Chapter Summaries

After the school event, Jiang Xia arranged to take the Detective Boys to a movie the next day while Conan continued to suspect Amuro Tooru was hiding something. The night ended without a case, and Professor Agasa called Jiang Xia to ask about the movie.

• As everyone left school, Vermouth noticed Conan watching her and decided his suspicion of Bourbon was useful.
• Jiang Xia asked Teacher Kobayashi whether the children had any upcoming school duties, then told them he would pick them up for a movie tomorrow.
• Conan planned to test whether Amuro Tooru would refuse an invitation to a hot spring or swimming, hoping to uncover a hidden tattoo.
• Vermouth offered to drive Jiang Xia and the children home, but Jiang Xia declined and escorted them himself.
• After taking the children home without encountering a case, Jiang Xia received a call from Professor Agasa and explained that they had postponed the movie until tomorrow.

Jiang Xia agreed to take the Detective Boys to the Gomera film set, while Conan secretly arranged for the children to meet him there. At the studio, Haibara Ai sensed an organization member behind the filming-floor door and left a warning for Jiang Xia.

• Professor Agasa invited Jiang Xia to take the children to visit the final Gomera film shoot, and Jiang Xia accepted.
• Conan concealed the real plan from the Detective Boys and arranged for them to meet him that weekend, with Haibara Ai approving his idea.
• Jiang Xia brought Conan, Haibara Ai, and the reluctant Detective Boys to Dabao Film Studio, where the children gradually became eager to see the filming.
• At the top-floor door, Haibara Ai stopped Jiang Xia from opening it after sensing an organization member inside, then made an excuse to leave.
• Haibara Ai emailed Jiang Xia that she had sensed the organization and was leaving, warning him to be careful.

Jiang Xia realized Vermouth was disguising herself as a lighting assistant at the Film Studio and nudged Conan toward suspecting the identity. Meanwhile, Amuro Tooru encountered Sakaguchi Tomomi, who recognized him as the lighting assistant despite having just seen that person upstairs.

• Jiang Xia spotted Vermouth disguised as a lighting assistant and decided to warn her indirectly by encouraging Conan to investigate.
• Jiang Xia and Conan realized that Mouri Ran could not have told Conan about the visit because Jiang Xia had seen her at club practice at the same time.
• Conan connected the suspicious encounter to earlier disguises and considered tugging on the lighting assistant's face to reveal who he was.
• Sakaguchi Tomomi went downstairs to collect her takeaway and saw Amuro Tooru dressed as a deliveryman, despite having just passed a lighting assistant who looked exactly like him.
• Amuro Tooru asked the receptionist about someone resembling him and learned that a lighting assistant was working in the Photography Studio upstairs.

Amuro Tooru and Vermouth, both appearing as Amuro Tooru, met at the film studio and took their confrontation to an empty office. After Amuro forced Vermouth to agree to a temporary truce, Jiang Xia arrived, and both agents feared he would reveal details that could expose secrets.

• Amuro Tooru entered the film studio and faced Vermouth, who was disguised as him; they posed as twin brothers and left together with concealed weapons.
• Producer Kamei insulted the Gomera production, and Jiang Xia sent Conan to keep the children company while he followed the two agents.
• Jiang Xia found Amuro Tooru and Vermouth in an office, where Amuro had threatened to expose Vermouth's connection to The Boss if she continued impersonating him or tried to kill him.
• Vermouth lowered her gun and agreed to coexist peacefully with Amuro for the time being.
• Jiang Xia entered the office and said he had suspected Vermouth's disguise before, prompting Amuro and Vermouth to worry that he might reveal details about their earlier encounter with Conan.

Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru investigated a murder at Dabao Film Studio while Vermouth continued impersonating Amuro, leaving the police to question them as suspects. Vermouth realized her whereabouts during the murder lacked witnesses, and Jiang Xia’s account placed him with her.

