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The answer lies behind the message.

Who is to win? God only knows.

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

Somebody visited us to invite us to the final game of the high school

baseball tournament and Takarazuka Revue show, all the way from Osaka.

It was Heiji and Kazuha.

However, after finding out that both events will be on the same day,

the people from Osaka started to have a fight.

In order to decide which one to watch, Pops comes up with a suggestion.

A deduction battle begins.

"The Deduction Battle (Part 2)"

Kazuha.

What's wrong, Kazuha?

I'm just confused. This dying message is killing me.

If we can't figure out what it means, we're going to lose this battle.

No Takarazuka show. I just don't want to lose.

Battle...

Come on, there are no winners or losers in deduction.

Because...

what we have to do is to find the one and only truth.

That's true.

Hey, Hattori.

You got it too, right?

The true meaning of the dying message.

Nope. Not at all.

How come we don't have the actual blocks that have the ink spots on them?

If these were the actual blocks, not the pictures,

we could've looked at them like this.

Maybe there was something hidden behind them.

Well, too bad we can't see the backside of the blocks

because these are pictures.

I see. This guy...

It seems that the president

was having a hard time putting the ink on the blocks, huh?

His hands were tied behind his back.

Plus, he had to read the characters on the blocks with his fingers

in order to choose the right ones, right?

Look at those blocks. Each of them has different characters

and also a picture of an animal on it.

I would be confused and pick the wrong block for sure.

If it wasn't blocks but pieces of Japanese chess,

it would be so much easier

because there's only one character on each backside of the piece.

Kudo.

Only one character on the backside?

That would be even harder, stupid.

The pieces are not big enough to see

whether it was the victim's dying message or not.

Are they?

Yes. Maybe the president just dropped the pieces on the ink accidentally.

Maybe the dying message is actually on the...

So you did find the motive to kill

from the four workers who found the victim.

Yes.

First, about the accountant, Nao Aiko.

She was the former wife of President Tsujiya.

She had an affair with another man and got divorced.

They were having problems with alimony.

Atsushi Hasami, the sales clerk.

He had been told by the victim that he would be fired

if this year's revenue goes below last year's.

The planner, Isao Nakagami had been told the same thing.

Also, there had been a lot of conflict between him and the victim

because of the design of their new toys.

Lastly, the vice president, Hajime Iwatomi

was not having a fight or anything with the president.

But actually, he is supposed to be the next president

if anything happens to President Tsujiya.

So all of them have a decent motive for murder.

A, u, e, o, u, i.

There you go. You're almost there.

There had been a lot of conflict between the president and the workers.

I'm curious what kept this company going so long.

The workers had been drinking in Mr. Iwatomi's house,

complaining about their boss and stuff.

On June 29th, which was the day of the murder,

the three workers went to Mr. Iwatomi's house to drink,

and stayed over night.

On the next day, all four workers came to the office together

and found the dead president.

One more thing.

This may have nothing to with the case.

But each worker has a strange obsession.

Obsession?

Ms. Aiko gets cold easily so she has 50 pairs of gloves.

She brings at least three pairs when she goes fishing.

Mr. Hasami is a movie lover and has 30 sunglasses.

Those actually include the limited models

which some famous actors used to wear.

Mr. Nakagami has at least 40 hats.

He wears them when he goes to the turf, just for good luck.

Mr. Iwatomi was the victim's golf friend, had 30 pairs of white golf shoes.

These are all expensive brand shoes.

He polishes them all once a week.

And lastly. The victim, President Tsujiya was obsessed with idols.

It seems he had been collecting a lot of idol goods.

I found a lot those idol goods in the president's room over there.

That! See the one on the desk?

Pens and pen stands with the idol's picture on them and stuff.

I see.

Hey, Kudo. Have you noticed it?

You mean the unnaturalness of the desk?

But it's not only that.

Right. There's one more thing that's kind of bugging me.

I suppose this calendar is also the president's stuff, right?

Yes. That calendar is actually his favourite,

so he kept it even after that month passed.

Hattori.

Did you buy it? The novel.

My mom also got me one first thing in the morning today.

Have you figured out something, Kazuha?

Kazuha?

Sorry, Ran. I can't talk right now.

I think I'm just about to solve it.

What is it now? What time do you think it is?

Don't you tell me you are still suspicious about us?

Well...

I heard some money matters were involved in this murder.

It's all because of our vague alibis. We have no proof as to it.

But what can I do? I was really at the turf that day.

I was at a golf course, watching the final round of the tournament.

I was watching movies. Actually, three movies in a row.

I was out fishing. I just happened to go by myself.

All right.

So who found the dead body first?

Who is this boy?

