Chapter Summaries

Torimaru Naoko convinced Takamori Masumi that Uzo was using them as a pair of twins and might eventually kill them once they outlived their usefulness. Naoko decided to draw Uzo out by getting close to Jiang Xia, whom she believed was his favorite Sherlock Holmes.

• Torimaru Naoko explained that Uzo had used the deaths of Fuwa Narumi and Fumizuki Karen to warn her and Takamori Masumi to keep playing their roles as twins.
• Naoko told Masumi that Uzo would likely force her to kill Masumi if she made an unforgivable mistake, then dispose of them both.
• Naoko searched their room for listening devices and proposed that they do something big before Uzo discarded them as they aged.
• Naoko admitted she wanted to discover Uzo's identity and decided to force him out rather than die without understanding who he was.
• Naoko argued that Jiang Xia's repeated encounters with cases made him Uzo's favorite Sherlock Holmes, and that appearing beside Jiang Xia would draw Uzo's attention.

Jiang Xia agreed to give a safety lecture at the Beika Food Festival, and his publicity helped turn the poorly attended event into a popular attraction. After receiving an anonymous letter hinting that he had caused the sender trouble, he invited Conan and Hashimoto Maya to join him at the festival.

• Inspector Megure asked Jiang Xia to replace him as the festival lecturer, and Jiang Xia agreed and recorded promotional materials.
• Jiang Xia’s publicity drew enough interest to fill the festival with food trucks, prompting Inspector Megure to praise his popularity.
• Jiang Xia received an anonymous letter from a girl who wanted to speak with him but did not explain what he had done.
• Jiang Xia invited Conan to the festival and hoped the Detective Boys would stop by after school.
• Jiang Xia decided to invite Hashimoto Maya, who had returned to Tokyo, to get out of his hiding place and attend the festival.

Jiang Xia sent invitations to Curacao, Hashimoto Maya, and Amuro Tooru, arranging to encounter Hashimoto near the food festival. The next morning, Amuro and Rum were drawn into preparing food trucks for the event, and Curacao unexpectedly found Rum working at a restaurant.

• Jiang Xia emailed Curacao about getting Hashimoto Maya to give a statement near Gourmet Plaza, then invited Amuro Tooru and other clients to the festival.
• Amuro arrived at a restaurant to work and found Boss Kawasaki preparing an old food truck for the event.
• Boss Kawasaki told Amuro to repair the truck and load ingredients while she went to a hair appointment.
• Amuro repaired the truck and loaded it with ingredients by noon.
• Curacao stopped at a sushi restaurant controlled by Rum and found him preparing a food truck outside.

Rum prepared to attend Jiang Xia’s food festival in his sushi-chef disguise, while Curacao suspected Uzo had set the event up to lure Rum and chose not to warn him. Rum headed for the Square, eager to approach Jiang Xia, and noticed the festival’s food vendors seemed unusual.

• Rum told Curacao he planned to attend Jiang Xia’s food festival, and she connected the event to Uzo’s suspicious request and Hashimoto Maya’s nearby police statement.
• Curacao decided not to warn Rum, then left after he told her to get back to work.
• Rum prepared his sushi cart and reflected that he wanted to recruit Uzo while keeping Curacao away to protect his disguise.
• When the food festival began, Rum headed toward the Square and noticed the other food vendors did not match his expectations.

Amuro Tooru arrived at the Gourmet Party and discovered that Rum, disguised as Wakita Kanenori, had parked beside his food truck. He chose to stay near Rum and watch for intelligence, then saw his boss approach with Jiang Xia.

• Rum hurried toward the Gourmet Plaza, pleased by Uzo’s abilities and reflecting that his risks were manageable.
• Amuro Tooru parked his food truck in the Square and realized Jiang Xia was giving the police presentation, but stayed because his boss had gone to listen.
• Amuro Tooru planned to set up his stall and gather intelligence, then froze when the neighboring food truck’s owner turned out to be Rum.
• Amuro Tooru greeted Rum as Wakita Kanenori and questioned why he had come, while hiding his alarm and deciding not to leave.
• After the presentation ended and the Gourmet Party began, Amuro Tooru’s female boss approached with Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia met Amuro Tooru and Rum at the Gourmet Party, while Amuro grew increasingly wary of Rum’s interest in him. Rum exchanged business cards with Jiang Xia in an attempt to build a connection, but Jiang Xia was more focused on Rum’s unusually bland Killing Intent.

