File 969: Swimsuits at the dressing room (Heart)
Conan, Ran, Sonoko and Sera are buying somewhere.
Each of the girls chooses a swimsuit and they try it on to compare: when Sera shows her swimsuit it makes Conan remember someone.
The girls look like they'll still take a while so Conan, who feels out of the place, decides to go to a toy store to be alone.
If the girl with a shaggy head and a double tooth he met in the past was Sera then the young man with sunglasses was... Akai? Then who are the other young man and the woman who were there? He feels like he's met them somewhere but he's not sure of when or where.
: "You don't remember!?"
A voice that seems directed to Conan, lost in thoughts, rings out. He checks the surroundings and sees a middle-aged woman complaining to a young employee: apparently when she stepped into a changing room after another customer used it there were remains of dog hair which she breathed and that triggered her allergy and thus she fainted.
According to the woman, the customer before her is someone with bad habits and abuses of her rank as company president and turns her entourage into her slaves with money: the employees can't stop her because she claim to know their boss/es and threaten that they'll be fired. Conan decides he'd rather not get involved into this and leaves.
He regroups with the girls and tells them what he overhead and Sera says that if this was a mystery novel the woman would be the type that would be killed straight away: Sonoko says it'd be better to ignore it but she also suggests going to check out that "previous customer".
Conan tries to change topics and then Sera asks about what he thinks of her swimsuit: Ran seems to be thinking the same thing and asks Sera if she'd worn it before. Conan begins to recall that "time ago" Ran was also there...
A scream suddenly rings out from another floor, from where the clothes store is at.
The group gets to the changing rooms and finds the "previous customer" dead in the middle changing room (of 3). The left room has one of the entourages, the right room has the complaining middle-aged woman and the first discoverer is an employee.
The victim shows strangulation marks on the neck: the left hand looks like it's signalling something and has been put away in a bag and the right hand is gripping something: when they open it they find that marks that the victim tried to wipe lipstick with the thumb finger. What for!?
Side-note: "Both hands' fingers seem to hold a deep meaning...!? Next number: the investigation begins!"
