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Today's problem is a ghost scare.

Shine the light on unseen feelings

to resolve the ghost scare at school.

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

Due to the off-season ghost scare at Teitan High school,

Ran begs Pops to solve the mystery of the scare,

but he refuses, saying that it is nonsense.

Therefore, out of my consideration for Ran whom I know hates ghosts,

I decide to participate in solving the mystery.

After school, when we were checking out the school building,

we find a desk that is very inappropriately on the campus grounds.

My grudge has not yet vanished.

"Teitan High School Ghost Story (Part 2)"

"Principal's office" -I was on campus in the rain?

I haven't gone outside at all today.

What?

Besides, I was at a faculty meeting while it was raining.

We were discussing the ghost scare.

By the way, Dr. Araide.

Thanks to the health exercise you taught me,

my back pains have gotten a lot better.

I see.

Hey, what on earth is going on?

Don't tell me that the upper classman is lying.

No way!

She probably mistook someone for him.

Hey.

Why don't you ask Kazumi's friend

who is resting in the infirmary, then?

The ground is visible from the infirmary because it's right in front,

so he may have seen somebody, right?

"Infirmary" -No, beats me.

After I left you guys, I was asleep in this bed here.

Besides...

Take a look.

Even if you were to look outside,

it's virtually impossible to see anything on campus from this floor, right?

What kind of garden was the principal thinking of making anyway?

So, even if someone suspicious was to be loitering on the ground,

I don't think I would've noticed.

By the way, where's the nurse?

She left for the day saying she was going to driving school.

She told me to hurry on home and go to bed

because my house is really close to school.

After the wailing in the storeroom of the gym,

is the grudge filled library,

the cursed stairs, and now the chair and desk on campus.

Poor Hosaka.

I heard that you were childhood friends with Hosaka.

Yeah.

I was with him from elementary to Jr. high,

but after we entered high school, I hardly got to see him

because I got into an accident riding my motorbike

as soon as I entered high school,

and was hospitalized for nearly half a year.

Then, you didn't know that he fell down the stairs.

No, not until I was discharged from the hospital

and came back to school.

And? Was there anybody who was all worked up over this ghost bit?

Those guys who're making a big thing of this ghost scare

are the very ones who probably made this all up

and are having their thrills laughing inside, right?

What? You mean me?

It's possible.

One other person I can think of that was making a fuss over it is

the guy confined in the art room all alone drawing pictures.

Don't you think he's suspicious?

Even the guy we just saw in the infirmary is just as suspicious.

Because the storeroom where the desk was is near the infirmary.

Moreover, if you use this slated drain board,

you can go directly out to the campus.

Then, the suspicious ones are those two?

Not really. There's one more person.

Kazumi is also to be suspected.

What? Why?

Well, if she went to the restroom,

it means she left the library, doesn't it?

I guess so.

Now that you mentioned it, I wonder why she came

when we were checking the storeroom of the gym?

It must've been by chance and besides,

if she did play such a prank,

wouldn't she have left for home?

Not really.

Before I went out to campus to go to the desk with Dr. Araide,

just a while ago, I went to the shoes box to get my shoes

but despite the doorway and the school building being wet with rain,

I saw no footprints.

Which means that the person making up the ghost scare is...

Still in the school building somewhere.

Yes.

If the same person is making up all four ghost scares,

it's extremely likely that this person

knows about the student called Hosaka

who accidentally died two years ago,

as well as know a lot about the scene of the accident.

Hardly no one passes through this corridor after school,

and moreover, if the teachers were all gathered

in the teacher's room having a conference...

Whether it be from the infirmary on the first floor,

the art room on the second floor

or from the third floor library,

the person could secretly without being seen by anyone

carry the desk and chair out to campus. It's not impossible.

The problem is, how were the desk and chair placed there

without leaving any footprints behind, and for what purpose.

There must be something involved.

A reason for causing the ghost scare.

Huh?

I wonder what this is on top of the drain board.

It looks like traces of someone having splashed water.

I wonder if there were water traces like this

when we passed here a while ago?

