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Today, we're all going out to look at the stars.

We go out looking for a comet and discover a skeleton instead.

Solve the mystery of the scattered cigarettes!

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

Abnormality observation?

No, Genta.

Astronomical observation, astronomical observation.

Dr. Agasa, are we going to go watch stars from now?

Yeah, I found a nice pension in the mountains of Gunma.

But why are you going outside to watch stars

at a cold time like this?

It's good because it's cold.

The colder it is, the cleaner the air,

and the better it is to watch the stars.

Beside, tonight is the new moon.

In other words,

it's just the night to carry out an astronomical observation.

But, isn't it going to be boring just looking at the stars?

Come on, don't say that.

You can study the stars,

and we may by chance discover a new stars.

If we do, it may be named after us.

-What? Our names! -What? Our names!

A star...

We can name it after ourselves?

Yes, right.

Of course that's impossible

when it comes to asteroids in

which the orbit has to be observed repeatedly

and verified though.

But there is a possibility

if the star is a comet that only requires to be found.

How about calling it Beika Youth Detective Squad Comet?

Sounds nice.

-Nice, isn't it? -Nope.

The only star you can give a name of your choice to is to asteroids.

Comets are named after the surnames of their discoverers,

and moreover, the surnames of only the three people

who submitted their names the earliest can be given to the star.

Right, if a comet is found at the same time all over the world,

it's possible that your name will be mixed with a foreign name.

Three people, me, and...

For example, Kobayashi, Burger, Millon.

So, if we find a comet

and apply for it quickly,

it could be Yoshida Tsuburaya Haibara comet, right?

Yeah, right?

Yes, well...

Yoshida, Tsuburaya, Haibara?

How come my name's not there?

Include Conan's name too.

But it's only up to three names.

Conan, don't you?

Just what are you doing, Conan?

That man. He's the sports reporter, Masaharu Motoyama,

the one that killed the professional baseball player Mr. Nose,

last time in Okinawa, right?

You were there at the time of the incident too, weren't you, Conan?

Yeah. I was bothered about something so...

"Sports reporter, Masaharu Motoyama"

Bothered about what?

Well, it's not such a big deal but...

I was just wondering who he would call on his cell phone

during an interrogation session.

The police already would've contacted

the late Mr. Nose's parents and family so...

I think it's Mr. Motoyama's personal acquaintance.

Darn! I should've directly asked him who he called.

Maybe...

it was baseball player Kobayashi?

The one who entered the team at the same time as Mr. Motoyama.

They were on an off-season travel program together, all three of them,

and seemed to get along well together.

There's a possibility he informed him of the death of his best friend.

He seems to have succeeded his parents' Japanese inn

after he retired four years ago.

If I remember correctly, it was in a place called Kurayoshi in Tottori.

I saw it when it was introduced on TV once,

but it looked to be a nice inn.

I see.

It seems to have nothing to do with the men in black.

Kurayoshi.

Shinichi, don't tell me that you're...

"Stars, a Cigarette and a Code (Part 1)"

Mr. Agasa, right? We've been waiting for you.

Please sign your name on our guest list.

All right.

Hiroshi Agasa.

Where is he?

"Etsuko Nonomiya (28), Guest"

He told you to come here too, didn't he?

Please tell me.

I want to apologize to him.

Where is Asao?

Asao, who is he?

Don't play dumb with me!

A man wearing the same ring that's a pair with this one!

Asao Kono!

You got an invitation card from him to, didn't you?

Ms. Nonomiya.

Invitation card?

Oh, no, you see, this is our first visit here.

Oh, really?

I'm sorry

Was that a surprise...

I'm so sorry.

Who is she?

"Amatsuchi (34), Pension Owner" -Her name is Etsuko Nonomiya

and she's an under classman of the university that I went to.

The man, Kono that she was referring to

was also an underclassman of my university.

They were engaged.

They used to come and stay over here a lot together in the past,

but after they had a big fight here a year ago,

he stopped coming all together.

Then last week, she seems to have received

an invitation card asking her to come here

and she's been waiting here for the past three days.

Since he hasn't shown up at all,

she's been that way drinking from day time.

But, why would she think that I, who she hasn't even met before

would also get an invitation card?

It's only natural.

"Mikami, Futagawa" -Because we who don't even know him all that well,

got an invitation card from that guy called Kono.

Well, we met him once over here a year ago that day.

Being that the subject in the invitation card was what it is,

we decided to at least come here.

May I see the invitation card?

Yeah, here.

Thank you.

As a result of my one year observation,

I have come up with a discovery that would shake the basis of astronomy.

I would like your opinion on the matter,

so please come to Pension Amatsuchi.

Of course I will foot the room charges.

If you can't come, it can't be helped,

but please make an effort to be there, Asao Kono.

Well, judging from the fact that he's not here,

despite two days already gone by it seems to have been a prank.

Shall we head back then, editor?

