Chapter Summaries

Shiraishi and the First Investigation Division arrested Toyokawa and Katsumura after Kanzaki exposed Tsukishima Police Station’s slush fund and Murakami’s murder. At the tournament finals, the scandal had triggered financial audits across the Metropolitan Police Department, while Shiraishi remained confident in Beika Police Station.

• Yuto alerted Shiraishi that Kanzaki had activated the modified surveillance glasses, and Shiraishi hurried to their location.
• Toyokawa and Katsumura discovered and destroyed the listening device, but Kanzaki revealed that Murakami’s evidence about Tsukishima Police Station’s private reserve fund was stored in the cloud.
• Gen, Fuji, and Muto arrived to support Kanzaki, and Katsumura drew his unregistered pistol before Shiraishi and Matsumoto brought First Investigation Division officers to the building.
• Muto disarmed and restrained Katsumura, while Matsumoto arrested Toyokawa after Toyokawa claimed Minister Tanaka had promised to halt the investigation.
• Shiraishi protected Tanaka from Toyokawa’s accusation, ordered Kanzaki to provide the evidence, and sent Gen, Fuji, and Muto back to prepare for the tournament final.
• At the March 14 finals, the murder investigation had prompted wider audits of police finances, leaving the other station chiefs worried while Shiraishi trusted Beika Police Station’s accounts.

Shiraishi secured Beika Police Station’s eighth-place finish in the Metropolitan Police Department tournament and faced down resentment from Area Chief Superintendent Ganto Kaiji at a chiefs’ meeting. When an audit uncovered unexplained payments made by Vice Chief Midorikawa, Midorikawa revealed they had supported a longtime informant, whom he had hoped to free from that dangerous life.

• Beika Police Station placed eighth in the tournament, earning Shiraishi 20,000 achievement points, while Genjiro won first place in shooting.
• At the Area Headquarters meeting, Shiraishi accepted praise and presented a prepared speech as Ganto Kaiji concealed his anger over the Tsukishima scandal.
• Inspector Minato Tetsuro showed Shiraishi suspicious station accounts, including monthly payments and a recent two-million-yen disbursement tied to Midorikawa.
• Shiraishi told Minato the money had funded confidential informants and promised to have Midorikawa complete the paperwork.
• When Shiraishi confronted him, Midorikawa admitted he had supported a former teenage informant and had given him a final payment after his release from prison.
• Midorikawa explained that the young man had become accustomed to informing and might have joined out of a sense of justice, leaving Shiraishi to consider his situation.

Shiraishi received a message from Sherry and rushed to a pharmaceutical research institute, where an explosion and fire broke out. He found the shrunken Sherry outside and brought her to his apartment, where she woke up as he threatened to undress her.

• Shiraishi told Midorikawa that his former informant was old enough to choose his own life, then called the man and recruited him as his own informant.
• A young man who had planned to bomb Midorikawa answered Shiraishi’s call and accepted the chance to become an informant.
• Shiraishi worried that Sherry had stopped contacting him after the Mantendo bombing, then received an unexplained address on the phone she had left him.
• Shiraishi reached the Kuroda Pharmaceutical Research Institute just as several rooms exploded and the building caught fire, then called the Criminal Affairs Division for help.
• Shiraishi found a dazed, shrunken Sherry near the institute and drove her to his apartment after she collapsed.
• Sherry woke up and guarded her clothes when Shiraishi said he would help undress her if she did not wake within three seconds.

Shiraishi brought Sherry into his apartment, arranged clothes and a cover for her through Shiraishi Orphanage, and questioned her about APTX4869 and the Crow Corps. Sherry explained her ties to the organization and said she wanted an antidote, while Shiraishi realized she was pretending to be older than she was.

• Shiraishi left his apartment to find clothes for the shivering Sherry and rejected handing her over to the government, the Suzuki family, or the Professor.
• Shiraishi called the orphanage director and Police Inspector Kazami, then collected girls' clothes from Shiraishi Orphanage and returned to his apartment.
• Shiraishi confronted Sherry about her identity and her plans to betray the Crow Corps, and Sherry confirmed that she had investigated Kudo Shinichi's missing childhood clothes.
• Sherry told Shiraishi that APTX4869 had been intended to cause physical regression, that her parents had developed the original drug, and that the Crow Corps had killed her sister Miyano Akemi.
• Sherry warned Shiraishi against reporting her and said she wanted to make an antidote, then claimed she would not mind becoming fifty years younger; Shiraishi suspected she was pretending to be old.