Could you just tell me more about it, please?

It's me who found him first.

I was going to sit at my desk when I found him lying on the floor.

I screamed.

As we heard Mr. Iwatomi's scream,

we all came here and called the police.

Right.

Before I forget, is it your president who rips the pages off the calendar?

Yes. The president gets upset if we do it because we might ruin it.

So Mr. Tsujiya always rips it off.

And he keeps it in his room like some kind of precious treasure.

Was he also the one who wrote the schedule on the calendar?

We were all supposed to play some golf together next Sunday.

I can't believe this actually happened.

Anyway, we've got to go to look for something.

You guys do the talking, okay?

All right. Let's do it.

Yes.

The fact the video camera was at a blind spot

from the victim's point of view,

and the unnaturally neat desk.

The bloodstain on the leather coat the murderer was wearing.

The suspects' strange obsessions.

And the president's dying message.

Right.

Now, all we need is that thing.

The thing that connects the pieces of the mystery all together.

What? One of the suspects got a solid alibi?

Yes. I'm at the TV station, checking the footage.

I see him.

Clearly.

Kudo.

Ran.

I found it.

It's the June calendar.

There's a thin bloodstain, but I can still see it.

That must be it.

The murderer is...

I got it.

Ran, I think...

I got the answer.

Seriously? You really got the answer?

The dying message the president left at the murder scene.

Yes. The four building blocks with the ink spots, right?

That looked like a hidden secret code,

but it was simply indicating the murderer.

The murderer?

I don't think there's any person that looks like a building block.

No! It's the name.

Name?

None of the four names are related to "o", "mo", "chi", "ya" though.

Heiji mentioned it earlier. Remember?

The victim might have just put the blocks on the ink,

and not because he wanted us to read what's with the ink spots.

In other words, the backside of the ink spotted character

is the true dying message.

I understand. But we can't see what behind those characters.

I can ask the forensic officers to bring them here.

No, you don't have to do that.

Look.

The blocks of "o" character

would look like this if I were to unfold it.

U, e, o?

You all know what kind of character will be in the blank space, right?

Just in case, I checked the blocks over there.

As I expected,

the characters are lined up in the correct order.

Ms. Aiko, am I right?

Yes. Each block contains five characters with the same consonant

and an animal picture in the same order.

If you know which character is on which side, it is no longer a hustle.

The backside of "o" is "i".

Accordingly, "mo" is "mi" and "chi" is "to".

Right! So the real dying message is "i", "mi", "to"...

And what's the last one?

It doesn't make sense.

According to Kazuha, the last block "ya" is supposed to be "yu".

But I actually see "yo" on it.

That block is special.

Look. You see "wo" on the right side of "yo"?

That means this block consists of "ya", "yu", "yo", "wa", "wo" "n".

If we put those characters in the same order, the animal part will be "n".

That's it!

According to the same rule, "ya" is "wa".

So the dying message is

"i", "mi", "to", "wa", right?

-So that's... -Imiwato.

Iwamito...

-Iwato. -Iwato.

That's right.

That's what the president wanted to tell us before he was killed.

The vice-president, Mr. Iwatomi.

It was your name.

I see.

You wanted to kill your president and take over the company, didn't you?

No, I...

Kazuha, that was amazing!

You actually solve the case before Hattori.

We won this deduction battle!

So that means...

We can go to the Takarazuka show.

Sorry, Kazuha.

Mr. Iwatomi is not the murderer.

I had a phone call from Chiba.

The 29th of last month around 5pm, when the murder occurred,

Mr. Iwatomi was in fact on TV.

-No way. -Why?

Don't ask me why.

You have a twin brother?

No, I don't.

Sorry to tell you this, but Kazuha's idea was wrong.

Oh, no.

No. She was right.

The four blocks are really the dying message

the president Tsujiya left before he was killed.

Heiji.

But Hattori, Mr. Iwatomi has an alibi.

Of course he has an alibi.

Because Mr. Iwatomi is not the murderer at all.

What?

You just said that it was the real dying message, didn't you?

Yes. For sure, I did.

But I didn't say the message was correct, did I?

Hey, hey. What are you talking about?

Hey, don't you remember?

How did President Tsujiya leave a message on the blocks?

Try to remember that.

Well, I think he was tied down on the floor behind the desk.

He picked the building blocks

and put them in the puddle of ink on the floor, something like that.

You got that right.

The problem is the ink stain that's on the president's back.

What's wrong with it?

He got that ink stain when he was fighting the murderer, right?

That's what I thought at first.

But I noticed the unnaturalness on this desk.

Unnaturalness?

It's weird.

The chair just hit it lightly, but the pen stand fell.

