Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia explained that the Oga family had staged the Ring theft as a test, while Mr. Takahashi had kidnapped Katori Akane and was responsible for the Hot Air Balloon bomb. The Ring was believed hidden at the Marize Square fountain, and the police turned to Mr. Takahashi’s case.

• Jiang Xia revealed that Grandmother Oga and her older granddaughter had taken the heirloom Ring to oppose the Groom’s marriage to Katori Akane.
• Jiang Xia solved Grandmother Oga’s hydrangea-photo riddle and identified the fountain statue at Marize Square as the hiding place for the Ring.
• Jiang Xia explained that Katori Akane had left the bridal lounge looking for the Ring and followed Mr. Takahashi to the Windmill Cabin.
• Katori Akane told the police that Mr. Takahashi had threatened her with a Knife, locked her in the Clock Tower, and said he wanted revenge on Grandmother Oga.
• The police identified the unconscious Mr. Takahashi as Katori Akane’s kidnapper and linked him to the Hot Air Balloon bomb.

Jiang Xia exposed Takahashi Junichi as the man behind the wedding-day bomb scare and two earlier attacks on Grandmother Oga. As Katori Akane and the groom asked Grandmother Oga to forgive him, the supposedly dead Edward appeared and objected.

• Jiang Xia identified Takahashi Junichi as a Nagasaki native and accused him of sabotaging Grandmother Oga's brakes and nearly hitting her with a boulder.
• Takahashi Junichi confessed, saying he had sought revenge for his master, Katori Akane's father, whom he blamed Grandmother Oga for driving to suicide.
• Oga's Father explained that the debt had grown after Katori's father rejected advice and shifted his workshop to expensive glasswork, and Takahashi Junichi collapsed, refusing to listen.
• Katori Akane and the groom asked Grandmother Oga to forgive Takahashi Junichi, while the police officer stood by with handcuffs.
• Edward appeared and objected, and Jiang Xia introduced him as the man who had nearly died from a fall.

After a bombing attempt on the Hot Air Balloon, Irish let the suspect be taken to prison, while Hashimoto Maya had to explain why he had brought a parachute. A suspicious officer accepted Hashimoto’s story, but Irish remained wary of him.

• Irish agreed to let the police handle the bomber, and officers took the suspect away.
• A young officer found a parachute in Hashimoto Maya’s backpack and questioned the Hot Air Balloon passengers.
• Hashimoto claimed he carried the parachute because a near-disaster on a plane in Hokkaido had left him afraid of heights.
• The officer recognized Hashimoto as the Hero Co-pilot, apologized for suspecting him, and asked to take a photo together.
• After the officer left, Hashimoto realized Irish had begun to suspect him as well.

After the hot-air-balloon incident, Hashimoto Maya worried that Irish might suspect him of working with Uzo, while Irish considered using him to learn more about Uzo. Jiang Xia persuaded the Tatsumis to return to their family residence for the upcoming Samurai Festival, then prepared to accompany them and protect Seimaru.

• Irish wondered whether Hashimoto Maya had known about the balloon accident through Uzo, but considered making him a source of information instead of eliminating him.
• Hashimoto Maya decided to act as though Irish already knew he had been reassigned to Uzo so he could guard against being assassinated.
• After giving statements at the police station, Jiang Xia and the others missed the wedding and boarded the Shinkansen back to Tokyo.
• Curacao reminded Mrs. Tatsumi that she and Seimaru needed to return to the family residence for the Samurai Festival, where Seimaru would become head of the family.
• Jiang Xia packed to accompany the Tatsumis, explaining that he wanted to protect Seimaru until the festival ended.

Jiang Xia joined Mrs. Tatsumi and her group on a trip to the Tatsumi Family’s remote old house, while Mrs. Asahi reflected on an experiment involving detectives and competitors. After a difficult journey to Gardenia Village, the group arrived at its eerie entrance, where stone samurai statues startled Mouri Ran.

