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Friendship, love and mystery.

We stick it out because we believe promises will be kept.

The client is a famous child star.

Search for mother ends up in a hot spring dive.

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

If I get married,

what are you going to do, Kanichi?

So, you're going to get married after all.

I try so hard to stop you,

but you just won't listen.

Dad.

Why you...

Pops...

Dad.

Hey, Dad, are you listening to me?

Shut up. Be quiet, will you?

This is Yoko's best scene, you know.

Kanichi, I will never forget you.

This is the scene of the beach in Atami

where Kanichi and Omiya appear in the story "Konjiki Yasha", right?

Just how many times are you going to watch that video?

I, Kanichi will go mad of extreme grief...

Hey, Ran!

Never mind the video.

Tell me why you refused Mom's invitation

to go eat together!

Oh, yeah. That day's inconvenient for me.

May I ask in just what way is it inconvenient for you?

Who cares?

I mean, it's not that she's dead or anything

and we get to see her anytime.

"Konjiki Yasha" was never completed

because the author died while he was still writing the story.

So the two characters in the series

lost their way to happiness forever.

In our case, we're going to see it through

and make it no matter what.

I hope you're not thinking

of trying to get Eri and me back together again, are you?

Of course I am!

It's only natural for kids

to want to live happily with both their parents, isn't it?

That's nonsense.

There are people who abhor even looking at their parent's faces.

"Kazuki Kinukawa (7), Talent"

And I'm one of them.

What's with this brat?

Huh?

You sure look familiar.

Are you by any chance,

Kazuki Kinukawa, the popular child actor

who acts in dramas and movies?

Yeah, I am.

You're even cuter than you look on TV!

And? What does that famous brat

want with our detective office here?

I want you to look for somebody.

A woman called Atsuko who keeps sending me

postcards like these.

"The Little Client (Part 1)"

It's true that all there is here is the name of the sender

and no address.

Wait a minute. Aren't these fan letters?

It's full of comments

about the dramas and movies that you acted in!

She seems to be a really great fan of yours.

She's sent you postcards

once every month from spring two years ago

to winter last year.

But all of them are stained and wrinkled up.

You should put these away nicely if they're fan letters.

I can't help it, can I?

They gave me the creeps, so I just kind of left them lying around.

Give you the creeps?

Because they're not fan letters.

They're postcards from my mother.

Your mother?

Yeah.

They're postcards from a stupid lady,

who abandoned me in front of the door of a church

as if I were a piece of trash six years ago.

I see. That's why you mentioned

not wanting to see your parent's face.

But if you want us to look for her,

it means that you want to see her after all.

Don't get me wrong.

I just want to see the lady and give her a piece of my mind.

I want to tell her not to claim being my mother

at this point just because I'm famous now!

But it's amazing how you figured out it was your mother.

It doesn't say so anywhere.

I can tell.

Because the name and the handwriting on the postcard

are the same as they were on the memo

that was left with me when she abandoned me.

Looking for her is not going to be easy though.

The postcards are stamped from different places,

all the way from Hokkaido to Okinawa.

You can tell that she really likes to travel.

Never mind then.

I'll go look for another detective that will search for her.

I think that your mother's in a hotel or inn

some place in Atami.

Where is it written?

Look at this postcard.

There is something that looks like the hand

and head of a statue on the bottom part, right?

Doesn't this statue look familiar?

Now that you mentioned it, it does look familiar.

I see!

It's this!

It looks just like this pose

which means it's probably the statue of Kanichi and Omiya

at the beach in Atami!

She probably used the top part of the postcard set

which was made up of four postcards.

It could be that she used something that she bought as a souvenir too.

But there are three other postcards like it too.

And they're all the upper left ones.

If she's rich enough to travel to inns throughout Japan,

I think she would send all four types of postcards.

And I'm sure that postcards of other places

would be mixed among them, right?

I get it! I think your mother

didn't want you to know where she was,

so she sent only the postcards on the top left

because it's the hardest to tell from these

that it's the statue of Kanichi and Omiya.

She probably used postcards that remained

after everything else was sold out

from the shop at a hotel or an inn.

Then she probably gave it to the guests that came to stay,

asking them to send the postcard out

after they returned to their homes.

I see.

People from all over Japan come to hotels or inn,

so if we check the hotel roster,

we can figure out where they came from.

Which means your mother is

an employee of a hotel or an inn.

Why don't we take a drive to Atami either way?

Well, I don't see why not.

But you're going to pay the fee if we find her, right?

Yes, a whole lot.

Unlike that lady, I'm rich.

Come on, let's go and get it over with.

My schedule's open only today and tomorrow.

What a nasty kid.

You're kind of like Conan.

How dare you...

No, I have no idea.

We don't carry postcards like these here.

I see.

Thank you very much.

