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Even destiny serves as a clue to deduction.

And the light of truth pierces through the most mysterious case.

The Matsue mystery is solved today.

There are so many secrets in the lake.

He sees through the one and only truth.

A child in appearance with the I.Q. of an adult.

His name is Detective Conan!

"Matsue Castle"

One autumn day,

the three of us went on a trip to Matsue City in Shimane.

At Matsue Lake Hotel, we meet a group of five people

who have come to compose what is called linked verses group.

The next day,

one of their members, Mr. Gozo Ushikubo was found murdered

on the Matsue Castle grounds.

His index finger seems to be pointing to something

and we must find out what his dying message is.

I'm absolutely positive one of those four killed him

and we're going to find out at that poetry session!

"The Linked Poetry Incident At Tamatsukuri In Matsue (Part 2)"

"Tamatsukuri Spa" -Our haiku gathering will now begin.

There will be a total of 14 poems this time

for our linked verses composition.

Also, to make it easier for Mr. Mouri who is a beginner,

we'll do it with a word game style,

using the last syllable of the previous word to start the new verse.

A word game?

Yes.

There are only a few rules you have to follow.

Other than that, it's pretty much anything goes.

First, we start with a 5-7-5 poem for the opening

then follow with a 7-7 poem, and another 5-7-5 and so forth.

However, you have to be careful not to link your poem

to the two poems before yours which is called "uchikoshi".

After that, all you have to do is include the four seasons

in some of the fourteen poems.

In between, we'll include one poem referring to the moon,

three love poems,

the thirteenth poem will refer to flowers.

And the closing poem will be a poem

about Spring bringing it to a happy end.

That's all you have to remember.

Sure.

Hey, are you sure you can handle it?

Well, let's just start and see.

First is the opening poem.

The poems you all wrote...

Mr. Shiina's,

"Even Gods will gather and gaze upon Deer's Window."

Mr. Yagisawa's,

"To the huge turtle, a mantis does raise its ax in reverence forsooth."

Mizuki's,

"Soft and gently where the sun shines upon

the dancing autumn leaves."

And now Mr. Ushikubo's poem,

"Autumn surges, there's no sorrow in my life."

I think they are all good poems.

But since this session is dedicated to Mr. Ushikubo,

I'd like to use his poem as the opener.

-Okay. -Okay.

All right. Will someone continue for the "waki"?

What is a "waki"?

It's the second poem.

Like hokku, it contains reference to the season.

I'll go.

Within the silence, I hear a nut falling from the tree.

That's very good. You interpreted the opener very cleverly.

All right. Why don't you go next, Mr Yagisawa?

Okay.

I wonder if dad will be able to do it.

The guy is about as boorish as he can be.

I'm done.

Under the moonlight, Dracula comes to join me in verse.

That's quite amusing.

The use of Dracula,

a very radical character is very stimulating.

Is that kind of poem allowed?

Yes, for the third poem, you can let yourself go.

Let your imagination go wild.

Let the imagination go wild?

Ms. Mizuki, it's your turn.

Okay.

That text I see there seems to be made in Japan.

I think it'd be better to use the word textbook instead of text.

It's all right if you have an extra word.

Okay.

-Mr. Mouri. -Yes!

Would you like to give it a try?

Use the last syllable of the last word,

so you'll have to start with a "pan" or "han" word.

All right!

Here goes!

Catching the killer will prove to all that I am a great detective.

Well, what do you think?

Let's see.

"Great detective" and "Dracula" do seem to belong to the same realm

which would bring us back to the "uchikoshi",

but I guess it's all night.

All right, I'm next.

What the future holds for us is what God alone knows for certain.

Bravo, Ms. Reiko.

You've subtly challenged the detective.

Are you saying solving the case won't be so easy?

All right, I'll go next.

"Ru"...

Done!

Human-like monkey,

your face does remind me of the girl next to me.

Funny, isn't it?

The 7th syllable, "O" is the main point.

Huh? What does he mean?

Huh?

Mr. Yagisawa.

Here.

I found it in the lobby just now.

Gosh. I must have dropped it again.

Thank you.

Don't mention it.

I see.

You're all so very good!

How's it going. Mr. Mouri?

Well, not very good actually.

Three more poems to go.

We've got to do something soon.

Hey, Ms. Mizuki.

Didn't you say you wrote the first poem

while you were looking at the autumn leaves

at the rest area in the grounds of the samurai residence?

Yes.

That's strange.

I went there just a little while ago.

But I couldn't see the leaves from the rest area.

Is that true, Conan?

Yes.

I probably saw the autumn leaves in another location.

Another location?

Where was that?

