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Victory, sincerity, charging for the truth.

Endless impulse to aim for the best!

Today's subtitle is a kind of doodad!

You'll see why after watching the episode.

The dying message points to the killer!

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

Get out!

Ouch.

What do you think you're doing, Dad?

Cut out the violence.

Don't ever show your face before me again!

Please calm down, Mr. Umezu.

"Osamu Umezu (60)" -You wander here and there, and never visited,

but the minute I finish moving house,

you suddenly appear, saying "Give me money"?

I don't ever want to see your face again!

Dad, wait.

Your blood pressure will rise if you get mad.

Shut up!

Get out of here!

Excuse me.

Pops!

I'm sorry!

Mr. Mouri.

Mr. Umezu, this is Mr. Mouri who I was talking about.

Nice to meet you.

"Conan: A Strange Child"

I've heard about your high reputation.

Here's some tea.

Thank you.

Mr. Umezu,

I'm sorry to intrude at a busy time like this when you just moved in.

Takashi, we have a guest.

"Takashi Umezu (25)" -Go on home.

I'm not finished talking to you.

Although it's an unlucky story...

Some people saw me take illegal drugs, and I'm being blackmailed.

They said that they're going to squeak to the police.

If that happens,

your name will be publicized by the mass media

and maybe you'll have to live an unlucky life too, Dad.

You're a nominee for some literary award, right?

If I get caught, won't it be minus image for you?

They say that they won't turn me in depending on how much I give them.

Lucky story, don't you think?

So...

You got to be kidding!

What happens to you is none of my business!

Get going home!

Excuse me,

but this thing about being blackmailed is quite disquieting.

Please don't take what he says seriously.

He's just making up stories to get money from me.

Sonny, do you want some gum?

Gum helps keep the brain active.

Thank you.

I'll take it.

"Touru Mikami (30)"

Who are they?

Detective Kogoro Mouri and Conan.

I have read "The road to the 13th Stairs" and was deeply impressed.

So I came to get your autograph to keep it as a family treasure.

Dad's book as a family treasure?

Maybe it's written by a ghostwriter?

Many senior's publish books are written by their disciples, right?

Takashi, watch your words.

You're the one doing the writing, aren't you, Ms. Araki?

"Chika Araki (27)" -What?

I thought so.

I don't need the money, Dad.

I'll write memoirs.

"Son Says Father's Best Sellers Are Written By Ghost Writer"

Takashi!

How despicable can you get?

Mr. Umezu, please calm down!

Excuse me...

I'm sorry, Mr. Mouri.

Would you wait for us at the cafe outside?

All right.

You can never tell about people.

I thought he had money and fame, and no worries whatsoever.

I'm sorry for what happened, Mr. Mouri.

Mr. Umezu's autograph is in the book.

Thank you.

And where is he now?

He is dispirited.

A bit depressed.

He may look to be a dynamic character,

but he's quite concerned about how others view him.

Isn't that Ms. Araki?

Yes. She's going to the police

for an interview in place of Mr. Umezu.

It's not easy to be a writer, is it?

Mr. Mikami, what's the truth?

About what?

About Ms. Chika Araki being a ghostwriter.

Not you too, Mr. Mouri.

You believe Takashi's lie?

No, it's not that.

It's baloney.

That button is unusual.

You mean this?

Mr. Umezu passed it out to all personnel involved

since his book made a big hit.

It's cloisonne work made in the image of a peony.

A peony button.

I guess I'll be on my way, then.

Already?

I have an appointment at a television station from now.

If you will excuse me.

Mr. Mikami sure is a busy man.

A novelist.

Not bad.

I'm going to become a popular novelist.

I've made up my mind.

I already bought manuscript papers and pens.

All you need now is talent.

Yeah.

What?

Huh?

Mr. Mikami?

Mr. Umezu is not answering the phone?

Yes, sir.

Since I was bothered about him being depressed, I called him.

But...

No, I'm sure I'm just taking my worries overboard.

I'll be able to handle this alone.

No. Let me go with you.

I haven't thanked Mr. Umezu either.

And I would also like to ask what things a novelist should...

Mr. Umezu!

Can you hear me, Mr. Umezu?

This way, this way! Hurry!

Let's see.

The spare key for room 503 is...

Mr. Umezu!

Mr. Umezu!

Mr. Umezu!

Mr. Mouri, please call an ambulance!

Please call the ambulance right away!

Hurry!

No, I'm sorry,

but there's no need for an ambulance.

This is probably some sort of nerve poisoning.

Mr. Mouri, something's written.

"My life as a writer has ended.

I feel total emptiness."

It seems to be a suicide note.

Mr. Umezu committed suicide?

Guess so.

He put this poison into his coffee.

There's a suicide note.

Moreover, the front entrance of this room,

was locked and closed.

