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Love and hate are brought together.

Through both reasoning and suspense.

What does the cross mean?

It's a coded case!

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

I think I've seen him before.

I know I've seen him.

But where did I meet him?

That man in the black knit hat.

And what is this thing I'm feeling?

This uneasiness that I feel like something is gonna break

if I try to remember what it was.

Yeah, at that time...

and that time?

It's the same bad feeling

-Ran... -I felt back then.

Ran!

Hey, Ran!

Ran!

My gosh.

What? Sonoko.

Why are you so slow?

Hey! Ms. Mouri!

Have you been paying attention to my lecture, Ms. Mouri?

Yeah. Yes!

Okay, then, Ms. Mouri.

Do you have any idea what that mark

on the blackboard means?

What?

Well...

Cross-mark.

Oh, no, maybe it's the letter X". I think?

Ran, that means...

Time's up!

Ms. Mouri, think about it

and give me an answer by the next class!

Find out exactly what that means.

It pays for a lady like you

to know what the cute mark is!

Okay?

Yes.

"Hide, Hurry up and Abbreviate it (Part 1)"

"X"?

Is there any special meaning?

Yeah! Ms. Jodie, our teacher,

mentioned it at the end of today's class,

saying that it was a cute mark.

Ran! No way! Impossible!

You can't get the right answer

from this snot nosed kid!

But, as you know,

Conan sometimes knows about the strangest things.

Yeah, true.

X...

In algebra, X represents an unknown quantity.

Or, it can mean a problem,

something unknown, or an unnamed thing.

X-ray means radiograph.

X rating means no one under 18 is admitted.

X day is a variable day

when people think something is going to happen.

Wait, if it is the cross,

the X means wrong or censored print.

One X can also mean that the person has been divorced once.

Right, right.

She said that it paid for a woman to know the mark.

What?

A woman?

That reminds me.

My mother used to write a series of crosses

at the end of the letter.

Like, XXX.

But she never told me what it meant even if I asked her.

But, Sonoko,

don't you think that Ms. Jodie's way of teaching has changed?

Yeah, yeah!

She used to be too serious and boring before.

But now, she teaches us casual English too

and I like it.

Hi! Remember this, flattery is not going to

get you better grades!

Ms. Jodie?

Ms. Mouri! Did you figure out what "X" means?

No, not at all.

Right! How about asking Shinichi about it by e-mail?

If you get the right answer,

I'll give you my sweet "X".

What?

My sweet X!

Oh, that's a good idea!

What?

You think so too, don't you?

What was that?

What does X mean anyway?

X...

But...

Aren't you heading in the opposite direction from your apartment?

Yes, now that you mentioned it.

Hey! There's something I want to ask you two.

Will you come with me?

X...

Cross?

What?

Are you asking if we are being sexually harassed?

-You mean us? - You mean us?

Oh, yes!

There are many girls of Teitan high School

who being sexually harassed on the trains and buses.

We've never been harassed, have we?

Yes.

And even if such a pervert tries to molest me

then Ran will bust him up with her karate skills!

Oh! You're her bodyguard!

No...

But still be careful!

Maybe the guy will follow you all the way home

waiting for a chance to get to you.

He may be a super scary and demon-like stalker.

If such a man is creeping around near my home,

the guard will grab and throw him out immediately.

I also haven't seen such a man around my neighborhood.

Right, Conan?

What?

Yeah.

Okay, then.

If you see any suspicious person,

please call me at once.

-Call you? -Call you?

Yes! Japanese people still underestimate the stalker.

If you call me, I'll give that guy

a good scolding, American style.

What?

A suspicious man is waiting in ambush for you?

"Norihisa Kisugi (50)" -Where are you now?

At the building where the coffee shop is.

I said a suspicious man but...

he may well be the man in question

who I have been checking on.

"Katsunori Chujo (43)" -When he meets me,

he'll probably say,

"I'll pay you double the reward you're getting,"

"so please let me go."

Yeah, listen, let's make a deal.

Okay!

I'll pay you triple!

No, quadruple!

So, please hurry and come over here now

and give me the guy's name and the evidence.

It's a deal. I'll be right over!

He can't pay me four times, so I guess he'll give it up.

Sorry, but that's the story.

No offense, Mr. Man-in-question.

