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The rhythm of the wind sharpens the skill of deduction.

Alibis and tricks are unraveled.

The fragrance of murder

and the blotches of a love affair.

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

The Morozumi residence

that Hattori, Pops and I went on behalf of Kusukawa,

to investigate caught fire,

and Ryoko Morozumi dies.

Like all the other serial arson sites,

a red horse doll is left behind at the site.

However, one of the suspects Takanori Genda, admits to the crime,

and the case seems to have closed, but...

"Red Horse In The Fire (Case Solved)"

Oh, no! It's already 3 pm.

I guess we'll just have to forget about Tropical Land.

I see.

It's true that if we do as you say,

fire could be ignited automatically.

But the burn on that light bulb

could be something that coincidentally got there during the fire.

If that trick were to be used,

any of the three could've done it, couldn't they?

The owner of that house, Akira Morozumi, of course.

That womanizer Misao Soga,

as well as Ryoko's older sister, Keiko Gondo

seem to have frequently gone in and out of the house.

We came to Mr. Genda's house to find out who the culprit is,

so let's hurry and go into the house.

Yeah, right.

We may find a diary or something that could be a key to the case.

Gosh.

But you don't even have a search warrant

and yet you have the keys. It's amazing.

I told Genda that I would prove his innocence.

Then he broke out in tears and lent it to me.

It sure is a big house for Mr. Genda to be living in alone.

Yeah.

He was living here with his mother after his father passed away,

but last year, his mother also passed away of an illness.

By the way, Mouri, did you notice

the shoe marks in the corridor?

Yes. They're here and there.

The shoe marks of someone...

These are Mr. Genda's shoe marks.

It's the same as the shoes that's in the shoes cabinet.

Which means that Mr. Genda...

Hey. Take a look at this.

There's something strange in the wastebasket.

A soiled pair of socks and a burnt shirt.

If Mr. Genda's sleepwalking habit was getting worse,

maybe his saying, "The other me did it",

is not all that much of a lie.

He's not that kind of a guy.

He's not the kind of man

that would set fire to other people's houses.

Mr. Yuminaga...

Hey, Kudo!

Come here a minute!

It's the telephone bill that was on top of the shoes cabinet.

It says 30,000 yen a month.

Isn't it a bit too much?

It's true that it's strange for a guy who's living alone, but...

Ran also talks to Sonoko for a long time over silly things

and the bill totals to about that much.

Come to think of it,

silly Kazuha does the same thing.

She talks for a long time with my mom.

I wonder why women like to talk on the phone so much.

Well, I'm so sorry!

That our phone calls are so silly!

Heiji!

Conan!

Don't tell me you guys were eavesdropping from the front door?

We wouldn't do something low class like that!

You idiot!

We were listening to the car radio

when we heard you guys talking.

Right?

Radio?

It's inside this vase.

Here it is! Look!

It's a wiretap.

Huh?

That's exactly the same as the vase

that is in the front entrance of the Morozumi's, isn't it?

We heard other things, too.

Something about the wastebasket.

Hey, wait!

There's got be one near this wastebasket too, a wiretap.

A crystal ball?

Hattori.

I found it.

This time inside the cushion under the crystal ball.

I've seen that!

It's the crystal of good luck that the woman fortune-teller

at the building in front of Haido Station is selling.

She's known for being pretty good.

Hey! That small cushion...

It's a different color,

but similar to the one Ryoko was holding, don't you think?

Don't tell me...

Could it be in here, too?

Hey.

No.

It's not a wiretap.

But we found something unbelievable.

Yes. The guy, Genda confessed,

but suddenly refused to say anything.

The red horse was indeed handmade by Genda.

But he refuses to say anything about the serial arsons.

And we're at Genda's house right now,

but can't find any vital evidence.

Genda saying that he has a habit of sleepwalking

is probably a lie, too.

Well, the forensic officers will be here tomorrow,

so I'm sure something will come out.

When something more concerning the investigations come up,

I'll contact you again.

Was it okay, sonny?

Just great, Inspector!

But, what are you up to anyway?

Making fake calls like that to all three suspects?

Fake calls?

They're fake calls, aren't they?

You found wiretaps in the vase at the front entrance

as well as something in the cushion.

There is proof everywhere

that Mr. Genda had a habit of sleepwalking.

