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The stage today is Teitan High School.

Stories that may also be heard in your school.

How many mysterious stories will there be in this episode?

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

Nightmare.

"Mouri Detective Agency"

What?

The ghost scare at school?

Right! I feel really eerie

because there's been a lot of ghost scare in school recently.

Moreover, they say that people always see that apparition

early in the morning.

Rumor has it that 2 years ago,

a student who used to come to school early in the morning

died in an accident,

and they say it's the curse of that student.

2 years ago is before I enrolled.

So please, dad!

Come to school at check things out after school today, okay?

To confirm whether it's really the doings of a ghost or not.

Let it be.

It's probably just someone playing a prank

or some natural phenomenon.

Besides, if that ghost appears at school early in the morning,

it doesn't appear during class hours, does it?

I guess, but...

As the daughter of renown Detective Kogoro Mouri,

I will not let such unreasonable rumor

of something that doesn't even exist run free!

You said you were going to be monitor next week, right, Ran?

What?

Yes.

I see. You're afraid of going to school early in the morning,

so you want me to go check?

I can't help it because I don't like ghosts.

Get rid of it with your karate!

What makes you think that Karate is going to have any effect on ghosts?

Ran.

Do you want me to go with you?

I may come up with a hint to at least solve the mystery.

"Teitan High School Ghost Story (Part 1)"

Conan!

Over here!

Sorry to keep you waiting, Ran.

Hey, Ran.

Don't tell me that this glasses kid

is the help you called for the ghost scare?

But Dad won't come,

saying that a renowned detective can't come to check out such a crazy case.

Well, he may not suffice as an aide.

but he can at least serve as me, the deduction queen's, assistant.

You're the last person I'd like to hear that comment from.

This is the shoe box area.

It's a little larger than the one in your school, isn't it?

Yes.

I know. I've been coming to this school for about a year.

I'll put your shoes in my shoe slot, Conan.

Thank you, Ran.

What's with that boy, Ran?

Is he the much rumored about Conan?

Yes. Cute, isn't he?

Oh, no! It's blabber mouths Tashiro and Hidaka.

You can say that again!

He looks like a miniature Kudo and sure looks cheeky.

Sonny, don't grow up to be a deduction freak, okay?

None of your business.

Why'd you bring him here?

An assistant for investigation.

This glasses kid is pretty sharp, you know?

Investigation? You mean that ghost scare?

No kidding.

Aizawa and Nakamichi of the soccer club.

Don't bother.

You're going to be cursed.

Hey, will you stop saying things like that?

By the way, how'd your re-test go?

Just made it!

Although we were seriously on the brink.

True, very true.

I'm sure that one day, you'll run out of bad luck, too.

See you then, but take it easy.

If you find out who the ghost is, let me in on it.

-Okay. -Sure thing!

Is something the matter, Conan?

Nope, it's nothing.

Right. If things were the way they were supposed to be,

I would be coming to this school, studying,

talking of trivial things with my friends,

and leading a normal high school life.

Gin and Vodka...

If those men in black didn't force me to drink that strange drug,

and if I hadn't shrunk...

That woman Vermouth...

one of them that disguised herself as Dr. Araide,

got away from me just as I was about to corner her,

in order to get my body back to normal again

and regain my life as Shinichi Kudo.

That woman is probably an assassin who was sent out

to kill Ai who had betrayed the organization.

I remember her saying back then,

that she would give up on going after Ai.

I wonder if I can really believe what she said?

After all, she's a witch that has a thousand faces.

She's as good as Thief Kid when it comes to disguising herself.

She may still be around us disguised as somebody

and scheming to do something.

What?

Dr. Araide.

I heard that since the trial is over,

you returned to your hospital in Aomori.

No. I was planning on doing so, but decided against it.

I'm worried about my patients too, so...

And it's not that easy saying goodbye to you all either.

Then, you're going to remain being our school doctor?

Yes. I came today to tell the school of my intention.

The real doctor?

Hey! Conan!

Just what do you think you're doing?

Are you all right, doctor?

Yes, it's nothing.

The FBI agent called Jodie told me all about what happened.

Huh?

She told me that a bad person disguised as me

tried to do something bad.

She said she was sent back to the States for a while,

but it seems that Hikaru or her grandmother who accompanied her

did not take to the States very well.

Then, I heard that the bad person revealed herself and fled.

So, Jodie asked to return back here to Beikacho.

But why are you telling me all this?

I was told to tell only you because you'd surely be surprised.

That's right!

Let's have Dr. Araide help us with the ghost investigation, too.

That sounds great!

What? Ghost investigation?

First, let's start here.

The wailing storeroom of the gym.

One rainy day, a girl student of the gymnastic club

who came here early in the morning to prepare for morning practice

heard a wailing voice.

