CITAZIONE
File 703: The Truth Behind the Snowstorm
Translation thanks to Zenthisoror!
Gin and Vodka, having found out that there are bombs on one of the floors:
Vodka: "Seeing as there's noone like Akai coming out of the store, he's probably on that floor then..."
Even if the bomber is caught or the bomb explodes there'll be quite a crush at the exit - Vodka asks
whether it would be possible to get rid of this Akai-lookalike. Gin replies that whatever happens the
situation is fine. "The trace of a sniper would be erased by the panic, and this Akai won't be able
to move. He'll be easy prey for Kir, who's waiting up above, or Korn. He's keeping watch at the
underground exit."
Then Kir asks Gin: "Does Bourbon know about this?" "I heard that he's on the hunt for that
treacherous scientist Sherry."
Gin: "Like Vermouth, he's secretive. He's got all sorts of tricks up his sleeves. Noone really knows
where he is or what he's doing."
Vodka: "You know, now I think about it, Bourbon didn't like Akai either did he? Actually he probably
hated him more than you did, Gin."
Gin: "Well, even if I did know where Bourbon was, I wasn't going to tell him that Akai was dead, but he
found out. He didn't believe a bit of it. I'm not surprised. He was determined that he would be the one
who finally killed him."
"The question is whether Bourbon's seen this Akai-lookalike..." Gin smirks.
"I wouldn't want to see Bourbon's face if he does."
From a café in the department store Okiya looked down on Gin’s car, parked in front. He glanced up.
He could see Chianti in a hotel room opposite. A faint smile alighted on his face. A café assistant approached him.
Okiya said: “Don’t worry, I’ll be going now. I just wanted to see what’s happening outside. I don’t think I could
eat when there’s a bomb on this floor... although, I wouldn’t mind sharing some hot, bitter coffee with a certain
group of people who are sweating it out in this heat, silently waiting for their prey to make a move.”
Okiya returns to the area where all the action’s taking place. Kogoro is being pestered by the people to hurry up
and come to a conclusion about the case. “I’m sorry, I mean, I haven’t been able to grasp neither hide nor hair of
the sender or the bomber...” stammers Kogoro. Suddenly he gets a text from an address he’s never seen before.
“What? You’ve got to be kidding...” As Kogoro gazes at the text in complete astonishment, Conan fires a sleeping dart
at him. Kogoro slumps down beside the bag containing the bomb. Ran makes a fuss. Using the voice-changing bowtie,
Conan presents the audience with his deduction. (Here the spoiler provider cuts out most of the deduction...)
“And so, the case I’ve actually been asked to solve has been closed... Does this satisfy you, Miss Seta?”
S: “Oh... yes... So you did know that I was the client... that I changed my voice on the phone... Actually...
all I really wanted to do was to see that person’s face when he heard the meaning of the semaphore sign that
I learned from my father, from you, Mr Detective... but to think that he’d confess all on his own! Really, your
deduction truly was amazing! I mean, just with that little hint... To think that you realised it was about
29th December, and made the boy look it up..."
Conan (as Kogoro): "Ah... actually...."
Suddenly, having regained his consciousness sometime or other, Kogoro starts to speak:
“Semaphore was used out at sea or in mountains, where voices don’t really work so well. Since the meaning of the
semaphore was ‘Umetanomitayo’ (sorry, guys, this looked like gibberish), then it refers specifically to mountains.”
“Also, these haphazardly torn receipts are supposed to remind us of snowy mountain peaks, and the colour of the
underwear, red, symbolises murder.”
“A murder in a mountain... or a mountain-climbing accident... since you don’t usually record the exact times
of accidents, 12.29 on the receipt probably meant 29th December.”
Conan is stunned at Kogoro’s never before seen powers of deduction.
K: “-and that’s everything that’s written here! On this text some stranger sent me!”
At the bottom of the mobile screen, it says:
“And that’s my conclusion to this case. So now that you know, hurry up and let us go from this floor.”
Conan looks around: “Who on earth...”
On a side panel, it says: Could the sender be Bourbon?
prima o poi tonno se ne sarebbe accorto..
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