• Amuro Tooru told Jiang Xia to report any further impersonations, and Vermouth left wearing a spare disguise of Amuro Tooru.
• Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru saw a burning Gomera suit fall outside the studio and discovered it was empty.
• Conan told Inspector Megure that Producer Kamei had been stabbed in the Photography Studio and described the culprit’s escape in a Gomera suit.
• Jiang Xia introduced the real Amuro Tooru as Amuro Akira, and Vermouth supported the explanation by claiming they were brothers.
• Officer Sato questioned Jiang Xia, who said he had seen the burning suit fall while he was with Amuro Akira; Vermouth realized she had no witness to confirm her whereabouts during the murder.

Vermouth suspected that Jiang Xia had engineered Producer Kamei’s murder to frame her, so she began looking for evidence that would clear her disguised identity. She identified Matsui Hidehide as her leading suspect and announced that she knew who the real murderer was, drawing Inspector Megure’s attention.

• Vermouth connected Jiang Xia’s timing and the studio’s circumstances to his methods, and suspected he had arranged the murder to send her to the police as a suspect.
• Vermouth considered whether Jiang Xia was targeting her because he believed she threatened the Detective Boys and Kudo Shinichi.
• Jiang Xia noticed Vermouth studying the studio and delayed examining the evidence to see what she would do.
• Vermouth checked possible escape routes, then searched for evidence to prove her innocence and focused on Matsui Hidehide’s grudge against Producer Kamei and suspicious leg wound.
• When a police officer approached Jiang Xia to confirm Amuro Akira’s alibi, Vermouth interrupted and claimed she already knew the murderer’s identity.
• Inspector Megure overheard Vermouth’s announcement and asked whether she was certain.

Vermouth posed as Amuro Tooru and solved Producer Kamei’s murder, prompting Matsui Hidehide to confess after she found the fruit knife he had used. After Vermouth slipped away, Jiang Xia learned Kojima Genta had been followed and spotted a blond wanted criminal nearby, leaving him with a new threat to investigate.

• Vermouth examined Matsui Hidehide’s wound and deduced that he had staged an injury to conceal killing Producer Kamei.
• Vermouth searched the weapon case, found a fruit knife bearing traces of blood, and Matsui Hidehide confessed.
• The police took Matsui Hidehide away, and Jiang Xia collected the Shikigami attached to him.
• Vermouth left without being noticed, while Kojima Genta told Jiang Xia that someone had followed and pushed him beneath an overpass.
• Jiang Xia recognized Genta’s account as resembling a case involving a wanted criminal and spotted a blond man wrapped in Killing Intent across the street.

Jiang Xia lured Inoue Shi into an abandoned building to collect his killing intent, but Vermouth killed the thug first and disposed of his body. Days later, Jiang Xia considered adding the case to his agency’s clippings, and Amuro Tooru told him to throw it away.

• Jiang Xia realized Inoue Shi had turned his attention from Genta to him and led the wanted criminal into an abandoned building.
• Vermouth followed Inoue Shi into the building and killed him before Jiang Xia could confront him.
• Jiang Xia found the killing intent left behind, discovered Vermouth’s apple-scented trace on it, and took the killing intent with him.
• Vermouth burned Inoue Shi’s remains at an old factory, then hinted to Gin that Uzo needed guidance; Gin instead warned her to keep her current appearance away from Uzo and the Organization’s usual haunts.
• Days later, Jiang Xia found the Gomera case report and considered adding it to the agency’s clippings, but Amuro Tooru told him to throw it away.

Jiang Xia accepted Okayama Noriko’s request to find Kitagawa Tsuyoshi, the street racer she blamed for her fiancé’s death, and planned to make Kitagawa’s next reckless drive end her desire for revenge. After locating Kitagawa, Jiang Xia followed him to a mountain road and began driving around in a matching red sports car to provoke him.

• Amuro Tooru suggested that Jiang Xia remove a newspaper clipping about Vermouth, and Jiang Xia pasted in his own photo instead.
• Okayama Noriko hired Jiang Xia to find Kitagawa Tsuyoshi, whose reckless driving had caused a crash that killed her fiancé and left her badly injured.
• Jiang Xia decided to locate Kitagawa and provoke him into another dangerous drive so that Okayama Noriko would have no reason to keep her killing intent.
• Jiang Xia used a Parent Ghost Persona to rent a red sports car matching Kitagawa’s, then found Kitagawa’s address and set up a camera to watch his home.
• After two or three days, Jiang Xia spotted Kitagawa driving away and headed to a mountain road, where he drove around in the rented car.

