Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia joined Mouri Ran and the others as they investigated why Nanakawa Aya was suspected of stealing from the Convenience Store. After noticing the delivery routine and piecing together the clues, Ran gained confidence in her deduction and prepared to speak up for Aya.

• Jiang Xia arrived at the Convenience Store and watched the delivery workers postpone unloading because customers were using the storeroom area.
• Mouri Ran considered the delivery schedule and Xiao Xuan's habit of sorting the goods, then began to form a deduction.
• Jodie encouraged Ran to trust what remained after ruling out the impossible, and Jiang Xia translated the quote for Suzuki Sonoko.
• When the store manager pressed Nanakawa Aya to confess, Jiang Xia urged Ran to act and reassured her that detectives learned by making mistakes.
• Mouri Ran gathered her courage to defend her classmate while Jodie privately doubted Jiang Xia's claim that he had grown through mistakes.

Mouri Ran discovered that a man had been hiding in the store ceiling and stealing goods, clearing Xiao Xuan of suspicion. The clerks began questioning why the thief targeted the store on Xiao Xuan’s shifts and what he wanted with the game software.

• Mouri Ran asked to use the restroom, then shouted that there was a fire to make the hidden thief move.
• Jiang Xia and Mouri Ran heard movement in the ceiling, and the middle-aged man emerged from the restroom before Jiang Xia stopped him.
• Nanakawa Aya recognized the man as a customer who often let others go ahead of him in line.
• Mouri Ran told the store manager that the man had been living above the ceiling and climbing down through the restroom to steal food and other goods.
• The clerks wondered why the man stole whenever Xiao Xuan was on duty and why he took game software.

Mouri Ran explained how a man secretly lived in the convenience store ceiling and stole food, batteries, and game cartridges, while Jiang Xia helped confirm the hiding place. The store manager accepted the explanation, and Jiang Xia clarified why the thief only struck during Nanakawa Aya’s shifts.

• Mouri Ran explained that the ceiling tenant stole game cartridges to sell for grooming money and used stolen batteries to shop after closing.
• Jiang Xia showed the store manager the open ceiling panel in the restroom, and a clerk climbed up to inspect it.
• The clerk found piles of food wrappers and takeaway containers, confirming that someone had lived above the restroom.
• Mouri Ran explained that Nanakawa Aya’s careful work cleared a path from the restroom, letting the tenant enter the store unnoticed.
• Suzuki Sonoko pointed out that the thief could have moved the boxes blocking the restroom, and Jiang Xia said he avoided doing so to reduce the risk of being discovered.

Mouri Ran exposed the middle-aged man who had been stealing from the store, and he explained how he had become trapped there and started taking food. The store manager offered him work to repay the losses, and the chapter ended with Nanakawa Aya receiving apologies and Jiang Xia declining Teacher Jodie's invitation to a pajama party.

• Mouri Ran explained that the real thief had stopped stealing for a month after hearing the store manager scold Nanakawa Aya, then resumed when his money ran out.
• The middle-aged thief confessed that he had been laid off, become trapped inside the store after closing, and stolen food because he was starving.
• The store manager demanded repayment, then offered the thief a job so his wages could cover the stolen merchandise.
• Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko reminded the two men to apologize to Nanakawa Aya, and they bowed to her for wrongly accusing her.
• Nanakawa Aya hugged Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko in relief, while Teacher Jodie invited Jiang Xia to a pajama party and he politely declined.
• Jiang Xia said goodbye and left as the incident ended without police involvement.

Jodie’s supposed farewell party took an unsettling turn when Mouri Ran discovered a hidden collection of surveillance photographs in Jodie’s bathroom cabinet. Meanwhile, Conan worried that someone had entered the Kudo Residence and searched for his missing Voice Changer.

• Jodie used the High School Detective’s embarrassment to send him away, but Jiang Xia’s phone call revealed that Ran and Sonoko were supposedly having a pajama party at Jodie’s home.
• Jiang Xia told Conan that Ran had not visited the Kudo Residence, deepening Conan’s worry that someone else had entered it, and Conan asked Professor Agasa for a spare Voice Changer.
• Jodie fell asleep after drinking Champagne, leaving Ran and Sonoko to sit through their subdued party.
• Ran went to the restroom and spotted a photograph of Conan hidden beneath the mirror.
• Ran opened the mirror cabinet and found photographs of Conan, other children, Kudo Shinichi, herself, Sonoko, and Jiang Xia, whose face had been crossed out in every picture.

