Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia planned identities for Matsuda Jinpei’s puppet, including “Matsuda Yu” and a deeply documented identity for his Uzo double. He established the double’s backstory as Cito, an undocumented former citizen whose fabricated past could withstand scrutiny, and left Cito’s present-day life open to invent.

• Jiang Xia decided to obtain a fake ID for Matsuda Yu so he could present different identities to the Red and Black sides.
• Jiang Xia planned for Fake Uzo to stay mysterious at first and act as a secure intermediary for working with organization members and using the organization’s resources.
• Jiang Xia created a detailed paper trail for Cito by secretly entering records into government and other institutions over several months.
• Jiang Xia devised Cito’s backstory, including his birth-switch, the wealthy family’s fatal fire, and his escape from the circus thief troupe.
• Jiang Xia spent killing intent and searched for real families whose histories could support Cito’s fabricated identity.

Jiang Xia finished refining the fabricated history of Cito and used Matsuda Jinpei’s identity to build a believable life trail. When Amuro Tooru unexpectedly visited the Detective Agency, Jiang Xia wondered whether his investigation had uncovered something, while Matsuda Jinpei recognized his old friend Furuya Rei.

• Jiang Xia completed the details of Cito’s fabricated background and considered how he could explain the gaps in Cito’s appearance and daily life.
• He dispersed his puppet, returned to his bed with the documents, and Matsuda Jinpei resolved to be a considerate ghost after seeing the effort behind Jiang Xia’s new identity.
• Jiang Xia continued creating Cito’s life trail around Tokyo, then planned to invite the Detective Boys to the movies so he could keep his promise.
• Amuro Tooru arrived at the Detective Agency, and Jiang Xia wondered if Amuro’s investigation had uncovered something about him.
• Matsuda Jinpei recognized Amuro Tooru as his former Police Academy friend Furuya Rei, and Jiang Xia patted the new ghost while thinking there would be chances to catch up later.

Amuro Tooru reviewed the Public Security investigation into whether Jiang Xia was secretly Uzo and found that the evidence remained inconclusive. As he visited Jiang Xia’s Detective Agency to address his suspicions, Kazami Yuuya suggested a way to investigate Jiang Xia’s sudden Case Magnet Constitution.

• Amuro Tooru recalled suspecting Jiang Xia after learning about Uzo and noticing Jiang Xia’s frequent overlap with Gin’s movements.
• Kazami Yuuya traced Asai Narumi’s commission to Jiang Xia and confirmed that Asai had chosen him online to stop him from committing a crime.
• Amuro Tooru’s review found Jiang Xia had crossed paths with influential people connected to murders, but uncovered no link between him and their deaths.
• Amuro Tooru concluded that Jiang Xia might simply have an unusual Case Magnet Constitution, though its sudden onset remained suspicious.
• Amuro Tooru visited Jiang Xia’s Detective Agency to deal with the unresolved question, and Kazami Yuuya offered a suggestion.

Amuro Tooru planned to take Jiang Xia away without warning to test whether he would attract another case, but a client seeking help against an assassin interrupted him. As Jiang Xia discussed the commission, Amuro spotted a sniper and shoved Jiang Xia and the client into cover.

• Amuro Tooru decided to wait until the agency was empty before carrying out Kazami Yuuya's plan to take Jiang Xia away.
• Ushio Bunzo entered the agency and asked Jiang Xia to find Silver Fox, the assassin he had hired by mistake after a doctor misdiagnosed his illness.
• Ushio explained that he had been unable to contact Silver Fox after learning his cancer diagnosis was false.
• Jiang Xia recognized Ushio's name and glanced toward a distant building while Amuro noticed a flash that suggested a sniper was aiming at them.
• Amuro Tooru shoved Jiang Xia and Ushio Bunzo behind the sofa as all three took cover.

After a sniper fired into the Detective Agency, Amuro Tooru investigated Ushio Bunzo and discovered that the client had lied about his illness and reporting the attack. Jiang Xia agreed to help lure Silver Fox to Danyuan Mountain, while Amuro left without explaining his suspicions.

• A sniper shattered the Detective Agency window and fired two shots, but Amuro Tooru got everyone behind cover and drew the curtains.
• Amuro Tooru checked Ushio Bunzo’s wallet, photographed his driver’s license, and asked Kazami Yuuya to investigate him.
• Jiang Xia noted that the sniper had no Killing Intent or Ghosts, then asked why Ushio Bunzo had not reported Silver Fox to the police.
• Kazami Yuuya reported that Ushio Bunzo’s identity and bank transfer were real, but his claim of a terminal illness and his report to the police were false.
• Ushio Bunzo proposed climbing a mountain to lure Silver Fox, and Jiang Xia agreed to meet him at Danyuan Mountain the day after tomorrow.
• Jiang Xia saw Ushio Bunzo to the door and returned to find that Amuro Tooru had already left the Detective Agency.

