Chapter Summaries

Hattori Shizuka revealed that she was Hattori Heiji’s mother and explained why she had disguised herself and hired Fujino and Mori Kogoro. She asked them to accompany Heiji and Kazuha on a trip to a small island, and the chapter ended with them agreeing to look after the two young detectives.

• Fujino exposed Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha waiting outside the Shibata residence, and Hattori Heiji revealed that Hattori Shizuka was his mother.
• Ran, Fujino, and the others joked about Hattori Heiji’s dark complexion until he explained that he had inherited it from his grandfather.
• Hattori Shizuka explained that she had disguised herself as Ikenami Shizuka to assess Fujino and Mori Kogoro because she worried about her reckless son.
• Hattori Heiji explained that he and Toyama Kazuha had been hired to search for something on a small island, and Hattori Shizuka asked Fujino and Mori Kogoro to accompany them.
• Hattori Shizuka entrusted Hattori Heiji to Fujino and Mori Kogoro, saying she would feel reassured if they joined the island trip.

Fujino and the others traveled to Fukui after Hattori Heiji invited them to investigate a client’s plea for help on America Island. When Heiji learned that Fujino’s client, Kadowaki Saori, had been kidnapped, the group headed toward the island with the mystery unresolved.

• Mori Kogoro agreed to look after Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, and Hattori Shizuka warned Heiji not to bully Fujino before returning to Osaka.
• Hattori Heiji brought the group aboard a ferry to America Island, where legends claimed mermaids lived and an old woman had gained immortality by eating mermaid flesh.
• Hattori Heiji revealed that Kadowaki Saori had sent him a plea saying a mermaid was going to kill her, and that her phone had produced strange sounds before becoming unreachable.
• Fujino explained that Kadowaki Saori had hired him too, then been kidnapped in broad daylight on the day she returned to Tokyo.
• Fujino said he had investigated alongside the police but found nothing, while Hattori Heiji and Conan grew suspicious about the kidnapping.

Fujino, Hattori Heiji, and the others traveled to Ningyo Island to investigate Kadowaki Saori’s kidnapping and her fear of a mermaid. After questioning the owner of Saori’s former workplace, they began looking into her behavior before she disappeared.

• Fujino told Hattori Heiji and Conan that witnesses could describe the kidnapper only as an extremely dark-skinned man, and that the police had received no demands.
• Hattori Heiji and Conan decided to investigate Kadowaki Saori’s warning about a mermaid, while Fujino reassured them that the missing woman might still be alive.
• After reaching Ningyo Island, the group checked into an inn, and Conan explained to Hattori Heiji why he had not exposed Hattori’s mother’s lies.
• The group visited the village office, then went to the souvenir shop where Kadowaki Saori had worked before she was kidnapped.
• Fujino showed the shop owner his Metropolitan Police Department Criminal Consultant ID, prompting her to confirm that Saori had worked there and disappeared four days earlier.
• Hattori Heiji asked the shop owner whether Saori had acted strangely or spoken about mermaids before she vanished.

Hattori Heiji, Conan, and Fujino investigated Kadowaki Saori’s kidnapping and learned that she had lost a supposedly magical Arrow of the Dugong before disappearing. At America Shrine, Shimabukuro Kimie described the kidnapping and revealed that her great-grandmother was 130, not over 200.

• The gift shop lady told Hattori Heiji that Saori had lost her Arrow of the Dugong a week before she was kidnapped and had feared the mermaid’s punishment.
• Kuroe Naoko claimed that losing an Arrow of the Dugong brought a mermaid’s punishment, while Fujino explained the island’s legend of the immortal Life Lord.
• The gift shop lady directed the detectives to America Shrine, where Shimabukuro Kimie asked whether there had been news of Saori.
• Shimabukuro Kimie told Hattori Heiji, Mori Kogoro, and Conan that a dark-skinned kidnapper had taken Saori in Tokyo and that she had not seen his face clearly.
• Shimabukuro Kimie clarified that her great-grandmother was 130 years old, not over 200.

