a code from some strange person and gave it to Holmes' apprentice.

Ran: Holmes' apprentice?
Apollo: Yeah! But he hasn't contacted me at all.
Apollo: I think his name was Conan.

Ran: Oh! So you're the Apollo-kun that Conan-kun mentioned!
Apollo: Eh? You know him?
Ran: Yes, but he's asleep at the hotel with a cold today.

Ran: Did you hear that, Shinichi!?
Ran: We ran across the Apollo kid that Conan-kun got the code from.
Conan: Gwah...

Ran: Sh-Shinichi...?
Conan: Sorry...

04

Conan: Something came up and I can't go with you.
SFX: Fshhhh
Ran: O-oh?

Conan: Y-yeah. I just got an email saying that a client for another case is going to come ask me some questions now.
Ran: I-I guess you have no choice then.
Mouri: So now he ISN'T coming!?

Conan: Well, I'll still be at the hotel, so call me if you need me!
Conan: The Hades Sabara guy who made the code is a brutal criminal, so we need to solve it as soon as we can.

Conan: If that Apollo kid is there, take him with you! He knows London better than you!
Ran: O-okay!

Ran: Hey, Apollo-kun! Will you help us solve the code?
Apollo: Yeah, sure!

Minerva: I'll head back to the hotel. I ordered a massage.
Minerva: Take care of him for me!
Ran: Sure thing!

Mouri: But the next code is about cake.
Mouri: Is there a building shaped like that in London?
Apollo: A cake?
Apollo: I know one!

05

Ran: Wow!
Ran: It really does look like a wedding cake!!

Apollo: Of course it does! The wedding cake was designed after this church!
Mouri: And it's name is St Bride's Church. It sounds like a bad joke.

Ran: How did you know about this place!?
Apollo: My sister would bring me here a lot saying she would marry Ares one day.

Ran: Ares?
Apollo: He's her former coach!
Apollo: And my dad used to be his coach!

Ran: Your father died in a traffic accident, right?
Apollo: Yeah! He was on the way to see one of Ares's games.
Apollo: My sister had a cold so she was home with my mum on that day. And I was still in my mum's stomach.

Apollo: So Ares suddenly retired from playing and became my sister's coach!
Apollo: Apparently, my dad's dream was for her to win at Wimbledon!

Ran: So his dream came true!
Apollo: Yeah...But Ares still blames himself for my dad's death. He got in a fight with my sister over that and quit coaching.
Apollo: Even though he liked her too.

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Apollo: He put on a tough front saying: "In tennis, love is 0. And no matter how many times you add up zero, you'll lose."

Mouri: In tennis, love is 0?
Mouri: How clever of him.
Ran: I see. That's why she said that.

Ran: Oh, I have to tell her something.
Ran: I completely forgot!

Mouri: You have to tell who what?
Ran: Oh, um...
Apollo: No, we need to search.
Apollo: There should be something related to Holmes hidden around here, right?

Ran: Th-that's right. We have to find it!
Woman: Is this it?

Woman: You're looking for something about Holmes, right?
Ran: Well, yes...

Woman: I saw a lot of these around the church.
Woman: These pieces of paper with the title of a Holmes story on them.

07

Conan: What?
Conan: There were papers around a church shaped like a wedding cake!?

Conan: Well? What does it say?
Ran: It has "A Scandal in Bohemia" handwritten on it.
Conan: That's the one with Irene Adler in it.

Conan: And? Is there anything else written on it or anything else odd about it?
Ran: The paper is a faint pink and the title is written in black ink.

Ran: There's nothing else really odd about it. The paper is thick, so you can't see through it.
Conan: You don't notice anything because you see but you do not observe.

Ran: Excuse me!? I'm observing it just fine!
Conan: No, that's what Holmes says to Watson in that story.
Conan: It was in a scene where he showed Watson a letter of the same color.

Ran: I can't look at it any closer without taking it out of the plastic bag...
Conan: Eh?
Conan: It's in a plastic bag!?
Ran: Yeah...

Conan: Then take it out and wet it with water!
Conan: The bag is a hint telling you to get it wet!

08

Ran: Ah!
Ran: The water's washing away the writing...

Ran: Only the letter "S" is still completely there!

Ran: It looks like the "S" alone was written with a permanent marker.
Conan: Yeah! The paper was thick to hide that!
Conan: With thin paper, the permanent marker would have bled through.

Mouri: So the letter for the cake-like church is "S"!
Mouri: The egg-shaped city hall was "T"...
Mouri: The pickle-like building was "N"...
Mouri: And the rolling bell of Big Ben was "A"...

Mouri: But Big Ben was in the code twice, so maybe there are two A's...
Ran: Okay! The letters we have are T - N - A - A - S.
Conan: The word those letters make me think of is...

Conan: Satan.
Conan: The devil.
[Random comment: C'mon, Conan. What about Santa?]

09

Ran: Ehh!? The devil!?
Conan: But there are still 2 letters to go.
Conan: It's too early to say that's what it is.

Ran: B-but the remaining lines are "I'm a long nosed wizard in a castle", and "piercing a white back with two swords", right?
Ran: They sound creepy already.
Conan: I know where "I'm a long nosed wizard in a castle" is!

Conan: Elephants are known for having long noses! And then there's "castle".
Conan: There's an area in London called Elephant and Castle...
Conan: so go check it out!

