Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia attended an online friends’ gathering with Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran, while the group mistook him for the forum user Disciple of the Magic Messenger. The gathering took an unexpected turn when Suzuki Sonoko met Red Herring, who was secretly Kid, and Kid recognized Jiang Xia as the famous detective.

• Kuroda Naoko, Tanaka Kikue, and Hamano Toshino discussed their forum personas and assumed Jiang Xia was Disciple of the Magic Messenger.
• Suzuki Sonoko realized that the others might think Jiang Xia had brought two girlfriends, but decided to enjoy the gathering before explaining.
• Suzuki Sonoko searched the living room for her pen pal, Red Herring, and then watched a fat man come downstairs.
• The man introduced himself as Red Herring, and Suzuki Sonoko was stunned when he called her a cute girl.
• Jiang Xia recognized Red Herring as Kid and noticed Ghosts gathering around Tanaka Kikue and a Shikigami clinging to her leg.
• Kid examined the other guests and recognized Jiang Xia as the famous detective.

Kid recognized Jiang Xia as the person behind the Disciple of the Magic Messenger persona and grew wary, while a radio report revealed a murder connected to the gathering. After Mouri Kogoro rushed back with Conan, Jiang Xia anticipated the killer’s plan for the suspension bridge and considered how to keep Conan from making a dangerous leap.

• Kid realized that Jiang Xia was the Disciple of the Magic Messenger and suspected he was setting a trap, though he had come to the gathering without plans to steal anything.
• Suzuki Sonoko happily watched Jiang Xia, while Mouri Ran noticed Doi Takuto’s unfriendly gaze toward him.
• Mouri Kogoro carried the sick Conan away from the villa, but the radio reported that Nishiyama Tsutomu had been beaten to death and left a message signed by Shadow Master.
• Mouri Kogoro turned the car around and sped back toward the villa after hearing that Nishiyama had been scheduled to attend the gathering.
• Jiang Xia remembered that the murderer might burn the suspension bridge and worried Conan would risk crossing it, then considered breaking the bridge in advance.

Jiang Xia used a Mist Tengu puppet to burn and sever the Suspension Bridge, leaving Conan and Mouri Kogoro stranded on the opposite side. Conan tried to cross with his gadgets but nearly crashed into a tree, and Jiang Xia caught him before he was hurt.

• Jiang Xia formed a Mist Tengu puppet and sent it toward the Suspension Bridge while Kid watched from the Villa.
• Kid spotted the flying figure and went into the woods to investigate, then followed the road toward the Suspension Bridge.
• Jiang Xia arrived at the bridge, cut its suspension cables, and watched Conan and Mouri Kogoro discover that it had collapsed.
• Conan used Elastic Suspenders and Enhanced Foot Strength Shoes to launch himself across the gap, but his path took him toward a tree.
• Jiang Xia caught Conan and stopped him before he hit the tree, and Conan opened his eyes to see Jiang Xia's glowing golden eyes.

Jiang Xia knocked Conan unconscious and hung him from a branch, while Mouri Kogoro failed to launch himself across the suspension bridge and went to call the police. Kid mistook Jiang Xia’s actions for a yokai preparing to eat Conan and traded him a porcelain bottle to rescue the boy, then fled believing the Mist Tengu had accepted the offering.

• Jiang Xia knocked Conan unconscious when he tried to get a closer look at the Mist Tengu Puppet, then hung him from a nearby branch.
• Mouri Kogoro tested the elastic suspenders, realized they could not launch him far enough, and drove off to call the police.
• Kid arrived, saw Conan hanging from the branch, and offered Jiang Xia a porcelain bottle while secretly taking Conan down.
• Jiang Xia accepted the bottle and let Kid believe the exchange had worked, though he confirmed it contained no Energy Core.
• A gust of snow obscured Jiang Xia as he disappeared, and Kid hurried off to steal another treasure to protect people from the Mist Tengu.

Kid returned Conan to the villa, where the guests began to suspect trouble after two invitees failed to arrive and their host could not reach them. Tanaka Kikue manipulated a magic trick to become responsible for heating the bathwater, then used the opportunity to kill Hamano Toshino.

• Kid brought Conan back to the villa and slipped into his room, while Doi Takuto offered to help care for the unconscious child.
• Mouri Kogoro contacted Inspector Megure, who said the police could not reach the villa until morning, and Jiang Xia suspected the telephone line had been cut.
• Tanaka Kikue and Hamano Toshino proposed using a magic trick to assign banquet duties, and Hamano chose Jiang Xia to participate.
• The trick made Kuroda Naoko acting chair, Tanaka Kikue responsible for heating the bathwater, and Hamano Toshino banquet minister.
• Tanaka Kikue went upstairs while boiling water and strangled Hamano Toshino, whom she targeted over his mockery of her grandfather Harui Futsu.