Editor?

Yeah, we're writing an astronomical magazine called "Space Sunday".

And, Mr. Mikami here is the editor.

He's no ordinary editor, either.

Oh, come on.

No big deal.

What do you mean by his no ordinary editor?

Well, he discovered a new comet,

and is a great man who a star is named after.

-You... -You discovered one?

Where did you find it?

Tell us where too.

Well, where that's not an easy question.

Over there? Over here?

Then I suggest you climb up the road in back

of the pension to the hill beyond.

It's a scenic viewpoint,

and just great for viewing stars

If you want, I'll lend you a telescope too.

For 5000 yen.

You're charging us for it.

-Be careful. -Okay!

All right. We'll find our star for sure!

Aye!

Hopeless amateurs.

Don't they know it's not that easy to find.

Right, editor?

No, who knows.

No matter how knowledgeable you are,

whether you can find a star or not depends on luck.

If you're lucky, you can find one.

Right, editor?

Won't you find him for me with your luck

of having found a star?

The guy who was obsessed by stars

and disappeared into the darkness of space.

My precious partner.

It sure is kind of far.

Come on, Dr. Agasa. Hang in there.

Hurry, hurry.

Isn't that the hill?

It's more a cliff than a hill.

You mean we're going to climb way up there?

Let's take a break.

Hey, let's climb up there before sundown.

Treat the aged with kindness.

You're usually telling me not to treat you like the aged.

Shall we rest about ten minutes then?

Agreed!

Darn, come on, man.

A rock, rock...

But, don't you think that invitation was sort of strange?

Would somebody write something like,

"If you can't come, it can't be helped"?

True.

There must've been some urgent reason

he wanted everyone to come here.

I found one!

What's up, Ayumi?

A skull?

No joke?

Why is a skull in a place like this?

There are some more scattered here.

What?

The lower jaw, the upper forelimb, and the thighbone.

Where's the body itself?

Over there?

What on earth?

The person probably fell from that cliff!

Yes, probably.

These are most likely

the bones of someone who fell quite some time ago.

The bones may have scattered due to animals, rain and the wind.

No.

This is a homicide case,

and an extremely heinous one too.

-What? -What?

Look, lime.

Lime has the quality of giving off heat after sucking up liquid.

When lime is scattered around the corpse and the nearby area,

it has the quality of giving off heat after being wet by rain

and as a result, the pace at which the body rots is quickened.

Therefore, the body skeletonizes in a very short time.

Maybe this skeleton is the Mr. Kono

that everybody was talking about back at the inn?

-No way. -But, he sent everybody the invitation card, didn't he?

-It could be the man called Kono. -What?

A ring and a cigarette case is under the rock.

The letters carved on the ring are,

ETSUKO to ASAO.

It's most likely that Mr. Kono left these here,

before the killer came back down here, after pushing him off the cliff.

He left these here most probably as evidence that he was killed.

But, maybe the killer left them here deliberately.

If so, I think he'd leave it on Mr. Kono's finger

after stripping him naked.

Why would a killer who attempts to hide the identity of his victim

deliberately hide something like that under a rock.

Will somebody lend me a handkerchief?

Okay.

-Yes. -Thank you.

Then, what's this cigarette box?

If my deduction is correct,

this is probably...

All there is in here are cigarettes.

Just as I thought.

Don't tell me that...

Yeah, this is what Mr. Kono left behind.

It's a dying message.

Dying message?

What about this cigarette?

Yeah, It's very likely that the man called Asao Kono left clues

about who the killer before he was killed.

But, isn't it just that two cigarettes out of six are torn?

Watch closely.

The two short cigarettes have filters on them, don't they?

It goes to show that the cigarettes were deliberately torn short

and put into the cigarette box.

And besides, look.

If you take a close look under the rock where the cigarette box was hidden,

it's pretty rotted. But the rest of the cigarettes

and the cigarettes that were torn apart then are disposed of, right?

In other words, Mr. Kono who left this behind

wants us to look at only the four long cigarettes

and two short cigarettes he put into the cigarette box.

We've got to go back and tell the people at the pension about this...

Hold it, Dr. Agasa.

It's not a good idea to tell the people of the pension about this.

Call the police first.

What? Why?

-Can't you tell? -What?

The guests at the pension right now are all people who have come

because they received invitation cards from Mr. Kono.

If these bones are really Mr. Kono's,

it's obvious that someone else sent them, right?

Moreover one year ago when Mr. Kono disappeared from the pension,

the people gathered now were also here back then.

If the reason these bones are scattered

are not because of rain, wind or animals,

but was scattered here deliberately by someone.

Yeah.

The one who sent out the invitation cards is probably hoping

that someone would find Mr. Kono's bones

and planning some evil scheme.

What is that evil scheme?

Beats me.

At any rate, call the police.

Hurry and contact them and have them come here.

What's up, Dr. Agasa?

