Chapter Summaries

Takahashi Ryoichi waited for Mouri Ran to leave the Villa, then began his murder plan by cutting the suspension bridge and telephone line and luring Ikeda Chikako outside. He broke into Mouri Ran’s room, but Jiang Xia interrupted his attack, and Conan followed Jiang Xia after he inexplicably returned to bed.

• Jiang Xia’s warnings kept Mouri Ran and Ikeda Chikako from going outside, leaving Takahashi Ryoichi waiting in the rain until dinner.
• After dinner, Takahashi Ryoichi cut the suspension bridge and telephone line, then used a threatening letter to lure Ikeda Chikako to the woods.
• Takahashi Ryoichi entered Mouri Ran’s room through the balcony and raised his Axe to attack her while she slept.
• Miyano Akemi and Xiao Bai woke Jiang Xia, who kicked open Mouri Ran’s door and struck Takahashi Ryoichi with a book hidden in a pillow.
• Takahashi Ryoichi fled after Mouri Ran woke and screamed, while Conan, with a sprained ankle, urged Jiang Xia to chase him.
• Jiang Xia returned to his room instead, and Conan limped after him to wake him.

Jiang Xia and Conan realized the Bandaged Man was likely someone inside the villa, while Ikeda Chikako disappeared during the night. As the group searched the woods, Takahashi Ryoichi killed Chikako and hid her head inside his fake beer belly.

• Conan suspected the Bandaged Man had come from inside the villa because there was no mud in Mouri Ran's room, and Jiang Xia agreed without explanation.
• Suzuki Ayako noticed Ikeda Chikako was missing, and the group found her room empty with no signs of a struggle.
• The group split up to search the woods, with Jiang Xia joining Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko, while Takahashi Ryoichi abandoned his plan to attack Ran.
• Takahashi Ryoichi lagged behind his classmates, retrieved his axe, and killed Ikeda Chikako in the woods.
• Takahashi Ryoichi dismembered Chikako's body, scattered the pieces, and hid her head inside the padding beneath his shirt.

After Takahashi Ryoichi’s staged Bandaged Man trick was exposed, Jiang Xia knocked him out and the police arrested him. As the group left the villa, Jiang Xia reassured Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran so they would keep inviting him along.

• Takahashi Ryoichi secretly set up an Inflatable Doll carrying Ikeda Chikako’s head to fake the Bandaged Man’s escape and create an alibi.
• Jiang Xia grabbed the doll as it swung past the window, and Takahashi Ryoichi accidentally revealed the steel wire controlling it.
• Jiang Xia demonstrated the wire mechanism, exposed Takahashi Ryoichi, and knocked him down as he tried to flee.
• After the group borrowed a phone, the police arrived by helicopter and took Takahashi Ryoichi into custody.
• Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran apologized for bringing Jiang Xia into another murder case, and he reassured them that solving cases made him feel useful.

After accepting an offer to appear on the detective show Perspective Detective Agency, Jiang Xia prepared for the broadcast. He watched Conan get kidnapped outside his house but recognized the woman as Conan’s mother, Kudo Yukiko, and went back to choosing a scarf.

• Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran were reassured by Jiang Xia after the villa trip and returned to Tokyo with him.
• Jiang Xia added Takahashi Ryoichi’s acrostic case to his scrapbook, gaining some fame in Kyoto.
• Kinoshita Yoko offered Jiang Xia a guest spot on Perspective Detective Agency, and he agreed to appear on the show.
• Jiang Xia watched recordings of the program and prepared for the winter broadcast.
• Jiang Xia saw a woman in black knock out and carry off Conan, recognized her as Kudo Yukiko, and calmly returned to picking a scarf.

Jiang Xia discovered that Edogawa Fumiyo was Kudo Yukiko in disguise and tried to approach her while she was carrying out a plan to frighten Conan. Yukiko avoided revealing her plan, but Jiang Xia’s dejected reaction left her feeling guilty.

• Jiang Xia explained to the ghosts that Kudo Yukiko had taken Conan away, and Xiao Bai hoped he could help it meet its idol.
• Jiang Xia’s trip to the recording location was delayed by traffic caused by Conan’s escape from Kudo Yukiko.
• Jiang Xia spotted Kudo Yukiko disguised as Edogawa Fumiyo and decided to try to persuade her to come along.
• Jiang Xia greeted Yukiko as “Big sister,” but she pretended to be a stranger so she would not expose her plan involving Conan.
• Yukiko watched Jiang Xia walk away looking hurt and felt guilty for rejecting him.

