Detective Conan 720

File 720
The Kappa's Curse
Caption: The result of the Kappa's actions...?

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Sidetext: The cause of death for the innkeeper discovered soaking wet in a dry room is...
Mouri: What?
Drowning!?

Mouri: You're saying the proprietor of this ryokan was murdered this morning by drowning?
Yama: Yes! That's according to the coroner...

Yama: Furthermore, from the water samples taken from both the exterior and the interior of the body of the victim, Numayama Banzou-san...
He may have been drowned at a polluted marsh somwhere and later transported to this location!

Ran: Come to think of it, there's that awful smell...
Mouri: Yeah, enough to curl your nose...
Conan: But it appears the culprit brought that smelly water here!

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Conan: Look! There's a rolling water bucket here in the attic...
It has the same smell!
Mouri: I see...

Mouri: The culprit transported the smelly water here in this water bucket...
and then plunged Banzou-san's face into it...After he had drowned he then sloshed the water over the body...

Yama: But what was Banzou-san doing in a place like this...
Mouri: Summoned here by the culprit?
Tokubi: No, it was apparently a daily routine...

Tokubi: The people at the ryokan said that every morning after he woke up
he'd come here first and look out from the window and watch the stream...
Sign: Tokubi Rokurou (42) Artist

Tokubi: With these binoculars...
Yama: But why?
Araiwa: Most likely because his son Tatsuhiko was swept away to his death by that stream...

Araiwa: And to prevent something like that from happening again...
He kept watch from here...
Sign: Araiwa Kazuki (21) Tatsuhiko's Classmate

Yama: Well now...

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Yama: Oh! You can certainly see it!
All the way to the head of the stream as it winds through the trees!!

Mouri: Say, yesterday when you 2 fell into the stream Banzou-san came rushing down there...
Tokubi: Yes...it seemed he'd always be here watching whenever he found spare time...

Ran: But if was thinking of his son he wouldn't have kicked aside the memorial made by his friends...
Araiwa: That's not the first or second time...

Araiwa: My friends also came to visit many times, but he'd destroy the memorial in front of them and tell them to cease their visits...
Nohira: Perhaps there's something by the stream...

Nohira: A treasure he doesn't want anyone else to find...
Some kind of evidence...
SFX: Cough, cough
Sign: Nohira Bousuke (45) Ryokan Guest

Nohira: The old man...seemed to go wandering around that area when people were sound asleep...
Mouri: But that area just has the memorial created by the son's friends...

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Conan: Speaking of which, the shoe by the body was Tatsuhiko-kun's wasn't it?
Didn't you say it was buried in his memorial?

Conan: So does that means the culprit dug it up?
Tokubi: No...the one buried there is the right shoe which was lodged between the rocks on the river bed...This looks to be the left shoe...

Conan: Then　when he was swept down the stream and discovered in the pond wasn't Tatsuhiko-kun wearing any shoes?
Mouri: If he lost only one shoe then it means he would have still been wearing the other...
Yama: No, I haven't questioned his schoolmates regarding the case...

Yama: But at the time he was discovered apparently he was only wearing swimming trunks!
Mouri: O-only swimming trunks!
During such a cold period?

Yama: He must have been into cold weather swimming...
Tokubi: That's it, the pond!

Yama: Eh?
Tokubi: The smelly water on Banzou-san's body...
It's the smell from the pond Tatsuhiko-kun's body was floating in!

Araiwa: I heard a long time ago it was used for agriculture...but after Tatsuhiko's accident 11 years ago they stopped using it and it became a place for unlawful dumping. The smell emitting from there is just awful...
Nohira: Apparently, because of the bizarre smell and scene, the villagefolk gave it the name...

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Nohira: The Kappa's dwelling...
The Hell Swamp!!

Mouri: Hell Swamp!?
Ran: Th-then he really is...
the murderer...

Ran: And these are the Kappa's deeds!?
Yama: Excuse me, Ran-san...but could you tell me what you're talking about?