• Jiang Xia greeted Amuro Tooru, and Amuro noticed Rum watching Jiang Xia with apparent interest.
• Amuro suspected Rum wanted to recruit Jiang Xia and became more alert, while Rum thought Bourbon had grown dim-witted under Uzo’s influence.
• Rum introduced himself to Jiang Xia as Wakita Kanenori and asked for an autograph on behalf of his granddaughter.
• Jiang Xia signed a Business Card for Rum and accepted Rum’s sushi-themed card in return.
• Jiang Xia and the Ghosts examined Rum’s Killing Intent and decided it resembled vinegared sushi rice rather than flavorful ingredients.

At Teitan Elementary School, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko followed a cat to a flyer for the Beika Town Gourmet Party and overheard three suspicious people planning to blow up the venue. The children realized the police presentation might be the real target and decided they needed evidence to make the police believe them.

• Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko discussed Conan and Haibara Ai before spotting a familiar black-and-white cat on a wall.
• The cat dropped a flyer for the Beika Town Gourmet Party, and the children decided to go to the event.
• At the party grounds, the children overheard three people argue about missing supplies and then plan to blow up the venue.
• Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko suspected the police presentation was the target and worried that the police would dismiss their warning.
• Mitsuhiko proposed gathering evidence so the police would take their report seriously.

The Detective Boys mistook three restaurant workers preparing a chicken rice food truck for criminals, then learned their plans were innocent. Nearby, Torimaru Naoko prepared to make one last attempt to control her fate before her surgery, intending to draw Jiang Xia to meet her.

• Kojima Genta, Yoshida Ayumi, and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko followed the three adults and grew suspicious of their purchases and actions.
• The adults explained that they were preparing to sell chicken rice and that their phrase about making the place explode meant making their food popular.
• Yoshida Ayumi told her classmates she had mistaken the woman’s knife and bloodied apron for signs of a crime; the woman had been preparing chicken.
• Torimaru Naoko listened from a nearby bench and resolved to resist the fate awaiting her after surgery, hoping Jiang Xia would respond to her invitation.
• Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko questioned the adults about their oil and gas canisters, and they invited the children to try their chicken rice.
• The three workers began cooking for the children and quietly recognized them as acquaintances of a Detective.

Three bombers prepared to destroy Jiang Xia and the nearby food trucks, while Torimaru Naoko learned of their plan and devised a way to fake Jiang Xia’s death and draw out the person controlling her. Meanwhile, Jiang Xia chatted with Wakita Kanenori as Amuro Tooru watched over both of them.

• The bombers fed chicken rice to three children, then returned to their truck and assembled a bomb using fuel and other combustion improvers.
• The bombers planned to send their modified truck crashing into the food trucks near Jiang Xia and ignite the vehicles.
• Torimaru Naoko overheard the bombers’ plan and considered luring Jiang Xia away before the explosion so she could fake his death and use him to reach the person controlling her.
• Torimaru Naoko wrote a note and headed toward Jiang Xia’s food truck while dressed as an old woman.
• Jiang Xia and Wakita Kanenori chatted inside the neighboring food trucks as Amuro Tooru sold food and kept watch.

At the Gourmet Party, Jiang Xia received a note from a disguised elderly person and left the Food Truck, while Amuro Tooru and Rum tried to guess what Uzo was planning. Amuro followed Jiang Xia, leaving Rum behind to watch the truck and speculate about the danger awaiting his subordinate.

• Jiang Xia noticed an elderly customer pass him a note, then pretended to Amuro Tooru that he was going to the restroom and left.
• Amuro Tooru realized Jiang Xia was lying but let him go, while Rum suspected Uzo had staged the encounter and was planning a murder case.
• Rum concluded that Amuro Tooru was probably the intended target of Uzo's scheme and considered keeping his distance from Bourbon.
• Amuro Tooru asked Rum to watch the Food Truck while he went to the restroom, then quickly followed Jiang Xia.
• Rum agreed to stay behind and eagerly imagined what would happen to Amuro Tooru.

Amuro Tooru questioned Rum’s motives and decided to check on Jiang Xia, who had gone to meet the sender of a matching anonymous note. Torimaru Naoko ambushed Jiang Xia, but his calm response unsettled her when he agreed that someone was manipulating the cases around him.

