Cutting the Gordian Knot

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| **Chapter 1135** | |
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| **Information** | |
| Title: | Cutting the Gordian Knot |
| Japanese title: | 快刀乱麻   (Kaitōranma) |
| Original release: | November 27th, 2024 |
| Shōnen Sunday issue: | #53/2024 |
| Volume: | (/wiki/Volume_107 "Volume 107") |
| Pages: | 16 |
| **Viz Media version** | |
| English title: | Cutting the Gordian Knot |
| English release: | November 27th, 2024 (Simulpub)[](#cite_note-1) |
**Cutting the Gordian Knot (快刀乱麻 ,*Kaitōranma*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese"))** is the 1135th chapter of the [manga](/wiki/Manga "Manga") of *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")*. It was written by [Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama"), drawn by him and his [assistants](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama%27s_assistants "Gosho Aoyama's assistants") and first released in [Shōnen Sunday](/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnen_Sunday "Shōnen Sunday") #53/2024 on November 27, 2024 and was reprinted as part of [Volume 107](/wiki/Volume_107 "Volume 107") on April 18, 2025. It was released in English by [Viz Manga](/wiki/Viz_Media "Viz Media") on the same day under the same name.
## Contents
* [1 Characters](#Characters)
+ [1.1 Main Storyline](#Main_Storyline)
+ [1.2 Flashback Part](#Flashback_Part)
- [1.2.1 Introduced](#Introduced)
- [1.2.2 Featured](#Featured)
* [2 Settings](#Settings)
* [3 Plot](#Plot)
* [4 Sherry's Soliloquy](#Sherry.27s_Soliloquy)
* [5 Animal Crossing Promotional Hints](#Animal_Crossing_Promotional_Hints)
* [6 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [7 See also](#See_also)
* [8 References](#References)
## Characters[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Characters")]
Main article: [Characters](/wiki/Characters "Characters")
### Main Storyline[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Main Storyline")]
Characters
[Conan Edogawa](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa")
[Kogoro Mouri](/wiki/Kogoro_Mouri "Kogoro Mouri")
[Ran Mouri](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri")
### Flashback Part[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Flashback Part")]
#### Introduced[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Introduced")]
- | [Hachizo Onizuka](/wiki/Hachizo_Onizuka "Hachizo Onizuka") | |
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|  | * 48 years old (7 years ago) * Metropolitan Police Academy rookie class instructor |
#### Featured[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Featured")]
Characters
[Shinichi Kudo](/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo "Shinichi Kudo")
[Ran Mouri](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri")
[Hiromitsu Morofushi](/wiki/Hiromitsu_Morofushi "Hiromitsu Morofushi")
[Kenji Hagiwara](/wiki/Kenji_Hagiwara "Kenji Hagiwara")
[Jinpei Matsuda](/wiki/Jinpei_Matsuda "Jinpei Matsuda")
[Wataru Date](/wiki/Wataru_Date "Wataru Date")
[Rei Furuya](/wiki/Rei_Furuya "Rei Furuya")
[Man A](/wiki/Volume_107#Shinichi.2C_Ran_and_the_Haunted_House "Volume 107")
[Man B](/wiki/Volume_107#Shinichi.2C_Ran_and_the_Haunted_House "Volume 107")
[Man C](/wiki/Volume_107#Shinichi.2C_Ran_and_the_Haunted_House "Volume 107")
## Settings[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Settings")]
Main article: [Setting](/wiki/Setting "Setting")
* [Japan](/wiki/Setting/Countries "Setting/Countries")
+ [Tokyo Metropolis](/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolis "Tokyo Metropolis")
- [Beika Ward](/wiki/Beika "Beika")
* [Beika Town](/wiki/Beika_(Town) "Beika (Town)")
+ [Mouri Detective Agency](/wiki/Mouri_Detective_Agency "Mouri Detective Agency")
+ Unknown Park (flashback)
+ Unknown Building (flashback)
- [Fuchū City](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuch%C5%AB,_Tokyo "wikipedia:Fuchū, Tokyo")
* [Metropolitan Police Academy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Academy_(Tokyo) "wikipedia:Metropolitan Police Academy (Tokyo)") (flashback)
## Plot[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Plot")]
Jinpei Matsuda cracks open the haunted mansion's mailbox and finds an electricity bill of over 30,000 yen, which he and Wataru Date see as confirmation of their suspicions. Meanwhile, Rei Furuya has his instructor Hachizo Onizuka on the phone, who is not at all happy about the incident during class time. He wants the group to return to the police academy, but Furuya replies that the residents of the haunted saw them in uniform and might flee. Meanwhile, at the police academy, Kenji Hagiwara "borrows" Onizuka's Mazda RX-7, supposedly at the instructor's request, as he assures the school's mechanic.
