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A case where building blocks are the clues.

Heiji's and Sleeping Kogoro's deductions conflict!

Which one will win?

He sees through the one and only truth.

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

His name is Detective Conan!

Here's your Detective Samonji, File. 44.

"Testament With the Devil's Trap, Part 2".

This is it.

I knew you wanted it so bad, so I kept one for you.

Really?

Thank you so much, sir!

I've been waiting this for so long.

All right! I have to eat supper real quick

so I can finish the book before going to bed.

And tomorrow morning, I'm going to read it all over again.

I can't wait! I just can't wait.

I'm back!

Welcome home...

"The Deduction Battle (Part 1)"

Welcome home...

All right! The kid is back.

Let's go out and eat at a fancy restaurant, right?

Sure. It's kind of early,

so I guess we could go a little farther than usual.

Hey, kid. How about it?

What do you want to eat?

-I'll pass! -Pass?

Pasta? You mean Italian food.

I remember!

I heard there's a new fancy Italian restaurant in Haido Town.

All right. Let's go there.

Right. It's not so far from here, too.

All right. Let's go.

Man, that was good.

It's nice to have real spaghetti once in a while.

Right! We made the right choice, didn't we?

Yes! It was fantastic.

So why are you guys here, Kazuha and...

this dark-skinned guy.

Hey! What was that? What the heck was that?

Well, you came here without telling me anything beforehand.

I've got a schedule, too.

Right, speaking of schedule,

that's the reason why we came here!

We wanted to ask you about your schedule.

Schedule?

Yes. We want you guys to come to Osaka again.

There are many nice places that we haven't shown you yet.

What do you mean by nice places?

Of course.

It's the symbol of Osaka.

-Koshien Stadium. -Takarazuka Revue.

Koshien Stadium?

Takarazuka Revue?

Those are not in Osaka.

Hey, what's this about Koshien Stadium?

We didn't talk about Takarazuka Revue either.

Have you forgot already?

I told you I was going to get the tickets

to the Takarazuka Revue from my neighbours.

Oh, right. I remember you said something like that.

All right, then why don't we go to both?

Okay! It's the final game of the high school baseball tournament

that I really want to watch with you guys.

Oh, no. We can't go to both.

Kazuha, what's wrong?

Hey, don't tell me you got the tickets from the five crazy ladies?

I did.

Who are those ladies?

They are enthusiastic fans of Takarazuka Revue.

They save their money throughout the year

and spend all of it for the Takarazuka shows during summer time.

I heard they go to every single show,

but there is one show that they all cannot go to.

Don't tell me that's the day of...

The final game of the high school baseball tournament?

Those ladies are working for the same company,

and their boss is a huge fan of high school baseball.

Every year, all the workers go and watch the final game of the tournament,

and that's why I got the Takarazuka tickets

for the show playing on the same day as the final game.

I see.

It doesn't matter whether the final gets postponed to another day or not.

It's still going to be the same day as the final game anyway.

Well, I feel sorry for you, Kazuha.

But I think you should forget it this time.

What?

Takarazuka Revue plays the same show many times a year.

But the final game of the high school baseball tournament

is just once and that's it.

I can't miss it.

What are you talking about?

Those baseball games are on the sports news and stuff.

You can watch them many times.

Stupid.

You have to watch it live!

Who in the world likes to watch only the result of the games on TV?

But I have to watch the Takarazuka show live, too!

They are amazing seats.

You'll never get seats like these again if you miss this opportunity.

Hey, Ran. You want to watch the Takarazuka show, right?

Yes.

Hey, kid. You're a man. You love baseball, right?

Of course.

Then what about you, Mr. Mouri?

Let me see.

Well, I love the seriousness and excitement of baseball games!

But at the same time,

I love the beauty and gorgeousness of the Takarazuka shows, too.

-Make up your mind. -Make up your mind.

Okay, how about this?

Whoever wins a deduction battle gets to see what he or she wants.

Deduction...

Battle?

At the end of last month, there was a murder in the office of a company.

This murder case needs further investigation,

so Inspector Megure has asked me for help on it.

That company is actually in this area

and I was thinking about going there after dinner.

Although it's unethical to treat a murder case like this,

I thought you guys could come and help us.

It's not so bad because we are helping to solve the murder case, right?

All right. So Kazuha, you and I are going to fight.

That's not fair.

There's no way I can beat you in a deduction battle.

Of course.

I, the Sleeping Kogoro will be on your side, Kazuha. You can rely on me.

Seriously? Thanks a lot, man!

Well, Sleeping Kogoro always stands up for the weak.

I know what's really in your mind, old man.

Ran. I need your help, too.

