Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia enlisted Calvados to help expose the person creating the Apartment’s ghostly events, while Vermouth realized Uzo had noticed her connection to Calvados. Calvados then confronted the Puppeteer with staged hauntings, leaving him terrified by a blood-red toilet and a ghost emerging from his television.

• Jiang Xia quietly instructed Calvados to help him catch the person behind the Apartment’s ghosts.
• Vermouth watched Calvados follow Uzo’s orders and received an email from Uzo teasing her about Calvados.
• Calvados went to the Puppeteer’s room and asked him to show how to flush the toilet.
• The Puppeteer turned the toilet knob and saw the water turn blood red.
• Calvados pointed out that the Puppeteer’s television was on, and a female Ghost emerged from its static screen.

Jiang Xia explained how the Puppeteer had faked the apartment’s hauntings and exposed evidence from his room. The Puppeteer was left facing the tenants’ questions about a frightening videotape.

• The Puppeteer saw a Ghost Shadow outside the corridor window and screamed, while Jiang Xia explained that the apparition had startled him because he had not created it.
• Jiang Xia explained that ammonia and phenolphthalein had made the toilet water appear to bleed, and the tenants realized the haunting effects had been staged.
• The Puppeteer denied being responsible, but Conan produced bottles and jars from his room as evidence.
• Conan told the tenants that he had also found a videotape showing a ghostly woman repeatedly saying, “Get out.”

Jiang Xia exposed the Puppeteer’s fake ghost scheme, which used prerecorded footage, a universal remote, and anesthetic gas to frighten tenants away. Calvados insisted he had also seen a solid, human-like hand emerge from the television and appear in a toilet tank, but Jiang Xia found no evidence and left him questioning his memory.

• Jiang Xia explained how the Puppeteer transmitted ghost footage to selected TVs and used anesthetic gas to make everyone fall asleep.
• Jiang Xia accused the Puppeteer of staging the haunting to scare away tenants.
• Mouri Ran recognized the female ghost as the Puppeteer in disguise, and the landlord and otaku reacted with surprise and disappointment.
• Calvados insisted that a hand had crawled out of the television and appeared in the toilet tank.
• Jiang Xia questioned Calvados about the hand’s texture and suggested that fear might have distorted his memory.

Jiang Xia explained how Mr. Banchō used moths and ultraviolet light to create the ghostly figure at the window, identifying him as the mastermind behind the haunting. Calvados searched for proof of the Ghost Hand while the graduate student asked why Mr. Banchō had staged the haunting.

• Mouri Ran mentioned visiting Dr. Araide, and Jiang Xia said Dr. Araide had watched the haunting from nearby.
• Calvados decided to search the bathroom for the Ghost Hand so he could prove it had been real and that Jiang Xia was wrong.
• Jiang Xia revealed that male moths drawn by female-moth pheromones had formed the Ghost Shadow on the window, and that Mr. Banchō had used a fluorescence lamp to make them disappear.
• Jiang Xia explained that Mr. Banchō had shaken the remaining moths off the screen and identified him as the person behind the supernatural incidents.
• Calvados found nothing in the toilet tank and went to search for the hand he had thrown from the television room.
• The graduate student asked why Mr. Banchō had gone to such lengths to create the haunting.

Jiang Xia exposed Mr. Banchō as one of the killers behind the four-year-old murder and explained how he faked the Apartment’s haunting to protect his fugitive accomplice. Mr. Banchō was subdued, while the accomplice remained in the Abandoned Building and Calvados entered it searching for a severed hand.

• Jiang Xia explained that the supposed Ghost Fire came from cigarette embers and electronic screens, and identified Mr. Banchō and the fugitive in the Abandoned Building as the two killers from four years ago.
• Jiang Xia deduced that Mr. Banchō had rented an Apartment room and staged supernatural phenomena to keep residents from discovering his accomplice.
• Calvados searched for the severed hand he had thrown, then entered the Abandoned Building with a flashlight after assuming it had landed there.
• The fugitive heard Calvados approaching and hid behind a pillar while gripping an iron rod.
• Mr. Banchō tried to flee with a Folding Knife, but Jiang Xia knocked it away and struck him until he fainted.
• Mouri Ran called the police as Jiang Xia looked toward the Abandoned Building.