Tanaka Kikue’s attempt to dispose of Hamano Toshino’s body failed when a strange bird snapped her line, and the others discovered the corpse and identified her as the likely killer. Conan arrived with news of Nishiyama Tsutomu’s murder and a Golden-Eyed Person in the woods, leaving Kid worried that the Mist Tengu might be discovered.

• Tanaka Kikue hung Hamano Toshino’s body from a web of lines, but a white bird pecked through one and sent the corpse crashing into the snow.
• Ara Yoshinori told the gathered guests that they had found the killer after the body fell from the villa, and indicated Tanaka Kikue.
• Conan told the group that Nishiyama Tsutomu had been murdered by someone calling himself the Shadow Master, and that the suspension bridge had been destroyed.
• Conan wondered whether Tanaka Kikue was truly the killer, then reported seeing a Golden-Eyed Person in the woods.
• Conan recounted how the Mist Tengu had caught him after he flew over the broken bridge, while Kid worried that a search could expose the yokai.

After the police arrived, Jiang Xia filed the case and discovered an advertisement for a dolphin tour that he recognized as a warning of a serial murder case. He sought the banknote needed to board the tour, while Hattori Heiji received a matching commission and planned to go to Tokyo.

• Mouri Ran worried about Conan’s dangerous cliff dive, while Suzuki Sonoko asked whether his rescuer was handsome.
• Ara Yoshinori and Jiang Xia persuaded everyone to stay at the villa until morning instead of crossing the mountains at night.
• When the police helicopter arrived, Kid escaped by hang glider, and Jiang Xia handed the police the murderer.
• Jiang Xia found Furukawa Dai’s newspaper quiz advertising a free Ogasawara Dolphin Tour and identified its answer as a first-edition 10,000 Yen Note from Showa 33.
• Hattori Heiji received a commission from Furukawa Dai with ten old 10,000 Yen Notes and decided to travel to Tokyo, but learned Mouri Kogoro would be at a concert.

Hattori Heiji tried to arrange a private outing with Conan in Tokyo to investigate the Ogasawara case, while Toyama Kazuha secretly invited Mouri Ran and Jiang Xia to join them. Conan ended up asking Jiang Xia to come along, leaving Hattori Heiji’s plan in danger of being exposed.

• Hattori Heiji considered asking Mouri Ran to arrange a meeting with Conan, but Toyama Kazuha questioned his suggestion, so he called Conan instead.
• Toyama Kazuha called Mouri Ran and arranged to meet her in Tokyo the day after tomorrow, then falsely claimed Hattori Heiji wanted Jiang Xia to join them.
• Hattori Heiji told Conan about his Tokyo trip and asked him to keep their outing secret from Jiang Xia.
• Conan, eating at Professor's House with Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai, told Jiang Xia about Hattori Heiji’s invitation and asked if he wanted to come too.

Hattori Heiji arrived in Tokyo with Toyama Kazuha and met Jiang Xia, Mouri Ran, and Conan, only to realize they had all arranged the meeting without telling him. He followed the group around while quietly planning to keep his anonymous commission secret until he could take Conan to investigate it without Jiang Xia.

• Conan invited Jiang Xia to join Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha in Tokyo, and Jiang Xia accepted Mouri Ran's message about the plans.
• Hattori Shizuka brought Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha to Tokyo ahead of a friend's son's wedding, and Hattori Heiji planned to meet Conan.
• Hattori Heiji was startled to find Jiang Xia, Mouri Ran, and Conan waiting with Toyama Kazuha, and he realized Conan and Toyama Kazuha had avoided his gaze.
• Jiang Xia and Mouri Ran treated Hattori Heiji as though he had invited Jiang Xia, leaving him unable to explain the misunderstanding.
• Hattori Heiji followed the others shopping and resolved to keep the anonymous commission secret until he could take Conan to investigate it without Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia left his classmates to meet a client who specifically requested him, learning that she was Hattori Heiji’s mother, Hattori Shizuka. She introduced herself under the surname Ikenami and asked for his help, leaving her problem unexplained.

• Xiao Bai noticed Hattori Heiji’s relieved expression and told Jiang Xia that he seemed to be hiding something.
• Amuro Tooru called Jiang Xia at the Detective Agency, saying a client named Ikenami had specifically asked to see him and might be Police Superintendent Hattori’s wife.
• Jiang Xia realized the client was Hattori Heiji’s mother and left his classmates, asking Mouri Ran to call him if anything happened.
• Jiang Xia rode to the Detective Agency, where Hattori Shizuka introduced herself as Ikenami and said a friend had recommended him to solve her problem.

