Detective Conan 749

Chapter 749

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Title: File 749 Message from the Queen
Text: Something unusual is happening in the finals!?

02

SFX: Hit

Referee: Let!
Referee: First service...
SFX: Bounce

SFX: Chatter chatter

Margin: In the Wimbledon finals, the Invincible Queen Glass is acting oddly...

03

Agasa: She hit the net again...
Mouri: Hey, has Minerva Glass had a single proper serve or hit yet?
Ran: No. But she hasn't gotten very many double faults either...

Conan: Then why is she hitting the net...?
SFX: Thock

Referee: Let! First service...

Juno: She hit the net again...
Apollo: Is she having problems with her serve?

Ares: No, her form is fine, so she should be hitting the spots she's aiming for...
Apollo: Then why?

Ares: What's the matter, Minerva?

Ares: What are you doing?

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SFX: Whap

SFX: Bounce

SFX: Thock

SFX: Hit

Ran: Wah! Minerva-san just got the first set taken from her 0-6!
SFX: Cheering
Mouri: Well, yeah...

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Mouri: She keeps hitting the net 2 or 3 times followed by a really slow serve.
Ran: Maybe she's having problems with her serve so she can only get slice serves in...
Conan: This is odd...

Conan: It stays the first serve, so she should keep hitting strong serves until the ball goes outside the serve boundary making it a fault.
Conan: I don't think she's gotten a single fault much less a double fault.

Ran: Ah, here it is! This is where Minerva-san's serves have gone during the match!
Ran: It even shows the ones where she hit the net.

Agasa: It's split up nicely like it was on purpose...
Conan: C-could this be...!?

Conan: Hey, have you noticed anything odd about Minerva-san today?
Ran: Eh? Like what?
Ran: Like her serves being off?

Conan: No, like doing something that she doesn't usually do or not doing something she usually does do.
Ran: N-now that you mention it...
SFX: Chatter

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Ran: It looks like she isn't wearing her wristband.

Ran: She said in an interview that she always wears the wristband she got from her father on her right wrist during the finals.
Ran: Did she forget to bring it?
Conan: A wristband!?

SFX: Chatter

SFX: Cheering

07

Announcer: I can't believe it!
Announcer: Glass hasn't won a single game and it's already the second set!!

Announcer: Where has the Invincible Queen of the Court,

Announcer: Minerva Glass, gone?
SFX: Pant pant

Juno: Oh, my. It looks like the party tonight is going to be quite low-key.
Apollo: Y-yes...

Juno: It looks like this teddy bear she got from a fan went to waste.

Juno: It doesn't look like I'll be able to give it to her.
SFX: Rinnng rinnng

Apollo: An email from Holmes' apprentice...
Apollo: "I'll see you on Murray Mound"?
SFX: Beep

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Apollo: Eh!? The murderer is targeting my sister!?
SFX: Cheering

Apollo: Is that true!?
Conan: Yes. She probably knows it and is trying to tell us with the location she's hitting with her serves!
Agasa: But how does she know?

Conan: The murderer probably told her by sticking a letter on the inside of her wristband.
Conan: The racket she always uses wouldn't work...
Conan: but since she only wears the wristband for the finals, he would have a chance.

Apollo: Come to think of it, her bag went missing at the hotel a while ago, but we found it right afterwards and checked on the stuff inside!
Ran: He probably did it then!
Ran: You probably didn't check the inside of the wristband.

Apollo: I have to go tell everyone!!
Mouri: You can't!!
SFX: Dash

Mouri: We don't know how he intends to kill her.
Mouri: And he's the person who blew up a hospital right after his code was solved!!
Agasa: If we cause a panic and have the competition canceled, he could decide to just kill your sister then and there!!

Apollo: Then what do we do? We can't just sit and watch!
Conan: We aren't going to.

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Conan: But I need your ticket.
Conan: I'll go into the center court in your place and find him.
Conan: I will save your sister!

Ran: Eh!? You will!?
Mouri: Shouldn't I go?
Conan: You can't! He might know you're a famous detective from Japan.

Conan: And he'll probably let his guard down if it's a kid approaching him!
Apollo: Okay, here's my ticket.
Apollo: But if I don't come back, mum or Ares might get worried...

Conan: You can just email Ares saying you don't want to see your sister lose!
Apollo: Th-that's right...
Agasa: But...

Agasa: How are you going to find him in there?
Mouri: This Hades guy keeps changing what he looks like!
Conan: I'll just follow your advice!

Conan: I'll use spirit!
Mouri: S-spirit...?
Ran: Ah, Conan-kun...

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Ran: If you can't catch the murderer, that's okay, but make sure you protect Minerva-san!!
Ran: There's something I have to tell her!!

Conan: Okay!
Conan: Will do!

SFX: Cheering
Hades: Get excited! Get excited!
Hades: Get more and more excited!!

Hades: The louder you shout in excitement the more terrible the silence sounds afterwards.

Hades: It's coming...
Hades: It's coming, mom...

11

SFX: Hit

Referee: Let! First service...
SFX: Bounce
Conan: I was right.

Conan: She's writing on the court...

Conan: with Braille!
Conan: She's using the locations of her serves to indicate Braille letters so the murderer won't notice!
Conan: She knows Braille because of her mother's bad eyes!!

Conan: She keeps hitting the net in order to indicate one of the 6 dots of the two columns and 3 rows of Braille.
Conan: Depending on the letter, she could need up to 5 balls.
Conan: And for the bottom row, she needs to hit the net to make it fall there.

Conan: If I'm right, then, from her perspective, the first serve would be "H"...
Conan: then "E"...
Conan: next is "L"...
Conan: and then "P".

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Conan: Together they spell...
Conan: "Help"!!

SFX: Thock
Conan: She's hoping someone will be able to read it and help her.
Conan: She's been spelling the word "help" out again and again with her serves.

Conan: The other thing I want to know is...
Referee: Let!
SFX: Beep beep
Conan: what Hades's message to her was.

Conan: As I thought...
Conan: there's a piece of paper stuck on the inside of the wristband.

Conan: But most of what's written...
Conan: is covered up so I can't read it.

Conan: Damn it! I want to let her know I'm here to help her...
Conan: but how can I do that in the middle of the match without causing an uproar?
Man: Come on, Minerva!

Man: Come on!!

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Crowd: Come on!
Crowd: Minervaaa!!
Crowd: Stick with it!
Crowd: Come on!

Referee: Thank you...

Minerva: Oh, if only you were real...
Minerva: You could gallantly show up and help me.

Minerva: But you're only a fictional character.
Minerva: No one like that actually exists.

Minerva: No one like...
Minerva: Sherlock Holmes.

Conan: Minerva!!

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Conan: I'll help you!!
Conan: I'm Holmes' apprentice!!

SFX: Bounce

Minerva: Holmes'...
Minerva: apprentice?

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Ran: C-Conan-kun!?
Mouri: That idiot...
Agasa: What is he doing!?

Hades: Ohh...

Hades: That little kid is Holmes' apprentice...

Apollo: He may just be a little boy with glasses...
Apollo: but he's really smart and an apprentice of Holmes'!!

Minerva: Does your saying you'll help me...
Minerva: mean you understood my message?

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Minerva: Can you really help me with such a small body?

Conan: O-of course...
SFX: Burst out laughing

Text: Wah ha ha ha...
Referee: Thank you...

Margin: Can he save her without the murderer realizing!?

Minerva: Can I bet it all on you,

Minerva: Holmes' apprentice?
Box: To be continued in Issue 44