# E760 - The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion (Part 2)
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Detective Conan Episode 760 "The Romance
Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion (Part 2)"
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**[00:01] Narration**
Ran, Sonoko, and I went to hang out
with Sera at the hotel she lives in.
**[00:05] Narration**
On our way home, a homicide
occurred on a lower floor.
***SIGN*** Hiura Keigo (48)
Author
**[00:11] Editor C**
M-Maybe it has something
to do with that fax.
**[00:16] Editor C**
This morning, my department received a fax.
***SIGN*** If you don't fire the assistant, you'll regret it.
**[00:19] Editor C**
It said we'd regret it if we
didn't fire his assistant.
**[00:22] Hiura**
Why didn't you tell me about that?!
**[00:26] Hiura**
You had plenty of opportunities to tell me!
**[00:30] Sera**
*I see.*
**[00:34] Sera**
*The culprit...*
**[00:36] Conan**
*...is this guy.*
**[00:41] Conan**
The hidden lines on the palm are the fuse.
**[00:43] Conan**
The deduction catches fire
on the line to the heart.
**[00:45] Conan**
The contents of the novel
bring us closer to the case.
**[00:47] Conan**
Who is the girl who looks like Sera?
**[00:49] Conan**
Always determining the one truth with the
body of a child and the mind of an adult,
**[00:52] Conan**
his name is Detective Conan!
***SIGN*** The Romance Novel with the
Unexpected Conclusion
(Part Two)
**[02:35] Conan**
The Romance Novel with the
Unexpected Conclusion, Part Two!
**[02:42] Takagi**
It's Takagi.
**[02:44] Takagi**
There's something I wanted
to confirm with you.
**[02:47] Sera**
What?
**[02:48] Sera**
The caps for the shampoo and
conditioner are missing?
**[02:51] Sera**
The ones from the victim's room?
**[02:53] Takagi**
Yeah.
**[02:54] Takagi**
They're amenities that
come with the bathroom.
**[02:58] Takagi**
We couldn't find them in the drain, either.
**[03:01] Conan**
We only entered the main entrance.
**[03:04] Takagi**
Then you weren't the ones
who knocked over the table?
**[03:07] Sera**
The table?
**[03:09] Takagi**
Most of the room was undisturbed, but
somehow just the table was knocked over.
**[03:14] Takagi**
A can of beer that we believe
was sitting on top of it
**[03:18] Takagi**
had fallen on top of the victim's suitcase.
**[03:20] Takagi**
The victim's clothes inside the
suitcase are covered in beer.
**[03:25] Conan**
What kind of suitcase is it?
**[03:27] Takagi**
It was pretty big.
**[03:30] Takagi**
There wasn't much inside it, though.
**[03:33] Sera**
What was inside the suitcase?
**[03:35] Takagi**
In addition to clothes, we found
makeup, a tablet, and a backpack.
**[03:40] Takagi**
Oh, right.
**[03:42] Takagi**
There was an old postcard in one of
the backpack's inside pockets, too.
**[03:46] Sera**
An old...
**[03:47] Conan**
...postcard?
***SIGN*** What a cute story.
When I write
a story like this,
maybe I'll name the
heroine after you.
Hiura Keigo
**[03:49] Takagi**
Yeah.
**[03:50] Takagi**
It was postmarked twenty years ago.
**[03:52] Takagi**
The sender was Hiura-sensei.
**[03:55] Takagi**
It says, "What a cute story.
**[03:57] Takagi**
When I write a story like this, maybe
I'll name the heroine after you."
**[04:04] Takagi**
But it's addressed to Ota
Jun, not Mizunashi Chiaki.
***SIGN*** Ota Jun-sama
**[04:09] Ran**
O-Ota Jun?
**[04:11] Ran**
That's the heroine's name from Hiura-sensei's
"The Phone, the Ocean, and I."
***SIGN*** The Phone, The Ocean, and I Hiura Keigo
**[04:18] Sonoko**
Really?
**[04:19] Ran**
Yeah.
