Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia and the others were trapped in a sea cave as the tide rose, so they followed fireflies deeper inside in search of another exit. Conan discovered a clue in a deflated life buoy, while Jiang Xia secretly took it along, and the group continued through the cave.

• A wave overturned the old boat, leaving Jiang Xia, Conan, Mouri Ran, Suzuki Sonoko, and Nakamura Sachiko unable to escape the sea cave by the way they came.
• Conan reasoned that the fireflies and saltwater fish indicated a passage through the cave to a lake on the other side, so the group followed the fireflies inward.
• Suzuki Sonoko worried they might lose their guide, and Jiang Xia listed ways to find a route through the cave without fireflies.
• Conan examined a deflated life buoy and noticed it had a pinhole rather than a tear, prompting him to realize what had happened.
• Jiang Xia photographed the life buoy, packed it into his backpack, and urged the group onward as the seawater rose.

Jiang Xia and the others escaped the flooded passage, only to be confronted by Kasuga Teruhiko, who held Mouri Ran at gunpoint. Dr. Tanaka, revealed as an accomplice with a gun of his own, planned to kill Kasuga Teruhiko after he killed the others.

• Jiang Xia led the group through the flooded passage, and they escaped through an opening into a lake.
• Kasuga Teruhiko saw Nakamura Sachiko emerge alive and decided to kill the witnesses.
• Kasuga Teruhiko pulled Mouri Ran onto shore and held a gun to her head while threatening the group.
• Kasuga Teruhiko revealed that Dr. Tanaka had told him about the passage and called him out from behind a rock.
• Dr. Tanaka admitted to himself that he had brought a gun and planned to kill Kasuga Teruhiko after the others were dead.

Mouri Ran stopped Kasuga Teruhiko from shooting again and helped Jiang Xia subdue him after he killed Dr. Tanaka. The group brought Kasuga Teruhiko to the Police Station, where Jiang Xia explained what happened and Conan revealed that Jiang Xia had both guns in his bag.

• Kasuga Teruhiko shot Dr. Tanaka dead, then Mouri Ran grabbed his wrist and slammed him onto the rocky shore.
• Jiang Xia collected both guns, restrained Kasuga Teruhiko with his baton, and helped the students take him to the Police Station.
• A police officer told Jiang Xia that the digestive-fluid test found traces of Sleeping Pills and asked about Dr. Tanaka.
• Kasuga Teruhiko accused Jiang Xia of beating him and killing Dr. Tanaka, but Jiang Xia explained that Kasuga had shot Dr. Tanaka during the hostage rescue.
• Conan reminded the police that Jiang Xia had collected both guns, prompting the officer to turn and look at Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia exposed Dr. Tanaka's role in the Seabed Female Corpse murder while Kasuga Teruhiko tried to blame Jiang Xia for the shooting. The police found evidence tying Dr. Tanaka to the murder, leaving Kasuga unable to talk his way out of the case.

• Kasuga Teruhiko claimed Jiang Xia killed Dr. Tanaka and framed him, but Nakamura Sachiko and Suzuki Sonoko rejected his accusations.
• Jiang Xia found little Killing Intent to collect from Kasuga and produced a deflated life buoy as evidence against Dr. Tanaka.
• A White-bearded Old Man reported that his boat had been stolen, and Jiang Xia compensated him before asking him to draw the sea currents.
• Police found Dr. Tanaka's fingerprints and traces of blood on the life buoy, with the bloodstains matching abrasions on the victim.
• Jiang Xia explained that Dr. Tanaka had sent his girlfriend, Miss Mitsuko, to sea on a punctured life buoy with stones tied to her ankles, then used his alibi at the Pub to conceal the murder.

After leaving the station, Jiang Xia unsettled Dr. Utsumi with an apparently knowing glance. Fearing Jiang Xia would expose his crimes, Dr. Utsumi posted an assassination bounty on him, while Gin planned to pick up the doctor.

• Suzuki Sonoko remarked that several doctors seemed refined despite the murders, and Jiang Xia quoted the title of his mystery novel, making Conan realize he had overread the remark.
• Dr. Utsumi watched Jiang Xia and worried that Dr. Tanaka might have revealed his involvement in inspiring the murder method.
• Dr. Utsumi decided Jiang Xia could not be allowed to find evidence of his crimes and posted a bounty on an internal organization website to kill Jiang Xia Tongzhi.
• Dr. Utsumi expected an assassin to accept the bounty soon and believed Jiang Xia would not uncover leverage against him first.
• In Tokyo, Gin checked his Notebook schedule and planned to pick up the doctor from the station.

