Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia escaped Vermouth and later watched Amuro Tooru arrive at the hotel, where he found Vermouth restrained and Jiang Xia gone. Amuro eventually caught up with Jiang Xia on the street, but Jiang Xia remained wary of him.

• Jiang Xia left Vermouth a bizarre teapot and departed through the hotel garage.
• Jiang Xia suspected the speeding Mazda RX-7 belonged to Amuro Tooru and followed it back toward the hotel with the Mist Tengu.
• Amuro Tooru found Vermouth bound to the headboard and learned that Jiang Xia had already left.
• Jiang Xia watched Amuro Tooru question Vermouth before quietly leaving the hotel.
• Amuro Tooru pulled up beside Jiang Xia and urged him to get in, but Jiang Xia eyed him warily.

Jiang Xia recounted his encounter with Vermouth to Amuro Tooru, who warned him about her disguises and decided to investigate her conflict with Gin and Kudo Shinichi’s presumed death. After returning to the Detective Agency, Jiang Xia found a rare envelope among the usual advertisements and insurance offers.

• Amuro Tooru drove Jiang Xia away before the traffic police arrived and asked him what Vermouth had wanted.
• Jiang Xia told Amuro Tooru that Vermouth had asked whether Kudo Shinichi might still be alive, and Jiang Xia said he believed Kudo Shinichi was dead.
• Amuro Tooru identified Vermouth as Chris Vineyard, warned Jiang Xia about her, and advised him not to accept drinks from strangers or go to bars.
• Amuro Tooru dropped Jiang Xia near the Detective Agency and resolved to investigate Vermouth’s feud with Gin and Kudo Shinichi’s fate.
• Jiang Xia gathered the mail from his mailbox and found a rare envelope among the advertisements and insurance offers.

Jiang Xia received an invitation to Sakamaki Akira’s memorial service and told Gin he could use it to join the organization’s operation. After Gin instructed him to observe and provide support, Jiang Xia returned safely to Professor Agasa’s house, where Conan pressed him for details about his encounter with someone disguised as Teacher Ogata.

• Jiang Xia opened Ryoko Naito’s late-arriving invitation to Sakamaki Akira’s memorial service and decided to attend.
• Jiang Xia messaged Gin that he could infiltrate the organization’s assassination team through the invitation and collect ghosts.
• Gin told Jiang Xia that other executives would lead the operation and that he should support the team without exposing himself, then asked about Vermouth.
• Jiang Xia described his encounter with Vermouth to Gin while leaving out Kudo Shinichi, and Gin praised him before ending the call.
• Jiang Xia arrived at Professor Agasa’s house, and Haibara Ai checked that he had returned without being followed by Men in Black.
• Conan returned from searching the city, asked Jiang Xia what had happened, and heard that someone disguised as Teacher Ogata had taken him to a bar.

Jiang Xia prepared for the assassination of Councilman Nomiguchi at Director Sakamaki’s Memorial Service, while learning that Vermouth would stay away because the FBI had targeted her identity. He arrived at the banquet hall, where Pisco was already in position, and began mingling with the guests as the event approached.

• Haibara Ai asked Jiang Xia whether the danger had passed, and he reassured her that she could stay home for a few days while Gin dealt with Pisco.
• Jiang Xia received Gin’s plan for Pisco to kill Councilman Nomiguchi by shooting a chandelier chain during a slideshow and make the death look like an accident.
• Jiang Xia arrived at the Memorial Service, received a Purple Handkerchief, and spotted Pisco checking the chandelier while Vermouth remained absent.
• Vermouth told Jiang Xia that the FBI had targeted the identity she usually used and advised him to watch the assassination without exposing himself if anything went wrong.
• Jiang Xia decided he should offer Pisco some support and began preparing to exchange business cards with the arriving guests.

Jiang Xia prepared for the assassination at Director Sakamaki’s Memorial Service while Haibara Ai and Conan secretly arrived, drawing Gin’s attention after Haibara left a strand of hair in his car. Gin identified the hair as Sherry’s and planned to hunt her, with Vodka suggesting they might use Uzo as bait.

• Jiang Xia handed out business cards at the Memorial Service, exchanged one with Pisco, and planned to use Anonymous to expose Pisco if no reporter photographed him firing.
• Haibara Ai saw Gin’s Porsche on a broadcast, and Conan rushed out to investigate it before Haibara and Professor Agasa caught up and pulled him away from the car.
• Haibara Ai followed the Organization’s assassination plan to the banquet hall, where she and Conan slipped inside and searched for Jiang Xia.
• Gin found Haibara Ai’s reddish-brown hair and a Listening Device in his car, then redirected his plans to hunt Sherry.
• Vodka suggested using Uzo as a hostage to lure Sherry out, and Gin considered keeping the idea as a backup plan.