Shiraishi arranged for Sherry to become his legal younger sister so Ayako could help fund a laboratory, while learning about the dangerous genetic enhancements used by the Crow Corps. Sherry prepared a way to fake their kinship test, and the chapter ended with Shiraishi, Little Ai, and Ayako completing the blood sampling.

• Sherry revealed that combat-sequence members of the Crow Corps received genetic treatments that strengthened their muscles and, in rarer cases, increased their bone density; Shiraishi became interested but worried about the risks.
• Shiraishi and Sherry decided to present her as his younger sister so Ayako could support a laboratory, and Sherry said she could prepare blood cells that would test as related to him without laboratory equipment.
• Sherry gave Shiraishi her real name, Miyano Shiho, and chose the name Ai for herself; Shiraishi planned for them to claim the same father.
• Shiraishi told Ayako he had found a younger sister and arranged a kinship test through the Suzuki Group; after work, he picked up Little Ai and encountered Haneda Hideyoshi at their apartment building.
• At the testing institution, Shiraishi insisted on blood samples instead of oral swabs, and Sherry's implanted fake blood vessel let the sampling proceed while Ayako comforted them.

Shiraishi celebrated Little Ai’s supposed reunion with her brother while arranging her school enrollment and research opportunities. At the station, he learned Kunikida was being promoted and transferred, then discovered that both Kobe Daisuke and Kobe Miwako were joining his precinct; he ended the chapter learning Miwako had trained at the Osaka police academy.

• Ayako received genetic test results confirming Little Ai was Shiraishi’s sister, and the three celebrated with dinner.
• Shiraishi arranged Little Ai’s enrollment at Teitan Elementary School, while Ayako offered to fund a laboratory for her studies.
• Shiraishi learned Kunikida would transfer to Tsukishima Police Station as acting deputy chief and encouraged him to take the promotion.
• Maruo told Shiraishi that the Kobe Group and Kobe Industries wanted to support the station, and Shiraishi realized their children, Kobe Daisuke and Kobe Miwako, were both joining it.
• Shiraishi found no Tokyo police academy records for Kobe Miwako, and Iwata explained that she had attended the academy in Osaka before her file was transferred.

Shiraishi planned Beika Police Station’s staffing after several transfers were announced, assigning veterans to guide newcomers and the Kobe siblings. The chapter ended with Shiraishi deciding that Shima Kazumi would eventually guide Kobe Daisuke.

• Iwata told Shiraishi that Kobe Miwako and Kobe Daisuke were among the high-profile transfers to Beika Police Station, and identified Shima Kazumi as the sidelined detective with good marksmanship.
• Shiraishi reviewed personnel assignments with Iwata and decided to visit the Main Branch to request a Police Inspector for the Criminal Affairs Division.
• Shiraishi told Komure and Haitani that they would guide incoming detectives, assigning Amagi Yu to Komure and Kobe Miwako to Haitani.
• Shiraishi planned to pair Shima with Yamada while Gen attended training, then have Shima guide Kobe Daisuke.

Shiraishi arranged for Munakata Sakutaro to become Beika Police Station’s new Criminal Affairs Division chief, then learned that a misplaced floppy disk might contain information about APTX4869. The disk may have ended up with Professor Hirota Masami, giving Shiraishi a lead to investigate.

• Shiraishi met with Haku, who explained that Kunikida’s transfer to Tsukishima would help him confront an old case and introduced Munakata Sakutaro as Beika’s new Criminal Affairs Division chief.
• Shiraishi and Munakata agreed that Munakata could work nine-to-five and take Shiraishi’s younger sister to Teitan Elementary School with his daughter, Kotomi.
• Shiraishi checked Munakata’s personnel file with Iwata and found that his past police work was classified and that he had left the force seven years earlier for personal reasons.
• Little Ai told Shiraishi that she might have mailed a floppy disk containing drug research information years ago, after receiving several disks from her sister, Miyano Akemi.
• Little Ai said her sister’s university club advisor was Professor Hirota Masami, and Shiraishi recognized the name as a promising lead for finding the missing disk.

