Chapter Summaries

Shiraishi investigated the aftermath of the SL-9 case and found that several investigators had been sidelined, while Ganto Kaiji and prosecutor Hougetsu Tomoe were linked to the case. He began quietly seeking ways to contact former investigators, leaving his next lead with Patrolman Zaimon.

• Shiraishi and Iwata identified Ichinoya Kyoka, Tadashiki Michio, and Zaimon Kyosuke as key SL-9 investigators, then found that all three had been demoted, sidelined, or reassigned after the case.
• Iwata explained Ganto Kaiji's ambitious career and his alliance with Hougetsu Tomoe, who had served as an observer at Haido Police Station during SL-9.
• Shiraishi called Kunikida and learned that Ichinoya had left the police and was doing ordinary work, so he offered to recommend her to Capital Security Company.
• Shiraishi asked Amaki about Zaimon Kyosuke, and Amaki recognized him as the patrolman assigned to the evidence storage room.

Shiraishi refused Muto’s resignation at first, then accepted it after learning Muto had chosen a better-paying job at Capital Security Company. After attending Muto’s farewell party, Shiraishi set out with Ayako, Little Ai, and Conan for Uchida Asami’s birthday gathering, where members of Todai’s Deduction Club had assembled to meet him.

• Shiraishi began laying groundwork to connect Ichinoya Kyoka and Zaimon Kyosuke with the SL-9 case while withholding contact with Tadashiki Michio.
• Muto told Shiraishi he had decided to join Capital Security Company, and Shiraishi accepted his resignation and planned a large farewell party.
• Ganto Kaiji discussed Muto’s move with Chief Prosecutor Hougetsu Tomoe, who questioned him about Inspector Zu’s death and SL-9.
• Shiraishi attended Muto’s farewell party, then drove with Ayako and Little Ai to pick up Conan for Uchida Asami’s birthday party.
• Uchida greeted Shiraishi at the rented villa, where nearly all of Todai’s Deduction Club members had gathered to meet him.

At Uchida Asami’s birthday party, Sawai Gaku tried to stage a fire so he could rescue her and win her affection, but Shiraishi uncovered the plan and stopped it. Sawai faced the consequences as the firefighters arrived.

• Ayako, Shiraishi, Conan, and Little Ai attended Uchida Asami’s birthday party, where the Deduction Club members gathered around Shiraishi and asked about his police work.
• After Uchida Asami fell asleep, Ayako volunteered to stay with her, but Shiraishi took Ayako and the children to a karaoke after-party with the students.
• Shiraishi noticed that Uchida Asami had been drugged and saw Sawai Gaku return to the villa, so he moved her upstairs and left Conan and Little Ai there.
• When smoke appeared at the villa, Sawai rushed back, but Shiraishi revealed that Sawai had planned to start a fire with a fax machine and then rescue Uchida Asami.
• Sawai admitted that he had devised the scheme after Uchida Asami rejected his confession, and Shiraishi confronted him as Uchida Asami came downstairs and firefighters arrived.

Shiraishi traded barbs with Ganto at the station chiefs' meeting, then turned a murder near Kamurocho into a new case despite it falling outside Beika Police Station's jurisdiction. The chapter ended with Shiraishi sending his officers to assist the victim's family and investigate.

• Shiraishi drove Conan home, where Little Ai teased Conan about his first crush and then locked him in the car to take him to the laboratory for an experiment.
• Shiraishi learned that Yuto could not identify who had emailed Minato Yuriko, leaving him without evidence against Ganto Kaiji.
• At the station chiefs' meeting, Ganto criticized Shiraishi indirectly, and Shiraishi countered by pointing to failures in Ganto's area; the two exchanged pointed remarks in front of the other chiefs.
• Ganto proposed a dinner penalty for the station whose jurisdiction got a murder first, and Shiraishi expanded it to include unsolved murders and botched investigations.
• Shiraishi received a call about the death of an employee at Fukuman's beef bowl shop, whose body was found near Kamurocho's sixth block.
• Shiraishi told Sawato that Kamurocho Police Station had jurisdiction, then sent Beika Police Station officers to assist with the investigation after hearing the victim's family crying.

