Case Closed #40
In "Save the Date!", the always-diplomatic Sato and the quietly nervous Takagi take a secret trip to a water park, hoping to keep their budding romance out of the office gossip mill—until Conan and the Junior Detective League show up, and the entire precinct suddenly turns into a covert surveillance operation. When Takagi accidentally grabs the wrong backpack, a shocking discovery sends ripples through the case, and the stakes just got a whole lot higher. Written by Gosho Aoyama and Tetsuichiro Miyaki, with art by Gosho Aoyama and inks by both Aoyama and Andrea Rice, this issue features a cover by Gosho Aoyama and Andrea Rice.
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Detectives Sato and Takagi go out on a clandestine date to a water park, because they don't want the precinct to gossip about them. There they run into Conan and the Junior Detective League. Conan then notices that Inspector Santos has mobilized the entire precinct's detective squad to spy on Sato and Takagi in hopes of ruining the date. And then, Takagi accidentally picks up the wrong back pack and discovers it filled with cocaine.
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