Hey, the window is slightly open.

-Don't tell me someone entered from that window? -No.

At this height...

it's probably impossible to come in from the window.

By the way, what is he holding in his hand?

That is a sceptre that's held by a Shinto priest,

which was given to him by a fan as a lucky charm,

in hopes that his novel "The Road to the 13th Step"

would win the Literary Award.

The sceptre and the award? I don't understand.

It seems that this sceptre is made from an Ichii tree.

Ichii can be written as "first place".

I see.

He chose to die, but he wanted to win first place.

He died feeling mortified.

Pops, there's something on the corner of the wastebasket.

Blood?

He has a wound on the back of his head.

I wonder if he fell and bumped his head.

If so, the waste basket would've been toppled over, right?

He put it back once on his own and...

No.

A person who's determined to die wouldn't do things like that.

If he were to be pushed by somebody and fell...

Do you mean someone killed Mr. Umezu?

Mr. Mikami, what's this envelope?

Mr. Umezu's manuscript.

It's the Weekly Nichiyomi, with the essay, "My Secret" inside it.

There were three keys here just a while ago,

but there's only one now.

True.

Maybe Ms. Araki and Takashi took it with them.

That means someone was here before the room was locked.

Mr. Mikami,

please contact Inspector Megure of the police department right away.

His woman disciple, Ms. Araki and his son, Takashi.

Both were pretty close to the victim,

so they could've been waiting for a chance to poison him.

Moreover, there is a possibility that they have the keys.

There isn't anything here that leads to clues regarding the killer.

I'm not sure if this is supposed to be meaningful.

"From a third person's point of view, they're all ridiculous doodads.

Everyone can see it, but no one can recognize it.

I always leave a certain doodad in my stories for me to enjoy."

That's it.

There's some kind of doodad in this book.

What kind of doodad is it?

Beats me. It's new to me.

Mr. Umezu.

Mr. Umezu!

Wait a minute!

Don't touch the corpse.

When you left here, did you take one of the spare keys?

Yes.

Here.

I'll be very straightforward with you.

Mr. Umezu's novel, "The Road to the 13th Step" is a big hit right now,

but I bet that you're not too happy about it?

Just what do you mean?

Please be honest with me.

You are the real writer of this book,

isn't it, Ms. Chika Araki?

No, I'm not.

I didn't write that book.

You were vexed because Mr. Umezu snatched your work away from you.

That isn't true!

Mr. Umezu wrote all his novels on his own.

Even if Ms. Araki were to be the culprit,

why was the window open?

This schedule is...

It looks like the scotch tape was peeled off once and stuck back on again.

What's this?

It's slightly puffed up?

Something like a string must have been pulled in through the window.

Ms. Araki, do you know what a dying message is?

Yes, I do.

His dying message is in the sceptre that Mr. Umezu is holding.

A dying message in the sceptre?

The sceptre seems to be made of material

that is taken from the Ichii tree.

While waiting for you, I decided to look it up in a dictionary.

An Ichii tree is also known as an Araragi tree.

Araragi?

Araki and Araragi. They're very similar.

Isn't that just a coincidence?

Why is he holding the sceptre upside down?

There's no meaning to that.

No meaning?

He probably grabbed at it out of desperation,

just as a drowning man would grasp at straw.

Dad died?

Talk about super lucky.

Royalty on the books and the estate are all mine.

Your father just died, and all you have to say is "lucky"?

Lucky?

This is the key to this room?

Yeah, that's right.

I took it a while ago when Dad wasn't watching.

I was thinking of stealing something valuable when Dad leaves the house,

but I guess I don't need it anymore.

May I do a body check?

Yeah, sure.

Today's my lucky day. I'll let you do anything you want to.

What's this?

A drug.

What?

I know nothing!

I didn't kill him!

I'm not the one who killed Dad!

Mr. Mikami, say something!

Wait!

I've figured it out.

Takashi Umezu,

Mr. Umezu's dying message was referring to you.

Wasn't the message supposed to be Chika Araki?

He made it seem that way,

but there was another message,

and I saw through it.

Another message in the sceptre?

Yes, sir.

About the Ichii tree that this sceptre is made of.

When written in Kanji characters,

the radical is "ki" and beside it is the character "raku".

Inspector, you noticed that the sceptre was upside down.

This was also part of his dying message.

Why was it upside down?

He did not want it to be "ki" and "raku",

but rather "raku" and "ki".

"Raku" and "Ki"?

"Raku" and "Ki",

as in lucky?

This man's favourite word, lucky.

I see!

Just what's that supposed to mean?

You got to be kidding!

I didn't do it! It's not me!

The sceptre is made out of Ichii.

Ichii.

Maybe...

I see!

I got it!

Somewhere around here...

I found it!

Let me go! I didn't do it!