• Amuro Tooru wondered why Rum had come to the food truck and, deciding to stop testing him, set out to find Jiang Xia.
• Jiang Xia recognized that his appointment note matched an earlier anonymous letter and waited for its sender in a park near the Gourmet Plaza.
• Torimaru Naoko approached Jiang Xia, shot him with an Anesthetic Needle, and took his Collapsible Baton before threatening him with an unloaded gun.
• Torimaru Naoko asked whether Jiang Xia thought too many cases happened around him, and Jiang Xia agreed that someone was manipulating the people involved in them.

Torimaru Naoko realized Jiang Xia had seen through the manipulation behind the cases and offered to help him expose the mastermind. Jiang Xia saved her from a powerful soccer ball and let her escape, leaving Conan to question why he had done so.

• Jiang Xia convinced Torimaru Naoko that he was not the mastermind and revealed that he had long suspected someone was manipulating the cases.
• Torimaru Naoko offered to share everything she knew if she survived, and Jiang Xia accepted her offer while warning that she needed to become stronger.
• A soccer ball nearly struck Torimaru Naoko, but Jiang Xia pulled her to safety as the ball snapped a thick tree in half.
• Torimaru Naoko escaped with a Smoke Bomb, and Jiang Xia told Conan he had let her go because Takamori Masumi was still missing.
• Conan questioned Jiang Xia about Torimaru Naoko’s gun and the reason for her visit.

Jiang Xia told Conan that Torimaru Naoko had escaped with help from a criminal and wanted his help bringing that person to justice. Amuro Tooru received an email from Ouzo about a new subordinate, caught Jiang Xia’s missing Collapsible Baton when Naoko threw it, and arrived as Conan realized Amuro might be involved.

• Jiang Xia told Conan that Torimaru Naoko had sought his help against the criminal who helped her escape, and revealed that she had taken his Collapsible Baton.
• Conan warned Jiang Xia that Naoko and her associates could be dangerous, while Jiang Xia expected her to return the baton.
• Amuro Tooru received an email signed by Ouzo describing a new subordinate heading toward him and directing him to bring anything she threw to Jiang Xia.
• Amuro Tooru considered capturing the woman but decided the crowded setting and risk of an Ouzo trap made it unwise.
• Torimaru Naoko rushed out of disguise and threw Jiang Xia’s Collapsible Baton at Amuro Tooru, who caught it.
• Conan saw Amuro approaching with the baton and suspected that he was connected to the criminal behind Naoko.

Amuro Tooru realized that Torimaru Naoko had been carrying Jiang Xia's collapsible baton and hurried to find him. Following Uzo's instructions while secretly resolved to help Jiang Xia, Torimaru Naoko reached the pool and encountered Amuro Tooru.

• Amuro Tooru examined Jiang Xia's collapsible baton and suspected Torimaru Naoko had used a coating to avoid leaving fingerprints.
• Amuro Tooru concluded Torimaru Naoko was likely being manipulated by Uzo, then realized she had been carrying Jiang Xia's baton and rushed toward Jiang Xia.
• Torimaru Naoko received an email from Uzo ordering her to escape through the Gourmet Party venue's Southwest Gate, enter a black sedan, and return Jiang Xia's baton.
• Torimaru Naoko decided to follow Uzo's orders for now while secretly gathering intelligence for Jiang Xia and resolved not to give up.
• Torimaru Naoko reached the pool and saw Amuro Tooru turn into view ahead of her.

Torimaru Naoko fled toward her rendezvous while three bombers sent an explosive Food Truck charging through the plaza, where Rum was hiding nearby. The blast erupted behind Naoko as Hashimoto Maya and Inozuka Saburo drove toward their safe house, unaware of how close the chaos was to them.

• Torimaru Naoko threw the Collapsible Baton at a man she recognized and ran toward the Gourmet Plaza as instructed.
• Rum watched the area from his sushi-chef disguise, then noticed Torimaru Naoko carrying a gun and moved behind the Food Truck for cover.
• The Long-Haired Bomber and his two companions set a bomb in a Food Truck, released its accelerator, and sent it racing toward the space between Amuro Tooru's and Rum's trucks.
• Torimaru Naoko crossed the vehicles' path before the Food Truck arrived, then escaped into the crowd as the explosion caused panic and flames.
• Torimaru Naoko reached the small gate and waited for the Black Sedan described in her email.
• Hashimoto Maya warned Inozuka Saburo that his contempt for the Police Station could cost him, as they drove toward the Safe House after giving statements.

