Detective Conan 726

File 726
Miraculous Trick
Caption: Where on Earth is the poison!?

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Sidetext: The President is poisoned at the party...
Takagi: The deceased is Urai Taruto-san, age 53
--President of Urai Confectioners...

Takagi: He was hosting this party...
Megure: Oh...

Megure: I heard from forensics it was poison...
Takagi: Yes, they say it was acute poisoning from a hydrocyanic acid compound...

Megure: Then at the time he collapsed from the poisoning, the only people near him were those Mouri-kun brought along,
--Ran-kun and Conan-kun,

Megure: Along with the President's wife, Vice President of Urai Confectioners Urai Hoshie-san...
Hoshie: Yes, that's true...

Hoshie: At that moment Mouri-san was on stage giving a speech...
Sign: Urai Hoshie (49) Urai Taruto's Wife

Hoshie: Suddenly my husband let out a loud groan and collapsed...
--From there he stopped moving...

Satou: If I recall, at that time you were beside him, right?
Hoshie: Yes...I had been giving Ran-chan a palm reading...

Takagi: Palm reading?
Megure: Really?
Ran: Yeah!
--Mrs. Urai was holding my left hand in both of hers, telling me my fortune...

Satou: If both her hands were occupied she couldn't have administered the poison by hand...
Takagi: Yes...
Megure: So at the time Mrs. Urai didn't say anything to the President?

Megure: Tell him to drink anything...
--or eat anything?
Ran: No, not really...
--Although she did mention she often read his palm in the morning before he awoke...

Conan: But wasn't she speaking while reading Ran-chan's palm?

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Conan: "Are you listening closely?"

Megure: Listening?
Ran: I thought she was speaking to me at first, but it appears she was really asking the President...
Hoshie: That's because even though Mouri-san had taken the trouble to give a speech he was just daydreaming...

Conan: But the President's response at the time was kind of strange!
Megure: Strange?
Conan: He didn't say anything like, "I'm listening" or, "I'm not listening"...

Conan: His answer was...
--"Yes, probably..."

Mouri: That's certainly a strange thing to say when asked if he was listening closely to my speech...
Hoshie: He must have given such a vague response because his mind was preoccupied...After Mouri-san's speech my husband had planned an important announcement...

Hoshie: He was divorcing me and splitting the company into two...

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Takagi: Eh!?
-- Are you serious?

Hoshie: Yes...Urai Confectioners has become large enough, and I often disagreed with him on management policies...
--Of course my husband pleaded with me to reconsider...

Hoshie: He said, "I don't care if we split the company, but you can't divorce me...
--There's no way I can live without you"
Takagi: That means...
:--No way...

Satou: It's possible he was depressed about that...
--and committed suicide...

Hoshie: If so then it's really a shame...
--I was the sour specialist and he the sweet specialist...With our complementary fields of expertise, and willingness to carry things to the extremes, I thought I understood him...

Ran: Come to think of it, my friends were saying...
--You two won a candy contest...
Hoshie: No, that's true of my husband...

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Hoshie: I'm number 2...
--I didn't win...

Ran: Eh? But..
--Huh?
Hoshie: That aside, if you're going to search me could you please do it quickly?
Megure: Eh?

Hoshie: If somebody poisoned my husband you must think it's me since I was right next to him...
--If it's true then I might still have the poison in my possession, right?
Megure: Yes, well...

Hoshie： Maybe it would help if we used the staffroom beyond that back door as the inspection room...
--After all, when the media gets word of the case they'll rush to the front of　the assembly room entrance...

Hoshie: If the police take me there they're liable to think I'm being brought in as a suspect...
Megure: T-that's true...

Megure: OK, I'll leave her to you, Satou-kun!
Satou: Right!

Satou: Excuse me!
--Would you mind letting us through?

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Hoshie: Ah...

Hoshie: Ouch...
Satou: Are you OK?
Hoshie: I wish I hadn't worn such high heels...

Satou: Should I lend you my shoulder?
Hoshie: I'm fine...just a little sprain...

Hoshie: Now can we quickly get this over with?

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Man: Inspector Megure!

Man: Just in case, we're bringing everything back with us for a thorough examination...
--but it doesn't appear any of the food or drinks on the table contain any poison...
Megure: Is that right...

Takagi: Well, I doubt his lips touched the lemon tea his wife was drinking...
--The President was famous for his aversion to sour things...
Megure: Really?

SFX: Gulp...

Takagi: Uh...Hungry?
Megure: Yeah...I haven't had anything since breakfast...I was going to have dinner when I got called here...

Mouri: But Inspector, don't you always have a bento made by your wife?
Megure: I had a fight with Midori before I left home...

Midori: So you don't have anything to give me today!?
Megure Flashback: What do you mean!?
Megure: Well, it's not important so don't ask why...

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Satou: Oh, those are the White Day party souvenirs...
Hoshie: If you'd like I can give you one...

Satou: Oh, no...
Flashback Satou: White Day? What's that?
Woman: It's judgement day, when the extent of your boyfriend's love for your is exposed under broad daylight!!