Oh, well,

it seems that this area is outside the service area

and I can't call.

We've got no choice then,

but to go back to the pension

and call the police secretly.

The police?

What seems to be the matter?

Mr. Amatsuchi? What brings you here?

I recalled forgetting to put the heavy weight

of the telescope in the bag.

Oh, no.

-By the way, what seems to be the matter? -Oh, nothing...

-What the matter? -Nothing...

Did you find something strange?

Bones?

-Wait! -Oh no.

What? You found Asao's bones in the forest?

But, all you found were the bones, right?

Who knows if they're really Asao's or not?

Well, we found this beside the bones.

The pair ring carved with your initials that you gave him.

But it could be that the Asao Kono killed somebody

and deliberately put the ring there.

But the ring was found...

Did Mr. Kono have a cavity?

His upper tooth to the right, the 2nd one from the molar.

His upper molar?

If so, those bones aren't Asao!

He did have a cavity all right,

but it was his front lower tooth.

-No! -Then, it's him after all.

No doubt about it.

Hey, what do you mean?

I'm sorry to say that the dental treatment was done

on the lower jaw central incisor

In other words, it's exactly where you say it was.

He's lower front tooth had a cavity.

He deliberately said something else

so that you wouldn't just agree to what he said.

I'm sorry.

Oh no.

Which means that Asao is, Asao is...

At any rate, let's hurry and call the police.

But the phone doesn't seem working right.

This phone is only connected to an electric cord

and doesn't have a module cable.

What?

Strange, I used this phone just a while ago.

Do you have any other phones or a spare cable?

This is the only phone

and I haven't bought any spare cables.

Then, we can't call the police.

You have got to be kidding.

I'm going home by car.

But, editor...

I don't think that's possible either.

What?

I just went outside and checked,

but it seems all the cars that are parked here have flat tires.

Somebody probably loosened the air valve and deflated the tires.

So that no one could use the cars,

in order to keep everyone confined here.

That's absurd.

Hey, don't tell me this has something to do with the guy Kono?

-I'm sure it does. -For sure.

Because that was homi...

Come to think of it, when I found the bones,

you guys were watching, right?

You saw the four long cigarettes and two short cigarettes

on the handkerchief, didn't you?

Hey! Isn't that a dying message?

No, I wouldn't say it was...

No. That's no dying message.

I'm sure that...

Asao is just pretending to be dead to trouble me.

-He's so cute. -Anyway, let's all stay in our rooms tonight

and not go out.

I think it's best to wait until daybreak.

Yes.

There are a total of six cigarettes,

four long ones and two short ones.

If the name is Futagawa, there is one extra match

and if the name is Amatsuchi, one more match stick is needed.

As for Ms. Nonomiya and Mr. Mikami,

their characters cannot be displayed with six matches.

What if you write it in katakana?

That's impossible too.

Futagawa would require 14 match sticks

and Amatsuchi 12, eight for Nonomiya

and for Mikami, nine matches would be necessary.

What if you try their initials?

Like for Haibara Ai, it would be "HA", that's exactly six matches.

Then, are you saying that you're the killer?

Like I said, it's just an example.

Oh, an example.

Come to think of it Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, TM

and Yoshida Ayumi, YA are also six matches.

True.

Kojima Genta is...

How romantic to think that only the three of us require six match sticks.

I'm Agasa Hiroshi, AH and can be displayed with six matches too.

Wow, what a coincidence?

Hey.

You just may be right about it being initials.

What? The killer is Mr. Futagawa?

Yeah. If those cigarettes really stand for initials...

Mr. Amatsuchi Ryoji is AR,

Nonomiya Etsuko is NE,

Mikami Heihachi is MH.

Only Futagawa Hajime, FH can be created with six matches, right?

But, I wonder if it's a good idea to go see Mr. Futagawa in person.

Don't worry, I'm just going to throw him a catch question.

Mr. Futagawa's not here

The cigarette filter is still damp.

Not too long has passed yet since he left the room.

Somebody's walking outside.

That's Ms. Nonomiya?

Oh no, not only Mr, Futagawa

but Mr. Mikami and Mr. Amatsuchi are nowhere in sight either.

Darn. I told them not to go outside.

Mitsuhiko, Ayumi and I will go get Ms. Nonomiya back.

Dr. Agasa, Ai and Genta, go and look for the other three.

Okay.

Ms. Nonomiya!

Where are you?

Ms. Nonomiya!

That's the road that leads to the place we found the skeleton, right?

Then, maybe she went there to confirm

if the bones were really Mr. Kono's.

Oh no.

What was that sound?

Mr. Futagawa?

No good. His neck is broken.

-What? -What?

He's not breathing anymore.

He's holding something.

A cigarette case?

The same dying message again?

No, this time...

there's one more.

Next Conan's Hint:

"Initial"

Next week, the case will be solved.

The highlight is my super acting skills.