• Jiang Xia agreed to accompany Mrs. Tatsumi to the old house, and Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko decided to join them.
• Mrs. Asahi saw the group off, then wondered whether her plan to use detectives to eliminate competitors had failed and considered relying on her commercial spies.
• Jiang Xia’s group changed trains and followed a hazardous mountain path toward Gardenia Village as night approached.
• Sentan Saruhiko led the group past a waterfall and suspension bridge, while Mrs. Tatsumi explained the village’s location to the guests.
• Mouri Ran reached Gardenia Village and was frightened by the rows of towering stone samurai statues at its entrance.

Jiang Xia and the guests toured the Tatsumi Family grounds, where Suzuki Sonoko mistook a black-clad figure near the Samurai Shrine for a ghost. Back at the Main House, the guests learned that Fuyuki Rintaro, the village doctor, had been visiting Mrs. Tatsumi since she received a threatening letter.

• Jiang Xia reassured Mouri Ran that the samurai statues were not ghosts as Sentan Saruhiko led the guests into the Tatsumi Family Old Residence.
• Sentan Saruhiko guided the guests around the residence and village, including the road leading to the Samurai Shrine.
• Suzuki Sonoko spotted a black-clad figure near the Shrine and screamed, but Jiang Xia and Hashimoto Maya identified it as a person dressed like a Kabuki Kuroko.
• Mouri Ran asked to return to the Main House, and Sentan Saruhiko led the group back.
• Mrs. Tatsumi invited the guests to eat, then left with Fuyuki Rintaro when he arrived; Tatsumi Seimaru said the village doctor often examined his mother after she received a threatening letter.

Jiang Xia learned that a threatening letter had put Tatsumi Seimaru in danger amid a bitter family inheritance dispute. After a samurai figure attacked Mrs. Tatsumi’s room and vanished, Seimaru suspected Ryunosuke, who bristled when Sonoko called Seimaru the future family head.

• Jiang Xia explained that the letter, signed “Cursed Samurai,” threatened to kill Seimaru before the Samurai Festival ended, and Seimaru blamed his half-brother Ryunosuke for the danger.
• Seimaru recounted how his father’s will gave him the family head position and property, prompting Ryunosuke to try to strangle him and leading Seimaru’s mother to take him to Tokyo.
• Jiang Xia advised Seimaru to stay among several people for protection, but Seimaru insisted Jiang Xia should watch Ryunosuke instead.
• A scream led Jiang Xia and the others to Mrs. Tatsumi, who said a Cursed Samurai had slashed open the Shoji; the attacker was gone when they checked the courtyard.
• Ryunosuke dismissed the incident as a festival prank, insulted the visitors, and reacted angrily when Sonoko called Seimaru the future family head.

After a supposed Cursed Samurai attacked Mrs. Tatsumi and Dr. Fuyuki, Jiang Xia deduced that the attacker was hiding inside the Tatsumi house. The guests met the veiled Akanuma, then Curacao and Hashimoto Maya revealed that both had slept in closets, leaving Hashimoto suspicious of how Curacao knew the closet’s pattern.

• Tatsumi Moe apologized for her brother’s behavior as Jiang Xia asked Mrs. Tatsumi and Dr. Fuyuki about the samurai attack.
• Dr. Fuyuki’s elderly mother claimed that Lord Kaneharu’s curse doomed the Tatsumi Family, while Conan noticed footprints that vanished along the corridor.
• Jiang Xia traced the footprints to the courtyard and concluded that the Cursed Samurai was still hiding in the house, possibly among the family.
• Mrs. Tatsumi received the veiled Akanuma Saburo, who arranged to stay in the vacant Pinmen room.
• Curacao slept in a closet for safety, and Hashimoto Maya also hid in one overnight.
• Curacao recognized the closet pattern imprinted on Hashimoto Maya’s face, and Jiang Xia’s comment led Hashimoto to suspect that Curacao knew where he had slept.

