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Even a gigantic wall that seems to block the path.

Turns out to be a large door if viewed from a different angle.

A code like cell phone mail.

Pops is pondering when a cat appears!

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

At 9:00 in the morning, I have to meet a client.

From 10:00 to after 1:00 in the afternoon,

I'll have lunch at Poirot while enjoying a relaxing coffee time.

Then from 2:00, I get to watch the long awaited drama series

starring Yoko Okino while video taping it.

And I'll take consideration making deductions from the plot.

No. Wait.

I'll quickly watch five previous episodes

while waiting for the client to arrive.

Not bad a plan since I can review the storyline.

Talk about being busy!

What a satisfying life I'm leading.

Hey.

Just what're you guys doing?

It's already time to go to school, isn't it?

Well...

What is it?

Are you hiding something from me?

Well, it's not something weird or anything.

What the... It's just a cat.

What?

A cat?

A cat!

"Secret of the Russian Blue"

Hey, hey.

Don't tell me you picked up a stray.

Well, no.

It's Aunty Eri's cat.

Eri?

If I remember correctly, she had a black and brown cat.

It wasn't this strange mouse like gray colour, was it?

It's called a Russian Blue.

It's known for its blue-gray fur and green eyes.

The cat she had before died a month ago,

so she got this cat from an acquaintance of hers.

Her previous cat was pretty aged already.

And why is that cat in my office?

Because mother came just a while ago and...

Sorry, Ran.

Will you watch this cat for three days?

What's up?

I have to fly on an afternoon flight to Okinawa

where a client of mine is working.

Ms. Kuriyama who was supposed to take care of him is bedridden with flu.

But...

I have nobody else I can ask but you right now, Ran.

Okay?

Wait, Mom.

Take care of Goro for me, okay?

That's the story.

Take care of the cat?

But while you guys are at school, I'm the one who has to watch it.

Good morning, Ran!

Sonoko!

We're going to be late, Ran.

Is there something I should know?

Sorry, I'll be right there.

Bye, Dad!

Hey!

Take care of Goro for me, Dad.

I see.

But, Ran,

wasn't the name of the previous cat she had also Goro?

Yeah.

I think mom likes that name and gave him the same name again.

She says she named it Goro because its always rolling around doing nothing.

But I think the real reason is...

Gosh.

Why must a great detective like me take care of a cat?

It's easy because its already toilet trained

and all you have to do is make sure it doesn't run outside.

You watch it then.

You can play hooky today.

I give you permission to do so.

Give me permission, I mean...

I'm busy all day today.

Excuse me.

I'm the one who called you last night. My name is Kirishita.

What? I thought we agreed to meet at 9:00 over the phone.

Moreover, I thought I was told your wife would be coming.

The thing is, my wife fell ill,

so I stopped by here on my way to work in her place

and brought my daughter's code with me.

A code?

This is indeed

a code.

Yes.

This is an e-mail that my daughter mistakenly sent to my cell phone.

I don't understand what it means

and my daughter kept on telling me to erase it right away.

I've come to ask for your help

thinking that maybe it could be something that needs attention.

What is it?

Oh, well...

It just reminded me of "Speckled Cat Holmes".

You know, the cat that appears in Jiro Akagawa's novel.

Right.

In the first story of "Speckled Cat Holmes",

Holmes is sitting on someone's shoulder.

Which means if a Russian Blue is trained,

it can ride on a shoulder too, right?

-I see. -Yeah.

Hey, hurry and go to school!

Okay!

I thought you told me to play hooky just a while ago.

Well, this mail does seem to smell a bit dangerous.

So you think so too, Mr. Mouri?

Yes.

The most I can make out of it is the second line, "Kare" (He),

and the last part of the third line, "Tsukiatte" (Go with me).

That's right.

My daughter is in the second year of high school,

but it seems that she's recently working part-time in secret.

I'm worried that maybe she's being deceived by some bad man somewhere

and dishing money out to him.

The fact is that my wife fell ill because of this, too.

I see.

Second year of high school...

It sure is an age surrounded by many dangers.

My daughter is also in her second year of high school.

And she seems to be concerned about this leery detective kid.

Hey, I told you to hurry up and go to school!

I forgot something.

Gosh.

Maybe it's a code that is popular among young girls.

I thought so, too.

So I asked the daughter of one of my colleagues at work.

And, what did she say?

Well...

She chuckled as soon as she saw the mail.

Why don't you let her do as she likes?

