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There is rumored to be seven mysterious murders in Fudo High School, although only six have been solved. High school student Hajime Kindaichi is invited by the Mystery Research Team leader, Ruiko Sakuragi to help her solve the seventh riddle. There is a threatening note from the "After-School Magician" that if the old school building is demolished, the school principal will be murdered. That night, the Mystery Club, along with the security officer, Ryozo Tachibana see a figure in a mask and then a body hung above a candle pentagram in the locked forbidden biology room, but when they reach the room, it is empty. However, the next morning, Sakuragi is found hung in the biology room in the same way as the unsolved seventh mystery. It is later revealed that she solved the last of the Seven Mysteries after she saw a corpse of a student from 10 years ago hidden within the walls. Hajime swears to solve the mystery.

• First case: Ruiko Sakuragi was found hanged in the forbidden biology room at the old building of Fudo High School after she found out the seventh mystery when she discovered a corpse of a girl from 10 years ago hidden within the walls.

Main cast: Hajime Kindaichi, Miyuki Nanase, and Inspector Isamu Kenmochi.

Case file cast: 3rd year students Ruiko Sakuragi (age 18), Makoto Makabe (age 18), Takahiro Onoue (age 18) and Tomoyo Takajima (age 18), 1st year student Ryuta Saki (age 16), physics teacher Yuichiro Matoba (age 60) and security officer Ryozo Tachibana (age 50).

Inspector Isamu Kenmochi is assigned to investigate Sakuragi's death and Hajime explains what they saw. Yuichiro Matoba, the physics teacher suspects the culprit is a former teacher referred to as "M" who was rumored to conduct strange and horrifying rituals. Student writer Makoto Makabe proposes a plausible theory of how the murder was carried out, but Hajime believes there is a different scenario. Kenmochi tells Hajime how 10 years earlier, the Mystery Club member, Chihiro Aoyama, was investigating the seven mysteries but she suddenly disappeared. Meanwhile, student Takahiro Onoue has Sakuragi's data disc which contains a message about who the culprit may be, but as he decodes it, he is beaten to death with a wrapped up hammer by the "Magician" and his body is dragged to the printing room to coincide with one of the seven mysteries. When Hajime and his friend Miyuki Nanase read the Mystery Club's anthology, they find a copy of Sakuragi's notes inside, also stating that there were originally only six mysteries. Miyuki is attacked when she tries to remove a poster of Makabe on the wall in the old building of Fudo High School. Hajime then finds Miyuki badly injured beside the fountain in accordance with the third mystery.

• Second case: Takahiro Onoue was found dead in the printing room at the old building of Fudo High School after he solves the code from Ruiko Sakuragi's data disc which contains a message about who the culprit is.
• Third case: Hajime Kindaichi's childhood friend, Miyuki Nanase was attacked and brought to the bloody fountain when she was trying to take off Makoto Makabe's poster from the wall.

Kenmochi tells Hajime that the old school building was formerly the property of Takahata Pharmaceuticals and that six of their experimental subjects died there. Later, Miyuki wakes up in the hospital after being attacked by the killer and encourages Hajime to continue his investigation despite the risks. He decodes Sakuragi’s code and then finds the body of Chihiro Aoyama hidden in a wall cavity. Hajime calls everybody to the old school building and explains how the killer used a mirror to create the mystery of Sakuragi's murder. He then accuses physics teacher Yuichiro Matoba of the murders and being the "After-School Magician". He was left behind by the Takahata company to keep watch over the six bodies hidden for 30 years and was responsible for the accidental death of Chihiro Aoyama 10 years earlier after she found out about the deaths of the experimental subjects. Suddenly, security officer Ryozo Tachibana rushes forward and stabs and kills Matoba with scissors in revenge for the death of Chihiro whom he reveals was his daughter. Afterwards the police find the six bodies of the experimental subjects and the building is demolished on schedule. A funeral is also held for Chihiro Aoyama that Hajime attends and meets her for the first and last time.

