Chapter Summaries

Matsumoto Sayuri discovered that Takasugi Toshihiko had poisoned her Lemon Tea and, believing he hated her, nearly drank it herself. Jiang Xia interrupted her with a Blood Bag and tried to persuade her to reconsider, leaving her poised between despair and the chance to hear more.

• Takasugi Toshihiko secretly put Sodium Hydroxide in Matsumoto Sayuri's Lemon Tea, planning to confuse the poisoning timeline with an empty capsule.
• Matsumoto Sayuri recognized the drink had been tampered with and recalled how she had learned Takasugi Toshihiko was her childhood sweetheart and suspected his resentment stemmed from his mother's death.
• When a staff member summoned them to the wedding, Matsumoto Sayuri told Takasugi Toshihiko to go ahead, then prepared to drink the poisoned tea after he left.
• Jiang Xia climbed to the locked second-floor window, warned Matsumoto Sayuri about the Sodium Hydroxide, and handed her a Blood Bag borrowed from the Stage Play staff.
• Jiang Xia recited a script urging Matsumoto Sayuri to consider the unresolved misunderstandings and the consequences of her death, including Takasugi Toshihiko's remorse and imprisonment.

Jiang Xia manipulated Matsumoto Sayuri and Takasugi Toshihiko into a dramatic poisoning scene that ended with Takasugi drinking the poisoned Lemon Tea himself. Jiang Xia returned to his real body in the lounge, where Matsumoto Kiyonaga and Amuro Tooru were waiting.

• Jiang Xia pushed the blood bag into Matsumoto Sayuri's mouth and arranged the poisoned Lemon Tea before hiding behind the curtains.
• Takasugi Toshihiko entered the Bride's Waiting Room and found Matsumoto Sayuri apparently collapsing from poison.
• Xiao Bai's Forced Confession made Matsumoto Sayuri reveal her long-held love and the truth about drinking the poisoned tea.
• Takasugi Toshihiko, overwhelmed by Sayuri's confession, drank the poisoned Lemon Tea and collapsed as Matsumoto Sayuri cried for help.
• Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko rushed in and found Sayuri covered in blood and Takasugi vomiting blood.
• Jiang Xia returned to his real body in the lounge, where Matsumoto Kiyonaga paced and Amuro Tooru watched him.

After the wedding poisoning, Jiang Xia reconstructed how Takasugi Toshihiko had poisoned the drinks while Matsumoto Sayuri recovered and prepared to give her statement. As Jiang Xia left for the Detective Agency, Endo Asami approached him, hoping to reconnect with the former classmate who had once ignored her advice.

• Matsumoto Sayuri told the police she had noticed the poison and drunk the Blood Bag, while hiding Xiao Bai’s involvement and taking responsibility for the child’s idea.
• Conan woke near the restroom, saw Matsumoto Sayuri covered in blood, and wondered what Xiao Bai had done.
• Inspector Megure pulled Jiang Xia into the Bride’s Waiting Room, where Jiang Xia examined the evidence and explained the poisoning.
• Endo Asami recalled Jiang Xia skipping class and began planning how to influence him now that they had met again.
• Matsumoto Sayuri left the Church with her father, while Mouri Ran and Sonoko Suzuki accompanied her; Jiang Xia decided to visit the Detective Agency instead of giving a statement immediately.
• Endo Asami greeted Jiang Xia at the entrance, and he recognized her from Jiang Xia Tongzhi’s memories as his former schoolmate and the Soccer Club’s manager.

Endo Asami invited Jiang Xia to the Emperor's Cup final, hoping to get closer to him, while Jiang Xia agreed in hopes of finding something interesting. At the stadium, Asami spotted him watching Conan, Mouri Ran, and Suzuki Sonoko and grew suspicious of his interest in the two girls.

• Endo Asami offered Jiang Xia an extra ticket to the Emperor's Cup final, and he accepted after checking his schedule.
• At the National Stadium, Asami watched the match beside Jiang Xia and noticed he was looking away from the field.
• Asami followed Jiang Xia's gaze and recognized Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran, who were sitting with an excited Conan.
• Conan explained how the Detective Boys' plans had fallen apart, and Mouri Ran had joined him at the match.
• Jiang Xia spotted Conan and the others in the front rows, while Asami's suspicion and competitive spirit grew.

At a soccer match, Jiang Xia spotted a TV photographer carrying Killing Intent and planned to find a chance to approach him. After a gunman threatened the event director, Conan found a bullet and revealed that Jiang Xia’s boss carried a gun.