After a foreign laborer was murdered near the boundary between Beika Town and Kamurocho, Shiraishi resisted Ganto’s attempt to keep the case under Kamurocho Police Station and accepted the victim’s family’s report at Beika Police Station. The investigation linked the killing to a past bicycle gang that targeted foreign laborers, and Shiraishi ordered an urgent search for extremists who had expressed hostility toward them.

• Kuroki and Kanzaki joined Kamurocho officers at the murder scene, but the Kamurocho detectives moved their cordon onto Beika Town and tried to send the Beika detectives away.
• Kuroki called Shiraishi after the jurisdictional dispute escalated, and Shiraishi told him to hold the scene while he arranged to file a report.
• At the police chiefs’ dinner, Shiraishi told Ganto and Zedeng that Mani’s family had reported the case to Beika Police Station and that the assault had begun in Beika Town.
• Kuroki brought Fuman and Mani’s sister Maria to Beika Police Station, where Shiraishi promised to seek justice for Mani.
• Kanzaki reported that Mani had died from a severe blow to the head after being chased and beaten by four or five people on bicycles, and Kuroki recalled a past gang that had attacked foreign laborers.
• Shiraishi suspected political extremists and ordered the cybercrime unit to screen online posts for hostility toward foreign laborers, with Yuto set to follow up on the resulting list.

Yuto, Shiraishi, and Munakata traced online attacks against foreign workers to National Diet Member Fukushima Jundai’s circle and uncovered evidence implicating his son, Fukushima Junji. The investigation identified a gang linked to years of assaults, and Shiraishi chose to pursue the other suspects without alerting Junji.

• Yuto showed Shiraishi a long list of accounts making extreme online remarks, and Shiraishi noticed that many followed Councilor Fukushima Jundai.
• Shiraishi suspected that the attacks on foreign workers were connected to people with official standing and ordered Yuto to screen the online accounts of Fukushima’s family and close friends.
• Munakata reported that Fukushima Junji had posted threats against foreign workers and suspicious late-night messages about violence under an anonymous account.
• Gen explained that Junji had reconciled with his father two years earlier after beating two illegal immigrants who were breaking into a shop, an incident that received favorable publicity.
• Gen linked Junji and his friends to more than twenty reported attacks on foreign workers in Beika Town and Kamurocho, while Shiraishi decided not to question Junji yet and to investigate the others first.

Shiraishi sent detectives to track down Junji Fukushima’s accomplices while Gen stayed behind to investigate the gang’s earlier assaults. After Gen baited the gang into attacking him and was badly injured, Fuji followed his blood trail to Councilor Fukushima’s residence, prompting Shiraishi to surround the property and order a large-scale search.

• Shiraishi divided the detectives between trips to Gunma and Nagano while Gen stayed to question foreign laborers and investigate the gang’s other crimes.
• Gen baited Junji Fukushima and two accomplices into attacking him at the murder scene, and Fuji and Kawai arrived after they had beaten him.
• Fuji found Gen injured and received his bloodstained pen before taking him to the hospital.
• Shiraishi learned that Gen was out of danger and that he had stabbed one attacker with the pen, leaving Fuji to follow the blood trail.
• Fuji tracked the trail to Councilor Fukushima’s residence, and Shiraishi ordered Beika Police Station to bring in officers and search the surrounding area.
• Councilor Fukushima learned that police were gathering outside his residence and began making phone calls as his son treated his wound.

Shiraishi used a staged bloodstain to pressure Councilor Fukushima into surrendering Junji and two accomplices, but the suspects admitted only to assaulting Gen and denied the murders. As Fukushima’s lawyer and powerful officials worked to undermine or transfer the case, Shiraishi refused to give up and made a call after Ganto’s warning sparked an idea.

• Shiraishi visited Fukushima’s residence and claimed blood matching the police attacker’s evidence had been found on his pants, prompting Fukushima to agree to have his son cooperate.
• Police took Junji and two accomplices into custody, but Junji denied involvement in the earlier attacks and murder while admitting to assaulting Gen.
• Munakata barred the injured Gen from interrogating Junji, and Yamada reported that the accomplices also denied knowing Gen was a police officer and claimed they had discarded their batons.
• Lawyer Namikura Yukio challenged the station’s conduct and argued that the assault was a mutual fight, while Junji used complaints to obstruct questioning.
• Shiraishi refused Odagiri’s request to transfer the case and rejected Ganto Kaiji’s warning, then made a call after reflecting on Ganto’s taunt about learning from past mistakes.