Hey... I won't change my mind

even if you follow me around.

You're finished at any rate.

Because...

all the details of your evil doings

are contained in this envelope.

No.

What's going on?

Is it a black out?

Oh, the lights turned on again.

Oh, what a scare.

It can't be helped, Sonoko,

because you've experienced a blackout

in a building before...

Hey! It's right in front of this shop!

It is! I wonder what happened.

Ms. Mouri and Ms. Suzuki,

call the police and an ambulance!

Yes!

What?

Something was written on the envelope he's holding.

Circle, Cross, Triangle?

What's this?

A thrust with a knife into his abdomen.

Yes. The murdered victim is

Mr. Katsunori Chujo, 43 years old.

Judging from a name card he carried,

he is the director of a private detective agency.

Oh, a detective.

But what I don't understand is

this bizarre dying message.

No... It's a dying message!

Your...

Hi, I'm Jodie Saintemillion!

Nice to see you again, inspector.

Before you correct his English,

improve your Japanese first!

But you're the type who really gets involved

in all sorts of cases, aren't you?

Yes!

But I'm still no match for them!

Oh, you're also here, Ran and Sonoko!

When we were in that coffee shop,

the power suddenly went out.

And just after the lights turned on again,

we heard a woman scream.

Then, we came here and saw the man.

Blackout?

Yes, the blackout was caused by a mistake

made by an electrician during maintenance.

And the blackout lasted only fifteen seconds or so.

So, the murderer,

taking advantage of this coincidence.

Meanwhile, Mr. Chujo, just before dying,

left the odd dying message.

But, what's this?

This circle, the cross and the triangle.

They are symbols often used for unprintable words.

Is it possible that this could be someone's name?

I have a feeling that

I've seen those symbols somewhere before!

What?

What? What did you say?

Where did you see them?

Please remember, Ms. Jodie!

The controller!

Those symbols are on the Japanese PC game controller.

Did it help you at all?

Oh, yeah. I remember this teacher is a PC gamer.

Inspector Megure!

The victims cell phone log shows that someone called him

30 minutes ago.

What?

30 minutes ago!

That's about the time when he was killed!

So then why don't you return the call?

What?

Oh, yeah.

You are the one

who called Mr. Chujo 30 minutes ago, right?

Oh, no... I just...

Hey!

He might be the guy who was calling back then.

I heard this guy talking about something suspicious!

Let's see.

He said, I'll pay four times as much

so come here immediately or something like that.

Can you help me make sense of it?

I understand. I'll tell you everything!

I'll explain everything. I promise.

So your company hired a private detective

to conduct its own internal investigation.

That's right.

Last month, we discovered that

an employee has secretly been embezzling money

from our company.

So, an executive ordered me to find out

who it was before informing the president of the mess.

Where is your company?

Our company occupies the 8th to 11th floor of this building.

I see.

You got a call from the private detective

that he tracked down the embezzler.

So, you tried to avoid meeting him in your office

and arranged to meet him at this cafe.

But as he didn't show up

at the appointed time,

you called him, right?

Yes.

As the envelope Mr. Chujo was holding was empty,

I think the embezzler and the murderer

are the same person?

Yeah. It's quite possible that

the embezzler killed the private investigator

and then ran inside into one of the offices upstairs.

But, do you have any idea who the embezzler is?

Oh, no.

Last week, the private investigator

gave me an interim report that

included a list of suspicious employees.

Here is the list!

Inspector Megure!

Geez, it'll take a bit of doing to check them all.

There are 58 suspects.

The only clues so far

are the symbols, a circle, a cross and a triangle.

How intriguing.

Inspector Megure!

The fingerprints of Mr. Chujo,

who was stabbed to death,

were detected on the symbols written with blood.

Oh, I see!

As we expected, the blood was Mr. Chujo's

and it also hasn't been long since he wrote them.

So, there's almost no doubt

that he wrote the circle, cross and triangle,

as a clue or a dying message

to identity the murderer.

Good.

Also it seems that Mr. Chujo was stabbed

before the black out.

Before the blackout?

Yes. According to a witness,

the lights went out after a man in a coat stabbed Mr. Chujo.

The spot where he was stabbed is around here,

just in front of the escalator.

The blackout started while the two scrambled for his envelope.