• Jiang Xia identified a TV photographer as one of two criminals infiltrating the stadium and looked for a chance to get near him.
• Endo Asami noticed Jiang Xia looking toward a woman’s bare legs and struggled with her thoughts about her own appearance.
• The photographer threatened the director with a gun, demanded fifty million in cash, and warned him not to stop the match or alert anyone.
• The photographer’s accomplice fired near Conan, Mouri Ran, and the others, and Conan found a bullet beside a deflated soccer ball.
• Conan told Inspector Megure that Jiang Xia’s boss carried a gun, recalling Amuro Tooru holding one when he opened a trunk.

After the police arrested Villain No. 2, the mole photographer threatened to kill a spectator unless Nichiei TV paid one billion yen. Jiang Xia moved to find the photographer, while Conan discovered that the suspect had abandoned his hidden Camera and fled, leaving the police to track his escape route.

• Conan warned Inspector Megure about Amuro Tooru’s possible illegal gun, while Inspector Megure worried that Jiang Xia might get hold of a gun.
• The police arrested Villain No. 2 as he collected the fifty million yen, prompting the mole photographer to demand one billion yen and threaten to kill a spectator when the match ended.
• Jiang Xia spotted Villain No. 2 but let him go, then moved through the venue to find the mole photographer and collect his Killing Intent.
• Conan deduced that the remaining villain was a mole photographer, but found only an empty Camera at the suspect’s hiding place.
• Conan told the police that the photographer had fled, and they began reviewing footage to trace his escape route.

The police reviewed the station footage and discovered that Jiang Xia had confronted Hiruta near Camera 13. Jiang Xia subdued Hiruta and handed him over to Officer Sato, while concealing what he had done to the criminal beforehand.

• The director and police used the cameras to identify Hiruta as the mole and found footage of him waiting by Camera 13.
• The footage showed Jiang Xia approaching Hiruta, who reached for his gun, before Jiang Xia struck and dragged him away.
• The officers praised Jiang Xia for preventing a panic, then realized he had not reported Hiruta and asked where he might have gone.
• In a side hall, Jiang Xia knocked the remaining Killing Intent loose, concealed it, and knocked Hiruta unconscious.
• When Sato and the others arrived, Jiang Xia took the gun back from Hiruta and handed it to Sato, claiming Hiruta had not dared to fire.

Jiang Xia arrested a disguised criminal at a soccer match, then agreed to attend Endo Asami’s live-action reasoning game. A few days later, he found an angry Kudo Yukiko outside the Kudo Residence and invited her inside for tea.

• Jiang Xia explained to Inspector Megure why he had taken Hiruta aside, and the police arrested the criminal after the match.
• Jiang Xia reunited with Endo Asami, who invited him to a live-action reasoning game, and he agreed to go.
• Endo Asami privately planned to use the event and her birthday to persuade Jiang Xia to spend more time with her.
• Jiang Xia followed his usual routine for several days until he encountered Kudo Yukiko outside the Kudo Residence.
• Jiang Xia invited Kudo Yukiko inside and made tea for her.

Kudo Yukiko suspected Kudo Yusaku of secretly renting a hotel room, but the charge had actually come from Conan compensating for a damaged car. After Yukiko recruited Jiang Xia to investigate a case in Gunma Prefecture, Endo Asami spotted Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko while preparing for her gathering.

• Kudo Yukiko complained to Jiang Xia that Kudo Yusaku had been coming home drunk and that a suspicious late-night charge made her suspect he had rented a room.
• Jiang Xia called Conan, who admitted the charge was his and arranged for Professor to give Yukiko the spare house key.
• Kudo Yukiko asked Jiang Xia to help investigate a case and took him by Motorcycle to a wealthy estate in Gunma Prefecture.
• Jiang Xia emailed Endo Asami that he might arrive late to her live-action reasoning game gathering.
• Endo Asami spotted Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko in a shopping center and regarded them as obstacles to winning Jiang Xia's favor.

Endo Asami tried to determine Jiang Xia’s relationship with Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko, but Jiang Xia withdrew from her gathering after learning they would attend. Meanwhile, Kudo Yukiko brought Jiang Xia to the Kuranai Residence, where Kuranai Hiromi asked them to investigate whether her recently returned uncle was an impostor.

• Endo Asami invited Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko to dinner and to the next day’s Deduction Party, mentioning that Jiang Xia would attend.
• After Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko went to store their bags, Endo Asami received Jiang Xia’s message that he was backing out and wondered if she had entered someone else’s romantic entanglement.
• On the way to dinner, Endo Asami asked Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko what kind of person Jiang Xia was, and Suzuki Sonoko began to answer before reconsidering.
• Kudo Yukiko introduced Jiang Xia to her childhood friend Kuranai Hiromi at the Kuranai Residence in Toyoshiro Town.
• Kuranai Hiromi explained that her family suspected the uncle who had returned from Brazil after more than thirty years was an impostor seeking a share of her late father’s inheritance.