Namikura overheard evidence that Fukushima Junji might have assaulted someone other than the murder victim, while Ganto persuaded Fukushima Jundai to treat the investigation as a misunderstanding and use the case against Shiraishi Kuro. Kuroki then got Junji to admit to the attacks and sign a statement that could tie him to the murder weapon, leaving Junji alarmed as police awaited forensic results.

• Namikura overheard officers discussing evidence that the victim had been injured in a brawl and that the murder investigation had shifted away from Fukushima Junji.
• Ganto told Fukushima Jundai that Beika Police were likely identifying another assailant, then urged him not to reconcile with Shiraishi Kuro.
• After receiving updates about DNA and the victim’s injuries, Fukushima Jundai decided to call the arrest a misunderstanding and avoid pursuing Beika Police.
• During questioning, Fukushima Junji admitted that he had beaten foreigners at the crime scene and signed a statement claiming responsibility for attacks with his pest-control baton.
• Kuroki warned that forensic results could link the baton to the murder, and Junji panicked when Kuroki said police had found no injured survivor at the scene.

Kuroki’s investigation secured conclusive evidence against Fukushima Junji, and prosecutors accepted the murder case. Shiraishi confronted Fukushima Jundai and Ganto after their schemes collapsed, leaving both men facing the consequences of Junji’s prosecution.

• Fukushima lunged at Kuroki, who struck his injured leg with a baton while surveillance cameras recorded the attack.
• Beika Police forensics matched blood on Fukushima’s batons to the victim, identified the weapon that delivered the fatal blow, and found Fukushima’s fingerprints on it.
• Police brought Fukushima’s two fugitive accomplices back to Tokyo, and their statements helped support the murder case; prosecutors accepted the case against Fukushima Junji.
• Fukushima Jundai learned that Junji had been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office, blamed Ganto for misleading him, and watched Ganto realize Shiraishi had manipulated him with rumors.
• Shiraishi met Ganto at the restaurant and mocked him for falling for the same kind of tactic he had once used against Beika Police Station.
• Shiraishi told Fukushima that his inflammatory politics harmed other people’s children, and Fukushima left the restaurant in anger.

Shiraishi discussed the Fukushima assault case with Munakata, then visited the injured Inspector Megure after learning he had been struck by a crossbow bolt. Megure’s wound was not serious, and the chapter left Shiraishi and a growing group of visitors at his hospital bedside while police searched for the attacker.

• Shiraishi told Munakata to keep investigating Fukushima Junji’s earlier assaults so prosecutors could pursue the cases alongside the murder.
• Katayama Hinako called Shiraishi about the diplomatic fallout from exposing discrimination against foreign laborers, and they agreed to treat each other as friends.
• Iwata told Shiraishi that Megure had been wounded by a crossbow bolt during his morning run and was recovering at the Police Hospital.
• Shiraishi took flowers from the Criminal Affairs Division and visited Megure, who said the bolt had caused only a flesh wound and that Shiratori’s team was checking recently released criminals.
• Mori Kogoro rushed into Megure’s room after hearing exaggerated rumors, followed by Ran, Conan, the Detective Boys, Kotomi, and Munakata.

After Hideo Eri was poisoned with pesticide-laced chocolates, Shiraishi joined the investigation and discovered a link to Inspector Megure’s crossbow attack. Naruhodo recognized the cardboard crafts left at both scenes as the objects held by the king and queen in playing cards, but Conan still did not know what the clue meant.

• Shiratori reported that a cardboard sword with its fingerprints wiped away had been found near the site of Megure’s crossbow attack, while Conan found it oddly familiar.
• Ran learned that Hideo Eri had been poisoned and rushed to Toito Hospital with Mori and Conan; Shiraishi followed after Munakata kept the children behind.
• Shiraishi met Eri’s colleague Ayari and her newly licensed assistant Naruhodo, and learned that Ayari had induced vomiting after Eri ate pesticide-laced chocolates.
• Doctors stabilized Eri, and police connected her poisoning to Megure’s attack after finding another cardboard craft, a flower, with the chocolate box.
• Mori recognized the chocolates as Gicoba, a brand he often gave Eri, and Ran explained that Eri may have mistaken them for an apology from him.
• Naruhodo identified the cardboard sword and flower as the objects held by the king and queen in a deck of playing cards, prompting Conan and the others to recognize the resemblance.

