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Friendship, love and mystery.

We stick it out because we believe promises will be kept.

A soundless murder within the dark.

A clean deduction of a messed up crime site.

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

We all head over together with mom to the Tohto Processing Station

to watch the preview of the new movie, "Kamen Yaiba the Movie II".

However, it ends up that the preview that was scheduled

could only be shown late at night, so we had to wait.

Mom goes back to the U.S.

while we all go over to Mr. Akira Hojima's condo to take a nap.

"Secret of the Tohto Processing Station (Part 2)"

The victim is Mr. Norihiro Furumura, age 39.

He seems to have been employed at the Tohto Processing Station

located opposite this condo.

One stab through the chest with a knife.

He seems to have been stabbed from over the blanket

in order to avoid blood splattering onto the killer.

No.

They all just happened to come to take a short nap at my place.

We were planning to play all night mahjong

after the movie was completed tonight.

Movie?

Yes.

The preview showing of that movie was extended to around 11 pm,

so we all decided to take a short nap together,

including those children.

I see.

So, where were you all sleeping?

That room.

All five of us lined up sideways and slept on that bed.

Then, we heard a man shout.

When we opened the door and turned on the light,

this is what we saw.

I see.

But it's strange.

What's strange?

We didn't hear the murderer at all.

-That's because you were sleeping... -No.

But it's after Mr. Furumura was killed.

It's only natural that

we'd at least hear the sound of somebody leaving the room.

The killer probably tiptoed out.

Well, I think it's almost impossible

to run away in such a short time from this dark, messy room

without making a sound.

Which means that the killer

is the person who was sleeping next to the sofa

that the victim was sleeping on...

Mr. Hojima.

No way!

There were no signs of the door being forced open either.

Wait!

People other than me have the spare key to this room.

People who work at the same processing station as I,

like Mr. Karata and Mr. Negami.

What? Furumura was?

By who?

We'll soon find out after you all tell us about yourselves.

Will you please tell us

what you were doing and where you were

at the time of the murder around 10:55 pm?

At that time, since I was almost done with timing,

I left the rest of the work with another worker

and went to take a rest at the nap room.

Timing?

It involves adjusting the color for movies and dramas.

Can anyone verify that for you?

There were two to three other people there,

but they were all asleep.

And you?

I was alone in the dark room checking the film.

So, you both don't have an alibi?

No.

And? Will you explain why you had a spare key?

So that I could play mahjong right away.

The ones who finished work first would come here

and get the game set up and all.

But maybe we weren't the only ones who had the spare key.

He seemed to have other people he played mahjong with, too.

But the only people I gave my spare key to are those two

and Mr. Furumura.

But if you used to come here

and knew where everything was...

It could be possible to move around easily even in the dark.

But...

Conan?

See! This room is really pitch dark.

Hey, stop that! Don't interfere with the officers!

Yes, sir.

But Conan's right.

Right.

If it's that dark, no matter how used to you are to this place,

you're bound to bump into something.

Inspector, may I have a moment with you?

The 3rd button of the corpse's shirt has been yanked off.

It seems as if the victim has struggled with the killer

before he was stabbed.

His shirt sure is dirty though.

His collar is soiled black.

Mr. Furumura used to hate bathing

and used to take baths only once a week or so.

Come to think of it, when we played 3 days ago,

he was wearing this shirt, too.

Which means he hasn't changed since then.

I could never do something like this.

I could never struggle with him,

yank off his button or stab him in a pitch dark place like this!

But if you were the only one awake at that time,

you could've confirmed the position of the victim

with a flashlight or something

and approached him, couldn't you?

And besides, the children haven't heard the killer running away.

Or, did you hear the killer making any sound?

No. I was surprised at hearing Mr. Furumura's voice

that I noticed nothing else.

What's that?

Inspector! There's a video camera on the floor.

What's with this video camera?

This is the video diary that Furumura used to take every day.

Don't tell me the video was kept running all this time.

Okay. Connect it to the TV right away and play it.

There may be something it in

that would give us a clue to the murder.

Yes, sir!

Good work all day today!

I'm going to give my best shot playing all-night mahjong tonight.

I'll report the result later.

It's been switched off once here.

It switched back on again.

But it's pitch black and you can't see a thing.

-Inspector! -Yeah.

Hey, Mr, Furumura!

What's the matter? Mr. Furumura!

This is my voice!

That's the sound I made when I opened the bedroom door.

Mr. Furumura!

This is where this boy turned on the light.

But why did the video camera switch back on again?

