Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia met Okiya Subaru, the organization’s new subordinate, and tested whether he was disguised by pinching his face. Okiya treated Jiang Xia as his superior and introduced himself, while Jiang Xia considered using him to find Akai Shuichi.

• Jiang Xia assessed Okiya Subaru’s appearance and the Ghosts’ feedback, concluding that Okiya seemed genuine and that Akai Shuichi was probably not nearby.
• Okiya apologized for failing to recognize Jiang Xia, introduced himself as a Toto University engineering graduate student, and offered his computer and technical skills.
• Jiang Xia released Okiya’s face, and Okiya sat quietly while wondering what his new superior wanted from him.
• Jiang Xia recalled that the Okiya Subaru identity used by Akai Shuichi had lived at Mokuba Manor in the original timeline, but that no one lived there in this world.
• Jiang Xia considered following Okiya to locate his residence and potentially find Akai Shuichi.

Jiang Xia met with the genuine Okiya Subaru to discuss the mission to make Chairman Watanuki disappear before next week's Board of Directors meeting. Okiya agreed to abandon killing, but Uzo rejected his other suggestions and left him without a clear plan.

• Jiang Xia confirmed that the Okiya Subaru before him was genuine and prepared an explanation in case the organization later suspected him of failing to detect Akai Shuichi's impersonation.
• Uzo asked Okiya about the mission, and Okiya explained that his attempts to pressure Chairman Watanuki with compromising material had stalled.
• Okiya promised to try a more direct approach, but Uzo forbade him from killing the target.
• Okiya suggested following Watanuki or having outsiders kidnap him, and Uzo rejected both ideas as inefficient and troublesome.

Uzo led Okiya Subaru to Mian Guan Yi Yi’s villa after explaining that he knew the chairman had gone to collect medical results. At the property, Uzo pointed out a Cosmos seedling and ordered Okiya to dig beneath it, leaving the reason for the hidden spot unresolved.

• Uzo rejected Okiya Subaru’s proposal, then told him to follow and led him out of the building.
• As they walked toward Mian Guan Yi Yi’s home, Okiya saw the chairman leave in a taxi, while Uzo explained his hospital visit and recent health problems.
• Uzo and Okiya climbed over the fence into the villa’s grounds.
• Uzo showed Okiya a Cosmos seedling and handed him a folding shovel, ordering him to dig carefully beneath it.

Jiang Xia used a buried corpse to frighten Okiya Subaru while recruiting him, then told him the grave could help make Mian Guan Yi Yi disappear. Okiya Subaru buried the body again, increasingly convinced that Uzo was far more dangerous than he had believed, though he reminded himself that Uzo could not read his mind.

• Okiya Subaru dug where Uzo directed and uncovered the corpse of a woman.
• Jiang Xia restrained Okiya Subaru beside the corpse and claimed they shared ideals about avoiding crude violence.
• Okiya Subaru pretended to agree with Jiang Xia and stayed composed as he feared he might be buried beside the woman.
• Jiang Xia told Okiya Subaru to rebury the corpse and called its location the key to making Mian Guan Yi Yi disappear.
• Okiya Subaru buried the woman again and reconsidered rumors about Uzo, wondering whether Uzo had manipulated Mian Guan Yi Yi into killing her.
• Okiya Subaru questioned whether Uzo had recognized him as a traitor, then reminded himself that Uzo could not read minds.

Okiya Subaru panicked after Jiang Xia revealed the murder investigation and gave him the shovel used to uncover the body, then warned him to help bring the murderer to justice without leaving evidence. Jiang Xia tried to track Okiya afterward, but Okiya rented a hotel room and spent his time working on his thesis, leaving Jiang Xia with little to learn.

• Jiang Xia finished burying the body with Okiya Subaru and told him the case details as they left.
• Jiang Xia gave Okiya Subaru the cleaned folding shovel as a meeting gift and warned him to avoid leaving evidence while accelerating the murderer's arrest.
• Okiya Subaru turned back after Jiang Xia disappeared and mistook a black cat with white paws for a possible threat.
• Jiang Xia followed Okiya Subaru in his cat persona, but Okiya rented a nearby hotel room and returned to a café to monitor the street while working on his thesis.
• Jiang Xia abandoned the tedious surveillance, visited Professor Agasa's house and the Detective Agency, and sent cats to the waiting women.

Jiang Xia watched Okiya Subaru struggle to carry out Uzo’s lesson while he handled his own affairs. At the Detective Agency, Koda Masao hired Jiang Xia to find his missing sister, Koda Sanae, and identified Mian Guan Yi Yi as the client she had gone to meet.