Jiang Xia tried to lure Kitagawa Tsuyoshi into a fatal street race, but Gin and Vodka unexpectedly intervened, and Gin shot Kitagawa after he caused their cars to collide. Gin took Jiang Xia back to Tokyo and, believing he had been acting out of boredom, worried that Uzo was becoming too directly involved in killings.

• Jiang Xia spotted Kitagawa Tsuyoshi driving a red sports car and let Kitagawa provoke him into a race.
• Gin and Vodka's Black Porsche overtook the two cars, and Kitagawa Tsuyoshi cut them off, causing a collision.
• Gin shot Kitagawa Tsuyoshi, whose car crashed through a guardrail and fell into a ravine; Gin stopped himself from bombing Jiang Xia after recognizing him.
• Gin had Vodka drive Jiang Xia's red sports car toward Tokyo, while Jiang Xia showed Gin his driver's license.
• Gin asked Jiang Xia why he had targeted Kitagawa Tsuyoshi, and Jiang Xia claimed he had done it for amusement.
• Gin concluded that Uzo was bored and worried that he was becoming too directly involved in murders.

Gin invited Jiang Xia to join a weeklong silencing mission that would take them to Moon Shadow Island, and Jiang Xia accepted. A letter and payment from Aso Keiji gave him a second reason to visit the island, while news of Kitagawa Tsuyoshi’s death led Jiang Xia to check on his grieving client, Okayama Noriko.

• Gin suspected Vermouth’s sudden friendliness toward Uzo and decided to keep her away from Jiang Xia while he assessed the situation.
• Gin sent Jiang Xia a list of assassination targets, explained that the Organization planned to purge a group of drug dealers and associates, and invited him to travel to Tottori Prefecture and Moon Shadow Island the following week.
• Jiang Xia found Aso Keiji’s letter inviting him to investigate disappearances on Moon Shadow Island during the next full moon, along with about five hundred thousand yen in cash.
• Jiang Xia read a report about Kitagawa Tsuyoshi’s burned body being found after a fatal shooting and deleted his browsing history.
• Jiang Xia visited Okayama Noriko’s neighborhood and sent Mist Tengu to watch her crying over a photograph.

Jiang Xia traveled with Gin and Vodka toward Tottori while trying to keep their association hidden from the detectives he expected to encounter. After spotting assassination target Izumo Keitaro aboard the train, Jiang Xia offered to handle him before Gin resorted to blowing up the carriage.

• Okayama Noriko learned that Kitagawa Tsuyoshi had died in a crash and cried with joy, causing her killing intent to diminish.
• Jiang Xia met Gin and Vodka at the station and asked them to pretend they did not know him in public.
• Vodka delivered Jiang Xia’s ticket in a dark corridor, where Jiang Xia stopped him from drawing his gun and took the ticket.
• Jiang Xia boarded the Hokutosei Train and recognized Izumo Keitaro, a drug trafficker on Gin’s assassination list, alongside a worker whose killing intent was surging.
• Vodka messaged Jiang Xia that Gin planned to blow up the carriage to kill Izumo Keitaro, so Jiang Xia offered to try first.
• Gin replied directly, asking whether Izumo Keitaro was also traveling to Tottori.

Jiang Xia persuaded Gin to abandon a bomb attack and let him handle the assassination of Izumo Keitaro on the Hokutosei Train. After boarding, Jiang Xia met Mouri Ran, Mouri Kogoro, and Conan in the dining car, while Gin watched and tried to understand his plan.

