Detective Conan 738

File 738
Footprints
Caption: Will Ran and Kazuha be the Demon Dog's victims!?

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Sidetext: The "Fiery Demon Dog" appears before Ran and Kazuha!!

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Ran: Ka...
--Kazuha-chan!?

Ran: Get up!!
--The entrance is just right there!!

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Takako: What's with the racket?
Ran: T-the Demon Dog!

Kazuha: The Demon Dog appeared in the garden!
Takako: Demon Dog?

Yoshiya:That's absurd!
--There's no way he could make it on the premises!
Miyuki: You don't think he climbed over the fence or something?
Tomoaki: I-in any case it's dangerous so we should stay inside for awhile...

Ran: T-that's Hachi's barking...
Kazuha: Is he in trouble?

Kazuha: I'm going to bring Hachi in!
Ran: Me too!
Takako: Now wait a minute you two!

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Mouri: Indeed...
--It left behind these burnt tracks in the grass...

Heiji：By spraying an herbicide on the grass it made it easier to light on fire...
Conan: In addition...

Conan: The ropes strewn at the edge of the cliff were cut...
--And this sign was pulled out!

Yamamura: The signpost at the fork in the road is down, too...
Mouri: I see...

Mouri: The plan was to have them chased in the dark by the dog with the signs and ropes removed...
--so they'd plunge headlong over the cliff!

Yamamura: However, the question is whether or not that was done by the fiery Demon Dog!
Mouri: Hmph! There's no Demon Dog!

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Mouri: It's a mental trick!!
-- It's just a way to make it appear that the Demon Dog is for real using the old story of the cursed dog and then the fiery footprints. A dog could have been covered with fluorescent paint to make it glow!!

Yamamura: F-fluorescent paint?
Mouri: Yes! Seeing something glow that normally doesn't would make you mistakenly think it was burning!!

Yamamura: Then what about the burning footprints? There wasn't any smell of oil was there?
Mouri: As for those, they probably lit them each one by one using a blow torch.

Heiji: What is it, Kazuha?
--Looks like we still have business here so don't wait up...

Heiji: What!?
Conan: The Demon Dog appeared at the estate!?

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Heiji: Really!?

Heiji: You mean the dog was truly burning?
Kazuha: Yeah...

Kazuha: Right, Ran-chan?
Ran: Yeah!
--It wasn't like fluorescent paint or anything!

Ran: They're gone now...
--but where the dog was crossing the area there were flaming footprints...
Yamamura: They certainly...
--look the same as the flaming footprints up on the cliff,...

Mouri: So where'd this dog come from?
Kazuha: There on the other side!

Kazuha: And then it chased us all the way to the front entrance and made the flaming footprints!

Conan: The footprints are strange, though...
Kazuha: Eh?

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Conan: Look, judging by the interval between the footprints there should be some in this area...
--This spot is the only place where there's none!

Conan: And it's the only place where the ground is disturbed...
Ran: Isn't that were you fell, Kazuha-chan?
Kazuha: Yeah...There was something about the time when I tripped...

Kazuha: A strange odor...
Heiji: A strange odor...What kind?

Kazuha: Kinda like a rotten onion...
--A pretty disgusting smell...

Heiji: An...
Conan: onion!?

Ran: And then after we took refuge inside the house...
--we tried going outside...

Ran: But it was, like, alive...
Conan: Eh?
Yamamura: That's right! It came to attack you...

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Ran: No...Not the Demon Dog. The burnt footprints...
--were making a clanging sound and looked like they were skipping along, ...

Ran: Didn't you see it, too, Kazuha-chan?
Kazuha: I did, I did! It was like even the footprints had a soul of their own!

Yamamura： But you wanted to go outside...even though the Demon Dog might have been there?
Kazuha: Yes, but that's because we were afraid for Hachi!
Ran: We thought maybe he'd get eaten by the Demon Dog...

Ran: We're glad he's alright!
Kazuha: Hachi!

Mouri: I figured out how the Demon Dog broke in!
Yamamura: Eh?

Mouri: The back door!
--The bar on the door was removed and the door opened wide. There were even dog footprints there...

Mouri: In other words...
--The culprit who brought the Demon Dog onto these grounds through the back door...

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Mouri: is most likely...
--one of you four here in the courtyard.

Mouri: As for the bedridden old lady, well...
--that would have been impossible...

Conan: Hey, Ran-neechan, you said you two went into the garden　to feed Hachi. Who asked you to?
Ran: It was Miyuki-san...

Ran: But...that's because the other three refused to do it...
Kazuha: It's possible they could have predicted we'd go feed him...

Heiji: Then wouldn't that mean somebody must have been keeping the dog beside the grounds?
Conan: Right...If he wasn't nearby, he couldn't have had it attack them when they suddenly went to feed Hachi...

Yamamura： Have you noticed anything peculiar? Like a dog barking in the forest?
Tomoaki: Come to think of it...

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Tomoaki: Miwako-san, the second one to die, told me about it and we went to go have a look...
--a strange shack where a dog was barking...Naturally we were frightened and didn't enter...

Mouri: What!?
Heiji: Where is it!?
Tomoaki: R-right by the swamp where Miwako-san drowned...

Conan: Take us there now!
Tomoaki: Right now!?
Heiji: If we go now we might figure out the trick to the Demon Dog!

Mouri: Yes...
--If the culprit is here he won't have the opportunity to destroy any evidence...
Tomoaki: But tonight I'm on duty at the hospital...
Mouri: After we investigate the shack we'll drive you there...
Heiji: It's scary to go to the hospital by the forest roads alone...

Tomoaki: B-but...at the time I was just following Miwako-san. I don't know where the swamp is...
Miyuki: I can take you as far as the swamp!

Miyuki: I know the forest well...
--It's not far from here!

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Heiji: Whoa...

Heiji: So this is the swamp...

Conan: Hey, is it true there was fire encircling the swamp?
Yamamura: Yes...but only burnt tracks here and there...

Mouri: So where this shack?
Tomoaki: Um, let's see...

Tomoaki: Ah, over there!
--That old shack looks like it!

Mouri: So are we marching into the Demon Dog's lair?
Miyuki: Please watch your step!　The swamp doesn't appear to have a bottom...

Heiji: Huh? Aren't you going?
Tomoaki: There's no way I'm going!
--I'll wait in the car!

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Mouri: Well, now...
--What do we have here...

Mouri: This place is full of books on black magic!
Heiji: There's even a magic square drawn onto the floor...

Conan: Someone's definitely been keeping a dog here!
Miyuki: But who could it be!?

Yamamura: Whoever it is must have been here casting spells on the dog...
Heiji: Idiot! If murders could be committed with magic then detectives would be out of business!

Yamamura: But the girls saw...
Conan: That's why it's some kind of trick...

Tomoaki:Uwaaaaa

Conan/Heiji: Eh?

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Conan: Wha...
Heiji: What the...
Tomoaki: Uwaa

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Tomoaki:Uwaaaa

Heiji: Don' struggle!!
Conan: Stay still!!

Miyuki: I-is he ok!?
Heiji: Just some minor burns...
Mouri: But that thing we just saw...

Yamamura: Wasn't that...
--the Demon Dog?
Sidetext: Who is the culprit manipulating the Demon Dog!?