After Inspector Megure and Hideo Eri were attacked with playing-card clues, the investigators suspected recently paroled ex-robber Murakami Jo and began searching for him. The attacks continued when Professor Agasa was shot with a crossbow and marked with a jack-related clue, leaving Shiraishi and Ayako to visit him in the hospital.

• Mori Kogoro identified Murakami Jo, a former underground-casino dealer he had arrested ten years earlier, as a possible culprit after learning Jo had recently been paroled.
• Gen and Shiratori arranged to investigate Murakami Jo and the evidence, while Ayari invited Shiraishi to meet for tea and he suggested the day after tomorrow.
• On Saturday, May 20, Munakata told Shiraishi that Professor Agasa had been shot with a crossbow, and that the attacker had escaped on a stolen motorcycle.
• Shiraishi connected the spiral-shaped sword left at Agasa's home to the jack and learned that Agasa's name could be linked to the number eleven.
• Shiraishi and Ayako went to Toito Hospital, where they found Agasa recovering from a crossbow wound to his backside alongside Conan, Shiratori, and Gen.

After Professor Agasa was wounded in another crossbow attack, Shiraishi warned Gen that the attacks might be a smokescreen for a planned murder and urged him to investigate people connected to Mori Kogoro whose names involved numbers. The next morning, Shiraishi visited Lawyer Ayari Chihiro, who revealed the Magatama Necklace she had been hiding beneath her scarf.

• Professor Agasa told Gen that he had turned around after Conan called out to him, and Mori arrived at the hospital convinced Murakami Jo was behind the attacks.
• Shiratori warned that the playing-card clues pointed to the next target being associated with ten, and Mori rushed off with Gen and others to protect Okami Towako.
• Shiraishi told Gen that the attacks seemed designed to frame someone rather than kill their immediate victims, and Gen profiled the likely criminal as a troubled, self-destructive man who knew Mori.
• Shiraishi instructed Gen to investigate Mori's acquaintances whose names contained numbers and to find out who held grudges against them.
• Ayako asked Shiraishi about his planned meeting with Ayari Chihiro, and he explained that it concerned supernatural matters rather than the case.
• After no attack occurred at Towako Nightclub overnight, Shiraishi visited Ayari, who removed her scarf and showed him her Magatama Necklace.

Shiraishi learned that Ayari was a Spirit Medium who feared something might happen to her, but she withheld the details of her investigation and asked him to protect her younger sister. A helicopter carrying Tsuji Hiroki then made an emergency landing at Teitan Elementary after someone tampered with his eye drops, and Shiraishi joined the investigation as suspicion continued to focus on Murakami Jo.

• Ayari revealed that she knew about Evolvers and practiced Spirit Mediumship, then said her younger sister was a true Spirit Medium who would soon visit Tokyo.
• Ayari asked Shiraishi to help her younger sister if something happened to her, but she withheld details about her investigation after learning that Shiraishi was dating Suzuki Ayako.
• Munakata informed Shiraishi that a helicopter had made an emergency landing and exploded at Teitan Elementary, so Shiraishi rushed to the scene.
• Megure explained that Conan had landed Tsuji Hiroki's helicopter after Tsuji's vision failed, and that leaking fuel caused an explosion after everyone was evacuated.
• Shiraishi visited Tsuji at the hospital and learned that someone had replaced his eye drops with a mydriatic agent, while Tsuji said Murakami Jo was unfamiliar to him.

Shiraishi and Gen investigated the attacks and concluded that Tsuji Hiroki and other people tied to the number clues might be the real targets, while Sawaki Kohei secretly prepared a mass attack at a winery banquet. As Shiraishi and the others gathered at Matsumoto’s home, the police called to report that they had identified the killer and predicted his next target.

• Gen told Shiraishi that Tsuji Hiroki was likely the culprit’s true target, and Shiraishi agreed that the police should investigate Tsuji’s connections and protect the other people associated with the numbers.
• Conan confirmed that Tsuji’s helicopter accident was not staged, while the police found a Ten of Spades in Tsuji’s car.
• Mori identified Sawaki Kohei as a possible target because of the character “ko,” but Shiraishi pointed out that Matsumoto could also fit the number clue, prompting Megure to visit Matsumoto’s home.
• Sawaki revealed that he was the killer and planned to attack people gathered at Asahi Katsuyoshi’s seaside winery, framing Murakami Jo and eventually targeting Mori and Shinichi as well.
• At Matsumoto’s home, Shiraishi received a call from the Beika Police Criminal Affairs Division saying they had identified the killer and roughly knew where he would strike next.