Gin assigned Pisco to watch for Sherry at the Memorial Service while Jiang Xia discovered that Haibara Ai had come to the venue and prepared an Anonymous puppet. As the lights went out during a slideshow, Pisco aimed at a chandelier above Councilman Nomiguchi, while the puppet slipped through the hall.

• Gin reconsidered Vodka’s hostage plan and instructed Pisco to locate Sherry through Jiang Xia, then told Pisco not to provoke the detective.
• Pisco watched Jiang Xia, who learned from the Mermaid that the organization was searching for Sherry and spotted Haibara Ai and Conan in the crowd.
• Jiang Xia sent Anonymous into the venue and pretended to be drunk so Inspector Megure would not ask him to help solve the assassination case.
• Inspector Megure approached Jiang Xia just before the lights went out for the slideshow, allowing Anonymous to emerge from beneath a table.
• Councilman Nomiguchi followed instructions to stand beneath the chandelier as Pisco raised his silenced gun toward it.

Pisco assassinated Councilman Nomiguchi by shooting the chandelier chain, then recognized Haibara Ai as Sherry and abducted her. He hid her in the Wine Cellar and considered luring Jiang Xia there as well.

• Pisco shot the chandelier chain during the blackout, causing it to fall and kill Councilman Nomiguchi.
• Jiang Xia saw the victim’s ghost attach itself to Pisco, while Inspector Megure ordered everyone to remain at the scene.
• Pisco recognized Haibara Ai as Sherry when she appeared at the banquet hall entrance, then abducted her amid the crowd’s confusion.
• Pisco disguised himself as a cleaner, hid Haibara Ai in a box, and took her to the Wine Cellar.
• Pisco left Haibara Ai unconscious in the Wine Cellar and decided to lure Jiang Xia there too.

Jiang Xia lured Pisco into an empty changing room, where Pisco tried to attack him and was beaten before Sato Miwako interrupted them. Sato took both men to cooperate with the investigation, while Conan called Inspector Megure and had the registered Purple Handkerchief recipients detained after Haibara Ai disappeared.

• Jiang Xia led Pisco away from the banquet hall, and Sato Miwako watched them leave.
• Pisco tried to knock Jiang Xia unconscious in an empty changing room, but Jiang Xia dodged him and beat him with a collapsible baton.
• Sato Miwako knocked on the door, and Jiang Xia stopped, hid the baton, and let her in.
• Pisco denied being harmed, and Sato ordered both him and Jiang Xia to accompany her for questioning.
• Conan called Inspector Megure in Kudo Shinichi's voice and asked the police to detain the registered recipients of the Purple Handkerchiefs after Haibara Ai disappeared.

After Councilman Nomiguchi’s murder, the police detained Jiang Xia and Pisco among the seven recipients of purple handkerchiefs. Trapped in Pisco’s wine cellar, Haibara Ai learned that the organization might come for her and took a temporary APTX4869 antidote so she could escape through the chimney.

• Sato Miwako found Jiang Xia and Pisco together and had them detained for questioning.
• Pisco feared that the police’s communications ban would delay the organization’s search of the wine cellar where Haibara Ai was imprisoned.
• Inspector Megure asked Jiang Xia to privately identify any suspects, but Jiang Xia chose to keep pretending he would not solve the case.
• Haibara Ai woke in the locked wine cellar and used her Detective Boys badge to tell Conan and Professor Agasa where she was.
• Conan warned Haibara Ai that the organization could interrogate her and threaten the people who had helped her, while Miyano Akemi watched from the shadows.
• Haibara Ai decided to escape through the chimney and swallowed a temporary antidote that could restore her adult body.

Haibara Ai used a temporary antidote to return to adulthood and found a bulletproof vest and a marked note that made her suspect Anonymous was helping her escape. As she climbed the Wine Cellar chimney, Gin and Vodka arrived searching for Pisco and Sherry.

• Haibara Ai took the antidote, found an Anonymous-marked note and an adult-sized bulletproof vest in a cleaning cart, and changed into the cleaner's clothes.
• Haibara Ai confirmed that Pisco's Computer displayed the Black Organization's interface, then decided Anonymous might be offering her a chance to escape and join them.
• Haibara Ai climbed into the chimney but heard several people approaching and feared the Computer's transmitter had revealed her location.
• Gin and Vodka reached Haido City Hotel after failing to contact their missing teammates, and Vodka speculated that Uzo might have killed Pisco.
• Gin inferred that Pisco was likely still alive and that he and Uzo might have been caught up in the police investigation.
• Vodka shot the lock off the Wine Cellar door, and Gin spotted Sherry's hair near a box and Pisco's Computer on the table.

