Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia and the police discovered that Inukai Yosuke had been poisoned in his hotel room, while evidence suggested the killer had arranged a private drink with him. Jiang Xia proposed that someone in the banquet hall might have remotely carried out the murder, leaving Takamori Masumi convinced he was close to exposing her plan.

• A clothing executive identified the custom-made garment as Inukai Yosuke's, and Officer Sato learned that he had left the banquet hall for the guest rooms.
• Jiang Xia and the others found Inukai Yosuke's room empty, then rushed toward a scream and discovered him slumped over a wine table in another room.
• Forensic personnel reported that Inukai Yosuke had likely died around seven in the evening and that his wineglass had been poisoned.
• Inozuka Jiro and the blonde secretary argued over which company was the real victim, while the lobby manager noted that most people had remained at the banquet.
• Jiang Xia suggested that the killer might have used a remote method from the banquet hall, alarming Takamori Masumi as she feared he had seen through her plan.

Jiang Xia explained how the murderer used a staged room and psychological tricks to make the victim drink poisoned wine. After the group left the scene, Mouri Ran tried to discuss Takamori Masumi with Suzuki Sonoko, who instead praised Masumi’s skill at getting Jiang Xia to talk.

• Jiang Xia explained that the murderer had poisoned one wineglass and arranged the room to make the victim choose it.
• Takamori Masumi questioned how the murderer could ensure the victim drank the poisoned wine, prompting Jiang Xia to explain the staged seating and poured wine.
• Takamori Masumi noted that the victim might have been wary after a recent poisoning, and Jiang Xia explained how a fake nameplate made the room seem safe.
• Takamori Masumi praised Jiang Xia’s detective work while Mouri Ran noticed her cold sweat, and Suzuki Sonoko secretly took notes on Masumi’s conversational tactics.
• After the group left the scene, Mouri Ran asked Suzuki Sonoko whether she had noticed something about Takamori Masumi, and Sonoko excitedly praised her.

Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko grew suspicious of Takamori Masumi, while Jiang Xia collected the Killing Intent she left behind. Elsewhere, the little assistant threatened Funeral Silver Coin, who prepared the final wedding dress and placed a call to Takamori Masumi.

• Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko discussed whether Takamori Masumi might be the killer, then encountered her in the corridor.
• Takamori Masumi asked whether Jiang Xia had named a suspect, grew defensive, and fled when she noticed Jiang Xia behind the two girls.
• Jiang Xia told Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko that more evidence was needed, while his Ghosts retrieved the Killing Intent Takamori Masumi had left behind.
• The little assistant called Funeral Silver Coin, accused them of killing Yosuke, and threatened to tell the police and Jiang Xia unless they were dead by dawn.
• Funeral Silver Coin calmly closed the gift box holding the final wedding dress, then called Takamori Masumi, whose Killing Intent began to grow again as the phone rang.

Takamori Masumi agreed to one final favor for Funeral Silver Coin, but someone ambushed her in a dark room. Meanwhile, Inozuka Jiro planned to use Hashimoto Maya’s Mailbox to lure Jiang Xia out and ruin his reputation, leaving Hashimoto and Kurosawa Kazuma wary of his scheme.

• Takamori Masumi argued with Funeral Silver Coin, who promised she would not have to kill again if she completed one last favor.
• Takamori Masumi entered a dark room to meet Funeral Silver Coin and was knocked unconscious by a figure using an anesthetic-soaked handkerchief.
• Inozuka Jiro told Hashimoto Maya to use his Mailbox to lure Jiang Xia behind the building the next day.
• Hashimoto Maya questioned Inozuka Jiro’s plan to make Jiang Xia solve the case incorrectly, but Inozuka Jiro insisted he understood the case and demanded the Mailbox.
• After Inozuka Jiro left, Hashimoto Maya and Kurosawa Kazuma criticized his behavior and excessive perfume.

