Chapters 1137-1138

Gosho seems lately to lean on cases involving the supernatural. The temple case that I forgot the name where there flying fire skulls and now spirits that put there close relatives on fire.

The first chapter had the detective boys going on behalf of Lori to visit the nagano police headquarters and having a tour before going to their hotel for skiing. During this visit they met a group of streamers who post videos of them visiting hunted places, whom mitsuhiko is a fan of. This time, the group is visiting the hotel in which their friend died in a fire 3 months ago. They’re making a video as his tribute where they’re trying to summon his spirit by a ritual in which they put a candle and put around the candle a personal object they shared with the dead person (in this case badges they wore when they were kids as they were also playing detectives and called their group the compass since their names contained kanjis of the 4 directions). After setting them they cover it with a glass cover and call for the deceased. The legend says that when it works, a flame is gonna appear on the person who is calling. After they set the camera, they start the ritual but just as they were going to give up since it didn’t seem to work, they notice that the girl performing the ritual had suddenly her arm on fire. The chapter ends with Conan speechless as he doesn’t understand where did the fire come from.

In chapter 1138, since I don’t speak japanese and I only saw the raws I’m talking about the main things that happened. Conan tells the girl that had her arm on fire to remove her jacket and he covers it with snow to put t’out the fire. Then he inspects the jacket and seem to not find anything suspicious. Conan calls the nagano police and explains the situation as they are as surprised of the circumstances as he is. Everyone agrees to go back to the hotel. Agasa and the DB are in the beetle, 3 members of the group are in a van and their friend is alone in his car and he is the one driving ahead of them. At one moment the van approaches him and his friends start talking to him as agasa is following behind, suddenly they notice that the hand of the guy driving the car which he extending of the window was suddenly set on fire he panicked and crashes the car into a tree. As his friends and conan park aside and rushes to the car they find him unconscious/dead (not sure) with blood flowing from his head and his arm still on fire. Conan extinguishes the fire with his jacket as the victims friends call the police and Conan is still puzzled by what happened.

This seem like a case of at least 4 chapters since Conan doesn’t seem anywhere near solving these 2 unexplainable events. We also learn that the Nagano trio were also playing detectives in their youth finding missing dogs and cats but yui was mostly mostly just following morufushi and kansuki she explains it by the fact that she was 6 years younger than them. This seems like an interesting case right after the the naniwa theatre group serial killings case. My guess would be the culprit is the girl whose arm was set on fire the first time and her target was the second victim all along. She must have used some kind of trick on him while for her arm she had multiple opportunities to set it on fire. By setting her arm on fire she could pretend to be a victim and also set in motion the events leading to the car crash.