**[04:20] Conan**
What is it about?
**[04:23] Ran**
One day, the heroine finds an old
scratched up cell phone on the beach.
**[04:29] Ran**
Strangely enough,
**[04:31] Ran**
the phone is a new, unreleased model she
was planning to buy the following week.
**[04:37] Ran**
While she's looking at the phone, she
receives an e-mail asking how old she is.
***SIGN*** How old are you?
**[04:45] Sonoko**
Sounds dangerous.
**[04:47] Ran**
Thinking the same thing,
**[04:50] Ran**
the heroine responds, "I won't tell
you my personal information, idiot!"
**[04:54] Ran**
She receives the response "You started
talking like that in high school.
**[04:58] Ran**
That brings back memories."
**[05:00] Ran**
The sender correctly guesses
a bunch of other things, too,
**[05:02] Ran**
like the results of that day's
soccer or baseball games.
**[05:06] Sonoko**
I-I-Is it...?
**[05:09] Ran**
That's right.
**[05:10] Ran**
Someone is sending her messages with a time
transference device using her future phone.
**[05:15] Takagi**
A time transference device?
**[05:18] Ran**
Yeah.
**[05:19] Ran**
It's basically a time machine.
**[05:21] Ran**
When the heroine learns the world becomes
a mess a few years in the future,
**[05:26] Ran**
she begins changing the future
little by little to prevent it.
**[05:30] Sera**
Really? That sounds kind of interesting.
**[05:33] Ran**
Doesn't it?
**[05:34] Ran**
Anyway, the heroine asks the person,
**[05:37] Ran**
"Who are you? What is your
relationship with me?"
**[05:42] Ran**
But they always answer
"The phone, the ocean, and I."
**[05:47] Sonoko**
Huh? What the heck?
What does that mean?
**[05:51] Ran**
The heroine thought it was gibberish at
first, but she finally figured it out recently.
**[05:56] Ran**
She responds to the sender with
"The phone, the ocean, and I."
***SIGN*** The phone, the ocean, and I.
**[06:01] Sonoko**
What?
**[06:02] Ran**
The answer is finally going to be
revealed in next week's final chapter.
**[06:06] Ran**
I can't wait.
**[06:10] Takagi**
He's a bold writer, though.
**[06:13] Takagi**
He doesn't have any time left,
**[06:16] Takagi**
but he invited the editors watching him
into his room for lunch to win them over.
**[06:23] Takagi**
If I were in his situation,
**[06:25] Takagi**
I would probably shave my head in
desperation and ask for more time.
**[06:30] Takagi**
Of course, he already has a shaved head.
**[06:37] Conan**
Did the writer already go back to his room?
**[06:41] Takagi**
No.
**[06:42] Takagi**
Since he's a suspect,
**[06:44] Takagi**
we're having him wait in front of his
room until forensics is finished.
**[06:49] Sera**
Then they should still be in his hand.
**[06:52] Takagi**
Huh? What is?
**[06:54] Sera**
*The alibi trick and misprint error...*
**[06:58] Sera**
*...that failed to revise this crime novel.*
**[07:09] Hiura**
Give me a break!
**[07:12] Hiura**
How long are you going to
keep searching my room?
**[07:14] Hiura**
You won't find anything!
**[07:16] Hiura**
The body was found in her
room directly below this one,
**[07:20] Hiura**
and she was killed around 3:30 PM, right?
**[07:24] Hiura**
I was in this room at that time, and
I even have people vouching for me!
**[07:31] Hiura**
Tell them!
**[07:32] Editor C**
Y-Yes, sir.
**[07:35] Editor C**
From 3:00 until around 4:30,
I was eating in Hiura-sensei's room.
**[07:41] Editor C**
He was taking a bath at the
time and didn't eat with us,
**[07:47] Editor C**
but there's no way he could
have gotten out of this room.
**[07:51] Editor C**
We were eating at the
table facing the entrance.
**[07:56] Megure**
But if he had a rope, he could climb
down from the balcony to the room below.