Shiraishi retrieved a floppy disk linked to Miyano Akemi from Professor Hirota, then triggered a Midnight Baron Virus while Little Ai tried to access its encrypted contents. Yuto recovered some of the disk’s data, and Shiraishi noticed it contained information about the Izu Mysterious Tour.

• Shiraishi questioned Professor Hirota about Miyano Akemi and learned she had once been his student and left behind a suspicious floppy disk.
• Shiraishi searched Hirota’s home for surveillance devices, took the floppy disk, and left after advising Hirota to report anything else he remembered.
• Little Ai opened the disk on a laptop, triggering the Midnight Baron Virus, and Shiraishi immediately cut the computer’s power.
• Shiraishi called Yuto, who agreed to attempt recovery and was instructed not to reconnect the laptop or inspect the files.
• Yuto recovered some of the disk’s data and remarked that the Izu Mysterious Tour did not seem special.

Shiraishi joined a hotel event in Izu to investigate the Midnight Baron Virus, while Conan, Mori, and Ran arrived as stand-ins for Professor Agasa and his friend. The gathering’s participants began probing one another, and the chapter ended when Shiraishi stopped Ehara from groping Ran.

• Yuto told Shiraishi that a hacker-organized Izu trip offered the Midnight Baron Virus source code as a prize, and Shiraishi took his invitation to investigate.
• Shiraishi picked up Ayako and Little Ai, then persuaded Ayako to accompany him to Izu the next morning.
• Mori, Ran, and Conan learned that they had to identify the event organizer to win the rest of their hotel expenses and a mystery prize.
• Konno Shirou timed the participants’ reactions to the name Midnight Baron as Ehara, Old Man Kinjo, and Ms. Kamijo joined the conversation.
• Maeda Satoshi arrived with his fiancée, and Conan noticed that one expected participant had not yet appeared.
• Ehara tried to grope Ran, but Shiraishi seized his wrist and warned him about the penalties for molestation.

Shiraishi joined a resort tour with Ayako and encountered several guests connected to the Midnight Baron Virus investigation. After recognizing the hotel statue from a remembered murder scene, he chased a masked figure who pushed Conan into the pool, but found only the figure’s clothes in the women’s restroom.

• Shiraishi arrived at the Princess Hotel, where Maeda Satoshi introduced his fiancée, Sayama Akiko, and the other guests revealed their connections to computers and game development.
• Shiraishi and Ayako changed into a suite and explored the hotel, where Shiraishi recognized the Knight Raising Sword statue from an iconic murder scene but could not recall the victim or culprit.
• Gin and Vodka watched Shiraishi from hiding and discussed their suspicion that someone was using the Midnight Baron Virus as bait.
• A masked figure dressed as the Midnight Baron pushed Conan from a second-floor balcony into the pool, and Shiraishi leaped up the hotel wall to pursue the figure.
• Conan followed Shiraishi to the women's restroom and found the door smashed open, but Shiraishi held only the figure’s black formal suit and the culprit was gone.

Shiraishi deflected suspicion about Midnight Baron’s escape while Conan and Vodka questioned his account, and Shiraishi deduced that Ehara and Kamijo were or had been married. After returning to the hotel with Ayako, Shiraishi revealed he had arranged to meet Sayama, leaving Ayako surprised.

• The hotel manager apologized to Shiraishi and waived the group’s room charges after Shiraishi smashed through the women’s restroom door.
• Conan suspected Shiraishi’s explanation of Midnight Baron’s escape, but Shiraishi blamed Kudo Yusaku’s novel for inspiring the dangerous prank.
• Vodka told Gin that Shiraishi had staged the escape, but Gin dismissed his theory and ordered him to change out of his beach T-shirt.
• At dinner, Shiraishi concluded that Ehara and Kamijo were or had been husband and wife, and he estimated that Ehara was only around thirty.
• Shiraishi and Ayako returned to the hotel after a windy walk, and Shiraishi said he was going to meet Sayama, surprising Ayako.

Sayama lured Ehara to her hotel room to confront him over her brother’s suicide, but Maeda and Shiraishi intervened when Ehara tried to assault her. Yokomizo arrived to arrest Ehara, and Sayama and Kamijo revealed the dispute over the stolen Super Factory software.

