Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia and the others investigated Koda Sanae’s disappearance, learning she had planned to grow Cosmos and uncovering a witness whose account implicated Mian Guan Yi Yi. Okiya Subaru’s observation about the strong easterly wind made the witness reconsider where he had heard the digging, leaving the location of the sound—and the body—uncertain.

• Inoue Ryoko said Sanae had asked for Cosmos seeds on the day she disappeared, making suicide or running away seem unlikely.
• Okiya Subaru mentioned seeing Cosmos at the construction site and suggested Sanae might have wanted to see the outside world; Conan recalled Mian Guan Yi Yi spying on them with binoculars.
• Jiang Xia and the others returned to Mian Guan Yi Yi’s courtyard, where police were still digging and Koda Masao watched anxiously.
• Mochida Kinichi said he had heard digging near Mian Guan Yi Yi’s courtyard on the night Sanae vanished and demonstrated where he had been standing.
• Okiya Subaru noted that a strong easterly wind could have distorted Mochida Kinichi’s sense of direction, prompting Mochida Kinichi to remember turning his back to the wind before hearing the digging.

Jiang Xia found evidence that the missing body was likely hidden in a manhole near Mian Guan Yi Yi's home, while Okiya Subaru worried that Mochida Kinichi had unknowingly disrupted Uzo's plan. Mian Guan Yi Yi realized the police were closing in as he rushed toward the construction site.

• Okiya Subaru suspected that Mochida Kinichi's recollection of hearing digging had delayed Uzo's plan and resolved to watch over him.
• Conan considered Okiya Subaru's actions suspicious, while Jiang Xia examined a manhole cover in the alley and sent someone to fetch Officer Sato.
• Mian Guan Yi Yi worried that Koda Masao would resume searching for Koda Sanae's body after his release and considered moving it.
• Jiang Xia told the officers that the manhole cover near Mian Guan Yi Yi's side door showed signs of recent lifting and suggested checking the passage.
• Jiang Xia spotted a manhole cover and a Cosmos inside the construction site as Mian Guan Yi Yi led a crowd out of his yard toward the officers.

Jiang Xia exposed Mian Guan Yi Yi’s murder of Koda Sanae by tracing the body through a sewer to a construction site, where the police uncovered it. Mian Guan Yi Yi confessed to pushing Sanae down the stairs, while Okiya Subaru worried that his role in the case might have drawn unwanted attention.

• Mian Guan Yi Yi confronted the officers at the manhole, but Koda Masao restrained him as Jiang Xia explained how the body could have been moved through the sewer.
• Sato Miwako ordered the police to investigate the manhole, and Takagi Wataru confirmed that the sewer connected to the neighboring construction site.
• Jiang Xia pointed out the Cosmos patch as a possible burial place, and Koda Masao rushed over and began digging there.
• The police uncovered Koda Sanae’s body and searched the sewer for bloodstains, while Mian Guan Yi Yi realized the evidence had cornered him.
• Mian Guan Yi Yi confessed that Sanae fell down the stairs after he shook her off, and the police found blood beneath the staircase in his home.
• Okiya Subaru concluded that Mian Guan Yi Yi would face a long prison sentence, then wondered whether Sanae’s corpse was watching him.

Okiya Subaru became convinced that Uzo was using him as a scapegoat while Jiang Xia investigated the hidden hand behind the cases. He left determined to cling to the FBI and escape Uzo’s influence, while Jiang Xia returned to Beika Town with the children.

• Okiya Subaru noticed Jiang Xia’s wary gaze and wondered whether the Detective had detected Uzo’s influence on the cases.
• Okiya Subaru concluded that Uzo might be positioning him to take the blame if Jiang Xia uncovered the mastermind behind the cases.
• Okiya Subaru reassured himself that Jiang Xia had no solid evidence against him and that his suspicious behavior could be explained as that of an ordinary bystander.
• Okiya Subaru decided he needed to cling to the FBI and leave the organization’s reach as soon as possible.
• Jiang Xia said goodbye to the police and took the two children back to Beika Town.

Conan suspected Okiya Subaru had deliberately led them to the murder case, while Haibara Ai thought his actions could have been innocent. Jiang Xia hinted that solving a case did not necessarily make someone good, then left Conan wondering what he had remembered as he prepared to follow Okiya Subaru and look for Akai Shuichi.