Matsuda and Date keep ringing the villa's doorbell when Furuya comes to them and tells them that he was able to persuade Onizuka. Now the three men in the villa open the door; the police students ask them about the strange events that Shinichi and Ran saw. The men pretend they know nothing and think that the children have just imagined things. Hiromitsu Morofushi and Hagiwara arrive; Morofushi has gathered materials to recreate the events. The burning fish were created by placing small amounts of the insect repellent [camphor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/camphor "wikipedia:camphor") on a strip of [aluminum foil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_foil "wikipedia:Aluminium foil") and lighting the camphor, which causes them to generate propulsion when burned by reducing the surface tension in the water and appear to swim through the pond like fish. The black snake was created by putting sugar, baking soda and ethanol in an iron bowl with sand and lighting the ingredients, which creates smoke and a snake-like structure.
The men ask where the proof is that they pulled this on the children, and also that there is no explanation for the photo with the ogre face, but Furuya says that all you need is a dark place. He proposes to test it inside the mansion, unless of course the men have something to hide. The men allow them entry, but Hagiwara holds Shinichi and Ran back. Going in is too dangerous for children, so they should wait with him in the car. But Shinichi wants to get to the bottom of the matter as a detective and follows the others into the house. There, Furuya explains that the image is an optical trick that can be created with the camera lens in dark surroundings. In the house, Shinichi then discovers an ogre mask that looks exactly like the ogre face in the photo that the man had shown them earlier.
The police cadets then confront the men with their high electricity bill. The men show them a room with lots of computers, and argue that they are day traders who trade in the United States and Japan, which is why the PCs run day and night. The children had disturbed them at work, which is why they wanted to scare them with the tricks so that they could have peace and quiet again. Date looks at the date display on his watch and tells the men that they must have been very busy yesterday, July 4th, because the American stock market went crazy because of a statement by the American president before a committee of the [Federal Reserve](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve "wikipedia:Federal Reserve"). The men quickly agree that they were busy all night. The police cadets grin with satisfaction: July 4th is the American [Independence Day](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States) "wikipedia:Independence Day (United States)"), and the American stock market is closed on this holiday. The police cadets want the men to come clean about their electricity consumption.
## Sherry's Soliloquy[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: Sherry's Soliloquy")]
Sherry's soliloquy for File 1135.
Main article: [Sherry's soliloquy](/wiki/Sherry%27s_soliloquy "Sherry's soliloquy")
**Sherry's Soliloquy** (シェリーのひとりごと ,*Sherī no Hitorigoto*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")) is a collection of comments [Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama") has [Ai Haibara](/wiki/Ai_Haibara "Ai Haibara") say on the official *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")* website, [Conan News Agency](/wiki/index.php?title=Conan_News_Agency&action=edit&redlink=1 "Conan News Agency (page does not exist)") ([こなん通信社](http://www.conatsu.com/) *Konan Tsūshin-sha*) in the course of every new chapter's publication.
**Soliloquy of File 1135:**
超法規的措置って・・・
Extralegal measures huh...
*(November 29, 2024)*
## Animal Crossing Promotional Hints[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=9 "Edit section: Animal Crossing Promotional Hints")]
Main article: [Animal Crossing promotional hints](/wiki/Animal_Crossing_promotional_hints "Animal Crossing promotional hints")
With every new chapter, players can receive these hints written by [Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama") in *[Animal Crossing: New Leaf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_New_Leaf "wikipedia:Animal Crossing: New Leaf")* and *[Animal Crossing: New Horizons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons "wikipedia:Animal Crossing: New Horizons")* by interacting with four characters named [Spade](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa") (スペード), [Heart](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri") (ハート), [Diamond](/wiki/Ai_Haibara "Ai Haibara") (ダイヤ), and [Clover](/wiki/Kaito_Kuroba "Kaito Kuroba") (クローバ), who appear in Gosho's Dream Town.
**December 2, 2024:**
**Spade:** Playing PKMN Sleep helped me know more about PKMN!
**Heart:** Wow （◎▢◎）
**Diamond:** Hiro and Zero are really best friends!
**Clover:** That harsh instructor heavily scolded us again!
## Trivia[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Cutting_the_Gordian_Knot&action=edit&section=10 "Edit section: Trivia")]
Shonen Sunday #53/2024.
* The cover of [Shonen Sunday](/wiki/Shonen_Sunday "Shonen Sunday") #53/2024 shows young Ran, Rei Furuya, Hachizo Onizuka, Hiromitsu Morofushi and part of young Shinichi surrounded with crime scene tape, as the first of two covers to promote the current case, along with with the cover of Shonen Sunday #1/2025.