Inozuka Saburo and Hashimoto Maya drove toward a police event involving Jiang Xia, but a strange cat and an armed woman suddenly entered their car. Hashimoto Maya froze when he recognized the woman, who pointed her gun at him.

• Inozuka Saburo tried to lift his spirits by suggesting they visit the park, while Hashimoto Maya reminded him that he was supposed to be guarding him.
• Hashimoto Maya reacted to hearing that Jiang Xia was hosting the police event, first demanding a detour and then deciding they should keep going.
• Inozuka Saburo spotted a Black Cat behind Hashimoto Maya, who caught it and checked it for surveillance devices.
• When Hashimoto Maya opened the car door to put the cat outside, a woman rolled into the car, shut the door, and made the cat disappear.
• Hashimoto Maya recognized the woman as she raised a gun and aimed it at him.

Torimaru Naoko mistook Hashimoto Maya for Uzo’s subordinate, and they realized they were both trapped in Uzo’s script. As Jiang Xia watched them from afar, he wished Okiya Subaru could have joined them, while Okiya stayed home finishing his thesis, unaware he was being discussed.

• Torimaru Naoko recognized Hashimoto Maya was not the person she sought, then suspected he was that person’s subordinate.
• Torimaru Naoko concluded that she and Hashimoto Maya were both unlucky people caught in Uzo’s script, and Hashimoto Maya feared Uzo had made him a target.
• Hashimoto Maya suspected Curacao had arranged the day’s events because she had defected to Uzo’s side.
• Inozuka Saburo drove quietly while a camera recorded the passengers and sent the footage to Jiang Xia.
• Jiang Xia watched the footage and wished Okiya Subaru had been in the car with his other valued subordinates.
• Okiya Subaru finished his thesis at home, sneezed, and decided not to dwell on who might be talking about him.

Okiya Subaru postponed Uzo’s assignments while he focused on finishing his thesis, and an explosion at Beika Plaza left Gin wondering whether Rum had been caught in a plot involving Uzo. Gin decided to wait for The Boss’s judgment rather than question Uzo directly.

• Okiya Subaru reasoned that he could wait for Akai Shuichi to find him and promised himself he would approach Jiang Xia after submitting his thesis.
• At an abandoned factory, Gin killed a traitor before Chianti could take the shot, then insulted her over the earphone.
• Chianti spotted smoke from an explosion at Beika Plaza and joked that Uzo might have prepared the blast for his speech and Gourmet Party.
• Vodka viewed footage of the ruined cars and wondered whether one belonged to Bourbon, while Chianti teased him about Uzo targeting him.
• Gin recognized a Sushi Restaurant logo among the wrecked cars and worried that Rum might have been caught in the explosion after approaching Uzo.
• Gin considered asking Uzo about Curacao but decided to wait and see what The Boss would conclude.

Jiang Xia, Amuro Tooru, and Conan rushed toward an explosion involving the Food Truck where Rum had been waiting, while Jiang Xia’s Ghosts harvested the resulting Killing Intent. On the way, they overheard three would-be criminals plotting to lure Jiang Xia into an ambush, and an unseen voice agreed with their plan.

• Gin sent Chianti, Vodka, and Korn back to their cars after they lingered discussing the explosion.
• Jiang Xia recognized the burning Food Truck, and he, Conan, and Amuro Tooru hurried toward the explosion site as Amuro wondered whether Uzo had targeted Rum.
• Jiang Xia’s Ghosts eagerly harvested the Killing Intent stirred up by Rum and his resentful subordinates.
• On a secluded path, three criminals argued over their failed attempt to kill Jiang Xia by driving a Food Truck at him.
• The criminals decided to lure Jiang Xia to their hiding place, but an unidentified voice agreed with them.

Jiang Xia helped capture the three bombers who had targeted him, while Amuro Tooru kept him from beating them unconscious. Rum survived the explosion with a minor injury and seemed pleased after trying to meet Uzo.

• Jiang Xia tried to knock out the three bombers with his Collapsible Baton, but Conan and Amuro Tooru stopped him.
• Amuro Tooru learned that the injured sushi chef had been taken away by his private Doctor.
• Inspector Megure explained that the bombers had ambushed restaurant employees and planned to blow Jiang Xia into the sky.
• Jiang Xia identified the three captured men as the wanted bombers, and Inspector Megure praised him for helping the police.
• Curacao drove the injured Rum away, and Rum revealed that he had gone to meet Uzo.