• Sayama invited Ehara to her room, where he bragged about his suspicions and drank heavily.
• Sayama attacked Ehara with a knife, accusing him of stealing her brother’s work and driving him to suicide, but Ehara overpowered her and tried to assault her.
• Maeda broke into the room after hearing trouble and knocked Ehara away, while Shiraishi restrained Maeda and questioned the conflicting accounts.
• Ehara accused Sayama of trying to kill him and later claimed she had seduced him, but Shiraishi pointed out that his story did not fit the timeline.
• Yokomizo arrived after Shiraishi reported the incident and moved to arrest Ehara, who claimed Sayama had attacked him over her brother’s suicide.
• Sayama identified Ehara’s alleged theft as the Super Factory software, and Kamijo confirmed that Ehara had sold her the software before she discovered it was plagiarized.

Sayama Akiko’s revenge plot was exposed, and Shiraishi helped her pursue legal punishment for Ehara instead of killing him. After Ehara photographed Vodka, Gin and Vodka attacked the group, but Shiraishi stopped their car and the Crow Corps escaped; the story left Public Security investigating the attack and tracking Porsche 356A repairs.

• Yokomizo prepared to take Ehara and Sayama into custody, while Sayama rejected Maeda and Maeda insisted he still wanted to be with her.
• Ehara showed Yokomizo a photo of Vodka and reported that the man had pushed a child; Conan and Shiraishi recognized Vodka, and Sayama withheld the truth about pushing Conan after Shiraishi had persuaded her to abandon her murder plan.
• Yokomizo found Gin and Vodka’s hotel room empty, and the group prepared to leave with the police.
• Gin and Vodka drove a black Porsche toward the group and shot Ehara, but Shiraishi pulled a metal greatsword from a statue and struck the car, damaging its windshield frame as they fled.
• Shiraishi contacted Kazami, and Public Security joined the overnight investigation and began tracking Porsche 356A repair records.

Shiraishi and Kazami concluded that Gin was likely hiding near the Crow Corps, while Ehara would be protected through his imprisonment. At Beika Police Station, new section chief Munakata Sakutaro took charge of a murder investigation and learned the victim was a detective from Tsukishima Police Station, raising fears of renewed scrutiny there.

• Kazami told Shiraishi that the Crow Corps could repair Gin’s Porsche 356A and hide him nearby, while Shiraishi and Kazami discussed keeping Ehara safe in Beika Prison.
• Shiraishi attended Kunikida’s farewell dinner, then returned to Beika Police Station as Munakata Sakutaro and Shima Kazumi arrived for duty.
• Akasaka, Yamada, and Shima investigated a stabbed man found in an alley, and Shima identified clues pointing to Beika Park surveillance footage.
• Munakata Sakutaro arrived at the crime scene as its first discoverer, introduced himself as the new section chief, and organized a small team to investigate the murder.
• The team reviewed footage showing a masked suspect following the victim, and fingerprint results identified the dead man as Takahashi Keisuke, a serving detective.
• Munakata sent Yamada to Tsukishima Police Station, while Akasaka warned that Takahashi’s death there could intensify public pressure amid the station’s recent corruption scandal.

Yamada and Shima investigated Takahashi's death and uncovered his connection to a five-year-old Tsukishima case involving a suspect who died by suicide, while Kunikida recognized similarities to his own past. Meanwhile, Haitani and Jiren sought out the dead suspect's family, and Kuroki and Kanzaki found that a company assistant recognized Takahashi before they met executive Sakamoto.

• Yamada told Kunikida that Takahashi had been found dead in Beika, and Ueshima explained that Takahashi had been shunned after a suspect he watched committed suicide five years earlier.
• Kunikida recalled his own case in Tsukishima, where a suspect had died by suicide after Kunikida failed to stop his prosecution.
• Yamada and Shima found Kinoshita Kohei's name and photograph in the old case file and connected him to the flyer Takahashi had carried, which suggested Takahashi had remained focused on the case.
• Haitani and Jiren learned that Kinoshita's widow, Kinoshita Erika, had worked at the restaurant that replaced her husband's former business and obtained her contact information.
• Kuroki and Kanzaki questioned Iwasaki about Sakamoto and noticed that Miss Shibata recognized Takahashi's photograph before leaving without comment.
• Sakamoto returned to the Iwasaki Art Transport office, and Kuroki and Kanzaki began questioning him.

