While we were waiting at the office of Ran's mom,
we met the former All-Japan women's judo champion
"Yuko Arisawa (37)" -in the 70kg class,
Yuko Arisawa.
When her husband, Shiro requested Lawyer Kisaki, Ran's mom
for a consultation over a recent stalker problem.
A meeting was set to meet with them.
Since Shiro suddenly received a call to attend a wake,
the appointment was re-set for 9:30.
However, when we got there...
We found Shiro strangled to death.
I and Lawyer Kisaki began to find Yuko's behavior suspicious.
But she has a solid alibi,
since she had been having dinner with us at that time.
The only time she could've committed the murder
was the 10 minutes that she left to go to the restroom.
Could it have been possible for her to kill Shiro in such a short time,
when she didn't even know where the wake was being held?
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"Might over Mystery (Part 2)"
Maybe they have call forwarding.
That way, if Yuko called here from your office,
the call would be forwarded to his cell!
You know, when you try calling several times
and there is no answer.
Unfortunately, that's not the case.
What?
The truth is, before you two made it to the office,
I called here.
It was in order to confirm the appointment for tonight.
But the call wasn't forwarded,
it went to the answering machine after ten rings.
Then, maybe her husband hadn't come home yet,
so she called his cell.
It wasn't just that phone that's bothering me.
Near the closet where the body was discovered
is the door to the garage,
but the trash bag there was strange.
What? How so?
Maybe it was just placed there to make taking it out easier?
No. The problem's not where it was, but rather the contents.
A large amount of matchbooks
from the western-style restaurant we ate earlier
was found at the bottom of the trash bag.
Since she doesn't smoke,
it's probably what her heavy-smoker husband brought home with him.
In other words, he's also a regular customer at that same restaurant.
But if so, why did she say her husband wasn't interested in food,
and so she frequented that restaurant alone?
If that's the case, why don't you talk it over with Dad?
-What? -Maybe he can find a hint!
I'd rather sell my soul to the devil!
Gosh.
The devil, huh?
What? You found wiretaps?
-Five of them? -Yes, sir!
It seems certain that the victim was the target of a stalker.
We also found two queer items in the victim's clothing.
-Two? -Yes.
One of them was found in the inside the pocket of his slacks.
This wedding ring.
What? Then, the victim's missing ring wasn't taken after all.
It seems that he took it off for some reason
and put it in his pocket.
And the other?
Yes.
In his coat pocket, we found this black necktie.
Could this be the murder weapon?
No, because there aren't any wrinkles on it,
and it doesn't even look like it's been opened.
Which means it's not the murder weapon?
Yeah.
Come on, let's give Dad a call.
Dad did say he was going drinking
with the master of Poirot and others tonight,
but I'm sure he's not drunk yet.
Hey, Mom. Say something!
Geez, be quiet! Just quiet down a little!
Hello, Dad?
Mom has something she wants to talk to you about!
What? Eri does?
-Here! -Hey!
Well, I doubt think it'll do much good.
It's me.
Well, it's not really anything important, but...
If it's not anything important, then don't call, idiot!
Stop! Don't hang up!
Yeah, yeah, I see.
So, you suspect the former All-Japan champion.
But when the crime occurred, she was with all of you,
and since she didn't even know where the victim went to a wake,
you say it was impossible for her to commit the crime?
Yeah.
Then, the answer is simple.
That woman is innocent!
-What? -That's it, isn't it?
Her alibi is solid and the best evidence is that,
you answered the call from the victim yourself!
But there are other things that bother me about her.
-Ron! -Ron?
Sorry. I'm playing mahjong with the neighbors.
Well, that's the story.
So, if you want to find the culprit,
I suggest you go looking elsewhere.
What did Dad say?
He says he's busy playing mahjong, so to go look somewhere else.
I know he's not playing mahjong.
It was recording, a tape recording!
I know because he used it a number of times in the past
when he used to be a police detective!
It was the same sound as what he used to use back then, too.
What? What do you mean by sound?
In other words, if he doesn't want to let you know his whereabouts,
or when he wants to hang up right away, he used to...
That's it. Her husband didn't want her to know.
That was the reason for the underhanded trick.
Could it be that his trick was seen through without his being aware that
the trick would be carried out on him instead?
Despite the various unexplained points that remain,
we can assume that the stalker using the wiretap
found out that no one was at home.
While the culprit was ransacking something,
Shiro happened to return from his friend's wake,
and encountered the culprit.
The necktie Shiro was wearing, was taken from him
and he was strangled to death.
Shiro probably wasn't wearing his necktie or his wedding ring
because he was getting ready to take a bath.
I see! The stalker was hiding in the bathroom!
Shiro found him,
so the culprit strangled him with the necktie that Shrio had taken off.
The only remaining question is just
why Shiro had an unopened black tie package in his suit pocket.
Perhaps someone asked him to buy it?
Wakes are generally held without warning.
