Chapter Summaries

Inspector Megure agreed to reinvestigate Nishimura Mio’s locked-room murder, bringing Jiang Xia, the Detective Boys, and officers Takagi and Sato to the scene. While examining the balcony, Ayumi nearly fell after discovering another body, leaving the investigation facing a new death.

• Inspector Megure agreed to investigate the case again that night, and Jiang Xia persuaded the Detective Boys to behave at the crime scene.
• Inspector Megure brought Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako along, and Conan told Jiang Xia that Nishimura Mio had been found dead in a locked house with Higashiyama.
• Jiang Xia inspected the room while planning to survey the balcony, but Ayumi screamed after finding a bloodied dead person outside.
• Haibara Ai held Ayumi as she dangled beyond the railing, and Jiang Xia pulled her back to safety.
• Ayumi admitted she had lost her footing after being frightened by the body.

Ayumi reported seeing a bloodied corpse in a nearby house, and Jiang Xia identified a suspect before leading the police to investigate. They found no corpse in the bathroom, but Jiang Xia and Conan detected a bloody smell as the homeowner displayed killing intent.

• Ayumi told Jiang Xia and the police that she had seen a man slumped in a blood-filled bathtub in a nearby house.
• The Mist Tengu confirmed there was a corpse and a fresh Shikigami at the scene, and Jiang Xia named Kitagawa Takashi as the likely murderer.
• Jiang Xia led Inspector Megure, Sato, and the children to a house marked Tanaka, where the bathroom appeared spotless and empty.
• Jiang Xia said he could smell blood, and the homeowner glared at him as killing intent emerged.
• Conan agreed that he could smell blood, while Haibara quietly abandoned her attempt to warn Jiang Xia to hide his persona.

Jiang Xia exposed Tanaka Jiro, who had killed his twin brother and disguised himself as the dead man to mislead the police. Tanaka Jiro tried to escape but was caught, leaving the police to arrest him and Jiang Xia to anticipate the Ghost on his leg falling off.

• Jiang Xia inferred that Tanaka Jiro had gone upstairs because the corpse was hidden there, then followed him with the others.
• Tanaka Jiro recalled killing his twin brother, moving the body upstairs, and impersonating him to fool the police.
• Jiang Xia and the others found Tanaka Jiro changing clothes beside his brother's corpse, and Jiang Xia exposed the body.
• Tanaka Jiro tried to flee through the window, but Jiang Xia grabbed him and slammed him to the floor.
• Jiang Xia restrained himself from using his baton because police officers were present, then helped the dazed Tanaka Jiro up.

After solving the case involving Tanaka Jiro, Jiang Xia accepted a commission from the Nagato family and headed to their estate. He met Mouri Ran and Conan on the way, while Hattori Heiji was assigned to investigate strange noises at the same estate.

• Jiang Xia gave the police the culprit's method, collected two prearranged Shikigami, and watched the Haido Art Museum demolition.
• A few days later, the Nagato Estate's butler invited Jiang Xia to discuss an important commission in person.
• Jiang Xia found Mouri Ran and Conan near the estate and invited them to join him for the commission.
• Hattori Heizo told Hattori Heiji to stay at the Nagato residence and investigate strange noises reported by Dosan.
• Hattori Heizo expected Jiang Xia to arrive soon.

Hattori Heiji discovered that Hattori Heizo had invited Jiang Xia to the Nagato residence and tried to leave, but his father stopped him. Jiang Xia met Chairman Nagato to hear about his first love and discovered that the secretary’s Ghost Fetus was formed from two souls fused into one.

• Hattori Heiji spotted Jiang Xia arriving with Mouri Ran and Conan, realized his father had recommended Jiang Xia, and tried to slip out of the Nagato residence.
• Hattori Heizo stopped Hattori Heiji at the stairway while Jiang Xia smiled at them and followed the butler upstairs.
• Jiang Xia sensed a Ghost Fetus near the Chairman’s bedroom and found it gathered at the feet of the female secretary.
• Chairman Nagato asked Jiang Xia to find his first love and began recounting his youthful romance.
• Jiang Xia had the Mist Tengu, Xiao Bai, and Miyano Akemi test the Ghost Fetus, confirming it was one Ghost formed from two dead people’s fused souls.

Jiang Xia accepted Chairman Nagato’s request to find his first love, while Hinata Yuki disguised herself as Nagato Hideomi and plotted to kill Shimura Mitsuaki after learning he had helped cause the fire that killed her parents. During the family birthday gathering, Mitsuaki was attacked in a room below and screamed for help over the telephone.