**[08:02] Hiura**
Don't be ridiculous.
**[08:03] Hiura**
This is the 30th floor.
**[08:06] Hiura**
I'm not 007.
**[08:08] Hiura**
A simple author like myself
could never pull that off.
**[08:13] Hiura**
Besides, you can see the
balcony from the table, too.
**[08:16] Megure**
Y-You're right.
**[08:18] Hiura**
If you want to take any
more of my personal time,
**[08:23] Hiura**
you'll have to tell me how I got out of here
**[08:26] Hiura**
when the crime was committed
and how I got back up.
**[08:30] Sera**
There was no need for
you to leave or return.
**[08:38] Sera**
You invited the victim to this
room and killed her here.
**[08:44] Megure**
Th-The victim was in this room?
**[08:46] Hiura**
Wh-What are you talking about?
**[08:48] Hiura**
The editors would have noticed
Minazuki-kun coming to this room!
**[08:53] Hiura**
They recognize her face!
**[08:55] Hiura**
She didn't come here, did she?!
**[08:57] Editor C**
N-No.
**[08:59] Conan**
Yeah, but...
**[09:00] Editor C**
Huh?
**[09:01] Conan**
There were lots of people
bringing delivery food, right?
**[09:04] Editor C**
Y-Yeah.
**[09:06] Conan**
I think anyone would be
fooled if Minazuki-san
**[09:09] Conan**
disguised herself as a delivery person
**[09:12] Conan**
and changed her hairstyle.
**[09:15] Editor C**
M-Maybe, but everyone
left once we paid them.
**[09:21] Conan**
Really?
**[09:23] Conan**
Then what about the wine
on top of that desk?
**[09:27] Conan**
If you ordered a decanter,
**[09:29] Conan**
it wouldn't be strange for the delivery
person to enter the room, right?
**[09:33] Editor C**
N-Now that you mention it,
**[09:35] Editor C**
Hiura-sensei asked the person who delivered
the wine to pour it into a decanter.
**[09:39] Editor C**
It was a bellhop wearing glasses
with her hair tied back.
**[09:44] Megure**
A bellhop?
**[09:46] Megure**
Did you see that bellhop leave the room?
**[09:50] Editor C**
N-No...
**[09:51] Editor C**
We were too busy eating.
**[09:54] Sera**
Yes.
**[09:55] Sera**
That's what he wanted.
**[09:56] All**
What?
**[09:58] Sera**
If you had been waiting outside,
**[10:01] Sera**
you would've checked how many people
entered and how many left, right?
**[10:07] Sera**
Hiura-sensei may have tried to escape
disguised as a delivery person.
**[10:13] Sera**
But once he invited you into the room,
you stopped checking as diligently.
**[10:19] Sera**
No matter who entered, you just had
to make sure Hiura-sensei didn't leave.
**[10:27] Sera**
That's why it didn't bother you that
the bellhop who brought the wine
**[10:31] Sera**
entered the room and never came back.
**[10:34] Megure**
Was the bellhop Minazuki-san, then?
**[10:38] Sera**
Yeah.
**[10:40] Sera**
While the editors were
eating in the living room,
**[10:44] Sera**
he told the victim to go to the
bathroom and killed her there.
**[10:55] Sera**
He probably chose the bathroom since she
would take off her bellhop clothes herself.
**[11:01] Sera**
The body was wearing a bathrobe which
would be easy to put on someone.
**[11:05] Megure**
B-But why did the victim
disguise herself as a bellhop?
**[11:09] Megure**
She's his assistant. She could have
stopped by without hesitation.
**[11:12] Sera**
Because they were suspected of being lovers.
**[11:15] Sera**
If the editors saw her enter, who knows
what the magazines would write next?
**[11:22] Sera**
He asked her to do it.
**[11:27] Hiura**
What an interesting trick.
**[11:31] Hiura**
I'd like to use it if I ever
write a mystery novel.
**[11:38] Hiura**
Tell me one thing, though.
**[11:41] Hiura**
How did I move the body from
this room to the one below?