Jiang Xia learned the truth behind the Kuranai inheritance dispute and noticed several people with murderous intent, but he kept the spoilers to himself. As night fell, he spotted Kudo Yusaku lurking nearby and returned to dinner without drawing attention to him.

• Members of the Kuranai Family told Jiang Xia that the household was divided over whether the returning Kuranai Yoshifusa was an impostor before the will was announced.
• Jiang Xia recognized that the supposed Brazilian bodyguard was actually Kuranai Yoshifusa’s son, while Yoshifusa’s friend was impersonating him to protect the heir.
• Jiang Xia’s probing failed to establish the impostor’s identity, and he noticed that the second wife and the daughter-in-law both carried killing intent.
• Jiang Xia found no ghost connected to the Kuranai Patriarch’s wife, who had died in the courtyard well fifteen years earlier.
• Kuranai Machiko left for a wedding, and Jiang Xia spotted Kudo Yusaku hiding nearby before he went inside to eat hot pot.

Jiang Xia knocked out Kudo Yusaku and hid him in the Kuranai Residence’s storage room while keeping his own alibi intact. Meanwhile, Machiko prepared to attack the man pretending to be Uncle Yoshifusa as he bathed.

• Jiang Xia used a puppet to ambush Kudo Yusaku during the eight o’clock chime, then hid him and injected him with anesthetic.
• Jiang Xia returned to dinner, where Kuranai Hiromi and Kudo Yukiko saw him eating in the dining room around eight.
• Machiko called Kuranai Hiromi and asked her to keep the bathwater warm until she returned at eleven.
• Machiko stopped a recording of wedding-banqueting noise, put on a raincoat, took a kitchen knife, and headed out to kill the fake Uncle Yoshifusa while he bathed.

Jiang Xia arranged a scare that brought everyone into the yard, hoping to draw attention to the well and expose the hidden corpse. The group gathered after Kuranai Hiromi spotted a suspicious figure, and Jiang Xia pointed out the bucket tied to the well.

• Jiang Xia entered the bathroom, collected the Killing Intent there, and recalled that Fake Kuranai Yoshifusa had hidden the second wife's body in the well.
• Jiang Xia avoided soaking in the shared bath, letting the Mermaid test the water while he rinsed himself with the shower.
• Jiang Xia used a puppet to appear to be peeping through a side gate, prompting Kuranai Hiromi to scream.
• Jiang Xia joined the others as they rushed to Kuranai Hiromi, then asked why the bucket was tied up beside the well.

Jiang Xia helped uncover Machiko’s corpse in the well, then found and tampered with Kuranai Keiko’s crossbow trap while investigating the shrine. After Keiko followed Kuranai Yoshifusa, Jiang Xia stopped her in the corridor, leaving her wary of what he knew.

• Jiang Xia and Kuranai Younger Brother pulled Machiko’s corpse from the well, and Kuranai Hiromi recognized her aunt.
• The police arrived to investigate while Jiang Xia possessed his Xiao Bai puppet and discovered Keiko’s timed crossbow trap in the Buddhist Shrine.
• Jiang Xia adjusted the crossbow’s angle and used Puppet Clay to make the Timer Device trigger early, then returned his consciousness to his real body.
• Fake Kuranai Yoshifusa grew frustrated with the inexperienced police and went to his room with the Brazilian Guy.
• Kuranai Keiko followed Yoshifusa to observe him, but Jiang Xia stopped her outside the Buddhist Shrine and asked what she was doing.

Jiang Xia warned Kuranai Keiko that Kuranai Yoshifusa was likely the murderer, just as a timed crossbow bolt injured her and convinced her Yoshifusa was trying to kill her. Yoshifusa arrived and appeared ready to explain himself to the police, while Kudo Yusaku woke in the family warehouse the next morning, unsure who had attacked him.

• Jiang Xia told Kuranai Keiko that Kuranai Yoshifusa likely killed Kuranai Machiko and warned her not to approach him alone.
• A crossbow bolt fired from the Buddhist Shrine, grazed Kuranai Keiko’s foot, and left her injured on the ground.
• Kuranai Keiko assumed Yoshifusa had tampered with the crossbow, then clung to Jiang Xia when Yoshifusa and his bodyguard arrived.
• Fake Kuranai Yoshifusa recognized what had happened and went to the police, planning to explain himself and prevent further trouble.
• Kudo Yusaku woke in the Kuranai Family warehouse the next morning and tried to work out who had attacked him.

Kudo Yusaku returned to the scene after the case had been solved and discreetly made an impression by interpreting for the Brazilian witness. Jiang Xia headed back to Tokyo but avoided a suspicious train-explosion scene, while Endo Asami’s birthday gathering ended with Sawai Manabu secretly preparing to start a fire with her still inside the villa.