I will have you come with me to the station, too.

I have some things to discuss with the publishers and media,

so if you will excuse me.

Conan, where did you go?

I'm hungry, so we're going home.

Huh?

Mr. Mouri, are you all right?

Please wait, Inspector Megure.

Those two are not the killer.

Mouri.

Then, who is?

The only others who have the key to this room

besides Mr. Umezu are these two.

It is possible to enter this room without a key.

Even Mr. Mikami can.

All he has to do is have Mr. Umezu open the window from inside.

Mr. Mikami.

I would like to ask you something.

Would you please tell me what you did

after you parted with me outside the coffee shop?

I called Mr. Umezu on the way to the TV station, but got no answer.

So I came here with you.

Isn't that the wrong order?

After you parted with me, you went to the roof of this condo

and suspended a string that was long enough to reach this room.

Then you had Mr. Umezu open the door for you and went inside.

While his attention was diverted, you poisoned his coffee.

You typed the dying message with the computer.

Then you pulled the string that was hanging from the roof into the room.

You went out and locked the door then head to the roof.

And just in case somebody sees through your trick,

you prepared a killer who is thought to have set up a suicide trick.

That person happened to be Takashi.

In other words, he prepared a guarantee to protect himself.

The poison that came out of Takashi's pocket was probably put inside

when he was arguing with Mr. Umezu.

Mr. Mouri,

that's enough!

Everything you're saying is based on assumption.

You have no proof whatsoever.

That's true.

But Mr. Umezu left a dying message behind.

Dying message again?

It's the third time.

Mr. Umezu was holding the sceptre upside down.

He was hoping that I would figure it out.

Do you remember Mr. Umezu's sentences in his essay?

"From a third person's point of view, they're all ridiculous doodads.

Everyone can see it, but no one can recognize it.

I always leave a certain doodad in my stories for me to enjoy."

Please look at the bookshelf.

The secret doodad is there.

"A Chicken, a Bird, and a Crocodile."

"A God? A Wolf?"

"Honey and Sin."

"My Mama's Selfishness Towards Me."

These are all like "shinbunshi",

words that are the same forwards and backwards,

also called palindromes.

Among his works are also titles such as

"Don't Cry, Papa Don't Cry" and "Oh No, I'm Doomed"

and many other palindrome titles come to mind.

In other words, sneaking phrases like these secretly into his works

was Mr. Umezu's secret enjoyment.

Mr. Mouri.

Could it be that you suspect me only because my name is Mikami

and can be read from the right or the left and sound the same?

Exactly.

Ridiculous.

That's why I had my eyes on you.

That's when I noticed.

The button that was there when I met you at the coffee shop wasn't there.

The button where the material overlay each other.

Did someone pull it off?

Please let me check.

After you parted with me, you came back here.

Using the method I explained a while ago, you killed Mr. Umezu.

You headed for the television station to create your alibi

and you realized that your button was missing.

If the button is found near Mr. Umezu's body,

everything you thought up till now will go down the drain.

Therefore, you rushed back.

That's where you happened to run into us.

You looked for the button in this room,

but you haven't found it yet.

Yet another thing is still not found, too.

It's gum.

Gum that Mr. Umezu always had in his mouth wasn't found.

Officer Takagi,

please check carefully the area that where Mr. Umezu's body was found.

I'm sure that the button and gum are still there.

I found it!

-Chiba! -Yes, sir!

Inspector.

Mr. Mikami, this is your button.

You will admit everything, right?

The novel that I wrote was published under Mr. Umezu's name.

He wouldn't even allow me to talk about the book in public,

since everyone would find out that it was in my style of writing.

Is that why you killed Dad?

You should've kept committing murder just within the books you wrote.

You took the wrong road, Mr. Mikami.

You're lucky, Takashi.

Your father's estate and all his fortune now belongs to you.

Takashi, the timing couldn't have been better.

Inspector Megure will be more than willing to hear you out

about the illegal drug that you're being blackmailed on.

Illegal drug?

No...

I'll hear you out all you want.

Officer Takagi, please take him to the station.

-Yes, sir! -No, just a second...

Please wait!

How about it, Pops?

How's your novel coming along?

I have a bit of a problem.

I'm on a roll at the beginning, but when I get to the conclusion

where the case is to be solved,

I remember absolutely nothing.

Of course you don't.

Because all you did was sleep right through it.

It's strange, isn't it, Pops?

I wonder why I can't remember.

By the way, Conan,

I just thought of something interesting.

Ready?

Weird Conan Weird. How do you like it?

Weird Conan Weird?

That's right! Weird Conan Weird.

Weird Conan Weird.

It's a palindrome.

What's that supposed to mean?

Next Conan's Hint:

"Dog brushing teeth"

Weird Conan Weird?

Reading from left to right and vice versa.