Detective Conan 717

File 717
Monkey and 9
What clue to the Tori-Man is in this wallet?

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Sidetext: The Tori-Man has stabbed a man and escaped...
Megure: I see.

Megure: He's called 'Tori-Man' after the Rooster Fairs and for his thievery?

Megure: But this time he tried to also take a man's life...
Takagi: We've ID'd the man who was stabbed by the Tori-Man!

Takagi: Masuko Shirou-san, age 21 from Haido Town...
Apparently he's a student who failed the entrance exam to the Literature Department at Taito University...

Megure: Oh...I understand they brought the victim to the hospital. Is he conscious?
Takagi: Uh, no...

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Takagi: His bag was among the contents of the daypack the Tori-Man threw at his pursuers...
We got his parent's address from his license in the bag and called them to confirm...

Megure: And the victim?
Takagi: Fortunately the wound wasn't deep, and although he’s temporarily unconscious from the stress of the stabbing, the doctor says he should regain consciousness in a short time...

Megure: What? You kids here again?
Sonoko: I came for revenge. Revenge!!
Ran: Last time on the 2nd rooster day Sonoko had her bag stolen by the Tori-Man at this shrine...

Sonoko: That's why we've been hanging out here at the Ranburi Shrine!!
We deduced he would try to be tricky and turn up here again!
Conan: No, you wanted to come here to get another fortune...

Sonoko: Of course, I'll just take back my bag from the Tori-Man's daypack!
Takagi: Oh, sorry, that's evidence and can't be returned yet...
Megure: Then it appears this isn't a copycat crime...

Takagi: Yes...the Tori-man's victims from the first and second rooster days are coming here to confirm, but it's probable the Tori-Man from the third rooster day is the same criminal...
Megure: But the only thing we have to go on is that he was wearing a hyottoko mask...
Conan: There's something else, too!

Megure: Eh?
Conan: The guy who just got stabbed right now, although it seemed like he was stabbed by the Tori-Man

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Conan: It wasn't him...
He said it was a monkey!

Megure: A, a monkey?
Conan: And what's more, he held up 9 fingers like this...

Conan: Isn't it almost certain that 'monkey' and 'nine' have something to do with the culprit?
Megure: Monkey and nine...
Takagi: Nine monkeys...Ku...saru...

Takagi: Perhaps the culprit feels depressed? [TN: Being depressed in Japanese is "kusatteru," which sounds very similar to kusaru.]
Megure: Or that his nature is depressing...
Officer: Inspector Megure!! We've caught the Tori-Man!!

Megure: Tr, truly!?
Officer: Yeah, although they have 3 people...
Takagi: 3 people?

Officer: The people who pursued the Tori-Man saw him flee into the park restroom...
According to the reports..

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Megure: Then, when you men received the report and rushed over, these spectators were still gathered around the restroom...
And when they called into the restroom, the ones who came out were...

Megure: Those 3 men...
Officer: Yes...
According to the eyewitnesses, the Tori-Man definitely went into the men's restroom...

Officer: When they searched the restroom after the 3 men were brought out...
They found a bloody knife, a down jacket, and a hyottoko mask that had all been discarded...

Officer: We believe the Tori-Man must have entered this restroom!
Megure: Hmm...
Officer2: Furthermore, since the spectators said that they were scared and nobody else entered the restroom until we arrived here...

Officer2: The Tori-Man has to be one of those 3...
Megure: I see...
Then, why don't we question them each one by one? Please state your name and the reason you came here...

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Hino: My name is Hino Tatsuo...
After I bought this kumade from the rooster fair　I stopped by to use this restroom on the way home...
Sign: Hino Tatsuo (45) Shrine Visitor

Hino: I, I've recently had stomach ailments...
See, I'm carrying medicine...
Sonoko: Hey, you're the Tori-Man!!

Hino: Eh?
Sonoko: Your face, isn't it just like a monkey?

Takagi: He, he really does have a monkey's face...
Megure: Hmm...
Hino: Hey, you're looking for the Tori-Man, not a monkey, right?

Sonoko: The man who was stabbed said so!!
Ran: It was a monkey, not a rooster...

Hino: What!?
Conan: But he wasn't talking about his face, was he?

Conan: The Tori-Man was wearing a hyottoko mask and so his face couldn't be seen, right?
Takagi: Th-that's true...

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Sarukawa: I didn't visit the rooster fair...
I just came here for a game correspondence exchange...

