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Love and hate are brought together.

Through both reasoning and suspense.

At a creepy looking apartment

hiding an unexpected trick.

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

We met a grandpa at Araide Clinic

and heard a bizarre ghost story from him.

Then we came to his small old apartment house

which he said was haunted.

Incidentally, there is a building next to his apartment house.

The builder had committed suicide

after the bursting of the financial bubble.

There is a park in front of his apartment house too,

where the burned body of a young woman was previously found.

This place has many eerie stories surrounding it,

and we fell asleep while waiting in grandfather's room

for the ghost to appear.

Go home.

Go home.

Get out...

immediately!

And...

The toilet water turned red.

A spooky figure looks in through the window from outside.

Also, there is a death candle floating

spotted in the building next door.

What does this mean anyhow?

The ghost appearing on the TV screen after suddenly going fainted,

the toilet water suddenly turning red...

Both can be explained scientifically

but what about the other two phenomenon,

the death candle and the figure in the window?

I just can't seem to figure them out.

How did the culprit do them?

Was there a culprit in the first place?

If one did exist, who could it be?

And for what purpose is the culprit doing all this for?

"Truth of the Haunted House (Part 2)"

Conan.

What're you looking at with the window open?

The bugs will come flying in again.

Well, I'm wondering just about where

that gramps saw the death candle in that building.

The spot where I saw it

is in the darkness around the center of that building.

The red light alone was looming and moving about in the air.

At times it turned a bluish white light.

If you don't believe me,

go ask Mr. Yotsuya of Room 2 and Mr. Bancho of Room 4.

Each of them said that they once also saw the death candle.

Oh, yeah, I saw...

A red one and blue death candle as well,

when I visited the room where my senior at school was living.

Your senior?

Yeah.

Just up there. It's the room right above this one.

Room 6 is where my senior was living.

But since then,

he was unable to sleep properly

because he was seized with fear of the death candles.

He finally moved out.

I was unable to sleep either,

not because of fright, but rather, because of being overexcited.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, this is a 8mm movie projector, right?

Yeah.

I'm now using it to edit a movie filmed by our film club in college.

But this room is bloody awful,

full of sick horror magazines and posters.

It's really scary.

I feel I'm going to have nightmares just being here.

Still, all this is nothing compared to Room 4

where Mr. Bancho lives.

What?

"Room 4, Bancho"

This room is really something.

There're tons of the ghost and monster figures here!

"Kikuji Bancho (34)" -You haven't seen anything yet.

I turn the light off like so.

The figures are glowing various colors in the dark!

It's because of this black light.

The special kind of fluorescent coating painted on the figures

reacts to black light making them glow like a neon tube.

You know a lot, sonny.

A toy store owner told me about it.

By the way, you also saw the death candle, right?

Yeah, I did,

but I saw it through that window,

not the window facing that building.

This window...

is located diagonally below the window where the figure appeared.

Hey, kid.

I think you better close the window now.

Do it for your sister's sake.

But, in fact, a couple of moths have already entered.

If you don't believe the ghost story I told you,

you better go talk with Botan of Room 1!

That square grad student with a square head!

Yeah. I've never seen it before.

I believe nothing but what I can comprehend scientifically.

"Tsuyuhiko Botan (27)" -But you know what I hate more than that now?

That building opposite here that is still half done.

Which means?

Look at these.

That building shuts out the sunlight,

so the sun rarely shines into the room.

That's certainly true.

Mr. Otonashi's room diagonally above is much better than mine.

Because it has a window facing the street side.

So, why don't you move out?

Because the rent is so cheap

and my grandma told me that this place had good feng shui.

Did you say you believe only what you can comprehend scientifically?

Excuse me.

May I smoke here?

Oh, sure, please.

But please leave after you finish smoking the cigarette!

Sure.

Cigarette?

Dad, your arm!

A moth again!

Darn! Why always me?

Get them out of the room quickly! Now!

That's what I'm trying to do now!

I see.

The culprits were afraid

that the murder they committed would be revealed.

So they tried to destroy the decisive evidence

of the woman that they burned to death 4 years ago.

They used ghosts to cover up the evil doing.

What?

Are you leaving already?

The night's still young.

You may be missing out on seeing

one of the eeriest ghosts you've ever seen before.

Too bad you're leaving.