Ran: But where in that area are we supposed to go?
Conan: Well, for now, just the train station.

Rona: Okay! We'll go to the "Elephant and Castle" station!

Mouri: Well...
Text: Elephant and Castle Station
Mouri: We've been searching this area for almost an hour now.

10

Mouri: And we haven't found a thing!
Ran: Sh-Shinichi...?

Ran: Is this really the right place?
Conan: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the right place...

Conan: Maybe it's referring to the shopping mall in the area...
Apollo: Hey...

Apollo: That man's been coming and going ever since we got here.
Ran: You're right.
Ran: Hey, Shinichi! The attache case this man has...

Ran: says "Identity" on it in big letters!
Conan: That's most likely...

Conan: A Case of Identity...
Conan: It's the title of a Holmes story.

Conan: Go ask him about it.
Ran: Excuse me...
SFX: Clink

Ran: Apparently, he was paid by someone to wander around this area like that.

Ran: He was given the empty case and the clothes he's wearing along with the money.
Conan: The clothes too!?

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Holmes: My first glance is always at a woman's sleeve.
Holmes: In a man it is perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser.

Conan: The knee of his pants! Look at the man's knees!
Ran: H-his knees!?

Ran: But there's nothing written there.
Conan: Then turn the pants inside out!

Man: What?

Ran: H-here it is! The inside of the knee of his pants...
Ran: has the letter "U"!!

Mouri: That gives us T - N - A - A - S - U.
Ran: All that's left is the last line of the code, "It tells me to finish everything by piercing a white back with two swords."

Conan: The things that stand out are "a white back" and "two swords". Are there buildings with that shape or places with those names?

Conan: Ah...

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Conan: That's it. Meissen!!

Conan: The mark on Meissen porcelain is two swords!
Conan: "Piercing a white back with two swords" refers to the double sword mark on the bottom of the famous white Meissen tableware!

Ran: So we need to go to a Meissen shop in London?
Apollo: I went there all the time with my mum ever since we came to London!
Apollo: She loves Meissen tableware. And there's only one Meissen shop in London!

Conan: Eh?
Conan: A strange decoration?

Ran: Yeah. We asked someone at the store and they said someone had been putting a weird decoration on their sign every day.
Conan: What kind of decoration is it?

Ran: It has a bunch of different colored threads with bells on them. Each bell has a letter on it.
Ran: The part holding all the threads together has what looks like a title on it, but it's too dirty to read.
Conan: The title is most likely...

13

Conan: A Study in Scarlet...
Conan: It's the first novel in which Conan Doyle brought Sherlock Holmes into this world!!

Conan: Find the scarlet thread. That would be the bright red one!
Conan: This is what Holmes said in that story...
Ran: Red... Red...

Conan: "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life...
Conan: and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."

Ran: I found the red thread!
Ran: The bell attached to it has the letter "R" on it!

Mouri: So "R" is the last letter. That gives us T - N - A - A - S - U - R.
Ran: If we take 5 of the letters to make "satan", what do the remaining "U" and "R" mean?

Ran: Hey, Shinichi?
Conan: No, we just need one "A".

Ran: Eh?
Conan: The letters go S - A - T - U - R - N.

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Conan: Saturn.
Conan: The planet.

Conan: It most likely means he intends to do something on Saturday, don't you think!?
Ran: S-Saturday!? That's tomorrow!!
Mouri: Hey, wait a second!!

Mouri: Sure, in Japanese, Saturn and Saturday match up...
Mouri: but they don't have the same names for the planets here.
SFX: Grab
Conan: No, the word Saturday comes from the Roman god of agriculture, Saturnus.

Conan: It's called Saturday because it is Saturnus's Day.
Conan: And in English, Saturnus is called Saturn!

Mouri: Oh, I see...
Apollo: But what's going to happen on Saturday? And where?
Juno: Apollo!

Juno: That voice is Apollo's!!
Apollo: Mum!

Apollo: How did you know I was here?
Juno: I solved the code you brought me...

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Juno: I thought the last line might refer to the Meissen shop.
Box: Juno Glass (45)

Juno: See, I told you, Ares.
Ares: Yes, you are quite the Sherlockian.

Juno: We're heading back to the hotel! We'll go cheer Minerva on at her game tomorrow!
Apollo: Not now!

Mouri: Leave the code to us and go home with your mother!
Apollo: But...
Ran: Hey, your mother said you were all going to cheer on your sister...
Ran: but isn't she blind?

Apollo: She can tell what's going on by the sounds!
Apollo: So she always goes to the finals!
Apollo: Last year, she didn't go to the final match at Roland-Garros and my sister lost.

Juno: Apollo! Be an angel and hop in the car!
Apollo: But even thought we cracked all the codes, we still don't know what's going to happen or where!

Hades: Of course you don't...

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Hades: You haven't cracked them yet.
Hades: Okay, I've shown all the courtesy I can...

Hades: It's your own fault you can't stop my final revenge because you couldn't understand my Revelation.
Hades: You should curse your own incompetence.

Juno: You have Holmes' apprentice on your side, right?
Juno: He'll make it all clear.

Hades: Holmes' apprentice?

Hades: Heh....
Hades: Don't make me laugh...
Box: To be continued in Issue 42

Margin: What unsolved mystery is hidden in the Revelation!?