Don't tell me that...

Conan!

If that's the case,

the traces of it should be somewhere on the campus.

I found it! This is it!

You're not supposed to go outside with slippers.

To think that I didn't notice how such an easy trick was carried out...

But this trick can be carried out by any of the three.

In order to get the evidence, although it's a bit reckless...

Ran.

Will you all wait for me in front of the art room?

I've figured out a way to find out who is doing all this.

What?

"Art room"

He's late!

How long does he intend to keep us waiting?

Oh, there he is!

What'd you do?

Oh, some things.

I hope we're really going to be able to figure things out here

about the culprit of the ghost scare.

Hey, you glasses kid...

Hey! I thought I told you not to come inside!

Are you getting ready to go home?

Getting ready to go home?

Yeah, I have everything here so that I can go home right away.

Hey there! Sorry to intrude on you.

Seko? What brings you here?

This brat told me that if I come here,

I'll get to see who the one that's causing the ghost scare is,

so I came.

He said that it may take a while,

so I gathered my stuff before coming.

Oh, my.

Same here.

Kazumi?

Your umbrella's all muddy.

Right.

I was watching the weather forecast this morning

and in my rush, I picked an old umbrella

that I used to use when I was a child.

Hey, stop dusting mud off here!

I'm sorry.

So? Did you figure out who the culprit is?

Nope. It seems the show's going to start now.

Hey. Are sure everything's going to work out, Conan?

No doubt about it.

That one's the culprit.

"Art room"

And?

Where's the one who caused this ghost scare?

You said that we'd all find out if we came here, right?

-Conan. -Yes.

That ghost scare is rumored to be the doings of the spirit of the person

called Hosaka who fell off the stairs two years ago and died, right?

Yes.

The stairs is the one near the art room.

If so, let's just wait forever very quietly.

Wait for what?

What else...

but for the ghost of Mr. Hosaka to come dripping wet down the stairs.

Hey!

It hurts!

Listen, we're trying to find the bad one

who's trying to make everything look like the doings of the ghost.

Mouri. Sorry, but I think I'll head for home.

I guess I will, too.

I'm leaving, too.

I can't possibly concentrate on drawing with you guys around.

It's only starting to get interesting now.

Thanks to the glasses kid,

I can't seem to come up with any inspiration.

The fun of it all is disappearing, so I guess...

Sonoko?

Sonoko!

Did the usual come?

The usual?

Sonoko is just like my father,

doing that when she figures out a case.

No. The way she fell just now was not normal.

Let me check her.

Oh, no!

Don't touch me, okay?

Huh?

Because I, deduction queen Sonoko,

is about to start a deduction show now.

So, it came after all.

Yes, I've figured it out

the identity of the one who started all this ghost scare

while sneaking and hiding behind the scenes.

As for you, I think you need to hide a bit of something.

What?

Talk about showing it all!

Sonoko, your panty's showing!

Oh, my! I'm sorry!

Since I've figured out the truth,

I seem to have gone weak and relaxed a bit too much.

Gosh.

Because it turned out to such a simple trick.

Simple?

Then, you've figured it out?

The mystery of the desk and chair put out on campus

without leaving any footprints.

The piece of paper on the desk was not wet at all.

Right, that piece of paper.

I was thrown off by the paper that wasn't wet at all

and had completely forgotten about something.

Even if the desk and chair were carried out while it was raining,

the footprints would be erased by the rain.

The footprints may disappear,

but won't the piece of paper on the desk also get wet?

If you don't want to get wet, what would you do, Ran?

Well, I'll wait somewhere until it stops raining.

Or wear a raincoat.

Or...

You mean...

Right.

All the culprit did was cover the paper,

so that it wouldn't get wet,

using an umbrella with a long string attached to it.

After it stops raining,

the string attached to the umbrella is pulled

and the umbrella is retrieved to the school building.

This way, no footprints are left behind on the wet, muddy campus

and the piece of paper is still dry.

The traces were clearly left behind on campus.

The traces of the tip of the frame of the umbrella touching the ground

when the string was pulled to take the umbrella in.

