Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia identified Yamazaki Tsuneo’s apparent electrocution as murder and explained the case to the police after the ship reached shore. While reporters crowded around him, he learned that Gin and Vodka had quietly left the Kaiyuan.

• Jiang Xia noticed Yamazaki Tsuneo’s burned hand and told Umihara Sayuri that the electrocution was likely murder, causing her to suspect Kawai Kazuyuki.
• Gin refused to investigate the death and told Vodka to avoid future cases connected to Uzo.
• Captain Umihara took the ship toward the main island, where police and an ambulance were waiting.
• Jiang Xia borrowed a Scarf from Umihara Sayuri and later explained the murder to the police.
• Gin and Vodka left the Kaiyuan without waiting for Jiang Xia, and Mermaid and Spider Lady told Jiang Xia they had gone.

Jiang Xia decided not to pursue Gin after the failed attempt to catch him, while Gin and Vodka left the main island for Moon Shadow Island to assassinate three drug traffickers. Gin instead hurried to investigate a new lead in the Inoue Real Estate matter, leaving the killings to his own plan.

• Jiang Xia chose not to use Ghost Mint or send his ghosts after Gin, deciding that revealing his helpers was not worth the risk.
• Gin told Vodka that Bourbon had located the person who replaced surveillance footage connected to Margaux’s fatal car accident.
• Gin and Vodka sailed to Moon Shadow Island, where they planned to kill three drug trafficking bosses before returning to Tokyo.
• After landing, Gin and Vodka split up to carry out their separate parts of the assassination plan.

Gin carried out the cleanup operation on Moon Shadow Island while Jiang Xia gave a statement at the Police Station, leaving him to discover the targets had been killed in an explosion. Gin told Jiang Xia to return to Tokyo alone, and Jiang Xia blocked Gin and Vodka.

• Gin decided to handle the cleanup operation himself so Uzo would be occupied with the police and have an alibi.
• After giving a statement, Jiang Xia saw a distant fire and returned to the Police Station, where he learned the Community Activity Center on Moon Shadow Island had exploded and Village Chief Kuroiwa was dead.
• Jiang Xia realized Gin had likely killed the cleanup targets together and asked the police to take him to the island.
• Gin emailed Jiang Xia that the targets were eliminated and warned him not to end up on the next cleanup list.
• Jiang Xia added Gin and Vodka to his phone's blacklist.

Jiang Xia contracted eight new Shikigami and realized that following Gin had earned him a net gain, so he sent Gin and Vodka a friendly warning to watch their step. Gin dismissed Vodka’s alarm but switched boats anyway, leaving Vodka convinced he had narrowly escaped danger.

• Jiang Xia made Contracts with the eight Shikigami gathered from the Kaiyuan and considered how following Gin had helped him acquire them.
• Jiang Xia removed Gin and Vodka from his blacklist and emailed them, “Okay. Watch your step on the way back~”
• Vodka read Jiang Xia’s message as a threat, while Gin said it was only polite.
• Gin decided to switch boats, and Vodka nervously disembarked, expecting a bomb that never went off.

Jiang Xia traveled to Moon Shadow Island after the drug dealers were killed, collected Shikigami from their victims, and tracked a strong Killing Intent to Narumi Asai’s apartment. He discovered that Asai was disguised as a woman and found the Killing Intent smelled of disinfectant.

• Vodka watched Gin secretly prepare a boat, then followed him as it set off.
• Jiang Xia arrived on Moon Shadow Island with the police and sent Ghosts into the burning Community Activity Center to locate Shikigami.
• Jiang Xia collected thirteen Leg-Clinging Shikigami, including two that the mermaid retrieved from the seabed.
• Jiang Xia followed a strong presence of Killing Intent to Narumi Asai’s apartment and knocked on the door.
• Narumi Asai opened the door disguised as a woman, and Jiang Xia sensed that her Killing Intent smelled like disinfectant.

Asai Narumi concealed his identity as a woman while seeking revenge for his family’s murder, and Jiang Xia arrived at his home after an explosion at the Community Activity Center. Asai Narumi wondered whether Jiang Xia had uncovered his plans and tried to learn why he had come.