Kudo Yukiko offered to coach Jiang Xia for his variety-show appearance and accompanied him toward the station, while Conan woke up tied in an empty house after being kidnapped. Conan watched a masked man search the house and suspected he was looking for Edogawa Fumiyo.

• Jiang Xia told Kudo Yukiko that he was going to appear on Nichiei TV's variety show, “Perspective Detective Agency.”
• Kudo Yukiko decided to help Jiang Xia and pulled him toward the subway station while giving him last-minute advice.
• Conan woke in a dilapidated kitchen, bound with hemp rope, and remembered that Edogawa Fumiyo had abducted and knocked him out.
• Conan saw a masked man dressed in black searching the house and concluded that he might be looking for Edogawa Fumiyo.

Kudo Yusaku discovered that his wife, Kudo Yukiko, had gone missing while he searched for her with Conan. Meanwhile, Yukiko watched Jiang Xia’s television appearance, and the host began setting up an alibi for a planned murder.

• Kudo Yusaku returned to the empty house disguised as a black-clad man and startled Conan by revealing his identity and asking where Yukiko was.
• Yusaku explained that Yukiko had missed their meeting and could not be reached, then untied Conan and took him with him to search for her.
• At Nichiei TV, Yukiko revealed her identity to Kinoshita Yoko, and the two chatted before filming began.
• Jiang Xia appeared on the television program with the host and Kinoshita Yoko, while Yukiko watched from the audience.
• During the break, the host complained of stomach pain and asked where producer Suwa was, hoping to establish an alibi for killing him.

During a live broadcast, the host murdered Suwa and tried to hide behind an alibi, but Jiang Xia identified him as the killer. The host defended himself by insisting the trip would take too long, and Inspector Megure asked Jiang Xia to time the route.

• During a commercial break, the host went to the seventh-floor warehouse, called Suwa, and shot him through a window on the fourth floor before tossing the gun into the room.
• The host returned to the studio before the broadcast resumed, and Jiang Xia noticed him checking his pant legs.
• After the broadcast, Suwa's body was found, and Inspector Megure arrived to investigate.
• Jiang Xia named the host, Mr. Matsuo, as the killer, prompting officers to surround him.
• Matsuo claimed he could not have made the trip in four minutes, but Kinoshita Yoko questioned how he knew the timing so precisely.
• Inspector Megure took out a stopwatch and asked Jiang Xia to run the route and time it.

Jiang Xia exposed the TV host as the murderer and helped Inspector Megure solve the case, then Kudo Yukiko reunited with her family after disappearing during the broadcast. Jiang Xia went home with a Shikigami, while his hopes for lucrative detective commissions remained unfulfilled.

• Jiang Xia explained how the host staged the shooting, and officers found gunpowder residue on the seventh floor, disproving the host’s alibi.
• Officer Takagi found the host’s raincoat and gloves in an eighth-floor fire hose cabinet, and the police took the host and evidence to the Police Station.
• Inspector Megure thought he saw Kudo Yukiko at Nichiei TV, then told Kudo Yusaku about it over the phone.
• Kudo Yukiko met Kudo Yusaku and Conan outside the TV Station and explained that she had disappeared to make Conan understand the danger posed by The Organization.
• Conan rejected Kudo Yusaku’s warning and insisted he would not leave, while Jiang Xia went home with the Shikigami.
• Jiang Xia’s reputation rose after the broadcast, but he still received no lucrative commissions and continued taking ordinary jobs.

Jiang Xia received an Experience Voucher for a pottery classroom in Izu and learned that Amuro Tooru had a related assignment. After giving Amuro the voucher, Jiang Xia discovered it was a rare, genuine pass connected to Kikuemon and regretted handing it over.

• Jiang Xia finished returning clients’ pets and received payment and an Experience Voucher from the client who had retrieved her mortgaged Pottery.
• Jiang Xia noticed that the voucher was for a pottery classroom in Izu and considered whether the trip might lead to a case.
• Xiao Bai alerted Jiang Xia to Amuro Tooru, who recognized the workshop as Kikuemon’s pottery classroom and explained the title’s history.
• Amuro Tooru admitted that he had a related assignment and took the voucher from Jiang Xia.
• Jiang Xia searched for the workshop and learned that Mino Mune-yuki had opened it with Kikuemon’s encouragement, and that the voucher was a limited, genuine pass.
• Jiang Xia recognized the significance of the names and regretted giving the voucher to Amuro Tooru.