Sure! Why not?

Let's beat them and watch the Takarazuka show!

You dummy rat. You got two people on your side.

Well, what can I say?

I guess I have to take this little kid with me.

You are the dummy rat, Heiji.

Hey, Mouri.

Thanks for coming.

No problem.

Let's go inside.

Stop blocking the way.

Heiji?

Hey, you. You're not allowed at the murder scene.

Don't worry about it.

The forensic officers are done searching the murder scene, right?

Well, yes.

The victim is the owner of a toy production company,

Kenji Tsujiya, 53 years old.

He worked and also lived here.

The estimated time of death was the 29th of last month, Sunday, around 5pm.

The dead body was found on the 30th, Monday, around 10am.

Who found it?

Four workers in this company found it.

Four workers.

These four workers always come a little early in the morning,

and eat breakfast in a coffee house down there,

then come to the office together.

I see. That's why it's four people.

And these four workers found their boss,

who was tied with a rope and beaten to death with a golf club.

How do you know that, Heiji?

You see the ink spot around the victim's back?

Yes.

Perhaps the ink spilled over when they were fighting.

But the murderer didn't care and just tied the owner up with a rope.

I saw the marks of the rope all over the floor.

So I thought he was wriggling on the floor with his hands tied behind him.

Okay, but what about him being beaten with a golf club?

I saw the blood on his head.

And also, see the thin marks on the floor near his head?

These are from iron clubs.

The murderer missed the head and hit the floor

when he or she was beating the owner who was lying on the floor.

But why did the murderer tied him up first, and then clubbed him?

Maybe the murderer wanted the combination of the safe.

See? The door of the safe is left wide open.

I see.

Some outsider committed the murder for the money, is that it?

I don't know whether it was an outsider or not.

But it's certain that the murderer tied the president up first

in order to get the combination out of him.

And then, the murderer clubbed him to death

because the president saw his or her face.

Something like that. Right, Inspector?

Right.

Hey, are you going to be all right, Dad?

The boys are dominating this deduction battle.

Are they?

Well, it's not a hard thing to do.

With this murder scene, even a policeman can make a deduction like this.

-Even a policeman... -Hey.

This isn't everything, right? There must be something else.

Come on. Let it out.

All right.

We found these on the floor around the victim's dead body.

These four building blocks.

But there are other building blocks near the victim's dead body.

Actually, we found the victim's fingerprints

and also ink on those four blocks.

Ink?

If you look at the ink-spotted side of each building block...

And this is the last one.

-Toy? -Toy?

Toy?

No. Is it rice cake store?

I think it's rice cake store, don't you think?

Right.

If it really means "omocha",

then whoever made this could've picked the other block to spell it right.

Inspector.

Can you tell me specifically where the four blocks in the pictures were?

Sure.

This is how it looked when we found the dead body.

I guess this guy is the...

Yes, he's the victim.

The president of this toy production company, Mr. Tsujiya.

From the stack of the building blocks by the victim's dead body,

we found the four blocks with characters "o", "mo", "chi", and "ya".

Each of them had the victim's fingerprints and an ink spot on it.

The ink spots on the blocks

and the one that's on the victim's back came from the same bottle.

The problem is, who put the ink spots on those four building blocks?

Right.

We found the victim's fingerprints on those blocks,

but it could be that the murderer made the president hold them

to hide something.

Hey.

These are really the only ones that have the owner's fingerprints?

Actually the fingerprints are on some other blocks.

But we found that these four blocks have fingerprints all over them.

I mean on every single side.

Even on those characters.

So I guess it's possible to think that those four blocks

are the owner's dying message.

What? What makes you think that?

Look closely at the picture of the murder scene.

His hands are tied behind his back, right?

You can hardly see and touch anything if your hands are tied like this.

His fingerprints were on every single side of the four blocks

because the victim was searching for the correct blocks.

He touched some other blocks,

but not so many fingerprints were found from them.

That's because each block is designed to have five characters in the order.

So it's not so hard to find which one's which.

I see.

That's why we found so many fingerprints particularly on the four blocks.

In fact, fingerprints are made of sweat and skin oil

and that's why they remain on things.

But once people die, these things stop coming out.

So even if you try to leave fingerprints of a dead body,

you can only get one or two solid ones.

Perhaps when the murderer wasn't looking,

the victim took the four blocks with his hands tied behind his back.

Then, rolled his body and put the ink on those blocks.

And, he rolled his body back again to put them back to where they were.

I'm sure his hands were full of sweat because of fear of death.

As a matter of fact, the marks of the rope all over the floor prove that.

So it's possible to think

that the feeling of danger actually made the owner choose the wrong block.

