Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia, Conan, and Hattori Heiji connected the stool inscriptions and animal clues to the local suspects, while Conan and Hattori Heiji found evidence that the beach message had been erased. They returned to the dining room claiming to have solved both murders but withheld the culprit’s identity.

• Jiang Xia, Conan, and Hattori Heiji examined the stools and linked the hidden names, Xiao Du’s drawings, and the Gold Folding Screen’s egret to place-related clues.
• Jiang Xia told Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko that the killer was likely one of the four locals and urged them to watch the suspects in the dining room.
• Conan and Hattori Heiji found that the beach message had vanished, but Conan spotted a small footprint that could expose the killer’s method.
• Conan and Hattori Heiji agreed to lure the culprit into the forest to force the truth out, while Curacao watched them from hiding and then returned to the Villa.
• Conan and Hattori Heiji entered the dining room and announced that they had solved both murders, but refused to identify the killer yet.

Hattori Heiji and Conan staged Kume’s apparent escape to make the real culprit believe he had fled, while secretly hiding the unconscious man. They left the group searching for Kume as Hattori prepared to use his clothes in the plan.

• Hattori Heiji questioned the blond crew member, Kume, alone while the others waited and chose an order for questioning.
• After half an hour, Hattori and Conan chased someone past the dining room and told the group that Kume had run away.
• Hattori urged everyone to search for Kume, and the crew members scattered through the building.
• Conan pulled Jiang Xia, Suzuki Sonoko, and Mouri Ran into the woods, where they saw Hattori change into Kume’s shirt and hurry away.
• Conan revealed that Kume was not the culprit but the culprit’s next target, and that he and Hattori had knocked Kume unconscious and hidden him to fake his escape.

Conan and the others set a trap to make the murderer attack Hattori Heiji, who disguised himself as the blond-haired man and waited in the woods with a knife. The murderer saw through the disguise and ran back toward the villa, leaving Hattori alone with the bait while Conan and Sonoko watched in confusion.

• Conan explained that Hattori would pose as Mr. Kume to draw out the murderer, and that he had a knife to cut free if attacked with rope.
• Conan, Ran, and Sonoko entered the woods from another direction to wait nearby and help Hattori if needed.
• The murderer followed the disguised Hattori into the woods, then realized the detectives’ plan and turned back toward the empty villa.
• Hattori reached the boat, uncovered the gold folding screen, and waited for the murderer to attack, but no one appeared.
• Conan and Sonoko watched Hattori admire the screen and wondered where the murderer had gone.

Jiang Xia, Conan, and Hattori Heiji returned to the Villa and found the blond-haired man dead, leading the Deputy Captain to accuse them of jumping to conclusions. Jiang Xia exposed how the Deputy Captain staged the beach clue and revealed that the captain had been searching for a sunken princess tied to a four-year-old robbery.

• Conan realized the intended victim was still in the Villa, and he and Jiang Xia rushed back with Hattori Heiji and the others.
• Conan found the blond-haired man hanging from the ceiling, with the words “I am a Messenger of the Underworld” written on the wall.
• Hattori Heiji accused the Deputy Captain of killing the victims and linked him to the Gold Folding Screen robbery, but the Deputy Captain challenged the timeline of the beach clue.
• Jiang Xia explained that the Deputy Captain had used waves pushed by the captain’s boat to make the beach appear marked by the tide, allowing him to stage the first victim’s scene.
• Conan said his photographed footprints beside the writing could prove the tide had not washed the words away, while the Deputy Captain claimed the evidence was gone.
• Jiang Xia revealed that the captain had been using a detector to search for the princess sunk with a ship anchor four years earlier.

Jiang Xia explained the Gold Folding Screen riddle and accused the Deputy Captain of murdering Miss Taira, revealing that she was actually the mayor’s kidnapped daughter, Miss Xiao Du. He also concluded that Xiao Du had staged her own kidnapping after her mother’s death, and the chapter left the group reeling at the revelation.