**[11:50] Hiura**
I left this room around 5:30 PM,
**[11:54] Hiura**
thirty minutes before the bellboy
discovered the body downstairs.
**[11:59] Hiura**
Was I carrying a body then?
**[12:02] Editor C**
N-No.
**[12:03] Editor C**
You were only holding your wallet.
**[12:06] Hiura**
What were you doing between the time I
left and the bellboy started shouting?
**[12:12] Editor C**
I-I was reading the manuscript you
had written in front of your room.
**[12:19] Hiura**
Unfortunately, I can't write your mystery.
**[12:23] Hiura**
It's full of holes.
**[12:27] Conan**
Yeah, sure.
**[12:28] Conan**
We're ready now. Do it, Detective Takagi.
**[12:33] Megure**
T-Takagi?
**[12:35] Forensics**
Inspector Megure!
**[12:37] Forensics**
Something just fell on the
balcony from the floor above.
**[12:40] Megure**
What?
**[12:42] Megure**
The balcony?
**[12:46] Megure**
Th-This is...
**[12:48] Megure**
A suitcase!
**[12:50] Megure**
Why did this fall from upstairs?
**[12:53] Takagi**
Inspector!
**[12:55] Takagi**
Open the suitcase!
**[12:58] Megure**
What is he doing?
**[13:09] Megure**
T-Two bags of rice?
**[13:11] Sera**
Each bag is thirty kilograms.
**[13:14] Sera**
All together, that's sixty kilograms.
**[13:15] Sera**
That's roughly the weight of one person.
**[13:18] Megure**
D-Did he put the body in a suitcase?
**[13:21] Sera**
Yeah.
**[13:22] Sera**
Climbing down on a rope would be scary,
**[13:26] Sera**
but passing a rope through the handle
**[13:28] Sera**
of a suitcase containing the
body and lowering it is easy.
**[13:31] Sera**
You can swing the suitcase
onto the balcony below.
**[13:36] Sera**
If you don't tie the rope to the handle,
you can pull it back up by one of the ends.
**[13:42] Megure**
Which means the suitcase
in the victim's room...
**[13:47] Sera**
He brought it to move the body.
**[13:50] Sera**
The backpack inside the suitcase
was probably her actual luggage.
**[13:55] Sera**
He removed the contents and
stuffed her inside the suitcase.
**[13:58] Megure**
I see.
**[14:00] Sera**
In other words,
**[14:00] Sera**
Hiura-sensei strangled the victim in the
bathroom after inviting her to his room,
**[14:06] Sera**
stuffed her inside the suitcase naked,
waited for the editors to finish and leave,
**[14:13] Sera**
and lowered the suitcase containing her
body to the room below from the balcony.
**[14:18] Sera**
Then he handed out the finished
manuscripts to the waiting editors,
**[14:26] Sera**
and said he would think about how to finish
his book while buying cigarettes around 5:30.
**[14:33] Sera**
He entered the victim's room using
the room key he stole from her,
**[14:37] Sera**
dressed her in a bathrobe, and
placed her body near the entrance.
**[14:42] Sera**
The bellboy instructed
to deliver champagne
**[14:47] Sera**
to her room at exactly 6:00
discovered her body for him.
**[14:51] Sera**
He spilled beer inside the suitcase
to cover the wetness and smell.
**[14:56] Sera**
He hastily stuffed the body inside the
suitcase before her hair had dried.
**[15:01] Sera**
It was probably wet and
smelled like shampoo.
**[15:05] Megure**
Why didn't he dry her hair before
putting her inside the suitcase?
**[15:09] Megure**
Surely he had the time.
**[15:11] Conan**
Of course he wouldn't dry it.
**[15:14] Conan**
The editors would've thought it strange
if they heard the sound of the hair dryer.
**[15:20] Megure**
I see.
**[15:22] Megure**
He has a shaved head.
**[15:23] Sera**
Hiura-sensei took the caps off the bottles
in the victim's room for the same reason.