Gin searched the Wine Cellar for Sherry, but Anonymous rescued her and told her to return to Professor's House. After arranging for Sherry to escape with Conan, Anonymous gave her a chance to become a Peripheral Member.

• Gin found Sherry's hair and heard her breathing inside the chimney, then left with Vodka to wait for her on the Rooftop Terrace.
• Anonymous pulled Sherry from the chimney and praised her for increasing Gin's Killing Intent, but refused her request to join the Organization and told her to go back.
• When the Antidote wore off, Anonymous helped Sherry recover and carried her out in a large bag; Sherry warned her about Pisco's Computer, but Anonymous left it behind.
• Conan and Professor Agasa failed to locate Haibara Ai, and Conan entered Haido City Hotel after Gin and Vodka arrived.
• Anonymous handed Conan the bag containing Sherry, ordered him to take her outside, and warned him not to return before dawn.
• Anonymous offered Sherry a chance to start as a Peripheral Member, and Sherry accepted the Anesthetic she was given.

Conan tried to return to Haido City Hotel, but Haibara Ai injected him with Anesthetic and took Professor Agasa away. At the hotel, Pisco escaped the police with a planted handkerchief and headed for the Wine Cellar, where Gin confronted him about a photograph of him firing his gun.

• Conan tried to return to the hotel, but Haibara Ai injected him with Anesthetic and persuaded Professor Agasa to leave.
• Jiang Xia learned that Haibara Ai had followed his instructions, then waited for Pisco's situation to unfold.
• Pisco found a purple commemorative handkerchief in his pocket and was allowed to leave the police room.
• Jiang Xia passed the handkerchief check with his own handkerchief and followed Pisco toward the Wine Cellar.
• Pisco found a bullet hole in the Wine Cellar door lock and entered with his gun drawn.
• Gin confronted Pisco with a gun and told him that a photograph of him firing at the ceiling would appear in the next morning's news.

Pisco tried to save himself by offering to find Sherry, but Gin shot him after he falsely accused Jiang Xia of rescuing her. Gin later questioned how Jiang Xia knew Pisco was doomed, accepted his explanation that he had overheard their conversation, and set the Wine Cellar ablaze.

• Pisco offered to find Sherry in exchange for a chance to redeem himself, then pointed to Jiang Xia and claimed he had rescued her.
• Jiang Xia denied Pisco’s accusation and called it an attempt to fabricate a story to escape.
• Pisco realized Jiang Xia was connected to the organization, but Gin shot him before he could finish speaking.
• Jiang Xia saw Pisco’s Shikigami retreat from Gin and was disappointed that no Ghost Fetus appeared.
• Gin questioned how Jiang Xia had known Pisco was doomed, and Jiang Xia said he had overheard their conversation in the corridor.
• Gin ordered Vodka and Jiang Xia outside, then tossed a lit match into the Wine Cellar and set it on fire.

After the hotel fire, Gin warned Jiang Xia not to endanger Organization members, suspecting he had helped bring about Pisco’s death. The next morning, Conan learned that Pisco had died and began to suspect that Anonymous was responsible.

• Vodka abandoned the Hostage Plan, and Jiang Xia secretly collected Gin’s Killing Intent as they left the burning hotel.
• Gin ordered Vodka to catch up with Jiang Xia, then warned Jiang Xia that he must not pull another trick like the one Gin suspected had led to Pisco’s death.
• Gin dropped Jiang Xia off in Beika Town and continued with Vodka to inspect the results of their mission at Councilman Nomiguchi’s residence.
• Jiang Xia signed Councilman Nomiguchi’s Shikigami, collected Killing Intent, and planned to pick up a cat from Professor Agasa’s house the next morning.
• Conan woke at Professor Agasa’s house, called Inspector Megure using Kudo Shinichi’s voice, and learned that Masuyama Kenzo had died in the hotel fire.
• Conan connected the Purple Commemorative Handkerchief and wine cellar to Pisco, then wondered whether Anonymous had killed him.

Conan investigated who had given Pisco a Purple Commemorative Handkerchief, while Jiang Xia volunteered to take the Detective Boys to a movie. The children reluctantly agreed, then secretly planned to avoid him after school.

• Conan learned that Masuyama Kenzo had produced a Purple Commemorative Handkerchief and considered whether one of the other guests had given it to Pisco.
• Jiang Xia listened in as Conan questioned Inspector Megure, and later learned that Conan had ruled him out after confirming Jiang Xia had his own handkerchief.
• Jiang Xia offered to take the Detective Boys to see a Gomera movie, and the children reluctantly accepted after Professor Agasa admitted he had forgotten his promise.
• Jiang Xia went to Teitan Elementary School to pick up the Detective Boys, while they told Conan they had changed cleaning duty so they could evade him and postpone the movie.