Jiang Xia prepared to hike Danyuan Mountain for a strange case involving a client who had hired a killer to assassinate him. Conan and Mouri Ran joined him, and the group set off for the mountain, where they planned to stay at Sangaku Villa.

• Jiang Xia went to Beika Commercial Building to buy hiking gear after deciding Amuro Tooru would contact him if necessary.
• Conan and Mouri Ran encountered Jiang Xia, and Conan grew suspicious when he learned Jiang Xia planned to hike alone.
• Jiang Xia told them that Ushio Bunzo had hired a killer to assassinate himself and asked Jiang Xia to accompany him on the hike.
• Conan and Mouri Ran decided to join Jiang Xia, with Conan hoping to investigate the client's motives and Mouri Ran concerned about the danger.
• On the appointed day, Jiang Xia submitted the hikers' names at Danyuan Mountain's management office and met Mouri Ran and Conan at the trailhead.

Jiang Xia, Conan, Mouri Ran, and Ushio Bunzo prepared to climb the mountain while Amuro Tooru joined them to investigate the suspicious client and the assassin Silver Fox. Conan noticed that a friendly college student was left-handed and began watching him as a possible suspect.

• Mouri Ran greeted nearby hikers while Ushio Bunzo pretended to join the group by chance.
• A college student offered to guide Mouri Ran, but Conan pushed him away and told him they knew the route.
• Amuro Tooru arrived unexpectedly and told Jiang Xia that he had checked Ushio Bunzo’s medical examination and suspected something was wrong.
• Amuro Tooru explained that Silver Fox was believed to be left-handed and favored traditional weapons, prompting Ushio Bunzo to question whether the assassin might use guns.
• Conan spotted the college student using his left hand to dial the mountain rest station and asked Jiang Xia to keep an eye on him.

Jiang Xia, Conan, and the others began their mountain climb while keeping watch for Silver Fox among the people around them. As the trail turned steep and exposed, a suspicious couple drew their attention, and the route ahead appeared ideal for an ambush.

• Etsuko Torakura approached Jiang Xia, and Conan recognized the mystery novelist and warned Jiang Xia that she could be a suspect in the Silver Fox case.
• Mouri Ran steered Etsuko Torakura away from asking why Jiang Xia seemed familiar, helping keep his identity as a detective concealed.
• Mountain staff confirmed the Rest Station supplies were ready, and Jiang Xia's group set off up the trail.
• A tense couple hurried up behind the group, prompting Mouri Ran to suggest Silver Fox might be two people, and Jiang Xia agreed to watch them.
• The group reached a steep climb of rocks and hemp ropes that seemed like a good place for an ambush.

Jiang Xia’s group climbed the mountain as a suspicious college student offered help, and Ushio Bunzo nearly fell when a rope broke. Later, Jiang Xia and the others noticed a couple carrying bags that smelled of old blood, leaving the contents and their intentions uncertain.

• The college student offered Ran a hand, but Jiang Xia used it to climb the rock, and Ran jumped up while Conan warned Ushio Bunzo not to trust strangers.
• Ushio Bunzo’s climbing rope broke, and Jiang Xia caught him before he fell over the cliff.
• Amuro Tooru suspected the left-handed college student might be Silver Fox, but his inspection suggested the rope had simply deteriorated.
• Ushio Bunzo accused the college student of being Silver Fox, while the other hikers began to spread out from the group.
• Ran noticed a couple protecting their bags from view, and Amuro Tooru and Conan detected a rotten smell that Jiang Xia identified as old blood.

Jiang Xia, Conan, and Amuro Tooru investigated after a college student was attacked and fell from a cliff while the group climbed the mountain. Unable to call for help in the worsening storm, they carried the unconscious student to a nearby Rest Station, where they met its intimidating Cabin Manager.

• Jiang Xia considered how he might provoke the suspicious couple into revealing more Killing Intent, but they hurried away before he could act.
• A scream led Jiang Xia, Conan, and Amuro Tooru to Etsuko Torakura at a cliff, where they found the college student alive on a ledge below.
• The Detectives noticed a sharp wound on the student's face and a Knife lodged in a nearby tree, suggesting he had fallen while dodging a thrown weapon.
• The client accused Etsuko Torakura of attacking the student, but she denied it, and the group could not contact the police or an Ambulance because their phones had no signal.
• As heavy rain began, Jiang Xia covered the student's face with his waterproof hat and urged everyone to seek shelter at the Rest Station.
• The group reached the Rest Station, met its fierce-looking Cabin Manager, and brought the unconscious student inside for emergency treatment.