• Jiang Xia explained that the “princess” referred to a stolen Gold Folding Screen that robbers had hidden near the island, and that a stranded accomplice left a riddle marking its new hiding place.
• Jiang Xia said the Deputy Captain had joined the television crew to watch for the robbers and took revenge by strangling Miss Taira after following her into the forest.
• Jiang Xia argued that the Deputy Captain had killed the Captain brutally but left Miss Taira’s body peacefully because he discovered she was the mayor’s daughter, Miss Xiao Du.
• Jiang Xia revealed that Miss Xiao Du had disguised herself as Miss Taira, and Curacao silently adjusted her black wig as he explained how appearance could be changed.
• Jiang Xia inferred from childhood writing in the villa that Xiao Du was Mayor Jincheng’s stepdaughter and had staged her kidnapping after her mother died.
• The program director was shocked by Jiang Xia’s explanation and remembered hearing similar gossip from his cousin.

Jiang Xia exposed Deputy Captain Daito as the murderer, linking him to Mayor Jincheng’s household and pointing out evidence he had left behind. Daito confessed that he had sought revenge for his fiancée’s murder, but learned too late that Xiao Du had also been involved in the robbery.

• Jiang Xia explained that Xiao Du’s nicknames for Kachan and Choni referred to Matsumoto Kako and Daito, and revealed that Daito had once been Mayor Jincheng’s butler.
• Jiang Xia cited Daito’s habits and the fresh rope mark on his palm as evidence, while the program director explained that skin traces could remain on the rope.
• Daito dismissed the evidence, then realized he had incriminated himself by assuming the rope could only be tested for fingerprints.
• Conan asked why Daito had targeted the Captain, and Daito confessed that he had seen the Captain stab his fiancée Kako during the robbery four years earlier.
• Daito said he had changed his appearance and accent to pursue revenge, and revealed that he recognized Xiao Du when she apologized to him as he strangled her.

The island serial murder case ended with the Deputy Captain revealing that Miss Xiao Du had sought revenge after Mayor Jincheng refused to pay her ransom. As Jiang Xia and the others headed back, Vermouth considered a new plan to capture Sherry while Uzo was away, unaware that Jiang Xia and Conan were returning.

• The Deputy Captain explained that Miss Xiao Du had arranged her own kidnapping to test Mayor Jincheng, then later stole his folding screen with accomplices to take revenge after he refused to pay the ransom.
• The Production Team and police arrived, and Hattori Heiji and Conan remained troubled by the role they had played in drawing out the murderer.
• The gold folding screen's egret appeared to shed a tear as its pigment oxidized, while Curacao blamed poor workmanship on the counterfeit.
• Mayor Jincheng fled overseas with his assets after claiming grief over the truth, and Curacao left the island after filing her report.
• Vermouth read news of the island murders and decided she would need a better plan to capture Sherry without simply luring Uzo out of Tokyo.
• Professor Agasa told the children that Jiang Xia and Conan were returning and should meet up with them.

Professor Agasa and the children arrived at a Chiba inn for a vacation, while Curacao spotted them and fled before being recognized. After Jiang Xia joined the group, they set off to pick matsutake for dinner.

• Professor Agasa brought Haibara Ai and the Detective Boys to the inn, where Curacao saw them and hurriedly drove away.
• Haibara Ai sensed a faint Black Organization presence but concluded it was an illusion after Jiang Xia arrived later by taxi.
• Mouri Ran explained that Mouri had gone to Yoko’s concert, while Conan said Hattori Heiji had returned to Osaka after running into trouble.
• The group learned that guests could pick matsutake for dinner, and Professor Agasa agreed to take them.
• The inn’s van drove the group to the matsutake picking site.

Jiang Xia and the children searched the woods for matsutake after the inn staff warned them to stay out of the fenced hunting zone. Their search turned up a poisonous Tengu Mushroom instead, and the chapter left Ayumi impressed by Jiang Xia’s knowledge.

• The inn staff limited matsutake picking and warned everyone not to cross the fences into the hunting zone, where Black Bears might appear.
• The children found few matsutake, and Ayumi and Genta argued about whether apples were worth picking instead.
• Mitsuhiko admired Haibara Ai’s knowledge and composure, while Conan teased him that he and Haibara had an unbridgeable gulf between them.
• Ayumi spotted a large red Mushroom, and Conan identified it as a highly poisonous Tengu Mushroom.
• Jiang Xia explained the Mushroom’s name and poisonous hallucinogenic effects, impressing Ayumi.

Conan helped the group find matsutake while Haibara Ai told Jiang Xia she had sensed an Organization member at the inn. Jiang Xia lamented that Curacao had already left, while Haibara mistook his disappointment for worry about the Okinawa murder case.

