Chapter Summaries

Shiraishi exposed Iwami Kinnsuke as the murderer of Superintendent General Kimura and rescued him from a suicide attempt, revealing that Iwami had colluded with the Black Organization. As Iwami was taken away, Chief Inspector Horinouchi Juro arrived at the villa and found that Shiraishi had already solved the case.

• Shiraishi explained that Kimura had survived the first distant shot, entered the safe room, and was killed there by Iwami, who had concealed the gun and replaced Kimura’s book.
• Shiraishi identified Kimura’s original death message in the book’s author name, Kinnosuke, and accused Iwami of being the Aomori Prefectural Police mole working with the Black Organization.
• Iwami drew his pistol when Uesugi moved to arrest him, then tried to shoot himself, but Shiraishi knocked him aside and saved his life.
• Iwami was taken away by ambulance, and Shiraishi wondered about Vermouth’s unusual durability after recalling their earlier fight.
• Chief Inspector Horinouchi Juro arrived at the villa hoping to take charge of the troubled Aomori Prefectural Police, but learned that Shiraishi had already caught the killer.

After wrapping up the Aomori case, Shiraishi returned to Tokyo to prepare Beika Police Station’s competitors for the Metropolitan Police Department Grand Martial Arts Tournament. The next morning, he and Ayako visited Atsumori Kimi after her successful surgeries, while Shiraishi also used the visit to warn the remnants of the Atsumori faction not to act behind his back.

• Shiraishi told Horinouchi that another assassin might still be undiscovered and left Aomori with Ayako, while Horinouchi planned to question Iwami Kinnsuke.
• Shiraishi inspected Beika Police Station’s tournament preparations, encouraged the six competitors, and warned them to reach the finals.
• Ayako reminded Shiraishi that Atsumori Kimi was being discharged, and he agreed to visit her with Ayako the next day.
• Shiraishi and Ayako arrived at Toito Hospital to celebrate Kimi’s recovery, and Shiraishi used the visit to caution the remnants of the Atsumori faction against plotting behind his back.

Atsumori Kimi left the hospital, but Councilor Ohara’s men came to threaten her family under the pretense of mediation. Shiraishi drove them off, then went to investigate Detective Mori’s repeated false police reports, where he found Mori being mocked by a doctor as Ran and Conan watched.

• Atsumori Kimi was discharged from Toito Hospital while Shirai explained her post-surgery precautions.
• Two men sent by Councilor Ohara threatened Kimi’s family, but Shiraishi arrived and assaulted one of them before warning Ohara to stay away.
• Shiraishi advised Kimi and her daughter to remain in Tokyo, but Kimi refused to change the Atsumori surname because it had belonged to Yuu.
• A nurse told Shirai that Detective Mori had begun talking about murder again, and Shirai said Mori had made four false police reports the previous night.
• Shiraishi went with Shirai to Mori’s room and found Ran and Conan there while another doctor mocked Mori.

Shiraishi investigated Mori Kogoro’s repeated reports of seeing murders in a hospital room across the way and began to suspect that someone was controlling when Mori woke up. After warning Conan about the Black Organization’s power and the danger of acting recklessly, Shiraishi left to inspect the room, and Conan insisted on joining him.

• Doctor Eto mocked Mori’s reports as hallucinations until Shirai intervened, and Shiraishi arrived to visit Mori.
• Mori explained that he had seen apparent murders across the way for four nights, while Ran and Shirai said the room was an examination room and patrol officers had found no one there.
• Shiraishi questioned Mori about the timing and what he had seen, then suspected that someone might be arranging for Mori to witness the shadowy figures by controlling his medication and wake-up schedule.
• Conan took Shiraishi aside and asked whether the Aomori Superintendent General’s assassination was connected to the Black Organization.
• Shiraishi warned Conan that the organization could assassinate even a regional police chief and that Conan’s recklessness could endanger the people around him.
• Shiraishi headed to inspect the room across the way, and Conan caught up and said he was coming too.

