Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia used the Miyano Akemi puppet as Anonymous to lure serial killer Michiwaki Masahiko into the mountains and beat him. He frightened Michiwaki with the apparitions of his victims until Michiwaki fled and plunged into a sudden drop in the ground.

• Suzuki Sonoko gave Anonymous her camera after Anonymous warned her about a killer targeting women with dyed hair, while Amuro Tooru suspected Anonymous was a scam artist.
• Jiang Xia left his real body dozing in the Pottery Classroom and controlled the Miyano Akemi puppet from a beach lounger.
• Michiwaki Masahiko invited Anonymous to dinner and led her along a secluded mountain path, intending to kill her.
• Anonymous struck Michiwaki with a stick, then showed him wounds resembling those of his victims and threatened to slice him apart.
• Michiwaki fled in terror despite Anonymous warning him about the mountains, and the ground suddenly disappeared beneath his feet.

Jiang Xia recovered from using his puppet and learned that pottery shop manager Mino Mune-yuki planned to kill his cheating son-in-law. When the son-in-law returned surrounded by Killing Intent of his own, Jiang Xia decided to keep Mino occupied so he could delay the murder and collect the son-in-law’s Shikigami first.

• Jiang Xia woke in the pottery classroom, fed himself and the ghosts Ghost Mint, and waited for Miyano Akemi to return with the unbound Shikigami and Killing Intent.
• Miyano Akemi delivered the four Shikigami, and Jiang Xia rewarded her with the remaining Ghost Mint before returning to the classroom.
• Jiang Xia learned that Mino Mune-yuki, the pottery classroom’s manager, intended to kill his son-in-law over the affair that preceded his daughter’s suicide.
• The son-in-law returned surrounded by Killing Intent, which Jiang Xia realized was aimed at someone other than Mino.
• Jiang Xia decided to prevent Mino from getting the chance to kill his son-in-law and occupied the old man by rolling up his sleeves to learn pottery.

Mino Mune-yuki failed to find a chance to kill his son-in-law because Jiang Xia kept following him, then Kikuemon invited Jiang Xia and the others to his home. There, Kikuemon offered Jiang Xia a valuable ceramic work, and Jiang Xia appeared to have chosen the household’s most expensive teacup.

• Mino Mune-yuki watched closing time arrive without finding a chance to carry out his murder plan because Jiang Xia kept him occupied.
• Kikuemon invited Jiang Xia and the other guests to his home because he admired Jiang Xia’s detective work.
• Kikuemon’s daughter-in-law revealed that he had collected newspaper clippings of Jiang Xia’s solved cases.
• Kikuemon offered Jiang Xia a ceramic work as a gift, while his apprentices watched to see whether Jiang Xia would recognize the hidden treasure.
• Jiang Xia stared at the teacup in his hand, which Amuro Tooru recognized as one of Kikuemon’s most valuable works.

Jiang Xia won Kikuemon’s wager by choosing Fengshui Maru, the pot Kikuemon treasured most, and Kikuemon considered asking him to appraise his disciples’ pottery. Before the appraisal could happen, the daughter-in-law accidentally shattered several of Kikuemon’s works, leaving him heartbroken and retreating to his room.

• Jiang Xia chose the ceramic pot on the third shelf, and Kikuemon’s family discovered it was his unreleased masterpiece, Fengshui Maru.
• Kikuemon honored the wager and, impressed by Jiang Xia’s eye for pottery, asked his daughter-in-law to bring out his disciples’ works for appraisal.
• Amuro Tooru offered to help Jiang Xia sell the valuable pot, but Jiang Xia refused because he considered it a gift.
• The daughter-in-law accidentally knocked over a cabinet while fetching the pottery and shattered more than half of the porcelain inside.
• Kikuemon composed himself, told his family to clean up and prepare dinner, then returned to his room to mourn the broken works.

At Kikuemon’s gathering, Jiang Xia realized the Young Mistress had helped an apprentice pass off pottery as Kikuemon’s work, then found her dead in the warehouse the next morning. Jiang Xia quickly deduced that Mr. Motoo had staged her death, impressing Amuro Tooru with his talent.

