Chapter Summaries

Conan and Jiang Xia connected the Shitara family deaths to a sequence of Romanized initials and feared Shitara Renki was next, but she was safe in the Main House. As the family arranged a Requiem for Genzaburo, they learned the old mistress treated the Stradivari Violin as her dead son Furuhito.

• Jiang Xia linked the victims' Romanized names to the consecutive letters D, E, F, and G, and Mouri Ran realized Renki's name began with H.
• Conan and the others rushed to the Main House, where they found Shitara Renki alive and explained why they feared she was the next target.
• The housekeeper said the family needed someone to perform a Requiem for Genzaburo, and Haga Kyosuke volunteered to play his own Violin.
• Haga declined to use the Stradivari Violin, and the maid explained that the old mistress secretly took it to her room each night because she believed it embodied her dead son Furuhito.

During Haga Kyosuke’s performance of Mozart’s Requiem, Conan questioned Shitara Renki about who would inherit the valuable Violin, while Takamori Masumi considered the family members as possible murder suspects. The music was interrupted when the old lady appeared outside the open window and fell with a heavy thud.

• Haga Kyosuke returned with the Violin, opened a window, and began playing Mozart’s Requiem for the family and guests.
• Conan asked Shitara Renki who would inherit the Violin, and she explained how it would pass through the family.
• Takamori Masumi considered Haga Kyosuke, Shitara Renki’s grandparents, and the Violin’s inheritance while weighing possible motives.
• As Haga Kyosuke played, the old lady flashed past the open window and a heavy thud sounded outside.

Shitara Renki’s grandmother fell to her death from her bedroom, and the police began investigating whether it was suicide, an accident, or another death linked to the Shitara family’s cursed violin. Jiang Xia and the others found the grandmother’s room and a battered violin, while Inspector Megure prepared to inspect the scene.

• Shitara Renki’s grandmother fell from the third floor and died, and Jiang Xia noticed the family head watching from a window with indifference.
• Jiang Xia and the others entered the grandmother’s locked bedroom and learned that a violin storage room connected to it through a hidden door.
• Inspector Megure and the police arrived, and Officer Takagi reported that the grandmother’s footprints and fingerprints suggested she had climbed onto a stool and jumped from the window.
• Shitara Renki insisted that the death was caused by the violin’s curse, while Inspector Megure ordered the police to inspect the fall site.
• The investigators found a battered violin lying on the floor beside the bed in the grandmother’s room.

Jiang Xia and the others discovered that the shattered violin was a German imitation, while the genuine Stradivarius had been hidden in the old woman's bed. Conan rejected the theory that she had killed herself and declared that she had been murdered, leaving the family head to offer the genuine violin for a fingerprint check.

• Inspector Megure considered whether the old woman's shattered violin had driven her to suicide, and Professor Agasa explained that the supposed Stradivarius was worth a fortune.
• Jiang Xia identified the broken violin as a fake, and Shitara Renki confirmed its label bore the initials “GA” instead of “A.S.”
• The elderly family head appeared behind the Curtain with the genuine violin, claiming he had found it hidden between the bed and the Curtain.
• Takamori Masumi accused the family head of hiding the violin and causing the old woman's death, but the others focused on confirming the violin was genuine.
• Shitara Renki proposed that the old woman had mistaken the fake for a genuine violin before discovering the truth, but Conan said the genuine violin had been planted after the incident and insisted she was murdered.
• The family head suggested checking the genuine violin for fingerprints and warned that his own prints would be on it.

Conan investigated the old lady’s death and suspected the violin and the lake held clues to a staged accident. He urged Inspector Megure to search the lake, while Jiang Xia appeared to anticipate the discovery.

• Haga Kyosuke, Shitara Renki, and the housekeeper explained why their fingerprints were on the violin, leaving Inspector Megure unable to determine when it might have been switched.
• Jiang Xia connected the victims’ initials to the musical scale, leading Shitara Renki to identify Tsumagari Benio and Choichiro as the remaining letters in the sequence.
• Conan examined the window and surrounding area, then suspected the old lady had fallen accidentally while doing something at the windowsill.
• Conan asked the housekeeper for a boat, learned the family had none, and pressed Inspector Megure to search the lake for evidence.
• Jiang Xia watched Conan’s request from the sofa and sighed as he drank tea and ate tea cakes.