Well, it's perfectly all right with me if you leave now.

That way I can get on with my paper.

Okay, buddy, take it easy, say hello to the ghost for me.

How unsociable they are.

Haunted by the ghost, my eye?

Making such a big fuss over illusion.

Where is Conan?

There he is.

Hey! We're going home now!

I've got to go pee,

but I'm a bit scared to go alone.

Hey, pops, please go with me?

Oh, man.

Come on, why should I?

All right, all right.

I'll be waiting outside then.

I think I've seen him somewhere before.

Who's there?

Sonny.

I thought you went home.

We've got trouble.

Trouble?

Look. That restroom is cursed. No doubt about it.

It's so stinky and I can't flush the toilet.

It sure smells, but...

There seems no problem with flushing.

Water is...

Water is turning red...

That...

That can't be true.

Oh, boy. Now, the TV in your room is cursed.

-What? -Look, over there.

Go home. Go home.

The ghost! That's the ghost! What should we do?

-Get out immediately! -This can't be happening...

-Go home. -This can't be happening...

What're you doing?

There is no tape inside.

Who is it?

Who the heck is doing this?

What?

So it appeared again. The ghost.

No, no way.

There must be something wrong here.

Because everything was...

Yeah.

They were all tricks to make it look like the works of the ghost.

You're saying that nobody but you

could have set the tricks up because you created them,

isn't that right, Mr. Bancho?

Tricks! How can you say that?

Man, you're acting like a detective or something...

Detective?

Don't tell me you are the renowned detective, "Sleeping Kogoro."

Yeah, that's right.

Now I'm going to unlock

the mysteries of a lot of psychic phenomena.

First of all, about the toilet water turning red.

What I noticed about it was that, when I entered the restroom,

it smelled awfully of ammonia,

and that the toilet tank smelled faintly of alcohol.

Ammonia and alcohol?

Perhaps you did an experiment in science in

your elementary school days, remember?

When you add one drop of alkaline ammonia water

to the colorless phenolphthalein solution dissolved in alcohol,

the red color will appear like magic.

Yeah, but I wonder if it would work out that well?

The color in the experiment isn't bright red but pinkish red.

The color could never be mistaken.

Yeah, true.

But it would look like blood in a dimly-lit restroom like here.

Well, even so, there is no chemical reaction with urine

because ammonia in our urine is acid or neutral,

not alkaline.

Yes, that's why he needed...

This ammonia liquid.

It's...

This is poured into the water in the toilet bowl

then phenolphthalein is poured into the water in the toilet tank.

Then chemical reaction will occur

and nobody would suspect the strong smell of ammonia,

seeing this dirty restroom.

Exactly.

But, where did you get that chemical, sonny?

Pops asked me to look for it.

So when you were saying goodbye at the entrance,

I slipped into the room and found it...

in this room, Mr. Bancho.

I also found other interesting things

like phenolphthalein and chloroform.

And even a video tape of a scary movie.

A scary movie video tape?

Yeah!

The tape with a ghost woman saying, "Go home, go home.".

Hey...

Don't tell me that...

Yes. The ghost that my daughter, Ran saw on the TV screen...

are the pictures Mr. Bancho transmitted from the VCR in his room.

He sent the pictures! How?

It's simple and easy

if you use the public antenna of this building.

Plug the antenna cord into the output terminal of the VCR in his room

and transmit video pictures to the antenna.

Then the antenna sends the pictures to the TV

in Mr. Otonashi's room.

But, in order to do that,

you have to be able to set the TV channel

to the appropriate channel to receive the pictures.

And you must turn on the TV first, how do you think...

It's a multi channel remote control.

Mr. Otonashi.

Once you enter your TV or VCR's manufacturer name into the device,

you can operate any TV or VCR made by the manufacturer.

So you can operate the TV in someone else's room on

without the owner realizing a thing.

Well, after finding out how the trick worked,

it was a piece of cake even for me.

Don't tell me.

This old man was the one who sent the images

to my TV screen a while ago.

Yeah, I got him to help me send the video I just "borrowed" from you.

You used the remote control

from outside the window of Mr. Othonashi's room,

facing the building under construction.

Using the wall as a foothold,

you could easily send the signals to his TV set from there.

You didn't even need to watch the TV screen

as you can listen to the sound and set the channel.

