Chapter Summaries

Jinbo Daixiong’s plan to use Mori Tatsuo to impersonate Jiang Xia and steal the Suitcase failed when the real Jiang Xia arrived at Aoi Inn. After Jinbo dismissed Mori, Mori decided to break into Jiang Xia’s room and steal the Suitcase himself.

• Jinbo Daixiong planned to wait until Jiang Xia left his room so he could search it for the Suitcase, but he heard people inside and put off the attempt.
• Several people in suits slipped out of Jiang Xia’s room and left the floor.
• Mori Tatsuo arrived at Aoi Inn and confronted Jinbo Daixiong about Jiang Xia’s unexpected arrival.
• Jinbo Daixiong dismissed Mori Tatsuo and paid him to leave, then changed shifts with another employee.
• Mori Tatsuo suspected the Suitcase contained something valuable and decided to sneak into Jiang Xia’s room at midnight to steal it.

Jiang Xia discovered that Public Security officers had hidden a pinhole camera in his hotel room and brought it to Amuro Tooru. Amuro realized his subordinates were still closely surveilling Jiang Xia, while Jiang Xia hoped the discovery would make his boss emit Killing Intent.

• Mori Tatsuo entered the inn and checked which room Jiang Xia was staying in.
• The Mermaid told Jiang Xia that several Suit-Wearing Men had picked the lock and entered his room while he was away.
• Jiang Xia found a pinhole camera hidden among the artificial flowers and wrapped it in a napkin before leaving his room.
• Jiang Xia went to Amuro Tooru's room and handed him the camera, explaining that something was wrong with the inn.
• Amuro recognized the camera and realized his subordinates had continued surveilling Jiang Xia without following his relaxed approach.
• Jiang Xia and the Ghosts watched Amuro, but he showed no anger or Killing Intent.

Amuro Tooru dismantled a hidden camera and let Jiang Xia sleep on the floor in his room, while two men separately broke into Jiang Xia’s room to steal the suitcase. Jinbo Daixiong discovered that the person examining it in the dark was the fake Jiang Xia, leaving his purpose unclear.

• Amuro Tooru found no surveillance devices in his room, dismantled Jiang Xia’s camera, and suggested they stay quiet and share his room.
• Jiang Xia accepted sleeping on the floor while reflecting on Amuro Tooru’s lack of consideration.
• Mori Tatsuo entered Jiang Xia’s room to steal the suitcase, carrying a knife in case he was caught.
• Jinbo Daixiong stole a spare key but found Jiang Xia’s door unlocked and slipped inside.
• Jinbo Daixiong saw someone examining the suitcase in the dark and realized from the black clothing that it was the fake Jiang Xia.

Jinbo Daixiong strangled Mori Tatsuo after Mori threatened to expose his connection to the Man in Red, then staged the death as a suicide and searched for Jiang Xia. Meanwhile, Jiang Xia slept in Amuro Tooru’s room and learned that the Mermaid had collected the Killing Intent of the man killed in his room.

• Mori Tatsuo confronted Jinbo Daixiong with the old newspaper and demanded a share of the treasure.
• Jinbo Daixiong strangled Mori Tatsuo, then found Jiang Xia’s bed empty.
• Jinbo Daixiong staged Mori Tatsuo’s death as a suicide, took his phone, and left to search for Jiang Xia.
• Jiang Xia slept in Amuro Tooru’s room because his own room was no longer safe after he had been seen by a Public Security Camera.
• The Mermaid showed Jiang Xia the Killing Intent she had collected from the man who had died in Room 207.

Jiang Xia woke up, collected the Killing Intent beside his pillow, and decided to sneak out to find the buried 100 million yen. Before he could reach the treasure site, he spotted Jinbo Daixiong and captured him, delighted by the Killing Intent his fear produced.

• Jiang Xia absorbed the Killing Intent near his pillow and then decided to visit Toshigami Forest to retrieve the buried 100 million yen.
• Jiang Xia noticed a fresh Shikigami aura near the inn’s corridor as he prepared to leave in Matsuda Jinpei’s puppet.
• Jinbo Daixiong left Jiang Xia’s room after staging a hanging scene and planned to steal the treasure and frame Jiang Xia’s death as part of a double murder.
• Jiang Xia ambushed Jinbo Daixiong, dragged him into the shadows, and suggested he become another victim to make the murder case more entertaining.
• Jinbo Daixiong’s terror produced a surge of Killing Intent, raising Jiang Xia’s mood.