Megure: Correspondence exchange?
Takagi: It's to exchange game items and maps by correspondence!
Sarukawa: Because of the rooster fair I thought there'd be a lot of people with whom I could correspond...

Sarukawa: Look, today I was able to make 10 correspondences! I was verifying them in the restroom!
Megure: Well anyway, what's your name?
Takagi: We haven't asked yet....

Sarukawa: Sa...
Sarukawa, but...
Sign: Sarukawa Hisami (20)　Part-timer

Sonoko: Saru! The monkey!!
Ran: Sonoko...
Sarukawa: But I'm not called 'Saru'! My first name is Hisami　so my nickname is Kyuu-chan...[TN: In Japanese Hisami is written 久巳 and Kyuu is written 久.]

Megure: Kyuu...?
Sarukawa: Eh?
Takagi: Before the victim passed out, besides 'monkey' he also indicated the number 9. [TN: 'Kyuu' also means '9' in Japanese.]

Conan: But I don't really don't think the thief would know the victim's name...
Megure: True...

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Mizunoe: I'm Mizunoe Shinji
I went to go buy a kumade for the company I work at and stopped by the restroom on the way...It's because I didn't go on the 2nd rooster day...
Sign: Mizunoe Shinji (32) Company Employee

Mizunoe: Actually, I also went on the first rooster day, but before I could buy it the Tori-Man stole the bag I kept my wallet in...
Megure: Then that makes you a victim!

Mizunoe: Yes...and so today I just had a bento box from a local convenience store for lunch...
Megure: If he's a victim can you confirm that right away?
Takagi: Yes...maybe if we search the Tori-Man's daypack...

Mizunoe: Huh? Where'd the receipt go?
Do you have anything in the stolen bag that you can prove are yours? Like a license or ID?

Mizunoe: As for that I think my bankbook is in there...
You can confirm it by the part of my name, 'Shin,' which is written the same is the as the one used for 'Jinshin War."

Megure: Hey, check it right away!
Officer: Right!
Sonoko: You don't seem to have anything to do with monkeys or the number 9...

Mizunoe: Well, the fortune tellers say I'm like a monkey...[TN: 'Animal fortunes' tell what type of animal a person most resembles.]
Ran: Animal fortunes...
Sonoko: Antiquated...

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Megure: Incidentally, what type of kumade did you come here to buy?
On the second roostser day you were attacked by the Tori-Man?
Ran: Well, it was...

Conan: Love fortunes!
Megure: Love fortunes!

Sonoko: Every year they come out only at the rooster fairs...
Ran: Actually I have one right now...

Ran: Huh?
There's a button in here mixed in with my change...

Ran: Where did it come from?
Sonoko: Ran! Catch him!!
Ran: Aaaaaa!

Mouri: What happened?
Sonoko: A purse snatching!

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Ran: This might be a button from the Tori-Man's clothes!!
Takagi/Megure: What!?

Ran: Hey, didn't I bump into the Tori-Man?
That's when I must have picked up this button along with my change and placed them in my wallet!
Sonoko: But maybe the buttom was already on the ground?

Megure: But if that's true, it's pretty important evidence!
If one of these 3 possesses clothing that is missing this type of button...he is undoubtedly the Tori-Man!

Megure: If possible I'd like to immediately search your homes...
Is that alright?

Hino: Yes, that's fine...
Me too, if if you could let my mom know...
It's no problem if it'll clear all suspicions...

Megure: Alright, I want you to take a picture of this button and immediately distribute it to all the investigators!
Takagi: Right!

Conan: That's strange...although the fact that Ran picked up the Tori-Man's button should have caused a sudden shock...

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Megure: What? You didn't find anything!?

Megure: So there really isn't anything clothing that's missing that kind of button in any of their houses?
Takagi: No...there was no warrant, so the search wasn't thorough...
but there doesn't appear to be any clothing with that type of button...

Takagi: For now, we tried questioning the son, mother, and wife of those 3 and there doesn't seem to be any clothing that has suddenly vanished...
Megure: So the chances of him disposing of it after the crime are low...

Takagi: Yes...and so Ran-san might have just picked up the button accidentally...
Ran: I guess so...

Takagi: By the way, according to the people at your homes...
Hino-san out of town in Sendai on the first rooster day...

Takagi: Sarukawa-san has an alibi for the time of both crimes on the first and second rooster days...

Takagi: Mizunoe-san was on a business trip to Nagasi on the 2nd rooster day...
and since you appear to be filing a damage claim for being victimized by the Tori-Man on the first rooster day...
Megure: I see...