• Jiang Xia told Asai Narumi that the Community Activity Center had exploded, and Asai Narumi claimed he had been too scared to investigate.
• Asai Narumi recalled that his father, Aso Keiji, had been framed and killed with his wife and daughter, while he survived in a Tokyo hospital.
• After becoming a doctor on Moon Shadow Island, Asai Narumi disguised himself as a woman to investigate his family’s deaths.
• Village Chief Kameda revealed his role in the Aso Family murders before dying, prompting Asai Narumi to plan revenge against Nishimoto Mutsu, Kuroiwa Tatsuji, and Kawashima Hideo.
• Asai Narumi invited Jiang Xia to the island to judge whether he should proceed, and prepared gasoline to use if the truth came out.
• Asai Narumi tried to stay calm and asked Jiang Xia whether injured people needed treatment.

After learning that the three men he had wanted to kill were dead in an explosion, Asai Narumi grieved and let go of his Killing Intent. Jiang Xia collected it and left, while Asai Narumi realized he no longer needed to pretend to be a woman.

• Jiang Xia told Asai Narumi that everyone inside the Community Activity Center had died, and Asai Narumi rushed to the scene.
• Asai Narumi overheard the police identify the three corpses as Kuroiwa Tatsuji, Kawashima Hideo, and Nishimoto Mutsu.
• Asai Narumi retreated into the woods and grieved over his family's deaths and the life he had lived under an assumed identity.
• Jiang Xia had Xiao Bai collect Asai Narumi's falling Killing Intent, stored it, and quietly left.
• Asai Narumi turned to speak with Jiang Xia but found the woods empty, then removed the soybean-stuffed cloth bundles from his chest.

After leaving Moon Shadow Island, Jiang Xia traveled through Tottori Prefecture and decided to visit Twilight Mansion to search for ghosts and gold. He had Spider Lady form a puppet and used Mother Ghost’s fake driver’s license to rent a car, setting out toward the mansion.

• Asai Narumi decided to resign and return to Tokyo, where she hoped to ask Jiang Xia why he had left without questioning her.
• Jiang Xia helped the police inspect the burned Community Activity Center, then left Moon Shadow Island and read the newspaper’s perfunctory account of the explosion.
• While traveling through Tottori Prefecture, Jiang Xia recalled that Twilight Mansion concealed a vast quantity of gold beneath its outer shell and decided to visit it.
• Jiang Xia formed Spider Lady and several Shikigami into a puppet, then transferred his consciousness into it.
• Jiang Xia used Mother Ghost’s fake driver’s license to rent a car and prepare for the trip to Twilight Mansion.

Jiang Xia secretly dug up gold from Twilight Mansion, then returned to Beika Town after arranging to sell it. At home, he encountered Haibara Ai, who had been anxiously checking on him after learning he had crossed paths with Gin.

• Jiang Xia used a puppet to steal a truck and drove to Twilight Mansion, where he searched for Ghosts but found none.
• Jiang Xia dug gold from the castle's Corner Rooms, cleaned up the site, and loaded the gold onto the truck.
• Jiang Xia considered buying Twilight Mansion from its impoverished owner, Oogami Shukuzen, or using the castle's treasure and a future murder to gain goodwill from That Gentleman and Amuro Tooru.
• Jiang Xia left the gold and his account information with a Black Market establishment, returned the truck, and traveled back to Tokyo overnight.
• Jiang Xia returned to Beika Town and saw Haibara Ai peeking out from Professor Agasa's house; she had been worried after learning he had encountered Gin on the train to Tottori Prefecture.

Haibara Ai worried that Gin’s repeated contact with Jiang Xia meant the Organization might be promoting him, but she kept her concern quiet and gave him Valentine’s chocolate. Jiang Xia gave her a small paper box in return, which began to rustle as she opened it.

• Haibara Ai and Conan hurried into Jiang Xia’s yard after seeing him arrive home safely.
• Haibara Ai worried that Gin might be taking an unusual interest in Jiang Xia, but hid her concerns from Conan to protect Jiang Xia’s cover.
• Haibara Ai gave Jiang Xia handmade Valentine’s chocolate and noticed the pile of gifts from other girls beside his mailbox.
• Jiang Xia gave Haibara Ai a small paper box as a return gift, and she heard something rustling inside.
• Haibara Ai lifted the lid and peered into the paper box.

Jiang Xia returned home with a pill bug as a gift for Haibara Ai, then joined Professor Agasa to retrieve the cats he had left in temporary care. At the cat-sitter’s house, Jiang Xia recognized the name Oyama Sho and asked Professor Agasa how they knew each other.