Well, I'll explain everything later.

And us being here, too.

Won't that make more work for the forensic officers?

Yeah. I'm sure our hair is on the floor somewhere, too.

Then, what should we do to erase all evidence that we were here?

What should we do?

Go all out and clean the place, what else?

If you didn't have time to do so, then what?

Well...

Maybe...

Hey.

Aren't you forgetting to leave this red horse behind?

Mr. Arsonist.

Or, should I say...

Mr. Morozumi.

Yeah.

This key holder of the red horse that Mr. Genda made

was the start of everything.

This red horse that is supposed to bring prosperous business.

I don't know what caused the first fire in Rizencho,

but this horse was found at the site of the fire

because the owner of the house was a good customer of Mr. Genda's store.

Mr. Genda probably gave that person this key holder inside a box.

But before the person opened the box, the house caught fire.

The box and Guan Yu both burned

leaving behind only the Red Rabbit Horse.

Of course, the owner of the house

would have no knowledge of the horse.

And "Red Horse" is a code word for the police meaning arsonist.

So, the press began making a fuss writing articles

such as "The Start of a Series of Arsons".

On the other hand, Mr. Genda who was shocked at hearing the person saying,

she knew nothing about the horse that he gave her...

got worried that maybe his sleepwalking habit

when he was a child had reoccurred again,

and went to your hospital,

where he was taken advantage of.

And when you heard Genda's story, you made him believe that

he was a sleepwalker who had a habit of committing arsons,

and took note of the fact that the first fire occurred in 1-chome.

Then after, you set fire to 2-chome and 3-chome in order.

You burned your house on 4-chome,

and killed your wife, Ryoko.

You cut the Guan Yu and stand off the key holder

and left the red horse at the site of the fire

to make it look like the serial arsonist did it,

and framed Mr. Genda up as the arsonist.

You made a spare key for this house

and snuck in here night after night

to corner Mr. Genda up against the wall.

You left shoe prints,

burnt shirts and dirty socks in his room

to make him come under the illusion that he was the arsonist.

But Mr. Genda came of his own initiative to my hospital

saying that he had a habit of sleepwalking.

But that's when he was a child, right?

I saw on TV that there are many cases

when a nervous child unable to cope with all the excitement

during the day sleepwalks around his sleeping quarters at night.

A psychiatrist should know something like that

right off the bat, no?

But Mr. Genda was loitering around nearby

when my house caught fire, wasn't he?

I would never know something like that,

even if I were his doctor, would I?

You heard Genda and Soga talking on the phone, didn't you?

With the wiretap that you set up inside the underside of the telephone

that you took out a while ago.

After hearing Soga say, "If you go to the houses on that day,

your fortune will take a turn for the better."

You picked the date to set fire.

All you had to do was change the beckoning cat key holder Genda

was supposed to pass out to the neighborhood that day,

to the Red Rabbit Horse.

You knew that Mr. Genda would come to retrieve the key holders

when he finds out that he had passed out the wrong ones and that,

the people would become suspicious at seeing him do this.

Since it was the day that Ryoko had called the detective,

you figured that if things worked out well,

the detective would remember Genda.

Please wait!

The fire was set at past 7:30 pm, right?

I went out to drink with Mr. Soga before 7:30 pm,

and he also testified to this.

Or, are you saying that the boy next door

who testified to the time of the arson is lying?

Huh? What's this?

The tissue paper is wrapped around the light bulb and taped on.

And there's something poked in between the tissue paper, too.

Wait!

It's a match!

The surface temperature of a light bulb of 100 watts

is 218 degrees.

Wrapping tissue paper around something like that

and moreover, poking a match between it.

It's not hard to figure out what will happen, is it?

In other words, it's a time-igniting device

to set fire to your house

while you are out drinking with Mr. Soga.

You did the same thing to the light bulb in the storeroom,

poured kerosene on the floor

and stuck a red horse between the window beforehand.

Then, before you went out drinking with Mr. Soga,

you turned on the light.

So, 10 minutes later, the match would ignite,

the tissue paper would fall to the ground and fire would break out.

Then, the boy next door

as usual watches TV with the room dark.

When the tissue is wrapped around the light bulb,

the light is still weak,

so the silhouette of the horse will not project.