Well...

Is Ms. Mizuki the killer?

If she isn't, why did she lie like that?

This poem... Could it be...

That means she's doing it for that person.

But what did that dying message mean?

So that's what it meant.

But why did that person do something like this?

I've got it!

Now, I understand!

Orders from Mr. Mouri for me?

Yes. He said not to tell Detective Yasurai,

and he wants you to investigate something.

All right! I understand!

If my deduction is correct,

that person is the killer.

I've got it!

What do you mean?

I know what Mr. Ushikubo's dying message is.

He wasn't pointing to the bamboo.

He was pointing to something beyond that.

Something beyond the bamboo?

Past the shrubs around the walk way

and past Horikawa.

That's right!

It's the site of the samurai homes

where Ms. Mizuki went to compose her poem.

Which means the killer

is you, Ms. Mizuki!

That's not true.

Hey, Ms. Mizuki!

The 10th poem here, it's a love poem, right?

And it's a one sided love.

Huh?

And another thing. Mr. Yagisawa.

During dinner, you were whistling, right?

Oh, yes.

So that's what it is!

Mizuki is in love with Yagisawa.

I see. So that's why last night, she...

What about last night?

Mr. Ushikubo said something cruel to Mr. Yagisawa last night.

Ms. Mizuki was watching them and she looked very worried.

Wait just a minute.

Are you saying...

Oh, I get it!

Ms. Mizuki, are you trying to protect Mr. Yagisawa?

What do you mean by that, Mr. Mouri?

I mean that she was concerned about what happened

between Mr. Ushikubo and Mr. Yagisawa last night,

so she changed her plans

and went to Matsue Castle to see Mr. Ushikubo.

But when she got there, she saw...

No, you're wrong!

I saw no such thing!

All I saw was...

What did you saw?

Ms. Mizuki.

Ms. Mizuki, I think it'd be better if you told the truth.

But, Ms. Reiko...

I agree with her.

I'm sorry if I sounded cocky.

But if you really do love him,

and if you really think he's special...

At first, I had planned to go to Gessho Temple,

not Matsue Castle.

Because I was worried about Mr. Yagisawa.

But the bus heading to Matsue Castle passed by

and I saw Mr. Yagisawa in it.

So I headed for Matsue Castle right away.

But when I got to the walk way,

Mr. Ushikubo was already dead.

And at his fingertip, I found...

After that, I rushed back to the samurai residences

and sat in the rest area until I calmed down.

Then when it was time to meet back, I went back to the hotel.

Wait a minute.

Sure, it's true I went to the castle.

But I didn't kill him,

and I didn't go to the walk way either.

Then, what part of the castle did you go to?

To the Jouzan Inari Shrine.

That's where there's a lot of fox statues, right?

That's where Mr. Ushikubo told me to meet him.

About 30 minutes after I got to Gessho Temple,

I got an e-mail from Mr. Ushikubo on my phone.

It said "Come to the Jouzan Inari Shrine at Matsue Castle right now."

It was about 10:05 am when I got to the shrine.

I waited about fifteen minutes, but he never showed up.

So I tried calling his phone, but there was no answer.

There was nothing I could do, so I went back to Gessho Temple

and composed the poem about the big turtle.

Then, why was your eye medicine at the crime scene?

I don't know.

I'm telling you the truth detective!

If you don't believe me,

check Mr. Ushikubo's phone.

We've already checked all the data on his phone.

But there's no record of any message to you like you claimed.

That's impossible!

How about his spare phone?

Mr. Ushikubo said he always carried a spare in his bag.

We have checked all his belonging,

but there was only one phone.

Mr. Yagisawa.

You stole Mr. Ushikubo's spare phone

and sent yourself that message, right?

No, that's not true!

Detective Yasugi!

-We have found the murder weapon! -What?

We found it in the lotus pond at Gessho Temple.

The nightstick was wrapped in this raincoat,

and the blood on it matched the victim.

And this raincoat...

Yagisawa?

That settles it.

That's impossible.

Come on! You can tell us all about it at the station.

Officer, it wasn't me.

You're making a big mistake!

Mr. Yagisawa!

Oh, boy. What a poetry composing trip this has turned into.

Let's end today's session.

Good idea.

Excuse me, I have a poem I would like to contribute.

You're starting with "chi" next, aren't you?

I'm finished!

Yummy chocolate candy, hurry and give me some now.

No, that's not what you called linked verses!

No.

You associated chocolate candy with "ant trail", right?

That's a very amusing poem befitting a child.

The next one should be a flower poem.

Mr. Shiina, you do it.

Come on! Make a poem starting with "I" sound.