Conan reconstructed how Haga Kyosuke may have used a fake Stradivari Violin and a staged window trick to cause the old lady’s fall, but he found almost no evidence. He proposed that Haga had thrown the missing rigging into the lake, and Inspector Megure asked Jiang Xia what he thought.

• Conan deduced that Haga Kyosuke had swapped the genuine Stradivari Violin for a fake while tuning it and hidden the real one in his car.
• Conan reasoned that Haga may have started the villa fire and staged the locked room, though his inspection showed the door had truly been locked from inside.
• Conan theorized that Haga lured the old lady toward a fake violin suspended outside her window, causing her to fall while he retrieved the prop and rigging.
• Conan searched for traces of the trick but found only a slightly sticky window frame, so he suspected Haga had thrown the evidence into the lake.
• Inspector Megure asked Jiang Xia whether he agreed that the lake should be searched.

Jiang Xia accused Haga Kyosuke of murdering Genzaburo and causing an old woman’s fatal fall, then explained how Haga had staged both deaths. He left the police wondering whether the kite used in the second murder could still be recovered from the pond.

• Jiang Xia named Haga Kyosuke as the murderer, and Haga calmly invited him to explain.
• Jiang Xia said Haga had provoked Genzaburo into an argument, arranged the room’s contents, and let Genzaburo lock himself inside before falling asleep and dying in a fire.
• Jiang Xia explained that Haga had switched Renki’s violin for a counterfeit and later played the genuine instrument outside the old woman’s window to lure her toward a violin-shaped kite.
• Jiang Xia said the old woman fell while reaching for the kite, which Haga retrieved and then threw into the pond with evidence attached.
• Megure wondered whether the police could recover the kite, and Jiang Xia warned that it might have been made of materials that dissolved in water.

Jiang Xia’s deductions exposed Haga Kyosuke as the killer, who explained that he sought revenge for his father’s death after Shitara Choichiro stole the family’s Stradivari violin and caused the fatal accident thirty years earlier. Haga Kyosuke then questioned how Jiang Xia knew Aunt Yumi was the one victim he had not killed.

• Jiang Xia said Shitara Furuhito had likely been pushed to his death and suggested evidence from the murders might have been lost in the pond.
• Shitara Renki defended Haga Kyosuke, but Haga Kyosuke admitted he had killed his relatives to create a musical dissonance.
• Haga Kyosuke revealed that Shitara Choichiro had stolen his father’s Stradivari violin and arranged a fake robbery after his father was fatally injured.
• Haga Kyosuke said Aunt Yumi had confessed what happened thirty years earlier, then died accidentally while fleeing in fear.
• Haga Kyosuke asked Jiang Xia how he had known Aunt Yumi was the only exception among the murder victims.

Jiang Xia explained Haga Kyosuke’s musical pattern of murders and exposed Haga as the killer, but Haga evaded immediate arrest and planned to investigate Theater Island. The police searched for evidence while Haga’s fate remained uncertain.

• Jiang Xia explained that Haga Kyosuke had killed relatives according to the musical notes of their initials, intending to end with the family head Choichiro, whose lung cancer threatened to disrupt the sequence.
• The Butler's Wife feared she would be killed because her initial was B, but Haga Kyosuke said he had no revelation to kill innocent people, and Jiang Xia explained that German notation placed H after A, making Haga himself the next note.
• Haga Kyosuke moved to the window and said he would choose his own resting place rather than be taken by the police, while deciding to revisit Theater Island to investigate the mysteries surrounding the cases and the man in black.
• Inspector Megure and the officers searched the lake and nearby locations for evidence, but Takagi and Sato said the kite had dissolved and a passerby had taken away a fishing rod.
• On Theater Island, Hashimoto Maya noticed that some carefully prepared hotel props were missing.

After the Shitara family murders, Shitara Renki grieved the deaths of her relatives and inherited the family Violin, while Jiang Xia secretly retrieved a hidden piece of liangpi from it. Conan recognized the case’s eerie resemblance to the Theater Island murders, and the next day Vodka concluded from the news that Haga Kyosuke had killed the family under Uzo’s influence.

• Shitara Renki broke down after learning that nearly her entire family had died, while Haibara Ai, Professor Agasa, and Jiang Xia comforted her.
• Shitara Renki nearly smashed the inherited Violin but stopped herself, then handed it to Jiang Xia to inspect.
• Jiang Xia used Spider Lady to pull a hidden piece of liangpi from inside the Violin and pocketed it.
• Conan connected the murder’s methods to the Theater Island cases and grew terrified that a hidden director was orchestrating them.
• Vodka read the news the next day and decided Haga Kyosuke was the killer because of his background and recent association with Uzo.