Maybe one of his colleagues
that had to go to the wake directly from work,
asked him to buy the tie
but ended up not being able to make it.
I see.
If so, it's understandable that
he'd have a brand new extra tie on him!
At any rate, at around 9:00 p.m.,
that is, the time the murder was committed
after finishing the dinner with Shiro's wife Yuko,
we were about to leave the hotel restaurant
that is a 10 minute drive from here.
So, we've got nothing to do with this case.
May we leave now?
I... I guess so.
For the time being, we need to find out
whether or not anyone suspicious was seen leaving the house.
Go and look into that.
Yes, sir!
-Yuko. -Yeah?
May I speak to you in the living room for a moment?
Sure.
So? What's it about?
Article 42, sub-paragraph 01 of the penal code...
What?
Criminal offenders who turn themselves in
before authorities discover anything
will have their sentence reduced.
That's why I want you to turn yourself in
for strangling your husband.
Wait! Is this some sort of joke?
Didn't you say so earlier?
That at the approximate time of the murder, around 9:00,
I had just finished having dinner with you at the hotel restaurant
and was about to leave.
But just before leaving, you went to the restroom, didn't you?
Just for 10 minutes, right?
What could I have done in such a short time?
Within the 10 minutes,
you could've pretended to go to the restroom, leave the restaurant,
commit the crime and come back to the restaurant, couldn't you?
For you, the former All-Japan judo champion in the 70kg class
and for you who currently train others as the coach of a dojo,
it's possible!
What're you talking about?
How could I have called my husband over to the hotel
when I didn't even know whose wake he was at?
You didn't need to call him over
because your husband was already at the hotel.
"Already" there?
You heard him too, didn't you?
His voice on the phone saying he was at a wake!
So I came to the wake.
You can hear the chanting, can't you?
Don't tell me you're denying hearing that!
The chanting was from a tape.
It was to hide his extra-marital affair, wasn't it?
Extra-marital ffair?
My dorky husband use to use the same trick
when he used work for as a police detective!
He would play a recording of patrol car sirens next to the phone
and say "A sudden case has come up,
so I'll be home late, go to bed without me."
That guy was actually drinking at a cabaret club!
Mom...
I don't see your point in getting angry.
But that was in the case of your husband,
my husband would never do that.
Prior to taking a bath, do you normally remove your wedding band
and store it in your pocket?
Now, if he were going out to meet someone else,
it would make a lot of sense, wouldn't it?
And as for that unopened black tie...
He planned to put it on before returning home
in order to make it look like he had been to a wake.
However, before he could do that,
you strangled him with the tie which he took off, didn't you?
And further evidence is the restaurant matchbooks
that were found in the trash bag by the garage door.
Your heavy smoker husband brought them back, right?
You also mentioned that
you go to the restaurant on a weekly basis.
This would mean you both visited that restaurant often.
Then, why did you say you only go alone?
I come alone without telling him.
My husband has zero tolerance for new food.
Yes. Even though you always went there alone,
your husband always had somebody with him.
You saw them, didn't you?
Your husband happily enjoying a meal with another woman.
They always used that hotel to have an affair.
You found out that they were going to have an affair tonight
so you set up wiretaps in the house
and fabricated the story of a stalker.
Then, you invited us to that hotel restaurant for dinner.
When you contacted your husband on the phone from my office,
you expected him to play something in the background
that he'd prepared as an alibi,
and also predicted he would say
he'd be home late and not to wait up for him.
At just about the same time
that your husband would leave his extra-marital partner
and leave the hotel room, you left to go to the restroom.
You then caught your husband in the parking lot
where you proceeded to drag him to your car and strangled him!
Next, you put him in the trunk of your car
and came back as if nothing had happen.
Afterwards, you drove both us and his dead body
together back to your house.
You instructed us to wait here in the living room
while you transported his body from the trunk to the closet.
And lastly, you called him so we would discover the body.
Well, am I wrong?
That story sure sounds like a plausible one.
Do you have any proof?
We can probably find out by checking the hotel parking lot.
Your husband, who headed home,
had to come alone to the parking lot
or the crime couldn't have been committed!
That's why, it should still be there!
The car that your husband drove to the hotel in!
Because if your husband used his lover's car
to go in and out of the hotel,
you would never have chosen the parking lot to commit the crime,
not wanting to risk your face being seen.
The garage here only has space for one car.
Most likely, your husband rented a car behind your back.
Then, why not investigate it? That hotel parking lot!
And, should you not find a car like that,
I will not, despite it being you, attorney at law, Kisaki
-get away with it. -Say!
Mrs. Arisawa, you're really good at judo, right?
-What? -Wait, Conan!
Could you teach me the inner thigh throw?
That's when you use your opponent's attacking power
to your advantage and throw them, right?
You use their power to throw them to the ground
and gain points, right?
Using your opponent's power to your advantage...
Geez! What are you up to?
But back then,
didn't Mrs. Arisawa teach us how to adjust our seats?