Gin believed The Boss had given him time to recover, though he mainly wanted Uzo to cooperate so he could return to work. Meanwhile, Jiang Xia and the high school students traveled by train with Doctor Sato, while Jiang Xia secretly kept tabs on Doctor Utsumi aboard the parallel line.

• Gin decided that his supposed recovery would depend on successfully picking up Doctor Utsumi and getting Uzo to cooperate with the hot spring treatment.
• Suzuki Sonoko and her companions chose the Kitaoka Line, where they encountered Doctor Sato after he argued with Date.
• Doctor Sato told the high school students that the doctors had split between the Kitaoka and Minamikawa Lines.
• At Asayama Station, Suzuki Sonoko regretted that the group could not switch trains to enjoy both routes' scenery.
• Jiang Xia used a Ghost and Puppet Clay left on the Minamikawa Line to monitor Doctor Utsumi, whose phone Noah had quietly set up to track messages.

Jiang Xia discovered that Doctor Utsumi was an Organization Peripheral Member and blamed his restricted access to the bounty forum for failing to identify him sooner. He possessed a puppet on Utsumi’s train and approached him under the guise of answering a bounty, leaving Utsumi alarmed when he introduced the codename Uzo.

• Jiang Xia found Doctor Utsumi’s Organization activity records and learned he was a Peripheral Member, while complaining that he could not view the forum’s bounties.
• Jiang Xia decided Utsumi’s possible death would not be his responsibility and reasoned that unrestricted forum access might have let him save the doctor.
• Jiang Xia followed the Pattern Seal and possessed a puppet aboard the Minamikawa Line train carrying Doctor Utsumi.
• Doctor Utsumi mistook the black-clad Jiang Xia for someone who had accepted his anonymous bounty and grew wary when Jiang Xia nodded.
• Jiang Xia asked Doctor Utsumi whether he had heard of the codename Uzo.

Utsumi Kazuhiko met a man claiming to be Uzo’s subordinate, who said Uzo had sent him a return gift after hearing Utsumi wanted to kill him. Utsumi was poisoned aboard the train and realized the man in black had stayed to watch, leaving Uzo’s role in the trap unclear to him.

• Doctor Utsumi mistook the curly-haired man in black for Uzo, but the man said he was Uzo’s subordinate.
• The man told Utsumi that Uzo had sent a return gift because Utsumi wanted to kill him, then left without explaining further.
• Utsumi panicked and tried to contact That Lord, fearing Uzo had arranged a disaster on the train.
• A man in a baseball cap approached Utsumi to discuss a roll of film and injected him with poison.
• As Utsumi collapsed, he saw the man in black watching from the next seat before the man rose and left.

Utsumi Kazuhiko was murdered aboard the Minamikawa Line while Jiang Xia secretly collected the Killing Intent and Shikigami left behind by his death. After the trains reached the terminal, Conan grew suspicious of Date Yu, and the group went to investigate the murder, where they discovered Utsumi's body.

• Utsumi Kazuhiko died after his attacker prevented him from leaving a dying message, and the killer fled after handling the scene.
• Jiang Xia gathered Utsumi Kazuhiko's Killing Intent and Shikigami using Matsuda Jinpei's puppet, then had Matsuda carry them back.
• At the transfer station, Conan noticed Date Yu reacted strangely when told his collar button was loose, and suspected he was wiping away fingerprints.
• Railway Police arrived to investigate a doctor's death aboard the Minamikawa Line, prompting Doctor Sato and Date Yu to go look.
• Jiang Xia, Mouri Ran, and Suzuki Sonoko entered the crime scene and recognized Utsumi Kazuhiko's body, which lay beside an empty wallet and an opened can of coffee.

Jiang Xia and Conan investigated Doctor Utsumi’s apparent heart-failure death, while Gin arrived at the station and recognized the victim as the doctor assigned to him and Uzo. The chapter ended with Conan spotting Gin and Gin noticing the boy watching him.

• Officer Kobayashi told Jiang Xia that Doctor Utsumi seemed to have died of heart failure, but Conan pointed out an injection mark and Jiang Xia suggested concentrated Potassium Chloride as a possible cause.
• Officer Kobayashi decided to question the Doctors who had traveled with Utsumi while investigating other leads.
• Gin grew suspicious when Utsumi failed to arrive, moved his car, and entered the station in disguise.
• Gin recognized Utsumi’s body and realized that the doctor Lord had assigned to him and Uzo had died in a murder case; he then spotted Jiang Xia among the investigators.
• Conan sensed Gin’s gaze, saw him glaring at Jiang Xia, and disguised his fear with an innocent grin after Gin noticed him watching.