Mouri Ran discovered that Teacher Jodie had secretly photographed Jiang Xia and Conan, and she struggled to decide how to investigate without unfairly harming Jodie's career. The next day, she told Jiang Xia what she had found and asked him for a locator to help keep watch on Jodie.

• Mouri Ran noticed that Jiang Xia faced the camera in every photo and realized he had probably spotted the photographer, easing her initial fear.
• Mouri Ran saw that Teacher Jodie's collection included photos of Conan and worried that the teacher might pose a danger, but decided to confirm her intentions before calling the police.
• Mouri Ran left the photos as she found them and began planning how to protect Jiang Xia and Conan while chatting with Suzuki Sonoko.
• The next day, Mouri Ran asked Jiang Xia whether he had noticed anyone taking secret photos, and he said that too many people photographed him for him to remember them all.
• Mouri Ran asked Jiang Xia for a locator, and he deduced that she suspected Teacher Jodie of secretly photographing him and Conan.
• Mouri Ran admitted what she had found in Jodie's photo collection and explained her suspicions to Jiang Xia.

Mouri Ran asked Jiang Xia for help investigating Jodie without alerting Shinichi, and he gave her a Locator. After Ran secretly planted it on Jodie, Jodie transferred it to the Director’s briefcase, but Jiang Xia’s cat returned it; meanwhile, Conan wondered why someone had stolen police files on Sleeping Kogoro rather than files about Jiang Xia.

• Mouri Ran asked Jiang Xia to help her investigate Jodie before calling the police, and he gave her a Locator after she explained that she wanted to keep Shinichi out of it.
• Conan wondered why Jiang Xia had met Ran as a client, while Jiang Xia kept their conversation secret.
• Mouri Ran slipped the Locator into Jodie’s bag during gym class, but Jodie found it and moved it to the Director’s briefcase.
• Jiang Xia’s Black Cat with White Paws returned the Locator to Jodie’s bag so Ran could succeed in tracking her.
• Conan told Professor Agasa that Ran had been acting strangely and speculated that someone from the Organization might be investigating Sleeping Kogoro.
• Conan questioned why the missing police files concerned Mouri rather than Jiang Xia, who seemed more conspicuous.

Conan and Professor Agasa discussed the stolen police files and feared the Black Organization might be targeting Mouri Kogoro. Hattori Heiji arrived to help, and Conan identified Chris Vineyard as a possible thief, while Hattori proposed investigating a suspicious foreign teacher at Conan’s school.

• Conan told Professor Agasa that the stolen files focused more on Mouri Kogoro than Jiang Xia and reasoned that the Organization likely did not know APTX4869 could shrink people.
• Conan observed that the thief’s return of the files seemed intended to threaten the police or lure out Kudo Shinichi.
• Hattori Heiji arrived in Tokyo after Professor Agasa asked him to help Conan, then insisted Conan explain the case without calling Jiang Xia.
• Hattori recognized that Conan already had a lead, and Conan admitted he suspected Chris Vineyard had stolen the files.
• Hattori suggested starting their investigation with the suspicious foreign teacher at Conan’s school.

Hattori Heiji persuaded Conan to investigate Teacher Jodie, while Mouri Ran tracked Jodie's movements and prepared to watch her house. Jiang Xia joined Ran, offering to accompany her so their presence would seem less suspicious.

• Professor Agasa told Hattori Heiji that Teacher Jodie had been troubling Shinichi, and Hattori proposed visiting her home without warning.
• Conan reluctantly agreed to go with Hattori later, while warning him not to let Jodie turn the tables on them.
• After school, Mouri Ran used the Locator she had planted in Jodie's bag to check Jodie's route and planned to wait near her house.
• Jiang Xia appeared in Ran's classroom and asked how her investigation was going.
• Ran explained her plan to watch Jodie's house, and Jiang Xia offered to come along and pose as someone she was helping with a case.

Conan and Hattori Heiji went to Jodie’s apartment to investigate, while Jiang Xia and Mouri Ran waited at a café across the street. After Conan improvised an excuse to visit Jodie, three drunken people came stumbling out of the neighboring apartment.

• Hattori Heiji and Conan admired Jodie’s upscale building and discussed her wealth before heading to her floor.
• Jiang Xia and Mouri Ran hid in a café, where a waitress recognized Jiang Xia and eagerly accepted his signed business cards in exchange for keeping quiet.
• Hattori Heiji and Conan found Jodie’s apartment but had no plan for what to say, and their scuffle accidentally rang her doorbell.
• Conan told Jodie he wanted to practice speaking English with her, and she agreed to let him in.
• Hattori Heiji wondered whether Conan had revealed his identity to Jodie, and three drunken people emerged from the neighboring apartment.

