Goodness how time flies when everythings all over the place oh well... Let's see how this goes down. I wonder if we'll get more hints towards the motive of the culprit in File 1002, "Auburn Inuyarai..." Last time we witnessed a tengu appearing. This chapter most likely escalates things further.
Cover... A tengu with a kimono and some hotel servants hat hanging around with Shinichi and Heiji.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xEIuMbgZrg
I think it's nearing midday now. Masumi is here going to eat with Shinichi at the cafeteria so maybe around 11 AM... Shinichi took the words out of my mouth from last chapter... The scene with the tengu appearing was exactly like a movie special effects, the group does a tengu movie = They have the means to create these special effects...
I really like this moment with Masumi guessing it's really an SFX but hmm.. I wonder what Heiji is doing right now. Well, since he's not part of the school group maybe he can't blend in to eat anything for free...
Wait are we actually going this route... They acknowledge Agatas cigarette moment but since the burning trick has to happen with fire (cigarette) there's no way it's a coincidence though... Agata has to be a part of this...
Keiko calling Shinichi... Hmm... Agata did not notice the tengu when entering the room, but did he notice anything out of the ordinary I wonder.
Wait so they DID look for a film projector that may have caused the image to appear in the room.. That's a bit complicating since the image has to disappear, maybe there's some kind of hint towards a remote switch in someones belongings.
Now almost everyone is having those lumps on their heads, I can't really imagine anything else than something causing injuries for others up during the film shootings since they're so similar... Masumi mentions Keiko's "accident" too... She believes someone pushed her from behind and she fell and hit her head which caused a lump on her head... Just one though. The cover page atleast doesn't imply that this tengu has any horns so I doubt this has anything to do with the culprit spreading symbolism. Wait, Shinichi says she was smiling when she fell? That's odd, because you'd normally be surprised, though not necessarily if your mind is somewhere else.
Masumi seems to have information on the blood ceiling incident from the time Shinichi was sleeping. The blood was examined and only the center part which fell on Shinichi was the victim's. The rest was paint which means the footprints must be too... The blood was kind of fresh to fall on Shinichi though... The murder weapon was not found, but I have a feeling the papers all of the floor still have some sort of role to play. The notes on them and even the edits, too.
While Shinichi eats some kind of full course, Masumi seems to be eating just bread. I kind of used to do that too now that I think about it. Ran appears kind of maybe angry looking...
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool holy weaners.... Look at the amount of food she has on her... nvm... French kiss in london? Oh yeah. Lol. What Heiji said back then... LMAO!
Oh chit, Masumi is onto Shinichi by the way he rolls his sleeves. This is actually a pretty cool way to get back at her by thinking about her habits (like her eating with forks and knives)...
Ok so now we see a poster with the small film group... So there must be something wrong with it, or there's some kind of hint there... Let's see...
Director: Mayama, Writer: Nishiki, MC: Ihaya, 2MC: Keiko, Composer: Agata
Crimson Shura Tengu - November 10th to premier - "To protect his beloved, he turned into a fighting demon!"
Certainly Agata being the composer makes him feel like the one creating the ciphers since they might represent notes, but why did he not leave one behind when the Tengu appeared...
Shinichi basically says that there was a samurai class member called Kuranosuke in Kyoto magister's office. It's a story about love. Kuranosuke was troubled that he didn't have any riches for the shogun so Kuranosuke's wife gave him a good luck charmish, golden aralia leaf...
So basically Kuranosuke's wife stole a seal that was hiding a tengu... Or wait it seems that the tengu sealed some mysterious demon... Basically Kuranosuke's wife has to sacrifice herself to seal the demon again and the Tengu is unable to do that now because it has withered away... So Kuranosuke jumped a similar suicide we know of to turn into a tengu... He disappears but like the tengu before, could speak to his wife in her mind and they met. Tengunosuke couldn't change his appearance in that form so it had to hide red with the red of the sunset.
- You know what this reminds me of? Yusaku's story in the flashback case at the ski slope. That was kind of tricky though and was about caring.
https://www.detektiv-conan.ch/aplayer/p ... 7&volume=1
... And also the fact that Shinichi knows the story of the movie because he read the story on the internet, so it's not a mythological story.
