Detective Conan File 993 [Japanese to English Translation]
Both love and case
Are cut with a blade?!
TN: Ahaha. Pun. Like: Yaiba (blade) as MANGA (Okita) is added to the love (ShinRan and Heizuha) and to the case (Okita is an IDIOT)
[10 minutes before the tournament starts...]
S: The criminal behind Nukitani-san's murder had been hiding in the restroom up until the police arrived...
S: So it must be one of you three...
S: But we can't do much until we figure out where the box cutter that was used to slice Nukitani-san's throat went...
T: Yeah... Looks like this might be a tough one...
S: There's nothing we can do! Could you contact the tournament organizers and tell them to come here so we can explain the situation and tell them to cancel the event?
S: I'd like to know more about how Nukitani-san got here and such...
T: Right!
[Wait! 10 minutes is should be more than enough time...]
[A murder happened at the Kendo Tournament!! Looks like Heiji discovered the truth?!]
T: Eh?
S: More than enough... Don't tell me you already figured out who did it?
H: Aye... which one of these three did it...
H: And how they killed him!!
O: I've figured it out as well!!
O: Since we can't seem to find the murder weapon, no matter where we look...
O: The criminal is this blind...
O: Ojii-san with a cane!!
TN: LMAO
Y: Eh?
O: He was lying about the supposed criminal mentioning a box cutter on the phone!
C: Lying?
C: You'd think that even if that was a lie, he wouldn't have just sat on this bench right next to the corpse, but would rather have tried to get out of here...
H: Besides, he can't see... How would he have killed him?
O: Isn't it obvious? That cane contains a sword...
O: Just like Zatouichi, he calculated the distance between him and his target by sensing his presence...
O: And sliced this occhan's neck with a single, sudden draw!!
O: So? I'm right, aren't I?
O: Can you say 'Life is pain'?
C: Oi, Hattori...
C: Is this guy... an idiot?
O: You're supposed ta say that at the end, ya know! <3
H: Sorry... Ignore him...
H: So? Ya learned who the criminal is?
C: Nope, all I know...
C: Is that although the victim's bag contained a drink...
C: Someone must've taken it after he was killed...
C: And the one who took it...
C: Is probably the ex-SDF officer, Sakamori Akane-san...
A: Wha?!
S: Why do you think that?
C: Well, you see, there’s some powdered medical residue left around Nukitani-san’s mouth, yet he doesn't have any water on him!
C: That's why I believe that the warmth that melted the chocolate in Sadamori-san's bag stemmed from a plastic bottle containing a warm drink!
A: A-as I said, the chocolate simply melted in my pocket...
C: Then it should’ve melted evenly! However, since only those closer to the tip melted, something else must have given off its warmth... You probably got it from the vending machine, added the poison, and then kept it in your bag until you got a chance to give it to Nukitani-san, right?
C: And you didn't tell us that you had a warm drink... because you thought that might arouse suspicion if someone finds a plastic bottle cut into little pieces...
S: That's why you were hiding in the restroom... to get rid of the evidence...
A: T-That was not poison, that was a laxative! I just wanted get back at Nukitani-sensei for rejecting my love!!
A: And when I came by to make sure he’s stuck in the restroom... He was dead. So I grabbed the plastic bottle because I knew everyone would get the wrong idea!!
A: I swear I’m telling the truth! Please believe me!!
C: I don’t think she's the culprit! She practiced Kendo in high school for three years, so she’d at least know how to wear a hakama properly...
C: And the culprit appears to have put the hakama on backwards!
T: Then all three of us must be innocent! After all, I practiced kendo too…
C: Did you really practice Kendo back in the day, Yokote-san...?
C: You didn't even know that victory poses are forbidden at Kendo tournaments...
C: Isn't that right, referee-ojii-san?
N: Y-yeah... As per the guidelines...
N: 'An excessively emotional display of pride following a successful blow is considered unsportsmanlike conduct and will result in the strike being annulled, regardless of whether or not it was previously considered legal.'