Jiang Xia waited outside the elementary school for the Detective Boys, while Conan and the others tried to avoid going to the movies with him. When Vermouth appeared disguised as Amuro Tooru and offered him food, Jiang Xia recognized her but chose to keep the disguise secret and enjoy the burritos.

• Haibara Ai told Jiang Xia the Detective Boys had stayed behind for cleaning duty and went home without him.
• Conan failed to cancel the movie outing, and Mitsuhiko suggested that the children hide at school until Jiang Xia could no longer take them.
• Amuro Tooru, actually Vermouth in disguise, stopped beside Jiang Xia, who recognized her by the apple-scented killing intent but pretended not to notice.
• Vermouth returned with burritos and invited Jiang Xia into the car, and he accepted the food while keeping watch for the Detective Boys.
• Vermouth asked Jiang Xia whether he feared the burrito was poisoned as he ate it.

Ayumi told Conan that she had seen a masked person behaving strangely in the classroom and that the school director had disappeared after she reported it. The Detective Boys sneaked back into the school to investigate rumors about moving plaster statues, while Jiang Xia and Vermouth entered the grounds to look for them.

• Ayumi told Conan that she had seen a masked person in the classroom and feared the director had been killed after investigating.
• Mr. Oohata reacted nervously when Conan asked why the director was absent, strengthening Conan's suspicion that something was wrong.
• The Detective Boys hid on campus after the school gates were locked, while Jiang Xia and Vermouth climbed over the wall to search for them.
• Conan recalled a rumor about eight plaster statues that had moved overnight and suggested checking the art room first.

Jiang Xia used staged scares to unsettle Conan and the Detective Boys while Vermouth mistook the academic director for a dangerous pursuer. After Ayumi ended up with Jiang Xia, he identified Conan’s homeroom teacher, Kobayashi Sumiko, as the person moving the school’s creepy props.

• Jiang Xia recognized the bald man following the children as Conan’s academic director, who was secretly searching for his missing wig, while Vermouth suspected him of targeting Conan.
• Jiang Xia made a plaster statue appear to open a terrifying mouth, startling Conan, who photographed it and led the others to investigate the Infirmary.
• Ayumi uncovered the skinned-looking Anatomical Model and ran away, then vanished from the boys’ sight as they chased after her.
• Conan saw the Anatomical Model pressed against a window across the courtyard and ran toward it with Mitsuhiko and Genta.
• Jiang Xia found Ayumi hiding, picked her up, and followed the others with Vermouth, who realized someone besides them had moved the model.
• Jiang Xia identified the other hidden person as Kobayashi Sumiko, who sneaked into school at night to rehearse a parent-teacher conference using props as pretend students and parents.

Conan searched the school after Ayumi and Mitsuhiko disappeared, while Jiang Xia and Vermouth pursued the intruders. Conan and Jiang Xia’s actions began to align, leaving Vermouth unsure of what was happening.

• Conan returned to the Infirmary, found Ayumi missing, and chased a suspicious figure, only to discover that Mitsuhiko had disappeared too.
• Conan and Genta tried to contact Jiang Xia, but Jiang Xia answered and told Conan to continue with what he needed to do before hanging up.
• Jiang Xia told Vermouth they should catch the intruders and led her to Teacher Kobayashi, who was hiding beneath a classroom podium.
• Conan mistook paint on a stair railing for blood, then decided to turn the tables on the watcher and loudly pretended to be frightened by a ghost.
• Vermouth heard Conan’s staged screams and realized Jiang Xia had coordinated with him, so she stayed by the classroom doorway while Jiang Xia prepared to catch Teacher Kobayashi.

Jiang Xia and the others reunited with Conan, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko at Teitan Elementary School, where Conan untangled several of the eerie rumors but could not identify who had created the moving mouth on the plaster statue. Conan grew suspicious of Amuro Tooru, while the director and Kobayashi Sumiko both denied responsibility.

• Vermouth obeyed Jiang Xia’s order to search the classroom while he went to check on Conan, and two of Conan’s classmates followed her.
• Conan and Genta found the director wiping fake blood from the stairs, and Conan realized the director had been searching for his missing wig rather than frightening students.
• Conan concluded that someone else must have caused the strange plaster-statue trick, since the director’s search for his wig did not explain the school rumors.
• Amuro Tooru, Kobayashi Sumiko, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko reunited with Conan, and Jiang Xia later joined them after checking the tool room.
• Conan deduced that Kobayashi had moved the plaster statues and anatomical model to practice for the parent-teacher conference, but she denied making the statue’s changing mouth.
• After ruling out Jiang Xia and the children, Conan fixed his suspicion on Amuro Tooru, who responded with a knowing smile, while the director and Kobayashi also remained possible suspects.