Yama: Because in this era of science where we have conquered space travel kappas and ghosts do not exist!!
Ran: B-but, last night I...

Yama: Hey, where's this pond located?
Araiwa: About 10 km downstream...

Yama: Then I'll tell forensics to head down to that pond and compare the water to the water found on the body!
Conan: I think you should examine everyone's belongings as well!

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Conan: I mean, if the culprit put the smelly water in this bucket and went into the ryokan he'd be pretty conspicuous. With the stench he'd be immediately discovered!
Mouri: I see...That means he needed to put it into a completely sealed vessel...

Mouri: But the stairs to the attic are behind the bathroom...
So anyone could go up there by simply pretending to go to the bathroom...

Mouri: In other words...if it's one of us staying at the ryokan anyone, as long as he had in his possession the smelly water...
Was capable of drowning Banzou-san in the attic!!

Mouri: Yamamura!! What's the victim's estimated time of death?
Yama: Uh, this morning between 6 and 7am...

Mouri: Alright! Check the alibis of everyone staying at the ryokan!
I'm going to see if there are any suspicious items in the guests' rooms!
Yama: Right!

Yama: Hey, isn't that my job?
After all I did get promoted to inspector...

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Tokubi: Um...
Containers that can completely seal up water...

Tokubi: Ink bottles, white storage containers...
a water bottle...

Tokubi: The large ink bottles are 60ml...
the small ones hold 15ml...but they're all nearly full with ink...

Tokubi: And the white storage containers are at least half filled with colors...
The water bottle's the only thing that's empty...

Mouri: But it's not possible to drown someone with only 100ml...
Tokubi: That's right...
Yama: So you used another container which you concealed...

Ran: I don't think that's possible! Yesterday after he fell in the stream he immediately opened up and checked his belongings, but aside from these containers...
Yama: But, why the art supplies?

Conan: He's an artist!
Yama: Oh?
Ran: He said he was formerly a teacher at Tatsuhiko-kun's elementary school...

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Tokubi: So while I was here to leave an incense stick at Tatsuhiko-kun's altar, I decided to spend the night...
Yama: Then what were you doing when the crime was being committed between 6 and 7am?

Tokubi: Sleeping in my room...
Until the ryokan workers came to tell me breakfast was ready...

Yama: Oh...
You were Tatsuhiko-kun classmate?

Yama: So you also went to place incense at his altar?
Araiwa: Yes...Before everyone came but finally it became just me...

Yama: Then where were you this morning between 6 and 7?
Araiwa: I got up at 6:30 and had my morning bath...although I was by myself...

Mouri: Hmm...the only things you could fill with water are these 2 500ml plastic bottles...
but one of them is unopened and the other is still half filled...

Yama: Huh? What's this?
Araiwa: Oh, that's...

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Araiwa: A water pillow!
You fill it up with water and expands to become a pillow...Without it I can't fall asleep...

Yama: That's it, the pillow!!
Araiwa: Eh?
Yama: You snuck the smelly water from the pond inside by putting it in this!!

Yama: The proof is that there's no water in it right now!
Araiwa: S-since I was already going home I emptied it when I took my bath...

Mouri: I believe that to be true...
Yama: Eh?
Ran: After they fell in the stream he also spread out his belongings...that pillow was squished flat...

Yama: But you were capable of slipping out of the ryokan and bringing it back filled with water, right?
Araiwa: I suppose so...

Nohira: Camera tripod...
IC recorder...
Laptop...

Yama: What's your occupation?
Nohira: Reportage writer!

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Nohira: I go wherever ghost legends are spread...
Ran: So you heard about the kappa stories here...

Nohira: Yes...they had hardly any harvest...
Yama: But nowadays isn't it unusual...a non-digital camera using film...

Nohira: I was a cameraman a long time ago...I somehow never grew to care for digital...
Mouri: Well, with so many film cases you could hold a lot of that water...

Nohira: Hey, didn't I just tell you? From 6am till after 7 I was on the phone with the editorial committee...
Mouri: Isn't that bit long? That early in the morning and spending over an hour...