The impact of the video camera falling to the floor

when he struggled with the killer

probably set it back on again.

The problem here though, is the sound.

Until the victim shouts,

Conan opens the door and Ayumi screams,

there is no sound other than your voice, Mr. Hojima.

Which means that...

No way!

If I was planning to do something like this,

I wouldn't have brought these children here to take a nap!

Besides, I have no reason to want to kill Mr. Furumura.

You do.

You had a grudge on him for spoiling your precious movie.

Oh, the last episode of the series, "Doting Parents' Diary".

The same goes for you, right, Mr. Negami?

You were really angry too, weren't you, Mr. Karata?

Well, it's true, but...

What do you mean? He spoiled your movie?

Well, when he was checking the film,

Furumura overlooked a scratch,

developed it the way it was and cut the film.

Because of it, we suffered a great loss.

We had to pay for all the retake of the scenes

that were no good after being cut.

But film checking is done in the dark room

and is tough work that is done virtually

by the sense of touch of the fingertips, so...

It was work that was too hard on him to begin

because he used to play mahjong till early morning almost every day.

Checking the film in the dark room...

Mr. Negami. Don't you do that, too?

Yes. He used to be a developer before, too.

After that incident, Furumura was switched over to sales.

I don't see why three of you need to hold a grudge against him, though?

Were your bonuses decreased, too?

That "Doting Parents' Diary" series

was the pride and joy of all of us working here.

It's only natural to hold a grudge against him

for damaging the final episode.

Mr. Furumura alone didn't seem too proud about it, though.

It's not that we held that much a grudge against him.

He was one of the members we played mahjong with, after all.

Most of us have forgotten about it already.

A soundless murder...

From that front door to this door...

Even if you were to be able to pass easily with no obstructions...

The toughest part would be this living room.

It's virtually impossible to go through here

in a short time without making a sound.

Then, the killer would have to be

Mr. Hojima, who was here to begin with?

Come to think of it! If I remember correctly...

I'm sure that...

That video camera was also...

I see. That's why he was flustered and did what he did.

If so, the unexplained thing about no noise on the video tape

and the button that was yanked off all fit in.

The killer is probably him.

The only one who could've committed the murder

in this pitch darkness is him.

But I don't have proof.

What now?

What do I do?

What's the matter, Ai?

You look dreadful.

It's nothing, really.

She says it's nothing.

Really?

Don't tell me that...

So, what we clearly know now is...

Mr. Furumura who was sleeping on the sofa around 11 pm

was stabbed to death by someone in the dark.

If the killer stabbed Mr. Furumura and fled,

he would've most naturally bumped into something and made noise.

But the children who were sleeping in the next room

heard no noise at all.

Moreover, the video camera

which seemed to have fallen to the floor and switched on

when the killer and Mr. Furumura was thought

to have struggled with each other

had no such sound recorded in it.

In other words, the killer is the one

who was sleeping next to the sofa where Mr. Furumura was sleeping,

Mr. Hojima.

You're the only one I can come up with.

Wait!

Absolutely!

Dr. Agasa?

Doc?

Conan called me to ask me to come pick him up.

I heard about the case on the phone.

No matter how much I think it over, I come up with just one answer!

That there is probably no doubt that Mr. Hojima committed the crime.

An ordinary person wouldn't be able

to move around in the dark without making a sound.

Maybe it'd be a different story

if you were a ninja or a ghost, though.

Dr. Agasa. You think so, too?

But there is just one thing that bothers me.

What?

Remember the third button of Mr. Furumura's shirt that was yanked off

when he struggled with the killer?

It hasn't been found yet, has it?

Now that you mentioned it, no.

Without it, it just doesn't feel good.

It couldn't be that the button had wings and flew off.

It's probably somewhere in this messy room

or the killer still has it on him.

I'd recommend you to do a thorough body check of Mr. Hojima

when you take him for questioning to the station.

Yes, I will.

Mr. Hojima, please come to the station with me.

All right. But I'm not the killer.

Then, Mr. Negami and Mr. Karata, let's go too.

-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.

Did I do okay?

Yeah, just great.

So, we'll go to the police station for questioning, too.

You all slept once, so you can all stay up, right?

Yes...

Hey, Ai. Let's go!

What? Yes.

But I really wanted to see Yaiba's movie.

-Very true. -Wait...

Let's all go see it together when it's released.

All right then.

Why?

Just as I thought. It was you after all, Mr. Negami.

Why?

Sound. It was the sound.

Sound?

But the children said they heard no sound,

the same with the video tape.