Vodka connected Haga Kyosuke’s murder methods to cases involving Uzo and worried that Uzo was cultivating another dangerous killer. After the police released Haga, he returned to Theater Island, unaware that Conan was secretly following him.

• Vodka reviewed the Theater Island cases and concluded that Uzo had guided Haga Kyosuke toward increasingly effective ways to commit murders and hide evidence.
• Vodka searched for Haga Kyosuke’s photograph and memorized his face, fearing he was one of Uzo’s protégés.
• Inspector Megure released Haga Kyosuke because the police lacked evidence to detain him.
• Haga Kyosuke reflected that his revenge against his uncle was complete, then took a boat to Theater Island and headed for the old Theater.
• Conan secretly followed Haga Kyosuke to the island and told Professor Agasa that Haga had not noticed him.

Conan followed Haga Kyosuke to Theater Island but was knocked unconscious by Hashimoto Maya, who mistook him for an intruder. Haga searched the theater for Mr. Kurosawa, while Hashimoto received a message that made him uneasy.

• Conan learned when Haga Kyosuke had been released, then hid aboard Haga’s boat with Professor Agasa and followed him to Theater Island.
• Conan fell asleep after Hashimoto Maya sprayed anesthetic gas into the boat, and Hashimoto watched him collapse on a surveillance feed.
• Hashimoto recognized Haga Kyosuke from the island’s hidden cameras and wondered why he had come to the island and where he had gone.
• Hashimoto chose to stay in his monitored safe zone rather than investigate, and then received a message that made his pupils tremble.
• Haga entered the old theater, searched the stage and platform, and called out to Mr. Kurosawa.

Haga Kyosuke arrived on the island expecting to meet Mr. Kurosawa, but Hashimoto Maya greeted him instead and left him to explore on his own. After learning that Shitara Choichiro was near death, Haga interpreted the deaths at the theater as a possible divine revelation and climbed onto the railing.

• Haga Kyosuke reflected on how Mr. Kurosawa’s guidance had helped him evade Jiang Xia, though it weighed on him that innocent people had died.
• Hashimoto Maya entered the theater, and Haga Kyosuke realized he was not Mr. Kurosawa.
• Hashimoto told Haga that the island was open to him and that he could explore freely, then left the theater.
• Haga received a message that Shitara Choichiro’s terminal lung cancer had worsened and that resuscitation was unlikely to succeed.
• Haga connected Shitara’s impending death with the CDEFGAH sequence and wondered whether the theater’s deaths were a revelation from the gods before leaping onto the railing.

Haga Kyosuke heard his dead father playing violin in the Theater and narrowly escaped a fall when the railing broke. After landing safely, he searched for the mysterious figure while Hashimoto Maya suspected he was hallucinating.

• Haga Kyosuke mistook the violinist in the Theater for his father, who had died thirty years earlier, and slipped while reaching for the railing.
• The railing cracked as Haga Kyosuke dangled from it, and he let go before it fully broke, landing on the stage with only briefly numb legs.
• Hashimoto Maya heard the violin stop and a thud, feared the newcomer had died, and cautiously entered the Theater with his Tranquilizer Gun.
• Haga Kyosuke grabbed Hashimoto Maya and called him Dad, then realized he was the manager and asked where the violinist had gone.
• Haga Kyosuke found only a recently played violin and searched the Theater, while Hashimoto Maya followed and checked a news alert on his phone.

Haga Kyosuke learned that his uncle’s illegitimate son, Shitara Bungo, had been killed in a hospital explosion, completing the family’s musical scale and deepening his suspicions about the script and the mysterious Island Owner. Meanwhile, Akai Shuichi directed the FBI to focus on Kyosuke, who returned to shore with an unconscious Conan and set off to visit his father’s grave.

• Hashimoto Maya told Haga Kyosuke that Shitara Bungo, his uncle’s illegitimate son, had died in a hospital explosion caused by apparent tampering.
• Haga Kyosuke realized that Bungo and another name had completed the musical scale, and wondered what connection the script had to the Island Owner and his unexpectedly appearing father.
• Akai Shuichi convinced the FBI to make Haga Kyosuke their main target, believing Uzo had guided him and that he could lead them closer to Uzo.
• Haga Kyosuke found an unconscious Conan inside the boat and brought him back to shore, where Professor Agasa anxiously took the child back.
• Haga Kyosuke said goodbye to Professor Agasa and hurried off to visit his father’s grave.

