Chapter Summaries

Amaki and Jiren exposed Kanda and his accomplice for staging Hinata’s kidnapping, while Shiraishi managed the fallout with Kawaguchi and reprimanded the detectives. Shiraishi planned a short Golden Week vacation, then agreed to join Ayako, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan in Izu.

• Amaki and Jiren revealed evidence linking Kanda and his former classmate to Hinata’s kidnapping, and Kanda was arrested after Fumiko confirmed the harm it had caused.
• Shiraishi told Kawaguchi that Kanda and his accomplice had been arrested, secured Kawaguchi’s thanks, and arranged for the case report to say Kawaguchi had initiated the report.
• Shiraishi berated Jiren and Amaki for pursuing the investigation into Kawaguchi’s family, but imposed no punishment.
• Shiraishi planned to attend the Beika City Hall opening, take several days off, and return to work on May 3.
• Ayako told Shiraishi she was vacationing in Izu with Sonoko and friends, and Shiraishi agreed to join them.

Shiraishi and Ayako visited the Fuzawa family’s seaside villa, where they met Yuzo and his overbearing father, Tetsuji. After a day at the beach, Tetsuji borrowed their television to watch baseball, leaving Shiraishi to entertain him while Yuzo confided in Ayako and Sonoko.

• Ayako and Shiraishi arrived at the Suzuki family’s beach villa and found Sonoko teasing Yuzo Tomizawa, the Fuzawa family’s third son.
• Ayako introduced Shiraishi to Yuzo, then took Shiraishi and Sonoko to visit Yuzo’s father, Fuzawa Tetsuji, at the neighboring villa.
• Tetsuji criticized his three sons’ careers, prompting Yuzo to leave, and asked to watch a baseball game on Ayako’s satellite television that evening.
• Conan questioned Shiraishi about Little Ai’s identity, but Shiraishi insisted she was his sister and said the DNA test confirmed it.
• Tetsuji came to borrow the television after dinner, and Shiraishi watched baseball with him while Yuzo apologized to Ayako and Sonoko and shared a story about his father’s school baseball days.
• Shiraishi told Tetsuji about his own experience competing in school sports, and Tetsuji enthusiastically discussed baseball techniques with him.

During a storm, Shiraishi and the others witnessed a masked attacker bludgeon Fuzawa Tetsuji, and Shiraishi rushed him to the hospital before returning to help the police. The next morning, Sonoko identified Fuzawa Yuzo as the attacker, but Yuzo seemed unaware of the assault, and his two older brothers arrived to reveal that the three men were triplets.

• Tomizawa left the Suzuki villa after celebrating Sky-to-Sky's baseball victory, and a power outage soon plunged the villa into darkness.
• Sonoko, Ran, Ayako, and Shiraishi saw a masked figure attack Fuzawa Tetsuji with a stone, and Shiraishi carried the injured man to the hospital.
• Shiraishi returned to the villa, told the others to stay together, and reported that Tetsuji remained in critical condition.
• Inspector Yokomizo arrived the next morning, and Sonoko and Ran identified Yuzo as the masked attacker they had seen.
• Yuzo appeared surprised to hear that his father had been attacked, and his two older brothers arrived, revealing that the three men were triplets.

Shiraishi identified Taichi as the person who attacked Tomizawa Tetsuji, exposing Taichi’s false alibi and a slip that confirmed his guilt. After Tetsuji woke and tried to shield his son, Shiraishi refused to treat the assault as a private family matter, and Taichi was taken into custody.

• Yuzo, Daji, and Taichi gave their accounts of where they had been, while Shiraishi declared that Taichi had attacked Tetsuji despite the mask.
• Shiraishi explained that he recognized Taichi by his appearance and caught him revealing knowledge of words the culprit had overheard at the scene.
• Taichi admitted that Tetsuji had sabotaged his writing career by arranging for publishers to reject his manuscripts.
• Daji revealed that his own alibi was false because he had spent the night with Hiromi, while Yuzo learned that Taichi was the attacker.
• Tetsuji regained consciousness and tried to portray the assault as a robbery, but Shiraishi rejected his plea to protect Taichi and Yokomizo’s officers arrested him.
• Conan questioned Shiraishi about whether his quick identification had been too risky.

