DETECTIVE CONAN FILE 1080 SPEED TL | Rohupt#8153 | TLC by Merlot-kun#5978

DETECTIVE CONAN FILE 1079 SPEED TL | Rohupt#8153 | TLC by Merlot-kun#5978

Disclaimer: This is a quick TL for everyone to grasp the main idea of the chapter only. It's prone to mistranslation in details, so be careful if you want to make deductions using this TL.

Anyway, enjoy the chapter!

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Page 1 (Cover)

Title: The Forgotten Case (Lit. The eye-closed/asleep case)
Right floating:
	The junior Takagi is chasing a case left in the
	the senior Date's notebook. He didn't even notice Date's
	colleague Furuya next to him.
Left floating:
	A fist clasped tight...
	and it's meaning.

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Page 2

Editor: They followed Date Wataru's note and visited Poirot, but the case there is...!?

I-
Is that true, Azusa-neechan!?
That kid really came in front of this café last week?
Y-yeah...
Right in front of this seat...
The car stopped there...
And from the back seat's window...
Similar to what Conan-kun just said…
He clenched his bent thumb with the other 4 fingers...
Doing that over and over while facing us…
The entire time when the car was parked…
But I just couldn't think that it was a SOS sign...
He did that every week, so of course I remembered his face, but I just thought that it was his way of greeting…
E-every week...?
Has he been coming here every week?
Yeah...
I started to notice him half a year ago though... [TN: wudda heck, Conan's been here for like 9 months, how can he not remember at least the car parking here every Sunday for the last 6 months? Even more so when the detective agency upstair was stalked quite a few time.]

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Page 3

Have you seen that car, Amuro-san?
It's unusual that my shift today started from morning...
But on Sunday, it usually starts at 1, so...
But what's wrong with it?
Date-san invited you here one year ago, right?
Y-yes!
So the note in his notebook, "At the seat by the window at Poirot...
put on a red bow tie and wait", and the involved deal is...
surely over by now...
And maybe that boy wasn't related to the deal at all?
Detective Takagi, do you remember anything else?
A case related to Date-san which involved a boy, or something like that...
One year ago...
Deal...
Boy...
Foreign boy...
Don't worry...
Leave it to me!
Ah!!!

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Page 4

A kidnapping case!?
Of a foreign boy!?
Yes!
The one kidnapped was the second of the two sons of Pierre Cassel... [TN: Or Kassel]
The vice director of a France car maker, who came to the Japanese branch from their headquarters for a temporary transfer...
Alan Cassel-kun, 7 years old at that time...
One year ago, when he was playing with his friends in the park...
he was abducted by two men, as claimed in an eyewitness testimony...
The very next day, the culprit called from a public phone, and asked for 50 million yen of ransom money...
We identified the location of the phone, but...
They managed to escape by a hair's breadth...
Since contact with the culprits was suddenly lost, that case remains unsolved!
But Date-san was assigned to the Metropolitan Police Department...
after Matsuda-kun died...

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Page 5

And since he came, he had always been investigating violence related offenses such as homicides and robbery like us, right?
Kidnapping cases belong to special investigations, right?
Why was Date-san involved in that case?
Satou-san was involved in other cases at that time so maybe you don't remember, but...
Date-san's house was right next to that vice director Cassel's...
The headquarters called him because he was familiar with the land there!
My house was close too, so I also got called...
Ah, I remember that! Certainly, the suspect was related to the underground group that had a dispute over land interest with that car maker...
The Deisankai's... [TN: re-read chapter 502, page 12. Busujima Kiriko was one of the group's leaders.]
Yeah... I heard that the HQ also suspected this...
Date-san had an eye on an ex-leader of a crime gang who lived nearby...
His name was Kidou Natsufusa, and he was in a large debt due to gambling...
The day after the abductors' request for ransom, Date-san and I...
went on stakeout all night in front of his apartment!
And on the third night, that guy went out and entered a phone booth...
But right when we thought it was certainly him...

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Page 6

Kidou was hit by a drunkard with a beer bottle, and fell unconscious...
The drunk man later said that it was because he told Kidou that his call was too long, but was snapped at and got pushed away…
So his anger got the better of him and he grabbed a bottle lying nearby and attacked him...
After Kidou was carried away in an ambulance...
Date-san found something like a memo near the phone booth...
He told me to call a member of the forensics team, and I did so…
When Date-san handed the memo to the forensics...
He told me this...
"This Sunday, come with me...
I will make a man out of you"...
How is that Kidou doing now?
He was temporarily unconscious, but...
It got worse, and he died a week after that...
I see... so these digits written in Date-san's notebook are...
what he took note when waiting for the forensics to come...
If contact with the kidnappers was lost after that…
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Page 7