Mouri Ran and Jiang Xia watched Jodie's apartment building while Hattori Heiji and Conan waited outside her door. Jodie finally let them in, but, wary of their suspicions, she planned to get them out quickly after hiding the photographs from her investigation.

• Mouri Ran monitored the apartment entrance with Jiang Xia and saw three neighbors leave, but none of them was Jodie in disguise.
• Hattori Heiji and Conan waited outside Jodie's door until she emerged with wet hair and invited them inside.
• Jodie offered to take the boys out for dinner, while Hattori Heiji and Conan asked to use her restroom.
• Jodie listened from her bedroom as the boys entered the restroom, then changed clothes after confirming they were occupied.
• Jodie recalled hiding her investigative photographs behind the restroom mirror and prepared to brush off the Detectives after checking her home.

Jodie took Hattori Heiji and Conan to dinner after they searched her bathroom, while Mouri Ran watched them leave and grew alarmed at seeing the two detectives with her. Outside Jodie's apartment, a woman photographed the building before her phone fell from above and a person dropped toward Hattori Heiji.

• Hattori Heiji and Conan searched Jodie's bathroom, then left with her to get dinner.
• Jodie questioned Hattori Heiji about his appearance and accent, and he explained that he was from Osaka.
• Mouri Ran watched Jodie's apartment with Jiang Xia and became worried when she saw Hattori Heiji and Conan leaving with Jodie.
• Jodie identified a woman photographing the building as Mr. Takai's girlfriend, and Hattori Heiji and Conan moved closer to investigate.
• A phone fell from above, and when Hattori Heiji looked up, a figure dropped toward him.

Jiang Xia, Hattori Heiji, and Conan investigated the death of Jodie's neighbor, Takai, who had fallen from the 21st floor. His girlfriend Shimoda Chika insisted that he had killed himself, while Jodie suspected murder.

• Jiang Xia pulled Hattori Heiji and Conan out of the way as Takai fell from the building and died on impact.
• Mouri Ran stayed across the street at a café to preserve her cover and called the police.
• Jodie identified the dead man as her neighbor Takai, and Shimoda Chika recognized him as her boyfriend and broke down beside his body.
• Jodie accused Shimoda Chika of killing Takai, prompting Hattori Heiji and Conan to suspect Jodie instead.
• Shimoda Chika said Takai had been drunk and asleep when she left with coworkers, and insisted that he had jumped to his death.

Jiang Xia investigated Takai’s apparent fall and questioned Shimoda Chika, while Hattori Heiji tried to conceal why he and Conan had visited Jodie. Inspector Megure arrived and questioned Shimoda about her photographs, leaving her explanation—and the suspicious circumstances of Takai’s death—unresolved.

• Shimoda Chika argued that Takai’s locked room and isolation meant he must have died by suicide, but Jiang Xia suggested it could have been a locked-room murder.
• Jiang Xia checked Takai’s phone and found a call with Kawakami Noboru and an email from Nakacho Tatsuya shortly before the fall; Shimoda identified both as colleagues who had dined with them.
• Jiang Xia asked Hattori Heiji why he and Conan were visiting Jodie, and Hattori claimed he had come to hang out and accompany Conan.
• Mouri Ran listened to Jiang Xia’s voice-only broadcast and realized Hattori was lying about having free time to visit Tokyo.
• Inspector Megure arrived and questioned Shimoda about taking photographs; she said she had been photographing Takai’s residence to show her friends and claimed she had been there for over an hour.

Inspector Megure questioned Shimoda Chika, Nakacho, and Kawakami about Section Chief Takai’s death, uncovering how Takai’s workplace bullying had contributed to Hiraya Sumiyo’s suicide. The middle-aged coworker admitted he had called Takai after the party and cursed him over Hiraya’s death, while the investigation remained unresolved.

• Shimoda Chika explained that she had driven Nakacho and Kawakami home after they left Takai’s celebration party, then returned to take pictures.
• Nakacho and Kawakami told Inspector Megure that Takai had berated them at the party, and Nakacho said he had later messaged Takai about treating his subordinates better.
• Nakacho explained that he had mentioned Senior Hiraya, prompting Kawakami to identify her as their colleague who had died by suicide the previous month.
• Kawakami and Shimoda Chika described Hiraya’s connection to the group and how Takai’s pressure had weighed on her.
• Kawakami said that after getting home, he had called Takai and blamed him for Hiraya’s suicide, then boasted that Takai had been too fragile to take the criticism.