After returning to Tokyo, Shiraishi learned that plastic explosives had been stolen from Eastern Japan's Explosives Depot and began using his connections to investigate. Just as he learned the explosives could be C4, Munakata reported an explosion at Beika Park, where Kotomi and the Detective Boys were spending the holiday.

• On the drive back to Tokyo, Sonoko teased Ran about visiting Shinichi for his birthday, while Conan realized he had forgotten the date and needed an excuse to see her.
• Shiraishi stopped at the police station and learned that the Kurokawa family mansion had been deliberately set on fire, with Kanzaki assisting the arson investigation.
• Shiraishi asked Munakata about Kotomi, who was spending time with the Detective Boys, and then left without taking on extra work.
• While on duty Wednesday, Shiraishi used his connections to ask Kazami about the explosives depot theft and learned that the stolen explosives were lightweight, powerful C4.
• Munakata called Shiraishi to report that an explosion had just occurred at Beika Park.

After a bomb hidden in a toy airplane exploded at Beika Park, Shiraishi learned that the bomber was challenging Kudo Shinichi and racing to stop a second attack at Beika Plaza. He cleared the plaza and threw a bomb hidden in a cat carrier into the Tsutsumi-nashi River just before it detonated.

• Conan warned Mitsuhiko that the remote-controlled airplane was dangerous, then kicked it into the air before it exploded above the children.
• Conan told Shiraishi and Munakata that a bomber had called Professor Agasa’s house to challenge Kudo Shinichi with bombs.
• The bomber called again, announced a bomb at Beika Plaza, and gave Conan the clue “under a tree” with a one o’clock deadline.
• Shiraishi crossed the Tsutsumi-nashi River and quickly evacuated Beika Plaza while patrol officers kept the perimeter clear.
• Shiraishi found a bomb inside a cat carrier an old woman had picked up beneath a tree and threw it into the river, where it exploded.

After suspecting that Moritani Teiji was behind the bombings, Shiraishi tracked him down and brought him onto the loop line to locate the bombs. The trains were still under threat, and Shiraishi was closing in on one as sunset approached.

• After the culprit threatened to blow up five bombs on the loop line, Shiraishi realized the attacks might connect to someone Conan had recently met.
• Conan recalled attending Moritani Teiji's tea party, and Shiraishi recognized Moritani's name from records about the Kurokawa family house.
• Shiraishi left the operation to Section Chief Munakata and went to Moritani's residence, where Moritani's gait strengthened his suspicion.
• As the police ordered loop-line trains to keep moving, Shiraishi drove onto the sealed tracks with Moritani and told Odagiri that he had caught the bomber.
• Shiraishi slowed beside a train and pressed Moritani to remember where the bombs were, warning that sunset was near.

Shiraishi helped expose Moritani Teiji as the loop-line bomber, but much of the stolen plastic explosive remained missing, prompting the police to search for more targets among Moritani’s early architectural designs. At the emergency interrogation unit, Shiraishi unsettled the silent Moritani by casually breaking furniture and carving the wall, while Makabe continued the interrogation.

• Conan called Megure with his deduction that the bombs were on the tracks and triggered by blocked sunlight, but Megure told him the five bombs had already been dismantled and Shiraishi had caught Moritani Teiji.
• Amemiya reported that Moritani had stopped cooperating and that most of the stolen explosives were still unaccounted for, so Odagiri ordered him moved to the emergency interrogation unit.
• Shiraishi told Odagiri that Moritani likely targeted his own early, asymmetrical architectural designs, and Odagiri ordered detectives to investigate those buildings in Tokyo without alarming the public.
• Detectives found additional explosives at Moritani’s residence, but the amount still fell far short of what had been stolen; Shiraishi also learned that the Suzuki Group’s buildings showed no signs of bombs.
• Shiraishi went to the emergency interrogation unit, where Makabe was questioning Moritani, and announced that he would not interfere with the interrogation.
• Shiraishi broke an armrest and part of the table, then carved twisted patterns into the soundproof wall before leaving, as Moritani watched nervously.