This very story about the tengu is the reason the five of them became popular in the first place so Shinichi questions their motives, that they're not likely suspects. Ran mentions about Keiko throwing the leaf into the air, whispering "wait for me, Dekuri-kun." Because Dekuri isn't part of the staff, Shinichi thinks this is suspicious... Ok so couple of things come to mind: Dekuri was more than likely part of the original group creating the script... Because he jumped down the stage like in their story, it might be that the role of the main actor was stolen from him. Even though they claim that Nishiki is the writer, he's the one doing edits to the original scripts, and alot of them too... Maybe he's changed the whole thing. I wonder if it's anything like the story Shinichi read. Or maybe the one on the net is the edited story.
Ran thinks about a kiss with Shinichi. Why not, right? Right now it actually feels like something that could happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSc3TNHGs4E
The teachers and students are acting normally, as they should, they seem to be doing all sorts of courses during this trip. They're not really mentioned but in earlier chapters you could see them changing to their sports suits and so on... Apparently they should return to their hotel by 6PM so this could be around 5 hours later perhaps...
Nakamura proves to be a man with great ideas, thinking of going to spy at the bath. I wonder if we'll even get that type of moment, I could see Masumi being the one here to stab Shinichi's eye or something. Probably not, because Heiji calls and something happened... Hmm...
It seems that the inspector was right and the hotel is crowded by media when they got wind of the situation.
Oh so the teachers are purposefully not informing the students, probably so they don't have to cancel the trip. A nice way to keep staying on vacation while working I bet.
Heiji caught a scoop, it seems we might finally get more info on the suicide jumper Dekuri. Lol. Now they all go there to some luxury carte restaurent Isogiyama ryotei to eat. Because Sonoko is a Suzuki they managed to go there. There's some kind of bamboo fence everywhere next to restaurants which Masumi notices and we see... MOMIJI WTF! Actually I had a feeling she'd appear but is she following them perhaps? She definitely has the same... Vocabulary as Heiji and Kazuha I see.
Well Ran confirms she certainly knows Momiji. Hmm. Masumi notices that Momiji has massive knockers, I wonder if she compares with Mary in her mind. It seems that Momiji has kind of a snarky personality calling Tokyo a countryside place... Momiji confirms she knows Okita, who Shinichi shakes at when he hears Ran mention his name, was going to the same restaurant to eat. Coincidence? Perhaps.
Apparently a tengu has made its appearance on Kiyamachi street. Some guy is screaming and it seems there are multiple tengus. I wonder if the culprit actually tries to pull something or if it's something else, like the zombie fanatics.
There are indeed tengu masked people running rampant everywhere... Heiji and the inspector, Shinichi and the squad should be enough for these though... I wonder if anyone will die during this incident or if it's nothing. The scene with the rampant tengu masked guys is kind of ridicilous.
Momiji is kind of cute, being behind Sonoko during this. A tengu guy tries to do something to the girls and Iori appears out of nowhere and kicks the crap out of him. Heiji appears making Momiji feel all sorts of things all of a sudden after crying and we learn that these guys were indeed hired by someone. 100 000 yen for running around, 1 million for 30 minutes... So if something happened in the restaurant, 30 minutes is alot of time to mess things up...
Sure enough, the MC actor Ihaya is found dead in VERY similar position to the first victim and the footprints have appeared too. It seems as if he was thrown towards the "fence" and he also has the same bumps on his face, huh...
Ok so the killer wanted 30 minutes but just like before, the detectives appear at the scene in 10. The oddest part is the victim being outside however. The motive is probably centered around the MC role now, considering how Dekuri's suicide was done in the same manner as the MC's of the crimson shura tengu story. Momiji appearing is definitely interesting but it doesn't confirm the movie events happened fully, it's just that atleast Ran and Conan met her during off-screen time. Heiji? Who knows. Anyway, there might actually be some witness statements about the killer this time... Most interesting, how far they're willing to go, hiring these people, ciphers, blood ceilings, bumps, symbolistic scenes and all... The case isn't following a script like you'd normally expect, but it's strongly related to it. Hmm.
Just got me so angry for some reason :x