• The drunken Young Mistress interrupted Amuro Tooru when he questioned Kikuemon’s pottery output, and Jiang Xia realized she was hiding a scheme involving an apprentice’s work being sold as Kikuemon’s.
• The Young Mistress passed out early, and the guests slept in the dining room; the next morning, they learned she had died after supposedly hanging herself in the Pottery Warehouse.
• Amuro Tooru told Jiang Xia that the Young Mistress’s broken cervical vertebra made the death suspicious, and Jiang Xia deduced that she had fallen from a cabinet after being placed there with a noose around her neck.
• Jiang Xia identified Mr. Motoo as the likely killer, citing a lipstick mark on his shirt and a wound on the Young Mistress’s leg; Inspector Yokomizo found skin on a nail near the cabinet.
• Amuro Tooru realized Jiang Xia had solved the case almost instantly and privately reaffirmed that taking him on as an employee had been wise.

Jiang Xia exposed Mino Motoo’s murder of the young mistress, and Mino Motoo confessed after being arrested. Amuro Tooru drove Jiang Xia, Mouri Ran, and Suzuki Sonoko toward Tokyo, but their trip was interrupted when the car jolted.

• Mino Motoo broke down and confessed after Jiang Xia revealed his murder method.
• The three ghosts collected a Shikigami and Killing Intent as police arrested Mino Motoo, whose murder motive stemmed from his conflict with the young mistress over the Kikuemon title.
• Jiang Xia examined the ceramic pot that Mino Motoo had used to make the young mistress reach for a phone and fall to her death.
• Amuro Tooru handed the pot to an officer and agreed to drive Jiang Xia, Mouri Ran, and Suzuki Sonoko back toward Tokyo.
• Amuro Tooru cleared space in his car for the group, but the car jolted as he drove through the woods.

Jiang Xia and the others reached an Old Castle after another tire was mysteriously ruined, then learned of its supposed treasure and the castle’s history. While the others investigated the chessboard lawn puzzle, Jiang Xia followed Xiao Bai toward a secret passage to check on the Shikigami lingering in the castle.

• Jiang Xia secretly damaged another tire, and Amuro Tooru found it ruined when he opened the trunk.
• Conan suggested borrowing a landline at a nearby Old Castle, and Mamiya Mitsuru welcomed the group inside.
• Amuro Tooru discovered the castle’s telephone line was down, so Mamiya Mitsuru explained the treasure mystery and asked the Detectives to help find it.
• Jiang Xia recognized the castle case and recalled that a maid had replaced Great-Grandmother after setting a fire four years earlier.
• Xiao Bai led Jiang Xia toward a secret passage, and Jiang Xia decided to investigate the Shikigami trapped in the castle.

Jiang Xia found a hidden passage and began collecting the Shikigami scattered through it. After Amuro Tooru noticed he was missing, Jiang Xia decided to gather every Ghost before returning to the group.

• Jiang Xia opened a hidden passage by adjusting a clock and found a Shikigami inside.
• Jiang Xia used a paper bag and ash to lure the Shikigami into it and collected it as a Ghost.
• Jiang Xia spotted more Shikigami and kept collecting them instead of leaving the passage.
• Amuro Tooru noticed Jiang Xia was missing while Conan studied the courtyard pieces.
• Jiang Xia reasoned that the others could handle the fake old lady and continued collecting the Shikigami.

Jiang Xia disappeared from the room at Mamiya Castle, and his companions searched the castle without finding him. Nishikawa Sumi realized he had probably entered a secret passage and hurried through it to find him.

• Jiang Xia’s companions noticed he was missing but could not recall when he had last been with them.
• Conan suspected Jiang Xia had solved the chessboard riddle and gone to check the treasure’s location, while Amuro Tooru, Mouri Ran, and Suzuki Sonoko offered their own explanations.
• Jiang Xia failed to return by dinner, so Amuro Tooru and Mamiya Mitsuru organized a search of the castle.
• Nishikawa Sumi, who knew the castle’s secret passages, concluded that Jiang Xia had entered one near the chessboard.

Nishikawa Sumi entered the secret passage to kill Jiang Xia before he could discover Great-Grandmother’s corpse, but Jiang Xia tracked her through the dead woman’s Shikigami and avoided confronting her directly. After Nishikawa Sumi left to gather information outside, Jiang Xia circled toward another part of the passage.

• Nishikawa Sumi took a wooden club into the secret passage, intending to ambush and kill Jiang Xia.
• Jiang Xia located Nishikawa Sumi through the Shikigami of the Great-Grandmother she had murdered.
• Jiang Xia gathered eighteen wronged souls and considered how to clear their obsessions without killing Nishikawa Sumi.
• Nishikawa Sumi searched the passage, failed to find Jiang Xia, and left to gather information outside.
• Jiang Xia watched Nishikawa Sumi leave, then circled toward the other side of the passage.