After Bodhi Company won the design competition, Jiang Xia and his classmates discovered the birdcage eggs had been smashed and recalled a similar incident from their school days involving Masumi. Sato Miwako arrived with the detailed autopsy report and employee measurement disks, bringing Jiang Xia a new lead.

• Hashimoto Maya and Kurosawa Kazuma dismissed Inozuka Jiro’s chances of harming Jiang Xia and worried about their detention.
• Suzuki Sonoko learned that Bodhi Company had won Sanyu Corporation’s sponsorship after the design competition.
• Suzuki Sonoko found the eggs in the lobby birdcage smashed, and the lobby manager explained that the birds sometimes broke their own eggs.
• Mouri Ran, Suzuki Sonoko, and Conan recalled how Masumi had once smashed their class’s birdcage after a canary broke its eggs, while Jiang Xia stopped Conan from revealing too much.
• Sato Miwako gave Jiang Xia the detailed autopsy report and disks containing Bodhi Company employees’ body measurements.

Jiang Xia discovered that the disk for names beginning with “ki” was missing, and the company’s next murder warning led the group to Kiriyama Sayoko’s room. They found Kiriyama dead and Takamori Masumi beside her, while Inozuka Jiro openly suggested she was Funeral Silver Coin.

• Jiang Xia noticed the “ki” disk was missing, and Inozuka Jiro grew uneasy when Jiang Xia questioned his sudden glance at his watch.
• A murder warning arrived with a wedding dress, prompting Jiang Xia to identify Kiriyama Sayoko as a possible target and the group to rush to her room.
• Takamori Masumi woke beside Kiriyama Sayoko’s corpse with a gun in her hand, then tried and failed to escape through a window that had been tampered with.
• Takamori Masumi recognized a perfume scent on the window frame and suspected Funeral Silver Coin had knocked her out and altered the window.
• Torimaru Naoko brought the room key, and the group found Kiriyama dead while Takamori stood by the window.
• Inozuka Jiro questioned Takamori Masumi’s presence and asked whether she was Funeral Silver Coin.

Takamori Masumi shot Inozuka Jiro after accusing him of being the Funeral Silver Coin, while Hashimoto Maya and Kurosawa Kazuma dealt with the fallout. A note from Ouzo then appeared in their sealed room, ordering them to meet, and left Hashimoto Maya terrified about how it got there.

• Takamori Masumi accused Inozuka Jiro of being the Funeral Silver Coin and shot him at close range.
• Hashimoto Maya watched the ambulance take Inozuka Jiro away and discussed leaving with Kurosawa Kazuma.
• Kurosawa Kazuma reminded Hashimoto Maya that Inozuka had arranged a meeting with Jiang Xia in his name, complicating their departure.
• Hashimoto Maya found a note signed by Ouzo telling him to go talk with Kurosawa Kazuma.
• Hashimoto Maya suspected Kurosawa Kazuma might have unknowingly brought the note into their sealed room and imagined the danger he posed.

Takamori Masumi admitted that Funeral Silver Coin had blackmailed her into killing people, and Jiang Xia explained why she had shot President Inozuka. As Jiang Xia left to keep an appointment, Kurosawa Kazuma agreed to accompany Hashimoto Maya after reporting Inozuka’s case to his superior.

• Takamori Masumi explained that seeing President Inozuka reminded her of her childhood and led her to shoot him.
• Jiang Xia told Sato Miwako that Funeral Silver Coin had coerced Takamori into committing the murders and that she attacked Inozuka after discovering his identity.
• Takamori admitted that she had killed her ex-boyfriend after he blackmailed her, and said Funeral Silver Coin had used evidence of the body disposal to threaten her.
• Sato Miwako questioned Takamori’s claim that she had not killed Kiriyama Sayoko because the room appeared to be locked, while Jiang Xia suggested the room could have been tampered with and asked her to send someone to the hospital.
• Jiang Xia told Sato Miwako that President Inozuka had been revived, then left to attend an appointment.
• Hashimoto Maya invited Kurosawa Kazuma to accompany her to meet the Detective, and Kurosawa reported Inozuka’s case to his superior, who replied unusually quickly.