While investigating Kadowaki Saori’s kidnapping, Fujino and the others learned that the island’s “Life Lord” was Shimabukuro Kimie in disguise and heard a claim that a mermaid corpse had been found years earlier. Kimie agreed to take them to Saori’s house after the festival, leaving the group to explore the festival grounds and await the drawing.

• Hattori Heiji asked about the Life Lord, and Shimabukuro Kimie said her great-grandmother was preparing the festival arrows at the shrine.
• Kimie explained that the Arrow of the Dugong was originally a charm against evil and denied that losing it caused mermaid retaliation.
• Ebihara Sumi insisted that a mermaid corpse had been found three years earlier, while Kimie and Fukuyama Rokuro stopped her from discussing the matter further.
• Fukuyama Rokuro suggested searching Kadowaki Saori’s house, and Kimie agreed to take the group there after the festival.
• Kimie gave Ran and Kazuha two returned festival tickets, and Fujino declined to buy one when Kimie said there were no free tickets left.
• Fujino discussed the possibility that supernatural beings existed, while the group explored the festival stalls and waited for the drawing.

Hattori Heiji questioned Fujino about whether witches existed before the group attended the Festival of the Dugong, where Kazuha won a ticket for the Arrow of the Dugong. As the group separated after the ceremony, a disguised attacker pursued a woman in the forest, while Shimabukuro Kimie waited to carry out her murder plan.

• Hattori Heiji asked Fujino whether Miss witch really existed, and Fujino said he had never seen one and doubted magic existed.
• At the Festival of the Dugong, Shimabukuro Kimie appeared disguised as Life Lord and announced the drawing results; Kazuha won a ticket for the Arrow of the Dugong, while Ran did not.
• Shimabukuro Kimie announced that the Arrow of the Dugong would be awarded at Mermaid Falls in an hour, and the group discussed the arrow and the meaning of immortality.
• Hattori Heiji, Conan, Fujino, and Mori Kogoro headed off to find a restroom while Kazuha and Ran remained behind.
• In the forest, Xiao Hei spotted a woman in a purple dress holding a wooden plaque, tested his Electric Baton, and charged at her.
• Shimabukuro Kimie waited by a tree for Ebihara Sumi and decided to proceed with her murder plan despite losing her previous way to conceal her own death.

Fujino knocked out Ebihara Sumi and left her hanging from Mermaid Waterfall, where the festival crowd discovered her alive. Conan investigated the scene and recognized the burns on her neck as marks from an Electric Baton, while Fujino concealed his role in her injuries.

• Fujino found Ebihara Sumi in the forest, struck her with an Electric Baton, and dragged her away as Shimabukuro Kimie watched.
• Shimabukuro Kimie abandoned her plan to kill Sumi and returned to host the festival, where Kadowaki Benzo claimed Sumi's prize tag.
• During the fireworks, the crowd spotted Sumi hanging from Mermaid Waterfall and saw a black-clad figure leap from above into the lake.
• Conan led Shimabukuro Kimie and the others to the waterfall, where Hattori Heiji and Fukuyama Rokuro pulled Sumi from the water.
• Fujino said Sumi had comminuted fractures in both legs, while Conan noticed Electric Baton burn marks on her neck and ruled out a mermaid as the attacker.

Fujino, Conan, and Hattori investigated the attack on Ebihara Sumi and heard the islanders’ stories about the mermaid’s grave. After the attacker escaped from the waterfall and the police could not reach the island, Hattori concluded the culprit was still among them.