Jiang Xia left Jinbo Daixiong alive for the police to find, satisfied with the Killing Intent he had collected. He returned to the forest to retrieve the buried treasure and prepared to use Spider Lady’s Heaven Q&A skill to dig it up.

• Jiang Xia decided to leave Jinbo Daixiong for the police rather than kill him, and he collected the Killing Intent the man had developed.
• Jiang Xia knocked Jinbo Daixiong unconscious and left the inn to search for the treasure in the forest.
• Jiang Xia removed his rain-blurred sunglasses and returned to the Forward-Leaning Ksitigarbha, where the clue pointed eight steps east.
• Jiang Xia sent Spider Lady underground, and she found a sealed ceramic pot full of cash about half a meter below the ground.
• Jiang Xia held his sunglasses before his face and activated Spider Lady’s Heaven Q&A skill to help dig up the treasure.

Jiang Xia used Heaven Q&A to grow spider legs, recovered and hid a ceramic pot, then returned to his body as the storm ended. The next morning, Mouri Kogoro, Mouri Ran, and Conan headed to the inn, where Conan continued worrying about Jiang Xia’s disappearance and recalled that Hattori Heiji had encountered him in Tottori Prefecture.

• Jiang Xia rejected his own final Heaven Q&A question and grew spider legs, which he used to dig up a ceramic pot.
• Jiang Xia buried the Forward-Leaning Ksitigarbha and hid the pot for a later return to Gunma before dismissing the puppet.
• Amuro Tooru woke after the storm and decided to let Jiang Xia sleep while he went downstairs for breakfast.
• Mouri Kogoro and Mouri Ran walked toward the Aoi Inn with Conan after their car broke down during the storm.
• Conan thought about Jiang Xia’s disappearance and remembered that Hattori Heiji had run into Jiang Xia in Tottori Prefecture.

Conan, Mouri Ran, Mouri Kogoro, and Amuro Tooru arrived at Aoi Inn, where a cleaner reported finding Jiang Xia hanged in his room. The group rushed upstairs, and the chapter left them outside Room 207 with its door jammed open by a vacuum cleaner.

• Conan reconsidered whether Amuro Tooru had abducted Jiang Xia, recalling Hattori Heiji's observations and Toyama Kazuha's theory that Amuro was helping Jiang Xia with his mental state.
• Mouri Ran, Mouri Kogoro, and Conan encountered Amuro Tooru at Aoi Inn and asked where Jiang Xia was.
• Conan's question about Jiang Xia made Amuro Tooru uneasy, and Amuro tried to change the subject before a scream came from upstairs.
• Mouri Ran caught a cleaner who stumbled down the stairs, and the cleaner said she had found Jiang Xia hanged in his room.
• Mouri Ran, Mouri Kogoro, and Conan hurried to Room 207, where guests had gathered outside its open, vacuum-blocked door.

Mouri Kogoro and the others found a body resembling Jiang Xia hanging in his room, and Kogoro suspected the death was a murder. Amuro Tooru confirmed that the real Jiang Xia was alive, while police arrived at the inn.

• Mouri Ran and Mouri Kogoro entered Jiang Xia's room and found a stiff, hanging body dressed like him.
• Mouri Kogoro noticed the corpse's distorted face and ligature mark, suspected murder, and tried to keep the guests from disturbing the scene.
• Mouri Ran saw the corpse's face and fainted.
• Conan accused Amuro Tooru of killing Jiang Xia, but Amuro explained that he had checked and found Jiang Xia alive in his room.
• Amuro Tooru considered whether cameras left in Room 207 might have recorded what happened, but suited men arrived as the inn employee announced that the police were there.

Yamamura Misao’s police team arrived at an inn to investigate a suspicious death, only to find a body resembling Jiang Xia. Conan realized the corpse was not Jiang Xia just as the real Jiang Xia appeared, leaving the police and Mouri Kogoro stunned.

• Yamamura Misao brought criminal police to the inn and learned that another apparent hanging had occurred upstairs.
• Conan slipped into the room, spotted the corpse’s missing wrist guard and scar, and concluded that it was not Jiang Xia.
• Yamamura Misao caught Conan inside the scene, but Jiang Xia arrived and identified Conan as a friend’s child.
• Yamamura Misao recognized the living Jiang Xia beside the lookalike corpse and fainted.
• Mouri Kogoro stared in shock at Jiang Xia, and Mouri Ran woke up to find her father acting strangely.