Nishikawa Sumi tried to force Jiang Xia out of hiding by taking a hostage, but her attempt to kidnap Conan was interrupted by Amuro Tooru. She pretended she had captured Jiang Xia, yet neither Amuro Tooru nor Conan believed her threat.

• Nishikawa Sumi learned that Jiang Xia was still missing and decided to take a hostage to draw him out.
• Nishikawa Sumi left a black coat in the corridor and waited in the secret passage for Conan to approach it alone.
• Conan examined the coat, and Amuro Tooru joined him and began inspecting the corridor.
• Nishikawa Sumi attacked Amuro Tooru from the secret passage, but he caught her wrist and restrained her.
• Nishikawa Sumi claimed she had captured Jiang Xia, but Amuro Tooru kept hold of her as he and Conan looked at her skeptically.

Amuro Tooru and Conan lost Nishikawa Sumi after Anonymous rescued her through the hidden passage. Anonymous then led Nishikawa toward the supposed entrance to the treasure.

• Amuro Tooru discovered a hidden passage and suspected Nishikawa Sumi had fabricated her hostage claim.
• Anonymous threw a curtain over Amuro Tooru and Conan, then escaped with Nishikawa through the passage as the rotating wall closed.
• Conan told Amuro Tooru that Anonymous had taken Great-Grandmother, leaving both of them wondering why Anonymous was helping her.
• Jiang Xia, controlling Miyano Akemi's puppet as Anonymous, told Nishikawa Sumi that turning EGG's portrait to the left would reveal the treasure entrance.
• Nishikawa Sumi hurried toward the passage exit nearest the portrait.

Nishikawa Sumi discovered that the treasure she had pursued was only the view from the Castle’s Tower, then fell to her death after Anonymous revealed a burned form and confronted her about the people she had killed. Amuro Tooru witnessed her fall and feared that Anonymous might also target Jiang Xia.

• Nishikawa Sumi climbed the Secret Passage to the Tower and found a plaque declaring that the treasure was the view from the top of the Castle.
• Nishikawa Sumi realized she had wasted her youth pursuing the view, but decided she still wanted to live and start over.
• Anonymous revealed a charred appearance and said that they wanted to know what Nishikawa Sumi had burned people to death for.
• Nishikawa Sumi stepped backward through the window and fell from the Tower as Anonymous watched.
• Jiang Xia used Miyano Akemi’s puppet to observe the fall, then dispelled his obsession and let the Spirit Medium retrieve it.
• Amuro Tooru reached the Tower, saw Nishikawa Sumi fall, and worried that Anonymous might have killed Jiang Xia as well.

Jiang Xia reunited with his companions after the castle mystery, returned to Tokyo, and completed an Organization mission report. As Gin called to ask where he was, Amuro Tooru appeared behind him and reached for the phone.

• Amuro Tooru questioned Anonymous about Jiang Xia and whether she had punctured his tire, but Anonymous jumped from the Tower before he could get answers.
• Jiang Xia returned from controlling his puppet, gathered souls with Miyano Akemi in the castle’s Secret Passage, and later told the others about a slender-boned skeleton.
• The group found no body beneath the Tower, then connected the skeleton to the old lady who had fallen to her death.
• The next day, police arrived after the Telephone Line was repaired, and the five returned peacefully to Beika Town.
• Jiang Xia collected his pets from Professor Agasa’s house, wrote his mission report at the Detective Agency, and received a call from Gin asking where he was.
• As Gin began mentioning Sherry, Amuro Tooru appeared behind Jiang Xia and held out his hand for the Organization Dedicated Phone.

After Gin questioned Jiang Xia about Sherry’s escape, Amuro Tooru defended him and Gin’s review of Jiang Xia’s recent cases eased his suspicion. Amuro checked the Detective Agency’s surveillance and confirmed Jiang Xia had been there during Sherry’s disappearance, while quietly trying to win his trust.

• Amuro Tooru took Jiang Xia’s call and challenged Gin, offering to give him an Assassination Poison if Jiang Xia proved uninvolved.
• Gin searched Jiang Xia’s recent cases, concluded his trips made him unlikely to have helped Sherry, and crossed both Jiang Xia and Bourbon off his suspect list.
• Jiang Xia worried that Amuro Tooru was openly trying to recruit him, though he wanted to avoid joining Public Security.
• Amuro Tooru reviewed the Detective Agency’s surveillance and found Jiang Xia had only left briefly to retrieve a client’s escaped cat.
• Amuro Tooru told Jiang Xia that competition existed within the Organization and implied that Jiang Xia should favor his side over Gin’s.