The wailing leaked out of the storeroom

where nobody was supposed to be.

The horrifying sound of someone wailing!

And...

The girl student got scared and left,

bringing other people of her club back to the place

but the wailing had stopped.

And the only thing left was this desk!

It was the desk of a boy student, Hideaki Hosaka,

who died mysteriously at this school 2 years ago!

Talk about exaggeration.

It so conspicuous that it would scare no one.

Hey, Ran.

That's no mystery or anything.

He unfortunately tripped on the stairs,

"Kazumi Tsukamoto (18)" -and hit the wrong place. That's it.

Don't go spreading strange rumors.

Kazumi.

Mouri, just what are you doing here?

The Karate club is off today, isn't it?

A senior and the previous captain of the Karate club.

I'm investigating the ghost case.

You mean the wailing case?

If it's that everyone's saying that,

-it was probably the trick of the wind. -What?

See? That skylight with the broken lock.

It's said the when the wind blows in from there,

the sound of the howling of the wind

was taken to be the sound of someone wailing.

It's amazing that you figured out that

this desk was the boy student's desk.

I told everyone about it because there was so much fuss over it.

I was his classmate, besides.

Is that so?

Why is his desk in a place like this, though?

It started to rain.

No way. I don't have an umbrella.

Neither do I.

Then, would you like to take shelter from the rain until it stops?

What?

At the cursed library.

I was just about to go there myself, too.

-Shall we go there? -Of course.

What's this? A signature?

It's starting to rain cats and dogs.

I wonder if it's going to stop.

Don't worry. According to the weather forecast,

this is supposed to be rain shower.

Dr. Araide, you sure are a push-over like always

coming along to investigate a ghost scare by request of a student.

Well, yes.

Huh?

Seko.

Where were you? I was looking for you.

"Kunishige Seko (18)" -I had an upset stomach,

so I cut the afternoon class and was resting in the infirmary.

-Are you all right? -Yeah.

Did you want anything? Tsukamoto.

It's not anything important, so I guess I'll get to it some other time.

Well, I guess I'll rest a while more than, before going home.

Before that worried teacher decides to lug me off to the hospital.

"Infirmary"

Was he also a classmate of the boy named Hosaka?

No, he was in a different class.

But he seems to have been childhood friends with Hosaka.

How unusual!

That an athletic person like you would be coming to the library.

How rude! I read books too, you know?

Besides, I have the entrance exam of university coming up next year.

Besides, just like you two,

I'm also investigating the ghost scare.

"Library"

When you came this morning, the books were left out on the table?

Yes.

And all those books were ones that Hosaka had borrowed before.

Moreover, this happened four consecutive days in a row, you know?

No matter how you think of it,

this is none other than the curse of Hosaka

who couldn't read the book as much as he wanted to!

Hey.

But if the books are not put away,

I think that the librarian would notice when locking the library.

It seems that the 4 books were found, one behind the bookshelf,

another under the desk and so on forth.

I think it's somebody whose taking advantage

of the ghost scare and playing pranks, though.

If I ever catch the brat that's doing this,

I'm going to get him for sure and bust him up.

So, when the time comes, you help me too, okay, Mouri?

Okay.

Now, finally for these cursed stairs.

When a student came to these stairs early in the morning,

the bottom of the stairs was soaked with water, right?

Yes. It seems that these are the stairs that boy fell from, too.

It's probably the cursed tears of the boy named Hosaka!

Maybe the window wasn't closed tight,

and it rained the day before.

I mean, we're not kids, you know?

So the windows would've been closed.

Besides, that's not the only thing.

It's rumored that the number of the steps of these stairs

are different each time you count them.

Then, why don't both try counting them?

What?

Okay, we'll show you!

One, two...

Three, four, five...

Six, seven, eight...

Nine, ten...

Ran, how many did you count?

Twelve.

What? I counted thirteen!

No kidding! Why?

The correct answer is twelve steps.

You probably counted one extra step

when you brought both you feet together

and made it all the way up the steps.

That's because you keep thinking that this whole thing is scary.

Okay. All I gotta do is count it over again, right?

Rather, do you really have the intention

of solving the mystery about this ghost scare or what?

"Masao Monobe (18)" -Hey, you guys!

Will you cut out the noise?

I can't concentrate on drawing!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry!

Huh? That student...

It seems to have stopped raining.

Well, shall we go home for today?

I guess so.

After listening to you, Conan,

I'm starting to feel that no such thing exist,

and I feel a bit courageous now.

Besides, it's getting kind of dark outside, too.

What's that?

What?

That desk...

It can't be...

the one we just saw, could it?

Conan!

There's something on top of the desk.

My grudge has not yet vanished.

Who could've played a prank like this?

The paper's not wet,

so it must've been put here after it stopped raining.