• Related cases: 30 years ago in 1967, six experimental volunteers at the Takahata Pharmaceuticals laboratory which was later donated to the old building of Fudo High School, died from malpractice and their bodies were buried underground and sealed under the concrete. One of the co-workers, Yuichiro Matoba guarded the bodies so they wouldn’t get discovered by anyone. However, 10 years ago in 1987, a female student who was a member of the Mystery Research Club named Chihiro Aoyama, found out about the six bodies of the experimental subjects hidden in the old school building. When she tried to contact the police, she died from an accidental fall from the stairs. Matoba hid her in the walls and spread the rumor of the seventh mystery.
• Another Death After Conclusion: The physics teacher, Yuichiro Matoba was stabbed to death with scissors by the security-in-charge Ryozo Tachibana in revenge for the death of Chihiro Aoyama 10 years ago who he reveals was his daughter and that he's her father, Ryozo Aoyama after the truth of the case is revealed by Hajime Kindaichi.

Hajime and Miyuki go on a tour of the Hiren Lake Resort in place of his friend Shigeru Kikkawa where the participants stand to win a membership pass. While at the resort a news flash announces that Jason, an axe murderer has escaped from a nearby prison. The next morning, they discover that one of the group has been killed with an axe and the only bridge to the resort has been burned down. Company president Saburou Kayama decides to leave with a suitcase full of money, but he is also killed and the suitcase returned. Then, Miyuki is injured by a booby trap in the woods.

Hajime and Miyuki take part in a mystery night held in an old castle which contains a wax museum. A mysterious Mr. Redrum has invited ten people involved in criminal investigation to participate with a chance to win ownership of the castle. Inside, the invitees find wax doll likenesses of themselves. That night, Megumi Toma the Toma Detective Agency President and her wax doll, are found stabbed in the back, with the only clue being the two cue balls she was holding.

Detective Kenmochi asks Hajime for help catching a phantom art thief, a so-called Kaitou Gentleman who leaves calling cards announcing his next target. He takes Hajime and Miyuki to the mansion of the master artist Gamou Gouzou. There, Hajime meets Sakura Izumi, a former school friend who has been declared Gouzou's heir based on a stolen painting of his daughter which was sent to an art competition by the Kaitou Gentleman. The painting is stolen and Sakura is assaulted and her hair cut and Hajime believes that it was done by one of the members of the group staying in the mansion. Meanwhile, Gouzou's lover, Dr. Satomi Kaitsu plans to poison Sakura but she is strangled to death and the portrait of her is stolen.

Hajime and Miyuki participate in a treasure hunt on the Isle of Sadness (Hiho) in Kyushu organised by Daisuke Mimasaka. The others who are also participating are treasure hunters Asato Kakimoto, Ryuzo Yasojima, Kohei Himura, Hisayoshi Yaogi, Chris Einstein, the former butler Eisaku Iwata, Kyoko Kaya and Mimasaka's daughter Midori Mimasaka. Upon arrival at the island, they discover the decomposed body of Mimasaka, stuffed into a grandfather clock. The only clues are a Yamawara statue, a set of eight dolls, an old song whose lyrics are supposed to provide clues to the location of the treasure. In Tottori folklore, the Yamawara defends the treasure on the island and kills those who get close, hence the name of the island. The treasure hunters insist on continuing with the hunt and they discover that there is one extra guest who must be the killer. The next morning, Hajime notices a doll missing, and Asato Kakimoto is found dead in his lodge with blood splattered all over the floor, walls and ceiling, but everyone has an alibi.

• First case: The owner of the Isle of Sadness (Hiho) Daisuke Mimasaka was found dead, stuffed into a grandfather clock shortly after everyone's arrival.
• Second case: Asato Kakimoto was found dead in his lodge with blood splattered all over the floor, walls and ceiling.

Main cast: Hajime Kindaichi and Miyuki Nanase.

Case file cast: Daisuke Mimasaka and his daughter Midori Mimasaka (age 17), treasure hunters Asato Kakimoto (age 43), Professor Kyosuke Saeki and his young son Koichiro Saeki (age 15), Ryuzo Yasojima (age 52), Kohei Himura, Hisayoshi Yaogi (age 42), Chris Einstein (age 13), police officer Kyoko Kaya and former butler Eisaku Iwata (age 65).

Chris Einstein invites Hajime into investigate the black torii gateway where Hajime is injured after walking near a geyser. While being treated for his wounds, Hajime discovers that Mimasaka's daughter Midori was not favored by her father and she resented him. He also sees a photograph taken ten years earlier of the owners of the island which includes most of the treasure hunters including Professor Saeki and his young son Koichiro. After Saeki appeared to have died accidentally, everyone left the island to Mimasaka and departed. That night, Ryuzo Yasojima is killed when his lodge burns down. All guests have alibis except Kohei Himura, but he is shot a short while later after witnessing the true identity of the culprit. While at the onsen, Hajime finds a clue when he discovers that the red ochre on the island turns black on contact with water.