After the body dressed like Jiang Xia was discovered in Room 207, Jiang Xia explained to Conan why he had left the room and changed clothes, while Conan grew increasingly suspicious of Amuro Tooru. The chapter left Conan wondering whether Amuro had lured Jiang Xia away before committing the murder.

• Mouri Ran saw Jiang Xia in the corridor, mistook the scene for a dream, and fainted again.
• Conan checked on Mouri Ran, then asked Jiang Xia who the dead man was and why Jiang Xia had left Room 207.
• Jiang Xia said he had spent the night at Amuro Tooru's place because his room was unsuitable, and claimed he had avoided waking the inn staff.
• Conan noticed Jiang Xia's light-colored clothes contrasted with the dead man's Black Clothes and learned Amuro Tooru had chosen Jiang Xia's replacement outfits.
• Conan recalled Amuro Tooru's earlier claim that he did not know where Jiang Xia was and began suspecting that Amuro had lured Jiang Xia away and killed the stranger.

Jiang Xia and the others established that the corpse in Room 207 was not Jiang Xia, while Yamamura Misao and Mouri Ran tested whether Jiang Xia was a ghost. After inspecting the scene, Jiang Xia proposed that the dead man had planned to impersonate him and steal the innkeeper’s suitcase, but the mystery of the man’s identity and death remained unresolved.

• Yamamura Misao woke up, mistook Jiang Xia for a ghost, and panicked until Amuro Tooru explained that Jiang Xia was alive.
• Mouri Ran confirmed she could touch Jiang Xia and reassured Yamamura Misao that he was human.
• Amuro Tooru questioned the innkeeper and staff, who found no record of the deceased as a guest at the inn.
• Jiang Xia inspected the crime scene with the officers’ approval, then checked Amuro Tooru’s reaction before sharing his theory.
• Jiang Xia told Yamamura Misao that the deceased may have intended to impersonate him and steal the innkeeper’s suitcase.

After the innkeeper revealed that the Man in Red had left a suitcase with him five years earlier, Yamamura Misao proposed that a thief had broken into Jiang Xia’s room and been killed by him. Conan doubted the theory and resolved to find evidence that would reveal the truth and protect Jiang Xia.

• The innkeeper recalled that the Man in Red had asked him to keep a suitcase five years earlier.
• Conan noticed scratches on the door lock, and Yamamura Misao identified them as marks from lock picking.
• Yamamura Misao accused Jiang Xia of accidentally strangling the intruder and staging the scene to create an alibi.
• Mouri Ran defended Jiang Xia, while Conan silently agreed that the theory did not fit him.
• Conan continued to suspect Amuro Tooru and decided to investigate the evidence himself so he could prove Jiang Xia’s innocence.

Amuro Tooru defended Jiang Xia against Yamamura Misao’s suspicions, explaining that Jiang Xia had found a hidden camera in their room. Jiang Xia directed the detectives to investigate the inn’s employees, and the innkeeper returned with an email connected to the room.

• Amuro Tooru testified that Jiang Xia had stayed with him since before the victim’s death, but Yamamura Misao accused them of conspiring to stage the hanging.
• Amuro Tooru explained that Jiang Xia had found a hidden camera in their room, so they had stayed there despite the storm and lack of signal.
• Kazami Yuuya worried that Yamamura Misao’s reckless accusations might bring trouble upon the police team.
• Jiang Xia suggested that the victim’s accomplice was likely an inn employee, and the detectives immediately went to investigate.
• The innkeeper returned with a phone and showed Jiang Xia an email that seemed to have come from the room.

Police reviewed surveillance footage that Kazami Yuuya had delivered and identified Jinbo Daixiong entering Jiang Xia’s room after Jiang Xia left. With the footage showing Jinbo struggling with someone inside, Yamamura Misao ordered the police to find him.

• Yamamura Misao took the innkeeper’s phone and arranged for the video to be displayed on a larger screen.
• Jiang Xia examined the email and video while Kazami Yuuya quietly left after ensuring the police received the footage.
• Kazami Yuuya’s surveillance recording showed Jiang Xia leaving his room, then a disguised young man entering and searching it.
• The recording showed an Aoi Inn employee whom Jiang Xia recognized as Jinbo Daixiong entering the room after the disguised man.
• The inn’s employees confirmed Jinbo Daixiong was missing, and Yamamura Misao ordered the police to find him.
• Conan peeked at the footage and saw Jinbo Daixiong struggling with someone in the dark room.