• Fujino and Hattori examined Sumi’s burn marks and broken legs, while Kuroe claimed a mermaid’s ghost had attacked her.
• Shimabukuro Kimie and Fukuyama Rokuro explained the supposed mermaid corpse, the missing leg bones, and how Kimie’s great-grandmother moved the grave into the forest.
• Fujino urged the group to take Sumi to the hospital, and Fukuyama carried her away; Conan learned that Fukuyama and Sumi had been engaged by their parents.
• Conan and Hattori suspected the attack was connected to the Arrow of the Dugong and considered Kadowaki Benzo a possible culprit.
• At Mermaid Waterfall, Kazuha reported that searches had found no trace of the person who jumped into the lake, and Ran said the police could not reach the island because of rough waves.
• Hattori concluded the culprit remained on the island and promised to catch him, while Ran compared his serious demeanor to Shinichi’s and reflected on Fujino’s steadier presence.

Fujino and the others questioned Life Lord about the Arrow of the Dugong but gained little useful information, while Shimabukuro Kimie concealed her disguise and her plans. The next morning, Ebihara Sumi woke and described a faceless figure dressed entirely in black, leading the detectives to suspect that Xiao Hei had attacked both her and Kadowaki Saori.

• Fujino argued that the culprit could not be identified until Ebihara Sumi woke and shared what she had seen, and the group persuaded Shimabukuro Kimie to take them to Life Lord.
• Shimabukuro Kimie disguised herself as Life Lord and told Conan that the Arrow of the Dugong was chosen using horse-racing numbers, then warned Toyama Kazuha about letting the arrow leave her side.
• After the visitors left, Shimabukuro Kimie revealed that she had intended her warning about demons as a threat to her next target and planned to act herself if Xiao Hei did not.
• The next morning, Ebihara Sumi regained consciousness at the island clinic, and Fukuyama Rokuro said she had described a mermaid and a completely black figure whose face she could not see.
• Conan, Hattori Heiji, and Fujino concluded that the same faceless figure likely attacked both Ebihara Sumi and Kadowaki Saori, while Shimabukuro Kimie pretended to consider the possibility.

Fujino and the detectives investigated who had taken Ebihara Sumi’s Arrow of the Dugong, while his deduction that Kuroe Naoko might be next frightened her into hiding her past. The records pointed suspicion toward Kadowaki Benzo, and Fujino began a plan involving his shadow as Kuroe prayed for protection at the souvenir shop.

• Fujino suggested that Kuroe Naoko or Shimabukuro Kimie might be the next target, and Kuroe hurried away after remembering the mermaid they had burned three years earlier.
• Hattori Heiji and Conan reasoned that someone might have used Ebihara Sumi’s wooden tag to claim an Arrow of the Dugong, so the group went with Shimabukuro Kimie to check the shrine’s records.
• Fujino found records listing Kurosawa Jin, Uotsuka Saburo, and Shiho Miyano, while Hattori Heiji discovered that Kadowaki Benzo’s name was missing from the current year’s list.
• Fujino proposed that Kadowaki Benzo might have attacked Ebihara Sumi to steal and sell her arrow, and the group decided to visit the Kadowaki house.
• Fujino sent his shadow out ahead of him, beginning his plan, while Kuroe Naoko prayed over her Arrow of the Dugong at the souvenir shop.

Fujino abducted Kuroe Naoko from a souvenir shop, drawing a furious crowd of islanders, while the others questioned Kadowaki Benzo about the Dugong arrows. After Conan’s flowerpot attack failed to stop Fujino, Fujino brought Naoko to America Shrine and began provoking the crowd as he prepared to expose the island’s secret.

• Fujino knocked Kuroe Naoko unconscious with an Electric Baton and carried her out of the souvenir shop, prompting the shopkeeper and nearby islanders to chase him.
• At the Kadowaki residence, Hattori Heiji questioned Kadowaki Benzo about the number tag, and Benzo admitted he had sold Kadowaki Saori’s arrow to an elderly couple for one million yen.
• Fujino ran toward the group carrying Naoko as the islanders pursued him, and Conan kicked a flowerpot at him with his Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes.
• Fujino dodged Conan’s flowerpot by leaping onto a wall, then led the growing crowd of islanders to America Shrine.
• Fujino placed Naoko on the shrine roof, struck her leg with the Electric Baton to wake her, and faced the enraged crowd while Conan worried they might beat him to death.

