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Even a gigantic wall that seems to block the path.

Turns out to be a large door if viewed from a different angle.

A red trace is left behind at the site of the crime.

A case that goes according to a novel.

The mystery of the invisible culprit!

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

"Beika Station"

"Yasutaro Sasamoto (32), Office Worker"

What is that?

Don't tell me that he was...

Shadow?

Hikage.

"Toshiyuki Kamio"

"Shadow"

Yes, this is Kamio.

This is Sasamoto. Are you sleeping?

I had to keep a writer company

and I came home in the wee hours of the morning.

What's up?

Hikage... Hikage appeared!

He attacked you?

Just now, on my way to the station.

I'll be right over so stay there.

If I grab a cab, I can be there in 30 minutes.

Do that, will you?

"Toshiyuki Kamio (32), Editor" -Kamio!

"Toshiyuki Kamio (32), Editor"

"Shadow" -No doubt about it.

It's just as you said, after all.

Let's report this to the police.

Kamio!

But I wonder if they'll believe us, though?

But, we don't have a choice.

Right! Let's hire a detective for now.

You were almost killed?

Please, protect us!

We know who the culprit is.

He's Teiichi Hikage, a member of the mystery research club

that we belonged to in our university days.

Why do you say that he's the culprit?

About six months ago, I got a manuscript from Hikage.

A manuscript?

Of a novel.

A novel that predicted friends of the past

would be killed one after the other.

A novel predicting murder.

A novel predicting murder?

"So, Disappear Everybody"

You would've been in big trouble if it hit you.

Unmistakably dead.

Just one word "Shadow" written in red paint...

How distasteful.

Hikage was always that way since our university days.

Although he used to type his novels,

the cover of his novels were always written in revolting red characters.

Sunglasses and long hair.

It's unmistakably Hikage.

So, you received the novel in question

from Mr. Hikage six months ago?

There were several members in the mystery research club,

but four of us in particular were passionately active members.

Sasamoto, myself,

Takeshi Nezu,

and Hikage.

But, we had practically no opportunity to see each other

since we graduated.

However, coincidentally six months ago, that manuscript

was delivered to the mystery magazine editing section that I work at.

Unfortunately, his novel, "So, Disappear Everybody",

it was not a work that could be called a mystery.

It had no tricks or mysteries.

It was just a story of revenge that pointed out that

the main character would kill three of his university friends

because of a grudge he had against them.

Even harder to understand

were the names of the three who are predicted to be killed.

Takeshi Nezu, Toshiyuki Kamio, and Yasutaro Sasamoto.

In other words, those are our names.

The meaning of the queer novel was finally clarified

the day before yesterday.

The day before yesterday?

The night before yesterday, the dead body of a man

who had been stabbed in the back with a knife

was found in Beika Park.

The man who was killed was a former member of our club, Takeshi Nezu.

And, also written in the novel that was sent by Hikage to me

Takeshi Nezu dies, stabbed in the back from behind

in a park at night.

Please let me read that novel!

I see.

The method of murder is also the same.

I guess this is no coincidence.

It's not a coincidence for sure.

This novel is indeed a prediction of murder.

But something's not right.

Although the details of the way Mr. Nezu will be killed is written,

when it comes to the way and place

Mr. Sasamoto and Mr. Kamio will be killed,

there is no detailed description.

Oh. That's right.

That's why it's so eerie.

We have no idea when and how he's going to attack us.

It says that his motive for revenge

is because the novel he wrote in the past

was severely criticized by all three of you?

It's true that there was a time when we did. Right?

There was, but...

But such a setting is impossible in this day and age.

Even the trick is sort of old fashioned.

Your writing style is... you know.

It's too emotional and exaggerated.

It's basically lacking reality.

But, it goes for all of us!

There was a time when Hikage really razzed Kamio's work too.

What's interesting about this story, Kamio?

I think it's pretty good.

Why don't you crack your head in two and wash your brains out?

This story is totally hopeless.

I mean we all said and heard our share and yet...

Why would he want to take revenge 10 years after graduation.

True. Why now?

Have you seen Mr. Hikage recently?

No, I haven't.

Rather...

I thought he died long ago.

Died?

Hikage suddenly disappeared three years ago.

He went mountain climbing alone

and never came back since.

So, we all thought that he had an accident in the mountains and died.

But, he was in fact, alive!

So, a man that everybody thought had died three years ago

suddenly began committing murder to take revenge.

Mr. Kamio.

There's a parcel here for you.

A parcel?

Did you win an award or something?

I wonder if I submitted and applied for something.

What? Don't tell me that it's...

Wait! Don't open!

Well, that was close.

It could've been worse if there was more gun powder inside.

He probably miscalculated the amount.

He miscalculated the amount of gun powder?

Was it a mistake or was it...

I guess it's safe to conclude that Teiichi Hikage did this.

This was enclosed inside the parcel with the explosive.

