Suzuki’s face went pale. “Kid, you don’t know what you’re—”
By dawn, the confession came. Suzuki had been embezzling funds from the tourism board. Tono had discovered the truth and planned to expose him. The Kappa legend was just a convenient ghost story to hide a very human greed. 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. Suzuki’s face went pale
“The Kappa doesn’t take lives. It takes secrets.” Tono had discovered the truth and planned to expose him
Later that night, unable to sleep, Conan walked the short path to the pond. The moon was hidden. The water was black glass. And standing at the edge was a figure—tall, hunched, holding something that glinted.
The mist over the pond began to lift.
He closed the book.