Gin left the station after deciding to wait until he was away from the police before confronting Uzo over Doctor Date's death. As the police investigated the poisoning, Jiang Xia used witnesses' accounts to question whether the murder was a robbery and focus attention on Doctor Date's reversible jacket.

• Gin felt murderous anger over Uzo killing Doctor Date without authorization, but left the crowded station to avoid settling the score in public.
• Jiang Xia sent a Ghost after Gin, while Conan wondered why Gin had appeared and whether the case was connected to the Organization.
• The train vendor told the police that the victim had bought coffee with a ten-thousand-yen bill shortly before the train reached Asayama Station.
• Mrs. Kanai recalled seeing a passenger in a dark blue coat, baseball cap, tinted glasses, and a crooked fake beard walking through the carriage.
• Jiang Xia noted that the killer had ignored the wealthy Mrs. Kanai and pointed out that Doctor Date's reversible jacket was dark blue inside.

Jiang Xia exposed how Date Yu could have boarded the delayed Minamikawa Line, killed Doctor Utsumi, and returned to the Kitaoka Line unnoticed. Date Yu denied the accusation and claimed he had discarded his ticket, leaving the investigators without a ticket record to confirm his alibi.

• Date Yu denied knowing anyone else who might have had a motive to kill Doctor Utsumi and said Utsumi had spread rumors that he took kickbacks from the Pharmacy.
• Doctor Sato explained that he and Date Yu had argued over paying for tickets and split up after boarding the Kitaoka Line.
• Date Yu used the train schedules to argue that he could not have caught the Minamikawa Line, which had supposedly left Asayama five minutes earlier.
• Jiang Xia deduced that Date Yu had called the station to delay the Minamikawa Line, changed his appearance, boarded it at Asayama, and poisoned Doctor Utsumi before rejoining the others.
• Station staff confirmed that someone had called about a supposedly lost contract, but Date Yu denied making the call and said he had thrown away his Kitaoka Line ticket.

Jiang Xia exposed Date Yu as Doctor Utsumi’s killer, then met Gin outside the station and admitted that he had killed Utsumi because he believed the doctor intended to kill him. Gin warned that the Boss would not accept that explanation, leaving Jiang Xia to justify killing the therapist assigned to him.

• Jiang Xia used the clerk’s fingerprints on the change to make Date Yu confess that he killed Utsumi to stop him from blackmailing him over pharmacy kickbacks.
• Police took Date Yu away, and Jiang Xia escorted the client’s wife to her driver before returning to the station entrance.
• Jiang Xia got into Gin’s Porsche and denied having anything to do with Utsumi’s death, but two passing girls identified Gin as the suspicious man in sunglasses from the train.
• Jiang Xia implied that Utsumi’s conspicuous appearance had made him an obvious subordinate, and then said he had killed the doctor because he thought Utsumi wanted to kill him.
• Gin revealed that the Boss had assigned Utsumi to be Jiang Xia’s therapist and said the Boss would not accept Jiang Xia’s excuse.

Vodka found a bounty targeting Jiang Xia and discovered that its poster, Doctor Utsumi Kazuhiko, had already been killed. He traced several recent deaths and crimes involving doctors back to Jiang Xia, leaving him stunned by how many people had fallen into the detective’s orbit.

• Gin received Vodka’s message about a bounty for Uzo and logged into the Bounty Board to investigate.
• Vodka identified the bounty poster as Utsumi Kazuhiko, a criminal psychiatrist, and worried that Utsumi might have a chance to attack Uzo through an hired assassin.
• Vodka searched for Utsumi’s schedule and found an obituary listing him among doctors expelled by the Physicians’ Association.
• Vodka searched the other names and learned that Jiang Xia had solved the cases involving Okano Hitoshi and Tanaka Katsuyoshi.
• Vodka discovered that Date Yu had murdered Utsumi, but Jiang Xia had exposed Date’s crime too.

Vodka discovered that Doctor Utsumi Kazuhiko’s bounty on Jiang Xia remained online after Utsumi’s death, so he sent the information to Gin rather than risk being blamed for staying silent. Gin found the bounty, judged Uzo partly responsible for Utsumi’s actions, and warned Jiang Xia that using the forum could expose his identity.

• Vodka realized that Utsumi Kazuhiko’s death could leave the bounty’s disappearance open to suspicion, so he decided to report the bounty to Gin.
• Vodka emailed Gin the information and closed the page, privately resolving to help get rid of Uzo if he got the chance.
• Gin found Utsumi’s bounty on The Forum and concluded that Uzo had likely influenced the Doctor, though he also saw the timing of Utsumi’s death as partly coincidental.
• Jiang Xia noticed the bounty page on Gin’s phone and asked why his own account showed only a blank page.
• Gin told Jiang Xia that activity on The Forum could expose him, and that his Detective identity was valuable as Uzo’s cover.