Conan suspected that Amuro Tooru might have manipulated the circumstances around the murder, though he had no evidence and hoped he was mistaken. Jiang Xia revealed that the suitcase contained an old newspaper, and the hotel owner’s angry reaction produced a faint wisp of Killing Intent for Jiang Xia’s Ghosts.

• Conan considered how Amuro Tooru’s choices might have set up the murder and prepared himself for the possibility that Amuro was using cases to kill people.
• Yamamura Misao asked Jiang Xia what had been inside the suitcase, and Jiang Xia said it held a Kumamoto Sports Newspaper from September five years earlier.
• Yamamura Misao sent a subordinate to find a copy of the newspaper, while the hotel owner confirmed that the suitcase had contained nothing else.
• Yamamura Misao criticized the hotel owner for mistrusting Jiang Xia, and the hotel owner grew angry.
• Mermaid and Spider Lady collected a faint wisp of Killing Intent from the hotel owner, then examined it with Miyano Akemi.

Jiang Xia explained his theory that the old newspaper pointed to buried treasure in Toshigami Forest, and Yamamura Misao led everyone out to search. The group headed into the forest with breakfast from Jiang Xia, leaving the treasure hunt underway.

• Jiang Xia told Yamamura Misao that the newspaper’s Akagimaru record might indicate digging eight steps or meters east of the Forward-Leaning Ksitigarbha in Toshigami Forest.
• Amuro Tooru recalled that Jiang Xia had shared his treasure-map theory the previous night, but he had advised waiting until morning and having a way to contact the police.
• Yamamura Misao excitedly ordered his subordinates to dig and borrowed a shovel from the innkeeper.
• Mouri Ran, Conan, Amuro Tooru, and the others followed the police into the forest while discussing the local suicide legend and the Man in Red murder case.
• Jiang Xia handed out Beef Buns he had picked up from the dining-room staff, and the group ate as they walked.

The group searched for the Forward-Leaning Ksitigarbha, but Jiang Xia had secretly buried it after finding the stolen money. When the search failed and Jinbo Daixiong remained missing, Amuro Tooru organized a broader search nearby.

• Amuro Tooru realized the group had passed the spot where he had seen the Forward-Leaning Ksitigarbha and explained that he had stood the statue upright to keep it from causing an accident.
• Yamamura Misao accused Amuro Tooru of causing the murder by disrupting the statue, but the group turned back to search for it.
• Jiang Xia searched with the others while knowing he had buried the statue in the hole where they had found the ceramic pot containing 100 million yen.
• The group reached the Aoi Inn without finding the statue, and Yamamura Misao proposed getting exorcists and searching deeper in the forest for Jinbo Daixiong.
• Officers reported that Jinbo Daixiong was missing from the inn, and Amuro Tooru told them to call for backup and search nearby hiding places for clues.

Yamamura Misao followed Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru to search an abandoned Western-style Mansion for the missing Ksitigarbha statue and the suspect Jinbo. After bats startled him into hiding, he emerged to find himself alone.

• Yamamura Misao stayed close to Jiang Xia while the police and inn staff searched the area.
• The innkeeper told them about an abandoned Western-style Mansion nearby that could hide the heavy Ksitigarbha statue.
• Yamamura Misao convinced Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru to inspect the Mansion with him.
• The three searched the Mansion’s rooms but found neither Jinbo nor the statue.
• Yamamura Misao screamed at a cluster of bats, fled behind a pillar, and discovered Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru had disappeared when he came back out.

Amuro Tooru and Jiang Xia searched the mansion and found Jinbo Daixiong unconscious in a room. Jinbo accused a supposed pervert downstairs of attacking him and stealing the Forward-Leaning Ksitigarbha, leaving Amuro to suspect a mysterious third party was involved.

• Amuro Tooru left Yamamura Misao inside the mansion to face his fear while he and Jiang Xia went to search the second floor.
• Amuro Tooru and Jiang Xia heard a faint moan, kicked open a locked room, and found Jinbo Daixiong lying beneath a burlap sack.
• Amuro Tooru removed the sack, and Jinbo Daixiong woke up and begged for help, identifying Jiang Xia as a detective.
• Jiang Xia asked Jinbo about the Forward-Leaning Ksitigarbha, and Jinbo denied taking it and blamed a pervert he believed was downstairs.
• Amuro Tooru realized Yamamura Misao was the only person downstairs and decided to take Jinbo back for police questioning.