Jiang Xia persuaded Amuro Tooru to take him along on an Organization mission to investigate pottery from Kikuemon’s workshop. After their car got a flat tire in the woods, Jiang Xia spotted a ghost fetus near a strange building and secretly damaged the spare tire to keep them there.

• Jiang Xia insisted on accompanying Amuro Tooru, who agreed after deciding he might train Jiang Xia as an undercover agent.
• Amuro Tooru told Jiang Xia that a piece of Kikuemon’s pottery had concealed a possible listening device and showed him a photo of the broken ornament.
• On the way to Izu, Amuro Tooru’s car got a flat tire in the woods, and Jiang Xia spotted a wooden building beside a waterfall.
• Xiao Bai and Miyano Akemi found a ghost fetus near the building, and Jiang Xia decided to delay their departure.
• While Amuro Tooru changed the tire, Jiang Xia used a puppet to bite a chunk out of the spare tire.
• Amuro Tooru discovered the damaged tire and tried to explain it as the work of an animal.

After Amuro Tooru’s car tires were mysteriously chewed up, he and Jiang Xia sought help at Shanni Temple and paid to stay the night. Jiang Xia memorized the temple’s layout and became interested in the unusual Ghost Fetus accompanying the old head monk.

• Amuro Tooru and Jiang Xia found both of Amuro’s tires ruined, and Jiang Xia suggested borrowing a phone from the buildings below the cliff.
• Amuro Tooru and Jiang Xia reached Shanni Temple, where the old head monk required them to pay for food and lodging before using the phone.
• Amuro Tooru paid for both of them to stay, and the head monk sent two disciples to show them around while the others prepared dinner.
• Senior Disciple offered Amuro Tooru and Jiang Xia a discount on funerals, deepening Amuro’s suspicion that something was wrong at the temple.
• Jiang Xia memorized the temple’s layout and watched the old head monk’s strange Ghost Fetus, planning to examine and play with it later.

Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru heard the monks of Shanni Temple discuss the Mist Tengu legend and the suspicious death of Zhongnian two years earlier. After the abbot drove them away from the subject, Jiang Xia encountered a winged New Ghost Fetus in the corridor and examined it.

• The monks told Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru that Zhongnian had supposedly been killed by the Mist Tengu, and the old abbot angrily stopped them from discussing the case.
• Jiang Xia recognized that the abbot had murdered Zhongnian to prevent his granddaughter from eloping with him, then staged the death to resemble a Mist Tengu abduction.
• Jiang Xia prepared to use his Shikigami but sensed the New Ghost Fetus approaching and went into the corridor to meet it.
• Jiang Xia carried the anxious New Ghost Fetus into an empty bathroom and discovered that it had wings.
• Jiang Xia tugged at the Ghost’s wings and tried to prompt it to fly, but the Ghost stayed still because it wanted his help.

Jiang Xia used the monk ghost’s appearance to confront the old head monk, who had murdered Zhongnian and framed the Mist Tengu. The old man died suddenly before Jiang Xia could finish his performance, while Xiunian mistook the death for the Mist Tengu’s doing.

• The monk ghost sought Jiang Xia’s help to stop Xiunian from killing the old head monk after learning the truth about Zhongnian’s death.
• Xiunian confronted the drunk old head monk and demanded that he surrender, but the old man bragged that there was no evidence and lamented that the temple’s fame had declined.
• Jiang Xia appeared at the courtyard door disguised as the Mist Tengu and threatened to make the old head monk its next victim.
• The old head monk collapsed and died before Jiang Xia could finish his lines, leaving Xiunian to accuse the Mist Tengu of killing by thought.
• Xiao Bai and Miyano Akemi collected the Killing Intent while Xiunian recoiled from Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia used the Mist Tengu puppet to kill the Old Monk and stage his corpse in the Confinement Room as a tengu-style hanging. He returned to his own body exhausted after learning to fly with the puppet’s wings and went to sleep.

• Jiang Xia carried the Old Monk’s corpse through the temple while Xiunian followed, convinced the Mist Tengu had avenged Zhongnian and would not harm the other monks.
• Jiang Xia discovered the Confinement Room was too narrow to fly inside, and Xiunian apologized for its construction before leaving at Jiang Xia’s order.
• Jiang Xia took the corpse outside and practiced flying with the puppet’s wings until he could carry the Old Monk up to the roof beam.
• Jiang Xia hung the corpse from the beam, left wing marks as evidence of the Mist Tengu, dismissed the puppet, and fell asleep in his own body.

