Detective Conan 750

Chapter 750

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Text: What exactly is the murderer after!?
Title: File 750 The True Target

02

SFX: Cheering

Referee: Thank you...

Minerva: The first letter needs four dots...

Margin: Minerva is communicating to Conan via her serves.

Minerva: I've made 3 of them...

Minerva: The last one is back in the right corner.

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SFX: Thwack

SFX: Slide

SFX: Thock

Referee: Out!
SFX: Bounce

Referee: 15 - 40!
SFX: Cheering
Ran: Minerva-san got one!

Agasa: But what was with her opponent, that Bauer woman?
Ran: Yeah. It looked it went the other way than she was expecting which confused her.
Apollo: But it was a slice serve...

Conan: It's not surprising she wasn't expecting it to go that way.
Conan: This Braille letter wasn't H, E, L, or P like before.

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Conan: It was "G".

Conan: She's started spelling something different.
Conan: Most likely, it's the message she got from the murderer.

Minerva: Holmes' Apprentice...
Minerva: I'm pretty sure Apollo said he was a Japanese boy.

Minerva: You're calling yourself the apprentice of the detective I admire...
Minerva: so please read my message.

Minerva: The next letter is the only one in the 26 letters of the alphabet...

Minerva: that is written in Braille...

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Minerva: with only one dot.

SFX: Thwack

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SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Cheering

Conan: That serve was A!

Conan: She decided it with only a hit to the top left, that has to be A!
Conan: So far that's G and A.
Conan: What comes next?

Bauer: She's changed her pattern...

Bauer: I see. You've finished playing around.

07

SFX: Bounce
Referee: Fault!

Conan: Her first serve went out...And by a lot...
Conan: That must mean she's finished the word.

Conan: After the G, she spelled A - M - E.
Conan: So the first word is "game"!

Referee: Let!
Referee: Second service...

Conan: And she's really concentrating.

Conan: She has to think about how far the serve will go after hitting the net...
Conan: And yet she's been accurately having the balls fall in the 6 spots for the Braille.

Conan: The Queen of the Court...
Conan: truly has complete control over her serves.

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Referee: Deuce!
SFX: Whap

Ran: Ahh...And she had just gotten the advantage...
Mouri: Another deuce?
Agasa: This is the 6th one...

Conan: It's on purpose...
Conan: She's getting deuces on purpose to lengthen the game in order to spell out more letters.

Conan: So far she's spelled out "game", "set", "death", and "M".
Conan: When the "game" is "set"...it means the "death" of "M"...?

Referee: Advantage, Miss Glass!
SFX: Cheering
Conan: That was "O"...

Conan: After "death" is "M" and "O"...
Conan: I-it couldn't be...

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SFX: Cheering

Referee: Game, Miss Glass! Miss Bauer leads 3 - 1...
Conan: Since she ended the game, that means the message is over. The last letter was "M".

Conan: That spells "mom".
Conan: So Hades isn't after the Queen of the Court's life...
Conan: he's after her mother's!!

Conan: Come to think of it, Ran said that, last year at the French Open, Minerva's mother didn't come to watch the one match she lost.
Conan: If Hades had bet a large amount of money on that match and blames the loss on the fact that her mother didn't come to watch...
Conan: then the target of his anger would be her mother.

Conan: But how is he going to kill her?
Conan: Is he nearby?

Apollo: And I got a huge plush toy I'm supposed to give to her!

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Conan: Could that stuffed animal she's holding be...?

Hades: Good...
Hades: Hold it tight and don't let go...

Hades: It is the firework that will complete my revenge.

Apollo: Ehh!?
SFX: Cheering
Apollo: A bomb!?

Apollo: That teddy bear has a bomb in it!?
Conan: Yes, Hades probably intends to detonate it killing your mother when the match ends!

Apollo: Th-then I'll call mom telling her to pretend to go to the bathroom and get out of there!!
Conan: No! If she makes any suspicious actions like that, he might think we've realized it and detonate it with his remote!

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Conan: Even if we managed to save your mom, all the spectators in the area would get caught in the blast.
Conan: It would be the greatest disaster in the history of Wimbledon!!

Apollo: Y-you're kidding...
Conan: The only way to stop this is to find Hades in the center court stands and capture him!!

Apollo: B-but can you really find him!?
Conan: Hey, you're mother and Ares aren't in the family box. Do you always sit in the general seats?

Apollo: Yeah. Mum said in a magazine interview that she doesn't like for the TV cameras to film her so she always sits in shade in the general admission seats.
Conan: In the shade?

Conan: Then Hades may be sitting in the opposite stand that the sun is shining on.
Apollo: Eh? Why!?

Conan: To record it! He always records video of his crimes and sends it to the police.
Conan: If he read that magazine...

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Conan: it's likely he'll be sitting in the stands right across from her in order to record it!!

Apollo: Th-then you just have to find the guy on that side that's filming everything.
Conan: No, there are a lot of people filming.
Conan: We have to narrow it down to one person!!

Apollo: B-but how...?
Conan: He's right. How am I going to find him?
Conan: How do I find him among the 15,000 spectators?

SFX: Cheering
Conan: Eh?

Conan: Hey, what was that cheer about!?
Conan: The spectators are heading into the passageway!!
SFX: Cheering

Conan: The match isn't over, is it!?
Apollo: Not yet!

Apollo: My sister got a break point making it 6-6, so they're going into a tie break.
Apollo: The crowds must be getting up...

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Apollo: because of this rain.
Apollo: The game has been delayed for half an hour and they're closing the roof.
Conan: Your mother had better not leave while waiting for the roof to close...

Apollo: She won't; she has an umbrella.
Apollo: She really regrets not going to cheer my sister on at the French Open after she had gone completely blind.
Apollo: She always says that she won't leave her seat until the game is over.

Juno: The sound of cheering echoing from the closing roof sounds very strange.
Ares: Yes...

Juno: Where is Apollo? Minerva is playing such a great game...
Ares: I know...
SFX: Beep

Apollo: I'll give you the details later. Just don't leave your seats now!

Ares: Apollo...What's wrong?

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Conan: This is bad! The crowd is starting to head back out of the passageway.
Conan: The match will begin again...
SFX: Crowd moving

Conan: If Minerva loses the tie break, the match is over.
Conan: Hades will detonate the bomb!!

Conan: I have to find him before that.
Conan: But I don't know what he looks like.
Conan: How am I supposed to find him!?
SFX: Rinng
SFX: Rinng

Conan: Apollo!? Did you email Ares like I asked?
Apollo: Y-yeah...
Apollo: Th-this may not help, but...

Apollo: I've heard how my sister finds my mum during the match.
Conan: Eh?
Apollo: My sister isn't told where my mum sits before the match, but after she wins the game, she always says something to my mom. It's really weird.

Conan: A-and? How does she do it?
Apollo: She said she hits a really high lob during the match...
Apollo: One that just barely goes out.

Apollo: She wouldn't tell me how that tells her where my mum's sitting though.
Conan: A high lob...
Conan: that just barely goes out...

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SFX: Cheering

Hades: The queen has reappeared...

Hades: I wish you the best of luck...
Hades: in your fight to let your mother live just a little longer.

Minerva: If I lose this tie break...
Minerva: mom will...

Minerva: Mom will be killed!!
Conan: Come on, Minerva!

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Conan: Even if your opponent gets the championship point, don't give up!!

Conan: Hang in there and win!!
Minerva: Hang in...?

Conan: You can do it!
Conan: You're the Queen of the Court, right?

Minerva: OK!
Box: To be continued in Issue 45

Margin: Conan has an idea! How will he find the murderer among all the spectators!?