• Kudo Yusaku learned that Jiang Xia and Fake Kuranai Yoshifusa had already exposed the case, then interpreted for the Brazilian Guy and observed Kudo Yukiko’s reaction.
• Jiang Xia caught an early train toward Tokyo, hoping to attend Endo Asami’s reasoning game and collect a Ghost.
• After an explosion stopped the train, Jiang Xia spotted a mysterious Silver Long Straight beside a burly man in black in a news photo and chose to keep sleeping rather than investigate.
• At Endo Asami’s birthday party, Suzuki Sonoko listened as the Toto University Mystery Research Club members traded barbed remarks about one another and Endo Asami.
• When Endo Asami fell asleep and the others left for karaoke, Sawai Manabu returned to the villa, set up a timed fire-starting device, and moved her closer to the corridor.

Sawai set a fire to stage a heroic rescue of Endo Asami, but Jiang Xia reached the burning villa first. He found Endo Asami alive and carried her out, leaving her romantic fantasies at odds with his practical rescue.

• Sawai planned to use an arson he could deny setting as an excuse to rescue Endo Asami and win her affection.
• Jiang Xia spotted the fire on his way back to Beika Town and had the taxi driver take him to the burning villa.
• Mouri Ran prepared to enter the fire to save Endo Asami, and Conan offered her a helmet before Jiang Xia took it and rushed inside.
• Jiang Xia used the Parent Ghosts' heat-shielding ability to reach the living room, where he found Endo Asami recovering from the sleeping pills Sawai had given her.
• Jiang Xia pulled Endo Asami to her feet and carried her over his shoulder as she imagined a romantic rescue.

Jiang Xia rescued Endo Asami from a deliberately set fire, and Sawai was injured while trying to attack him. In the hospital, Endo Asami misunderstood Jiang Xia and Mouri Ran’s relationship, while Suzuki Sonoko tried to encourage that misunderstanding.

• Jiang Xia carried the unconscious Endo Asami out of the burning villa and confronted Sawai, who had set the fire to win her heart.
• Sawai attacked Jiang Xia with a Fire Extinguisher, but a falling roof beam broke Sawai’s leg.
• Endo Asami woke in the hospital and learned from her Best Friends that Sawai had deliberately started the fire and faced criminal charges and compensation claims.
• Mouri Ran, Suzuki Sonoko, and Conan visited Endo Asami, who thanked Mouri Ran and assumed Jiang Xia had entered the fire to protect her.
• Suzuki Sonoko claimed that Jiang Xia treated Mouri Ran especially well, and Endo Asami said she had noticed how happy he became around the two girls.
• Mouri Ran realized Endo Asami had misunderstood her friendship with Jiang Xia and began to explain.

Endo Asami warned Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko that Jiang Xia seemed especially taken with Ran, but the girls ultimately decided to treat his attention as friendship. Suzuki Sonoko invited Jiang Xia to a magician forum gathering, prompting him to recognize it as the event connected to Kid’s Red Herring identity.

• Endo Asami told Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko that Jiang Xia’s eyes had lit up when he saw Ran, then sent them away to rest.
• Mouri Ran thought Asami had mistaken friendship for love, while Suzuki Sonoko briefly imagined Jiang Xia as a womanizing heartthrob before dismissing the idea.
• Conan grew jealous and then panicked as he recalled that Jiang Xia’s eyes seemed to shine even more when he met Conan and Hattori Heiji.
• Suzuki Sonoko felt guilty for keeping the magician forum gathering secret from Jiang Xia and sent him an invitation, which he promptly accepted.
• Jiang Xia recognized the gathering as the event Kid had mentioned and recalled that Kid used the forum alias Red Herring and the fake name Doi Takuto.

Jiang Xia joined Suzuki Sonoko and the others for a magician enthusiasts’ gathering, posing as Sonoko’s forum persona, “Disciple of the Magic Messenger.” At Ara Yoshinori’s villa, the host mistook Jiang Xia for the girl behind the online identity, then gave him a strange look after noticing the two high school girls with him.

• Suzuki Sonoko invited Jiang Xia to the gathering and persuaded him to pose as her forum identity, “Disciple of the Magic Messenger.”
• Mouri Kogoro drove Jiang Xia, Sonoko, Mouri Ran, and a cold-stricken Conan toward the meetup, wary of Sonoko’s online friends.
• As the group crossed a snowy suspension bridge, Jiang Xia noticed a faint gasoline smell, which soon vanished in the mountain wind.
• At the villa, Sonoko urged Jiang Xia to ring the doorbell first so he would be treated as the forum persona.
• Ara Yoshinori welcomed Jiang Xia, assumed “Disciple of the Magic Messenger” was a young girl, and gave him an odd look after seeing Sonoko and Ran behind him.