• Kojima Genta worried the group would go hungry without matsutake, and Conan explained how to find mushrooms by examining the pine trees.
• Conan led the group to matsutake beneath a Japanese red pine, and the others split up to search for more.
• Haibara Ai told Jiang Xia she had sensed an Organization member at the inn before the presence disappeared.
• Jiang Xia realized Curacao had likely left the inn, and Haibara Ai misunderstood his disappointment as concern over the Okinawa case.
• Haibara Ai reassured Jiang Xia that the media had not reported the Okinawa incident and people would soon forget about it.

Kojima Genta and Suzuki Sonoko found matsutake beyond the wire fence, but while Genta was talked out of crossing it, Sonoko dismissed the bear warning and climbed over with Mouri Ran. Conan worried that another suspicious person might approach Jiang Xia, but no one appeared.

• Kojima Genta spotted matsutake beyond the wire fence, but Yoshida Ayumi and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko pulled him away after warning him about bears and reminding him to follow the rules.
• Suzuki Sonoko failed to find matsutake until she spotted several across the fence and decided the bear warning was probably just meant to scare people.
• Mouri Ran warned Suzuki Sonoko not to cross the fence, but Sonoko climbed over and Ran followed to keep watch.
• Conan told Jiang Xia he had a bad feeling and worried that another suspicious person might appear, but none had shown up.

Jiang Xia, Haibara Ai, and Conan crossed a fenced boundary to search for Ran and Sonoko after they failed to return from mushroom picking. Conan and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko followed, but the two groups became separated in the woods.

• Conan warned Jiang Xia that Miss Shirai’s changed plans might mean she had deliberately engineered a chance encounter, while Haibara Ai silently noticed their suspicious conversation.
• The group returned to the meeting point with matsutake, where Professor Agasa explained that they could take more than the free allotment by paying extra.
• When Ran and Sonoko failed to return, Conan found fresh mud on the fence and suspected they had climbed over to find more mushrooms; Professor Agasa’s call to them failed.
• Jiang Xia offered to search beyond the fence, and Haibara Ai joined him; Conan and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko climbed over after them.
• Conan and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko found that Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai were already out of sight, so Conan suggested they search together without wandering off.

Conan split up the search for Ran and Sonoko while Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai investigated a hole in a second wire fence. After Haibara crawled through and Jiang Xia vaulted it, a black bear emerged from the bushes.

• Conan left Professor Agasa at the fence to guide Ran and Sonoko if they returned, then sent Mitsuhiko off to search separately.
• Haibara asked Jiang Xia whether Lawyer Shirai was connected to the organization, and he confirmed her identity but said her approach was personal.
• Jiang Xia told Haibara she could deter Shirai by imitating Conan's sinister smile.
• Jiang Xia and Haibara found a long-standing hole beneath a second fence and suspected Ran and Sonoko had crawled through it by mistake.
• Haibara crawled through the hole, and Jiang Xia vaulted over the fence after her.
• A furry black head emerged from the bushes, startling Haibara.

Haibara Ai and Jiang Xia encountered a bear cub and a murdered hunter in the Hunting Zone, then fled from a shooter. As Conan's group entered the zone to find them, Curacao arrived with a lawyer whose hidden documents she planned to steal.

• Haibara Ai approached a bear cub, but a gunshot startled it and it ran toward the sound.
• Haibara Ai and Jiang Xia found a dead hunter, then dodged shots from a hunter trying to silence them.
• Conan used Haibara Ai's Detective Badge signal to locate her inside the Hunting Zone, and the group climbed over the fence to find her and Jiang Xia.
• Curacao arrived at the Hunting Zone with Lawyer Shirai and planned to take the documents he had hidden.

Curacao tried to relax during a hunting outing with Lawyer Tachibana, but the arrival of Professor Agasa and the children reignited her fears of another encounter connected to Uzo. When they asked about the missing Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai, Tachibana offered to help search for them.

• Curacao tried to put thoughts of Uzo aside and enjoy the forest while Lawyer Tachibana considered replacing the unruly Sakuraba with an obedient newcomer.
• Tachibana and Curacao discovered Professor Agasa and the children crawling through a hole in the hunting-zone fence.
• Conan recognized Curacao as Lawyer Shirai and worried that leaving might mean abandoning Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai, who had not returned.
• Agasa explained that the group had entered the zone to search for their missing companions because their phones had no signal.
• Ayumi asked whether Tachibana had seen Jiang Xia and Haibara, and he offered to join the search.