• Third case: Ryuzo Yasojima was found dead after his lodge was burned down.
• Fourth case: Kohei Himura was found dead after being shot to death when he saw something horrifying.

Hajime realizes that the red torii referred to in the song would now appear black because of the geyser. However, Hisayoshi Yaogi has also solved the mystery and finds the location of the treasure, but when Hajime leads the others there, they find him dead. Hajime deduces that Midori Mimasaka is the killer, but she is in fact Koichiro Saeki, Professor Saeki's son. They enter the cavern containing the treasure of gold and jewels guarded by a huge Yamawara statue. Eisaku Iwata, the former butler, then prepares to shoot the remaining members of the group to keep the treasure for himself, but Kyoko Kaya shoots him in the shoulder and reveals that she is a police officer who has been chasing Iwata for suspected murder and insurance fraud. Iwata makes a grab for the gold which topples the statue, killing him and causing the cavern to collapse, burying the treasure in the process. Hajime saves Koichiro who reveals that he met Midori and how he had planned revenge against Mimasaka for the death of his father, but he fell in love with Midori, only for her to commit suicide over her father's actions. Later, Koichiro Saeki is arrested for his crimes. Although what was in Kyoko Kaya’s box remains unknown.

• Fifth case: Hisayoshi Yaogi was found dead at the cavern that leads to the treasure of gold and jewels guarded by a huge Yamawara statue.

Michael Henry, the French executive member of the Toutou Philharmonic Orchestra, is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in the villa of Shuichiro Mido, composer of "The Devil's Suite" based on his three poems. The only clue is a key clasped in his hand. Hajime helps in the search to find the famed composer's lost work along with Inspector Akechi. Also present are the other orchestra committee members; conductor Takehiko Natsuoka, opera singer Yurie Kazekura and violinist Arisa Kure. Suddenly, Mido's manager Yuka Yamane finds Kazekura dead in the collector's room, her head covered by a helmet as described in Mido's poems. Meanwhile, they find a written copy of the poems comprising "The Devil's Suite" and Akechi gives it to Hajime to solve the mystery of the two deaths.

Main cast: Hajime Kindaichi, Miyuki Nanase, and Super intendent Kengo Akechi.

Hajime and Miyuki travel with Detective Isamu Kenmochi to Kuchinashi village in Okuhida (Hida region) of Gifu Prefecture after kenmochi received a letter from Shino, a childhood friend who married into the Tatsumi family as the second wife. She has been receiving death threats from the "Cursed Warrior" since her husband, Kuranosuke Tatsumi's death, when his will named Seimaru, Shino's son as his heir. They suspect Ryunosuske, Tatsumi's son is from his first wife, Ayako. The will is to take effect after the current Warrior Festival. Suddenly, someone dressed as Kaneharu, a samurai warrior attacks the house. Later, a man claiming to be Saburou Akanuma visits with his face covered and offers to reveal the identity of the Cursed Warrior at midnight. However, he is found dead in a locked room without a head. Shino says that Akanuma claimed to be Seimaru's twin whom she believed was stillborn. That night, while walking, Miyuki falls and is ambushed by a sword-wielding warrior.

Miyuki asks Hajime to help out with drama club camp at an island Opera Hotel where a small group of students plan to re-enact the Phantom of the Opera. Eight students have already left the club after Fuyuko Tsukishima, the girl who was selected for the lead role, killed herself in front of the other members. She jumped from the roof of a hospital after her face was disfigured by acid. During dinner on the first night of the camp, the new lead actress, Orie Hidaka is murdered by a falling chandelier. They suspect a mystery guest named Kagetsu who arrived earlier covered in bandages. When Hajime and the others visit his room, they find it damaged and empty with a message "Burned in the flames of Hell" scrawled on the wall in blood.

Main cast: Hajime Kindaichi and Miyuki Nanase.

