Detective Conan 748

Chapter 748

01

Title: Another A
Text: The time limit is approaching!!

02

Box: The next day
Mouri: Geez, how can they be so carefree?
Mouri: I mean a mass murder could happen somewhere in London...

Mouri: And they're walking their dogs.
Agasa: Did you tell Scotland Yard that the solution to the code was "Saturday"?
Ran: Yes.

Ran: The seven lines of the code pointed to various buildings and places...
Ran: The "rolling bell" in the 1st and 6th was Big Ben.
Ran: The "long nosed wizard in a castle" in line 2 was Elephant and Castle Station!

Margin: Conan has half-solved the mystery of the revelation.

Ran: The "egg" in the 3rd line was City Hall, the "pickle" in the 4th line was the building called the Gherkin!
Ran: The "cake" in the 5th line was St. Bride's Church and the "two swords" in the 7th line was the Meissen shop.

Ran: And all of the places had a letter hidden at them.
Ran: Putting them together got "Saturn" which leads to Saturday!
Ran: In other words, the criminal is going to do something on Saturday.

03

Ran: When we explained all that, they asked which Saturday and then hung up saying they couldn't do anything if they didn't know what was going to happen, when it was going to happen, or where it was going to happen.
Mouri: Oh, c'mon...

Mouri: A lot of people here in London could be killed! They should at least put out a warning telling people not to go to anywhere a lot of people gather on Saturday!!
Agasa: If they put the code in the newspaper, there could be chaos from too much information.

Mouri: What about that detective boy? Did he say anything?
Ran: Oh, Shinichi said he had to investigate another case so he's leaving this one to us.

Mouri: Leaving it to us? We've already solved the code which was the only clue so we know something's going to happen on Saturday!
Mouri: What else are we supposed to do?
Conan: Maybe we haven't fully solved the code.

Conan: The word Saturn only uses one A.
Conan: But we found the A at Big Ben and it's mentioned in the code twice, so maybe there's some other meaning there.

Ran: Conan-kun! Are you over your cold already?
Conan: Yeah! I still have a bit of a cough though...
SFX: Cough cough
Mouri: Hey, about this Hades Sabara guy...
Mouri: Why did he spread this coded announcement of his crime in the first place?

Agasa: He must like the public attention it brings him.
Agasa: Previously, he spread around a coded announcement of his bombings of the hospitals using Shakespeare and the Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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Agasa: And after those bombings, he sent a video tape of the aftermath to the police...
Agasa: along with a letter explaining how to solve the code.

Mouri: I see. So he's saying "catch me if you can", huh?
Ran: Then we need to hurry up and find the real meaning of the code and tell the police.
Agasa: No, we need to be careful about that too.

Agasa: At the second hospital bombing, they managed to solve the code and had a bomb squad go in, but the bombs detonated shortly thereafter.
Mouri: So he does it whether you solve it or not!?

Conan: Apparently he sent a video for that one, too!
Video: You took too long.
Conan: In the video he said, "You took too long," and laughed.

Conan: So to stop the crime, you have to solve the code properly, surreptitiously go to the location, sneak up on him, and capture him.
Ran: But the only other thing about the code I could find was...
Ran: that City Hall and the Gherkin were designed by the same person.

Mouri: I'm pretty sure City Hall and the Gherkin...
Mouri: are on opposite sides of the Thames.
Right circle: City Hall
Left circle: Gherkin

05

Agasa: Did you see anyone suspicious when you went to the locations in the code?
Ran: There was one person I saw a lot! It was a woman wearing sunglasses.
Conan: Eh?

Conan: Was this her by any chance?
Conan: She's a bomb pro that's working with Hades.
Ran: Hmm...It could be her, but I'm not sure...

Mouri: I know, it's a balloon!!
Mouri: Hades could be planning on putting a bomb on a balloon and letting it fly!
Agasa: Eh?

Mouri: Start with Big Ben from the first line....
Bottom Circle: Big Ben
Middle Circle: Station
Top Circle: City Hall
Mouri: Go through Elephant and Castle Station from the 2nd line...
Mouri: go up to City Hall from the 3rd line...

Mouri: Then cross the Thames to the Gherkin from the 4th line...
Bottom Circle: Big Ben
Right Circle: Station
Top Right Circle: City Hall
Top Left Circle: Gherkin
Left Circle: Church
Mouri: pass through St. Bride's Church from the 5th line...
Mouri: go back to Big Ben in the 6th line...

Mouri: And then for the last line...
Mouri: draw a line down Walton St. which the Meissen shop is on...

Mouri: Take a look at what you get!

06

Mouri: Doesn't it looks just like a balloon!?
Mouri: Big Ben was in the code twice because it was telling you what order to draw the lines in!!

Mouri: Wah hah hah!!
Ran: Y'know, that actually...
Ran: looks more like...

Conan: It-
Conan: It couldn't be!?

Man: Excuse me...

Man: Have you seen this man?
Hades: What?

Man: I thought he had gone into the bathroom you just left...
Hades: Who is he?

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Man: He's the murderer that's been terrifying London.
Man: He's said to have changed his appearance to look like this.

Hades: No, I didn't see him!
Man: Oh? Pardon me then...

Man2: I guess he isn't around here...
Man: Yeah...

SFX: Zip

SFX: Open

Hades: Incompetent men...
Hades: I knew nobody would reach my level...

Hades: I prefer a little bit of resistance...
Hades: But this is my last time to take vengeance for my mother. Having a peaceful end isn't bad.

Hades: Yes. I'll quiet down all of the cheers...
Hades: for you mother.