• Jiang Xia watched Okiya Subaru keep vigil near Mian Guan Yi Yi’s house, then placed a Transmitter on him when he continued staying in the area.
• Okiya Subaru tried to guide someone to the buried corpse without leaving evidence, but no one discovered it because the burial site was private land.
• Okiya Subaru planned to lure children onto the property to dig, intending to stop them before they uncovered the corpse and finish digging himself.
• Jiang Xia went to the Detective Agency, where a fierce-looking client asked him to find his missing younger sister.
• Koda Masao told Jiang Xia that Koda Sanae had disappeared after leaving work to meet a client, then showed him a photograph identifying Mian Guan Yi Yi as that client.

Koda Masao hired Jiang Xia to investigate his sister Sanae’s disappearance, accusing Mian Guan Yi Yi of murdering her and burying her in his yard. Amuro Tooru objected to breaking in, and Jiang Xia proposed entering Mian Guan Yi Yi’s house as guests instead.

• Koda Masao accused Mian Guan Yi Yi of killing Sanae after she confronted him about investment losses and hiding her body in his yard.
• Amuro Tooru arrived and questioned Koda Masao’s grounds for suspecting Mian Guan Yi Yi.
• Koda Masao described a witness who heard digging in the yard on the night Sanae disappeared, though the police dismissed the witness’s drunken testimony.
• Koda Masao asked Jiang Xia to sneak into the yard and search for the body while Mian Guan Yi Yi was away.
• Amuro Tooru warned that breaking in was illegal, and Jiang Xia suggested visiting Mian Guan Yi Yi as guests to gain entry.

Jiang Xia and Koda Masao prepared to visit Mian Guan Yi Yi's home, but Amuro Tooru slipped away before they could leave. Meanwhile, Conan and the Detective Boys met Okiya Subaru in a park, where he offered to show them a place to play baseball.

• Koda Masao agreed to try visiting Mian Guan Yi Yi's home before the man left for his hospital checkup.
• Jiang Xia turned to invite Amuro Tooru along, but discovered that Amuro had quietly vanished.
• Conan joined the Detective Boys and Haibara Ai for baseball in a secluded park.
• Genta hit a baseball that struck Okiya Subaru, who was working on his laptop on a bench.
• Okiya Subaru told the children he knew a place where they could play baseball and offered to take them there.

Okiya Subaru led the Detective Boys to an abandoned construction site beside Mian Guan Yi Yi’s home, intending to use them to uncover a hidden corpse. While the children played baseball and Conan watched Subaru suspiciously, Jiang Xia and Koda Masao arrived at Mian Guan Yi Yi’s villa.

• Okiya Subaru decided to take the children to a nearby construction site, reasoning that his thesis deadline made his behavior seem plausible.
• Okiya Subaru showed the children a gap in the fence and told them they could play inside the closed construction site.
• Conan noticed fresh damage around the gap and kept an eye on Okiya Subaru, who climbed over the fence and patted Conan’s head.
• Okiya Subaru sat in the shade and worked on his thesis while Haibara Ai concluded that his suspicious behavior came from academic stress.
• Jiang Xia and Koda Masao arrived by taxi at Mian Guan Yi Yi’s villa, where Koda planned to search the yard while its owner was away.

Conan and the Detective Boys’ baseball game brought them to Mian Guan Yi Yi’s courtyard, where Koda Masao revealed his belief that a corpse was buried there. As Okiya Subaru weighed whether to help expose the body, he worried that Uzo had brainwashed him into planning a future under his influence.

• Conan spotted a sinister-looking elderly man watching the children through binoculars from a nearby villa.
• Genta hit the baseball over the walls and into the courtyard of the man who had been watching them.
• Jiang Xia and Koda Masao arrived at Mian Guan Yi Yi’s gate, where the Detective Boys and Okiya Subaru soon joined them.
• Haibara Ai explained that the children’s baseball had landed in the courtyard, and Koda Masao said a corpse was buried there.
• Okiya Subaru recognized Jiang Xia as a detective and considered how to hint at the corpse’s location without acting suspiciously.
• Koda Masao began explaining his theory about the buried corpse to Okiya Subaru, while Okiya wondered whether Uzo had implanted a suggestion in his mind.

Jiang Xia explained the troublesome request to Conan and Haibara Ai, then chatted with Okiya Subaru, who tried to steer the conversation toward the corpse Koda Masao sought. The conversation was interrupted when Mian Guan Yi Yi came out to confront Koda Masao, leaving the two men facing off at the villa gate.

• Jiang Xia told Conan and Haibara Ai about the request, then spoke with Okiya Subaru about children and his supposedly deceased friend Kudo Shinichi.
• Okiya Subaru tried to shift the conversation toward the corpse Koda Masao was searching for, but Koda Masao announced that Mian Guan Yi Yi had come outside.
• Mian Guan Yi Yi came through a side door after hiding a baseball he had found in his courtyard.
• Mian Guan Yi Yi recognized Koda Masao and angrily insisted that Koda Masao's sister had never come to his house, calling him a delusional peeping freak.