Jiang Xia persuaded Gin to grant him access to The Forum’s bounty details, while Gin set strict limits on what he could view and do. The discussion shifted when Gin found Bourbon’s warning attached to the bounty on Jiang Xia, and Gin later cautioned Jiang Xia to dispose of any exposed tools.

• Jiang Xia argued that access to The Forum’s bounty details would help him find undercover agents, and Gin agreed to grant him browsing access with restrictions.
• Gin warned Jiang Xia not to kill suspected undercover agents without reporting them and forbade him from contacting bounty posters or other forum members.
• Gin refreshed the bounty page and found a note from Bourbon warning others to leave Jiang Xia alone because Bourbon still had use for him.
• Gin joked that he wanted to see Bourbon’s reaction when he learned Jiang Xia was Uzo, while Jiang Xia imagined Bourbon’s killing intent.
• Gin noticed Jiang Xia’s expression and briefly wondered whether Uzo had targeted him, then dismissed the thought.
• Gin told Jiang Xia to clean up his tool promptly if it was exposed.

Vermouth and Amuro Tooru discovered Jiang Xia’s name on the Bounty Board and reacted in different ways, while Jiang Xia and Gin discussed their upcoming trip to Osaka. Amuro called Jiang Xia to warn him and learn who had posted the bounty.

• Vermouth saw that Utsumi Kazuhiko had placed a bounty on Jiang Xia and tried to contact him, only to find his obituary.
• Vermouth concluded that Utsumi had likely crossed paths with Uzo and decided she no longer needed to investigate him.
• Amuro Tooru found the bounty but avoided verifying the poster’s identity because doing so could draw Rum’s attention to Jiang Xia.
• Amuro called Jiang Xia to warn him and ask who he had made an enemy of.
• Jiang Xia and Gin discussed going to Osaka to catch an international wanted criminal and take her treasure vault when Jiang Xia’s phone rang.

Jiang Xia told Amuro Tooru about a murder case that echoed a doctor’s earlier medical accident, prompting Gin to suspect Jiang Xia was planting clues about Uzo for Bourbon to investigate. The call ended with Jiang Xia warning that several members of the Doctors' Union had committed crimes in a short span.

• Jiang Xia answered Amuro Tooru’s call and said he had recently investigated a case in Mie Prefecture where his client died.
• Jiang Xia explained that the client’s two daughters were arrested for attempted murder and embezzlement, while the actual murderer had been caught.
• Jiang Xia said the murderer had copied a fatal medical mistake described by Doctor Utsumi, and Gin suspected he was feeding Bourbon clues about Uzo.
• Amuro Tooru grew wary when Jiang Xia described the murderer’s inspiration and asked why the case seemed suspicious.
• Jiang Xia pointed out that three members of the Doctors' Union had committed crimes in less than twenty-four hours.

Jiang Xia discussed Doctor Utsumi’s suspicious collection of evidence with Amuro Tooru, who set Kazami Yuuya to investigate the doctors and a possible bounty poster. After parting from Gin, Jiang Xia went to meet Kid, who arrived at an art museum and changed into his familiar white disguise.

• Jiang Xia told Amuro Tooru that Doctor Utsumi’s unusually detailed evidence and the recent murders might point to someone encouraging the doctors to commit crimes.
• Amuro Tooru warned Jiang Xia to wear a Bulletproof Vest, and Gin remarked that the Organization had a newer lightweight model.
• Amuro Tooru asked Kazami Yuuya to investigate the doctors, the Physician Association’s roster and schedule, and possible links to The Forum bounty.
• Jiang Xia left Gin’s car, collected the Killing Intent Cluster from his Ghosts, and went to meet Kid.
• Kid arrived on an art museum rooftop in Black Organization clothes, then changed into his White Suit, cape, and Top Hat.

Kid began his theft of the Crown of Angels while Jiang Xia watched as Mist Tengu, hoping the stolen treasure would yield an Energy Core. Kid opened the display case, but Inspector Nakamori surprised him with a searchlight just as he picked up the Crown.

• Kid prepared his escape equipment on the rooftop and met Jiang Xia controlling Mist Tengu, who told him there were no helicopters nearby.
• Kid descended to the concealed room, saw no police in his camera footage, and entered the exhibition hall through a window and the ventilation ducts.
• Jiang Xia descended outside the exhibition hall and watched Kid while feeding Ghost the magic power he had taken from him.
• Kid picked the display case lock and lifted the Crown of Angels.
• Inspector Nakamori shouted Kid's name, causing him to drop the Crown as a subordinate shone a searchlight directly at him.