Saburo Ogitani, the 43 year old head surgeon of Kiyomasa Hospital is killed and his head is crushed by a falling statue while holding a bell with a red ribbon. While Kenmochi is investigating the murder, Hajime is admitted to the hospital after overeating at a gyoza dumpling challenge and Kenmochi drags him off to help in the investigation. Hajime encounters the long term patient Junya Kine who says it is called "Death God Hospital". Later, Hajime and Myuki encounter the old woman Taki Mizushima who regularly visits the hospital and has a similar bell on her cane. Kine tell Hajime that her bell is the reminder of a doctor Akihito Kiyomasa who tried to save her son Kazuo 3 years ago by ringing a similar bell to help him regain consciousness. Kazuo actually died from the side effects of an experimental drug used at the hospital introduced by Head Doctor Tomoaki Kiyomasa. However, Akihito shouldered the guilt and committed suicide by jumping from a cliff, holding the bell, but his face was unrecognizable.

During the night, Head Nurse Kazuko Takazawa is grabbed by a cloaked figure and later, Hajime and Miyuki encounter the same figure ringing a bell. Suddenly Head Nurse Kazuko Takazawa is thrown from a window and dies holding a bell. Hajime runs in and sees Tomoaki who denies involvement, but he subsequently finds clues to the killer’s identity. Hajime calls everyone together, and explains that the murderer killed Ogitani and Takazawa with the intention of forcing Tomoaki to admit his malpractice and he accuses the youngest daughter, Eiko Kiyomasa of the murders. She admits that she blamed Ogitani, Takazawa and Tomoaki for Akihito's death and wanted them dead. They are interrupted by the news that Taki Mizushima is being brought to the hospital after she was hit by a car. The family operate to save her, and Eiko resists the temptation to kill Tomoaki. Afterwards, when Eiko is arrested, her fiancé Yuichi Yukimuro gives her a bell and promises to wait for her. During this double-length special episode, Inspector Akechi foils a plan by the Gentleman Thief to steal a masterpiece painting on the cruise ship Queen Angelica while sailing the Atlantic Ocean.

The popular author Goryu Tachibana throws a party at his villa in Karuizawa where he declares that the person who successfully cracks his code will have the rights to publish his next book, a non-fiction book which will expose the name and crimes of somebody present. Akira Kamoshita of Otoba Publishing House asks Hajime to attend, however during the party Tachibana harasses Miyuki and when Hajime intervenes, he accidentally removes Tachibana's hairpiece and the writer punches Hajime and immediately excludes Otoba Publishing from competing. Later, Hajime goes to apologize, but he is found with the body of Tachibana who had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt object by someone who also knocked Hajime unconscious. Nagano Prefectural Police Inspector Shigeru Nagashima concludes that all the evidence points to Hajime who is then arrested for Tachibana's murder against Inspector Kenmochi's advice. However, Hajime escapes police custody and attempts to find the killer himself.

Main cast: Hajime Kindaichi, Miyuki Nanase, Inspector Isamu Kenmochi, Super intendent Kengo Akechi, Yosuke Itsuki and Ryuji Saki.

Inspector Kenmochi takes Hajime and Miyuki on the Cobalt Marine, not a cruise ship, but a cargo freighter with accommodation to Okinawa. Meanwhile, Captain Kozo Takamori has received a letter from a Ghost Captain stating that the cruise of death has begun. Takamori asserts that it was sent by one of the disgruntled crew members and accuses the Navigator Mikihiko Wakaouji. When Hajime is ill the next morning he discovers that Second Mate Joji Mizuzaki and female crew member Yoko Katori are romantically involved. Also, Captain Takamori appears to have disappeared although when they enter his locked room it appears that he was just eating breakfast. A passenger and reporter for a ship magazine Yoshikazu Akai suggests it is just like on the Mary Celeste. The crew then discover the communications equipment has been destroyed. Hajime calculates the time that the person responsible for the captain's disappearance left his room and checks everyone's alibis but the results are inconclusive.

Hajime now accuses the young crew member Yoko Katori of being the killer, saying that Kentaro Otsuki grabbing Mizuzaki was part of his plan to expose her. He reveals that Takamori, Wakaouji, Kanou and Akai were all involved in the sinking of the Oriental Cruise Ship, and that Katori and Tokihara were somehow related to the victims of the incident. Yu Tokihara admits that she wanted revenge because she witnessed Wakaouji attack her husband to save himself. However, she could not kill him, and after he apparently committed suicide she no longer had a reason to live. Yoko Katori says that Akai's article about the Oriental Cruise Incident alleged that her father, the captain of the oil tanker, was drunk and all the blame was pushed onto him for the collision, but she maintains that he did not drink.