• Jiang Xia confirmed Izumo Keitaro's destination to Gin, who agreed to disable the bomb and let Jiang Xia pursue a quieter method.
• Gin concluded that Jiang Xia had planned the encounter with Izumo Keitaro in advance, and he dismantled the bomb to observe Jiang Xia's work.
• Jiang Xia suspected Izumo Keitaro's store manager was ready to kill and considered whether Mouri Kogoro and his family might be aboard the train.
• Jiang Xia used his ghosts to survey the train, then went to the dining car and joined Mouri Ran, Mouri Kogoro, and Conan.
• Gin and Vodka entered the dining car and sat near Jiang Xia; Conan froze when he saw them, while Jiang Xia carried on chatting.
• Gin listened to Jiang Xia's conversation with Mouri Ran and decided Jiang Xia was simply meeting a classmate rather than plotting at their table.

Jiang Xia agreed to visit the Suzuki Art Museum with Mouri Ran, where Kid’s planned theft and several murders could give him chances to collect Energy Cores and Ghosts. On the train, Gin watched Jiang Xia and a suspicious passenger, while Jiang Xia recognized Kaetsu Toshinori’s intended murder plot and looked forward to acquiring two Shikigami.

• Jiang Xia agreed to visit the Suzuki Art Museum with Mouri Ran after learning it would display the Memory Egg.
• Gin overheard their conversation and imagined Jiang Xia using his connections to help the organization eliminate important targets.
• Gin noticed Jiang Xia repeatedly watching Kaetsu Toshinori and suspected the store manager was part of a murder scheme.
• Conan mistook Gin’s attention toward Jiang Xia for vigilance against a famous high school detective, then froze when Gin met his gaze.
• Gin left the dining car with Vodka, but Izumo Keitaro’s angry complaint about his cramped compartment made them realize he was insulting Vodka.
• Jiang Xia recognized Kaetsu Toshinori’s plan to kill Asama Yasuharu and frame him for Izumo Keitaro’s murder, and anticipated collecting two Shikigami.

As the passengers traveled toward the planned murder, Conan recognized the danger of approaching Gin and chose to stay cautious, while Jiang Xia quietly kept watch. Before dawn, Boss Izumo went to meet the Anonymous person who was blackmailing him, and Kaetsu Toshinori began setting up his murder plan.

• Boss Izumo’s story about the jewelry-store robbery reminded Conan of a case he could not place, while Jiang Xia recognized it as part of Kaetsu Toshinori’s plan based on Kudo Yusaku’s manuscript.
• Conan considered seeking out Gin but decided the risk to himself, Ran, Mouri Kogoro, and Jiang Xia was too high, so he hid a Listening Device in the restroom instead.
• Jiang Xia watched Conan return safely and abandoned his plan to stop him with an Anesthetic Needle, then sent Ghosts to observe Asama Yasuharu, the Food Truck, and Gin.
• A little after four in the morning, Boss Izumo went to the Social Carriage to meet the Anonymous person who had seized his weakness.
• Kaetsu Toshinori returned to his room, hid fishing line as the train approached a Tunnel, then went downstairs and knocked on a compartment door.

Kaetsu Toshinori tried to frame Asama Yasuharu for Boss Izumo’s murder and his own staged death, but Jiang Xia stopped him with help from Gin and Mouri Kogoro. The train stopped for police, who found Izumo Keitaro’s body and Asama Yasuharu’s body, while Jiang Xia began recounting his account of the events.

• Kaetsu Toshinori knocked Asama Yasuharu unconscious, hung him outside the train with a fishing-line mechanism, and disguised himself as Asama Yasuharu.
• Kaetsu Toshinori shot Izumo Keitaro in the Social Carriage, then ran toward Asama Yasuharu’s compartment to complete his plan to frame him.
• Mouri Ran heard screams, and Conan, Mouri Kogoro, and two train attendants witnessed Kaetsu Toshinori fleeing the crime scene.
• Kaetsu Toshinori tried to shoot Jiang Xia, but his gun jammed, and Jiang Xia knocked him unconscious with a Collapsible Baton.
• Gin pinned Kaetsu Toshinori’s gun, and Jiang Xia and the others restrained him as train staff arrived.
• The police boarded the stopped Hokutosei Train, found Izumo Keitaro’s body and Asama Yasuharu’s body, and heard Jiang Xia’s account.