We came all the way to Atami

and we're sweating it out here

without even going to a hot spring.

Maybe a postcard doesn't suffice as a lead after all.

Ran.

Carry me please!

If you're tired, I'll piggy back you.

I want to be carried!

I want to be hugged, not be piggy backed!

Hey, you...

Talk about being spoiled.

-Hey. -I think this is the spot

where that lady had a mole.

Huh?

I remember going to sleep

and seeing the mole in front of my eyes.

But I was much smaller back then,

so maybe it was further down.

Hey, if it was further down...

Well, will you carry me one more time?

Okay.

You don't have to do that.

We already have an idea on where it is.

But I want to be sure...

You don't have to. We already know.

What? You used to sell it?

Do you mean this postcard?

Yes.

It was a limited product that was only sold here,

but these sets of four postcards didn't sell too well.

"Mitsu Kusano (34)" -Having no other choice,

"Female employee" -we divided them among ourselves

since we couldn't return them to the publisher either.

Amazing! It's just like you said, Conan.

Please excuse me for asking this inappropriate question.

Is there a woman

by the name of Atsuko working here?

No, there's no one by that name here.

Is that so?

By any chance, are you that famous...

Yes. I'm the famous Detective Mouri.

Kazuki Kinukawa?

Yes.

Oh, my. Just as I thought!

Come over here, Ms. Bessho!

It's Kazuki!

"Toshika Bessho (29), Female employee"

Hello...

That's strange.

She's a fervent fan of yours.

I wonder if she's shy.

So? What's up today?

Did you come to spend the night here?

Well, the thing is...

I'll bet you came to look for her.

"Yasuhiro Kamoshita (37)" -Your mother...

"Freelance writer" -who abandoned you.

Hey, who are you anyway?

A guest. I'm just a guest.

I'm Kamoshita, the one who reserved room 205.

I came here just to check things out,

but I guess it's my lucky day

to have the entire cast out here.

This is surely going to make a great story.

How come he knows about the kid's mother?

Will you be spending the night here?

Why don't we stay?

Maybe Kazuki's mother

is working here under a different name.

I don't need you to tell me what to do.

I was planning to stay anyway.

That's great!

Then, I can stay a while longer with Kazuki.

Okay, then.

Ms. Saegusa.

"Tomoka Saegusa (28)" -Please show them to room 308

"Female employee" -where we had a cancellation.

Yes.

This is room 308.

The yukata and mattresses are in the closet,

so help yourselves.

Hey!

Can't you be a bit more explicit?

Quiet. We're so busy as it is

that we can't be bothered with extra guests, you know.

Don't push your weight around just because you're a bit famous!

Is that the right attitude towards their guests?

You gave me your word, editor.

Keep a page open for me, okay?

If this isn't duff gen, the book will sell well.

Because it's about the number one kid actor,

Kazuki Kinukawa's father

being a killer.

I'm really full.

Thanks to you, we end up taking a bath so late.

You drink too much beer.

What's the matter?

Oh, it's the cap of a camera lens.

Could this belong to the Kamoshita guy we saw a while ago?

Now that you mentioned it...

I'll go give it to him.

I'm sure he said he was staying in room 205.

Hey, Ran! Let him be! He's so weird!

I tell you. She doesn't give a hoot about anything I say.

Guys and girls get to go in together?

I hope somebody's inside!

How silly.

At this time of night, I doubt anybody is inside.

Gosh!

Oh, good evening.

Excuse me.

Please help yourself.

Being able to take a bath with Kazuki

will be a memory of a life time!

But...

Quit being a prude.

Oh, I just noticed that all three of you

have such attractive moles.

Do you always take a bath at this time?

Yes. We wait till all the guests are done.

By the way, where's the girl that was with you?

My daughter, Ran, went to Mr. Kamoshita's room

to deliver something he dropped.

Ran?

Ran!

Don't tell me that guy had the nerve to touch her!

Hey, what's wrong?

That...

Did he drown?

No. The trace on his neck

shows that he was strangled.

Hey, look. There's a cell phone on the floor.

What?

A picture seems to have been saved just a while ago.

Don't tell me the killer's picture is...

This is...

a mole on a woman's chest?

I see.

So you picked up Mr. Yasuhiro Kamoshita's camera cap in the corridor

and delivered it to his room,

where you found Mr. Kamoshita dead.

Is that right?

Yes.

Just as Mr. Mouri had said,

it seems he was strangled

with a thin string-like thing.

If so, was the body put inside the bath tub

to complicate our job of determining the estimated time of death?

But the killer could not deceive me, Kogoro Mouri!

Just what do you mean?

It's in this camera.

Inside Mr. Kamoshita's cell phone...

Wait.

I don't think you should say that yet.

Why not?

Oh, my.

You're the one who appears on TV a lot.

I'm Kazuki Kinugawa.

