He looked up at Suzuki. “You knew he’d come at night. You used the legend to cover up a murder.”
He closed the book.
“What’s going on here?!”
Or rather, the man who had claimed to see one—and then vanished.
“No,” Conan said quietly. “It’s the living who do that.” Detective Conan Episode 377
Here’s a short story draft based on Detective Conan Episode 377: — with a focus on Conan’s internal deductions and the eerie atmosphere of the case. Title: Whispers Before the Fall
But Conan wasn’t listening.
“The Kappa doesn’t take lives. It takes secrets.”