Chapter Summaries

The Antique Dealer confessed to murdering Aonoki Ryozou to hide their counterfeit tea-set business, while Yamazaki Yumi expected to inherit the tea ceremony estate. Aonoki’s will left everything to his son, but Yamazaki looked for another way to profit by using the Tea Ceremony Master’s name to secure a business deal.

• The Antique Dealer admitted that he killed Aonoki Ryozou to stop him from exposing their counterfeit antiques and tea sets.
• Lawyer Shirai announced that Aonoki Ryozou had left all his property and the Tea Ceremony Master's legacy to Aonoki Ryoichi.
• Yamazaki Yumi realized she had gained nothing from Aonoki Ryozou’s death and blamed Jiang Xia for being useless.
• Yamazaki Yumi answered Mayor Hachimaki’s call and claimed she had inherited the Tea Ceremony Master's position.
• Yamazaki Yumi planned to use the Tea Ceremony Master's name to get Mayor Hachimaki to sign a contract for her resort club.

Jiang Xia kept Curacao close after realizing she had been sent by Rum to monitor the situation, while Mrs. Yamazaki invited him to her new Vacation Villa. The group agreed to go together, leaving Mrs. Yamazaki worried that Curacao might expose her secret.

• Yamazaki Yumi considered how to secure the mayor's cooperation before the truth came out.
• Jiang Xia asked Curacao why she had come, and Curacao explained that Rum had sent her to check on the situation.
• Jiang Xia warned Curacao about the dangers of hiding nearby, so she reluctantly stayed beside him.
• Mrs. Yamazaki invited Jiang Xia to visit her new Vacation Villa, and Suzuki Sonoko eagerly joined them.
• Curacao also accepted the invitation, leaving Mrs. Yamazaki unable to refuse without appearing suspicious.

After Jiang Xia solved the murder, President Yamazaki brought her guests to a villa to secure a contract with Mayor Hachimaki by posing as the Tea Ceremony Master's heir. The mayor postponed signing until the next day, leaving Yamazaki to consider another plan.

• Jiang Xia solved the case before nightfall, and President Yamazaki drove the group to her villa.
• President Yamazaki introduced Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko to Mayor Hachimaki, hoping their reputations would impress him.
• Mayor Hachimaki praised the proposed Vacation Villa and asked Jiang Xia to help promote it.
• President Yamazaki tried to discuss the contract, but Mayor Hachimaki postponed signing until the next day and suggested adding tea ceremony-related projects.
• President Yamazaki asked the manager to prepare dinner and privately hoped the hot pot would somehow remove the mayor from her way.

Yamazaki Yumi mistakenly believed Jiang Xia had agreed to help her eliminate Mayor Hachimaki in exchange for the Vacation Villa project. She left the banquet convinced she was safe for now and resolved to get the Mayor out of the way so she could secure the contract.

• After reconsidering the lack of obvious suspects, Yamazaki Yumi worried about how Mayor Hachimaki could be killed and decided to find more of his enemies.
• Yamazaki Yumi suggested inviting more guests, but Mayor Hachimaki declined, so she approached Jiang Xia by the window.
• Yamazaki Yumi hinted that she could offer Jiang Xia the Vacation Villa project in exchange for help with the Mayor.
• Jiang Xia reassured Yamazaki Yumi that everything would go smoothly, and she misread his words as acceptance of her offer.
• Yamazaki Yumi decided to gather evidence, keep the Mayor's death from jeopardizing the project, and secure the contract as soon as possible.
• The villa manager prepared a lavish evening banquet using the ingredients on hand.

During dinner at the Vacation Villa, Mayor Hachimaki served the guests the town’s unusual bee-and-lizard Medicinal Wine, which Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran tried to avoid drinking. Their conversation was interrupted when President Yamazaki fell past the window from above.

• President Yamazaki went upstairs to answer a call, while her secretary went to fetch the town’s specialties.
• The secretary found the caretaker making a phone call in the kitchen and brought out two huge bottles of Medicinal Wine containing bees and lizards.
• Mayor Hachimaki urged the guests to taste the wine, and Jiang Xia and Curacao passed their drinks back and forth rather than drinking them.
• Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran tried to discreetly pour their sake cups out the window while pretending to admire the scenery and discuss the weather.
• A loud crash sounded, and President Yamazaki plunged past the window with a terrified look.

President Yamazaki was lured into a fatal trap after planning to get Jiang Xia drunk and question him about the murders. She fell from the cliff, realizing too late that Jiang Xia had arranged her death, while Curacao recognized the incident as another of Uzo’s schemes.