Calvados failed to find the fake hand and was injured while confronting a wanted criminal, whom Jiang Xia helped subdue. Vermouth stayed away but received photos of Calvados’s humiliating ordeal, then traded them for a duplicate Uzo Coin.

• Jiang Xia shouted to distract Calvados, and the wanted criminal struck Calvados’s wounded shoulder with a water pipe.
• The criminal tried to flee, but Calvados rose and grabbed the pipe, frightening him into a collapse.
• Police arrested two suspects, and an ambulance took Calvados away while Mouri Ran scolded him for rushing into the hideout alone.
• Calvados realized he had not found the fake hand, and the strain of the incident triggered an alarm on his medical monitor.
• After everyone left, Vermouth revealed she had stayed far away, received photos of Calvados’s ordeal from a colleague, and traded them through Vodka’s Mailbox for a duplicate Uzo Coin.

Vodka reviewed Calvados’s latest misfortunes and began to suspect Vermouth’s connection to him was more complicated than she let on. He decided not to report his unsupported suspicions to Gin, while Gin continued reading the news about Uzo’s cases.

• Vermouth asked Vodka to exchange a duplicate Uzo Coin, but Vodka refused and claimed he could not alter the random distribution.
• Vodka read about Calvados’s night of misfortunes and concluded that Uzo’s interest in the sniper had grown, possibly because of his connection to Vermouth.
• Vodka recognized Calvados as the newspaper’s unnamed hero and suspected Uzo had turned him into part of a dark joke.
• Vodka noticed Vermouth had not consistently shared cases involving Calvados with the Passerby Mutual Aid Association and wondered whether she was concealing a mission.
• Vodka considered reporting his suspicions to Gin but decided to keep watching rather than risk being pulled into Uzo’s schemes.
• Gin sneezed in his Porsche and continued reading the latest news to track Uzo’s movements.

Gin dismissed Uzo’s minor incident, while Vermouth began plotting to get Uzo out of Tokyo so she could search for Sherry. Meanwhile, Organization Logistics struggled to find Calvados a new Safe House and proposed moving him into a Trader’s apartment building, hoping Uzo would deal with the Trader.

• Gin decided Uzo’s clash with two minor criminals and a Nameless Hero did not warrant intervention.
• Vermouth concluded that Sherry had made the Temporary Antidote for Cool Guy and planned to investigate through the Conan lead.
• Vermouth considered sending Uzo away from Tokyo so she could search for Sherry without his interference.
• The Logistics supervisor learned that Calvados had been injured during the haunted-house incident and that the landlord planned to turn the building into a haunted attraction.
• A subordinate proposed placing Calvados in the Trader’s apartment building so Uzo might target the Trader and resolve the Organization’s problems.

Calvados recovered in the hospital, then fled when reporters came to interview him and found his hideout surrounded by reporters. Logistics Officer explained why the residence had become unusable and promised Calvados a new one.

• A supervisor and his aide agreed to arrange a plan involving “That Lord,” while deciding Calvados would not be harmed by the change.
• Calvados learned that Jiang Xia had sent the two criminals to the Police Station and hurriedly discharged himself to avoid reporters.
• Calvados found reporters gathered outside his hideout as the landlord promoted plans to turn the Apartment into a ghost-themed B&B.
• Calvados called Logistics Officer to complain about the house, and Logistics Officer blamed his decision to pursue the criminals for the trouble.
• Logistics Officer told Calvados that a new residence was ready for him.

Calvados moved into a new safe house, while Mouri Kogoro took Jiang Xia, Ran, and Conan to visit the hospitalized Mr. Yamaguchi, unaware that he was an Organization member. They learned Yamaguchi had already been discharged, leaving Conan more anxious about the Organization’s growing presence around Jiang Xia.

• Calvados questioned the sudden change from his previous dwelling, but Logistics Officer assured him that Bright Apartment was the safest option and Calvados moved in.
• Mouri Kogoro asked Ran to call Jiang Xia so they could visit Mr. Yamaguchi and thank him for his heroism.
• Conan recalled that Yamaguchi was connected to The Organization and worried that the visit might expose him, but he went along with the others.
• At the hospital, Jiang Xia learned that Yamaguchi had been discharged three hours earlier despite his injuries.
• Mouri Kogoro praised Jiang Xia for having admirable friends, while Conan privately worried about the suspicious Organization members surrounding him.

