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Stars are for some reason attractive.

They can be the culprit or an actor.

Today's case has a slightly different taste.

Solving the trick consisting of three flavours.

Let's taste the joy of problem solving.

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

What's with that sigh?

I didn't sigh.

I was just wondering if Ran's doing okay at the tournament.

Of course she's okay.

I mean she practiced as much as she did,

and went to sleep early last night, too.

She's doing just fine.

I guess so.

Huh?

What's up?

-I've been telling you... -It's the owner of the sweets shop.

-So, I'm saying that's not it. -The police officer is Mr. Kinoshita.

What seems to be the matter?

Mr. Mouri, what a good timing.

Mr. Mouri, please hear me out.

-Mr. Mouri, we're having a problem. -Mr. Mouri, we're having a problem.

Hold it.

I have this uncomfortable premonition.

"Spicy, Bitter and Sweet Flavour"

So what you're saying is...

Etsuko, you saw a man running out of room 105

on the first floor of this condo.

The time this happened was about two hours ago at 9:00 in the morning.

And Officer Kinoshita, you came here after Etsuko reported this to you.

Yes, sir.

Then you found the corpse of Ms. Fumie Ozawa, the woman renting this room,

and concluded that she committed suicide.

It can't be a suicide!

But...

Listen. I saw the scene with my very eyes.

There was a suicide note and the room was not messed up.

But...

Besides, there are no other eye-witnesses

who saw the suspicious man you saw.

But I saw him for sure.

Come on! Please tell him, Mr. Mouri.

Tell him to investigate the incident more thoroughly!

What?

Now, now.

And is there a possibility that it was made to look like suicide?

I had the medical examiner come over and investigate just in case, but...

Judging from the degree of post-mortem rigidity,

the estimated time of death

is thought to be between 6:00 to 8:00 last night.

If the man she says she witnessed committed the crime,

he would've had to stay with the dead body for more than 13 hours,

after killing the victim and setting up the suicide.

It is unthinkable under normal terms.

I'm getting nowhere talking to you!

Let's have Mr. Mouri decide.

Mr. Mouri! Please tell us what you think.

Well, I'm sure in a fix.

You don't look to be in a fix to me.

Officer Kinoshita!

This is the man I saw! There's no mistake about it.

Oh, don't touch it!

But...

The victim is the person who lives here, Ms. Fumie Ozawa, age 24.

She works for financial institution.

When I found the body,

she had a wire that was suspended from the shower nozzle around her neck,

with her body leaning against the wall and sitting down.

What a strange place to choose to commit suicide though.

Mr. Mouri, please look over here.

There is a will written using the computer.

"Chairman Shimizu of the loan department,

I am sorry for the trouble I have caused.

I will take my life so please accept my apologies."

The contents of the suicide note

is that she had embezzled more than 30,000,000 yen of company money,

so that she would like to apologize by taking her own life.

She addressed this to her superior.

Embezzlement?

She sent this mail out yesterday at 5:45 in the evening.

I think she died soon after that.

You stay out of this, brat!

Manner mode?

At home?

It seems that this will be concluded

as suicide just as Officer Kinoshita says.

Please look at the calendar!

She's got a dentist appointment.

Calendar?

It's true that she has a dentist appointment written for today.

You sure have good eyes, Etsuko.

You can see what's written from there?

Yes. Well, sort of...

A calculated suicide to the point of getting a wire ready.

Would such a person make a dentist appointment for today?

Wait a second.

Officer Kinoshita, this may possibly not be a case of suicide.

So she was killed by the man in that picture, right?

No, I can't really answer that yet.

Officer Kinoshita, was this room locked or unlocked when you came here?

The door was not locked.

Which means she committed suicide without locking the door.

Rather, a person who commits suicide

would probably be reluctant to be found in the act.

The picture that was found at the front entrance was peeled off from here.

Hey!

Hey, Pops.

The victim must have been close with the man in this picture,

but isn't there a suicide note addressed to him?

Huh?

Pops, I wonder what this is?

There's some kind of white powder here.

It hurts.

It has no smell and is dry.

I think this powder is edible.

I think this is cornstarch.

What else can you use cornstarch for other than cooking?

Well, for making Japanese sweets.

Rice cake filled with sweet beans is also covered with cornstarch.

Inspector, the money that Ms. Ozawa was in charge of at her company,

a sum of about 30,000,000 yen is missing.

Her superior, Mr. Shimizu is off today.

Which means he doesn't know that Ms. Ozawa committed suicide.

And we've also come up with something unexpected.