After Koda Masao failed to confront Mian Guan Yi Yi, he left to investigate elsewhere while Jiang Xia declined to help dig up the courtyard without first checking other clues. Okiya Subaru reflected on how Jiang Xia’s detective work could complement Uzo’s schemes, then suddenly realized how closely the word “script” connected them.

• Koda Masao tried to force his way into Mian Guan Yi Yi’s courtyard, but Jiang Xia and Okiya Subaru stopped him from climbing the gate.
• Mian Guan Yi Yi retreated into his villa, and Koda Masao asked Jiang Xia to help dig up the courtyard; Jiang Xia said he would investigate other clues first.
• Koda Masao left, while Jiang Xia headed toward the station and the Detective Boys followed him home without their ball.
• Okiya Subaru reasoned that Jiang Xia’s case-solving could help bring Uzo’s carefully arranged murders to a close, then stiffened when he recalled that people described Jiang Xia as seeing through a criminal’s “script.”

Okiya Subaru grew suspicious of the connection between Jiang Xia and Uzo, while Jiang Xia considered how to exploit that suspicion and possibly draw Akai Shuichi closer. After Okiya left, Jiang Xia, Conan, and Haibara Ai decided to keep investigating Koda Masao’s claim about a body buried in Mian Guan Yi Yi’s yard.

• Okiya Subaru made an excuse to leave Jiang Xia and check on the worried man, while Jiang Xia watched him go with suspicion.
• Jiang Xia considered how Okiya Subaru and Akai Shuichi might uncover his connection to Uzo and hoped Akai would approach him directly.
• Jiang Xia decided to keep a cautious, righteous-subordinate persona and avoid acting too eager around Okiya Subaru.
• Conan proposed investigating Mian Guan Yi Yi’s yard themselves because Koda Masao lacked evidence for his claim.
• Haibara Ai questioned whether they should continue after Koda Masao seemed to withdraw his request, and Jiang Xia insisted they could not ignore it.

Jiang Xia and Conan investigated Koda Masao’s claim that Mian Guan Yi Yi had murdered Koda Sanae, while Officer Sato explained why the police doubted the accusation. Okiya Subaru followed Koda Masao after leaving the group and approached him outside a telephone booth.

• Conan agreed that Jiang Xia should investigate the alleged murder and also prevent Koda Masao from escalating his behavior if Mian Guan Yi Yi was innocent.
• Haibara Ai stayed with Jiang Xia and Conan, hoping to observe Anonymous through Jiang Xia’s investigations.
• Jiang Xia visited the Metropolitan Police Department and asked Sato Miwako about Koda Masao’s allegations; Sato said the evidence suggested Sanae might have disappeared before reaching Mian Guan Yi Yi.
• Sato explained that the witness who heard digging was drunk, had poor visibility, and might have mistaken nearby construction noise for a body being buried.
• Okiya Subaru followed Koda Masao to a roadside telephone booth and approached him after Koda Masao came outside.

Okiya Subaru questioned Koda Masao about how he found Jiang Xia, then went to Beika Department Store to investigate whether the encounter had been arranged by Uzo. Meanwhile, Mian Guan Yi Yi left for a hospital examination, giving Koda Masao an opportunity to carry out his plan, while Jiang Xia and Takagi Wataru continued reviewing statements.

• Okiya Subaru coaxed Koda Masao into explaining that a television show featuring Jiang Xia had led him to hire the detective.
• Okiya Subaru questioned why Koda Masao had visited Beika Department Store and watched the television, then decided to investigate the shop himself.
• Mian Guan Yi Yi checked his surroundings, decided to attend his overdue hospital examination, and left his villa.
• Koda Masao watched Mian Guan Yi Yi leave, then rode off on his motorcycle to carry out his plan.
• Takagi Wataru told Jiang Xia that only two statements remained to review.

Jiang Xia finished a backlog of police statements and was about to leave when Sato Miwako told him about a jewelry store robbery linked to a case he was investigating. At the store, manager Kojima Chihiro clung to Jiang Xia and pretended to be helpless until Sato pulled her upright and asked to see the surveillance footage.

• Takagi Wataru helped Jiang Xia finish the many overdue statements while Haibara Ai dozed and Conan looked for another case to solve.
• Jiang Xia signed the completed records and reflected that visiting the Metropolitan Police Department to collect ghosts and Killing Intent was no longer very efficient.
• Sato Miwako told Jiang Xia that a nearby jewelry store had been robbed and that its surveillance footage showed someone resembling Koda Masao.
• Jiang Xia arrived at the jewelry store with Sato Miwako, Conan, and Haibara Ai to review the footage.
• Kojima Chihiro rushed past Sato Miwako and tearfully clung to Jiang Xia, though the clerks remembered her trying to confront the robber with a riot shield and a decorative rifle.
• Sato Miwako lifted Kojima Chihiro upright and told her to take the police to the surveillance footage.