Shiraishi and Conan investigated Mori’s reports of a murder in the hospital’s Brain MRI Room and discovered that the scene had been a reflection projected from a neighboring building. They found a training dummy in the storage room that appeared to have been used to create the image, leaving the investigation poised to uncover who staged it.

• Shiraishi questioned Doctor Daimon and learned that Doctors Shirai and Eto disliked each other, then spoke with Waku and Goto about the MRI room and its hallway cameras.
• Shiraishi and Conan reviewed four nights of surveillance footage, which showed no one entering or leaving the MRI room when Mori reported seeing a murder.
• Shiraishi inspected the MRI room and found no hiding place or mechanism, then realized the image Mori saw could have been reflected in the room’s window.
• Conan deduced that the apparent murder scene was a reflection from another brightly lit room, and Shiraishi identified the likely source by tracing the path of the light.
• Shiraishi and Conan searched a storage room in a nearby building and found a training dummy that appeared to have been used to create the projected image.

Shiraishi and Conan investigated Mori’s supposed hallucinations and discovered the killer had staged shadow plays in a storage room, but the killer struck early and murdered Doctor Eto in the MRI room. With surveillance showing no visible culprit and the first discoverer seemingly unable to have committed the murder, Shiraishi concluded the killer had likely planned to frame Mori.

• Shiraishi and Conan inspected the storage room and found no signs that a murder had taken place there, concluding that the earlier apparitions had likely been staged as part of a murder plan.
• Shiraishi and Conan arranged to watch for the culprit, but Shiraishi was called back when Megure reported that Doctor Eto had been murdered in the MRI room across from Mori’s ward.
• Megure told Shiraishi that a fire had destroyed the storage room, while surveillance showed Eto entering the MRI room and its door later moving twice without anyone visible.
• Shiraishi confirmed that no one had been inside the MRI room when he and Conan inspected it, and Takagi reported that Doctor Hara’s patient had witnessed Hara rush out without approaching the body.
• Shiraishi reasoned that the killer had acted ahead of schedule after realizing his trick had been uncovered and had originally intended to frame Mori by making him appear to be the only person who entered the murder scene.

Shiraishi traced the murder weapon to a missing titanium-aluminum cranial drill stored at Toito Hospital. The investigation narrowed to people with access to the equipment, but the chapter ended before the culprit was identified.

• Shiraishi reasoned that the murder weapon had to be made of a nonferromagnetic material because the body had been killed beside an operating MRI machine.
• Shiraishi consulted Doctor Daimon and the other surgeons, and Daimon suggested the weapon might be a cranial drill.
• Kaji mentioned a new titanium-aluminum alloy medical product, giving Shiraishi a possible explanation for the weapon's MRI compatibility.
• Shiraishi returned to Megure's conference room and learned from Chairman Karasuma that the new equipment had arrived but had not yet been put into use.
• Shiraishi found a missing drill bit in the stored batch and confirmed that it matched the murder weapon's smooth shape and material.
• Karasuma said that Waku, Goto, and many others could enter the equipment storage room.

After Doctor Goto was attacked, Shiraishi realized the killer had exploited a blind spot between the hallway cameras. He left Megure with the discovery that the killer could move unseen by surveillance, though not by people in the corridor.

• Megure received a call that Goto had been attacked near the murder scene, and Shiraishi found blood on the stairwell between the seventeenth and sixteenth floors.
• Megure ordered Takagi to review surveillance footage while Shiraishi left with Ayako to eat, after she warned him not to take over routine work outside his jurisdiction.
• At a Chinese restaurant, Shiraishi noticed the camera failed to capture Ayako's table and realized the killer might have been invisible only to surveillance cameras.
• Daimon told Shiraishi that Goto had survived but suffered damage to Wernicke's area that left her unable to communicate reliably or recall the attack.
• Ayako demonstrated how someone could move along the corridor walls and open the crime-scene door without appearing on the footage, revealing a narrow blind spot between two cameras.

Shiraishi helped the investigation identify Doctor Shirai as the killer of Doctor Eto, and Shirai confessed to the murder but denied attacking Doctor Goto. Although the case appeared solved, Shiraishi remained suspicious and planned to follow its developments.

