Chapter Summaries

At the banquet, Fujino explained that the trial-event badges had mostly been handed out to wealthy families’ children as a status symbol. When four privileged boys insulted the children, Fujino confronted them, and they fled after recognizing him.

• Sonoko arrived wearing a trial-event badge and explained that her family had funded the game, so she had received one.
• Fujino revealed that the organizers had used the supposed selection process to distribute badges to influential families’ children.
• Hideki Morohoshi, Shinya Takizawa, Akira Emori, and Seiichiro Kikukawa mocked the children and questioned whether they had been invited.
• Hideki insulted Mori Kogoro, but Fujino stopped Mori from losing his temper.
• Fujino recognized the four boys and taunted them about their past encounters, frightening them into retreating.

At a banquet, Fujino confronted a group of spoiled children who had been terrorizing the guests and insulting him, then slapped them when they provoked him. The children threatened to summon their grandfathers, but Fujino remained confident that he could handle their powerful families.

• Sonoko explained that Fujino had once publicly spanked the children after they spilled juice on him at a banquet.
• Hideki Morohoshi gathered the children and proposed making Fujino embarrass himself, while Shinya Takizawa argued that Fujino no longer had the backing of the Fujino Zaibatsu.
• The children kicked a soccer ball around the banquet hall, and Fujino caught it when it flew toward him.
• Fujino crushed the ball and confronted the children after overhearing them insult him and threaten his job.
• Fujino slapped the children, sending them crashing onto the carpet as the banquet hall fell silent.
• Akira Emori threatened to call his grandfather, and Fujino waited calmly, confident he had a plan for their families.

Fujino beat several rich young men who had insulted him, then met Kujo Shin, a powerful Fujiwara family secretary who stepped in to stop their retaliation. Kujo made the offenders apologize, leaving Fujino watching them bow in humiliation.

• Fujino dismissed the rich young men's threats after beating them and considered how to retaliate against their families.
• Kujo Shin arrived, slapped Akira Emori, and introduced himself to Fujino.
• Kujo Shin warned Fujino that the young men might retaliate, then promised to speak with their elders.
• Sonoko told Ran that Kujo Shin served as secretary to the head of the Fujiwara family, while she and the children praised Fujino.
• Kujo Shin returned with the rich young men and forced them to apologize to Fujino.

Fujino watched Kujo Shin deal with unruly children, then reflected on the Kujo family’s influence and hoped to avoid bringing trouble to them. At a banquet, Yusaku Kudo arrived and a cutting-edge virtual reality Game machine was unveiled, before Professor Agasa invited everyone to play a riddle game.

• Kujo Shin kicked the little pigheads away, exchanged business cards with Fujino, and offered to help him if trouble arose.
• Fujino considered the Kujo family’s connections and decided he should avoid visiting them in case disaster followed him.
• Kujo Shin called the family head, reported the dispute, and carefully wrapped Fujino’s business card in a handkerchief.
• The host announced Yusaku Kudo’s arrival and introduced the Game machine, which could simulate a player’s senses.
• Genta and Mitsuhiko lamented that they could only watch the Game machine, and Professor Agasa arrived with Conan.
• Professor Agasa proposed a riddle game and asked Fujino to guess along with the others.

Fujino joined Professor Agasa’s riddle game and gave the children Cocoon trial badges as a reward. Conan’s extra badge raised questions, and Fujino explained that a friend involved with the Cocoon project had given him the badges.

• Professor Agasa asked a riddle about an employee playing the Cocoon, and Conan explained the pun behind the answer.
• Fujino gave the children Cocoon trial badges, and Ai Haibara accepted one.
• Ayumi offered Conan a badge, prompting Ai Haibara to hint that he already had one.
• Conan admitted he had a badge, and Professor Agasa claimed Conan’s relative had given it to him.
• Fujino told Sonoko and the others that a friend involved in the Cocoon project had supplied the badges.

Fujino followed Thomas Schindler to Kashimura’s office and stopped him from killing Kashimura. He left dragging the unconscious Schindler away while insisting that his name was Thunder King.