Jiang Xia explained how he discovered Asama Yasuharu’s body while Conan grew increasingly worried that Gin might target Jiang Xia for recruitment. After Conan privately asked whether Jiang Xia knew Gin and Vodka, Jiang Xia considered how to make his future contact with the Black Organization seem natural.

• Jiang Xia told the police how he found Asama Yasuharu’s body and encountered the murderer, while Vodka nervously watched him and answered an officer’s questions.
• Conan noticed Gin’s apparent appreciation for Jiang Xia and worried that the Black Organization might try to recruit or manipulate him.
• Conan planned to warn Jiang Xia against Gin, but Gin never approached Jiang Xia, and Conan reconsidered whether to reveal the organization’s existence.
• Jiang Xia returned to his compartment, and Conan followed him there to speak privately.
• Conan asked Jiang Xia whether he knew the two men in Black Organization clothes, and Jiang Xia considered using a favorable first impression to explain future contact with them.

Jiang Xia tried to keep Conan from learning about his ties to Gin while Conan attempted to warn him off by describing Gin as a terrible person. After reaching Tottori, Jiang Xia headed for Spider Mansion, where he revealed that its owner, Takeda Shinichi, had secretly commissioned him to investigate something.

• Conan told Jiang Xia a string of stories portraying Gin as immoral, hoping to drive a wedge between them, and Jiang Xia recognized Conan’s attempt to manipulate him.
• Jiang Xia replenished his energy with a Ghost Mint cigarette made from Kaetsu Toshinori’s killing intent and learned that Kudo Yusaku and Kudo Yukiko had not returned to Japan.
• The train arrived in Tottori, where Conan left with Mouri Kogoro and Mouri Ran for a class reunion while Jiang Xia prepared to visit Spider Mansion.
• Jiang Xia messaged Gin to meet at exit 5, then got into the car with Gin and Vodka to travel toward the Spider Mansion case.
• Gin said they needed to deal with two informants on the way, but Jiang Xia asked to go to Spider Mansion first and showed Gin a commission letter from Takeda Shinichi.

Jiang Xia joined Gin’s operation against Takeda Shinichi and traveled to Puppet Peak, where he encountered Hattori Heiji, Toyama Kazuha, and Robert Taylor on their way to the Takeda residence. He arranged for Takeda Yuzo to give them a ride, bringing the detectives and their mysterious commission together with the Organization’s assassination mission.

• Jiang Xia gave Gin the Takeda Family commission letter, and Gin reprimanded him for withholding the important information before accepting that Takeda Shinichi was expected to die after dinner.
• Gin warned Jiang Xia to be careful around the Takeda Family, and Vodka dropped Jiang Xia at an intersection before he continued to Puppet Peak by taxi.
• Takeda Yuzo picked up Jiang Xia at the station and drove him toward Puppet Peak, where Jiang Xia spotted Hattori Heiji, Toyama Kazuha, and Robert Taylor stranded by the roadside.
• Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha explained that an anonymous client had summoned Hattori to the Takeda residence, while Robert said he was visiting Takeda Misa, who had once cared for him.
• Jiang Xia asked Takeda Yuzo to give the travelers a ride, and Yuzo helped Hattori load his motorcycle onto the truck.

Jiang Xia and Hattori Heiji rode to the Takeda Family estate, where they learned of several apparent suicides connected to Spider Mansion. Jiang Xia suspected a Ghost Fetus had appeared, while Robert’s hidden motive and violent plans remained undiscovered.

• Jiang Xia showed Hattori Heiji his commission letter, and the two realized their letters came from different people before Takeda Yuzo explained that the Spider curse was a local rumor.
• When Robert asked about Takeda Misa, Takeda Yuzo dodged the question, while Jiang Xia sensed Robert’s Killing Intent and recognized that he had returned to avenge Misa by targeting Takeda Shinichi.
• As the group approached the estate, Jiang Xia’s Ghosts sensed a new Ghost Fetus and went to find it.
• At Spider Mansion, Takeda Yoko told Jiang Xia and Hattori Heiji that Misa and her mother had hanged themselves in the Puppet Warehouse three years earlier.
• Takeda Yoko added that Negishi, Takeda Shinichi’s assistant, had recently hanged himself in the Storage Room.