Detective Conan Episode 377 «PRO ◆»

Kenji Tono’s glasses.

“What’s going on here?!”

As the sun rose over Tōno City, Conan sat on the ryokan’s porch, the notebook in his hands. He read the final line again: “The Kappa doesn’t take lives. It takes secrets.” Detective Conan Episode 377

The case had begun simply enough: a request from the Tōno City Tourism Association. Strange occurrences near the Kappa Pond. Missing offerings. A severed livestock leg left by the water’s edge. Kogoro, ever the skeptic, had laughed it off as a prank. But Conan had seen the look in the client’s eyes—fear, not superstition.

His car was found abandoned on the forest road. Inside: a voice recorder, its battery dead, and a notebook with one legible entry: Kenji Tono’s glasses

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

Suzuki’s face went pale. “Kid, you don’t know what you’re—” It takes secrets

The victim was a folklorist named Kenji Tono. He had been researching local yōkai legends, particularly the water imp known as the Kappa. Three nights ago, he had told his wife he was going to the pond to “record the truth.” He never came back.

Conan slipped away from the window and retrieved the notebook from his backpack (a copy he’d convinced the local police to let him borrow). The handwriting had grown shakier with each line. The final page was smeared—water damage, the forensics said. But Conan noticed something else.

Conan ignored him. He knelt by the water and saw it: a second rope, frayed, leading deeper into the pond. Attached to it was a stone lantern—and tangled in the chain, a man’s glasses.

The rain over Tōno City didn’t fall so much as seep—into coats, into cobblestones, into the very legends that clung to the valleys like morning mist. Conan Edogawa stood at the window of the small ryokan, watching droplets race down the glass. Behind him, Ran and Kogoro argued about dinner.