S: See... Yet you were bragging to your girlfriend about striking a victory pose after landing a strike...
S: And you got angry when Nukitani-san humiliated you by calling you out on your lie...
Y: Y-Yeah...
Y: I wanted to get back at this ossan by embarrassing him myself...
Y: So I followed him and secretly took pictures! If he'd shown any weakness or shameful habit, I'd have exposed him through the internet!
Y: And when this woman went went for the same restroom he'd gone to....
Y: I figured that they might be having some sort of secret date...
Y: That's all there is to it!!
Y: I wanted to leave ASAP, but then this kid and those guys got here...
Y: Then while I was in the restroom, I deleted all the pictures I'd secretly taken of that ossan!!
T: So that's why it says that you haven't taken any pictures this month?
Y: Y-Yeah...
S: But you're also the only one who doesn't know how to put a hakama on...
S: So you'd have to be the one who killed him.
Y: A, no...
S: Right, Conan-kun?
C: Hmmm...
C: But Yokote-san....
C: Doesn't have a box cutter with him...
S: H-hey, Conan-kun?!
T: R-right! I don't have one with me! And I at least know how to wear hakama, because I practiced kendo a little!
H: Then how 'bout ya put that tare on? Forensics can give ya some gloves...
T: O-okay... I’ve got this!
T: Take this long one... make a cross in the back...
T: Then fasten what's left behind... and ready!
H: Nope! Tare's knot shouldn't be visible, so yer supposed ta lift the maedare* and make a knot under it!
TN: Apron :"D
H: See? After fastenin' it... Ya can see the blood left at the maedare, right?
S: B-but that's...
H: Yep! Anyone who is used ta wearing bougu would wear his hakama backwards on purpose... Ta make it look that it was done by somebody who never did kendo…
H: And the only one who had ta do it must be wearing referee clothes, and thus hold a rank...
H: Only ya, Norimura Nenji-san!!
K: No way?!
K: Ya still haven’t found Heiji?! The match starts in 5 minutes!
K: And Ran-chan and Conan-kun aren’t here either... Maybe they know where Heiji is?
R: A phone call from Kazuha-chan... If she'll learn where Hattori-kun is, she'll head straight over here...
R: But if she gets here before the case is closed...
R: We can’t afford to waste any time...
R: Because Hattori-kun...
R: Has to confess to Kazuha-chan!!!
[B-but.... The criminal used a box cutter as a weapon, right?]
N: I don't have one of those on me...
H: We were wrong about that from the start...
H: The victim, Nukitani-san, was talking to someone on phone...
H: And he said...
H: 'The cutter is stained with blood, I can't cut with it... please bring me the spare one!'
Y: Yeah! Exactly!
C: I don't see anything wrong with that...
H: In kansai, 'cutter' can refer to a dress shirts! Ya guys just call those "Y-Shirts" instead!
TN: HA! I was right uvu
H: Add to that the fact that Nukitani-san got a nosebleed because of Okita's opponent...
H: And we've got this...
H: 'My Cutter shirt is stained due to my nosebleed, so I can't wear it....
H: Bring me the spare one!'
TN: Kiru = cut, kiru = wear
T: I see! That's why Nukitani-san's wife is coming here with a Y-shirt!
S: So Nukitani-san wanted to change his shirt, and chose this remote restroom by accident?
H: Yeah... 'cause all the other restrooms were taken...
H: That said, even without a nosebleed, if ya stained Nukitani-san's shirt with a hand smeared in ink... He woulda come here anyway, which is just what ya wanted, right?
N: B-but the murder weapon?!
N: I don't have anything sharp with me, right?
H: Ya do!
T: Y-you think I'd slice a throat with a shinai?!
H: It's a modified shinai...
H: If ya'd swung horizontally with a sharpened bamboo tip cut as thin as a katana...
H: The centrifugal force woulda helped ya slice the throat!!