Jiang Xia used Xiao Bai’s puppet to search for Sherry after she escaped the organization by taking APTX4869 and turning into a child. He found her hiding near Beika Town, but Sherry mistook him for an ordinary boy and sent him away with candy.

• After returning from a business trip, Amuro Tooru gave Jiang Xia several part-time jobs that would begin the next day.
• Jiang Xia chose Xiao Bai’s puppet, covered its neck seal with a scarf, and traveled toward the pharmaceutical building where Sherry had worked.
• Jiang Xia found barefoot footprints and released Miyano Akemi, but she failed to recognize her sister’s trail and clung to his leg.
• Jiang Xia followed the footprints toward Beika Town and found Sherry hiding under a tarp among construction materials.
• Sherry calmed down when she saw Jiang Xia’s puppet, gave him a piece of Coffee Candy, and told him to go play elsewhere before covering herself again.

Jiang Xia used Xiao Bai’s puppet to approach the fleeing Sherry and convince her he belonged to the Anonymous Organization. He left Sherry unconscious and carried her toward Beika Town.

• Sherry tried to send Jiang Xia away by claiming she was an undercover member of his supposed organization and telling him to return home.
• Jiang Xia pulled Sherry out from under the rain cover, put a hat on her, and led her toward Beika Town.
• Sherry recognized the route toward Kudo Shinichi’s house and tried to leave, fearing Gin might implicate Jiang Xia as her helper.
• Jiang Xia injected Sherry with an anesthetic and threatened her with the supposedly real Anonymous Organization and its distinctive z mark.
• Sherry passed out, and Jiang Xia hoisted her onto his back and continued toward Beika Town.

Jiang Xia left the unconscious Sherry with Professor Agasa, then finished his detective work and went to his next part-time job at a coffee shop. There, he recognized a high school girl and a displeased elementary school student at one of the tables.

• Jiang Xia carried Sherry to Professor Agasa’s home and decided to leave her there rather than take her in himself.
• Jiang Xia told Professor Agasa that Sherry was a Black Organization researcher who had been shrunk by a poison and wanted to find Kudo Shinichi.
• Jiang Xia gave Professor Agasa a crushed coffee candy to return to Sherry and asked him to remind her of their agreement to stay at his house.
• Professor Agasa carried Sherry inside, but Jiang Xia had already left.
• Jiang Xia finished his tasks at Amuro Tooru’s Detective Agency, then went to a coffee shop for his next part-time job and served a high school girl and an unhappy elementary school student.

Mouri Ran went to a café to meet her estranged mother, Kisaki Eri, while Conan mistakenly believed she had arranged a date with someone. After Ran left to buy cake, Conan watched the café’s customers and began suspecting a flamboyant playboy.

• Mouri Ran dressed up and brought Conan to a café, refusing to tell him she was meeting an important person.
• Jiang Xia appeared in a waiter’s uniform, and Conan briefly mistook him for Ran’s date before realizing he worked at the café.
• Ran left to buy Conan a cake across the street, and Conan asked Jiang Xia who she had come to meet.
• Jiang Xia said he did not know, so Conan returned to his seat and began scrutinizing the customers.
• Conan overheard a playboy brag about asking out a young woman, assumed he meant Ran, and reached for the switch on his Enhanced Foot Strength Shoes.

Jiang Xia and Conan discovered a woman’s body in a restroom stall at the coffee shop, where Kisaki Eri had come to meet Mouri Ran. After examining the scene, Jiang Xia identified Denzan Juzo as the likely murderer, leaving Conan frustrated that he had solved the case before Conan could investigate.

• Jiang Xia greeted Kisaki Eri, and Conan recognized her as someone who had scolded him often when he was younger.
• Jiang Xia stopped Conan from leaving the coffee shop, and they both rushed to the restroom after hearing a scream.
• Jiang Xia examined the bloodied stall and saw a young woman’s corpse, while Kisaki Eri carried Conan away from the scene.
• Inspector Megure arrived, and Jiang Xia named Denzan Juzo as the likely murderer.
• Conan gave up on questioning the suspects and wrote that he would wear soundproof earplugs the next time Jiang Xia encountered a murder case.