Hajime and Miyuki join the Fudo Ski Club's special training although Hajime is poor at skiing. That night, Hajime finds Shiramine beaten and buried in the snow, however the injuries are not serious. CCTV footage shows the culprit hitting Shiramine with what appears to be a set of skis in a bag, but Hajime deduces that it was frozen towels as the skis are locked up at night. Based on the CCTV footage and Suzumori's actions, Hajime accuses Emi Suzumori of attacking Shiramine. She breaks down and admits she did it because she believes that Shiramine deliberately sabotaged Shibusawa's skis which caused him to have a debilitating accident. However, Shibusawa regains consciousness from his coma and tells Suzumori that Shiramine is not to blame because he adjusted his skis himself. The Fudo Ski Club goes on to win the competition, but without the help of Hajime who still cannot ski.

Hajime, Miyuki and Detective Kenmochi board a sleeper train for the Sequestrum Plain Motel in Hokkaido after the police receive a threatening letter from the self-named " The Puppeteer from Hell". On board the train, they are entertained by members of the Fantasy Magic Team. They receive a phone call warning from the Puppeteer that a bomb will explode on the train in 20 minutes. The train stops and everyone exits the train, however the leader of the magic team and Yumi's husband, Fumio Yamagami is missing. Akechi arrives because he is a fan of the magician team, and the bomb goes off, but it only distributes rose petals. Another phone message directs them to the body of Yamagami. They flee his cabin as set of small explosions go off, but then find his body has been removed. Everyone checks into the motel, but a little while later Yamagami's body is discovered and he is strung up like a marionette in the room of a mysterious masked guest, Mario Totsune.

Miyuki convinces Hajime to join her on a trip to a village in Hokkaido to help with the filming of a TV show. They stay at the villa of the reclusive artist Isen Himuro and then drive in a mini-van to the annex across the river to set up a video camera system. The annex is now a 20 minute drive away after the bridge collapsed. When they return, Hajime is surprised to find Kenmochi and Akechi in the village after their vehicle broke down. While watching the remote camera images in the annex, a Snow Demon appears and kills actress Rie Kano with an axe. The figure then turns and destroys the surveillance camera. Some villagers tell the story of the Snow Demon, how the poor area was known for human trafficking. Apparently during a snow storm, a woman in bondage escaped with her baby, but no-one would shelter her, fearing revenge from the traffickers, not even her former family. The baby died and the woman disappeared after leaving a curse on the village, creating the Snow demon. Suddenly, the assistant Marina Ayatsuji discovers the body of the main suspect, cameraman Michio Akashi stuffed inside a snowman, clutching some straw. Akechi determines that he was killed before Kano, and thus could not be the killer.

Hajime is invited by the pop idol Reika Hayami to her father's Tarot Villa in the snowy mountains to where she has retreated and refuses to see anyone. Coincidentally, a skier called Kenji Tsuji seeks shelter after returning late and finding the cable car switched off. In the villa is a framed panel of tarot cards and Reika's father explains that the former owner had an interest in tarot cards, so he framed them as a feature. Reporter Annryo Hojo mentions that one card is upside down. Reporter Goro Itami tells about a case he reported on 15 years ago when 2 children were kidnapped and their father killed, and how police accidentally shot a bystander instead of a robber. Later Itami tries to extort money from Yuichiro Hayami and demands to spend a night with Reika. Hayami angrily refuses and hits Itami with an ash tray, killing him and then he hastily buries the body. The next morning, all the tarot cards have been removed, and the Wheel of Fortune card appears pinned to Itami's door. Hajime believes it indicates Windmill Hill, so everyone travels there in the cable car and they find Itami's body tied to the windmill. When they return, the telephone lines are down, and the cable car controls have been smashed. Hajime investigates, while Hayami begins to panic about who had dug up Itami's body, tied it to the windmill and left the tarot card.