**[15:31] Sera**
You had to replace the caps the victim
washed down the drain after she used yours.
**[15:39] Sera**
After all, there's no reason
for you to use shampoo.
**[15:43] Sera**
So you may still have them.
**[15:46] Sera**
The shampoo and conditioner caps.
**[15:51] Sera**
Assuming you didn't throw
them away on your way here.
**[15:59] Sera**
Even if you did,
**[16:01] Sera**
a bellhop uniform was
found inside a paper bag
**[16:05] Sera**
in the garbage can in the elevator
hall on the floor below.
**[16:08] Megure**
What? How did it get there?
**[16:10] Megure**
His hands were empty when he left his room.
**[16:13] Sera**
He was wearing them underneath
the clothes he's wearing now.
**[16:19] Sera**
He took them off on the
landing, put them in a bag,
**[16:23] Sera**
and threw them away before
the body was discovered.
**[16:26] Sera**
You should find sweat, skin,
**[16:29] Sera**
and fingerprints from the victim and
Hiura-san on the bellhop uniform.
**[16:45] Hiura**
I just couldn't throw them away.
**[16:48] Hiura**
I was worried someone might be watching.
**[16:52] Megure**
You admit you did it, then?
**[16:55] Hiura**
Yes.
**[16:56] Hiura**
I tried to get away with it by
sending the threatening fax,
**[17:00] Hiura**
but I'm not a mystery writer after all.
**[17:04] Editor C**
B-But why?
**[17:06] Editor C**
She was a talented assistant.
You said she had revived your career!
**[17:11] Hiura**
Yes, that's right.
**[17:14] Hiura**
Without her, I can't write another line.
**[17:18] Editor C**
Th-Then why?
**[17:21] Editor C**
Was she actually your lover and
demanding you get divorced?
**[17:25] Hiura**
No. It was the opposite.
**[17:27] Editor C**
What?
**[17:28] Hiura**
No matter how many times I approached her,
**[17:32] Hiura**
she would always say it would upset my wife.
**[17:36] Hiura**
She took a bath because
I told her she smelled.
***SIGN*** The Phone, the Ocean, and I
**[17:44] Hiura**
She came to my room to discuss my novel,
***SIGN*** Hiura Keigo
**[17:50] Hiura**
the final scene of "The
Phone, the Ocean, and I."
**[17:54] Editor C**
Then... Then that novel...
**[17:58] Hiura**
Yes.
**[18:00] Hiura**
That's right.
**[18:01] Hiura**
She came up with most of the story.
**[18:04] Hiura**
It was based on an old fan letter.
**[18:07] Hiura**
You can't even call it my work.
**[18:10] Megure**
A fan letter?
**[18:12] Hiura**
Yes.
**[18:13] Hiura**
While cleaning, I discovered an old fan
letter from a grade school student.
**[18:18] Hiura**
I decided to write a novel
based on the included story,
**[18:22] Hiura**
using Ota Jun, the name of the
sender, as the name of my heroine.
**[18:28] Hiura**
It began when I told her about the letter.
**[18:31] Hiura**
She asked me to let her choose the title.
**[18:35] Hiura**
She would meticulously revise my writing.
**[18:40] Hiura**
She made the novel
spectacular, but I didn't
**[18:44] Hiura**
understand why she worked so hard on it.
**[18:52] Hiura**
Every time I asked, she would smile
and say I would understand eventually.
**[18:59] Hiura**
Then a weekly magazine
accused us of being lovers.
**[19:04] Hiura**
That was when I became certain!
**[19:06] Hiura**
This woman intended to steal my family,
my status, my honor, and my money from me
**[19:12] Hiura**
and destroy me completely!
**[19:15] Editor C**
B-But why would she do that?
**[19:18] Hiura**
Who knows?
**[19:20] Hiura**
I used to be quite the
playboy when I was younger.
**[19:23] Hiura**
I must have done something
to make her hate me.
**[19:28] Hiura**
Honestly, I'm relieved you caught me.