• Megure discovered that someone had shifted the seventeenth-floor surveillance camera, creating a blind spot that explained the killer’s apparent disappearance.
• Shiraishi and Daimon visited Goto, whose language and memory abilities were impaired, and Shiraishi urged Wakui to help her exercise her language skills.
• Wakui said Goto had likely intended to tell police rumors about Doctors Eto and Shirai, but refused to discuss Eto’s leverage against Shirai.
• Shiraishi confirmed that Wakui had a solid alibi and told Megure to check footage from after Goto’s attack for someone who left the stairwell without being seen entering.
• Sato reported that the murder weapon had been found in Mori’s locker and that Shirai had admitted hiding it; Shirai confessed to killing Eto but denied attacking Goto.
• Megure’s team arrested Shirai, while Shiraishi remained uneasy about his denial and decided to keep watching the case.

On the first day of the Metropolitan Police Department's Grand Martial Arts Tournament, Shiraishi attended the officials' meeting and watched Beika Police Station officers compete. He learned that his officers had performed well and that detectives at the station had already caught a murder suspect, leaving him free to continue at the tournament.

• Shiraishi held a morning meeting, then drove with Gen and other officers to the Metropolitan Police Department for the tournament.
• At the officials' meeting, Shiraishi proposed that station chiefs compete and that the department hold annual fitness tests.
• Shiraishi watched Fuji defeat a male officer in the arrest techniques event and accepted praise for her performance.
• Shiraishi learned that Gen had scored exceptionally well in the shooting event despite his unorthodox form.
• After receiving two calls from the Criminal Affairs Division about a falling-death case, Shiraishi told Superintendent General Haku that the detectives had already caught the culprit.

Shiraishi learned that capable officer Amagi Yu had been assigned to the lost-and-found office and agreed to seek his transfer to Beika Police Station. He also agreed to help Kobe Daisuke join the station, then learned Kobe Miwako’s placement was being arranged through Gaoyue.

• Shiraishi discussed personnel transfers with regional chiefs, then defended Detective Komure when they teased him about his assignment at Beika Police Station.
• Shiraishi ate so much at Chief Sawato’s buffet that the restaurant sent Sawato off with gifts intended to discourage him from returning.
• Kunikida told Shiraishi that Detective Komure had discovered Assistant Inspector Amagi Yu’s investigative talent, and Shiraishi agreed to try to recruit him.
• Ayako explained that Chairman Kobe wanted his son, Kobe Daisuke, to become a detective, and Shiraishi agreed to speak with the Personnel Division.
• Gaoyue called Shiraishi about the Kobe family’s request for Kobe Miwako, and Shiraishi agreed to help with her placement as well.

Shiraishi told Yukiko and Kudo Yusaku that Shinichi had been shrunk by the Black Organization, and the couple began a scheme to teach their son caution. After Gina informed him that Old Man Nakazawa had been murdered, Shiraishi went to investigate and found a Third Unit car outside Nakazawa's home.

• Yukiko and Kudo Yusaku met Shiraishi at the police station, and he explained Shinichi's predicament and the danger posed by the Black Organization.
• Yukiko and Kudo Yusaku arranged to disguise themselves as criminals and frighten Conan, using a photo of Shiraishi apparently attacking Professor Agasa.
• Gina told Shiraishi that Old Man Nakazawa had been poisoned at a Rakugo theater and that Yanagi-san had been threatened by members of a Violent Organization.
• Shiraishi took Gina to the orphanage, reassured Grandma Shiraishi, and decided to look into Nakazawa's murder.
• Shiraishi went to Nakazawa's home and spotted a familiar unmarked police car from the Third Unit nearby.

Shiraishi joined Takagi and Sato’s investigation into Nakazawa’s poisoning and discovered that someone had searched the victim’s home. He pressured Nichikyo-kai for information, learned that the Matsugane-gumi had visited Nakazawa, then headed with the officers toward a newly reported body near Kamurocho Shrine.