After failing to visit Mr. Yamaguchi at the hospital, Mouri Kogoro and the others ran into his former landlady and learned that Yamaguchi had moved into Kogoro’s old apartment building. Conan suspected Yamaguchi might be maneuvering them into a private meeting, but resolved to watch calmly as the group went to visit him.

• Conan decided he might ask Hattori for an outsider’s perspective on difficult cases.
• Mouri Kogoro recognized the area where he had once rented a run-down apartment and found its rebuilt successor, Bright Apartment.
• The landlady recognized Kogoro and told the group that Jiang Xia looked just like his late father, Longping.
• The landlady revealed that her injured new tenant was Mr. Yamaguchi, surprising Conan, who wondered whether Yamaguchi had deliberately led them there.
• Mouri Kogoro carried the landlady’s fruit and prepared to visit Yamaguchi, pleased that the flowers from the hospital could still be used.

Calvados moved into a clean apartment, only to be visited by Mouri Kogoro, Jiang Xia, and Conan after they learned where he lived. The landlady asked Jiang Xia to investigate why her grandson A-Zhen had been troubled, leaving Conan worried that the case might involve The Organization.

• Calvados settled into his new apartment and reluctantly answered a knock at the door.
• The landlady told Calvados that Mr. Mouri and Jiang Xia had come to visit him.
• Mouri Kogoro explained that he and the others had learned Calvados's new address after running into the landlady on their way home from the hospital.
• Conan asked the landlady about the building's tenants, and she said Calvados and her grandson A-Zhen lived there.
• The landlady asked Jiang Xia to investigate why A-Zhen had been troubled, and Conan worried the case might expose Jiang Xia to The Organization.

The landlady went to check on her grandson A-Zhen after he failed to come home, and Jiang Xia and the others discovered a room covered in strange red crayon marks. The chapter ended as someone opened a door in the outer corridor and asked what was going on.

• Calvados left the gathering and returned to his room, while the landlady saved watermelon for him.
• The landlady noticed A-Zhen had not come home and led Jiang Xia, Mouri Kogoro, Conan, and Mouri Ran to check his room.
• Calvados listened from behind his door and worried that the Detectives had uncovered another suspicious neighbor.
• The landlady unlocked A-Zhen's room, where Jiang Xia saw red crayon lines covering the walls and doors.
• Jiang Xia noticed a crayon by a half-open room and red markings on its door frame, then heard someone open a door in the outer corridor and ask what was going on.

Jiang Xia and the others found the landlady’s grandson, Zontian Zhen, dead in the bathroom with a cut on his arm and a bathtub full of blood. The landlady asked them to fetch Kido, a medical student who lived downstairs, while Conan followed Jiang Xia to find him.

• Calvados joined Jiang Xia and the others and saw the bloody crayon drawings and the Water Monument model in Zontian Zhen’s room.
• The landlady found the room key soaking in the model’s miniature lake, then searched for her grandson when he was not in his bedroom or study.
• Calvados opened the restroom door, and Conan turned on the light to reveal Zontian Zhen’s body beside the bloody bathtub.
• Mouri Kogoro confirmed that Zontian Zhen was dead, while the landlady asked for the police, an ambulance, and Kido, the medical student downstairs.
• Jiang Xia offered to fetch Kido, and Conan followed him.

Jiang Xia and Conan found Kido Yoshihiko alive and brought him to identify Zontian Zhen, whose death Mouri Kogoro believed was suicide. As the police began investigating, Jiang Xia noticed a key hidden in the miniature Water Monument, leaving the cause of death in question.

• Jiang Xia and Conan went to Kido Yoshihiko’s room, where they found him asleep and unharmed among his rhinoceros beetle tanks.
• Jiang Xia brought Kido upstairs, where Kido confirmed that his friend Zontian Zhen was dead and the landlady began to cry.
• Calvados heard the police arrive but stayed put because he had no contraband on him.
• Officer Takagi told Jiang Xia that Zontian Zhen had died from blood loss after his brachial artery was severed, likely between six and seven in the evening.
• Mouri Kogoro called the death a suicide because Zontian Zhen liked the Water Monument model, but Jiang Xia spotted a distinctive key at the bottom of its miniature lake.