Woman: First you nonchalantly give him Valentine's chocolate...
--And exactly 1 month later, if you receive a gift in return, you hear the chiming bells of dazzling romance...

Woman: If nothing comes, then you hear the cataclysmic sounds of approaching footsteps...
Satou: Cataclysmic sounds...
Woman: Well...the way candy makers manipulate people is a bit annoying!

Takagi: Please excuse me! I'm very insensitive!!
Satou: Hmm...

Hoshie: Hey, is the heel fixed?
Satou: Yes...but there's still the other one...

Satou: Stop it! Step it!
--I have to concentrate on my job!

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Megure: What!?

Megure: So the murderer rushed up to him?
Mouri: Yes, that's correct Inspector!

Mouri: I understand that every year the President puts on a program to surprise the guests of this party,
--slight of hand, costumes, skits...

Mouri: In other words, when the President first cried out and collapsed, that was part of a skit...
--Perhaps he even intended to involve a great detective such as myself in a mystery...

Mouri: Without knowing that afterwards he would be murdered in truth...
Takagi: Then, the one who raced to him first after he collapsed was...
Ran: H-his wife...

Ran: She crouched down and spoke to him right by his face...
Hoshie: What is it, Dear?
--Is it a mystery play this time?
Ran:...is what she said.

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Takagi: Y-you can't mean that's when the poison was given...
Megure: She directly placed it in his mouth herself?

Mouri: Yes...In short, only the wife could commit the crime because she knew the contents of the skit...
Hoshie: Oh my, to think that even a great detective could lose his mind like that...

Mouri: Eh?
Hoshie: At the time you were on stage and perhaps didn't see it...But after my husband collapsed his body didn't so much as make a twitch. There wasn't a single sound coming from his mouth, either...

Hoshie: If it's true that I administered the poison at that time...
--Wouldn't he have struggled in pain...and let out a moan?

Mouri: Hey, Ran! How was it?
--Weren't you right next to them?
Ran: S-she's right...He was completely motionless, as if he were really dead...

Megure: In other words, that deduction just now...is the harebrained, useless version you usually spout before you get serious...
--Useless version?.
--I remember this part well, but...

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Mouri: Aaaah!

Mouri: Foo, foo
Ran: Wait, where'd the rest of the cigarette fly off to!?
Megure: So, are you done with the body search?
Satou: Yes!

Satou:　I didn't find any poison, and there was no sign that she was ever carrying any...
Hoshie: Naturally...

Megure: ...If that's the case then it's as we expected...
Chiba: Inspector!

Chiba: We checked the glove box in the President's car...
--And found a bottle filled with potassium cyanide and a case filled with medicinal wafers!!

Megure: Wafers, the ones used to wrap medicinal powders and which dissolve once they are placed into the mouth?
Chiba: Yes!
--When I informed forensics they checked in between the President's back teeth and discovered　a dissolved wafer...

Satou: I see... he slipped the poison-filled wafer into his pocket, and then chose just the right time to take it...
Takagi: So we've concluded it's suicide...

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Conan: Hey, I think you should hurry up and call the restaurant!
Hoshie: Eh?

Conan: I mean, during the party you and the President only drank and didn't eat anything at all...I bet you made reservations at a high class restaurant.
Hoshie: We didn't make any reservations...

Hoshie: My husband was on a diet and wasn't allowed to eat out at night!
--Every day I made him healthy meals instead...
Conan:　Wow, you did that...Then, what was tonight's menu?

Hoshie: Eh?

Hoshie: Let's see, what was it...?
Conan: This party ends at 9pm...After the guests are sent home it'll be even later, so wouldn't you have to buy the ingredients soon?

Conan: I can't believe you were thinking things would turn out this way from the very beginning...

Hoshie: What...
--What is this boy!?
Conan: As I suspected...

Conan: She's undoubtedly the culprit...

Conan; But how did she administer the poison!?
--When the President collapsed she was definitely using both hands to read Ran's palm...

Conan: Assuming she used some kind of trick, then that one sentence...
Hoshie: Are you listening closely?
Conan: ..that she muttered...

Conan: But what purpose could those words have served?
Chiba: Aachoo!!

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Chiba: Aachoo!! Aachoo!!
Satou: What is it, Chiba-kun?...Hay fever?

Chiba: Yes...For now I've taken some medicine, but it hasn't been effective...
Conan: Effective...?
Chiba: However, if I take too much I become sleepy...
Chiba: It'd be great if there were a miraraculous medicine for hay fever that you could take without getting sleepy...

Conan: Miracle?

Ran: Oh no!
--Dad's cigarette! It's on the table!

Mouri: It's burning that paper napkin over there!!
Ran: Isn't it the one that was underneath Mrs. Urai's iced lemon tea?

Mouri: Well it's a good thing it didn't catch on fire...
Ran: Geez!

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Conan: I get it...
--That's why the wife purposely passed that way...

Conan: Hey, Detective Takagi!

Conan: Uncle Kogorou asked me to look for something...
Takagi: Look for something?

Conan: The evidence of the miraculous trick the culprit tried to hide!
Sidetext: What in the world is the trick to the miraculous murder by poison?