• Shiraishi inspected Nakazawa’s home and concluded that someone had rummaged through it using a key, despite leaving valuables behind.
• Shiraishi took Takagi and Sato to Nichikyo-kai’s Benten-ya headquarters and demanded information about who had visited Nakazawa.
• Soma Kazuki told Shiraishi that someone from the Matsugane-gumi had visited Nakazawa, though Nichikyo-kai did not know why he was killed.
• Shiraishi told Takagi to take them to the Matsugane-gumi’s office, but Megure radioed Sato and sent them to a newly discovered body at Kamurocho Shrine.
• Shiraishi recognized that Sugita Taiyaki was near the shrine, prompting Takagi and Sato to fear that the body might be Sugita’s.

Shiraishi investigated a second murder near Sugita Taiyaki and discovered that the victim was a Matsugane-gumi officer whose superior was under Second Investigation Division surveillance. He suspected the killing was connected to Old Man Nakazawa’s death and contacted Division Chief Chaki for more information.

• Sato and Takagi rushed with Shiraishi to Kamurocho Shrine after learning that a body had been found nearby, and they discovered Sugita had found it.
• Takagi and Sato questioned Sugita, who nervously denied knowing the victim.
• Shiraishi asked Tomi to examine the victim’s back, revealing extensive tattoos that identified him as a gangster.
• Organized Crime Countermeasures Department detectives identified the victim as Katayama Yoshitsugu, a Matsugane-gumi wakagashira who answered to Suenaga Ryoichi.
• The detectives told Shiraishi that Second Investigation Division had been surveilling Suenaga, prompting Shiraishi to call Division Chief Chaki.

Shiraishi investigated the murders by contacting Chaki and confronting the Matsugane-gumi, uncovering the group’s ties to Siberia and Katayama’s death. Matsugane admitted his men had killed Katayama, denied killing Nakazawa, and cut off his own finger as an offering before Shiraishi left to pursue Tamura.

• Shiraishi learned from Chaki that Second Investigation was probing Siberia, a fraudulent company tied to Suenaga Ryoichi and the Matsugane-gumi.
• Shiraishi took Megure and Takagi to the Matsugane-gumi office, where Chairman Matsugane Kō welcomed them and Hamura Kyohei stood by.
• Matsugane admitted his men had beaten Katayama to death after Katayama stole Siberia’s list and funds, but denied that the group had killed Nakazawa.
• Matsugane said Suenaga had given Tamura potassium cyanide and then cut off his own little finger as a concession to Shiraishi.
• Shiraishi left after warning Matsugane to restrain his subordinates, while Hamura complained that the group might have overwhelmed him.
• Megure said they would learn why Nakazawa had been involved once they caught Tamura.

Shiraishi helped solve Nakazawa’s murder and recover Siberia’s missing evidence, then learned four Beika officers had reached the tournament finals. As he arrived in Harumi for a seaside break, a Tsukishima detective was reported dead at the shooting range, and Shiraishi raced to the scene amid a possible dispute involving Muto.

• Megure arrested Tamura during his rakugo performance after Tamura realized the police had uncovered evidence against him.
• Megure explained that Tamura had poisoned Nakazawa’s taiyaki to prevent him from exposing Tamura’s ties to Siberia, while Sugita had found and hidden the stolen money and hard drive.
• Shiraishi inferred that Nakazawa had left the missing items at a nearby bathhouse, where detectives recovered them along with evidence against Siberia.
• Shiraishi attended Nakazawa’s funeral and learned that Gen, Muto, Kanzaki, and Fuji had advanced to the tournament finals, so he appointed Vice Chief Murasaki as team leader.
• Shiraishi and Ayako arrived in Harumi for a vacation, but Vice Chief Murasaki called to report that a Tsukishima competitor had died at the shooting range and Muto was involved in a misunderstanding.
• Shiraishi raced after Inspector Oshima’s patrol convoy, and Oshima recognized him when Shiraishi pulled alongside and asked how he could help.

Shiraishi arrived at the Harumi shooting-range murder scene, where Tsukishima Police Station detective Murakami had been found shot and hidden in a police car. As investigators learned Murakami had planned to report Muto to an inspector, Shiraishi challenged the suspicion against Muto, and the inquiry continued with the killer still unidentified.