Shiraishi traced Moritani's bombing plot to Beika City Hall and led the evacuation, then discovered Ayako, Ran, Conan, and a child were trapped near a bomb with only minutes left. With the exits blocked, Shiraishi prepared to break through the obstruction as the countdown ran down.

• Makabe provoked Moritani into revealing that his bombing plan was connected to the failed Beika City Hall project and the Mikumo Insurance bribery scandal.
• Police recovered some explosives at Tsukishima Bridge and learned that the bombs were set to go off at ten that night.
• Shiraishi went to Beika City Hall, broadcast an urgent evacuation order, and used his authority to keep the crowd moving in an orderly way.
• After learning a child was missing on the fifth floor, Shiraishi rushed there and discovered Ayako and Ran were trapped inside with the child and a bomb.
• A bomb blast collapsed the cinema entrance, and Ayako found another bomb in a water tank with only minutes remaining as the exits proved blocked.
• Conan arrived, then saw Shiraishi glowing with crimson eyes as he prepared to punch through the blocked door.

Shiraishi rescued Ayako and others from Beika City Hall by throwing the bomb away before it exploded, then helped cover for Conan when Ran questioned Shinichi’s absence. After the crisis, Conan discovered that Shiraishi Ai’s scientific work was suspicious and found her holding Professor Agasa hostage, where she revealed that she knew he was Kudo Shinichi.

• Shiraishi used his enhanced physique to break open the emergency exit, then climbed Beika City Hall and hurled the bomb away from the building before it detonated.
• Ran questioned why Shinichi had not appeared, and Shiraishi lied that Public Security had taken him to help defuse other bombs.
• Shiraishi attended press events and speeches while using the trial period to adapt to his enhanced physique, which Little Ai studied and found violated the law of conservation of energy.
• Conan noticed that Shiraishi Ai’s scientific abilities exceeded what a child prodigy could explain and went to Professor Agasa for advice.
• Conan found Professor Agasa tied up and Little Ai pointing a handgun at him, and she addressed him as Kudo Shinichi.

Shiraishi and Little Ai frightened Conan with a staged kidnapping before revealing that Little Ai had protected his identity and was working on an antidote. The chapter ended with Conan reluctantly accepting that he needed to cooperate with her experiments to return to normal.

• Shiraishi and Little Ai pretended to be dangerous criminals, disarmed Conan, and claimed they had dealt with the detective who might expose them.
• Uchida Asami arrived at Professor Agasa's house looking for Shinichi and invited him to her birthday party, so Little Ai arranged for Shiraishi to attend instead.
• Uchida recognized Shiraishi as the Beika Police Chief and welcomed him to the university's Deduction Club gathering.
• After Uchida left, Little Ai revealed that she had been Conan's informant, had discovered his identity before meeting Shiraishi, and had helped keep Gin from finding him.
• Shiraishi explained that the kidnapping had been staged to make Conan more vigilant, and Little Ai told him to cooperate with her antidote experiments.

Shiraishi learned that Inspector Minato Tetsuro had died with his mistress in what the authorities wanted treated as a lovers’ suicide, and Ninomiya asked him to investigate despite their rivalry. The chapter ended when Ninomiya revealed that Minato had been his lover.

• Shiraishi considered the candidates to replace the retiring Chief of the First Investigation Division, including Ninomiya and Matsumoto.
• Ninomiya visited Shiraishi at Beika Police Station and asked for his help with a newly reported double death.
• Shiraishi watched a report about Inspector Minato and his mistress, whose deaths might have involved coerced suicide rather than a mutual suicide.
• Ninomiya explained that the authorities had rejected his offer to investigate and wanted the case closed quickly as a lovers’ suicide.
• Shiraishi recognized Minato as the inspector who had previously audited Beika Police Station and questioned Ninomiya about his suspicions.
• Ninomiya revealed that Minato had been his lover.