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Megure: It means none of these 3 people would have been able to commit the crimes on all 3 rooster days...

Takagi: By the way, I received word from the hospital a little while ago, it appears the victim has regained consciousness...
Megure: Oh? And?

Takagi: He says he doesn't remember anything about being stabbed by the Tori-Man or about the monkey and 9 message he left...
Megure: R-really?

Officer: Inspector, we have it!
Mizunoe-san's bank book from the Tori-Man's daypack!
Mizunoe: Ah, you have it?

Officer: Yes! The bankbook was inside another person's bag, so it took longer than expected to verify...
Megure: Another person's?

Officer: Yes...We asked the victims from the first two rooster days to come and verify their own bags...there were all kinds of bags and belongings...
Sonoko: Come to think of it, in my bag there was a handkerchief I didn't recognize, and the fortune that should have been in there was gone...

Officer: You're talking about the Love Fortune? It was in another person's bag! If I recall it said, "In order to capture his nervous, old fashioned heart, you..."

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Sonoko: Ack! Wait! Don't speak the contents!!
Ran: Nervous, old fashioned-type...?

Megure: But why are the belongings all mixed up...
Takagi: The Tori-Man must have taken out the contents of the bags he stole and then placed them back randomly!

Megure: So? Did you confirm they're the bags that were stolen from the victims of the first and second rooster days?
Officer: Yes...and the same criminal committed all 3 crimes, no doubt about it...

Sarukawa: So it's settled?
Hino: Yeah...
I wonder if the jerk who spread the rumor about the Tori-Man fleeing into the restroom is in the crowd of spectators!!

Mizunoe: Certainly appears that way...
None of us could have visited the shrines on each of the 3 rooster days...

Hino: So will you...
Sarukawa: Let us go home?
Mizunoe: My wife must be worried...
Megure: Yes...that'll be it for today...

Hino: Alright!
Move it!!
Conan: Strange...

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Conan: Even if he didn't care that the contents of the stolen bags were scattered...
Why did he go to the trouble of carrying them around with him? If he was caught with them in his possession,　they would become inexplicable evidence against him...

Conan: And when Ran suggested that she might have picked up the Tori-Man's button, there was something wrong with their reactions...
Normally if one of them was the Tori-Man and there was a chance one of his buttons had been taken, he'd be anxious...

Conan: Aseru [TN: Aseru is Japanese for 'be anxious']
Ase...[TN: Ase is Japanese for 'sweat'.]

Conan: That's right! He would have been running and sweating...
And he didn't want that to be noticed so he tried to cover it up...

Conan: Wait, if we assume he's the culprit...
He wouldn't have been able to show his face at all three rooster fairs, would he?

Conan: If so, then somebody else would be the Tori-Man, but...
The Tori-Man's day pack contained the stolen goods from all the rooster fairs...

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Conan: And what about the monkey and the number 9?
What in the world is the meaning of that message?

Ran: What's wrong, Conan? What's with the grim face?
Conan: Oh, I'm just wondering what is with the monkey and the number 9...
Mouri: Saru and kyuu...

Mouri: Regarding 'kyuu,' I've hit upon the idea of a baseball stadium. [TN: Baseball is 'yakyuu']
But I don't remember any stadium with 'saru' in the name...

Ran: Dad! Why are you here?
Mouri: I heard from the news that the Tori-Man made another appearance at the shrine you went to...
I was worried so I came here to meet you!

Mouri: It was a big deal on the news...
The guy who was stabbed left a riddle about a monkey and 9!
Conan: But I don't think those have to do with baseball...
Sonoko: Speaking of baseball stadiums...

Sonoko: What about the stadium in Koshien?
Isn't the name Koshien?

Sonoko: And as I recall isn't the area around it called Koshien?
Ran: Yes, there's a Koshien station there, too...
Conan: That's not right! The area was named Koshien after the Koshien Stadium was built. Koshien Stadium was built in...

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Sonoko: What year was it built?
Conan: So that's it!
That's how it happened...

Conan: The victim knew the criminal...
That's why it was the #9 saru...

Mouri: Well let's go home!
Ran: Dad! See Conan-kun and Sonoko home!
I'll come after I pick up the clothes from the cleaners!

Mouri: Do that tomorrow!
Ran: Dad, tomorrow is my friends wedding!
Sidetext: What evil designs does the Tori-Man have on Ran now that she won't use karate because of her faith in her fortune?