And while the sun was still up,

you poured the chloroform onto the windowsill

so that all of us who were in the room would fall asleep.

You thought you could make

one of us who suddenly fainted

and got up in the dark room, still hazy in the head

see an eerie illusion. Isn't that right?

I see.

But, that was for real, wasn't it?

I mean the figure of a person that has been looking this way.

Oh, that's not a figure of a person at all!

-What? -Go over and look closer,

you'll see what it is.

This is a...

moth!

Moths gathered in large numbers.

Or, to put it more precisely,

it's an aggregate of male moths.

He coated the screen in a human shape

with female moth pheromone,

that is also used as an insecticide,

and stuck eyes and a mouth made from black paper on it.

The male moths that were attracted to the scent of the pheromone,

clustered on it to make it look like a human shadow

was looking inside through the window.

In fact, moths kept approaching my arm several times.

When I almost fell from the window

where I saw the figure for the first time,

I found myself grabbing the screen,

and got the pheromone on my arm, which attracted moths to me.

So, that is...

I simply removed the screen on the second floor

and placed it by window on the first floor. That's all.

Incidentally, the reason why the figure started disappearing on its own

is because Mr. Bancho's black light that was activated by a timer

was emitted from the window of his room diagonally below.

Moths are more prone to be attracted

by ultraviolet light emitted by the black lights, than the pheromone.

But the trick would be disclosed if even one moth remains.

That's why Mr. Bancho hurried across to the window,

as soon as the moths began to fly out,

then opened the window and screen together.

The force of the impact knocked the moths off the screen completely.

Mr. Bancho, you pretended not to notice the moths

even when you got close to the window, right?

That's because you intentionally caused this uproar over the ghost!

But, I still don't understand.

All the chemicals besides the chloroform can be gotten easily, but why...

Right.

Mr. Bancho could've easily made the video himself,

by using his scary figures and his falsetto...

Why'd he go through the trouble of making up a ghost story?

He attempted to scare us, Mr. Otonashi's guests,

to get Mr. Otonashi who refused to move out of here

to decide to do so after all this ghost scare.

Perhaps, in order to cover up the crime four years ago.

The crime four years ago?

You mean the murder of the woman burned to death

in the park right before us?

You say you saw the death candle in that building under construction?

Yeah, that's right.

What was drifting in the air wasn't the death candle,

but a lit cigarette.

What was glowing bluish white

was the light of portable TV that was secretly being watched.

Don't tell me there's someone in that building?

Yeah, taking advantage of the fact

that the building is still under construction,

he's been living in hiding there.

He is one of the two murderers

who was witnessed four years ago,

that has a scar across his cheek.

Perhaps, Mr. Bancho is one of the two murderers,

whose face wasn't witnessed.

As the light of the cigarette was witnessed

and the fact that somebody lived here was about to be disclosed,

you fabricated and accelerated the plot about the ghost girl,

you chased the residents of the second floor of this apartment out

one after the other, because they were the only people

who could look inside the building from their room!

If he had been caught,

he would have name his accomplice from four years ago

and you would have gone to prison.

The reason that you're living here

is to bring the guy with the scar across his cheek, his food and drinks,

because his scar will give him away.

I guess you were planning to sneak out

after things settled down a bit, but too late now.

See, you can hear it, can't you?

The footsteps of doom.

The siren of the police car that I called.

Darn it!

Out of the way, move!

Wait...

Ran, don't get pass you!

What?

Out of my way, lady

or I'll curse you to death!

Just what did you say?

If you're not a ghost, you don't scare me at all!

Back fist.

The police arrived there soon after.

The host of this haunted house

and the "death candle" man hiding in the building were arrested.

The case of the haunted house scare

together with the murder case that occurred four years ago,

came to a close.

Incidentally, the murder four years ago was committed

because of money trouble.

What a worldly case over money behind an unworldly ghost case.

So, all those ghosts were tricks after all.

Yeah. I don't give a hoot about them anymore.

They don't exist.

What's wrong, Sonoko?

Hey, Sonoko.

Are you crying? Why?

Because...

Because with you talking like that,

I can't show my true self, can I?

No!

I give myself credit for this perfect makeup!

Ran's boogey phobia is one of her charm points

so it's a waste to cure it.

-Don't you think so? -Yeah.

I think you should do something about your personality first.

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"All-you-can-eat"