A Chance Meeting

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| **Chapter 1134** | |
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| **Information** | |
| Title: | A Chance Meeting |
| Japanese title: | 邂逅遭遇   (Kaikō Sōgū) |
| Original release: | November 20th, 2024 |
| Shōnen Sunday issue: | #52/2024 |
| Volume: | (/wiki/Volume_107 "Volume 107") |
| Pages: | 16 |
| **Viz Media version** | |
| English title: | A Chance Meeting |
| English release: | November 20th, 2024 (Simulpub)[](#cite_note-1) |
**A Chance Meeting (邂逅遭遇 ,*Kaigō Sōkū*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese"))** is the 1134th 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") #52/2024 on November 20, 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 Continuity](#Continuity)
+ [4.1 Referencing](#Referencing)
* [5 Sherry's Soliloquy](#Sherry.27s_Soliloquy)
* [6 Animal Crossing Promotional Hints](#Animal_Crossing_Promotional_Hints)
* [7 See also](#See_also)
* [8 References](#References)
## Characters[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Characters")]
Main article: [Characters](/wiki/Characters "Characters")
### Main Storyline[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&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=A_Chance_Meeting&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Flashback Part")]
#### Introduced[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Introduced")]
- | [Man A](/wiki/Volume_107#Shinichi.2C_Ran_and_the_Haunted_House "Volume 107") | |
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|  | * Suspicious man in the building |
- | [Man B](/wiki/Volume_107#Shinichi.2C_Ran_and_the_Haunted_House "Volume 107") | |
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|  | * Suspicious man in the building |
- | [Man C](/wiki/Volume_107#Shinichi.2C_Ran_and_the_Haunted_House "Volume 107") | |
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|  | * Suspicious man in the building |
#### Featured[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&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")
## Settings[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&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)
## Plot[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Plot")]
At the Mouri Detective Agency, Ran is just returning from [school](/wiki/Teitan_High_School "Teitan High School") when Kogoro asks her about the word "Terochichimomo". He explains that the [owner](/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Poirot_Master "Café Poirot Master") of [Café Poirot](/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Poirot "Café Poirot") was recently away and brought him a pack of coffee as a souvenir, on which "Terochichimomo" (てロチチモモ) is written seemingly randomly in Hiragana and Katakana. Seeing the characters reminds Ran of something from the past. When Kogoro goes to get water for a cup of coffee, the faucet breaks off and water sprays uncontrollably out of the sink. Kogoro frantically tells Ran to call the water company, which gives Ran another small flashback. Conan then returns from school, with a soccer ball under his arm. This makes Ran realize what the situation reminds her of.
Seven years earlier: Shinichi and Ran are at a playground when Shinichi accidentally kicks his soccer ball at a faucet in the park, causing it to burst and water to shoot out uncontrollably. The young Shinichi and Ran don't know what to do when police academy student Kenji Hagiwara suddenly arrives and brings the situation under control. His friends Wataru Date, Hiromitsu Morofushi and Jinpei Matsuda are also at the park because the friends were playing catch there. Ran asks Shinichi if they should ask the supposed police officers for help, but Shinichi says that the matter should remain their secret. Matsuda is very friendly and generous and says that the police can solve any problem. Annoyed, Shinichi replies that the group are probably not real police officers, since police officers don't have enough free time to throw balls at the park in uniform. He suspects that they are either cosplayers, extras in a crime series or police cadets, but police officers are not responsible for private matters anyway, which is why he sees no reason to ask them for help. Matsuda is now extremely annoyed with Shinichi and replies that Shinichi will never find out if he doesn't ask for help. Rei Furuya comes along and the police cadets persuade Shinichi and Ran to confide in them.
Shinichi and Ran tell them that they came across a haunted mansion. Burning fish were swimming in the pond near the mansion, a black snake rose out of strange smoke and the man who lives in the mansion took a photo of Shinichi and Ran with an ogre face on it. The man told the children never to come back so as not to anger the ogre. The picture was only on the man's cell phone, so they can't show it to the group. The evidence is therefore too thin for the police cadets, but Shinichi has found a piece of paper in the garden of the villa that is strange. On the paper is written in a mixture of kanji and katakana "Yamamomo wa" (山モモワ), which presumably means [red bayberry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrica_rubra "wikipedia:Myrica rubra"); underneath it is written that one gram costs 6000 yen. Much too expensive, says Shinichi. The sight of the piece of paper gives the police cadets a realization and they ask Shinichi and Ran to lead them to the haunted house.