Jiang Xia and the others were stranded at a mountain rest station during a storm, where a radio report revealed a murder suspect might be nearby. After the group began taking turns keeping watch, Dark Shadow tried to attack Jiang Xia, only to find him awake and waiting.

• Mouri Ran found that the landline could not connect, and the caretaker served the stranded group instant curry.
• Etsuko Torakura recognized Jiang Xia and said she had considered going to Tokyo to find him, prompting uneasy reactions from Kyoko Saegusa and her companion.
• A radio bulletin reported that a burglary and murder had occurred in Danyuan Village and that the suspect might have fled toward Danyuan Mountain.
• Amuro Tooru and Jiang Xia agreed to take turns keeping watch, with Amuro guarding the first half of the night.
• After Jiang Xia appeared to fall asleep, Dark Shadow approached him with a knife, but lightning revealed Jiang Xia was awake and staring at him.

During a stormy night at the rest station, a masked attacker tried to stab Jiang Xia, but Conan's warning disrupted the attack and the assailant escaped. While pursuing Etsuko Torakura, Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru learned she had fled in a claustrophobic panic, leaving the attacker among the people in the cabin and raising suspicion that the administrator had drugged Jiang Xia.

• Conan woke during the storm, spotted a knife-wielding figure approaching Jiang Xia, and threw a pillow to warn him.
• The attacker retreated and escaped into the darkness while Jiang Xia collected the Killing Intent left behind; Amuro Tooru turned on the lights and spotted someone fleeing outside.
• Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru chased the fleeing figure into a cave, where Etsuko Torakura clung to Jiang Xia in a claustrophobic panic.
• Conan recognized Etsuko's symptoms and said the attacker had seemed like a short-haired man, suggesting the assailant was still at the rest station.
• Amuro Tooru questioned why Jiang Xia had fallen asleep on watch, and Jiang Xia claimed he had felt unusually sleepy.
• Conan suspected someone had secretly drugged Jiang Xia and identified the administrator as a possible culprit.

Amuro Tooru weighed the evidence that the manager was an impostor who had tried to drug Jiang Xia, but decided the group should wait in the cave until dawn. As Conan spoke with Etsuko Torakura, Amuro considered the boy’s mysterious origins and suspected he might be connected to other unusual children.

• Conan realized the manager’s unusually pale skin suggested he was an impostor, while Amuro Tooru also considered whether others might have drugged Jiang Xia.
• Amuro Tooru reasoned that an impostor manager could have attacked the college student to protect his identity, but the group stayed in the cave until dawn rather than risk getting lost in the dark.
• Conan chatted with Etsuko Torakura about her fear of confined spaces and awkwardly explained how he read her novels.
• Amuro Tooru recalled that investigators had found no Tokyo household registration for Edogawa Conan or his parents, and he scrutinized Conan while wondering whether the boy was connected to other unusual children.

After returning to the Rest Station, Jiang Xia, Conan, Amuro Tooru, and Etsuko Torakura found the Mountaineering Couple’s wife murdered. Clues suggested her husband had killed her and fled with a missing backpack, while the group still had to locate the others.

• At dawn, Jiang Xia, Conan, Amuro Tooru, and Etsuko Torakura left the cave and found the Rest Station after hearing Mouri Ran scream inside.
• Mouri Ran was unharmed, but she had discovered the Mountaineering Couple’s wife dead with a knife in her back.
• Jiang Xia suggested the attacker might be left-handed, and Amuro Tooru offered that someone could have stabbed the woman while embracing her from the front.
• Conan found wool fibers from the husband’s clothing under the victim’s fingernails and deduced that her husband could have attacked her.
• Mouri Ran explained that the others had split up to search for Amuro Tooru and Etsuko Torakura, while Jiang Xia noticed that one of the couple’s backpacks was missing.
• Conan concluded that the husband had likely killed his wife and fled with the backpack.

Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru discovered that the dead woman’s bag held stolen cash, while Ushio Bunzo continued trying to identify Silver Fox. The client decided the caretaker was the only suspect left and rushed into the forest, leaving Etsuko Torakura behind as the detectives followed.

• Conan opened the dead woman’s bag, revealing bloodstained bundles of cash, and Jiang Xia recognized it as part of the 100 million yen stolen in a burglary and murder.
• Jiang Xia considered secretly giving the money to the organization to win Gin’s trust and obtain an Assassination List.
• Amuro Tooru estimated that the bag held about fifty million yen and suspected the dead woman and her accomplice had argued over the crime.
• Ushio Bunzo returned, heard the couple were likely the burglars, and ruled them out as Silver Fox.
• Ushio Bunzo searched Etsuko Torakura’s belongings, then concluded the caretaker was the only suspect remaining and ran into the forest.
• Etsuko Torakura questioned the detectives about Silver Fox as Jiang Xia and the others hurried after Ushio Bunzo.