Hattori Shizuka disguised herself as a client named Ikenami and hired Jiang Xia to find Shibata Shiro, while secretly testing the detective her family had praised. Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru had already recognized her, and Amuro speculated that she might be searching for an old first love.

• Hattori Shizuka arrived at the Detective Agency a day early and disguised her identity to assess Jiang Xia.
• Amuro Tooru called Jiang Xia to the office, then stayed nearby to listen as they spoke.
• Hattori Shizuka showed Jiang Xia a thirty-year-old kendo club photograph and asked him to find Shibata Shiro.
• Hattori Shizuka explained that she had left a photograph inside a book borrowed from Shibata and hoped to retrieve it.
• Amuro Tooru wondered whether Hattori Shizuka's commission was really an excuse to find her first love.

Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru tracked down Shibata Shiro for Hattori Shizuka by searching years of kendo competition records. They reached Shibata’s apartment, where Jiang Xia sensed a Shikigami nearby, but no one answered the door before a stern voice spoke from behind them.

• Jiang Xia suggested using Shibata Shiro’s kendo record to find him, and he and Amuro Tooru split up the long competition list to search.
• Jiang Xia found Shibata’s current phone number and address, then he and Amuro destroyed the lists.
• After no one answered Shibata’s phone, Hattori Shizuka agreed to go with Jiang Xia and Amuro to his home.
• The three drove to Shibata’s apartment, where Jiang Xia sensed a nearby Shikigami.
• When no one answered Shibata’s doorbell, a stern voice behind them asked whether they had come to see him.

Jiang Xia, Amuro Tooru, and Hattori Shizuka entered Shibata Shiro’s home and discovered that he had been murdered. A photograph in the dead man’s hand showed Hattori Shizuka as a girl, leaving Amuro Tooru suspicious that the case involved her.

• Yoshikawa Takezo arrived to visit Shibata Shiro and let himself into the unlocked home, followed by Jiang Xia, Amuro Tooru, and Hattori Shizuka.
• Shibata Shiro’s wife returned and angrily challenged the group for entering without permission.
• Yoshikawa Takezo found Shibata Shiro dead in the study, with what appeared to be blood clumped in his hair.
• After the police arrived, Amuro Tooru took a photograph from Shibata Shiro’s hand and saw a young Hattori Shizuka holding a medal.
• Amuro Tooru returned the photograph to the corpse’s hand and warned Jiang Xia not to let a suspect’s identity influence his judgment.

Jiang Xia exposed Mrs. Shibata's attempt to disguise the time of her husband's murder and frame Hattori Shizuka. Mrs. Shibata revealed the missing wedding ring, confirming Shibata Shiro had clutched it as a dying message.

• Amuro Tooru noticed a circular bloodstain on Shibata Shiro's palm and realized the victim's wedding ring was missing.
• Yoshikawa Takezo's account of Shibata Shiro's phone call heightened suspicion against Hattori Shizuka, but Inspector Megure hesitated to question her.
• Jiang Xia told Inspector Megure that Mrs. Shibata had falsified her alibi by manipulating the apparent time of her husband's death.
• Jiang Xia explained that Shibata Shiro had crawled into the study and clutched his wedding ring as a dying message, which Mrs. Shibata replaced with the photograph.
• Mrs. Shibata tossed out the bloodstained wedding ring, and a Forensics Department officer retrieved it.

After Mrs. Shibata confessed to murdering her husband, Jiang Xia stopped her from taking her own life and learned that Mouri Ran and the others were visiting the Morizono family. He arrived at the estate just as a window shattered, and Hattori Heiji rushed inside to investigate.

• Mrs. Shibata confessed to killing Shibata Shiro and implicated Yoshikawa Takezo, then tried to stab herself with a knife.
• Jiang Xia warned the officers about the knife, and they restrained Mrs. Shibata before she could reach it.
• Mouri Ran told Jiang Xia that she, Hattori Heiji, Toyama Kazuha, and Conan were visiting the Morizono family home with Katagiri Kaede and Shigematsu Akio.
• Jiang Xia rode to the Morizono estate and invited Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha on a nighttime outing.
• A third-floor window shattered, and Hattori Heiji and Conan hurried inside while Jiang Xia followed.

Morizono Kikuhito hid in a locked room after killing Butler Shigematsu and expected the intruders to overlook him. Jiang Xia and Hattori Heiji found him instead, and Kikuhito was arrested after confessing that he killed Shigematsu over a threat to cancel his engagement.