• Ayumi gave Ran the extra badge, and Fujino followed Thomas Schindler after spotting him at the venue.
• Fujino listened as Kashimura confronted Schindler about Hiroki Sawada’s death and the DNA testing program.
• Schindler prepared to stab Kashimura, but Fujino burst into the office and incapacitated him with an Electric Shock Ring.
• Fujino called himself Thunder King Yang * Xin and asked whether Noah’s Ark had planned the confrontation, but received no answer.
• Fujino dragged Schindler away and told Kashimura to remember that Thunder King had kidnapped him.

Fujino captured Thomas Schindler and joined Yoko Okino and the others for the Cocoon game trial. The group entered the game pods, and the game began.

• Fujino knocked Thomas Schindler unconscious, captured him in a Poké Ball, and hid the ball in his Pocket Dimension.
• Fujino spoke with Yoko Okino, who told him that Kaoru and Makuma were preparing to marry and invited him to their wedding as best man; he declined the role but agreed to attend.
• Yoko joined Fujino on the way to the Cocoon game trial, and Mori Kogoro eagerly greeted her while Ran looked on resentfully.
• Fujino led the children, Ran, and Sonoko to the Cocoon pods, where they put on helmets and prepared to play.
• The Cocoon pods activated, and the game began in a flash of light.

Fujino and the other children were trapped in Noah’s Ark’s life-or-death virtual game, where they had to clear one of five scenarios to return to reality. After Noah explained the game’s purpose, Fujino challenged the children to consider their privileged backgrounds, and the girls who admired him blamed the children who had insulted him.

• Fujino found that his system remained bound to his consciousness while he was inside the virtual simulation, and Haibara warned that hackers might be able to kill the players through the machines.
• Noah’s Ark announced that everyone would die if all players were eliminated, but everyone would return to reality if even one person cleared a game.
• Noah explained that the game was meant to break Japan’s cycle of privilege and introduced five scenarios, including a Jack the Ripper mystery set in nineteenth-century London.
• Several girls recognized Fujino as the Great Detective and crowded around him, believing he could save them.
• Fujino questioned whether any of the children came from ordinary families without benefiting from their parents’ power, then recalled that some had called him their family’s dog.
• Fujino’s admirers scolded the children who had insulted him, blaming them for the group’s predicament.

Fujino rallied the children after Noah’s taunts and led the group into the old London world. He woke alone in a familiar study, where a maid called him Mr. Holmes, and realized he had become Sherlock Holmes.

• Fujino comforted the upset children and urged them to prove Noah’s Ark wrong by choosing to become good people.
• Fujino promised to get every child out alive, restoring their spirits and prompting several to declare what they wanted to become.
• Fujino chose old London as the group’s next world, and Sonoko, Ran, Conan, Ai Haibara, and the children agreed to go with him.
• Fujino passed through a blinding light and found himself alone in a luxurious study-lounge, with the others nowhere in sight.
• A maid brought Fujino tea and addressed him as Mr. Holmes, leading him to realize he had become Sherlock Holmes.

Conan and the others explored a grim, foggy London in the game, but Fujino had disappeared. After Conan failed to stop Jack the Ripper because his gadgets were disabled, the group decided to seek Sherlock Holmes on Baker Street, hoping he could help them find Fujino.

• Sonoko, Ran, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, Ai Haibara, and Conan realized Fujino was missing and decided they needed to find him.
• Conan rushed toward a woman's scream and saw Jack the Ripper attacking a woman, but his soccer shoes failed and he injured his foot.
• Jack the Ripper fled, leaving the woman dead, while the others arrived and learned she was his third victim.
• Conan concluded that the group was too vulnerable to face Jack the Ripper again and proposed searching for Fujino.
• Conan and Ai Haibara reasoned that Sherlock Holmes existed in the game, and the group set off for Baker Street while Haibara worried about Fujino.

Fujino found himself cast as Sherlock Holmes in a virtual nineteenth-century London and considered how his own sense of justice differed from Holmes’s. After his cyber client remained silent, he explored Holmes’s home and prepared for the others to arrive.