• Jiang Xia gave Haibara Ai a pill bug, and she reluctantly decided she could try raising it.
• Conan considered asking Jiang Xia about his commission on Moon Shadow Island, but Professor Agasa arrived to take Jiang Xia to pick up the cats.
• Jiang Xia learned that Professor Agasa had left the cats with a friend while the Mouri family was away.
• Jiang Xia went with Professor Agasa to the friend’s house and recognized the name Oyama Sho on the nameplate.
• Professor Agasa said he knew Oyama Sho, a Toto University doctor, through orders for medical products.

Jiang Xia delivered a cat to Professor Oyama Sho and accepted an invitation to a mountain retreat, then returned to the Detective Agency to find it buried under Valentine’s chocolates. Amuro Tooru wondered whether Jiang Xia kept taking cat-finding jobs simply because he liked petting other people’s cats.

• Jiang Xia met Professor Oyama Sho, who praised his detective work and invited him to join a future mountain retreat.
• Oyama Sho took Professor Agasa to a cocktail party, and Jiang Xia drove the cats back to the Detective Agency.
• Jiang Xia found Amuro Tooru staring at a mountain of Valentine’s chocolates addressed to Jiang Xia outside the agency.
• Jiang Xia and Amuro moved the chocolates inside, where Amuro noticed the cats Jiang Xia had brought back.
• Amuro questioned why Jiang Xia accepted so many cat-finding jobs, then suspected Jiang Xia simply craved other people’s cats.

Amuro Tooru declined to interfere with Jiang Xia’s cat-finding commissions, then asked about the Moon Shadow Island letter after learning that Gin had worked with an unfamiliar organization member named Uzo. He left uncertain who Uzo was and why Gin reacted so strangely to the name.

• Amuro Tooru suggested Jiang Xia keep a cat, but Jiang Xia refused because he lacked time and space, and Mermaid agreed that his potted plants had to be protected.
• Amuro Tooru remembered seeing the codename Ouzo in an unfinished mission report in Gin’s bag while handing over information about Inoue Real Estate.
• Amuro Tooru wondered whether Uzo was a newly transferred member or a cadre from another branch who had accompanied Gin on a mission.
• Amuro Tooru asked Gin about Uzo, and Gin responded with an odd look before threatening him at gunpoint and leaving with Vodka.
• Amuro Tooru recalled Gin’s reaction and asked Jiang Xia about the Moon Shadow Island commission letter, which had seemed like a murder notice.

Amuro Tooru inferred that Uzo was a dangerous, highly capable Organization operative and discovered that Uzo’s file required special access. After connecting Jiang Xia’s week-long absence with Gin’s movements and the Moon Shadow Island explosion, Amuro began to suspect the events might be linked.

• Amuro Tooru concluded from Gin and Vodka’s reactions that Uzo was feared even within the Organization but was subject to some form of control.
• Amuro Tooru searched for Uzo in the Organization’s database, but the file required evidence of betrayal or misconduct before it could be opened.
• Amuro Tooru closed the database and decided to use what he knew to identify Uzo’s area of operation and alert nearby Public Security officers.
• Amuro Tooru remembered that Jiang Xia had requested leave about a week earlier, around the time he had encountered Gin.
• Amuro Tooru recalled the deadly Moon Shadow Island explosion and realized the place name had seemed familiar.

Amuro Tooru connected the Moon Shadow Island explosion to Gin, Uzo, and Jiang Xia, then asked Jiang Xia about the trip. As Jiang Xia explained that he had encountered Gin and Vodka before the explosion, Amuro noticed his suspicious scarf and pulled it down, revealing a punk-style necklace.

• Amuro Tooru remembered Jiang Xia had traveled to Moon Shadow Island, where a suspicious explosion had caused many casualties, and wondered whether Gin or Uzo had been involved.
• Amuro Tooru worried that Jiang Xia might have encountered Uzo, but Jiang Xia messaged that he had returned to Tokyo and would visit the Detective Agency after picking up a cat.
• At the Detective Agency, Jiang Xia told Amuro Tooru that he had run into Gin and Vodka on the way to his commission, then abandoned it after an explosion struck Moon Shadow Island.
• Amuro Tooru noticed Jiang Xia kept his scarf on indoors, reached for it, and pulled it down to reveal a thick black punk-style necklace.

Jiang Xia hid the organization’s control device from Amuro Tooru while giving him a misleading account of Gin and Vodka’s orders on the ship. Amuro sympathized with Jiang Xia and offered to ask the Equipment Department about removing the device.