Jiang Xia, Sato Miwako, and the others investigated Koda Masao’s robbery of a jewelry store and found clues suggesting he had deliberately led the police toward Beika Station. Conan suspected Koda was trying to make the police search Mian Guan Yi Yi’s yard, where a corpse might be buried, while Jiang Xia and Sato kept their thoughts to themselves.

• Kojima Chihiro showed Jiang Xia and Sato Miwako surveillance footage identifying Koda Masao as the robber, and Jiang Xia noted that Koda had made no effort to hide his face.
• Kojima Chihiro identified the stolen jewels, while Jiang Xia told her that he and Koda had only met recently.
• Police traced Koda’s motorcycle to Beika Station and found one of the stolen jewels on the platform steps, prompting Sato Miwako to order searches at transfer stations.
• Sato Miwako noticed Jiang Xia avoiding her gaze, and Conan suspected that Koda had staged clues to direct the police toward Beika Station and Mian Guan Yi Yi’s home.
• Conan reasoned that Koda might bury the jewels in Mian Guan Yi Yi’s yard to force the police to uncover a possible corpse, while Jiang Xia appeared to have reached a similar conclusion.
• Okiya Subaru watched the Detective Boys leave and quietly exhaled in relief.

Okiya Subaru investigated whether Jiang Xia was connected to Uzo and gradually concluded that their involvement in cases was probably coincidence. He left still unable to understand Uzo’s methods, but with evidence that Jiang Xia’s behavior did not fit that of Uzo’s subordinate.

• Okiya Subaru investigated how Koda Masao had discovered Jiang Xia and found that Koda had bought a shovel at the mall, making his encounter with Jiang Xia’s television appearance seem coincidental.
• Okiya Subaru considered whether Uzo had arranged other ways to bring Koda into contact with Jiang Xia, but the ordinary victims in Jiang Xia’s past cases made that theory seem unlikely.
• Okiya Subaru questioned Yoshida Ayumi, Kojima Genta, and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko and learned that their trip to the park and their decision to play baseball had followed a string of accidents and spontaneous choices.
• Okiya Subaru recalled that Jiang Xia had not tried to steer the conversation toward the buried body when they met outside Mian Guan Yi Yi’s house.
• Okiya Subaru reasoned that Jiang Xia’s rapid, script-like case-solving style would make him an unsuitable subordinate for Uzo and concluded that the two were probably not connected.

After Koda Masao turned himself in and revealed where he had buried the stolen gems, police searched Mian Guan Yi Yi’s courtyard but found no sign of Koda Sanae’s body. Jiang Xia left the search site with Conan, Haibara Ai, and Okiya Subaru, hinting that the body might not be buried there.

• Okiya Subaru concluded that Jiang Xia had solved the case through observation and deduction rather than reciting a script.
• Mian Guan Yi Yi learned the hospital had not called him for an examination and rushed home, where police were searching his courtyard.
• Koda Masao turned himself in, confessed to burying the stolen gems across the courtyard, and prompted police to dig up the grounds.
• Okiya Subaru joined Jiang Xia at the search and worried that the police were digging in the wrong place before the mission deadline.
• By dusk, police recovered all the stolen gems but found no evidence of a female corpse, and Jiang Xia left the courtyard with Conan, Haibara Ai, and Okiya Subaru.

Jiang Xia brought Okiya Subaru into the investigation of Koda Sanae’s death and explained why he planned to question her coworkers. The group reached Sanae’s workplace, where Inoue Ryoko repeated that Sanae had left after eight to visit a client.

• Okiya Subaru claimed he was willing to delay his thesis because he wanted to help find Koda Masao’s sister, and Jiang Xia let him join the investigation.
• Jiang Xia told Okiya Subaru he planned to ask Sanae’s coworkers about her whereabouts and condition before she disappeared.
• Jiang Xia emailed Officer Sato to search near Mian Guan Yi Yi’s villa and ask whether he had been seen carrying a large box.
• Okiya Subaru peeked at Jiang Xia’s email and concluded that Jiang Xia solved cases independently rather than acting as Uzo’s subordinate.
• Jiang Xia, Okiya Subaru, Conan, and Haibara Ai visited Sanae’s securities company and questioned Inoue Ryoko.
• Inoue Ryoko said Sanae had left work after eight to visit a client, but she did not know whether Sanae had reached Mian Guan’s home.