This is a toy production company.

Logically, the dying message must be toys

rather than rice cake store, don't you think?

Oh, my God. We just got here.

How could you come up with so many things in such a short while?

Yeah, I know. That's my boy.

This isn't good, Ran.

He's dominating us mentally.

This is a battle between Heiji and us!

It's either the baseball game or Takarazuka show.

To win this deduction battle,

we have to find out what the dying message really meant first.

Maybe there are some hints in the other toys.

No, we found no strange toys other than the blocks.

-Are you sure? -Yes.

We checked every single toy in this office

looking for some other dying messages that could be hiding.

Then, maybe the dying message has a different meaning.

What do you mean?

Different combinations of four of the characters, you mean?

Omoyachi, ochimoya, ochiyamo...

Oyamochi, oyachimo, mochiyao...

It doesn't make sense at all.

All right, what else have we got?

We found only a golf club and a leather coat with the victim's blood on it,

which we assume the murderer was wearing during the murder.

But the golf club and the leather coat are the victim's belongings.

So they didn't help us determine who killed him.

What's more confusing is that the murderer was wearing that leather coat.

The bloodstain. It's faded only around the left shoulder.

It's got rubbed against something.

Actually, that's another mystery.

We searched throughout this office,

but found no spots where the bloodstain got rubbed against.

The murderer may have touched it when he or she took it off.

You haven't found gloves or something like that, right?

Hey.

Speaking of blood,

there's a strange bloodstain right here.

-Where is it? -Right here.

Why'd you crawl under there?

-This is it. -Hold on a sec.

You have to look at it really close.

You see the part where the bloodstain ends unnaturally?

Maybe something was here, don't you think?

Could be. What kind of thing would you put here though?

Where is the remote?

Hey! Don't touch them.

We have to keep the desk just like the way it is.

It's external input only.

So then, maybe a video camera was here until the victim was murdered.

The video camera was in the president's room.

Okay, then. Call the forensic officer

to check if there's any blood on it, will you?

It's strange.

Let's assume that the video camera was here.

But why would the murderer move it after killing the owner?

The murderer connected the video camera to the TV

just to watch the president after tying him up?

Then why did he remove it? The owner was dead.

Also...

Something's been bugging me ever since I got here.

Right here, in this office.

There's something odd, something unnatural.

Hey, Conan.

What's up, Ran?

Could you do me a favour?

I really want Kazuha to win this deduction battle.

I think she is really looking forward to see the Takarazuka show with us.

So, next time you come up with a good idea or something,

I want you to tell us quietly.

I'll give Dad your ideas

and Sleeping Kogoro will take care of the rest like always.

Yes? Please?

Please?

Conan, please?

Hey...

This kid is mine.

So stop headhunting him, will you?

Of course you respect a guy's friendship more than one with girls, right?

Friendship?

I'm on your side only because you gave me no choice.

Doesn't matter!

We have to win this the battle anyway. We have to watch the final game!

Oh, what a guy.

How was the identification?

We found it.

We found the victim's blood even though it was very slight.

I guess the murderer did not realize it.

But why was the video camera here anyway?

Perhaps the murderer connected the camera to the TV

and watched the owner until he spit out the combination to the safe.

But why do something round about like that?

Why not just tie him up and wait in front of the safe

until he spits out the combination?

He left the video camera on, to keep him from moving around

because he was ransacking the other rooms.

The murderer didn't know the victim left a dying message.

Well now, it is more likely that the murderer is well acquainted

with this office and also with the victim.

The president left a dying message.

If we get it right, it's possible to find out who the murder is.

Then, we should investigate the four workers who found the dead body.

Takagi is asking them about their alibi right now.

Inspector Megure.

I just finished the interrogation.

And how was it?

They are all designers

but also do some other types of work, like Nao Aiko, who does accounting.

June 29th around 5pm, when the murder occurred,

she was out fishing alone.

Atushi Hasami, the salesperson, was watching a movie at home.

Isao Nakagami, the planner, was at the turf.

Hajime Iwatomi, the vice president,

was out watching the final round of a golf tournament.

Those are all very vague alibis.

Yes. Right now, Chiba is verifying their stories

and if there is anything hiding behind the stories.

It seems nobody is able to prove their alibi. Not even one.

Hiding...

Behind...

Wait a minute. If the situation was...

That dying message on the four blocks is...

It was so easy.

How come I didn't realize this?

Kazuha, I'm sorry.

This battle is mine.

Kazuha?

Next Conan's Hint:

"Calendar"

The battle finally ends in the next episode!

Kazuha or Heiji?

-Who do you think is going to win? -Who do you think is going to win?