• Fujino recognized Yusaku Kudo and Professor Agasa in a photograph depicting Holmes and Watson, then saw the image change to his own face as he suspected Hiroki was watching.
• Fujino tried to summon HS, complained about the cyber lifeform’s silence, and reasoned that the other players would come to Baker St from the White Queen District.
• Fujino read Holmes’s notes on Jack the Ripper and learned that the latest victim, Hani Charalst, had been found beside St. Maria Church with two rings at the scene.
• Fujino searched Holmes’s home, dressed in Holmes’s clothes, and found a sword hidden in a cane, while noting that his pocket dimension and item bonuses were unavailable.

Ran, Sonoko, Ai Haibara, and Conan visited Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street, only to discover that Holmes was Fujino in disguise. Conan’s excitement about meeting his idol collapsed when Fujino pretended not to know them.

• Fujino heard that Ran and the others had arrived, put away his sword cane, and prepared to receive them as Sherlock Holmes.
• The maid led Ran, Sonoko, Ai Haibara, and Conan into Holmes’s sitting room while Conan eagerly anticipated meeting his idol.
• Fujino turned around dressed as Holmes, and Ran and Sonoko recognized him immediately.
• Fujino denied knowing them and questioned Sonoko’s conduct, while Ai Haibara realized he was acting out his role.
• Conan’s excitement vanished when he learned that his idol was Fujino.

Fujino pretended to have become Sherlock Holmes, confusing Noah's Ark and convincing the others that he was now an NPC. As the Baker Street squad learned that Jack the Ripper had struck again, Fujino began investigating and identified Moriarty as the likely mastermind, while Noah's Ark ordered him to catch Jack.

• Fujino acted as if he had lost his memory and insisted that he was Sherlock Holmes, leaving Sonoko and Ran bewildered.
• Ai Haibara recognized that Fujino was pretending and persuaded the others that Noah's Ark had turned him into an NPC.
• Ayumi and the other children told Fujino that Jack the Ripper had killed again in Whitechapel, his third murder.
• Fujino analyzed the case and suggested that Moriarty was behind Jack the Ripper.
• Noah's Ark, disguised as Hideki Morohoshi, ordered Fujino to catch Jack, and Fujino rebuked him for his rude manners.

Sherlock Fujino learned that Moriarty controlled a secret criminal organization connected to Jack the Ripper, while Conan and the others explained that they were trapped in a game. The group headed to a card club to meet Colonel Sebastian Moran and seek a way to reach Moriarty.

• Sherlock Fujino explained that Moriarty secretly organized much of London's crime and had close ties to Jack the Ripper.
• Sherlock Fujino questioned why the group was so focused on Jack the Ripper, and Conan told him they were in a game world and needed to catch the killer to survive.
• Sonoko, Ran, and the children praised Senior Fujino, prompting Sherlock Fujino to speculate that the mastermind had replaced him because he was too capable.
• Sherlock Fujino reasoned that Jack the Ripper might have escaped Moriarty's control and suggested approaching Moriarty through Colonel Sebastian Moran.
• Sherlock Fujino said Moran was at a central-city card club, and Conan urged the group to go there.
• Noah's Ark, disguised as Hideki Morohoshi, reflected that Sherlock Fujino had unexpectedly embraced his role.

Sherlock Fujino and Conan searched for Professor Moriarty in the London game, while Noah's Ark worried that Fujino had uncovered his plans. Fujino confronted Moriarty about Jack the Ripper, and Moriarty admitted he had once taken the killer in to cultivate his talent.

• Fujino observed that only thirty players remained in the game, and Ai Haibara suspected he was plotting to trick someone.
• Noah's Ark reflected that Fujino had disrupted his setup and wondered how much the detective had discovered about him.
• Conan reported that Moriarty had not yet arrived at the card club, and Fujino chose to wait outside rather than enter.
• Moriarty arrived by carriage and invited Fujino inside, but Fujino questioned him about Jack the Ripper.
• Moriarty said he had taken Jack in from the slums because he saw talent in him, and Fujino accused him of regretting that his prized chess piece had become a stumbling block.

Moriarty hinted at a plan involving Jack the Ripper, while Sherlock Fujino declared Conan his disciple and formed a junior detective squad. At the scene of Jack’s second murder, Fujino pointed Conan toward a possible connection between the victim and a church charity sale, leaving him to investigate as a test.