Ninomiya asked Shiraishi to investigate Inspector Minato’s suspected murder, which higher-ups were trying to close as a lover’s suicide, and Shiraishi agreed. Ninomiya handed over the case materials and pledged to help, despite the political risks that left his promotion prospects in jeopardy.

• Ninomiya explained that Inspector Minato might have been silenced and asked Shiraishi to investigate.
• Shiraishi agreed, citing the difficulty of ignoring a potentially wrongful case, and Ninomiya offered to help manage any problems with Ganto Kaiji.
• Ninomiya gave Shiraishi the prepared case materials and said Inspector Amemiya knew the details better.
• Shiraishi and Ninomiya agreed to work together, and Ninomiya left.
• Shiraishi realized Ninomiya’s decision to involve him would likely end Ninomiya’s chances of promotion, regardless of the investigation’s outcome.

Shiraishi suspected that Inspector Minato Tetsuro had been murdered and began seeking a way for Beika Police Station to investigate the case. After learning Kobe Miwako’s family had a major stake in Haido Hotel, he told his colleagues they should look into it, citing Minato’s Beika residency.

• Shiraishi reviewed the case and identified Minato’s Beika residency and Nakamura Rika’s hostess work in Kamurocho as possible ways to investigate.
• Shiraishi called Ayako, who told him the Kobe family was a major shareholder in Haido Hotel.
• Shiraishi summoned Munakata, Haitani, and Kobe and said he suspected Minato’s death was not a suicide caused by emotional problems.
• Munakata warned that the Main Branch might rush to close the case as a love suicide, given the implications of an inspector being murdered.
• Shiraishi told Kobe that Beika Police Station should investigate because Minato had lived in Beika.

Haitani and Kobe investigated Minato's apparent suicide at Haido Hotel, while Kuroki and Kanzaki questioned Nakamura Rika's employer and the narcissist and Amaki looked into Minato at the Metropolitan Police Department. Their inquiries uncovered signs of a connection between Minato, Rika, and the Sakaki Group, as the chapter left the Metropolitan Police Department investigation just getting underway.

• Shiraishi assigned Haitani to inspect Haido Hotel and sent Kuroki and Kanzaki to question Nakamura Rika, while Munakata arranged the rest of the investigation.
• Haitani and Kobe found the hotel crime scene preserved, but learned the police had already lifted its seal despite the case remaining open.
• Kuroki and Kanzaki questioned the proprietress of Pink Holiday, who said Minato had recently requested Rika and seemed to visit her as if carrying out a duty.
• The proprietress revealed that Minato had argued with people from the Sakaki Association over Rika, and Kuroki recognized the group as a rival of Arakawa's organization.
• The narcissist and Amaki questioned personnel at the Metropolitan Police Department about Minato, but an officer grew suspicious until Inspector Shirai intervened.

Amaki and Narcissist learned that Professor Domoto, Amaki’s father-in-law, had performed the autopsy on Minato Tetsuro and shared its findings over dinner. At the investigative meeting, the detectives uncovered evidence suggesting a third person was present when Minato and Nakamura Rika died, while Shiraishi continued the inquiry despite the Metropolitan Police Department’s apparent reluctance to investigate further.

• Shirai told Amaki and Narcissist that the case had been handed back to the local police and that the autopsy results would be difficult to obtain.
• Amaki met Professor Domoto, revealed that he was investigating Minato Tetsuro’s case, and joined him for dinner with Narcissist, where Domoto shared autopsy findings; afterward, Amaki told Narcissist that Domoto was his late wife’s father.
• At the investigative meeting, Haitani reported that a missing toothbrush cup, unused wine glasses, and the amount of wine remaining suggested a third person had been in Minato’s hotel room.
• Amaki added autopsy findings showing that Nakamura Rika had been stabbed with force, Minato’s wound matched suicide, and blood evidence on Minato did not fit the expected splatter from stabbing Nakamura.
• Kuroki reported that Nakamura had loved Minato while he had not returned her feelings, and that Sakaki Group members had harassed Nakamura and later followed Minato.