• Morizono Kikuhito recalled that Butler Shigematsu had threatened to reveal his company's illegal dealings unless he ended his engagement to Katagiri Kaede, so Kikuhito killed him and planned to frame Sakuraba Yuji.
• Kikuhito hid behind the curtains as Hattori Heiji, Toyama Kazuha, and the servants forced open the room after Shigematsu went missing.
• Jiang Xia noticed that the room's layout was wrong, causing Hattori Heiji to stop before following the blood trail into the inner room.
• Jiang Xia and Hattori Heiji found Kikuhito behind the curtains and restrained him as the others gathered at the door.
• Kikuhito confessed that he had killed Shigematsu because the butler had threatened him over the engagement.

After Morizono Kikuhito was arrested, Hattori Heiji and Conan tried to explain Butler Shigematsu’s reason for opposing the wedding, but Kikuhito challenged their theory and reacted suspiciously when Jiang Xia asked what he had done at the company. The canceled wedding disrupted Hattori Shizuka’s plans, while Heiji prepared to take Conan to Ogasawara for an anonymous commission.

• The police arrived at the Morizono residence, where Jiang Xia watched as Conan and Hattori Heiji investigated Kikuhito’s motive.
• Hattori Heiji told Morizono Kikuhito that Butler Shigematsu had tried to stop the wedding because Katagiri loved Sakuraba, but Kikuhito doubted the explanation.
• Jiang Xia asked Kikuhito what he had done at the company, and Kikuhito reacted angrily before falling silent.
• The wedding was canceled after the groom’s arrest, so Hattori Shizuka planned to return to Osaka that afternoon.
• Toyama Kazuha and Mouri Ran went shopping together while Hattori Heiji packed and prepared to take Conan to Ogasawara for an anonymous commission.
• Heiji peeked out of the hotel entrance with Conan and his luggage just as someone familiar stepped out of the opposite door.

Hattori Heiji left for Ogasawara with Conan to investigate a mysterious commission, while Hattori Shizuka hired Jiang Xia to look after the child. Jiang Xia accepted and headed to the ship, recognizing that the anonymous letter writer was also behind a newspaper contest offering passage to Ogasawara.

• Hattori Heiji left with Conan for the port after asking Hattori Shizuka not to tell Mouri Ran or Toyama Kazuha about his plans.
• Hattori Shizuka worried that Hattori Heiji would lose track of Conan during the investigation and decided to contact Jiang Xia.
• Hattori Shizuka texted Jiang Xia about the anonymous letter, the old banknotes, and her request that he protect Conan.
• Jiang Xia accepted Hattori Shizuka's commission and headed toward the ship with the old 10,000 Yen Notes he had prepared.
• Jiang Xia realized the anonymous letter writer had also placed a newspaper advertisement for a free Ogasawara Dolphin Tour.

Jiang Xia boarded a ship filled with people connected to a twenty-year-old bank robbery and planned to investigate while secretly sending a puppet aboard as backup. As the puppet approached the ship, it was revealed that Miyano Akemi was its filling.

• Jiang Xia used an old banknote to board the ship, registered under his real name, and chose Room 2.
• Jiang Xia recalled that Kujirai Sadao had lured his former accomplices aboard to kill them and claim the robbery money, while other passengers also had dangerous plans.
• Jiang Xia settled into his room and transferred his consciousness to a puppet he had left near the harbor.
• Jiang Xia's puppet, filled with Miyano Akemi, approached the ship wearing a disguise.

Jiang Xia boarded the ship as an independent guest while Hattori Heiji and Conan arrived to investigate the mysterious invitation. At dinner, the passengers learned that Ye Caisan, the vanished mastermind of a famous bank heist, was aboard, and Jiang Xia watched from a distance as the mystery began to unfold.

• Jiang Xia used Miyano Akemi's puppet and an Old Banknote to board the ship, then returned to his real body and waited in his cabin.
• Hattori Heiji and Conan boarded with an Old Banknote, and the receptionist explained that an anonymous gentleman had prepaid their fare.
• Hattori Heiji imagined that the client was testing him, while Conan searched the ship for the employer; they later realized several other guests were aboard.
• At dinner, a waiter said that only eleven people were taking part in the trip, and Kujirai Sadao mentioned meeting an expert in marine biology named Ye Caisan.
• A short-haired woman revealed that Ye Caisan was the Shadow Planner, mastermind of the 400 Million Bank Heist, and Jiang Xia watched the passengers through the Mist Tengu.