But after the tissue paper burns off,

the silhouette of the horse is projected

as if the arsonist had left the horse behind at that time.

Next, you were probably planning to sneak in here

and burn this place down to erase traces of you having been here.

But there is still other evidence.

It's the stand of the key holder

with the words "Red Rabbit Horse" on it

that Ryoko was holding on to at the time she died.

The cut part matched the leg of the horse

that was left back at the fire site on 3-chome.

Now, all that needs to be done is to see

if the fingerprints that are on it match your fingerprints.

You cut off the stand and Guan Yu

because you didn't want anyone to know it was what Mr. Genda had made.

You didn't want him to get caught before you kill Ryoko.

It seems she knew what you were up to though.

She probably asked the detective to come and investigate

the suspicious person loitering around at night,

but found out that it was you,

experimenting on the trick in the storeroom.

After realizing it was you,

she checked your belongings

and found the red horse and the stand,

and was convinced that the serial arsonist was you.

She probably asked us to leave

because she was planning to threaten you to...

Right!

She threatened to divorce me and kick me out of this house!

All I wanted to do was

burn the house and build a hospital.

Hey, hey.

Only if this stand wasn't found!

If I didn't get deceived into a trap like this!

This was supposed to be a perfect crime!

You idiot. We knew from before you came here.

Don't lie!

Soga could've done it, and so could Ryoko's older sister!

Yeah.

Those two also sold objects with wiretaps in them to Genda

and were wiretapping him.

They probably wanted him to believe in Feng Shui

and fortune-telling by telling him stuff only he alone knew,

and sell him more expensive stuff.

We found out from the telephone bill that the phone was wiretapped.

When you wiretap using the telephone line,

it has to be connected all the while

so the telephone bill sky-rockets.

So, how can you tell that I'm the one who set it up?

It could be either one of the two!

You still don't realize?

Huh?

You understand that in order to set up a wiretap in the phone,

you have to sneak into the house, right?

Yeah.

As for the other two, if they were to sneak into the house,

they would first of all remove the wiretap

from the things that they sold Mr. Genda,

because otherwise, they'd be suspected.

You probably came across committing this crime

after reading Agatha Christie's "The ABC Murders",

but why didn't you realize then

that no matter how hard you think out the plan,

the one who gets to laugh at the end is not the killer,

but the old man with the gray brain.

See you then, Mouri. Thanks for everything.

No, not at all.

No. Rather...

maybe I should be thanking these boys?

By the way, what will become of those two?

Well, it's not that they sold

something outrageously expensive to Genda yet,

and all they did was sneak in to collect their wiretaps

because they didn't want to be suspected as arsonists, so...

We'll let them go after we give them a good lecture at the station.

Tell me. Why did you believe Genda was innocent?

Yeah.

When Genda came up as a suspect,

I called him out to the park and talked to him.

I stayed with him for 30 minutes, but he hardly talked.

So, we decided to talk again some other time

and I got up from the bench.

I turned to look back at him from a distance,

and saw him looking desperately for something

in the grassy area around the bench.

It began raining a little while after he left the bench.

After seeing the look of relief on his face,

I finally understood

that he was looking for the cigarette butt

that I threw down on the ground.

Because that was what caused the fire that took his father's life.

I just couldn't believe that a guy like him

could set fire to anybody's house.

Neither did I want believe he could.

It's as simple as that.

See you, Mouri!

Yes, sir!

Hey, come on. A little cheaper!

I came all the way here to buy from you to cheer you up, you know?

But that watch is made by a famous craftsman.

No matter how famous,

if it doesn't move unless you wind it,

it's practically useless in this day and age, right?

But...

Okay! Give me this too and a 500 yen discount.

How's about it?

Heiji, we better hurry

or we won't make it in time for the plane going back home.

Come on, mister. Hurry and wrap it up, will you?

Simple wrapping will do.

-Yes. Thank you very much! -Hey, Kazuha!

Never mind giving him a discount already,

so can you give me this antique jewelry for free?

What?

Okay, mister?

No, no way!

Are you guys really trying to cheer him up or what?

Please, mister!

Next Conan's Hint:

"Wine glass"

Is the next story about Japanese sake again?

Isn't it about Dad's hobby?

-Even the staff cannot be trusted. -Yes.