That is what she said.

While smiling mischievously.

Maybe it's a dirty mail after all.

For the time being, please forward this mail to my cell phone.

All right.

I'll contact you as soon as I figure it out.

Thank you very much.

See you later, Goro.

Take care of Pops, okay?

I don't have the slightest idea, no matter how many times I look at it.

I guess I'll go wash my face and freshen up.

He was in the bathroom.

Gosh, what a nuisance.

Well, if it's as smart as the speckled cat in the novel,

it's another story.

What the heck?

That cat has been sleeping on this towel!

Hey, you cat!

Just what do you think you're doing?

These are videos of Yoko's drama series!

If you scratch them, I won't forgive you!

The second episode's not here.

Don't tell me you hid it somewhere?

Hey, this time it's a shoe?

This is Conan's shoe.

Just where did you bring it from?

Listen. You need two shoes to form a pair.

They're of no use if they were separated.

Remember that!

Gosh.

Sneaking in and bringing things without permission.

He is not Holmes, but Lupin.

I see, I see.

This letter that looks like an "O" with strand of hair on it

must be the Greek alphabet "S" (sigma)

This letter that looks like a distorted "V" is the Greek alphabet "nyu".

The letter that looks like the hiragana "te" is the Greek alphabet "tau".

Which means the letters that formed "please come with me"

are read as "Please come witauh me".

What's this?

The Greek alphabet may stand for the names of stars.

It may have something to do with stars.

I'm sure that there was a book on stars around here some place.

Darn it! Playing pranks again!

An English-Japanese Dictionary?

English-Japanese means translating English to Japanese.

In this e-mail, the English alphabet that is used is only "W".

But if this "W" were to be forcibly changed to Japanese...

I guess it could pass for the hiragana "n"!

I see!

I wonder if she's using foreign letters

that look like Japanese hiragana and katakana just for fun?

That's why instead of "tsukiatte", she used "tsukiatau".

If so, I feel like I'll be able to read it.

Good work, Goro.

Wait.

Don't tell me this cat

was trying to tell me all this?

Could it be like in the novel?

Hey!

This is not a toy!

It's no more than a cat after all.

At any rate, she had purposely substituted

foreign characters for hiragana and katakana.

And it's obvious that our young lady wrote this message in a playful way.

I'll take that into consideration.

"W" equals the hiragana "n".

And "nu" equals the katakana "re".

"Tau" equals the hiragana "te".

So, the symbol equal would stand for the katakana "ni"

and the postal code symbol equals the katakana "de".

But...

"Ni-de-de-ku"?

What on earth does it mean?

It seems that the "S" that comes after the "W" and before hiragana "tsu"

has to be solved before this can be read.

But there's no such letter in hiragana or katakana.

So I'll use a circle to mark the unknown symbols and go from there.

"Yo-nn-gen-en-reka-re-niteteku"

I wonder if this is some kind of code after all?

Hey!

Darn it.

Hey, not again!

I told you not to come here.

It's already past 12:00!

It's less than two hours to Yoko's drama.

I've got to solve the contents of this mail before then.

Otherwise, I won't be able to watch Yoko's drama in peace.

Wait. Come to think of it,

he was doing something among the video tapes a while ago, too.

Maybe he's trying to tell me something again.

The thing that bothers me now

is that the video tape for the second episode is gone.

Gone... Lacking?

Wait, wait.

Before that, he was sleeping on the towel in the bathroom.

And his cat hair got on all over my face.

I see!

Remove and lacking.

Maybe these letters not only look like hiragana and katakana,

but are actually scribbles that young girls nowadays

use a lot in writing words to make them look cute?

In that case, the sigma must mean a certain hiragana or katakana

but with missing or dropped parts.

If so, the letter I can think of is...

The hiragana "no".

Then this plus-minus sign

is the hiragana "chi".

Which means the plus-minus, "W" and sigma are...

"Chi-chinno?"

What is this?

No. If something were added to the right of the plus-minus sign,

it would turn out as the hiragana "chi",

but what if something was added to the left?

It'll turn into "sa"!

So if this is "sa",

then the plus-minus, "W", and sigma will be...

"Sa-n-no".

Could it be that it should go before someone's name?

The problem is the arrow before the plus-minus.

I've seen this arrow on Sonoko's New Year's postcard before.

What's with that arrow?

Oh, this means...

"Happy New Year!"

I see. The arrow is a dash.

It's used when you want to make a long sound.