"Shadow"

It's Hikage after all.

As a matter of fact, although it hasn't been publicized,

"Shadow" -beneath the dead body of Mr. Takeshi Nezu...

I think that it'd be better if you keep yourself hidden here

at the hospital for a while, Mr. Kamio.

I'll keep guard over you.

I've already got approval from the editor

so you can work while staying here.

Oh.

Since you're a salesman, you can't be confined to a place.

We'll guard you, both Mr. Mouri and I together.

Please do, thank you.

And, as for you...

-I'll... -Go home immediately!

I thought you'd say that.

I'll be counting on you, then.

Goodbye.

As for the whereabouts of Mr. Teiichi Hikage,

the officers have split up to search for him.

I hope you get to find where he's hiding.

If I stay and keep tight watch over him...

Granny!

It hurts.

Are you all right?

My hips.

Look out!

Hold it!

It's Hi... Hikage.

Hikage!

Don't worry!

As long as I'm here with you, I won't let him kill you!

After the explosive, comes the car.

What's with this guy?

Just as I thought.

That car came charging but braked once along the way.

Something's not right.

The parcel with the explosives inside

lacked the correct amount of explosive.

It looks to be just plain threat.

But, the first man Mr. Takeshi Nezu was killed.

What is the difference that the killer is feeling

towards Mr. Nezu, Mr. Kamio and Mr. Sasamoto?

Why this inconsistency in the crime?

Good morning!

Oh, good morning.

I'm counting on you today, too.

Unfortunately, we lost track of the car yesterday,

but if he appears again, we'll arrest him for sure.

Oh, excuse me.

Who is it?

Yes?

Long time no see, it's me.

Hikage?

I'm not getting anywhere with you being guarded

by a detectives and police detectives

so I'm going to pull away for a while.

He's going to pull out?

But, it's not that I'm giving up.

I'll get to you one day when I get the chance.

Why, Hikage? Hikage?

Excuse me.

Mr. Kamio.

Hikage called and...

I got a call from him too just now.

It seems he's given up.

So, I'm relieved.

But, we can't just drop the case as is.

Of course not.

Teiichi Hikage has committed murder.

We've got to arrest him no matter what.

Oh, yes, this is Takagi.

Yes.

Is that right?

Okay, thanks.

What is it?

They can't find the whereabouts of Teiichi Hikage.

Since his disappearance three years ago,

nobody has had contact with him.

Darn it!

He should've written where he'd be hiding

while he was at it writing this stuff!

If his motive dates back to a grudge in the past,

there could be a clue in the novels he wrote in his university days.

Novels during our university days.

Do you have any?

I have some magazines issued by Mystery Investigation Club in my room.

Hikage's novels are printed in them too.

How is it? Anything there?

There seems to be no clue.

None here, either.

This style of writing, if I remember correctly...

Just as I thought!

But if so, why?

Why?

Why did he do something like this?

We struck at air, I guess.

He may be waiting for a chance to attack

after throwing us off guard by declaring to pull out for a while.

We've got to hurry and find Teiichi Hikage.

I have an appointment to see a writer today.

Okay. I'll accompany you.

Hey, Officer Takagi.

Conan?

What kind of a person was Mr. Takeshi Nezu, who was killed?

What?

I hate to say this,

but he didn't have a very good reputation.

They are people who say that they lent him money

but he never returned it.

Money?

You mean, Nezu to me?

Yes, did he say something about money to you?

Come to think of it,

he did mention he had money, he could count on to be coming in.

Although I can't be too sure about that.

He mentioned something about an incident

that occurred three years ago being involved.

Incident three years ago?

Is it about Mr. Hikage's disappearance?

Mr. Hikage was more down to earth than he looked.

He kept saying that he would become a professional writer

and continued to write day after day.

But, I guess it didn't work out the way he planned after all.

It didn't work out?

I think it was two or three days before he disappeared.

He was burning the novels he had written

in the open lot behind here.

He did so crying in front of his friend.

Friend?

Do you see that person in this picture?

Oh!

Him!

No good? You mean this masterpiece?

He told me so.

That it's totally hopeless.

I wonder what I worked so hard for all these seven years.

And, it was right afterwards that he disappeared, right?

So, I figured that

maybe he lost hope and committed suicide in the mountains.

So, that's the story.

What? I called all of you?

Yeah. You said that the mystery has been solved.

Solve or not solve,

as to the case this time, don't have the slightest idea.

Mr. Mouri? Did it start?

Sleeping Kogoro.

Grudge held back in the university days.

Behind the case this time, this is what is involved.

I mean all know that already, don't we?

Mr. Teiichi Hikage himself says so in his novel.

Mr. Hikage is not involved in the case this time.

-Pardon? -Not involved?

Just what do you mean, Mr. Mouri?

It seems that Mr. Hikage was seriously continuing

to write novels in hopes of becoming a professional writer

even after graduating from university.

I know that.