Well, the ink bottle fell off the desk because people were fighting

and hitting the desk hard, right?

Right.

Then how come the pen stand did not fall during the fight?

That is certainly strange.

This just sounds like

the murderer spilled the ink on the floor on purpose.

No way. Why would he do that?

That's like he's giving the president

a chance to write something about him.

Maybe...

It was on purpose.

That's right. The murderer deliberately spilled the ink on the floor

to compel the president to leave a dying message about him.

But it's dangerous. The president could leave the murderer's name.

That's only if he saw the murderer's face.

Why don't you lie down on the floor like the president was?

What? Okay.

Maybe you'll get to experience how the president felt.

How he felt?

I got it! Shoes.

It's the shoes!

The murderer narrowed the victim's scope with this desk

and made him determine who he was only by looking at his shoes.

So, the murderer wore white shoes

to make him leave a fake dying message about the murderer.

That's why the video camera was set up in the victim's blind spot.

The murderer was watching the president on the monitor

to make sure that the president wrote the desired dying message.

And then, he killed the victim.

But who did it anyway?

Hey, look.

What?

I found this strange calendar in the president's room.

See?

I thought you might know what this is.

Well, it's got a little stain, but other than that...

Don't you get it?

It's been wiped off, but it's a bloodstain.

Also, don't you think it's strange

that the president was murdered on June 29th,

but the June calendar at the murder scene was already ripped off?

In fact, there's a schedule written down on the 30th of the June calendar.

Who in the world would do that without any reason?

Hey...

The June calendar was ripped, because someone had to hide the bloodstain.

We got something that's got the same bloodstain on it.

The coat the murderer was wearing!

The bloodstain on the shoulder looked kind of rubbed.

That's why I made the four workers stand in front of the calendar.

Hey!

The only person who is tall enough

to touch the top of the calendar with his shoulders...

You moron.

It is you,

Mr. Hasami!

No one else could do it.

Good job.

When the president came back to the office,

you attacked him from behind with a golf club.

Wearing Mr. Iwatomi's white shoes and setting up the video camera,

you made sure that the president left behind the fake message.

You probably were relieved after killing the president,

and leaned against the wall.

That's when you got the bloodstain on the calendar.

You didn't notice it until the next day.

That's why you didn't dump it right away.

In fact, it's easy to steal the white shoes from Mr. Iwatomi's house.

People came and drunk at Mr. Iwatomi's house so often.

You had a lot of chance to steal them.

But the height of his shoulders is not enough evidence

to accuse him for the murder.

Actually, the evidence are those shoes.

You were wearing Mr. Iwatomi's shoes until the president left the message.

It's quite a long while.

The smell of your feet are definitely on them.

The police dog will sense your smell right away, right?

I guess you had a decent reason for wearing those shoes

until they smelled of your feet.

You can tell us about it if you want.

I wanted to kill the president by framing Mr. Iwatomi up for the murder.

I wanted him out of the toy production.

That's all.

Why me?

I don't think I ever mistreated you or anything.

It's not me that you mistreated.

It's the children.

The children who are going to be playing with the toy

that you and the president were trying to sell.

I don't get it.

Here, look at this building block.

See how the corner have been smoothed off.

But to cut down the cost, they told us not to do it.

That includes not only the blocks but the other toys, too.

They certainly look more appealing and could be more profitable,

but are dangerous for children.

I disagreed with the idea, but we were going to be fired

if we did not follow their plan.

But you didn't have to kill him.

This company is having a hard time.

Hard time?

Guess what President Tsujiya said?

Iwatomi! You want money?

I got tons of it. I'm not lying, just look in the safe!

-What? -He had money?

Yes. I have no idea what and how he did it though.

But it doesn't matter.

I just didn't want to see the poorly-made toys and deceive kids.

You really got that trick. I'm impressed.

It's because of the novel.

The title of the novel my mom got me gave me the idea of that trick.

You better thank your mom.

You won this deduction battle because of it.

We can finally go to the Koshien Stadium.

Congratulations, Heiji.

Oh, shoot! I forgot.

Now, I have to practice the boola boola.

Kazuha, wait.

Kazuha, I can ask Hattori for you to go to the Takarazuka show.

You are the one who solved the mystery of the dying message.

You are actually half the winner, right?

Forget it.

What I really wanted to see

wasn't the Takarazuka show or the baseball game.

It was Heiji's smile that he shows when he solves a case.

Where did I go wrong?

You stupid.

Next Conan's Hint:

"Retired Number"

The next episode of Conan is a two hour special Christmas present!

We'll be at the Koshien Stadium. Of course, I'm the hero!

What? You are gonna be playing?