Touno Eiji is supposed to be dead, killed in a fiery wreck following the serial killings at Nagano's Lake (Episode 4), however Yousuke Itsuki sees an article which shows him still alive and working with Shimon Madarame who claims to have resurrected rare extinct butterflies and plans to display them at Kanazawa. When they arrive at Kanazawa they meet Hajime's uncle Heiske and his daughter Fumi Kindaichi. Fumi travels with them to the Madarame residence, known as Butterfly Manor. Madarame introduces his three daughters named after butterflies: Tateha, Ageha and Ruri. During the party, Ruri sees a live Black Butterfly pinned to a wall - a premonition of death. The highlight of the evening is the release of luminous butterflies, meanwhile, Hajime thinks he sees Touno, but he introduces himself as Miyama. The next day, a purple butterfly is pinned to a tree and it has the same design as Ruri's kimono. Hajime searches for Ruri and finds her dead in the garden in an area known as the butterfly's grave. Officer Inokawa arrives to investigate the murder.

Following a day of shooting for a film, Reika Hayami and her manager Yasuyuki Yasuoga are kidnapped by someone calling himself the Puppet Clown. The kidnapper demands a huge ransom from the film director Youko Kafuraki and the ransom note also specifies that Hajime Kindaichi must deliver the money. Director Youko Kafuraki refuses to pay the ransom, so Veteran actress Reiko Mitamura offers to pay herself. Inspector Isamu Kenmochi appears in disguise, having been secretly called by Kafuraki. Hajime is told to take the money to a phone booth at Nakahara Station, but when he gets there he receives another phone call with a cryptic message to find the next location.

Fashion model Masumi Takamori, is blackmailed by an old acquaintance, Hiroshi, who threatens to expose her drug-taking past. She accidentally kills him with a vase, but as Masumi buys a suitcase to dispose of the body, she encounters Hajime, a former classmate. She gives him and Miyuki tickets to a fashion show in Nagaya. That night she disposes of Hiroshi's body. Hajime and Miyuki arrive at Nagaya and stay at the exclusive French hotel to be used for a wedding fashion show of the competing brands for sponsorship by Mitsumoto Property; Kimasawa and Rokujou. Rokujou tries to poach Naoko, but fails. Takamori receives a phone call from someone calling themselves Burial Francs who witnessed her kill Hiroshi and dispose of the body. The person blackmails her into adding a powder to someon's drink. Later, Kimasawa receives a wedding dress with a 5 Franc coin signifying burial. At the evening dinner, Takamori adds the poisonous powder to Naoko's glass, but Rokujou drinks it instead and falls down dead. Inspector Kenmochi arrives to investigate.

Hajime's friend Ryuta Saki has a crush on Sayaka Kamitsu and they go on a double date with Hajime and Myuki. Back at the school, a guard and a teacher find a broken plaster sculpture and the teacher Nakatsukawa unconscious from a blow by another plaster statue in the Art Lab. When the teenagers arrive home, Inspector Kenmochi accuses Sayaka of the attack because she has the only other key to the room. When they all inspect the scene, Ryuta finds a piece of contact lens. By a process of elimination he identifies student Shiomi Hatsune as the attacker. She admits that she visited Nakatsukawa in the lab to declare he love for him, but he said he already had someone else and she accidentally broke the plaster statue over his head. Later, Nakatsukawa recovers and forgives Shiomi for her impetuousness.

Hajime and Miyuki are invited by their senior Satsuki Munakata to her home in the remote Majin Village and they take his cousin Fumi. On the way Hajime tells Fumi about the first time they visited Satsuki to help dig for historical artefacts. Munakata says there are only three families there; Boukyoku, Hoko and her own, Nanakakami. The fourth Doutakute residence was burned down ten years earlier. In her house they have a effigy of the Magamitori God which the family worships as the guardian of the village. The objective of the dig is to find four "devil's artifacts" somewhere in the village which are said to bestow fame and fortune. Dig coordinator Kunamori explains how Bunzaemon originally had the artifacts and became famous. The artifacts were then gathered by Kichieman Munakata, Satsuki's grandfather who became very wealthy, however tragedy had befallen his descendants and he hid and buried the artifacts somewhere in the village. Toribeno, Kunamori's assistant, displays four replicas made by Kichieman; a necklace, blade, mirror and bell. Later, they all go to the Magamitori cave where the dig will take place and after sliding aside the "mirror rock" they dig for a while but find nothing important. After dinner, Miyuki sees a Magamitori figure at the cave and when they investigate, they find Yamato’s body inside the sealed cave.