But, he was troubled by not being able to write something

he felt confident of.

However, three years ago, Mr. Hikage finally completed

a novel he was confident of a masterpiece.

He took this novel

to a friend who once belonged in the same club,

and one who is presently working

in the editing section of a mystery magazine, Mr. Kamio.

He brought it to you, didn't he, Mr. Kamio?

Is that true, Kamio?

You've got the talent to pick out good stories,

so you figured out right away that his story was a masterpiece.

However, you...

What do you think, Kamio?

It's totally hopeless.

You probably did so

to take revenge on him for rejecting your novel

that you were confident of in your university days.

Mr. Hikage took your words for fact and lost all hope.

As a result, he ended up taking his own life.

It can't be.

Mr. Kamio as well my life is being sought after by Hikage right now,

so how can that be? Right?

-Yeah. -When Mr. Hikage disappeared,

I'm sure Mr. Kamio understood that.

He may have driven Mr. Hikage to his death by his remark.

I'm sure Mr. Kamio suffered for three years regretting what he had done.

And moreover, tried to forget the whole thing.

But, half a month ago,

one of the members of the club in the past,

Mr. Takeshi Nezu appeared before you,

and started blackmailing you.

You drove Hikage to his death three years ago, didn't you?

I guess I hit the bull's eye.

I read that novel which Hikage wrote.

The thing is, I sort of need some money, you see.

I figure money was not much of a problem to you.

You just couldn't bear the fact that someone knew about

the bitter past that you wanted to forget.

You wanted to erase Mr. Nezu from this world.

But, if you killed him just like that,

you figured that you'd be suspected.

Therefore, you decided to make it look like

the doings of Mr. Teiichi Hikage, a person who didn't exist.

You thought up a motive for the murder,

which was a grudge that he held against everyone

for criticizing his work during university days.

But, Mr. Nezu wasn't the only one who criticized his work.

If it's a grudge revenge, it would be strange

if Mr. Sasamoto and yourself as well is not a target.

In order to make people believe that

Hikage was trying to exact his revenge,

you wrote "So, Disappear Everybody."

You wrote it?

Then, just as you had written,

you stabbed Mr. Nezu in the park at night.

Next, you disguised yourself as Mr. Hikage

and attacked Mr. Sasamoto.

Hikage appeared!

I'll be right over so stay there.

If I grab a cab, I can be there in 30 minutes.

You answered as if you took the call at your residence,

and got there 30 minutes later

pretending to have arrived there from your home.

You went on to make it look as if you, yourself

was also being attacked by Mr. Hikage.

You waited for an opportunity to sneak out of your hospital room.

You disguised yourself as Mr. Hikage

and attacked Mr. Sasamoto with a car.

Then, you lowered the curtains to your show

-by using Mr. Hikage's tone of voice. -Hikage?

This line of thinking fits everything in place.

It even explains the inconsistency in the culprit's actions.

The only person you wanted to kill

to begin with was Mr. Nezu.

Isn't that right, Mr. Kamio?

No way.

It's all deduction, Mr. Mouri.

You have no evidence whatsoever.

Mr. Sasamoto fortunately remembered.

The name of the company of the cab that you rode yesterday.

The driver remembered you and told us that

there was a queer man who flagged him down near the site of the crime,

but got off after riding only a several hundred meters.

That's only the testimony of an eye-witness.

It's possible that this man was someone who resembled you a lot.

But, that's not all.

Oh, this man!

Of all things, give me a break.

It just wouldn't come off, this thing.

When you got rid of the red paint,

you used some paint happened to stick to the back sole of your shoes.

Mr. Kamio, could you let us take a look

at the sole of your shoes?

Kamio.

When and how did you figure out

that I was the one who did it, Mr. Mouri?

That novel.

"So, Disappear Everybody"

From the time I realized that you, not Mr. Teiichi Hikage

wrote that novel.

The style. The writing style.

Style of writing?

The writing style of that novel is obviously different from the one

that Mr. Hikage had written in the past.

Mr. Hikage's novel had a lot of marks that expressed emotion.

But, there was nothing like that in the novel you showed us.

You didn't even use the dotted lines to describe the spaces in between,

and you wrote everything using just plain underlines.

An extremely restrained way of writing.

Yes, very much like that novels that you used to write in the past.

Habits of writing style are not easy to revise

no matter how many years go by.

Writers in particular, tend to stick and have a special feeling

towards their writing style.

You have no way out, Mr. Kamio, from something that

you had harboured inside for a long period of time.

Kamio.

Harbored for a long period of time?

I'm going to wash my face.

Prediction of murder! Right here!

A red "shadow"! It's written right here!

See, right here.

Help me, Conan!

Call the police, will you?

I think that's a trace of you drooling.

Next Conan's Hint:

"Two cars"

This time next week, we will bring to you Masked Yaiba.

-Hey, come off it, no way. -Oh, I guess not after all?