08

Hades: The center court of Wimbledon will be silenced...
SFX: Cheering

Hades: by me, Hades Sabara.

Mouri: What!?
Mouri: A tennis racket!?

Mouri: Not a balloon?
Ran: Right!
Agasa: It's a bit distorted, but it does look like a racket.

09

Mouri: But if you think of tennis in London...
Ran: Wimbledon!!
Ran: Minerva-san has her match today at 2!!

Agasa: But I thought it couldn't be Wimbledon.
Conan: Yeah. If he said that someone would die before the eyes of each kid he handed the code to, then it couldn't be.
Conan: But since the police aren't taking precautions against a mass murder...

Conan: he probably only said that to Apollo-kun. The other codes he passed out were fakes meant to throw off the investigation.
Conan: And if someone is going to die before Apollo-kun's eyes, that means he could be planning to kill someone at the women's singles match!!

Mouri: But why Wimbledon?
Ran: Maybe he has something against tennis. He did hand the code to Apollo-kun at Wimbledon, too.
Conan: That something is probably a bookmaker.
SFX: Type type

Conan: Hades' mother died of heart disease in July of last year.
Conan: It looks like he made a bet on a match with a bookmaker and lost the month before that.
Ran: Come to think of it, Minerva-san lost at the French Open last year.
Ran: That match was in June, right?

Agasa: I'm pretty sure she had won all of her matches except for the tournament she didn't participate in due to an injury back then.
Agasa: So if Hades needed a bit more money for his mother's surgery, he probably would have bet a lot on her in the French Open.

Mouri: But she lost and he lost all that money so his mother couldn't get the surgery and died.
Ran: Then does that mean his target is...

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Conan: The Queen of the Court, Minerva Glass!?
SFX: Chatter chatter chatter

SFX: Crumple

Juno: Is she all right?
Apollo: Yeah! She's sure to win since you're here, mum!

Ares: Are you really okay with these general admission seats?
Juno: Yes. I hate the family box seats.

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Juno: This way the TV cameras won't show me not watching the match...
Juno: and it would bother Minerva if she noticed me during the match.

Juno: Although she seems to find me when the match ends regardless.

Juno: It's too bad this is the last game we get to watch together.
Juno: I considered you my son in law.

Ares: I caused you to lose your husband; I couldn't take your daughter from you too.

Apollo: Hey, are you really going to coach someone else?
Ares: Yes, so I won't be able to see you very much.

Ares: And, well, your sister has gone far enough...

Ares: that she'll be fine without me.
SFX: Twhack

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Mouri: Hey, it's already past 2!!
SFX: Vrrrrr

Mouri: The match has started already!!
Agasa: But what are we going to do when we get there? We don't have tickets.

Mouri: We'll deal with it with our spirit!!
Agasa: O-our spirit...?
Ran: Well, Conan-kun?

Ran: Have you got a hold of Apollo-kun?
Conan: Not yet.
Conan: He may have turned off his phone for the game.

Conan: Ah...
Apollo: Hello!?

Conan: A-Apollo?
Conan: Is that you?
Apollo: What have you been doing!? You didn't contact me at all!

Conan: S-sorry. Where are you now?
Apollo: I'm not supposed to use my phone in the stands, so I went out to the passageway.

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Apollo: Are you calling me because you caught the guy who gave me that code?
Conan: Uh, no. Not yet.

Apollo: Then don't call me now! I'm watching my sister's match!!
Conan: A-and? Has there been anything odd?
Conan: Has anyone talked to you or anything?

Apollo: Well, my sister's fans have told me they're rooting for her! They know what my mom, Ares, and I look like.
Apollo: And I got a huge plush toy I'm supposed to give to her!

Conan: H-how's your sister doing?
Apollo: I'm not sure yet. The game only just started.
Apollo: Why do you ask?

Apollo: You don't mean something's going to happen here, do you!?

All: Shhhh!
Conan: N-no, not at all.

Conan: I kind of feel like watching her match...

Conan: do you have any spare tickets?
Apollo: Spare tickets?

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Mouri: Of course he...
Mouri: wouldn't have any.
Text: In front of the gate into Wimbledon

Mouri: But this is a real pain.
Mouri: We've gotten to the gate, but they won't let us through.
Agasa: And they know there's a murderer inside.

Conan: Damn it! I guess I'll put that guard to sleep with my tranquilizer gun.
Agasa: Woah, woah...

Diana: Oh, Sleeping Kogorou!

Diana: Are you here for the game?
Ran: D-Diana-san!

Conan: Yeah, but we forgot our tickets.
Conan: Can you do anything?

Diana: How about this?

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SFX: Cheering
Mouri: I see...

Mouri: As long as you have a ticket, you can watch the game on that big screen even if you can't get into the center court!
Ran: So this is the famous Murray Mound!
SFX: Cheering

Agasa: We really were lucky!
SFX: Cheering
Agasa: We only got those tickets because Diana-san has a lot of influence with the administrative committee.

Agasa: Although even she couldn't get us center court tickets.
Mouri: Who is that old lady?

Conan: W-well? How's the game going?
Ran: Minerva-san doesn't seem to be doing well.
SFX: Chatter chatter

Ran: She keeps hitting the net with her serves.
Ran: She's losing 3-0.

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SFX: Thwap

Announcer: Net!
SFX: Pant pant pant
SFX: Bounce

Minerva: Please...
Minerva: Somebody...
Minerva: Somebody help...

Minerva: Help me,
Minerva: Holmes!!
SFX: Whack
Box: To be continued in Issue 43

Margin: Glass is asking for help! What happened!?