Conan and the others searched for Haibara Ai after tracking her Detective Badge, but found it abandoned beside blood and bear tracks. A hunter warned them about a notorious one-eyed Black Bear named Jubei, while the newcomers and the unexplained signs in the woods left Conan and Curacao wary.

• Conan used his glasses to locate Haibara Ai's Detective Badge and led the group toward it.
• The group found the badge in the grass, and Yoshida Ayumi worried that Haibara Ai was in danger.
• Yoshida Ayumi spotted a pool of blood, while Kojima Genta found unusually large bear tracks nearby.
• Lawyer Tachibana reassured the children that bears usually avoided people, but a Short Hunter warned that Jubei, a one-eyed Black Bear, held a grudge against humans.
• A long-haired hunter arrived, and Conan suspected the newcomers might be connected to Lawyer Tachibana as he wondered who had left the blood.

Professor Agasa and the hunters searched for Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai while the pair hid nearby after witnessing a murder. Haibara discovered Jiang Xia had a small handgun and urged him not to use it, while Curacao spotted him and chose not to reveal his location.

• The long-haired hunter welcomed the chance to hunt the man-eating Black Bear, and Yoshida Ayumi cried after mistaking his remarks for confirmation that Jiang Xia and Ai had been eaten.
• Lawyer Tachibana redirected the group toward finding the missing pair, and Professor Agasa entered the woods with the hunters and Yoshida Ayumi.
• Haibara Ai heard the search party and recognized the armed hunter among them, so she warned Jiang Xia that he might shoot them to silence them.
• Jiang Xia showed Haibara Ai a small handgun, but she pressed his hand down and told him not to risk shooting anyone.
• Curacao spotted Jiang Xia putting away the gun, but she stayed quiet and continued searching with the group.

Conan found a potato chip that Jiang Xia and Haibara had apparently left as a trail, then realized they were likely avoiding armed pursuers. As hunters fired into the woods and Curacao sensed Uzo nearby, Conan sent Professor Agasa to alert the inn and police about the blood and bullet hole.

• Yoshida Ayumi found a fresh potato chip, and Conan inferred that Jiang Xia and Haibara had deliberately left it as a marker.
• Conan told Professor Agasa to contact the inn and police because he had found blood and a fresh bullet hole near Haibara's Badge.
• Three hunters fired into rustling bushes, and a rabbit fled while Curacao glimpsed the silver flash of Uzo's handgun.
• Suzuki Sonoko challenged the hunters for shooting without checking whether someone was in the bushes.
• Mr. Saiga claimed that he alone could kill the bear Jubei, and Lawyer Tachibana explained his reputation to the group.
• Conan told Professor Agasa to leave for help and later use Conan's Badge to find the others.

Haibara Ai and Jiang Xia tried to protect the group from the murderous hunter while taking in a frightened Black Bear cub. Meanwhile, Conan learned that the cub belonged to Jubei and grew suspicious of Lawyer Tachibana’s missing hunting companion, whose spare ammunition had been brought to the mountain.

• Haibara Ai worried that the hunter could take Yoshida hostage, while Jiang Xia explained that the hunters’ rifles required time to reload.
• Jiang Xia caught a Black Bear cub following them, and Haibara Ai decided they should protect it until the hunter was stopped.
• Conan and the hunters found fresh claw marks on a tree, and the short hunter explained that they belonged to Jubei and her cub.
• Lawyer Tachibana said his hunting-obsessed friend had come to the mountain and revealed that he had brought him spare buckshot.
• Conan deduced that the buckshot was for Tachibana’s missing friend, then wondered whether the man might already be dead.

Conan learned that a hunter had been shot dead and a bear cub had also been killed in the woods, while Jiang Xia and Haibara remained missing. He concluded that one of the three hunters was the murderer and suspected the missing pair had witnessed the crime.

• A police officer told Professor Agasa that they had found a man shot dead and a bear cub killed, with stones placed on the cub's body.
• Professor Agasa warned Conan that a killer was in the woods and that Jiang Xia and Ai might be in danger.
• Conan hid the discovery from the three hunters and told them the police were coming as they continued searching for Jiang Xia and Haibara.
• Curacao stayed on guard and wondered why Uzo had been following her across several prefectures.
• Mitsuhiko asked Conan whether one of the hunters could be the killer, and Conan said one of the three was certainly responsible and that Jiang Xia and Haibara had likely witnessed the murder.