It surely means that this Kidou guy is the one who abducted Alan Cassel-kun, right!
Yes!
But why did he have to copy it?
Ayumi would rather take a photo of it…
So would I!
Well, he was quite old-fashioned...
The problem is that that deal is still ongoing, even though a year has passed...
Yes! What I can think of is...
That Kidou had a subordinate, and if the boss - Kidou - ordered them...
"On every Sunday, at midday, take the kidnapped kid to the front of the place of the deal...
if the partner doesn't show up in 5 minutes, then you’re free to leave"...
And if they never learnt about the death of Kidou...
It is possible that the subordinate has been loyally obeying that order for the entire year, right?
Yeah...
Maybe they were also ordered "do not contact me until the deal is done"...
W-wait a minute!!
Today is Sunday...
And it's 11:54 now...

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Page 8

O-only 5 minutes until then?
The kidnapper's partner in crime will bring the kid here and appear outside this window!?
Let's report it to the headquarters and ask for reinforcements!
No, it would be time out when we’ll still be explaining the situation!
I have a red bow tie, maybe we can use it to disguise as the partner of the deal!
But if they realise that it's a trap, they may run away with the car...
And the boy's life will be in danger...
It would be better if the kidnapper got out of the car...
In order to make it happen, we have to know how they plan to collect the ransom…
What did the kidnapper say about bringing the 50 million yen of ransom money here?
"Put it in a duralumin case"...
They said that in the first call from the public phone!
They also said that the case should be 50×30×15 cm...
They even specified the case's size?
But why?
Well...
This may be irrelevant, but...

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Page 9

There was one time there was a thin oil-marker mark on the edge of the sofa!
It marked a corner toward the wall on the corner seat surface!
We've already erased it, but...
After that, there was a paper bag with handles in the gap between that seat and the floor...
Paper bag??
I see...
Perhaps the kidnappers instructed the partner to bring the ransom money like this...
Put the duralumin case on the sofa, align it with the mark to allow a triangular space...
pretend to put the money into the bag taken from the gap...
but in reality, put it into that space...
Then check out and bring the paper bag out of the store... even if a detective on stakeout is there, they would follow the person...
Because if we look at that seat, we only see an empty case left...
Then, the culprit who came to the café will...
Come to the seat by the window...
Use their overcoat to cover that case...
pull the case out from under the coat...
and give it to the cafe's staff, saying "this was forgotten by the last guest", and it's done!

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Page 10

After that, they put the money into the bag they brought along...
And that is how the culprit intended to obtain the ransom money!
I see!
That must be correct!
Hey you...
Have I met you somewhere before?
Eh?
Isn't today the first time that we meet each other?
Anyway, we need to charge the Game Man 7...
We are doing it right now!
Because Azusa-san has a charger!
It will turn on in about ten minutes, right?
Azusa-neesan, do you have that paper bag now?
Yes! I'll bring it over!
Well, from now on...
Can you please do...
exactly as I say?

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Page 11

[TN: I love this kind of pages, as always. Better a double-spreaded textless one.]

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Page 12

Here they come!
A kid with his hand clasping and opening!
Amuro-san will put on a red necktie and disguise as the partner!
He looks like a foreigner...
so maybe they will think that he is vice director Cassel's messenger...
Oh! They sent the message via the game console!
Looks like the order is exactly like what we anticipated...
First, pull out the paper bag from under the sofa...
Pretend to put the money inside it...

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Page 13

We don't need a duralumin case!
The plants outside and the wall obstruct their vision, they can't see it from inside the car...
The guy who doesn't even check if the console's battery is out or not...
won't check if the case is there or not!
Then, proceed to checkout...
and bring the paper bag out of the cafe...
Detective Takagi will...
pretend to follow him out...
Hey...

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Page 14

Can I talk to you a minute?
Wah!
Damn! Security spray! [TN: lit. "Anti-crime spray", ironic.]
Conan-kun, I'll leave the kid to you!
There's only that kid in the car!!

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Page 15

Yes!
I understood!
Eh?
U-
U-
Uwaaah!
Don't be scared...
It's all right!
We chased the bad guy away!
You can rest assured!
This,
This kid...

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Page 16

He hasn’t been tied up...
But he didn't try to escape?
The car's door is not locked...
If it's just once, I understand that he could be too scared to run away, but...
Why did he have to continuously make that SOS sign...?
That’s good! The boy is okay!
Hey, you...
Is it possible that...
Other than you...
There is someone else who has also been kidnapped?
Eh?

The forgotten [TN: lit. "eye-closed/asleep"] case is still not over… Next time, the resolution!