• Amuro Tooru examined Jiang Xia’s necklace and suspected it was experimental organization equipment, but ruled out the idea that it connected Jiang Xia to Uzo.
• Jiang Xia decided to keep his Uzo identity secret from Amuro Tooru and misdirect his investigation.
• Jiang Xia told Amuro that he had encountered Gin and Vodka on a train to Tottori, then later boarded the Kaiyuan on Gin’s orders to scout the ship.
• Jiang Xia claimed he stayed in his cabin until a homicide occurred and that Gin and Vodka were gone by the time he solved the case.
• Amuro Tooru sympathized with Jiang Xia and offered to ask the Equipment Department about the necklace.

Jiang Xia told Amuro Tooru that he suspected a dangerous stranger had been aboard the Kaiyuan, and Amuro began to believe Uzo was on the ship. Jiang Xia secretly planned to use a false Uzo persona to protect his own identity.

• Amuro Tooru reasoned that Gin might have boarded the Kaiyuan to investigate a plan arranged by Uzo, and suspected Jiang Xia had encountered Uzo.
• Jiang Xia realized Amuro Tooru might have heard rumors about Uzo, but concluded his boss had not connected Uzo to him.
• Jiang Xia described the Kaiyuan's passengers and recalled a hat-and-sunglasses-wearing stranger with a criminal aura whom he sensed nearby during the voyage.
• Jiang Xia privately decided to establish a false Uzo as a cover, ideally using a future Ghost Fetus puppet as the persona.
• Amuro Tooru trusted Jiang Xia's intuition and concluded that Uzo might really have been aboard the Kaiyuan.

Amuro Tooru considered how to investigate Uzo without alerting the Organization, then dreamed that Uzo was Jiang Xia. After waking, he reviewed cases involving Jiang Xia and noticed that a bespectacled child had been present at the Hokutosei Train murder.

• Amuro Tooru decided to wait for an assignment in Tottori before using the Organization's Database to investigate Uzo, and gave Jiang Xia a Signal Jammer before leaving.
• Amuro Tooru sent instructions to his Metropolitan Police Department subordinates, then briefly dozed off during a shift at the Chinese restaurant.
• Amuro Tooru dreamed that a police searchlight revealed Jiang Xia's face beneath Uzo's black appearance, and woke startled.
• Amuro Tooru wondered why he had dreamed that Jiang Xia was Uzo and connected the suspicion to the overlapping travel routes and Vodka's reaction.
• Amuro Tooru opened case Files his subordinates had sent and noticed that a bespectacled child had been present at the Hokutosei Train murder.

Amuro Tooru reviewed Jiang Xia’s case files and reconsidered whether Jiang Xia was Uzo, finding the evidence against it more convincing. He decided to verify Jiang Xia’s identity once more in case the Organization had sent Uzo to investigate Bourbon.

• Amuro Tooru examined the Spider Mansion and Star Murder cases, weighing their possible connections to the Organization.
• Amuro Tooru reviewed the Kaiyuan and Moon Shadow Island files and noted that Jiang Xia had little direct involvement in the suspicious incidents.
• Amuro Tooru concluded that Jiang Xia’s background, routine, and apparent lack of Organization work made it unlikely he was Uzo.
• Amuro Tooru compared Jiang Xia’s appearances in the Star Murder and electric shock cases, deciding the necklace-like item was probably not an Organization restraint.
• Amuro Tooru considered that Uzo might have been sent to investigate Bourbon and resolved to check Jiang Xia’s identity again.

Amuro Tooru investigated whether Jiang Xia was Uzo by tracing the commission that sent him to Moon Shadow Island and reviewing his organization file, then suspected Jiang Xia might turn solved cases into missions. After Amuro left, Jiang Xia returned to work at the detective agency and noticed Kid had sent another calling card.

• Amuro Tooru asked a subordinate to investigate Aso Keiji and the Moon Shadow Island explosion while staying hidden.
• Amuro Tooru reviewed Jiang Xia's organization file and found no clear evidence that Jiang Xia's mission history matched Uzo's.
• Amuro Tooru wondered whether Jiang Xia's solved cases counted as organization missions and told Kazami Yuuya to re-examine the motives and inspirations behind those crimes.
• After Amuro Tooru left, Jiang Xia sorted his accumulated mail, sent clients reminders to collect their cats, and found no invitations to distant murder cases.
• Jiang Xia looked through the newspaper and saw that Kid had sent another calling card.