• Shiraishi confronted Chief Toyokawa over whether he had formally accused a Beika officer of murder, then heard Murasaki explain how the body was discovered in a Tsukishima police SUV.
• Matsumoto took charge of the investigation and learned from forensics that Murakami was likely killed in his room before his body was moved into the vehicle.
• Matsumoto revealed Murakami had contacted the Personnel Division to arrange a meeting with an inspector, and Katsumura said Murakami intended to report Muto for deliberately injuring him during the tournament.
• Gen noted that Muto had apologized to Murakami after the call, while Shiraishi questioned why the alleged grievance would be a motive for murder and pressed Toyokawa about what he knew.
• Takagi reported that a witness had seen Muto jogging at seven, and Gen explained that this made it unlikely Muto could have killed Murakami and moved the body before the police car left around seven twenty.

Shiraishi and his officers spotted inconsistencies in Toyokawa and Katsumura’s account of Murakami’s planned report, and Shiraishi suspected the claim about Muto was a cover for a more serious matter. He sent his subordinates to investigate while keeping the competition in view, intending to use the case to challenge his isolation within the 11th Regional Headquarters.

• Matsumoto reviewed the timeline and dismissed Katsumura’s objection, while officers confirmed that a Tsukishima Police Station patrol car had been near the body before Murasaki and Toyokawa arrived.
• Muto questioned whether Murakami had really planned to report him, and Shiraishi allowed his officers to ask Matsumoto for more information without disrupting the competition.
• Fuji pointed out that Toyokawa and Katsumura had reacted strangely when Murakami’s planned meeting with the inspector was mentioned, leading Gen and Kanzaki to suspect they had known about it beforehand.
• Shiraishi suspected Murakami had intended to report something more serious than Muto’s assault and that the claim about Muto had helped create an alibi and sideline Beika officers.
• Shiraishi told his officers to focus on the finals, then revealed to Murasaki that he intended to use the case against Toyokawa to improve his position within the 11th Regional Headquarters.

At the Grand Martial Arts Tournament, Shiraishi managed his station’s contestants and activated Genjiro’s unusually steady shooting state, while Fujisato advanced in arrest techniques. After a beach walk with Ayako, Kanzaki continued investigating the Tsukishima Police Station murder and followed a lead involving children who had seen the victim’s police car.

• Fujisato defeated her nervous opponent in the arrest techniques match, and Shiraishi told Minister Tanaka she was from Beika Police Station.
• Tanaka hinted that Shiraishi should keep his subordinates in check and suggested something was wrong with Tsukishima Police Station.
• Shiraishi intimidated Genjiro before the shooting event, triggering a familiar state that improved Genjiro’s aim as three other contestants were eliminated for hitting misleading targets.
• Shiraishi and Ayako walked along the beach, where he caught her and carried her after she ran herself tired.
• Kanzaki questioned children who had seen the victim’s police car near the body, but they fled while claiming a monster had grabbed a woman at the beach.

Kanzaki investigated Detective Murakami’s murder and used a recovered recording and Murakami’s notes to confront Tsukishima Police Station chief Toyokawa and Detective Katsumura. The confrontation began before the tournament’s final day, with Kanzaki accusing Katsumura of luring Murakami into a trap and shooting him.

• Shiraishi encouraged Kanzaki to investigate everyday scandals at Tsukishima Police Station, while Gen and Muto advanced in the tournament and Fuji was eliminated.
• Muto was disrupted by Katsumura and lost their match, while Kanzaki found Murakami’s cloud notes and learned that his phone had been formatted.
• Kanzaki was attacked by two helmeted men, but he and Muto avoided involving a Tsukishima patrol car, and Kanzaki revealed that he had Murakami’s personal diary.
• Kanzaki accepted a threatening soba delivery from Tsukishima Police Station, then used the threat to make its officers believe Murakami’s notes contained important evidence.
• At an abandoned building, Kanzaki accused Toyokawa and Katsumura of arranging Murakami’s murder and explained how Murakami had hidden in the car’s trunk to record evidence.