Jiang Xia and the others reached breakfast after Hashimoto Maya and Curacao covered up why they had slept in a closet. A dispute between Tatsumi Ryunosuke and Tatsumi Seimaru escalated into a rifle threat, and Mrs. Tatsumi returned to confront them.

• Jiang Xia's remark exposed that Hashimoto Maya and Curacao had slept in a closet, and Suzuki Sonoko and Conan teased Hashimoto about it.
• Curacao claimed she had asked Hashimoto to retrieve something from the closet, and Hashimoto backed up her explanation.
• At breakfast, Tatsumi Ryunosuke accused Mrs. Tatsumi of planning to make Kuroko Seimaru's stepfather after Seimaru inherited the family.
• Tatsumi Seimaru punched Tatsumi Ryunosuke, who grabbed a Hunting Rifle and aimed it at him.
• Mrs. Tatsumi returned and angrily ordered Tatsumi Ryunosuke to stop as he threatened to shoot Seimaru.

After the near-shooting at dinner, Jiang Xia received a secret invitation from Akanuma to learn the Cursed Samurai’s identity. Late that night, he accompanied Mrs. Tatsumi to Akanuma’s hidden room and found a heavy iron door.

• Mrs. Tatsumi disarmed Tatsumi Ryunosuke after he nearly used a hunting rifle, and Jiang Xia’s Spider Lady collected the killing intent he left behind.
• Conan warned that Akanuma might be the Cursed Samurai, but Akanuma called Jiang Xia and asked him to meet Mrs. Tatsumi alone that night to learn the samurai’s true identity.
• Jiang Xia spent the day trying to keep watch on Tatsumi Ryunosuke, who evaded him.
• After night fell, Jiang Xia left for Mrs. Tatsumi’s room while Hashimoto Maya and Curacao noticed his departure and stayed behind.
• Jiang Xia followed Mrs. Tatsumi through a revolving wall into the secret room where Akanuma was staying, and they reached a heavy iron door.

Jiang Xia investigated the headless murder of Mr. Akanuma, whose body was found in a locked room at a mountain village. The window seemed impossible to escape through until Yamamura Misao accidentally pulled one of its iron bars loose.

• Jiang Xia and Mrs. Tatsumi opened the locked Pinmen room after hearing a scream and found Mr. Akanuma dead and decapitated.
• Yamamura Misao arrived with the police and greeted Jiang Xia eagerly, hoping his association with the detective would help his career.
• Conan pointed out that Akanuma's death was a locked-room murder, and Jiang Xia explained how he and Mrs. Tatsumi had found the door locked from within.
• Mrs. Tatsumi said the house had only one copy of each key, while Yamamura proposed that the killer might have escaped through the window.
• Yamamura reported that the window's iron bars should have prevented anyone from passing through, then accidentally pulled the middle bar loose.

Jiang Xia and Yamamura Misao investigated the crime scene and Akanuma’s belongings, prompting Mrs. Tatsumi to reveal that the supposed visitor claimed to be her lost twin child. Tatsumi Ryunosuke accused Seimaru of murder, but Mrs. Tatsumi said Seimaru had left with Sentan, and Ryunosuke pointed out that Sentan was present without him.

• Yamamura Misao found that only the middle iron pole could be removed, while the gap behind it was too narrow for an adult to escape through.
• Officers found no money among Akanuma’s belongings, and Mrs. Tatsumi admitted that she had given him money.
• Dr. Fuyuki explained that Akanuma had appeared a week earlier claiming to be Mrs. Tatsumi’s child, and Mrs. Tatsumi revealed that she had given birth to twins.
• Tatsumi Ryunosuke declared that Seimaru had murdered Akanuma to protect his inheritance.
• Mrs. Tatsumi said Seimaru had left with Sentan that morning, but Ryunosuke pointed out that Sentan was there and Seimaru was not.

After Tatsumi Seimaru disappeared, the group searched the village and woods while Jiang Xia and Curacao speculated about the people involved. Curacao lost a shoe while passing the village’s armored samurai, leaving her behind as the others moved on.