Curacao chose Inozuka Saburo as a replacement for the subordinate she had lost, while Hashimoto Maya met Jiang Xia and tried to ask about a recent murder case. Jiang Xia hinted that he suspected someone was arranging the repeated dangers around Hashimoto Maya and his friend, leaving Hashimoto alarmed that he might uncover Uzo’s involvement.

• Curacao decided not to report Jiro’s loss to Rum and selected Inozuka Saburo as her next subordinate to send out.
• Hashimoto Maya went alone to meet Jiang Xia at the place Inozuka Jiro had arranged.
• Jiang Xia revealed that he knew Hashimoto Maya’s real name from an email signature, and Hashimoto blamed the dead Inozuka Jiro for exposing it.
• Hashimoto asked whether the murder case had been closed, and Jiang Xia said it had more or less been resolved.
• Jiang Xia reminded Hashimoto of the recurring accidents and murder cases around him and his friend, then implied he had found something; Hashimoto feared Jiang Xia had discovered Uzo’s role.

Jiang Xia told Hashimoto Maya that he suspected a hidden mastermind called “Funeral Silver Coin” had scripted the murder case, with President Inozuka serving as a disposable double. He invited Hashimoto Maya to join the police trap, and Hashimoto Maya accepted after suspecting that refusing would make him Jiang Xia’s prime suspect.

• Hashimoto Maya agonized over whether to hear Jiang Xia’s discovery, then chose to listen despite fearing Uzo.
• Jiang Xia explained that the case had unfolded too smoothly and identified a hidden manipulator, “Funeral Silver Coin,” as the true culprit.
• Jiang Xia said the dead President Inozuka was an innocent double used to end the plot at the right moment.
• Jiang Xia invited Hashimoto Maya to join the police and help catch the person behind the scenes.
• Hashimoto Maya suspected Jiang Xia had also set a trap for him, so he clasped Jiang Xia’s hand and agreed to participate.

Curacao dismissed concerns about George after he joined Jiang Xia and Hashimoto Maya, while Jiang Xia examined stolen company records and prepared to visit the hospitalized President Inozuka. That night, someone tried to disconnect Inozuka’s life-support equipment, but Jiang Xia had anticipated the real Funeral Silver Coin and confronted the intruder.

• Curacao told Kurosawa Kazuma to leave George alone and worried that Hashimoto Maya had made her subordinates overly dependent on her.
• At the Police Station, Hashimoto Maya considered reporting Jiang Xia to the organization but decided against it, fearing Uzo’s retaliation.
• Jiang Xia examined the stolen Disks containing employee measurements and took Hashimoto Maya to dinner before heading to President Inozuka’s hospital.
• A shadow entered Inozuka’s room and tore out the wires connected to his life-support equipment.
• Someone turned on the lights, and Jiang Xia addressed the intruder as the real Funeral Silver Coin.

Jiang Xia identified the killer behind the murders and explained how she staged Assistant Kiriyama’s death as a locked-room murder. The group remained at the hotel as Sato questioned how the spare key they used could have been genuine.

• A hidden figure pulled the curtain shut and discovered that the supposed President Inozuka in the bed was a medical mannequin.
• Jiang Xia revealed that the rumor of President Inozuka’s survival had been bait to draw out “Funeral Silver Coin,” and the Blonde Secretary arrived, claiming she had come to curse Inozuka.
• Hashimoto Maya wondered whether the figure behind the curtain was Uzo and kept still to avoid drawing attention to himself.
• Jiang Xia said Takamori Masumi had killed President Rokujo and Bodhi under “Funeral Silver Coin’s” control, while “Funeral Silver Coin” herself had killed Assistant Kiriyama.
• Conan produced a key, and Jiang Xia explained that “Funeral Silver Coin” had swapped the key tags to keep the assistant’s spare key and stage a locked room.
• Sato Miwako pointed out that the key borrowed from the front desk to open the room had been the assistant’s actual key.