**[19:32] Hiura**
Though I meant to reveal the meaning
**[19:35] Hiura**
of "The Phone, the Ocean,
and I" in the final scene,
**[19:38] Hiura**
I killed her before I could
ask her what it meant.
**[19:42] Conan**
It means "I love you."
**[19:43] Hiura**
What?
**[19:45] [Messenger] Text**
Phone Ocean I
**[19:45] Conan**
If you translate the words
"telephone," "sea,"
**[19:49] Conan**
and "I" into English
and read them backwards,
**[19:51] Conan**
you get "I sea tel."
**[19:55] Conan**
Maybe the heroine's boyfriend or
husband was sending her messages
**[20:00] Conan**
from the future on the phone.
**[20:04] Hiura**
Th-There's no way a child's
explanation could be...
**[20:09] Conan**
It can't be helped.
**[20:11] Conan**
After all, it was a child who
originally came up with the code.
**[20:16] Conan**
Similarly, if you look at Minazuki Chiaki,
***SIGN*** Minazuki > June
***SIGN*** Chiaki > Autumn
**[20:19] Conan**
"minazuki" is another word for
the sixth month, or "June".
**[20:22] Conan**
The "aki" from Chiaki is "Autumn".
**[20:24] Conan**
If you read them backwards, you
get Autumn Jun, or Ota Jun.
***SIGN*** Ota Jun
**[20:30] Hiura**
Th-Then... was she...?
**[20:33] Sera**
I see. Ota Jun was her pen name.
**[20:37] Sera**
Once you learned the meaning of
"The Phone, the Ocean, and I,"
**[20:40] Sera**
you would realize that, too.
**[20:42] Hiura**
B-But...
**[20:45] Hiura**
No...
**[20:50] Sera**
Maybe she just wanted you to make
her childhood dream come true
**[21:01] Sera**
in the best way possible.
**[22:25] Ran**
"I love you," huh?
**[22:28] Ran**
I see.
**[22:30] Ran**
Her boyfriend was sending her
messages from the future.
**[22:33] Conan**
Yeah.
**[22:33] Conan**
That's what Sera-no-neechan said.
**[22:36] Sonoko**
But couldn't it have been a stalker?
**[22:39] Ran**
No way!
**[22:41] Ran**
Don't ruin it by saying something weird.
**[22:50] Ran**
What's wrong, Conan-kun?
**[22:52] Conan**
Uh, nothing.
**[22:54] Conan**
It's nothing.
**[23:01] Girl**
A listening device?
**[23:04] Sera**
It's from the end of his glasses.
**[23:08] Sera**
That was close.
**[23:09] Girl**
I've never seen one like this.
**[23:13] Girl**
Based on the size of its battery,
it probably doesn't last long.
**[23:19] Girl**
But this form and performance...
**[23:22] Girl**
How fascinating.
**[23:25] Sera**
Well? Do you like him?
**[23:28] Girl**
I'm still a long way from trusting him,
**[23:31] Girl**
but if he tires of waiting and
asks you about me, tell him this.
**[23:40] Girl**
That I'm his sister from another domain.
***SIGN*** Episode Preview
**[23:45] Conan**
We're in Kanazawa.
**[23:48] Kogoro**
You wish to challenge the
great detective Mouri Kogoro?
**[23:53] Kogoro**
I accept.
**[23:58] Woman**
Thief!
**[24:04] Woman**
Did you notice anything?
***SIGN*** Kaga Hyakumangoku Mystery Tour (Kanazawa Arc)
**[24:09] Conan**
The next episode of Conan is "Kaga
Hyakumangoku Mystery Tour, Kanazawa Arc!"
***SIGN*** Shoulder Bag
**[24:30] Man**
Next Conan's hint!
**[24:32] Conan**
A shoulder bag!
**[24:35] Ran**
Next week we're all going to Kanazawa!
***SIGN*** Don't miss the next episode.
**[24:36] Conan**
I'm excited for the Kagawa hot springs!
**[24:38] Megure**
Don't cause any trouble.
**[24:39] Conan**
Okay.