Shiraishi investigated Inspector Minato’s murder despite Haido Police Station’s effort to keep Beika Police Station away from the scene. Evidence pointed toward Sakaki Ken, but the unusually smooth progress left Shiraishi suspecting that someone was steering the investigation toward him.

• Shiraishi directed his detectives to investigate the possibility that a third party had killed Minato and warned them to carry firearms if they pursued the Sakaki Group.
• Kobe told Haido Hotel to preserve the crime scene and refuse entry to Haido Police Station officers, prompting Haitani to object before Shiraishi backed her decision.
• Shiraishi contacted his informant inside the Sakaki Group to learn who had recently clashed with the police.
• Ganto Kaiji demanded that Shiraishi stop interfering and reopen the hotel scene to Haido officers, but Shiraishi refused and concluded that Ganto might be hiding something.
• Shiraishi informed Munakata that the investigation might face hostility from Haido Police Station and told him to proceed carefully.
• Shiraishi’s informant identified Sakaki Ken as the man who had fought over a hostess, and Kuroki and Kanzaki found evidence that Sakaki Ken had followed Minato and appeared at the hotel on the murder night.

Shiraishi realized Sakaki Ken was bait rather than Minato’s killer and released him while investigating the real culprit. As Sakaki’s group publicized complaints against the police, Shiraishi told Headquarters that Minato Yuriko had come to turn herself in.

• Sakaki Ken and two Sakaki Group members were arrested near Minato’s home, and Ninomiya arrived demanding to question Sakaki.
• Shiraishi noticed that Sakaki’s conduct and the evidence from the hotel did not fit the theory that he was Minato’s killer, then concluded Sakaki was bait.
• Shiraishi ordered Sakaki released, and Sakaki threatened to accuse Beika Police Station of mistreating him.
• Sakaki’s group hired lawyers and reporters to publicize the complaint, prompting Headquarters to demand answers from Shiraishi.
• After Shiraishi sent Narcissist to investigate Minato Yuriko, Yuriko’s resolve broke and she came to the station to turn herself in.

Shiraishi learned that Minato Yuriko had killed Nakajima Rika, while Minato had staged his own death to protect his wife. Yuriko’s account uncovered a coded notebook marked [LS-C], pointing Shiraishi and Munakata toward the SL-9 case as they faced renewed trouble from the Sakaki Group.

• Shiraishi told Ninomiya that Yuriko had stabbed Nakajima during an argument and that Minato had killed himself after cleaning up to shield his wife.
• Yuriko revealed that a mysterious detective had sent her evidence of Minato’s supposed affair and the hotel room number, then instructed her to burn Minato’s coded notebook.
• Yuriko recalled that the notebook was marked [LS-C], and Munakata recognized the code as referring to case SL-9.
• Shiraishi ordered Munakata to expedite Yuriko’s referral and went to the Main Branch to report the case.
• Odagiri accepted the crime-of-passion explanation but warned that the Sakaki Group would continue its complaint against Beika Police Station.

Shiraishi dealt with the Sakaki Group’s pressure over the recent case, then asked Iwata to retrieve file SL-9. The file connected a notorious serial-killer case to Ganto Kaiji, leaving Shiraishi increasingly suspicious of Ganto’s role in the inspector’s murder.

• Shiraishi reported the lovers’ suicide case to Tanaka and asked whether the Tojo Clan had filed a complaint against him.
• Tanaka said the Metropolitan Police Department would handle the dispute fairly but would not let the Sakaki Group escalate it against Beika Police Station.
• Shiraishi gave Iwata tea and asked him to look up case SL-9.
• Iwata identified SL-9 as the case of Aokage Jo, who had impulsively killed five people and later murdered a prosecutor after surrendering.
• Iwata told Shiraishi that Ganto Kaiji had arrested Aokage Jo and gained a promotion because of the case.
• Shiraishi connected the SL-9 file to the inspector’s murder in Haido Town and grew suspicious that Ganto had concealed involvement in both cases.