O: Well, even with a simple shinai’s strike... there are ways to slice his throat so that the blood won't stop flowing...
H: Yep... the throat is the most vulnerable part of the human body after all...
H: The sound heard in the restroom was the sound of... Ya trying to dull the edge of yer bamboo sword, which was as sharp as a katana, so ya rubbed it against wall...
H: And the sound that was heard right after the sound of the bougu being thrown out of the restroom window...
H: After ya took off the blood-drenched bougu ya used in yer plan, ya changed into the coat ya prepared earlier, put the murder weapon - yer bamboo sword - inside the shinai bag, and were gonna leave as if nothin' had happened...
H: But then lotsa people arrived, so ya couldn't leave the toilet and realized ya’d have ta do somethin' with that sharpened shinai...
H: So it oughta still be left inside yer shinai bag, right?
H: Nukitani-san's blood!!
S: We’ll check!
N: Yeah... I thought it will show the blood stains... so I washed it in the restroom just in case...
H: My bad, Kudo... I took over at the best part. <3
C: That's kind of frustrating...
S: But why shinai? It'd be easier to cut the throat with something sharp...
N: This shinai...
TN: Was a gift from him on our first date, so I wanted to end his life like that - doing his favorite kendo with the sword he gifted me... I thought about rollercoaster, but meh, this idea is better. What? Wrong case? Oh.
N: Belonged to my son...
N: Whom Nukitani-san drove to suicide 2 years ago...
S: D-drove to suicide?
N: At the grand finals of this tournament series' team league, two years ago... My son pulled off a masterful strike in the decisive game... But in the passion of the moment, he struck a victorious pose, and the strike was annulled...
N: My son's high school was eliminated as a result... He felt responsible, and took his own life because he couldn't bare the shame... Nukitani-san was the referee on call for this match...
TN: Oh, I like my idea with the first date better... Poor boy :(
S: But the rules of Kendo are written in stone - there's nothing he could have done about, right?
N: Yes... I thought that Nukitani-san had made the right call, and that my son had been in the wrong...
N: But yesterday, a student from the Kyoto Senshin High School also struck a victory pose after scoring a point during the team league's grand finals...
N: And he flat-out ignored it!!
S: R-really?
N: Yes! And not only did this guy not annull the point, he encouraged this student!
N: He played favorites with him because he was from the kansai area, same as him!!
N: T-that's why I... This prejudiced bastard...
N: With my son's shinai...
O: He probably...
O: Held this charm...
O: The jihou* from the first grade told me 'I want ta win!' and borrowed that charm from me...
TN: Second player
O: This is a charm from the Hachidai shrine, passed in my family fer generations...
O: With this I never lost...
O: After one blow, it showed from under his the dougi, and after noticing it he said 'Kami-san, thank ya' while holding it with teary eyes...
O: Maybe ya just mistook it for the winning pose?
N: That’s a lie...
O: It's true! And the referee told them 'never ta show tears during a match'...
N: It's a lie... a lie...
N: A lie!!!
R: Phew...
C: S-strong...
R: What are you doing?! QUICKLY!!!
T: A, wait...
S: Hm? That charm...
R: A, Kazuha-chan!! I brought them!!
K: R-Ran-chan!
K: The match ended...
[Win without playing!]
R Eeh?!
K: What were ya doin'?! Heiji, ya idiot, idiot, idiot!!
M: Well then, let's retreat?
I: You’re not going to meet Hattori-sama?
M: I’d like to wait...
M: For a better opportunity to meet my future husband...
O: This is all ‘cause somebody here took their sweet time solvin’ that mystery, isn’t it?
H: We lost all that time 'cause of yer Zatouichi blabbering!!
K: Mystery... don't tell me ya ran into another case?
K: Those detectives...
C: Life is pain...
[Be sure to watch the ‘Crimson Love Letter’ now in screening!! Starting from the text issue, Magic Kaito returns after 3 years!!]