After his agent mistook his plan to visit a cemetery for a suicide attempt, Haga Kyosuke was taken to see psychiatrist Kyogoku Yusuke. Haga described seeing his dead father play the violin, but Kyogoku questioned whether the violin he found afterward had truly been real.

• Haga Kyosuke called his agent from Theater Island, and the agent rushed there to pick him up.
• When Haga asked to go to the cemetery, his agent feared he intended to kill himself and promised to take him there in daylight.
• The agent brought Haga to a hospital to see psychiatrist Kyogoku Yusuke, who revealed that the hospital belonged to his family.
• Haga told Kyogoku that he had seen his father before attempting suicide and that his father had played the violin as he remembered.
• Haga said he found a recently played violin where his father had appeared, and Kyogoku asked where it was now.

Haga Kyosuke questioned whether the Violin on Theater Island had been real, while Jiang Xia tested Theater Ghost’s ability to restore Miyano Akemi’s living appearance. Miyano Akemi appeared as she had in life, and Jiang Xia prepared to bring the Ghosts along for future use.

• Hashimoto Maya found the piano empty when Haga Kyosuke called to ask for a photo of the Violin, then denied ever seeing it.
• Akai Shuichi ordered the FBI agents to follow Haga Kyosuke and learn whom he contacted before making a move.
• Jiang Xia examined the Liangpi Shikigami and learned that Hagiwara Kenji could defuse bombs, while Kitami Hanae could cut clothes.
• Jiang Xia had Theater Ghost use its director ability on Miyano Akemi, and she appeared in the form she had in life.
• Jiang Xia told Matsuda Jinpei to prepare coffee and Cherry Blossom Cookies, and promised Xiao Bai a trip to Miss Yoko’s concert.

Shitara Renki confronted Haga Kyosuke about his role in her family’s deaths and offered him the treasured violin, but she ultimately insisted it belonged to him. As Haga sensed someone watching them, the FBI agents continued tracking the pair and the café’s eavesdroppers listened in.

• Shitara Renki stopped Haga Kyosuke as he was leaving for his parents’ graves and asked him to talk.
• FBI agents followed them into the city and speculated that Uzo was using people to pass messages.
• At a café, Suzuki Sonoko, Conan, Mouri Ran, and Jiang Xia noticed Renki and Haga arrive and secretly eavesdropped.
• Renki questioned Haga about whether he had caused her family’s deaths, and his silence convinced her he had.
• Renki offered Haga the treasured violin, explaining that its painful memories made it feel like a curse, but Haga tried to return it to her.
• Haga sensed someone near the window as Renki insisted that the violin was his.

A falling steel bar injured a long-haired man, while the tall man nearby escaped, making Conan and Haga Kyosuke suspect he had been following someone. The injured man was taken away by ambulance, with Jiang Xia and the others left to follow in Haga Kyosuke's car.

• A steel bar fell from a construction crane, and the tall man dodged it while knocking the long-haired man off balance; the bar struck the long-haired man's leg, and the tall man fled.
• James and Akai Shuichi watched from nearby, and the fleeing agent believed Uzo had tried to kill him.
• Conan noticed the tall man's unusual reflexes and suspected he had been tailing someone, while Haga Kyosuke wondered if the man had been following him.
• Shitara Renki, Suzuki Sonoko, Mouri Ran, Conan, and Jiang Xia gathered around the injured man, whom the medical personnel found alive with a broken leg.
• Jiang Xia followed the injured man into the ambulance, and Haga Kyosuke offered his car to the students.

Haga Kyosuke took Shitara Renki, Mouri Ran, Suzuki Sonoko, and Conan to the hospital after a steel bar injured an unidentified man. The police found no clear evidence of foul play, but Jiang Xia noted that the unidentified man who fled the scene had moved suspiciously fast.

• Haga Kyosuke left with the students, and Shitara Renki climbed into his car despite their family conflict.
• At the hospital, Inspector Megure recognized Haga Kyosuke as a suspected killer but had no evidence and left to investigate the lake.
• Officer Takagi reported that a bird had startled the Crane operator, causing him to drop the steel bar, and that the victim had a fractured leg but no serious head injury.
• Officer Takagi said the unconscious victim and the unidentified man who fled could not be identified or linked to the Crane operator.
• Jiang Xia remarked that the fleeing man had been unusually agile and seemed to be escaping.