• Sentan Saruhiko returned to the Tatsumi estate and explained that Seimaru had sent him back, prompting Ryunosuke to claim Seimaru had run away.
• Conan challenged Ryunosuke’s motive for sending the threatening letter, and Ryunosuke angrily cursed the outsiders.
• Yamamura Misao sent officers to search for Seimaru, and the guests joined the search as Moe explained the village’s death-curse gesture.
• Curacao told Jiang Xia she had seen a blond man in the woods who resembled Amuro Tooru, and Jiang Xia warned her to maintain her lawyer persona.
• The group met villagers dressed as samurai for the festival and passed through them; afterward, Curacao discovered that one of her high heels was missing.

Curacao tried to survive a samurai’s approach by acting like a helpless lawyer, while Hashimoto Maya followed Uzo’s orders to investigate her disappearance. Hashimoto found the samurai carrying Curacao toward a cave and realized she was faking unconsciousness as she watched him.

• Curacao found her lost shoe, then decided to act helpless when a lone samurai appeared behind her.
• Suzuki Sonoko noticed Curacao was missing, and Jiang Xia led the group in searching for her.
• Hashimoto Maya found Curacao’s shoeprints mixed with a samurai’s tracks and received an email from Uzo telling him to act like an enthusiastic detective.
• Hashimoto followed the tracks to the Warrior Shrine, where he saw the samurai carrying Curacao toward a cave.
• Hashimoto tried to retreat, but Curacao subtly turned her head toward him, revealing that she was pretending to be unconscious.

Hashimoto Maya and Curacao were captured in the cave by the Cursed Samurai, while the villagers told the police about Hiiragi Kaneharu’s centuries-old curse. The captives pretended to stay unconscious until Curacao kicked Hashimoto Maya into waking, and the Cursed Samurai revealed a pink bundle for them to see.

• Hashimoto Maya followed Curacao into the suspicious cave, and both disappeared along with Tatsumi Seimaru.
• Yamamura Misao questioned Dr. Fuyuki about the Cursed Samurai after Hashimoto Maya and Curacao failed to return.
• Dr. Fuyuki explained that Hiiragi Kaneharu cursed the village after its people ambushed and killed him and his guards four hundred years earlier.
• The Cursed Samurai waited for Hashimoto Maya and Curacao to wake, while they secretly opened their eyes and then pretended to remain unconscious.
• Curacao kicked Hashimoto Maya, forcing him to sit up, and the Cursed Samurai untied a pink bundle on the table for them to see.

The Cursed Samurai revealed Tatsumi Seimaru’s severed head to Hashimoto Maya and Curacao, then abducted them before leaving them unconscious in a cave. After Dr. Fuyuki and the police rescued them, Hashimoto recounted what happened while Jiang Xia urged him to recall every detail for the investigation.

• The Cursed Samurai, identifying himself as Kaneharu, showed Hashimoto Maya and Curacao Tatsumi Seimaru’s head and threatened revenge on everyone connected to the Tatsumi Family.
• Kaneharu released anesthetic gas, knocked Hashimoto and Curacao unconscious, and escaped with Seimaru’s head.
• Dr. Fuyuki led the police search party to the cave and rescued Hashimoto and Curacao.
• Hashimoto told Inspector Yamamura and the others that he had followed a samurai who abducted Miss Shirai and then found Seimaru’s head in the cave.
• Jiang Xia questioned Hashimoto about the cave, while Conan wondered why Kaneharu had let him survive; Hashimoto concealed his connection to Uzo and said he had been lucky.

Yamamura Misao announced that he had solved the Tatsumi family case and accused the servant Sentan Saruhiko of escaping the locked room with a rope bridge. The accusation fell apart when the police revealed Sentan Saruhiko was missing, and Yamamura ordered them to pursue him.