In that case, the name that goes before the plus-minus

should be Sato or Taro,

a name that has a long sound at the end of it.

Okay! I'll solve this code all at once.

Darn it!

"Please go with me".

"Ni-te-te-ku-no-tsu-ki-a-tte".

It's almost readable but not quite.

Names that start with "yo"

and end with a long sound are "Yo-jo" or "Yo-ichiro".

No matter how I look at it, it doesn't look that way.

Hey, you.

Stop playing with my shoe!

Shoe?

Come to think of it,

he was playing with Conan's shoe.

Moreover, with only one side.

Back then, I...

Listen. You need two shoes to form a pair.

They're of no use if they're separated.

Two makes a pair.

Spaces for two characters were being used to display one character.

That is, "koto" means "words" and "en" means "extend" in the first row.

If written as one word, the kanji character "tan" will be (tanjo=birth).

And the two postal marks in the third row form "gyou" or "to go".

Wait.

Then the first hiragana character is "yo",

and if you add on the missing parts,

that is the hiragana character "ku" that is on the side,

it'll make the hiragana character "o".

And for the following character,

if I pair the "L" with the mirrored version of the hiragana "tsu",

it becomes the hiragana "to".

The letter on the second line which looks like flattened katakana "fu"

and the little circle make the katakana "pu".

If I read the second line keeping all this in mind, I get "pu-re-ka-i-ni".

It means "buy birthday present"!

All right, if I keep reading...

"Go with me to buy my father's birthday present."

It's pretty easy to read girlish writing.

Girlish writing?

Hey, Dad.

I hope you didn't lay your hands on a young girl or something?

Oh, no.

This is an e-mail that a client asked me to decipher for him.

Wait. Why are you all here?

What about school?

We went.

Just what are you talking about, Pops?

It's already sundown.

Then, hurry up and make dinner!

Yes, sir.

Let's go, Ran.

I'm home.

Hi!

Oh, glasses kid.

Gosh.

They snatch away all the good parts.

Even though we solved it all by ourselves, right?

I guess I'll call the client right now.

The bonito strategy worked out great.

I snuck bonito in places and on things that would serve as clues

and made the cat mess around in the area,

so that Pops would catch the hint.

It seems to have worked out well.

Hello, Mr. Kirishita?

I'm Detective Kogoro Mouri, whom you came to see early this morning.

Then don't tell me that...

Then did you solve the code of my daughter's e-mail?

Yes, indeed I have.

Hey.

It's dangerous if you fall off!

Dangerous?

So it was a dangerous e-mail after all.

I mean, no...

She's nowhere close to danger. Rather, she's well brought up.

Well brought up?

Hey, idiot! Stop pulling!

You're the one who's pulling and stalling the conversation, Mr. Mouri!

I mean, no...

Please tell me quickly.

What are the contents of the mail?

No matter what the contents, I won't be surprised.

I'm fully prepared for what's to come!

If I tell my daughter about the contents and ask her about it,

I'm sure she will stop sneaking around and tell me what she's up to.

So, go on, please tell me.

Mr. Mouri, Mr. Mouri!

No, actually I couldn't solve it at all.

What? Just what are you getting at?

Besides, I got a request for a big job,

and will probably be tied up with that job for a while.

So I'm calling to say that I'd like to decline this request from you.

No way.

But she is a fine young lady,

so I'd advise you not to worry and watch over her!

How can you be so sure?

You've never even met her.

I know from my hunch as a detective.

Please give my regards to your daughter.

Birthday presents should be kept a surprise after all.

That cat maybe didn't need my help.

Are you hungry?

Then let's ask Ran to make dinner for you.

Dinner?

Sundown?

Yoko's drama!

I not only missed it, I didn't get to tape it either!

I forgot all about it because you keep going here and there.

Not only that, but you hid the video tape, too!

-Well... -Hold it.

Just what do you think you're doing to my Goro?

Dear.

Eri? Aren't you were supposed to be in Okinawa?

I was so worried about him,

I flew back early and plan to finish the rest of my work via phone and fax.

Come, Goro.

It's time to say goodbye to this scary man.

You may both be "Goro", but what a difference.

What?

Wasn't the other black and brown Goro you had also attached to you?

You're so different when it comes to denseness, too.

Don't tell me that Goro...

stands for Kogoro's goro?

Next Conan's Hint:

"Key holder"

The next episode will be at Sonoko's villa.

It's been a long time since we last dealt with Gunma Prefectural Police.