Shiraishi and the police rushed to the Underwater Restaurant after identifying Sawaki Kohei as the likely culprit behind a planned attack. An underwater explosion flooded the restaurant, and Shiraishi headed there along the cable-car rail while the others set out by speedboat to rescue those inside.

• Sayuri watched Shiraishi and the others leave suddenly, then they hurried to the Underwater Restaurant in Tokyo Bay.
• Kobe Daisuke and Shima explained that their investigation had identified Sawaki Kohei as a suspect who held grudges against several people at the restaurant after a car accident left him with a taste disorder.
• An underwater explosion struck the restaurant as Murasaki's Mobile Unit approached, and Shiraishi ordered them to prioritize rescue while watching for another blast.
• Shiraishi leaped onto the narrow cable-car rail and advanced toward the restaurant, while Shiratori and Kobe took speedboats with the others.
• Conan secretly boarded Kobe's speedboat despite Ran's attempt to stop him, and the rescue party headed toward the restaurant.

After Asahi Katsuyoshi was found dead, Sawaki Kohei was arrested for selling counterfeit wine, but he threatened the survivors with a bomb remote and tried to escape by helicopter. Shiraishi stopped him by tethering the helicopter with Conan’s overalls, and the police recovered Sawaki alive before turning their questions to Koyanai.

• Shiraishi learned that Asahi Katsuyoshi had drowned before the explosion and that a Spades 9 card had been found on his body.
• Kobe presented Sawaki Kohei with an arrest warrant for counterfeit wine sales, prompting Sawaki to threaten everyone with a remote and demand a helicopter.
• Conan knocked the remote from Sawaki’s hand with an inflatable soccer ball, and Sawaki climbed into the helicopter and took the pilot’s seat.
• Shiraishi tied rubble to Conan’s overalls, wrapped their stretched straps around the helicopter, and dragged it into the sea.
• Murasakiwara and the Mobile Unit rescued Sawaki from the water, while Megure questioned Koyanai about a traffic accident from two months earlier.

After Ayari Chihiro was murdered, her spirit contacted Shiraishi and asked him to protect her younger sister, Ayari Mayoi, whom police suspected of the killing. Shiraishi intervened at the scene and learned that Chihiro could not safely contact Mayoi, leaving him to help clear her name and investigate the murder.

• Odagiri questioned Matsumoto’s report about Shiraishi pulling down a helicopter, and Matsumoto accepted that the prosecutors might struggle to believe it.
• After Shiraishi received a brief call from Ayari Chihiro’s number, he took Ayako and Little Ai to her office and found police investigating a murder.
• Chihiro appeared to Shiraishi as a spirit and told him she had died, asked him to help Mayoi, and said officers suspected her sister.
• Shiraishi entered the scene and told Inspector Itokogiri that Chihiro had previously asked him to protect Mayoi, prompting Itokogiri to remove the handcuffs from the seventeen-year-old.
• Shiraishi learned that Chihiro could not contact Mayoi because her sister was untrained and too distressed, while Shiraishi could safely hear Chihiro because of his exceptional spiritual strength.

Shiraishi inspected the murder scene and concluded that the eyewitness accusing Ayari Mayoi was likely involved in the killing. Ayari Chihiro revealed that she had hidden a hard drive containing Shonaka Culture’s client list in the Thinker clock, linking the murder to his possible ties to the Black Organization.

• Itokogiri learned that Matsutake Ume-yo claimed to have witnessed Ayari Mayoi kill the victim, but Shiraishi suspected the witness and went to inspect the office.
• Shiraishi examined the scene and evidence, then spotted someone watching him from a dark hotel room across the street.
• Ayari Chihiro told Shiraishi that she had hidden confidential materials in the Thinker clock and had been investigating Shonaka Culture.
• Ayari explained that the hard drive containing Shonaka Culture’s client list had self-destructed after she connected it to her computer, and she suspected he was tied to the organization behind the Midnight Baron Virus.
• Shiraishi learned that the clock’s interior was now empty, strengthening his and Ayari’s belief that the murder was connected to Shonaka Culture.