• Yamamura Misao led the group to the secret room and explained how the culprit could have used a crossbow, fishing line, and hemp rope to cross the river and escape through the narrow window.
• Yamamura Misao identified Sentan Saruhiko as the culprit, citing his agility and his past experience performing acrobatics.
• Conan recalled that Sentan Saruhiko had been the last person seen with Tatsumi Seimaru before Seimaru was killed.
• Yamamura Misao ordered his subordinates to arrest Sentan Saruhiko, but they revealed that he was not present.
• Yamamura Misao concluded that Sentan Saruhiko had fled and ordered the police to chase him down.

After Sentan Saruhiko was found dead in the woods, Yamamura Misao proposed that he had been a descendant of a murdered samurai seeking revenge on the Tatsumi Family. The investigation remained unresolved as Yamamura struggled to explain Akanuma’s death and Tatsumi Ryunosuke demanded a second will.

• The maid reported that the Hunting Rifle was missing, and Yamamura Misao called his superiors for reinforcements.
• Amuro Tooru secretly followed Jiang Xia and the others to the Tatsumi Family, then hid in the woods as police and special forces searched for Sentan Saruhiko.
• Jiang Xia returned from searching the woods with coffee, and a gunshot led the group to Sentan Saruhiko’s body, with a fatal bullet wound to the head.
• Yamamura Misao concluded that Sentan probably died when the Hunting Rifle accidentally fired, then found an ancient Katana bearing the Hiiragi Family crest among his belongings.
• Yamamura theorized that Sentan had taken revenge for his ancestor by killing Tatsumi Seimaru, prompting Tatsumi Ryunosuke to demand another will from Curacao.
• When Jiang Xia asked about Akanuma’s locked-room death, Yamamura claimed that Sentan had killed him to silence him.

After Sentan Saruhiko died from a misfiring rifle, the Tatsumi Family declared the case solved and forced its guests to leave. At a nearby inn, Curacao feared Uzo had more trouble planned while Suzuki Sonoko and Conan teased Hashimoto Maya about his attention to Jiang Xia and Curacao.

• Yamamura Misao explained that Sentan Saruhiko had fled after his scheme was exposed, and an officer revealed the rifle had been plugged with lead without Sentan's knowledge.
• Tatsumi Ryunosuke dismissed the deaths, ordered celebratory drinks, and told the guests to leave while accusing Mrs. Tatsumi and Dr. Fuyuki of having an affair.
• Mrs. Tatsumi apologized as Jiang Xia and the others departed for a nearby inn, where Curacao anxiously considered the risk of a fire or explosion.
• Suzuki Sonoko suggested that Curacao liked Jiang Xia, and Conan joked that Hashimoto Maya was watching them because he was two-timing.
• Hashimoto Maya denied Conan's accusation and resented being targeted by Suzuki Sonoko and Conan, deciding that his workplace was unbearable.

Jiang Xia returned to the Tatsumi Family Old Residence and challenged the conclusion that Sentan Saruhiko had been the killer, arguing that Saruhiko could not have crossed the ravine because he feared heights. The succession ceremony was interrupted before Tatsumi Ryunosuke could complete his blood seal, and the real culprit remained unidentified.

• Hashimoto Maya briefly considered resigning but reminded himself of the danger and resolved to keep working under Lord Uzo.
• A dark figure entered the Tatsumi Family Old Residence's rear kitchen and secretly added medicine to the drinks.
• Jiang Xia noticed Tatsumi Moe's cat leaving the inn and urged Yamamura Misao to return to the Tatsumi residence.
• Tatsumi Moe served drinks at the succession ceremony, and Tatsumi Ryunosuke prepared to seal his claim as family head.
• Yamamura Misao and Jiang Xia interrupted the ceremony, and Suzuki Sonoko announced that the previous day's case resolution had been part of the real culprit's plan.
• Jiang Xia explained that Sentan Saruhiko's fear of heights made it impossible for him to cross the ravine, while Tatsumi Ryunosuke demanded evidence.