Xiao Hei Fujino confronted Kuroe Naoko before the islanders and police, accusing her and two others of arson and murder three years earlier. The crowd and investigators were left questioning his accusation and demanding evidence.

• Shimura Yuichi arrived and identified himself as a Fukui Prefecture detective as villagers chased Xiao Hei Fujino.
• Fujino presented his Metropolitan Police Department work ID and told Shimura that Xiao Hei had abducted and attacked several women.
• Xiao Hei threatened Kuroe Naoko with knowledge of the warehouse fire, frightening her into silence.
• Xiao Hei dramatically introduced himself and announced that he intended to arrest Kadowaki Saori, Kuroe Naoko, and Ebihara Sumi for arson and murder.
• Shimura recalled the unidentified woman who had burned to death in the shrine warehouse, while Mori Kogoro demanded evidence and Shimabukuro Kimie stared in confusion.

Xiao Hei forced Kuroe Naoko to confess that she and others had burned the warehouse, killing the previous Life Lord, and Fujino identified Shimabukuro Kimie as the current Life Lord in disguise. Kimie confirmed her mother had died in the fire, while Xiao Hei insisted the village knew more than they had admitted.

• Xiao Hei shocked Kuroe Naoko until she confessed that she and others had set fire to the warehouse, accidentally killing the Mermaid Lady.
• The villagers questioned whether the previous Life Lord had also died in the fire, and Fujino concluded that the victim was a member of the Shimabukuro family.
• Fujino revealed that he had recognized Shimabukuro Kimie as the Life Lord because her disguise did not conceal her body proportions or bust size.
• Shimabukuro Kimie confirmed that her mother had played the Life Lord and had been burned to death, and said she had only recently learned who was responsible.
• Shimura Yuichi offered to arrest the three women if evidence was found, but Xiao Hei said the village knew more about the fire.

Shimabukuro Kimie learned that the islanders had long known the truth about her mother and had kept the Life Lord festival going for their own benefit. After stopping Shimura Yuichi from arresting him, Fujino noticed Conan’s tranquilizer attack and approached him in disguise.

• A square-jawed man and other islanders admitted they had known Kimie’s mother died in the fire and had kept the festival going without telling Kimie.
• Xiao Hei accused the islanders of exploiting Kimie and pointed out that her mother had been burned to death and buried without a gravestone.
• The islanders apologized, and Kimie broke down as she realized how long she had been kept in the dark.
• Shimura Yuichi tried to arrest Xiao Hei, but Fujino seized his handcuffs, threw him down, and cuffed him instead.
• Conan fired a tranquilizer needle at Xiao Hei, but Fujino dodged it and walked toward Conan.

Xiao Hei attacked Hattori Heiji, then abducted Conan while Fujino pursued him across the shrine roof. Conan failed to use his soccer shoes to escape and was spanked by Xiao Hei, leaving him convinced the kidnapper was deeply strange.

• Xiao Hei threw Hattori Heiji to the ground after Conan hid behind him, then escaped Toyama Kazuha by grabbing Conan and running.
• Fujino chased Xiao Hei onto the shrine roof, where Ran kicked Xiao Hei off the roof while rescuing Conan proved impossible.
• Ran twisted her ankle after jumping down from the roof, and Fujino left her to pursue Xiao Hei.
• Conan tried to activate his powered soccer shoes, but Xiao Hei noticed and took them away.
• Xiao Hei spanked Conan, who felt his butt clench as he suspected something was wrong with the kidnapper.

Fujino returned to the shrine after Xiao Hei spanked Conan, who hid his humiliation from Ran until Hattori Heiji and Fujino exposed what had happened. The group then turned their attention to Ran’s more serious injuries.