• Chairman Nagato told Jiang Xia about Akagi Kotomi, and Secretary Hinata Yuki supplied details about her life and disappearance.
• Nagato Nobuko insulted Hinata Yuki, and Chairman Nagato announced that Hinata and Hideomi would be engaged; the bandaged Hideomi was actually Hinata in disguise.
• Hinata recalled finding the real Hideomi dead with a will confessing that he and Shimura Mitsuaki had caused the fire that killed her parents, and she formed a plan to kill Mitsuaki.
• Two Ghosts asked Jiang Xia to save their daughter Yuki from prison, and Jiang Xia offered to help if they signed a contract.
• At Chairman Nagato’s birthday gathering, Mitsuaki left to fetch Hideomi, and a phone call reported that Mitsuaki had been attacked in the room below.

Hinata Yuki tried to save Jiang Xia after he collapsed, while Shimura Mitsuaki climbed toward the bedroom to kill her and Chairman Nagato. The Parent Ghosts appeared on the balcony and terrified Shimura into falling to his death, as the others hurried back upstairs to check on Jiang Xia and the Chairman.

• Hinata Yuki revealed that she and Shimura Mitsuaki had staged the Nagato Hideomi murder plot, but she panicked when Jiang Xia collapsed and began trying to save him.
• Disguised as Nagato Hideomi, Shimura Mitsuaki climbed a grappling hook toward the bedroom balcony, intending to kill Chairman Nagato and Hinata Yuki.
• The Parent Ghosts appeared before Shimura Mitsuaki as charred figures, causing him to let go and fall onto the spike-topped railings below.
• Mouri Ran and the others found the room below empty, spotted the grappling hook, and realized the attack had been a diversion.
• The group rushed back to the bedroom after realizing Jiang Xia had not come downstairs, but they heard no sounds of fighting as they approached.

Hinata Yuki confessed her role in the plan after Shimura Mitsuaki fell to his death, and Chairman Nagato persuaded her not to die alongside Hideomi. Meanwhile, Jiang Xia secretly woke up and discovered that the new Ghost could only form an inseparable two-person puppet.

• Hinata Yuki rushed to help Jiang Xia, but Hattori Heiji and Conan found his breathing and pulse steady.
• Hattori Heiji and Conan looked out from the balcony and found Shimura Mitsuaki impaled on a railing below.
• Hinata Yuki told the police what she knew about the plan she had made with Nagato Mitsuaki and reconsidered her intention to die.
• Chairman Nagato recognized Hinata Yuki as the daughter of his childhood friend and urged her to keep living.
• Jiang Xia secretly woke up, claimed the new Ghost, and found that its puppet could only appear as two people embracing each other.

After the Shimura Mitsuaki case, Jiang Xia joined Mouri Ran and Conan on a hot-spring trip, where he found Amuro Tooru and considered whether to tell him he had become a full member of the organization. He kept the promotion secret, wary that Public Security’s records could expose him to True Wine.

• The New Ghost Fetus awakened Fireproofing, which could shield Jiang Xia and nearby people from high temperatures by consuming Killing Intent.
• Jiang Xia joined Mouri Ran and Conan on a trip to a hot-spring inn after Hattori Heiji left for Osaka.
• Jiang Xia sensed Killing Intent in the neighboring room, then chose not to use the mixed hot spring while Mouri Ran and Conan went to bathe.
• Jiang Xia spotted Amuro Tooru in the inn lobby, and Amuro Tooru sat down beside him.
• Jiang Xia considered telling Amuro Tooru that he had been promoted to a full member, but decided against it because Public Security’s files might be stolen by True Wine.

Jiang Xia accepted Amuro Tooru’s assignment to approach mystery writer Imatake Satoshi and learn whether he had photos of an explosion linked to an Organization member. While they waited for Imatake to leave his room, Mouri Kogoro’s group headed to play ping-pong before the festival.

• Amuro Tooru showed Jiang Xia a passage in Imatake Satoshi’s novel that matched an explosion and description of an Organization member, and explained that the writer might have taken photographs at the scene.
• Amuro Tooru gave Jiang Xia the task of posing as Imatake Satoshi’s longtime fan and keeping his friend occupied while Amuro searched Imatake’s room.
• Amuro Tooru explained that Imatake and his friend were staying in Room 202 and that their history of collaboration could help Jiang Xia talk to them.
• Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru waited in the inn lobby, expecting the writers to leave for the nearby festival, but Imatake stayed in his room.
• Nakamichi Kazushi suggested that Mouri Kogoro’s group play ping-pong, upsetting Horikoshi Yumi, who left for her room.
• Mouri Ran and Conan went with the others to the ping-pong room, while Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru stayed in the lobby waiting for Imatake.

Amuro Tooru and Jiang Xia waited for Imatake Satoshi, while two former classmates and two writers separately prepared murders at the inn. Jiang Xia stopped Sasai Senichi after he shot Imatake, and a falling camera triggered a photograph outside Nakamichi Kazushi and Horikoshi Yumi’s room as Amuro Tooru, Mouri Ran, and Conan arrived.