Make it a pretty one!

All right, then!

I'm done.

Someday, my daughter and I will go to a temple with flowers.

-What do you think? -How strange.

It's really strange.

That's the poem Pops read to me just a little while ago.

Look.

When did you write that, dad?

Well, I...

Matsue...

Tamatsukuri!

-Dad? -Ran.

The truth is, I didn't write that poem.

Mr. Tomonaga, the man we met in the lobby yesterday

from the brokerage firm wrote it.

Mr. Ushikubo had written it down in his memo pad.

Mr. Shiina.

You were convinced Mr. Ushikubo came up with it himself, right?

He was such a cruel man,

so you couldn't forgive him for writing such a beautiful poem.

That's why you tore it out of his memo pad, didn't you?

After you killed him, of course.

Your poems had secret messages in them, right?

The seventh syllable in the seventh poem,

the ninth syllable in the ninth poem,

and the eleventh syllable in the eleventh poem.

"I'm the killer".

That was your challenge to me.

You secretly put messages in your poems

mocking both the police and me,

you must have been enjoying yourself.

Judging from your personality

and given the right conditions,

I knew you would use the poem you stole from Mr. Ushikubo.

So, I had you pegged.

Because this is the kind of poem you like.

My favorite poems are those with feelings,

like how a father feels for his daughter.

The conditions were perfect.

Then when Mr. Yagisawa was taken away

as the suspect in the murder,

the thirteenth poem was a flower poem

so I composed the previous poem setting things up for you.

So that's why you told Conan to do the twelfth poem.

That's right.

And just as I figured,

you used Mr. Ushikubo's poem

because you were so sure that you have won.

The secret message in the poems was just a joke.

And about that poem,

Mr. Ushikubo showed it to me last night.

Besides, I have an alibi.

An alibi?

That's right. I just remembered that at about 10:05 am,

I saw a female attendant at the art museum

found the parents of a lost boy.

You could have set up a video camera below the hedges there

and see it on the tape.

Conan found marks left behind by a tripod.

When you arrived at the art museum this morning,

you set a video camera up underneath the hedges.

Then you sent an e-mail to Mr. Yagisawa

with Mr. Ushikubo's spare phone,

which you had stolen beforehand.

Then, you went to Matsue Castle and killed Mr. Ushikubo.

After that, you put Mr. Yagisawa's eye medicine

by Mr. Ushikubo's finger.

And went to Gessho Temple

to get rid of the raincoat and murder weapon,

then went back to the art museum for the video.

Finally, you came back to the hotel

pretending like nothing happened.

That's a very interesting story. Mr. Mouri.

I hate to disappoint you though...

I have the evidence to prove it.

It's Mr. Ushikubo's dying message.

He wasn't pointing to the bamboo or the samurai residence.

He was making the number one.

What's that supposed to mean?

Ran, what's the first poem in linked verses called?

Hokku.

Now, Officer Tsubaki, give us the results from the lab.

Yes, sir.

This is Mr. Shiina's shoe.

The left front hook on the left shoe

is where we found a bloody fingerprint

which matched Mr. Ushikubo's right index finger and it was his blood.

He was telling us to check your shoe in his dying message.

You were probably so engrossed with his memo pad

that you didn't notice he touched your shoe, right?

I give up, Mr. Mouri.

You're right. I killed him.

But what made you suspicious of me?

The first thing I found strange was last night's drawing of lots.

Usually, the person who makes the lots will draw it last

but you went second.

Since we're taking turns according to age,

so the next one is me.

You rigged the drawing

so that Mr. Ushikubo would pick a place

that would make killing him easy

and your place would be far away giving you an excellent alibi.

No wonder you're the country's best private detective.

So, your motive for killing Mr. Ushikubo was...

I couldn't forgive him for lying

and cheating us out of our money.

But that doesn't give you the right to pass sentence on him.

Yes, I know that.

I know that very well.

I know only God can pass judgement on him.

I guess the God of Izumo brought you here to teach that to me.

I'm so happy for them.

It looks like Mr. Yagisawa

feels the same for Ms. Mizuki.

It certainly does.

By the way, Ms. Reiko.

There is still one poem left for the linked verses.

All right, then. This one will express my gratitude to Mr. Mouri

and how I feel about Matsue City.

Infamous Lafcadio Hearn smiles brightly and Spring arrives.

That's a wonderful poem!

Isn't that right, dad?

Lafcalio?

It's Lafcadio Hearn!

It's about Yakumo Koizumi.

Koizumi...

At this rate,

Lafcadio Hearn, the spring of his amazement,

would be more appropriate.

Next Conan's Hint:

"Offertory box"