When the lights came back on,

Mr. Chujo's body moved to the escalator

and was crouched there.

The man in the coat approached him,

pulled something like a document out of the envelope

and ran up the stairs!

So then, Mr. Chujo wrote the circle, cross and triangle here

around the bottom of the escalator.

Yes. He probably wrote them during the blackout.

You mean, Mr. Chujo tried to hold on tight to the envelope

in order to keep it from being stolen,

but the killer managed to get it after all.

So, he died in that position

and was brought to the top by the escalator.

But why didn't the witness scream right then and there?

The witness thought they were filming a suspense drama.

Anyway, it is almost certain that

the murderer is the embezzler!

So, all we have to do now is

figure out what the circle, cross and triangle means

and from this list of 58 suspects,

Find out which one it refers to.

Don't you think that the X on the envelope

represents the multiplication symbol?

And the circle, cross, and triangle

represent a mathematical formula?

But, why does it have to be a circle, cross and triangle?

If the equation is written,

the culprit could destroy the evidence,

so the culprit camouflaged it by using a circle, cross and triangle!

I see. So, the murderer must be a mathematician!

Is there an employee who excels at mathematics in your company?

No. We primarily focus on recruiting

those who are adept at different languages.

If it were triangle, circle and square,

it would look like Oden,

Hey, maybe the cross stands for that "X"?

You know. The cute "X" mark

that Ms. Jodie mentioned in class!

-What? -What?

No...

No... It's definitely not that X.

Do you mean the mark

the girls often put at the end of letters?

Oh, yes!

Officer Takagi!

Do you know the meaning of that X?

I see. So, you must often get those kinds of letters.

Well... No. Only on rare occasions.

So, what is the meaning of the X then?

It has absolutely nothing to do with

the circle, cross and triangle in this case.

Hey, maybe it's not just a circle, cross and triangle,

but another message!

What?

Look carefully and closely.

At the edge of the envelope on the left side of the circle mark.

There's a blood stain!

I think there was something else

besides the circle, cross and triangle.

Oh, we've already noticed it too.

But there was no matching trace of blood left anywhere.

Well, did you check the you-know-where too?

The steps of this escalator.

This escalator isn't running right now,

but when the body was found, it was moving.

So another character written with blood

must be hidden behind the escalator!

That makes sense.

But since the escalator was moving for quite some time,

don't you think the mark

might have been completely wiped out by now?

No problem!

The blood will emit light like magic

if a chemical called mineral or something

is sprayed on the spot!

Right, Officer Takagi?

Oh, yeah.

The luminol solution can detect traces of blood.

Since the victim wrote that while crouching,

it should be easy to tell which step it was

because it would emit light brighter than any other steps!

That's right.

And, just one more thing.

What is it?

What's the meaning of the X?

What?

You know, the one you guys talked about earlier.

I think it's a bit too early for a kid like you

to understand something like that yet.

Officer, could you check on this?

Inspector Megure! We've found a coat,

a hat and a pair of gloves that are probably the culprits.

I see.

Those belongings had been left in a bathroom

on the fifth floor that is rarely used,

but the document that had been stolen

from the victim weren't found there.

Then, have you checked the suspects alibis?

Yes, Sir! We split up and checked them out.

At the time of the incident,

many employees were either taking a nap

or out for supper alone.

So, we could confirm the alibis of

only 27 out of the 58 on the list.

Here are the names of the 31 people without alibis!

We're still searching for the stolen document,

concentrating heavily on the floors from 8 to 11,

but haven't found them yet.

Okay, then you continue to search for it!

Yes, Sir!

We've narrowed the list down to 31 suspects.

Yet, that circle, cross and triangle are the only clues we have.

Unless we find another character

from the step of the escalator...

Inspector, we've found another character written with blood!

What! What character is that?

Inspector, it's a...

What is this about?

A square?

It also looks like a Kanji character, mouth

or "ro" in the Katakana alphabet.

But judging from the previous circle, cross and triangle,

is most likely to be a square.

Well... I'm more confused than ever now.

As it's shape matches with the trace of blood on the envelope,

this was definitely written by Mr. Chujo.

Isn't that square...

a little bigger than the other circle, cross and triangle?

Next Conan Hint:

"Square"