Nohira: We were discussing what to do as there doesn't seem to be evidence of the kappa!
I was just submitting the report...and my camera was broken...

Yama: Your camera's broken?
Nohira: Yeah, it got wet in the rain!　Last night　as I was taking pictures it suddenly started raining...

Nohira: Aachoo!!

Mouri: And thanks to that you even caught a cold?
Nohira: Yes...I was originally getting over a cold but now it's fully returned..

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Yama: That reportage writer's story appears to be true...
Only now my subordinate called the editorial board and confirmed it...

Yama: Their conversation went uninterrupted for over an hour...
Mouri: So he couldn't have drowned someone during the phone call...

Officer: Inspector Yamamura!
I've taken all the alibis of the ryokan workers!
Yama: Oh?

Officer: At the time of the crime all of them were preparing breakfast...
Yama: Say that one more time...

Officer: Um, at the time of the crime...
Yama: Before that...
Officer: I-I've taken all the alibis...
Yama: Even before that...

Officer: I-Inspector Yamamura...
Yama: Ah right, right, I appreciate the effort!
Conan: This　hack is an inspector?

Officer: Ah, and there's more! As you suspected the water matcheｄ the water in that pond!
Yama: Hmm...

Mouri: So nobody slipped out of the ryokan last night?
Officer: After you arrived it appears your group and Nohira-san were the only ones to leave.

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Yama: What was he doing?
Officer: He said he wanted to take pictures of the scenery so he put on his backpack and left before Mouri-san's group...I understand he also returned soaking wet after Mouri-san's group did.
Yama: Mouri-san, why did your group leave the ryokan?

Mouri: Ran said she dropped her cell phone in the stream so we went there to look for it...
Ran: And it was there...

Ran: A...
genuine kappa!!!

Yama: Kappas again?
Ran: It's really true!!　He was standing in the stream right by the place where I dropped the cell phone...

Yama: Do you have a photo taken with your phone to prove it!?
You were holding it at the time, weren't you?
Ran: I-I was scared and didn't have the presence of mind...
Tokubi: How about I try sketching it?

Tokubi: If you don't mind my using this warped sketchbook...

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Ran: The beak is larger...
Yes! That feels right!
Conan: Strange...you'd want a liter of water if you going to drown somebody with a bucket, but why haven't we found a container to hold it?

Conan: Tokubi-san's　colored ink bottles are full and he's currently using them to draw a picture...
And Araiwa-san's plastic bottle is opened and half filled with oolong tea...His water pillow likely wasn't filled with water, either...

Conan: What's suspicious is that Nohira-san has a large quantity of film cases...
but he has an alibi with the phone call...

Conan:　In the first place, the fact that Tatsuhiko-kun was wearing only a pair of swimming trucks is puzzling...
For argument's sake, even if he went cold weather swimming why was he wearing shoes?

Conan: And that shoe...
On several places there are green stains...

Ran: Wow, that's great!!
It's a spitting image!
Conan: Eh?

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Mouri: Hey, Ran! Did you really see somebody like that!?
Ran: Yes! It was exactly like this picture!!

Mouri: Nonsense! There's nothing like that!
Ran: There was, too!
Conan: Hey, show me, too!

Conan: Hm?

Yama: Ah...
Wha, wha...

Mouri: Hey, you're not saying the kappa is the culprit are you?
Yama: No, not a kappa...
That's undoubtedly...

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Yama: An alien!!

Mouri: A..
Ran: Alien!?
Yama: That's right!! In the age of space travel... aliens coming here from another planet isn't so strange!

Mouri: If so, then where's the spaceship they rode to get here!?
Yama: Don't make light of their technology! Even a spaceship this small...

Yama: Can already pack in tens of thousands of aliens which have been shrunken down in size!!
Ran: No way!!
Mouri: You're a...
Conan: I see...

Conan: It's packed inside...
a small interior...
Sidetext: How did the culprit transport the smelly water from the Devil's Swamp?