• President Yamazaki planned to use her strong medicinal wine to get Mayor Hachimaki and Jiang Xia drunk and learn more about the group behind the murders.
• A swarm of bees drove President Yamazaki onto the balcony, where the railing snapped and sent her plunging off the cliff.
• As she fell, President Yamazaki saw Jiang Xia watching calmly from the window and realized he had meant for her to die.
• Conan hurried to call the police and an ambulance, then confirmed with Jiang Xia that President Yamazaki was the person who had fallen.
• Curacao spotted a hot air balloon in the distance and concluded that the fall was another of Uzo’s elaborate schemes.

Curacao watched Jiang Xia investigate President Yamazaki’s fatal fall and realized how the victim’s run of good fortune had ended in disaster. At the locked study, the investigators found signs of a forced balcony door, a broken railing, and hornet stings, but the cause of the fall remained unresolved.

• Curacao saw President Yamazaki’s body below the cliff and reflected that her sudden good fortune had ended when a falling grill killed her.
• Inspector Megure arrived at the mountain crime scene and praised Jiang Xia for being there.
• Jiang Xia showed Inspector Megure the locked study, where the balcony door had been forced open and part of the railing had broken away.
• Conan argued that Yamazaki had been leaning on the railing when it broke, while Inspector Megure reconsidered his theory of suicide.
• A young officer reported that Yamazaki died instantly from the fall and had no defensive injuries.
• Mouri Ran spotted a dead hornet, and the female secretary and young officer connected hornet stings to strange marks on Yamazaki’s skin.

Jiang Xia revealed that President Yamazaki’s apparent accident was a murder staged with hornets, honey, and a weakened balcony railing. Conan independently found suspicious materials in the warehouse and rushed outside to investigate as Jiang Xia explained the trap.

• Mayor Hachimaki and the secretary explained Yamazaki’s fear of wasps and how Aihara had once saved her from a wasp attack.
• Inspector Megure concluded that hornets had driven Yamazaki onto a rotten balcony railing, but Conan questioned why she had not fled through the door.
• Conan found a sticky substance on the study doorknob and realized Yamazaki had been murdered.
• Conan searched the warehouse and found beekeeper’s clothing, ether, sulfuric acid, and tanks of helium before rushing outside.
• Jiang Xia explained that the culprit had put honey on the doorknob to draw hornets there and weakened the railing with sulfuric acid so Yamazaki would fall when she leaned on it.

Jiang Xia exposed Aihara Shingo’s murder plot, and the police arrested the villa manager. After the group returned to the city, Jiang Xia handed Curacao two bottles of liquor to deliver to Rum.

• Conan returned with the rain-soaked balloon, and Jiang Xia explained how the rain had disrupted Aihara Shingo’s plan.
• Jiang Xia identified the honey on Aihara Shingo’s towel and the fishing line in his pocket as evidence of the murder mechanism.
• Aihara Shingo confessed that he tried to kill President Yamazaki because she had broken her promise to promote him.
• The police arrested Aihara Shingo and arranged a ride back to the city for Jiang Xia and the others.
• Curacao got out near a 24-hour supermarket to avoid revealing her hideout, but Jiang Xia followed her and gave her the liquor for Rum.

Curacao delivered Uzo’s medicinal wine to Rum, who accepted it as a gesture of goodwill, then regretted missing a chance to bet on President Yamazaki’s death. After reading that Yamazaki had died in a fall, Hashimoto Maya concluded that her carelessness around Uzo had likely doomed her, and resumed worrying about his own survival.

• Curacao gave Rum the two bottles of medicinal wine from Uzo, and Rum accepted them as a sign that Uzo was extending goodwill.
• Curacao realized she had missed an opportunity to bet on President Yamazaki’s death, but decided she would try again next time.
• Curacao started playing Elevator Horror to learn more about Uzo and prepare to deal with him.
• Hashimoto Maya read the newspaper report that President Yamazaki had died after falling from a cliff, and feared that no one would now shield him from the Bottom-Ranking Elimination System.
• Hashimoto Maya decided Yamazaki had been too careless at crime scenes and around dangerous places, and concluded that Uzo’s subordinates could face sudden execution for crossing a line.

Curacao played a romance-heavy game before Vodka offered her one Uzo Coin for details about recent cases, prompting her to suspect he wanted information about President Yamazaki. Gin received an email from Rum about medicinal wine from Uzo, dismissed it, and resolved to watch Uzo’s apparent pattern of targeting company presidents.

