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.