• Xiao Hei spanked Conan in the forest, leaving him sore and deeply humiliated.
• Fujino returned to the shrine courtyard and told Ran he had failed to catch Conan, but Conan soon limped back.
• Ran worried about Conan, who insisted he was fine while hiding his injured buttocks.
• Hattori Heiji guessed what had happened, and Fujino confirmed that Xiao Hei had spanked Conan.
• Ran asked whether Conan still hurt, then noted that her own injuries seemed more serious.

Fujino treated Ran’s sprained ankle at the island infirmary while Shimabukuro Kimie tried to distance herself from the people who had deceived her. After Ran left the ward, Fujino prepared to treat Conan’s bruises and called Hattori Heiji over to help.

• Fujino warned that Ran’s ankle could suffer lingering damage and agreed to treat it at the infirmary.
• Shimabukuro Kimie led the group to the infirmary, where Ebihara Sumi, Kuroe Naoko, and Ran stayed in separate wards.
• Hattori Heiji teased Conan about being spanked and asked what he had learned about the masked kidnapper.
• Conan recalled that the kidnapper had spotted his tranquilizer needle and removed his power-enhancing shoes, while Hattori suggested the shoes’ strength had been obvious.
• Fujino set Ran’s ankle, and Ran came out feeling better as Toyama Kazuha urged her not to strain it.
• Fujino pulled out vaseline for Conan and asked Hattori Heiji to help treat him.

Fujino left the island case behind, rescued Kadowaki Saori, and returned her and the evidence to the Metropolitan Police Department. After spotting news about the Nishitama City Skyscraper and realizing the timeline had reached Countdown to Heaven, he ran into Sato Miwako undercover on a stakeout.

• Hattori Heiji helped apply petroleum jelly to Conan's badly bruised backside while Fujino avoided doing it himself.
• Shimabukuro Kimie left the island to travel, and the police took the suspects and witnesses away for questioning.
• Fujino found Kadowaki Saori bound on a rooftop, captured her in a Poké Ball, and released her with her evidence at the Metropolitan Police Department.
• Fujino read about the Nishitama City Skyscraper opening and recognized that the Countdown to Heaven events were approaching.
• Sato Miwako, disguised as a fashionable girl while staking out an intermittent attacker, recognized Fujino and brought him to a cafe with Juzo Megure and Takagi.

Fujino explained how body language and physical traits could expose a disguise, then learned about a criminal targeting fashionable women. After examining the victims’ photos, he claimed he saw no connection, though he privately suspected their platform shoes were linked to the case.

• Fujino told Sato Miwako that her disguise was convincing but her physical characteristics and body language could still identify her.
• Fujino offered to disguise Takagi Wataru as a woman, embarrassing Takagi and amusing Sato Miwako.
• Fujino asked Juzo Megure about the criminal attacking fashionable women, and Megure had Takagi show him photos of the three victims.
• Fujino said the victims had no obvious common trait beyond being Shibuya Gals, while privately recalling that platform shoes might connect them to the suspect’s son’s death.

Fujino agreed to help the police investigate the attacks on women wearing platform shoes. At school, Ran learned that Kogoro would visit the Tokiwa Group’s twin-tower building and asked Fujino and Sonoko to come along; they also planned to shop for clothes the next day, when Fujino expected a case might interrupt them.

• Fujino inferred that the attacker may have targeted platform-shoe drivers after his child died in a traffic accident, while Takagi and Sato worried they had no useful leads.
• Megure asked Fujino to assist with the investigation, and Fujino agreed to help if the police called.
• Ran told Sonoko and Fujino that Kogoro had agreed to visit a twin-tower building in Nishitama City with a junior student named Tokiwa.
• Sonoko explained that the building belonged to the Tokiwa Group’s president, Tokiwa Mio, and Ran asked Sonoko and Fujino to accompany her to keep an eye on Kogoro.
• Sonoko proposed that the three of them shop for new clothes the next day, and Fujino agreed unless a police case came up.