You know how to adjust the seat, don't you?
There's a lever on the right side of the seat.
And if you pull it...
See, like this, the seat will move.
I see.
The car that you ended up driving us back in...
That was the car your husband drove to the hotel, was it not?
That's why you demonstrated how to adjust the seat, right?
Your husband is smaller and shorter than you.
It's natural for his seat to be in a different position.
Should you adjust it on a whim, it would look suspicious.
That's right.
That would also explain your adjusting of the rear-view mirror.
Which means it should come as no surprise
why you couldn't find the car in the parking lot.
Most likely, you trailed him closely
and avoided letting him take notice of you.
You probably got into the car
at the same time your husband got on and strangled him.
Afterwards, you most likely rushed back full speed to the restaurant.
And, due to this, you didn't have enough time
to remember the car position, right?
If you think about it, it's really a strange story.
Your reason for inviting us to that hotel
was because you could get a discount for parking.
Then, you should've shown the ticket when you paid the parking fee.
Despite not having gone anywhere else,
the ticket was suspiciously missing.
This is peculiar, isn't it?
When you said you had lost the ticket, what you really meant was
that you weren't sure where your husband put it, right?
If your husband were the type to put things away at random,
it could be behind the sun visor
or even in the ashtray.
With a proper search of the car,
I imagine we'll find it.
The hotel parking ticket with your husband's fingerprints on it.
That would be proof that
your husband was also at the hotel tonight.
Well, if we check the trunk,
we should find evidence that he was moved from there.
Maybe his hair
and possibly even the tie used as a weapon,
as well as his shoes.
And as for the shoes that we saw at the front entrance tonight,
those were likely prepared by you.
Now, before the police come across this evidence,
hurry and turn yourself in.
-The sock on his left foot... -What?
I just remembered.
That's where my husband usually puts his parking tickets.
So if they check there, they should find it.
Then, Yuko really did...
But why?
How could someone like you esort to murder over a mere affair?
If it were only an affair, a divorce would have sufficed,
but the other woman was Kajimoto's wife.
I just couldn't allow it.
Mr. Kajimoto...
That's the gold medallist you mentioned before, right?
But wouldn't that give you even mere reason to work it out?
It isn't like you weren't acquainted with his wife.
Yeah, my husband and I
visited Kajimoto's house often in the past.
Such a good wife, such a cute child...
They were the ideal family you see in pictures.
But my husband ruined it!
When I considered the suffering that was to come,
I couldn't live on that way.
Not even a divorce would've been enough!
Right. I never should've gotten close.
If only we never visited Mr. Kajimoto's house,
my husband and his wife wouldn't have met.
If only I had kept my admiration to myself,
none of this would have come to be.
This is merely an assumption.
Could it be that your husband just wanted more attention from you?
-What? -The tape trick for an alibi
would have only worked two, maybe three times.
After that, it doesn't work anymore.
And, when it comes to those matches from the restaurant...
He may as well have told you directly that he went there often.
Are you saying my husband
deliberately wanted me to think he was having an affair?
Yes. He was jealous
that you still thought of Mr. Kajimoto despite being married.
That can't be...
But he crossed the line and angered you, caught fire,
and plunged to his death.
Maybe the sun that burned Icarus's wings
was actually you.
-It was all thanks to Dad! -What?
You know, the alibi tapes!
A coincidence! Just a coincidence!
Definitely an accidental hit!
Was it really a coincidence?
What if it was a deliberate hint just for Mom?
No way.
He was probably too embarrassed to say anything!
Is that so?
If you want to find out, here's the phone!
Well, I should at least inform him that the case is over.
It's me.
About the case...
Sorry, I'm still playing mahjong.
Silly, still using those tapes.
Kogoro, hurry!
Darn it!
This is...
What?
As I thought, it was just a coincidence.
How do you know?
Mom! Wait up!
It looks like Pop's back already.
Oh, really? Who cares!
Lewd old man!
"Tonight's drinking party has been canceled!"
"Sorry about that, Kogorou. - Poirot Master"
I see.
Since he'd used this strategy so often before,
he saw throught it instantly.
And he was able to find his own alibi tapes so quickly
because he skipped on the party.
Then, he tried to play it one more time over the last call, but...
Kogoro, hurry!
Next, we'll have a friend of the groom, Kogoro Mouri,
give a congratulatory speech!
Thank you!
What a bad luck, recording that part
and accidentally playing it as well.
Yes, quite a pity!
Eri! Don't be fooled!
Do your best!
You too, Pops!
Because it's hard to believe that
we're staking out accompanied by girl high school students
and an elementary school child, right?
That goes for Hammer man, too.
It can't be...
He's waiting to ambush us?
No.
I don't think he had any intention to ambush anybody.
Next Conan, "The Truth of the Urban Legend (Part 1)"
Next Conan's Hint:
"Hammer man"
Next story is a love story.
Please stay happy.