• Conan told Haibara Ai that Okiya Subaru’s actions seemed too coincidental and mentioned a patch of discolored soil near the body.
• Haibara Ai said Okiya Subaru did not seem malicious and suggested he might have discovered the body earlier but been afraid to solve the case himself.
• Jiang Xia remarked that people besides the police and victims could benefit from a solved case, then refused to explain what he had remembered.
• Jiang Xia said he felt unwell and took a taxi home with Conan and Haibara Ai, leaving Conan to wonder what had made him abruptly stop talking.
• Jiang Xia planned to sneak out as a Persona and follow Okiya Subaru near a café, hoping to find Akai Shuichi.

Jiang Xia used his cat Persona to track Okiya Subaru after his mission ended. Okiya Subaru took the cat home, and Jiang Xia followed him toward his residence in Horyo Town.

• Jiang Xia returned home, changed his route through the back door, and set out to retrieve the surveillance devices and track Okiya Subaru.
• Okiya Subaru waited at a café while police finished handling the aftermath of Mian Guan Yi Yi’s arrest, then messaged Uzo that the crimes had been exposed.
• Okiya Subaru spotted the familiar Black Cat with White Paws and left the café, thinking he might return there to work on his thesis.
• The Black Cat with White Paws followed Okiya Subaru to his car and jumped into the passenger seat, and Okiya Subaru decided to take it along.
• Okiya Subaru drove toward Horyo Town rather than Mokuba Manor, while Jiang Xia rode with him as the cat.

Jiang Xia followed Okiya Subaru to his apartment as a cat, discovered that Okiya planned to contact Akai Shuichi and leave in two months, and decided to keep watching for their meeting. The next day, he followed Okiya to the Academic Society and peered into the meeting room to look for Akai.

• Jiang Xia followed Okiya Subaru home and watched as he scanned the cat for Listening Devices, unaware that Jiang Xia had already removed the one he planted.
• Okiya Subaru contacted Akai Shuichi and described Uzo as dangerous, while Jiang Xia read their messages and learned Akai planned to arrange Okiya's departure in two months.
• Jiang Xia realized Okiya did not know where Akai lived and decided to watch the apartment for a chance to observe their information exchange.
• Okiya Subaru left for the Academic Society the next day, remembered his plan to keep the cat, and bought it cat food, which Jiang Xia rejected.
• Jiang Xia followed Okiya to the Academic Society and looked through the meeting-room window for Akai Shuichi.

Jiang Xia searched Okiya Subaru's academic society venue for Akai Shuichi, then followed a tempting source of Killing Intent to Gin. While approaching Gin's parked Porsche, Jiang Xia encountered a territorial Orange Cat that attacked him.

• Jiang Xia searched the venue and confirmed with Miyano Akemi and the Ghosts that Akai Shuichi was not there.
• The Mermaid and the Ghosts sensed high-quality Killing Intent nearby, so Jiang Xia followed it toward an abandoned building.
• Jiang Xia discovered Gin and Vodka at a Black Porsche and sent the Ghosts to collect Gin's excess Killing Intent.
• Jiang Xia considered approaching Gin with his Cat Puppet, then backed away from a wary Orange Cat on a nearby wall.
• The Orange Cat pounced and swiped at Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia defeated an Orange Cat while disguised as a cat, then climbed into Gin and Vodka’s car. After Gin compared Vodka unfavorably to the cat, Jiang Xia discovered he could draw Killing Intent from Vodka.

• Jiang Xia dodged the Orange Cat’s attacks, knocked it unconscious with a Claw Knife, and rested on its fur.
• Gin watched the cats fight from his car, then spotted the victorious Black Cat peering at him from behind a tree and put away his gun.
• The Black Cat approached Gin’s car and claimed Vodka’s seat while Gin waited for Vodka to return from the transaction.
• Vodka hesitated to move the cat after Gin watched it calmly, and Gin told him that even a cat was more capable than he was.
• Vodka’s Killing Intent emerged, and Xiao Bai, Mermaid, and Jiang Xia’s puppet began extracting it.

As a cat, Jiang Xia provoked Vodka and collected Killing Intent, but Gin tossed him out of the car before he could follow the Organization back to its hideout. Jiang Xia resumed watching Okiya Subaru, only to find that Subaru’s life was quiet and he seemed to know very few people.

• Jiang Xia used his cat Persona to provoke Vodka while Gin and Vodka were in their car, but Vodka backed down and asked Gin what to do with the cat.
• Gin compared the black cat to Uzo, then threw it out of the car and ordered Vodka to find Nohara about a delayed software delivery.
• Jiang Xia watched the Porsche leave, collected the Killing Intent he had gathered, and abandoned his attempt to tail Gin.
• Jiang Xia returned to staking out Okiya Subaru, but after several uneventful days he grew impatient at the lack of cases.
• Jiang Xia realized that Okiya Subaru appeared to have almost no acquaintances despite his agreeable temperament.