Jiang Xia investigated the locked room where the victim fell and found evidence suggesting the fall was not suicide. A photograph showed a red-clad figure clinging to the curtains and trying to throw a phone through the window, leaving the case pointing toward murder.

• Inspector Megure asked Jiang Xia to examine the 21st-floor crime scene after hearing that the victim had been threatened by a middle-aged office worker.
• Officer Sato reported that Room 2103 had been locked from the inside and showed no signs of forced entry or anyone climbing over the balcony.
• Jiang Xia found torn curtain rings and argued that the victim had grabbed the curtains while falling, suggesting he had not intended to die.
• Jiang Xia spotted an impact mark on the window, and a forensic officer photographed it.
• Officer Takagi showed Jiang Xia photos of a red-clad figure holding the curtains and throwing something into the room.
• Hattori Heiji concluded that the figure had tried to throw a phone through the window, but it bounced off before the victim lost his grip and fell.

Jiang Xia identified the method used to make the victim jump when Hattori Heiji unknowingly reenacted it while taking a call. Conan and Hattori suspected a culprit and planned a life-or-death trap for Jodie, who secretly photographed them.

• Inspector Megure speculated that Miss Shimoda used a camera flash to lure the victim into jumping, while the other suspects had sent a text and made an angry call.
• Toyama Kazuha called Hattori Heiji and angrily confronted him for forgetting their plans and standing her up.
• While Hattori Heiji walked onto the balcony to get better phone reception, Jiang Xia pointed him out as demonstrating the murder method.
• Conan examined the balcony and bedroom windows, then he and Hattori concluded that a particular person was the murderer.
• Jodie secretly photographed Hattori Heiji, and he and Conan decided to set a life-or-death trap for her.

Hattori Heiji and Conan asked Jiang Xia to help get Inspector Megure’s approval for an experiment to recreate the murder scene and test their suspicions about Teacher Jodie. The plan left Jodie selected to play the drunken victim, and she worried that the experiment might put her in danger.

• Hattori Heiji told Conan that Jiang Xia might also be investigating Teacher Jodie, and Conan agreed to ask him for help.
• Hattori Heiji and Conan explained their experiment to Jiang Xia, who agreed on the condition that they keep Jodie safe.
• Hattori Heiji persuaded Inspector Megure to let the officers reenact the suspects’ actions, with Sato, Takagi, and Chiba playing the suspects.
• Hattori Heiji insisted that the reenactment needed a drunken victim, and he and Conan pointed to Jodie.
• Jodie realized she was being asked to play the victim and worried that the experiment might make her jump from the twenty-first floor.

Jodie reluctantly agreed to act out a simulated crime scene after deciding it was safer than disrupting the plan. Hattori Heiji and Jiang Xia prepared a small adjustment to the scene, leaving Inspector Megure and the suspects waiting for the result.

• Jodie considered refusing the role but decided to play the drunken victim, reasoning that the police could keep her safe during the experiment.
• Jodie inspected the Sherry and drank directly from the bottle while Jiang Xia offered her a wineglass.
• Hattori Heiji sent Inspector Megure out of Takai's bedroom while Takagi stayed behind to assist.
• Takagi told Inspector Megure that Jodie had finished drinking, fallen asleep, and had her phone placed under her pillow.
• Hattori Heiji said they would make a tiny adjustment after Jodie fell asleep, which would reveal the answer to the Murder Case.

Hattori Heiji began recreating the suspects’ actions to test how the victim had been killed, while Jodie tried to stay awake in the room where the victim had died. After an anesthetic needle and the wine put her to sleep, Hattori’s call woke her, and she headed toward the balcony to find a better phone signal.

• Jodie spat most of the wine back into the bottle and kept watch, but a hidden anesthetic needle made her fall asleep.
• Hattori Heiji emailed Jodie to draw her attention, but she read the message groggily and did not reply.
• Hattori asked Nakacho about his email to the victim and had Sato Miwako recreate the flash photographs taken by Shimoda Chika.
• Hattori called Jodie while recreating the victim’s final phone call, and she answered without understanding what he was talking about.
• Jodie woke up further, remembered the case and the experiment, and walked toward the bedroom balcony to improve the call’s signal.