• Amuro Tooru waited for Imatake Satoshi while Jiang Xia watched Sasai Senichi leave for the festival and later suggested searching upstairs.
• Nakamichi Kazushi lured Horikoshi Yumi into a private ping-pong match, then followed her to her room with a gun, planning to kill her and disguise the time of death.
• Sasai Senichi returned to the inn in disguise, entered Imatake Satoshi’s room, and shot him while staging a robbery.
• Jiang Xia seized Sasai Senichi in the corridor, struck his wrist so he dropped his gun, and slammed him unconscious to the floor.
• Sasai Senichi’s camera fell outside Room 201 and took a photograph when a lump of clay triggered its shutter; Amuro Tooru caught it near the stairs as Mouri Ran and Conan arrived.

After Jiang Xia stopped a masked robber, the group discovered that Imatake Satoshi and Horikoshi Yumi had both been murdered. Amuro Tooru found a photograph showing Nakamichi Kazushi staging Yumi’s death as a suicide, exposing the man who had just insisted the scene be preserved.

• Amuro Tooru found Jiang Xia restraining a masked robber and picked up the gun and Camera the robber had dropped.
• Conan discovered Imatake Satoshi dead in Room 202, while Mouri Ran called the police and went to check on Horikoshi Yumi.
• The group found Horikoshi Yumi dead in Room 201, and Nakamichi Kazushi returned pretending to have just passed by.
• Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru questioned Nakamichi Kazushi after he spoke of preserving the scene before seeing Yumi’s wound.
• Amuro Tooru searched Imatake Satoshi’s room for a photograph but found none, then checked the Camera taken from the robber.
• Amuro Tooru discovered a photograph showing Nakamichi Kazushi putting a gun in Horikoshi Yumi’s hand to stage a suicide.

After the shootings were resolved, Amuro Tooru investigated Imatake Satoshi’s home and delivered his report to Gin, who reacted to a familiar name in a way Amuro misunderstood. Jiang Xia took over Amuro’s part-time shifts and, while working security at Beika Department Store, encountered Mouri Ran, Suzuki Sonoko, and Conan as they planned a Mermaid Festival trip.

• The police arrested both killers, and Jiang Xia’s business trip ended.
• Amuro Tooru found blurry photographs of an Organization member making explosives on Imatake Satoshi’s computer, copied them, and handed his report to Gin.
• Gin laughed at a familiar name in the report, leaving Amuro Tooru to mistakenly worry that Gin suspected him again.
• Amuro Tooru sent Jiang Xia his part-time work schedule, and Jiang Xia added every shift he could manage to his calendar.
• While working security at Beika Department Store, Jiang Xia saw Mouri Ran win a Mermaid Festival trip for two and told her and Suzuki Sonoko that he was covering Amuro Tooru’s shift.
• Suzuki Sonoko suggested that she, Mouri Ran, Conan, and Jiang Xia take her family’s yacht to the Mermaid Festival.

Jiang Xia secured a first-prize ticket to Mermaid Island by winning the department store raffle, then returned to work and noticed that Nakamura Mio had drugged a drink she offered him. He secretly disposed of the drink while the Detective Boys waited elsewhere in the building for their Kamen Rider performance.

• Jiang Xia learned that Mermaid Island travel tickets had sold out, so he tried the raffle for another first-prize ticket.
• Jiang Xia won the first prize, earning a seat beside Mouri Ran, while Suzuki Sonoko and Conan were astonished by his luck.
• Jiang Xia left a ghost to watch over the Detective Boys when he spotted them at the department store.
• Nakamura Mio handed out hot drinks to the security guards, and Xiao Bai warned Jiang Xia that she had put an unknown drug in his drink.
• Jiang Xia poured the drink beneath the table, where a pufferfish-shaped clay puppet swallowed it and secretly disappeared.

Jiang Xia let Nakamura Mio’s robbery gang drug the security guards and watched as they broke into Beika Department Store, while Nakamura Mio inexplicably treated him gently. Conan and the Detective Boys found the tied-up guards and robbers in the security room, where Jiang Xia remained among the criminals.

• Jiang Xia recognized Nakamura Mio’s gang’s plan to rob the department store and decided to watch them, wondering whether stolen valuables could create Energy Cores.
• Nakamura Mio drugged the security guards, disabled the security systems, and let her accomplices enter and tie up the guards.
• Nakamura Mio stopped a robber from dumping Jiang Xia with the guards, then loosely tied him herself and ordered the gang to search the building.
• Conan led Haibara Ai and the Detective Boys downstairs to find Jiang Xia, after the children were trapped inside the department store.
• Conan and Haibara Ai discovered the tied-up guards and the robbers planning their search, with Jiang Xia still among them.