Jiang Xia exposed Torimaru Naoko as the person who had borrowed the spare key, and she emerged from behind the hospital bed. Torimaru denied the accusations, but Jiang Xia challenged her claim that she had nearly been poisoned.

• Jiang Xia explained that Funeral Silver Coin had borrowed Miss Assistant's spare key while everyone watched, creating a chance to switch it before returning to the locked room.
• Mouri Ran realized that the person who borrowed the key was Torimaru Naoko, whom everyone believed to be Funeral Silver Coin's first target.
• Torimaru Naoko stepped out from behind the hospital bed, while Hashimoto Maya wondered whether she might be Uzo.
• Torimaru claimed she had come to visit Inozuka Jiro and said she had accidentally pulled the power cord when startled by the mannequin in the bed.
• Conan recalled that Torimaru had returned to her room without unlocking it, suggesting she had already handed her key to the front desk.
• Jiang Xia said Torimaru could have avoided drinking the poisoned wine if she had known it was poisoned, and called her near-poisoning a way to clear suspicion.

Jiang Xia exposed Torimaru Naoko as Funeral Silver Coin by explaining how a data-entry error hid her measurements from the stolen disks and how hotel surveillance could reveal her key use. Torimaru confessed to planning the crime and using Masumi to kill, while Hashimoto Maya silently worried that Jiang Xia was not acting enough like Uzo.

• Jiang Xia explained how Torimaru Naoko could have manipulated President Rokujo and President Inozuka to make herself seem innocent.
• Jiang Xia pointed out that the wedding dress matched Torimaru's measurements, and Torimaru claimed Funeral Silver Coin could have stolen the company's measurement disks.
• Jiang Xia revealed that the stolen disks held data for Kiriyama Sayoko and Inukai Yosuke, while Torimaru's measurements had been mistakenly entered on the unstolen disk under the name Karasuma Naoko.
• Jiang Xia said hotel surveillance could capture details of the key Torimaru used, and Torimaru accepted that the evidence had exposed her.
• Torimaru confessed that she planned the method and used Masumi to kill, while Hashimoto Maya silently urged Jiang Xia to behave more like Uzo.

Torimaru Naoko confessed that she had manipulated Takamori Masumi into shooting President Inozuka, confident she could predict Masumi because they shared similar childhoods and personalities. Jiang Xia exposed the source of that understanding, and Torimaru began recounting the long-buried killing that had shaped her life.

• Torimaru Naoko admitted she had sent Takamori Masumi's ex-boyfriend to threaten her and planted the cologne scent that made Masumi suspect President Inozuka.
• Torimaru explained that she expected Masumi to shoot Inozuka, allowing Masumi to take the blame while the police closed the case.
• Jiang Xia said Torimaru understood Masumi because both had been abandoned by their parents and had similar temperaments; Suzuki Sonoko recognized Torimaru's reaction as matching Masumi's.
• Torimaru revealed that nine years earlier her ex-boyfriend had blackmailed her over their illegal acts, and she killed him by striking him with a vase.

Torimaru Naoko confessed to killing Inozuka Jiro and explained that she had turned against him after learning he planned to give Inukai Yosuke the vice president position and reveal her crime. The police took her away, while Hashimoto Maya continued to suspect Jiang Xia was Uzo, though Jiang Xia judged Naoko’s plotting inferior to the mastermind he had in mind.