Amuro Tooru woke early after a bizarre dream and discovered the old head monk hanging dead in the Confinement Room. He suspected one of the young monks might be the murderer, then found Jiang Xia unusually difficult to wake and brought him to the main hall.

• Amuro Tooru woke early after dreaming about mutant rats and zombies, then heard a scream near the dining hall.
• Amuro Tooru and two young monks found the old head monk hanging from a roof beam in the Confinement Room.
• Amuro Tooru called the police and considered whether the monks or an intruder had killed the old head monk.
• Amuro Tooru went to wake Jiang Xia, worried the murderer might target his teammate, but found him apparently sleeping soundly.
• Amuro Tooru checked that Jiang Xia was alive, shook him awake, and told him to go to the main hall because of the murder.

Jiang Xia let the police investigate the Old Monk’s death while he slept, and Inspector Megure’s team failed to solve the case despite a blurry photograph suggesting a winged figure. After traveling to Izu with Amuro Tooru, Jiang Xia learned that his boss expected him to use pottery lessons to get closer to the target, but he chose to sleep instead.

• Jiang Xia avoided investigating the Old Monk’s death as Inspector Megure arrived and Amuro Tooru insisted there were no restless spirits.
• The police questioned the monks, but found few clues, and Amuro Tooru could not connect the current death to the Mist Tengu Murder Case from two years earlier.
• Residents showed the police blurry photographs of a winged figure carrying someone, but Inspector Megure still withdrew without solving the case.
• Jiang Xia traveled with Amuro Tooru to Izu, where Amuro watched the Ceramic Artists’ courtyard from a B&B and planned to investigate after dark.
• Amuro Tooru gave Jiang Xia a pottery book and told him to show talent at the Pottery Classroom, but Jiang Xia locked his door and went back to sleep.

Jiang Xia arrived at the guesthouse dining room with Amuro Tooru and unexpectedly ran into Suzuki Sonoko, Mouri Ran, and Conan, who had traveled without inviting him. The group reunited at the table, where Amuro introduced himself as Jiang Xia’s detective-agency boss.

• Jiang Xia and Amuro Tooru went downstairs for dinner after Amuro finished his initial investigation.
• Jiang Xia spotted Suzuki Sonoko, Mouri Ran, and Conan in the dining room and suspected a murder case would follow.
• Suzuki Sonoko greeted Jiang Xia awkwardly after realizing he had noticed she had traveled without him.
• Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko invited Jiang Xia to join them, and Conan pushed out a chair for him.
• Amuro Tooru sat down with the group and introduced himself as the boss of Jiang Xia's detective agency.

Jiang Xia recognized that Suzuki Sonoko was being stalked by serial killer Michiwaki Masahiko and waited for a chance to deal with him. The next day, Anonymous appeared before the group and greeted Suzuki Sonoko, leaving Mouri Ran and Conan shaken by her apparent return from the dead.

• Jiang Xia recognized the signs of a murder case and suspected that Michiwaki Masahiko was targeting Suzuki Sonoko over a photograph from the crime scene.
• Jiang Xia invited Amuro Tooru, Mouri Ran, Suzuki Sonoko, and Conan to visit a Pottery Classroom the next day, and they agreed.
• Amuro Tooru investigated Kikuemon's house at night while Jiang Xia pretended to keep watch and instead left Clever Ghosts on lookout duty.
• The next day, Jiang Xia spotted Michiwaki Masahiko stalking Suzuki Sonoko and planning to steal her camera film.
• Anonymous blocked the group's path, startling Mouri Ran and Conan, then greeted Suzuki Sonoko.

Anonymous approached Sonoko and told her a ghost story about a murdered dyed-haired woman, warning that someone had their eye on her. The warning seemed to gain credibility when two passersby mentioned a newly discovered dismembered corpse beside the train tracks.

• Sonoko cautiously greeted Anonymous while Ran, Conan, and Amuro watched her warily.
• Amuro recalled that the police and the organization had failed to uncover Anonymous's identity after the Shinkansen bombing.
• Anonymous ignored Amuro and told Sonoko a story about a murdered woman whose spirit haunted the road to a seaside dining room.
• Anonymous warned Sonoko that someone had their eye on her, frightening Ran and Sonoko.
• Two passersby said that a dismembered dyed-haired woman's corpse had been found beside the train tracks, prompting Amuro and Conan to suspect a setup.