Kuroki and Kanzaki questioned Sakamoto Mikiya about his past partnership with the murdered Detective Takahashi, while Haitani and Zizan questioned Kinoshita Erika about a five-year-old case linked to the victim. Shiraishi received authority from the National Police Agency to lead the investigation, and the police briefing connected the murder weapon to surveillance footage and began reviewing the old case.

• Kuroki learned that Sakamoto had been Takahashi's partner and had tried to recruit him after leaving the police five years earlier, then asked Sakamoto to account for his whereabouts last night.
• Haitani and Zizan questioned Kinoshita Erika about a flyer connected to Takahashi and her late husband, Kinoshita Masayoshi, but she denied seeing Takahashi since the old case and said she had been working last night.
• Chief of Secretariat Onoda told Shiraishi that Beika Police Station would handle the Tsukishima Police Station-related murder, and Shiraishi decided to attend the investigation meeting himself.
• Munakata presented restored surveillance footage showing the suspect carrying a knife whose features matched the weapon reconstructed from the victim's wounds.
• Yamada began explaining the case from five years earlier, in which Kinoshita Masayoshi discovered Washinomiya Ryutaro stabbed to death in his home.

The detectives reviewed the murder of Kinoshita Masayoshi five years earlier and uncovered links between the current victim, Takahashi Keisuke, and two people involved in that case. Munakata assigned follow-up investigations before Shiraishi asked the newly transferred Shima to stay behind.

• Yamada summarized how Kinoshita had been suspected of murder, then committed suicide while insisting he was innocent.
• Haitani reported that Kinoshita Erika’s diner shift left a possible gap in her alibi, though Shima noted that the killer’s movements made her an unlikely suspect.
• Kuroki revealed that Sakamoto Mikiya had been Takahashi Keisuke’s partner five years earlier and that an assistant saw Takahashi yelling at Sakamoto during their last meeting.
• Munakata assigned the detectives to investigate Kinoshita Erika, Sakamoto, and the restored surveillance footage, then left at the end of his shift.
• Shiraishi called Shima aside after the briefing and considered the detective’s skills and potential.

Kuroki and Kanzaki traced a dropped fluorescent BB pellet to its buyers, and Yuto’s online research led them to Ayao Toyo. At Toyo’s apartment, they found him dead and discovered the victim’s belongings and a suspected murder weapon, leaving Shiraishi to suspect the killer had conveniently assembled evidence to close the case.

• Kuroki and Kanzaki searched the path behind Beika Park and found a fluorescent red BB pellet that the killer had dropped.
• Kuroki took Kanzaki to a Kamurocho bar, where the bartender identified the pellet as a rare Red Lightning model and showed them its sales records.
• Kuroki reported that Yuto had identified Ayao Toyo, whose build, clothes, and online videos linked him to the surveillance footage, though Shima questioned how Toyo could have known the victim was a police officer.
• Shiraishi sent Kuroki, Kanzaki, Yamada, and Shima to Toyo’s address, where they found Toyo dead after a fall.
• Kuroki and Kanzaki recovered the disguise seen in the footage, Takahashi’s Police ID, phone, and wallet, while officers found a suspected murder weapon nearby.

Shiraishi kept the police investigating Ayao Toyo’s death as a murder and assigned teams to pursue new leads, including Toyo’s debt and Detective Takahashi’s inquiries into Sakamoto. Shima and Yamada persuaded Kinoshita Erika to reconsider the five-year-old case, and Erika broke down crying after Shima said he believed her husband was innocent.

• Shiraishi told Morohoshi Toshio that Beika Police Station would continue investigating Ayao Toyo’s death rather than close the case as a suicide.
• Munakata’s team identified wiped fingerprints on Takahashi’s knife, black fibers on Toyo’s wrists and under Takahashi’s fingernails, Takahashi’s inquiries into Sakamoto’s antiques, and Toyo’s high-interest debt.
• Kanzaki and Kuroki questioned Masumi Arakawa and learned that Toyo had repaid his debt in cash two days before his death; Arakawa ordered Sawashiro Jo to find the bag or envelope used for the payment.
• Yamada and Shima struggled to get information from Kinoshita Erika, then Shima told her he believed her husband Masayoshi had not been the killer.
• Erika asked whether Shima truly believed that, then crouched behind the counter and burst into tears.