Right. It's true that there were no suspicious sounds.

But it was too soundless.

If the video camera dropped to the floor and switched on,

the sound back then of the video camera dropping

or the sound of the struggle should've been recorded.

But since it had no sound,

chances are, the killer deliberately pressed the record button

and put it on the floor.

It could be that the killer was confident of fleeing

from a dark room without making a sound.

And your job as a developer also made me suspect you.

Huh?

You seemed to have mentioned that

working as a developer requires one to check the scratches on the films

only with the sense of touch of the fingertips.

No matter how used to you are to the dark room,

it is impossible to work in a room with no light at all.

That's why I thought you would've had to place some kind of mark

in the room to help you locate things even in the dark.

And walla! I found it as soon as I entered this room.

Among all the things cluttered in this room, on every corner...

I found these black tapes.

What?

This probably is black vinyl tape pasted on over fluorescent tape.

See? There are tapes that have peeled off,

so the fluorescent tape under them are slightly showing.

Unless light is kept at a low level in this way,

the film in the darkroom would probably over expose.

So, an ordinary person can't see right away

when the lights are turned out.

But when their eyes get used to the dark,

they gradually start being able to see.

Using this light as a guide and walking carefully,

aware of where everything is located...

It's possible to go through without bumping into anything.

I happened to change the position of some things,

so you seemed to have panicked a bit this time.

That's why when Conan turned off the light,

you turned it right back on, right?

You did so because you didn't want others to get used to the dark

and realize what you had done.

Now that you mentioned it, there is black tape on this video camera, too.

Even if he could tell where the camera was,

would he be able to tell where the chest of a person who is asleep is?

If the body were to move even a bit,

it would be impossible to commit the crime.

The button.

He probably put a bit of fluorescent paint

on Mr. Furumura's 3rd button

to make out where the chest was even in the dark.

In other words, if you can get into the room with the spare key,

you can stab him in the chest even in the dark.

You must've painted the button 3 days ago

when you played mahjong all night and he was fast asleep.

Knowing that he only takes baths once a week,

it's very likely he wouldn't change shirts.

Then, you decided to bring back the button

after peeling off the fluorescent paint from it

because if someone finds it, the trick would be revealed.

On top of that, since you heard me say

it's strange that the button hasn't been found,

you returned the button after peeling off the fluorescent paint.

After Dr. Agasa explained everything to me,

finished questioning you first of all,

and was waiting here in this room,

but I didn't expect this outcome.

It's amazing how Mr. Furumura who worked as a developer like you,

didn't notice the fluorescent tapes.

Notice what?

These tapes were pasted on by Furumura himself.

What?

He told me that he pasted the tape onto the video camera

so that he could get a hold of it any time in the dark.

He said that he also pasted tape around the room

so that he could find the restroom if he needed to go late at night.

He did it as a prank and didn't let Hojima in on it.

I always knew that he was unreliable, though.

But I just couldn't forgive him for what he did back then.

When he damaged the film

of the final episode of the series "Doting Parents' Diary",

I just couldn't overlook his mistake!

But you did a retake and the movie was successfully completed, wasn't it?

No good. It wasn't perfect.

Because in the original film,

the younger brother of the star of the show was also acting in it.

But just before the retake, he died in a traffic accident.

So we had no choice but to do without him.

That's why that movie is not perfect or ever will be complete!

Just because of him!

He's to blame!

Doc, thanks for everything!

Hey, hold it.

Come back here then, will you?

Although it's a bit far,

run over here because it's good for your health.

Conan.

Don't worry.

That cigarette is like a car tooting its horn

waiting for the traffic light to change.

If you don't want them to be aware of our existence,

let's not toot our horns from our side.

The same with the condo they were watching.

From what we saw from that window, he was not smoking a cigarette.

If we saw the lit cigarette he was smoking,

it would be like we were telling him from our side that we are here.

It's the basics of a stake out.

But he just happened to be smoking a cigarette in our view.

It's only proof that he lost track of us.

Since he's still waiting around here,

it means that he probably doesn't have an idea of where we live, right?

I had Officer Takagi deliberately

go through a drunk driving checkpoint,

and bring us all the way here.

It's no wonder they lost track of us.

Don't tell me that they're...

Beats me.

The only thing I'm sure of is that he's not one of my mom's fans.

It seems that his target is either you or me.

So, we've lost track of them.

It's all right. The string hasn't been severed yet.

Keep it up.

But...

She sure resembles.

Next Conan's Hint:

"Receipt"