This man who is loading the cooler box is where she sent her mail to.

He is her superior, Mr. Shimizu.

You mean her superior was going out with her?

Nobody in the company seems to have known

that they were going out with each other.

Moreover, it seems that Shimizu liked gambling

and invested a lot of money into it.

Inspector.

It sounds fishy, don't you think?

Excuse me, Inspector.

It's him!

The one who came out of this room.

Tell the truth!

What are you talking about?

And excuse me for being rude, but who are you?

-Please get out of the way and don't interfere. -It's this guy. It's him.

Inspector, he is Mr. Shimizu.

He was resting at home, but I asked him to come.

Getting right down to business,

did you know that Ms. Ozawa who was working under you,

had embezzled a sum of 30,000,000 yen?

"Ryota Shimizu (30)" -No. The officer informed me of it.

I was utterly surprised.

Weren't you going out with Ms. Fumie Ozawa?

If so, it would seem natural that she would discuss the matter with you.

We weren't going steady or anything.

You're referring to that picture that you had?

Ms. Ozawa said that she wanted to try going fishing once,

so I took her fishing with me.

Where were you this morning, a little after 9:00?

What do you mean?

Someone saw you come fleeing out of this room.

Me?

No use playing dumb!

I saw you clearly with these eyes of mine.

I'll be straightforward with you.

Didn't you come here this morning at 9:00 and kill Ms. Fumie Ozawa?

Are you trying to say

that I used Ms. Ozawa to embezzle money from the company and killed her?

Yes. After you sucked sweet honey, and sucked it all,

you got rid of her and...

Wait.

I didn't do it.

I had a class reunion with the classmates of my elementary school days

and was in Hiroshima yesterday.

So at about 9:00 this morning,

I was at the airport in order to board the plane headed for Haneda.

This is the cut half of the plane ticket.

Then, where were you last night from 6:00 to 8:00?

I was in the midst of the class reunion.

This is the name card of the person in charge.

Please let me have it for a while.

Sure.

Go check on it.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Shimizu has an alibi.

But Etsuko insists that she definitely saw him.

If this is not a suicide case...

How was it?

Wasn't what that man said an outright lie?

It was just as Mr. Shimizu had said.

I confirmed with the chairman of the class reunion

as well as the airline company.

I see.

Etsuko probably mistook someone else to be Mr. Shimizu.

But Etsuko has good eyes, doesn't she?

Because she was able to see the words on the calendar from far away, right?

Then, are you saying that she wanted to set Mr. Shimizu as the killer?

For what?

It's totally Greek to me.

Where's Officer Horita?

He is questioning a courier at the entrance of the condo

because the courier seems to have seen something.

Since my alibi's been established,

I guess I'll get heading home then.

No, you don't.

Don't let him go. He is a killer!

Etsuko.

What a woman.

Do you have a grudge against me or something?

Do you have proof that I'm the killer?

I do.

I knew her since she was a little child.

She thought of me as her mother and told me everything about herself.

She told me that she was going out with a person called Shimizu.

She also confessed to me that she embezzled money from the company

under his orders.

What a thing to say.

Stop it.

It was on vibrator. That was ticklish.

Yes, this is Mouri.

The thing that medical examiner asked for?

She has no bad teeth? You mean Ms. Fumie Ozawa?

But she had a dentist appointment.

No. Thank you very much.

Nothing is wrong with her teeth, and yet she had a dentist appointment?

Excuse me.

I don't want to be a bother,

but I don't think this is Ms. Ozawa's writing on the calendar.

Since I'm her superior, I used to see her writing all the time.

We can't say for sure until we get it evaluated,

but it does look different.

Then who wrote in the calendar?

From what I hear, this woman here is the one who first found the body?

I see. I understand now.

It's not unusual for the first person to find the body is the killer.

Well, it's too bad that Etsuko is the killer.

Just what do you mean, Mr. Mouri?

Etsuko wanted to set Mr. Shimizu up as the killer.

That's why she set it up

so that it looked to be as if Fumie had a dentist appointment.

She also peeled the picture from the album

and put the picture at the front entrance for everyone to see.

Etsuko, just in case,

could you write the word dentist for me, please?

It's that woman over there, but are you sure?

Yes, I am.

She hid it here.

Inspector.

What is this?

What?

Etsuko,

you came into this room a little after 9:00 this morning today, didn't you?

No.

The driver of a courier saw you come out of this room.

Moreover, you seemed to be in a rush and bumped into him.

There's five million yen here.

Can you explain where this money came from

and why you hid it in the gas meter box?

I brought the money from my house.