If so, something's strange.

What?

The soil is muddy with rain.

The thing that's supposed to be here is not here.

The footprints of the one who brought the desk here.

Just as I thought.

The desk and the chair out there are the ones

that were in the storeroom of the gym after all!

Yes. There's no doubt that the desk is the one of the student

called Hideaki Hosaka that died here at this high school.

Then, somebody put it out there to play a prank?

Yes. There was a piece of paper on the desk,

which wasn't wet,

so it was probably put there after the rain stopped.

But, then it's strange.

The ground of the campus where it was, was muddy with rain,

but the only footprints left were Conan and mine's that got there

when we ran over to the desk.

It's a ghost!

I'm sure the ghost of that student called Hosaka took it there!

It's possible.

Because ghosts don't have legs.

Come on, all of you...

Hey.

The desk and chair are gone!

No way! How can they?

Dr. Araide and I returned them to the storeroom of the gym.

What?

We didn't want to entertain

the one who did it by making a big fuss over it.

And besides, something strange was written on the paper on top the desk.

Strange?

It seems to have been written with a brush and was quite sloppy.

My grudge has not yet vanished.

Then, why wasn't that paper wet?

Because the ghost was writing his grudge filled sentence

with his body over the desk in the rain.

You guys... I don't see how you can come up

with one idea after the other like that...

Is anything the matter?

He... he held a grudge against me, after all.

This ghost scare is his curse!

By chance, do you happen to know this student called Hosaka?

Yeah.

He was a member of the art club with me.

But he fell off those stairs back then two years ago.

Back then...

Don't tell me you were there when this happened?

Just as I thought.

Back then when the accident occurred, this student...

-Please leave. -What?

The teacher was nice enough to let me use this art room all by myself

so that I would be able to complete my piece for the contest.

Go on, quickly!

I don't want to waste any time!

Okay.

Should we let Kazumi know that the desk was out on campus, too?

Okay.

Something's shining.

What is it?

Wax?

What's the matter, Conan?

You said that the bottom of the stairs was soaked with water,

but was it this floor that was leaking?

Right! The entire floor!

The tears of the curse of the student named Hosaka that died here.

Who found that?

I heard that it was someone from the art club

that came here early in the morning.

Hey, is that for real?

Is it true that Hosaka's desk and chair were out on campus?

Yes. And on the desk was a paper that said,

"My grudge has not yet vanished."

I'm really pissed!

This is going too far as a prank!

If you find the one who's doing this,

make sure you grab him and bring him here no matter what!

We'll give him a good licking together!

I think your spin kick will suffice, though.

Hey.

Do you know what kind of books were not put away

and borrowed by Hosaka before?

Yes.

They're all difficult books that you don't see around too often.

It's not at all surprising.

See! Take a look at this library card!

These four books seems to have been borrowed virtually only

by the student called Hosaka.

Hosaka wanted to be a comic wirter.

He used to always say that in order to write an interesting story,

it was useful to keep in mind

all kinds of things that people aren't familiar with.

I see.

You saw his signature on the edge of the desk, didn't you?

That's the signature he told everyone

that he was going to use in the future when he becomes famous.

Then, then...

His dream was severed part way too,

so he must've felt super attachment to it!

He wet the bottom of the stairs with his tears of curse.

At midnight, he re-read the books in the library

with his heart full of hate.

He finally brings his desk that is in the storeroom of the gym out

-into the campus grounds... -Hey, hold it, Sonoko!

Ran.

Enough with the drama.

Oh, right. If we ask the principal,

he may know something about it.

After you left the library, I got up to go to the restroom

and saw a glimpse of him through the window on the 3rd floor.

Like always, he was standing in place on campus.

The principal was thinking of what tree to plant there?

Yes. He'd go out there everyday,

trying to decide what to plant.

So, the principal is still undecided.

I remember that the principal said that

he discussed it with you, too, Dr. Araide.

What?

Yeah, right. That's right.

Well, it's only natural that he wouldn't know about it.

Because Vermouth was the one disguised as Araide

as soon as he became the school doctor of Teitan High School.

Come to think of it, Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide

was also in charge of Teitan Elementary School.

An 18 year-old just like you.

If Ai, who betrayed the organization

is really between the age of 18 and 20,

and if their looking for her in one of the high schools here,

looking into high schools and universities should suffice.

If they were thinking that

Ai had shrunk and become a child like me to begin with,

why couldn't they find her

as soon as Dr. Araide became the school doctor?

There is nothing like a new student who catches the eye.

So, why didn't it?

Gosh! It sure bothers me!

Thanks to the ghost scare,

I've come up with other things that I've got to work on.

Next Conan's Hint:

"Umbrella"

The wailing storeroom.

The library filled with grudge.

The cursed stairs.