On the drain board that is placed from the campus grounds

to the entrance of the school building,

there were traces of water being splattered.

This serves as yet another evidence.

The water that was splattered there was from the umbrella

that was retrieved and shook to shake off excess water.

But that's not enough to shake off all the rain water.

The more time passes, the more water sinks in.

Then, the person who caused the ghost scare was...

-Could it possibly be... -Yes, that's right.

The culprit is the one who owns the umbrella

that has rain water flowing out of it.

You, Kunishige Seko!

You were sleeping in the infirmary

saying that you weren't feeling good

just to carry out this trick.

The weather forecast said that there would be a shower

from around noon to sundown,

but you didn't know exactly what time it would be.

You carried the desk and chair that were in the storeroom of the gym

out to the campus grounds secretly,

covered the desk with an umbrella with string attached to it

and went back to the infirmary for the time being.

All you had to do now is wait for it to stop raining

pull the string and retrieve the umbrella.

But, what if someone saw the umbrella on the desk?

The campus ground cannot be seen from the first floor

because the trees are in the way,

and if viewed from the 2nd and 3rd floor,

it would just look as if someone is standing in place

in the rain with an umbrella.

Then, do you mean that the principal I saw was...

You just made a mistake because the color of the umbrella

was the same as the one the principal who used to go out

into the grounds everyday had.

Hey. You're going to call me the culprit

just because my umbrella was wet?

Since my umbrella was really dirty,

I washed it off at the faucet just a while ago, that's why it was wet.

Besides, if it's a trick like that,

Monobe and Tsukamoto could've done it too, right?

No, you're the one.

It's interesting that if you are the one,

the answers to all the other ghost scares fall into place.

The library of grudge, the cursed stairs,

and the wailing in the storeroom of the gym,

that is, the three ghostly phenomenon!

First for the library of grudge,

where the four books that Hosaka had borrowed,

being left out without being put away for 4 consecutive days.

But, isn't that something that anybody could've done?

If you look at the library card,

you can get the names of the people who borrowed the book in the past.

Do you remember the title of the four books?

The title?

I think it was electric, something...

"Theory of Telecommunication".

"Report of the Destruction of Tropical Rainforests".

"The History of the University System".

"Analysis of Rock Destruction Sound".

No ordinary person could search and find these four books

that virtually no one would bother to touch at all.

But, you, Mr. Seko, was his childhood friend

and knew his hobbies very well.

Then, what about the cursed stairs?

So you're saying Seko is responsible

for the bottom of the stairs being wet?

Yes. Isn't there a hole there where the extinguisher is kept?

Mr. Seko probably got ice ready

and hid it behind the fire extinguisher after school.

The following morning,

he wanted someone to find the water soaked floor

because of the melted ice, which he prepared during the night.

That's why you put wax on the floor right below the dent, right?

You used the wax as a water repellent,

so that it wouldn't look as if water flowed out from the dent.

Mr. Seko, whose house is near the school

is the only one who could've done something like this.

I see.

He went home to get the ice after school.

But, why?

Why would you, who used to be Hosaka's childhood friend

do something like this?

Depending on your answer, you're going to get it!

The whole thing probably started

with the wailing in the storeroom of the gym.

The wailing that the students

who came for early morning practice heard

was Mr. Seko's voice.

If Mr. Seko's ping-pong club also had early morning practice that day,

it's natural that he would be in the storeroom of the gym.

Maybe he noticed Mr. Hosaka's desk and chair for the first time that day,

it's not strange to think that

Mr. Hosaka's death was no accident.

Yeah, that's right.

It dawned on me right away

that Hosaka was bullied and killed

while I was in the hospital!

You mentioned just a while ago,

that I knew what kind of books he would borrow

because I was his childhood friend, right?

Actually, that's not it.

Those four books were the books that Hosaka brought with him

when he came to visit me everyday at the hospital.

In order to cheer me up,

he told me about the funny and interesting stories he made up

after reading those books.

But he suddenly stopped coming.