• Curacao quit the game after Jiang Xia repeatedly forced intimate interactions with her character, then received Vodka’s email offering one Uzo Coin for details about two cases.
• Vodka reasoned that Curacao’s firsthand knowledge of the cases could reveal Uzo’s plans, especially those involving President Yamazaki, and hoped to use any evidence to restore Gin’s trust in him.
• Curacao inferred that Vodka was especially interested in President Yamazaki and began composing a reply, unwilling to give up valuable intelligence for one coin.
• Rum emailed Gin a photograph of two bottles of medicinal wine from Uzo and offered to share one with him.
• Gin deleted Rum’s email, rejected Uzo’s gift, and decided to monitor Uzo because many of his victims had been company presidents and councilmen.

Conan realized Vermouth's keypad tones might reveal the Organization's boss's email address, but he had only identified the first four digits. Jiang Xia invited Conan, Haibara Ai, Mouri Ran, and Professor Agasa to a musician's villa, where they were greeted by the housekeeper.

• Conan recognized Vermouth's first four keypad tones as the Tottori area code, 0858, and told Professor Agasa he wanted to reconstruct the boss's email address.
• Haibara Ai secretly called Jiang Xia for help, and he joined Conan and Professor Agasa for lunch the next day.
• Jiang Xia invited them to visit a musician's family, whose household might include someone with absolute pitch, and Conan agreed to go.
• Haibara Ai and Mouri Ran joined the trip, with Ran questioning Conan's motives and Jiang Xia welcoming the extra potential case magnet.
• Jiang Xia and the others arrived at a gloomy three-story Villa, where a housekeeper came out to greet them.

Jiang Xia, Mouri Ran, and Conan arrived at the Shitara family villa, where Shitara Renki introduced them to her relatives and the composer Haga Kyosuke. Conan tested Haga with the number 0858 but saw no suspicious reaction, leaving Haibara Ai wondering why the test was interrupted by a phone call.

• The housekeeper explained that Shitara Renki had invited Jiang Xia and his companions, then led them to the villa while Renki practiced violin.
• Shitara Renki greeted her guests and said she had not expected Jiang Xia to accept her invitation.
• Shitara Gensaburo returned to the villa, said he had rushed back for the family banquet, and went to rest before dinner.
• Renki identified Haga Kyosuke as the only family member with perfect pitch and praised his work as a composer.
• Conan pressed 0858 on his phone beside Haga, but Haga showed little reaction and asked whether Conan meant him.
• Haga praised Renki's violin performance, then answered a new call as Conan and Haibara Ai watched.

Jiang Xia and the others visited the Shitara family, where they encountered the elderly couple grieving over their dead son and learned of tensions ahead of the family dinner. Shitara Renki showed them a valuable Stradivarius violin and revealed that her request concerned it.

• Shitara Ayane mistook the sound of a violin for her dead son Furuhito, while Shitara Choichiro insisted their son had been dead for years.
• Shitara Renki asked Jiang Xia to meet her in the main house later, and the group admired the lake behind the residence.
• Shitara Gensaburo argued with a visitor over an undisclosed matter, then worried that the visitor might have discovered his secret.
• Shitara Renki showed Jiang Xia and the others a three-hundred-year-old violin made by Antonio Stradivari and said her request was related to it.

Shitara Renki asked Jiang Xia to investigate two deaths in her family that she believed were murders, both tied to performances on an Antonio Stradivari violin at her grandfather’s birthday. She feared she would be next because she was this year’s performer, and Conan suggested she simply refuse to play.

• Shitara Renki explained that robbers had killed her great-grandfather Shitara Dannjirou thirty years earlier while trying to steal the violin, and that Uncle Haga had later taken his maternal family’s surname.
• Shitara Renki described the deaths of her third grandmother, who fell down the stairs, and her father, who fell with a broken railing, and asked Jiang Xia to find who had killed them.
• Conan recognized that Shitara Renki’s father had fallen with a railing, like President Yamazaki, and asked whether he had feared Bees.
• Shitara Renki revealed that both deaths followed performances on the violin during Choichiro’s birthday celebration, and that she was due to perform this year.
• Shitara Renki said she feared the violin’s curse, and Conan told her she could avoid it by not playing.

Shitara Renki asked Jiang Xia to lift the supposed curse on a violin she hoped to perform with that night. Outside the room, Torimaru Naoko tried to make Takamori Masumi destroy her suspicious notes, then froze after noticing something through the window.