He came with us to this inn

because of some personal matter.

I see.

All right. You kids go back to the room.

Inspector Yokomizo.

According to the people of the inn,

Mr. Kamoshita called one of the waitresses

and said something weird.

Something weird?

He said, "If 20 million yen sounds familiar to you,

then come to my room.

If you don't, I'll disclose everything."

I have no idea what the 20 million yen is about,

but Mr. Kamoshita must've had hold

of something the waitress wanted to keep secret.

If so, it's seems like we already have the killer.

We can look at the picture in his cell phone.

All we have to do is find a waitress

who had no alibi at the time the picture was taken here.

This is indeed a picture of the murder site!

See. It's shown below, isn't it?

It says 11:48 pm.

There is a mole on the chest of the woman

who was choking Mr. Kamoshita's neck from behind.

Bummers.

There's no doubt about it!

The killer is a woman with a mole on her chest, Mr. Mouri!

True.

That means the killer is...

The killer is my...

Kazuki?

Wipe yourself.

Kazuki, where are you?

You came to this inn to look for Kazuki Kinukawa's mother.

Yeah.

The clue to his mother

was that she has a mole on her chest.

But I didn't think that there'd be a mole

on the chest of this killer too.

It's obvious, isn't it?

I wonder if Mr. Kamoshita is the one

who really took this picture.

The picture is static

and conveniently, the face of the killer was not taken.

It could be that the killer took this picture deliberately

and rigged the time and date on it

to create an alibi.

I don't think so.

Not him again.

Because the killer had the string around the man's neck

and was pulling the string with both hands, right?

The killer couldn't have pressed the shutter

with both hands full!

Besides, if the killer took the picture,

I think she would wear some clothes

so that you can't tell if it's a man or a woman.

You're right.

The killer probably didn't know that a picture was being taken.

Right, Pops?

Yeah.

Why did Mr. Kamoshita have his cell phone on him

when he was being attacked by the killer?

Maybe he was talking to somebody?

Then, why don't you try the re-dial button?

Why don't you keep your mouth shut?

It seems he was talking to someone

10 minutes before he took the picture.

"Tohto Publications"

What? Kamoshita was?

Are you serious, officer?

Yes. If you don't mind,

I'd like you to give me your name and tell me what you do.

I'm Izumiya, the editor of "Weekly Hot" magazine.

Kamoshita is a writer

who brings us a lot of scoop articles.

He called to tell me

that the woman with the scoop story

came to his room a little after 11:30 pm.

He said that the woman wanted to take a shower in his room

to wash off her sweat before the interview.

He also told me not to worry

because he'd make sure that he took a picture of the woman

with his cell phone.

And who is this woman with the scoop?

The mother called Atsuko, who left the kid actor, Kazuki Kinugawa,

in front of the door of a church when he was a baby.

She seems to be a devil threatening Kazuki's agency

to dish out 20 million yen

if they didn't want her to publicize the fact

that his father is a fugitive for killing somebody.

Although the agency didn't really believe her story at first,

she knew the name of the church

as well as the characteristics of Kazuki's body in detail,

so they deposited the amount into her account.

Since all their dealings were carried out by e-mail,

he had no idea of what she looked like or how she sounded.

Kamoshita, who smelled that there was a scoop,

went to interview her in person.

That's why he brought up the 20,000,000 yen

to see if anybody would come up front.

Inspector.

The waitresses that have no alibi after 11:48 pm are here.

What? You are...

Hello again.

So? What do you want from us?

Did something happen?

There was a murder.

A man called Mr. Kamoshita, who was staying in this room

was strangled to death.

What?

-No way. -Are you serious?

I'll have to check your bodies a little bit

and see if any one of you has a mole like this on your chest

like the killer whose picture was taken

when she killed Mr. Kamoshita.

Wait a minute.

Are you telling us to strip naked right here?

What?

No, of course a female police will be here

and you'll be checked in another room.

Okay then.

Then hurry up and get on with it.

We still have work left to do.

There's no need for that!

See! I have no mole.

Hey, Ms. Bessho.

Right. It's not like we're going to lose anything.

Go on, Ms. Kusano.

They're going to suspect you if you don't.

All right.

Cool it, Pops.

You have a mole on your chest!

Take a good look, will you?

My mole is on the opposite side when compared to the picture.

Oh, yeah.

Rather than checking on our moles,

why don't you go check the fingerprints on the murder weapon?

You found it, didn't you?

The black string that was in the picture a while ago.

Well, we've been looking for it for a while,

but we can't find it anywhere.

The black string that is estimated

to be over a meter long.

Right. The problems are the murder weapon

and that mole.

Next Conan's Hint:

"Video tapes"

The next episode also takes place at a hot spring.

-Don't catch a cold! -Brush your teeth!

Tune in again next week!