I thought that maybe he found a girl he liked or something.

I didn't think he had died of an accident.

After being discharged from the hospital,

I investigated on his accident,

but all I found out was that he fell from the stairs.

That is, until I found his desk with his signature

on it in the storeroom of the gym!

That's why I wanted to find

the one who hid his desk into the storeroom.

I wanted to find the one who pushed him off the stairs!

Wrong.

Hosaka didn't fall off the stairs, nor was he bullied.

I'm to blame!

What?

That day, early in the morning,

two stone statues were scheduled to be delivered to school.

Both Hosaka and I were weekly monitors that day,

so we secretly carried the two statues

to the art room early in the morning.

We were planning to place the statues by the door

to surprise the art teacher.

But because we were rushing to set up the statues

before the teacher arrives,

we went past the 2nd floor art room to the 3rd floor.

Since Hosaka told me this, I rushed to turn back

and tripped.

Hosaka tried to protect me from falling

and was crushed by me and the statue.

That's why Hosaka wasn't being bullied.

That's a lie!

Then, why was his desk put in a dimly lit place like that

and covered with dust?

-No matter how you look at it... -We didn't want to erase the signs

that Hosaka was coming to the same school as we were.

His signature was written in pencil,

so if left as it would've rubbed off eventually, right?

After the accident,

the drawings of the faces of all his classmates

was found in his notebook, so we got sad

and asked the teacher a favor.

That is, to put his desk out in one of the classrooms

on the day of our graduation,

so that he can graduate together with us.

At first, the teacher gave a sour look,

but we asked the teacher to let us

keep the desk and chair in the storeroom of the gym

after the class collected enough money to buy them.

We should've told you about it too,

but we found out that you were childhood friends with Hosaka

only after the ghost scare.

I see.

That's why you were at the storeroom back then.

Yes.

I thought maybe Seko might be where Hosaka's desk was.

Then...

he wasn't bullied or had a grudge on anybody.

No.

If anybody, I'm the only one he'd have a grudge against.

After all, I'm the one who thought up that stupid prank, too.

No.

I'm sure he holds no grudge against you.

Well, I was the first one to be called to the site of the accident.

Back then, he kept mumbling.

That maybe the teacher will be even more surprised

if he fell to the ground as is.

Just as expected of him.

Just as expected of you, Sonoko!

Your deduction was superb as always.

Yeah, I guess so.

I don't remember, though, like always.

But what a surprise it was to hear that Dr. Araide

heard the last words spoken by that student.

Oh, well...

The truth is, he was in no condition to talk at all.

But I figured at that time, it was best to say so,

to make those seniors feel relieved.

I couldn't help lying.

I see.

Dr. Araide, you're really so kind.

Huh?

Well, what a relief that there were no ghosts.

Yes! I won't have to worry about being monitor next week anymore!

Okay! Maybe I'll go talk to the newspaper club about my deduction

-and give them a scoop article! -I think you shouldn't do anything.

There'll be no ghost scares anymore.

Besides, rumors vanish with time.

I'm sorry. I've got an important phone call.

We'll be on our way then.

Goodbye, Dr. Araide!

Hello?

Yes, Araide here.

Really? I'm happy for you

that you got yourself smoothly into school

without anyone being suspicious.

Yes, thanks to you.

Since you told me

how the imposter was going around in school.

Then, this is the last time I'll be calling you.

Forget me completely.

Wait! There's one thing I'd like to ask you.

The person who was disguised as me...

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

Was that person really...

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

Thanks to the health exercise you taught me,

my back pains have gotten a lot better.

Was that person really...

Dr. Araide, you're really so kind.

A bad person?

Every time I get in touch with the students or teachers at school,

he just doesn't seem to be a bad person.

What a fool!

A person who can smile when killing someone

can never be a good person!

Yes. All that woman did was trace your personality

in order to become your imposter.

And she did so frighteningly accurately.

That's all.

Next Conan's Hint:

"Lottery"

City crows resemble...

-Information society. -Why do you say that?

Problems of scattered trash are resolved by the net.

I see.