On the way, Matsuda and Hagiwara ask Shinichi what they were doing at the mansion in the first place. Shinichi explains that the curtains of the villa are always closed even in the height of summer, there are never any residents to be seen, but the air conditioning is constantly on and an older gentleman often comes by, bringing large boxes and taking other boxes with him. Ran asks Furuya and Morofushi whether they like bayberry very much because they suddenly became so committed when they saw the note. The two police cadets tell Ran that it wasn't about bayberry, but that the note contains a secret code.
When they arrive at the supposed haunted house, the dilapidated state of the property immediately catches their eye. The villa is run down, the entrance gate is rusty and unusable, and yet there is a brand new Ferrari in front of the door. The children show the police cadets where the incidents with the burning fish, the black snake and the ogre face took place. After the children have explained everything to them, the police cadets seem to have figured out what is going on. Furuya wants to call their instructor Hachizo Onizuka for backup, Hagiwara gets Onizuka's Mazda RX-7, Morofushi gets materials from the nearby shops to reenact the events, and Date wants to investigate the people in the villa with Matsuda. Behind the curtains of the villa, two men nervously watch the actions of the supposed police officers. However, their boss calms them down, as he is sure that he can deceive the people this time too. And if that doesn't work, he wants to use the guns in the villa to kill one of the children to give them a chance to escape.
## Continuity[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: Continuity")]
Main article: [Continuity](/wiki/Continuity "Continuity")
### Referencing[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&action=edit&section=9 "Edit section: Referencing")]
* **[The Bride of Halloween](/wiki/The_Bride_of_Halloween "The Bride of Halloween") (Movie: (/wiki/Movie_25 "Movie 25"))** : There is a direct reference from the scene of young Shinichi and Ran trying to repair a leaking spigot, and them being helped by the Police Academy Five. The manga version however modifies the scene and expands its content.
## Sherry's Soliloquy[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&action=edit&section=10 "Edit section: Sherry's Soliloquy")]
Sherry's soliloquy for File 1134.
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 1134:**
なぜ公園でキャッチボールしてたかは謎なのね・・・
We're still wondering why they were playing catch at the park huh...
*(November 22, 2024)*
## Animal Crossing Promotional Hints[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=A_Chance_Meeting&action=edit&section=11 "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.
**October 14, 2024:**
**Spade:** I finished the drawings ->
**Heart:** for the "Great Investigation with the Wild Police" ->
**Diamond:** By the way, it'll be published on (Shonen) [Sunday](/wiki/Shonen_Sunday "Shonen Sunday") #52 ->
**Clover:** which releases on 11/20! Look forward to it!
**November 11, 2024:**
**Spade:** I drew icons of the [Yaiba](/wiki/Yaiba "Yaiba") characters ->
**Heart:** Apart from [Yaiba](/wiki/Yaiba_Kurogane "Yaiba Kurogane"), there's [Sayaka](/wiki/Sayaka "Sayaka"), [Musashi](/wiki/Musashi "Musashi") ->
**Diamond:** [Kojiro](/wiki/Kojiro "Kojiro"), [Jubei](/wiki/Jubei "Jubei") and [Onimaru](/wiki/Onimaru "Onimaru") ->
**Clover:** The 5 of them! Look forward to seeing them!
**November 18, 2024:**
**Spade:** The next case is "Big Investigation with the [WPS](/wiki/WPS "WPS")"!
**Heart:** Mr. Matsuda and Shinichi are talking
**Diamond:** Hiro... Is he the "pretty" character of the group?
**Clover:** Hagi... As loveable as always!
**November 25, 2024:**
**Spade:** I now have an SS Latios in PokéSleep!
**Heart:** It's the passenger seat of Mr. Hagiwara's car!
**Diamond:** Hiro! You're blushing (,,´\_`,,)
**Clover:** Was that an useful lesson for you, boy?