Jiang Xia investigated the apparent suicide of A-Zhen, whose grandmother and friend described his recent behavior and possible troubles with graduation. The fragile cord tied to the room key raised doubts about the locked-room explanation, while reporters gathered outside and a camera secretly transmitted the scene to a mysterious Organization hideout.

• Mouri Kogoro argued that A-Zhen had locked himself in and committed suicide, but his landlady insisted he had seemed normal when she brought him juice around six.
• Kido Yoshihiko said A-Zhen had been troubled by his graduation thesis, and Mouri proposed that his academic stress had led him to suicide.
• Jiang Xia pointed out a short broken cord attached to the key, and Inspector Megure broke it while retrieving the key from the Mini Lake.
• Jiang Xia identified the fragile cord as twisted strips of Toilet Paper, leaving the reason A-Zhen had tied it to his key unclear.
• Reporters gathered outside the Apartment, while a camera secretly transmitted the scene to a mysterious Organization hideout.

Jiang Xia exposed clues that showed Mr. A-Zhen’s apparent locked-room suicide was murder, while Mouri Kogoro offered a flawed explanation for how the killer planted the key. The chapter left the culprit unidentified, as Calvados watched the detectives’ investigation.

• At Organization Logistics, a supervisor and subordinate watched reporters stuck outside the apartment building and discussed the residents, including Calvados.
• Conan pointed out an open transom, but Mouri Kogoro dismissed it as too small to use; Jiang Xia then noted that the dark bathroom made the victim’s precise self-inflicted wound suspicious.
• Mouri Kogoro concluded the death was murder and proposed that the culprit used wire and string through the mail slot to place the key in a model pond.
• Officer Takagi questioned whether the key could pass a sharp turn in the door frame, and Mouri improvised an explanation involving loosening the string.
• Jiang Xia pointed out that undamaged crayon marks across the door frame, lock, and knob ruled out the proposed methods, leaving the culprit unidentified.

Jiang Xia identified Kido Yoshihiko as the murderer and demonstrated how Kido used a rhinoceros beetle to return the key to the locked room. The beetle dragged the key toward the Water Monument as everyone watched.

• Calvados regretted throwing away Jiang Xia's business card and decided to ask Vodka for Jiang Xia's contact information.
• Mouri Kogoro proposed that the murderer had escaped through the window, but the landlady pointed out that a large dog would have barked at anyone climbing outside.
• Jiang Xia noticed the clean glass and accused Kido Yoshihiko of murdering A-Zhen.
• Jiang Xia borrowed the room key, then arranged a demonstration with Conan and the Sweater.
• After the lights went out, a rhinoceros beetle carrying the key entered through the mail slot and crawled toward the Water Monument.

Jiang Xia exposed Kido Yoshihiko’s beetle-based murder scheme and the stained handkerchief that tied him to the crime. Kido confessed that he killed the victim after their drug-smuggling partner tried to quit, and explained that he feared being left with no income or being betrayed.

• A rhinoceros beetle dragged a key up the Water Monument, then flew through the vent toward a street lamp after the key and its paper tether fell into the water.
• Jiang Xia explained how the killer used a sweater, Mother Bug pheromones, and a crayon drawing to guide the beetle and make the murder appear impossible.
• Conan revealed that the beetle came from Kido Yoshihiko’s room, and Jiang Xia linked a juice stain on Kido’s handkerchief to the victim’s room.
• Kido handed over the stained handkerchief and admitted that he had forgotten to dispose of it after believing his plan had succeeded.
• Kido confessed that he killed the victim because their drug-smuggling partner wanted to quit, leaving Kido afraid of losing income or being betrayed.

After Jiang Xia helped the police solve the murder, Kido Yoshihiko was arrested for killing his partner. At the organization’s base, a supervisor began to suspect that the recent cases had been arranged to draw Calvados into a trap and that his subordinate might be compromised.

• Kido Yoshihiko justified killing his partner, and Inspector Megure sent him away in a police car.
• Inspector Megure and Officer Takagi discussed the insect-attracting lamp before Jiang Xia left the scene.
• A subordinate and supervisor reviewed the case and celebrated the target’s death, believing their safe house was now secure.
• The supervisor realized the cases had unfolded too quickly and wondered whether someone had steered Calvados into both apartments.
• The supervisor suspected his subordinate had been infiltrated but feared that acting against him would draw the executive’s attention.