Jiang Xia abandoned his uneventful stakeout of Okiya Subaru and turned his attention to meeting his new Organization underlings while developing the cat Persona’s cover. Days later, Akai Shuichi arrived at Okiya Subaru’s apartment, and Okiya prepared to tell him about Uzo.

• Jiang Xia grew bored of watching Okiya Subaru, slipped out through the balcony as the cat Persona, and returned to his real body.
• Jiang Xia decided to visit his newly assigned underlings and let the cat Persona interact with them so people would see it as Uzo’s free-roaming cat.
• After several days without seeing the cat, Okiya Subaru checked his balcony and then spotted Akai Shuichi disguised as a courier at the door.
• Okiya Subaru let Akai Shuichi inside and worried that Uzo might be watching or planning to capture them.
• Akai Shuichi set down his long, narrow package and asked Okiya Subaru to explain what had happened, especially concerning his new superior, Uzo.

Okiya Subaru told Akai Shuichi how Uzo arranged Mian Guan Yi Yi’s arrest by having him uncover a murder victim’s body. He connected the mission to rumors that Uzo’s targets are trapped in elaborate schemes that make them die or break down, leaving Akai to consider how dangerous the executive may be.

• Okiya Subaru said Uzo had dismissed assassination as a crude method when he asked about the plan for Mian Guan Yi Yi.
• Uzo took Okiya Subaru to a construction site and ordered him to dig up Koda Sanae’s corpse, which Mian Guan Yi Yi had buried there a month earlier.
• Okiya Subaru said Uzo had described the murder and burial in meticulous detail, as if he had written a script for the case.
• Akai Shuichi asked why Okiya Subaru believed Uzo had orchestrated the events rather than simply learned about them through the organization’s informants.
• Okiya Subaru connected Uzo to rumors that his targets suffer staged accidents or psychological breakdowns, and that one capable executive had survived his schemes.

Okiya Subaru explained how Uzo manipulated a murder investigation, and Akai Shuichi considered why the organization tolerated Uzo’s apparent feuds with other executives. Akai suspected Gin might be Uzo’s rival and asked whether Uzo had appeared alongside the High School Detective who solved the case.

• Okiya Subaru described how a drunken witness misidentified where he had heard a corpse being buried, indirectly delaying Mian Guan Yi Yi’s arrest and prompting Uzo to push the investigation forward.
• Akai Shuichi reasoned that Uzo might have deliberately exploited the witness’s mistake and wondered whether Mian Guan Yi Yi had ever noticed the manipulation.
• Akai Shuichi considered why the organization allowed Uzo to target executives and suspected Gin might be the executive still fighting him.
• Akai Shuichi asked Okiya Subaru about Uzo’s age and distinguishing features, and Okiya described him as a young man with curly hair, sunglasses, and black clothes.
• Akai Shuichi connected Uzo’s description to the High School Detective who solved the case and asked whether the detective had acted unusually or appeared alongside Uzo.

Akai Shuichi and Okiya Subaru discussed whether Jiang Xia was connected to Uzo, and Akai concluded Jiang Xia was probably safe for now while Subaru remained in danger. Subaru then explained that the cat he had been preparing to keep had run away, and showed Akai videos of it from his home surveillance footage.

• Okiya Subaru rejected Akai Shuichi's suggestion that Uzo might be Jiang Xia in disguise, but said he suspected Jiang Xia had noticed Uzo's schemes.
• Akai Shuichi considered the possibility that Jiang Xia was linked to Uzo, but judged that Jiang Xia was relatively safe because Uzo needed detectives to solve cases and lacked reason to silence him.
• Akai Shuichi worried that Okiya Subaru's missions could get him arrested and then killed by the Organization, though he believed Subaru might soon be safer under his own cover identity.
• Akai Shuichi noticed Subaru's cat supplies and asked whether he planned to keep a cat.
• Okiya Subaru said the cat had run away, then showed Akai surveillance clips of the black cat that had repeatedly visited him and jumped into his car.

Akai Shuichi and Okiya Subaru reviewed footage of the missing cat, while Jiang Xia considered how to retrieve contraband materials for the organization without robbing a bank. Jiang Xia settled on forging the seal needed to access the materials, leaving the task’s execution ahead.

• Okiya Subaru explained that the missing cat had pushed his phone into a blind spot, and Akai Shuichi saw no reason to suspect it had done anything unusual.
• Okiya Subaru worried that someone had taken the cat, while Akai Shuichi pointed out that keeping it could expose Okiya Subaru to the organization and reveal his location.
• Jiang Xia returned to his real body, delivered cats to clients, cleared the Detective Agency’s mailbox, and reviewed a task from Uzo to obtain materials held in a Toto Bank safe.
• Jiang Xia recalled that the Ghost Tiger Society’s second-in-command had kept the seal needed to withdraw the materials after the organization refused to help assassinate a prosecutor.
• Jiang Xia rejected robbing the bank and decided he could use puppets and ghosts to observe the required procedures and make a fake seal.