• Shitara Renki explained that she had borrowed the violin from her grandfather and feared the household staff would report her if anyone touched it.
• Mouri Ran spotted the twin maids, and Jiang Xia told Shitara Renki he had seen them working at other homes.
• Shitara Renki described how one maid struggled to memorize notes, prompting Torimaru Naoko to scold Takamori Masumi for keeping written notes about dangerous spots and murder methods.
• Torimaru Naoko pulled Takamori Masumi away to destroy the notes, but froze when she looked out the window.
• Shitara Renki formally commissioned Jiang Xia to lift the violin's curse before her performance, while Jiang Xia recognized that no real curse existed.

Jiang Xia and the others discovered that the neighboring Villa was on fire, with Shitara Renki’s grandfather trapped inside. As the fire spread, they learned that her grandmother was also upstairs, and Haga Kyosuke drenched himself with water to enter the flames.

• Jiang Xia clarified that Shitara Renki wanted protection from dying after performing and agreed to help her for the current year.
• Haibara Ai and Mouri Ran noticed the red glow outside, and Conan realized the neighboring Villa was burning.
• Shitara Renki feared her grandfather Genzaburo was in his bedroom, so the group rushed to the Villa.
• Haga Kyosuke found Genzaburo’s room locked from inside, and Jiang Xia kicked the door open as flames surged out.
• Shitara Renki learned that her grandmother was trapped in a room on the 3rd Floor, and Haga Kyosuke soaked himself with water.

A fire engulfed the Shitara villa, and Haga Kyosuke and Conan rescued Grandma Shitara by jumping from a window onto a van arranged by Jiang Xia. Afterward, Torimaru Naoko reflected on the fire’s apparent connection to That Lord, while Mouri Ran asked about Haga Kyosuke’s parents.

• Haga Kyosuke rushed upstairs as Torimaru Naoko warned Jiang Xia to escape and worried that That Lord had orchestrated the fire.
• Jiang Xia asked Torimaru Naoko to prepare the van roof, and she spread camping mats across it.
• Haga Kyosuke carried Grandma Shitara toward a window, Conan broke it open, and the two men jumped with her onto the van roof.
• After the fire was extinguished, Grandma Shitara refused an ambulance, and Shitara Renki explained her trauma over her son’s death.
• Torimaru Naoko told Jiang Xia that Haga Kyosuke had been adopted after his parents died, prompting Mouri Ran to ask why his mother had also died.

Shitara Renki recounted the misfortunes that had followed her family’s Stradivari violin, and Conan wondered whether someone had set the Villa fire to steal it. The firefighters judged the blaze accidental, but Renki later asked Jiang Xia whether her grandfather had also been cursed, as only four members of the family remained alive.

• Torimaru Naoko and Shitara Renki explained how Mr. Haga had lost his parents and how Renki’s mother had avoided performing with the violin by divorcing her father and returning to her parents’ home.
• Shitara Renki described how the violin’s previous users had suffered injuries, illness, or death, and said her grandfather had brought it out again for his birthday two years earlier.
• Conan suspected someone had deliberately started the fire to steal the violin, but the housekeeper said she had secured it in the storage room.
• A firefighter said the fire likely began when a cigarette butt fell beside an ashtray in the deceased’s bedroom, and the police began examining the burned Villa.
• Shitara Renki took Jiang Xia to a guest room and asked whether her grandfather had been cursed by the violin, noting that only four members of the family were still alive.

As the guests prepared to leave after the fire and near-fatal poisoning, Shitara Renki insisted Jiang Xia stay to protect her from the suspected curse. Conan investigated the fire scene but found evidence that contradicted his theory of arson, and Haga Kyosuke caught him searching the dangerous villa.

• Haga Kyosuke revealed that Shitara Choichiro had late-stage lung cancer and might have only half a year to live, while Shitara Renki mourned that the birthday celebration had gone awry.
• Shitara Renki persuaded the housekeeper to let Jiang Xia stay, fearing the curse might target her after she played the violin.
• Conan spotted cigarette butts in the main house and suspected a killer had started the villa fire with a still-lit cigarette butt.
• At Shitara Gensaburo's bedroom, Conan found that the cigarette butts had teeth marks and the room's door and window showed no signs of tampering, undermining his theory.
• Haga Kyosuke found Conan in the bedroom and urged him to leave because the fire-damaged villa was dangerous.