I hid it because when I went to report Fumie's death to the police.

I didn't want to drop it just in case.

So you did come into this room after all.

No, I haven't.

You killed Ozawa yourself and tried to set me up as the killer.

Just what do you think you're saying?

Mr. Mouri, please don't listen to what this man is saying.

Well, what a predicament.

It's a lie. One of the two is lying.

Etsuko or Mr. Shimizu, which of them is the killer?

What's this?

The scale of a fish?

Why would something like this be here?

Maybe...

I see. So that's the story.

I did write it

and I am the one who put the picture there, too.

Was it to put the blame of the crime on Mr. Shimizu?

No, that's not it.

I did it to have Mr. Shimizu arrested.

I came to this room this morning.

I was going to accompany Fumie

who said she was going to turn herself into the police.

I brought money along with me

thinking that returning some money would make what she did a bit lighter.

I just knew that Mr. Shimizu was responsible

for the way I found Fumie.

She told me that she was going to confess everything to the police.

But there is nothing in this room that hints that Mr. Shimizu did anything.

That's why you put the picture in the front entrance

and schemed writing what you did on the calendar.

The killer is Mr. Shimizu!

But Etsuko, that's your side of the story

and we can't believe it completely.

After all, Mr. Shimizu does have an alibi.

We'd like to know where you got such a sum as five million yen, too.

So would you please come to the police?

Mr. Mouri, thank you for waiting.

This is Mr. Inoue, who works at the ice making shop.

Ice making shop? What's this about?

Just as you had assumed, ice had been bought.

Officer Sato and Officer Horita,

take her to the police and hear her out, will you?

-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.

Inspector, please wait.

What is it?

Mr. Mouri! Did it start?

Let that person go right away.

The one who needs to go to the police is you, Mr. Shimizu.

Why do I have to go to the police?

Mr. Inoue, when did he come to buy ice?

Yesterday afternoon.

He came to buy four blocks of ice totalling 15 kilograms.

I remember him because he brought a large cooler box along with him.

At this time of year,

how long does it take for ice to melt and disappear?

At normal room temperature, about half a day.

Thank you for taking time out to come here.

No problem.

Thank you very much.

Officer Sato.

If you look underneath the bathtub cover, you will find a fish scale.

Please remove the wires from it and bring it here.

A fish scale in the bathroom?

Mr. Shimizu.

Around yesterday afternoon,

you probably put Ms. Ozawa to sleep using sleeping pills.

Then you carried her into the bath tub.

You made her sit on the bench you made using ice

and the lid of the bathtub and left.

As the ice melts the bench lowers and chokes her neck.

At the estimated time of her death between 6:00 to 8:00 last night,

half the ice would've melted.

And this morning, when Etsuko found her,

the ice had melted and the floor of the bathtub was dry.

It may have been stuck to the cooler box that you loaded the ice with.

A fish scale was on the lid of the box.

Does that serve as proof that I killed her?

Listen, Ms. Ozawa sent me mail at 5:45 in the evening.

How can a person who is asleep with wire around her neck do that?

Conan.

Will you put Ms. Ozawa's cell phone in the open space of the book shelf?

Stick about half of it out though.

Okay.

The cell phone is on manner mode.

Officer Sato, please call Ms. Ozawa's cell phone.

Yes, sir.

If you look at the history of incoming calls,

you will notice that she received a call a little before 5:45.

No, but I didn't do it.

I was in Hiroshima.

You sure are obstinate!

Officer Sato, please look at the place where the wire is tied.

You'll see hair stuck to it.

Don't you see hair other than Ms. Ozawa's hair that is dyed?

There is.

Something that looks like straight black hair.

Mr. Shimizu, when you carried Ms. Ozawa,

your hair got tangled with Ms. Ozawa's hair.

However, you did not realize it.

Mr. Shimizu, it will be obvious whose hair it is

once we get it evaluated by the forensic officers.

I'm sorry.

She said that she couldn't continue any longer,

and that she would turn herself in to the police.

That's why I...

You drank a lot of sweet honey,

so from now you're going to have to drink a lot of bitterness.

You sure were fantastic!

Mr. Mouri, Inspector Megure was saying

that your plan of letting Shimizu suck sweet candy first

then giving him the blow was utterly splendid.

That a pinch of salt is necessary

to bring out the full effect of sweetness.

Maybe I should shake a little salt on you, too?

Next Conan's Hint:

"Cell phone lock"

Why isn't Officer Takagi in this episode?

I think it's because the title to this episode is sweet flavour.

Officer Sato.