Mouri Ran stayed at the Rest Station to protect Etsuko Torakura and the unconscious student, while Matsuda Jinpei secretly took the stolen cash on Jiang Xia’s orders. Meanwhile, Ushio Bunzo fled across the mountain, intending to kill Silver Fox for murdering his daughter.

• Mouri Ran stayed behind and explained Silver Fox’s identity to Etsuko Torakura, then noticed the pink backpack containing fifty million in cash had vanished.
• Matsuda Jinpei hid the stolen bag in the woods, despite feeling uneasy about taking it, and hurried off to carry out Jiang Xia’s other instructions.
• Ushio Bunzo ran toward a path down the mountain after identifying Silver Fox, having chosen the mountain because he knew its terrain.
• Ushio Bunzo planned to kill Silver Fox in revenge for his daughter’s death and revealed that he had staged the shots at the Amuro Detective Agency to ensure Jiang Xia accepted the commission.

A landslide swept away Silver Fox, Kabe Akira, and a mysterious man whom Amuro Tooru recognized as his dead classmate Matsuda Jinpei. Amuro and Conan searched for survivors while Jiang Xia dug toward the Shikigami hidden in the debris.

• Ushio Bunzo reasoned that Silver Fox was likely being held hostage by Kabe Akira as he escaped down the mountain.
• An earthquake triggered a landslide that drove Kabe Akira and Silver Fox toward a rock where a mysterious man in black stood.
• Amuro Tooru recognized the man as Matsuda Jinpei, who had died three years earlier, just before the rock vanished and all three men were swallowed by the landslide.
• Amuro Tooru followed Jiang Xia and Conan to search the debris, while Jiang Xia left a Mist Tengu to watch over them.
• Conan found a phone signal and began calling for help as Amuro and Jiang Xia searched for survivors.
• Jiang Xia uncovered a Shikigami beneath the soil and reached out to grab it.

Jiang Xia collected Shikigami and Killing Intent from the mudslide site while Matsuda Jinpei revealed he had hidden 100 million yen in stolen cash. The searchers found the dead criminals but neither Matsuda nor the missing money, leaving Amuro Tooru to question what he had seen.

• Jiang Xia dug up and pocketed Shikigami while his Ghosts searched the mud for more Shikigami and Killing Intent.
• Matsuda Jinpei told Jiang Xia that he had hidden two bags containing 100 million yen, and Jiang Xia promised to celebrate with Ghost Mint later.
• Rescue teams found Silver Fox and Kabe Akira’s bodies and freed the real administrator from a cave, but they found no sign of Matsuda Jinpei or Kabe Akira’s stolen-money backpack.
• Amuro Tooru learned that the money at the Rest Station was also missing and wondered whether Matsuda Jinpei had taken the cash.
• The search ended without finding Matsuda Jinpei or either missing bag, and the police sealed off Danyuan Mountain to investigate the burglary and murder.

Jiang Xia collected the money Matsuda Jinpei had hidden on Danyuan Mountain, while Gin received Jiang Xia’s email offering 100 million yen for the Organization. Gin accepted the money’s origin as plausible and grew curious about Jiang Xia’s new tool.

• Ushio Bunzo left after the search team found Silver Fox’s body, and Jiang Xia picked up the Killing Intent he left behind.
• Jiang Xia returned to the search site with Amuro Tooru and Conan, then flew into Danyuan Mountain days later and retrieved Matsuda Jinpei’s hidden money.
• Gin killed a man in Hirata Town, took a Briefcase of cash and a floppy disk, and drove off with Vodka.
• Gin opened Jiang Xia’s email reporting that he had recovered 100 million yen from two dead Burglary and Murder criminals and asking Gin to collect it.
• Gin decided the money could be added to the Organization’s funds and wondered what new handy tool Jiang Xia wanted to show him.

Gin accepted Jiang Xia’s offer to deliver the money in person, suspecting Uzo wanted a face-to-face meeting, and decided to test him when they met. Before Vodka could explain the anesthetic pastries he had prepared for Uzo, Gin found the bag and aimed his Beretta at him.

• Jiang Xia refused Gin’s locker drop-off plan and insisted on bringing the money to him directly.
• Gin considered whether Uzo wanted an assassination list or had turned against the organization, then decided to meet him and judge his intentions.
• Gin took a stale pastry from Vodka’s bag and realized Vodka had been carrying the same uneaten pastries for days.
• Vodka returned with bento boxes, saw Gin holding a pastry, and warned him not to eat it.
• Vodka entered the car under Gin’s gun, then tried to explain the anesthetic pastries he had prepared for Uzo.