Jiang Xia went to the Metropolitan Police Department after Sato Miwako told him a couple had accused him of kidnapping their daughter. The couple confronted him there, and the officers began calming them down so they could explain what had happened.

• Sato Miwako called Jiang Xia and told him someone had accused him of kidnapping.
• Jiang Xia headed to the Metropolitan Police Department, wondering whether someone had used his name or mistaken him for someone else.
• At the station, an elderly couple grabbed Jiang Xia and demanded that he return their daughter, Eri.
• Sato Miwako and the other officers separated the couple from Jiang Xia and urged them to explain the circumstances of Eri's disappearance.
• Takagi Wataru questioned why the couple believed Jiang Xia was the kidnapper, and they gradually calmed down.

Jiang Xia explained that he had left his business card with a dead cat’s body after finding it in a park, clearing up why the couple had mistaken him for a kidnapper. He joined the police in investigating Masuo Eri’s disappearance, which remained unsolved when they reached her home.

• Masuo Eri’s parents reported that she had vanished before her honeymoon, and they had found her dead cat in a coffin-like box beside her home.
• The officers recognized the card as Jiang Xia’s, and Jiang Xia admitted that he had placed it there while returning the cat to its owner.
• Jiang Xia explained that the cat had been killed in a separate case that Sato Miwako’s police team had already solved.
• Jiang Xia urged Masuo Eri’s parents to take the police to her house and contact her husband, but they revealed they could not reach him and suspected he might be involved.
• Jiang Xia and the police arrived at Masuo Eri’s home, where the box that had held the cat’s corpse still sat by the courtyard gate.

Jiang Xia investigated Masuo Eri’s missing husband and realized the case might offer another way to complete his organization assignment. After Conan and Haibara Ai called him about suspicious sniper drills, Jiang Xia went to inspect the scene and asked whether the Detective Boys were truly afraid of murder cases.

• Eating Cat inspected the box containing its corpse, sneezed in disgust, and ran away.
• Jiang Xia recognized Masuo Eri in a photograph at her home and found her and Koichi’s names written on its back.
• Jiang Xia wondered if finding a revenge-obsessed second-in-command could complete his assignment instead of forging a seal.
• Conan called Jiang Xia about a possible assassination, and Haibara Ai explained that the children had spotted someone conducting sniper drills while fishing.
• Jiang Xia left the police station and went to the riverside, where he questioned whether the Detective Boys were afraid of murder cases.

Jiang Xia, Conan, and Haibara Ai investigated a suspected kidnapping and assassination plot after Conan spotted armed men forcing a marksman to shoot from an abandoned building. On the rooftop, they found a calculator that Conan suspected was a distress signal from the kidnapped marksman.

• Conan told Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai that he had seen a sniper shoot a Balloon from the rooftop while armed men took his Rifle away.
• Haibara Ai reasoned that the men were probably members of a small criminal group rather than the Organization, and Jiang Xia eagerly agreed to investigate.
• Jiang Xia, Conan, and Haibara Ai crossed the river and searched the Abandoned Building's Rooftop Terrace.
• Jiang Xia pried open a crack in the steps and uncovered a calculator displaying the number string 3135134162.
• Conan suggested the kidnapped marksman had left the numbers as a distress signal, and Jiang Xia picked up the calculator with gloves while proposing how the marksman might have obtained it.

Jiang Xia and Conan found a clue left by kidnapped sniper Yamabe Koichi and helped the police identify him and infer a likely sniping location. Jiang Xia left to contact Gin before the planned assassination, while the police struggled to narrow down the search.

• Jiang Xia and Conan found a calculator and scrape marks at the abandoned building, concluding that the kidnapped sniper had hidden it as a signal.
• Jiang Xia told Sato Miwako that the missing newlywed husband might be connected to the kidnapping, and Conan identified the sniper as Yamabe Koichi from a photograph.
• Inspector Megure confirmed that Yamabe was a former Olympic shooting athlete and police officer, and the detectives suspected the kidnappers were forcing him to assassinate someone.
• Haibara Ai and Conan used the calculator’s numbers and the practice terrain to suggest possible S-shaped roads, prompting Inspector Megure to send officers to investigate.
• Jiang Xia went off alone, then called Gin because he suspected the crude assassination might involve a significant figure and wanted to report it beforehand.