• Moriarty left a clue for the group to check the next morning’s Times, and Conan deduced that Moriarty planned to use Jack the Ripper against Sherlock Holmes.
• Sherlock Fujino named Conan his first disciple, and the other children joined to become the Baker Street Junior Detective League Special Operations Unit.
• The group waited for dawn and then visited the scene of Jack the Ripper’s second murder in Whitechapel.
• Fujino recalled that a parent-child charity sale was held at the church every second Saturday, the day of the victim Hani Charalst’s murder.
• Fujino suggested that the priest might have known Hani and challenged Conan to uncover the truth himself.

Conan and the children investigated Hani Charalst’s past, and Conan and Fujino deduced that Jack the Ripper was her son. After finding a newspaper message from Moriarty directing Jack toward Irene Adler’s performance, the group headed for the opera house.

• Conan and the children learned that Hani Charalst had come to London from Windsor, married, and had a child before facing ostracism at church.
• Conan deduced that Jack the Ripper was Charalst’s son and had killed her after encountering her at the parent-child charity bazaar.
• Fujino explained that Jack’s shame and resentment toward his mother had led him to target other women resembling her, and he offered Haibara a place as his disciple.
• Fujino, Conan, and the others saw a newspaper report that Moriarty had sent Jack a message about clearing out an opera house stage.
• Conan identified Irene Adler as the opera’s leading lady, and the group hurried toward the performance.

Conan and Sherlock Fujino entered the opera house to find Irene Adler, only to discover that she looked exactly like Conan’s mother, Yukiko Kudo. The revelation left Conan confused about his mentor’s relationship with his mother, while Yusaku Kudo watched awkwardly from outside the game.

• Conan bought flowers for Irene, and Sherlock Fujino accepted them before the group went to the opera house.
• The group entered Irene Adler’s dressing room, where Ran and Sonoko recognized her as Shinichi’s mother.
• Irene Yukiko said she was divorced, single, and had no children, while Conan silently realized she was his biological mother.
• Irene praised Conan for bringing flowers and ruffled his hair, leaving him flustered by the bizarre family connections.
• Outside the game, the staff and Professor Agasa stared at Yusaku Kudo, who regretted designing Irene to resemble Yukiko.

Conan warned Irene Yukiko that Moriarty had sent Jack the Ripper to kill her, while the group prepared to protect her during her opera performance. As they searched the theater for the assassin, Fujino listened to the aria and considered the bombs Noah had planted.

• Yusaku Kudo learned from Professor Agasa that Noah's Ark had taken control of the game and the game could no longer be modified.
• Conan told Irene Yukiko that Jack the Ripper planned to assassinate her, but Irene insisted she wanted to see Sherlock Holmes's grief if she died.
• Conan blamed his father for designing a game in which Irene looked and acted like his mother, while Noah noted that the real Yukiko shared Irene's personality.
• Irene Yukiko performed an aria at the theater as Conan and the others searched the audience for Jack the Ripper.
• Fujino listened to the opera and reasoned that Noah's control of the game could make defusing the bombs pointless.
• Conan grew tense as he searched for Jack the Ripper, knowing that everyone would die if they failed to catch him.

Sherlock Fujino saved Irene Yukiko from a falling spotlight and led the group out of the collapsing theater, where Jack the Ripper attacked again. After Fujino stopped Jack from stabbing Irene, the killer fled, and Fujino rejected Irene’s attempted kiss before chasing after the others with Conan.

• Sherlock Fujino deduced that Jack the Ripper planned to blow up the theater and kicked a falling spotlight away from Irene Yukiko.
• Sherlock Fujino led Irene Yukiko, Conan, and the others out through the backstage exit as the theater collapsed, but Takizawa, Emori, and Kikukawa were missing.
• Jack the Ripper appeared and attacked Irene Yukiko, but Sherlock Fujino blocked his dagger with his sword cane.
• Ran and the others chased after Jack the Ripper when he fled, while Irene Yukiko tried to kiss Sherlock Fujino.
• Sherlock Fujino stopped Irene Yukiko with his hand, then grabbed Conan and ran after the others.