• Torimaru Naoko told Hashimoto Maya that Inozuka Jiro had helped her dispose of her ex-boyfriend’s body, after which she devoted herself to working for him.
• Torimaru Naoko explained that she overheard Inozuka Jiro planning to promote Inukai Yosuke and reveal her murder, so she decided to seize Putuo Company.
• Torimaru Naoko confessed to her crimes, and the police took her away.
• Jiang Xia sent the Mermaid to investigate the area’s dense Killing Intent, then told reporters how Torimaru Naoko had staged the case.
• Hashimoto Maya asked whether Naoko had been the prey Jiang Xia wanted to hook, and Jiang Xia said she was too careless to match his imagined mastermind.
• Hashimoto Maya pointed out that the front-desk Camera could not capture the keys, and Jiang Xia praised his observation skills.

Jiang Xia explained how Torimaru Naoko’s mistakes and the physical evidence could expose her, while Hashimoto Maya pushed away his suspicion that Jiang Xia was Uzo. On the way to the Police Station, Naoko escaped after a staged crash, and the officers rushed to evacuate their colleagues from a car Takamori Masumi warned was about to explode.

• Jiang Xia told Hashimoto Maya that Torimaru Naoko’s errors and the evidence from her crimes would make her manipulation unravel.
• Hashimoto Maya briefly suspected Jiang Xia might be Uzo, then convinced himself the two were different people.
• Sato Miwako told Jiang Xia that police would have to investigate everyone who accessed Bodhi Company’s measurement data.
• A modified car rammed the police car carrying Torimaru Naoko, and she escaped through a broken window as its masked driver pursued her with a gun.
• Takamori Masumi warned that a bomb in the modified car was about to explode, so the officers fled their vehicles and tried to rescue their injured colleagues.

Takamori Masumi escaped from police custody while Inozuka Saburo searched for the escaped Torimaru Naoko. Saburo contacted Curacao about his botched attempt to silence Naoko, and Curacao realized he was really trying to save his brother Inozuka Jiro from the police.

• Takamori Masumi slipped away from the police while they rescued an injured officer, and the officers soon discovered both escapees were gone.
• The police stayed to guard nearby alley entrances and waited for backup rather than pursue the armed fugitives.
• Inozuka Saburo searched for Torimaru Naoko and worried that she could expose the organization’s secrets if captured.
• Unable to reach his injured brother or deceased eldest brother, Inozuka Saburo sent an email to his superior for help.
• Curacao read Saburo’s account and inferred that he intended to rescue Inozuka Jiro from police custody, not silence him.

Curacao declined to send help to Inozuka Saburo, reasoning that Uzo would likely handle Torimaru Naoko and that she could avoid taking the blame. Meanwhile, Takamori Masumi fled into the alleys and stumbled upon the very woman she had been trying to escape.

• Curacao read Inozuka Saburo’s report that Torimaru Naoko had escaped, then told him to search briefly before withdrawing if he could not find her.
• Curacao decided not to send a sniper, assuming Uzo had arranged for Torimaru Naoko to fall into police hands.
• Inozuka Saburo received Curacao’s reply and relaxed, believing he could leave without consequences if his search failed.
• Takamori Masumi spotted Inozuka Saburo carrying a gun, grew uneasy, and hid in a maze of alleys.
• Takamori Masumi found Torimaru Naoko hiding behind a pile of clutter, and Naoko covered her mouth before she could scream.

Takamori Masumi recognized Torimaru Naoko as Funeral Silver Coin and agreed to flee with her rather than face prison. Torimaru Naoko tried to bargain with Inozuka Saburo, who approached her intending to silence her.

• Takamori Masumi confronted Torimaru Naoko about escaping her handcuffs and learned she had suspected the vehicle would be hijacked.
• Takamori Masumi asked Torimaru Naoko to take her along, and Torimaru Naoko agreed after warning that they might not survive the night.
• Takamori Masumi followed Torimaru Naoko, choosing to risk escape rather than return to a life with no prospects.
• Inozuka Saburo found Torimaru Naoko after she drew his attention with a stone and offered her services running the company’s affairs.
• Inozuka Saburo dismissed Torimaru Naoko’s offer and moved toward her hiding place with his gun, intending to silence her.