Jiang Xia escaped his restraints, subdued Nakamura Mio, and caught up with the Detective Boys as they headed upstairs to call the police. After Haibara Ai dropped her phone in the toy section, Jiang Xia secretly took it to delay the police and test whether Kid’s presence was needed for an Energy Core to appear.

• Nakamura Mio moved the apparently sleeping Jiang Xia onto a sofa, while Haibara Ai tried to approach her with a fire axe before Conan stopped her.
• After the robbers left the security room, Conan prevented Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko from charging in and discovered that the children could not call the police from the second basement level.
• Jiang Xia removed his ropes, knocked Nakamura Mio unconscious, tied her up, took her gun, and checked the surveillance footage.
• Jiang Xia left the security room and caught up with the five children as they made their way to the first floor.
• Haibara Ai tripped in the toy section and dropped her phone, which Jiang Xia retrieved with a puppet cat and secretly confiscated.

Jiang Xia quietly took down the robbers while the Detective Boys searched for Haibara Ai’s phone and contacted Sato Miwako. Police arrived at Beika Department Store and found eight people tied up in the security room, with a familiar-looking man standing among them.

• Jiang Xia left ghosts to keep watch, then knocked out Robber No. 3 and found only a tiny amount of Energy Cores among the thieves’ loot.
• Jiang Xia had a clay cat return Haibara Ai’s phone to the toy pile, where Ayumi found it.
• Haibara Ai called Sato Miwako, and Conan told her the robbers’ numbers, locations, and hostage situation.
• Sato Miwako and Inspector Megure led police to Beika Department Store and the security room.
• The officers found eight people tied up and Inspector Megure and Sato Miwako recognized the apparent ringleader as someone familiar.

Jiang Xia solved the murder of a ship captain after an explosion delayed his trip to Mermaid Island. He and his companions boarded the Hatamoto family's yacht, where they encountered the family patriarch and an unexpected acquaintance.

• Jiang Xia identified the captain's death as murder, and his Ghosts found evidence sunk near the ship; the culprit was arrested before Conan finished his deductions.
• With their ship out of commission, Jiang Xia and his companions sought another ride and joined Suzuki Sonoko aboard the Hatamoto family's yacht.
• Hatamoto Natsue told Suzuki Sonoko she was marrying soon and planned to visit the Mermaid Festival after the wedding.
• Hatamoto Akie stopped the Hatamoto Patriarch from objecting to the guests by telling him Suzuki Sonoko was the Suzuki Chairman's daughter.
• Someone aboard the yacht recognized Jiang Xia and called out to him.

Jiang Xia and the others joined the Hatamoto family’s yacht trip, where Hattori Heiji revealed a plea for help connected to a lost Dugong Arrow on Mermaid Island. The voyage ended with the Hatamoto Patriarch found murdered in his room.

• Jiang Xia greeted Toyama Kazuha and Hattori Heiji as they joined the yacht, prompting the Hatamoto Patriarch to berate his family members.
• Mouri Ran, Toyama Kazuha, and Suzuki Sonoko went to watch Hatamoto Shoji cook while Jiang Xia, Conan, and Hattori Heiji discussed the family’s tensions.
• Hattori Heiji showed Conan a letter from Kadowaki Saori, who feared a Mermaid would kill her because she had lost the Dugong Arrow, and explained that he had come to return the money sent with it.
• Hatamoto Natsue drew a family relationship chart as Conan and Hattori Heiji speculated about the family’s grievances.
• After the butler went to check on the Hatamoto Patriarch, a scream came from the corridor, and Jiang Xia, Conan, and Hattori Heiji found the old man dead in his room with blood spreading from his abdomen.

Jiang Xia and the others investigated Hatamoto Patriarch’s murder, but a bloodstained handkerchief found near Jiang Xia made him look suspicious. As Jiang Xia tried to step aside from the case, Hatamoto Mariko accused Saijo Takehiko of killing her father and revealed his connection to Saijo Isao.

• Hattori Heiji estimated that the Hatamoto Patriarch had been dead for forty to fifty minutes, while Conan noticed streaks in the blood and Jiang Xia spotted a bloodstained scrap of cloth.
• Jiang Xia found a bloodstained, hand-sewn handkerchief beneath his chair, and Hatamoto Natsue recognized its embroidery as something she had made for Saijo Takehiko.
• Saijo Takehiko accused Jiang Xia of taking the handkerchief, while Jiang Xia denied killing anyone and prepared to leave to avoid suspicion.
• Hatamoto Mariko mocked the idea that Jiang Xia had killed her father and accused Saijo Takehiko, claiming his real surname was Saijo and that he was Saijo Isao’s son.