Hajime, Miyuki and four school friends take a low-cost trip to a vacant island named Graveyard Island. Soon after arrival they find a cave filled with human skulls and bones, then they meet a group of college students in camouflage playing a survival game. That night, Chie Hirashima tells the story of the curse of a Ghost Soldier. During the war, many Japanese soldiers lost their lives on the island. It was sealed off as Graveyard Island, but since then fisherman have reported seeing ghost soldiers there. Meanwhile at one combat group's camp, Yonemura goes missing and the others are targeted by an old war tank. During the night, Hajime is woken by the sound of an explosion. In the morning the combat game players report that they cannot contact the Yonemura team. They eventually find the Yonemura team camp site which has been destroyed by an explosion, apparently from an old tank shell. They attempt to notify the authorities, but find their transmitter does not work and the rope holding their boat has been cut and the boat is gone. During the night, while Tatsuyuki is on guard duty talking to Hajime, Tetsunori is killed.

Tired after working at an amusement park, Hajime Kindaichi is on a train home when he is accused of murdering the loan broker Ekuma Tadao on the train and arrested. Hajime claims he is innocent and Akechi promises that he will seize the real killer. Now in jail, Hajime's fate depends on the detective skills of Inspector Akechi. Akechi commences his investigation by analyzing the crime scene, questioning the witnesses and probing Tadao's background. However, Kindaichi appears to be the only person who could have committed the murder. Slowly Akechi pieces together the evidence, and accuses the conductor, Kiyoshi Yagi of being the murderer. Yagi confesses, saying that he lost 20 years of savings to Tadao and killed him when he saw him on the train. Meanwhile, Hajime while in jail, also deduces that Yagi was the murderer.

Because Hajime has spent all his money, he and Miyuki decide to take a part-time job during the summer vacation at the Otemon summer training camp for medical students. Later, while Hajime is in Otemon Hospital waiting for a gastric medical examination he sees a boy named Kuniaki Ebisawa in a coma. Hajime and Miyuki travel to the camp on Shiranui Island, also called "Ghost Fire Island", where the soul of dead student is said to return every year at this time. They check into the Eikou Hostel where they and meet the other staff including Kouhei Ohno who examined Hajime at Otemon Hospital. They learn the layout of the building which was a former sanatorium and are assigned to clean the disused Crape Myrtle (百日紅, Sarusuberi) Room. They also meet the students, and the friendly student Yozo Kawasaki accidentally mentions Ebisawa. Kouhei Ohno tells tem about the "test of courage" which involves peering through the keyhole into the Sarusuberi Room in which the ghost of a student who committed suicide appears every year at midnight on August 15. Through the keyhole, Hajime sees Keiichi Morimura being hung in the locked room. However when they enter the room, it is empty.

Koshiro Kirisawa, the famous ikebana artist and head of Mugetsu School of Flower Arrangement, is stabbed and killed in the hotel where Inspector Kenmochi is staying. Kenmochi believes he witnessed the murder in an external stairwell by a woman around 2am, and one of the hotel staff also reports seeing her. Kirisawa's two step-daughters Beniko and Midoriko are prime suspects because if Kirisawa’s fiancée Akemi Todo has his child, they would inherit his entire estate. Kenmochi asks Hajime to help him with the case, and after examining the crime scene, Hajime deduces the identity of the culprit over dinner. He takes everyone to the crime scene where he explains what happened and accuses the older sister Beniko of killing her father. She admits killing him because he married their mother shortly after their father's death. However, Todo tells them that Kirisawa was their real father who had an affair with their mother when she was married, and he dearly loved his daughters. Both Beniko and Midoriko are devastated by the revelation.

Kenmochi presents Hajime with another case. A computer teacher named Nanako Segawa is found dead in a park. Yuri Mishima, a student from the computer school is arrested for the murder, but Hajime thinks that this is an exchange murder, and there is a mastermind behind the killing. There are three suspects who also use Yuri's computer, and none have adequate alibis. After examining the computer room and the evidence, Hajime believes he knows the culprit. Suddenly, the student Rumi Nakajima threatens to throw herself off the rooftop rather than be accused of Segawa's murder, however Kenmochi intervenes and stops her. Hajime then explains the mastermind is someone who knows that Mishima is a frustrated rival to Nakajima for the handsome Yoshiki Maruyama's affection, and Hajime accuses Kenichi Hamaoka, a teacher in the computer class. Hamaoka admits that he discovered that Segawa was embezzling money from her family's company and initially helped her, but he became afraid of the consequences and planned to have her killed, using Mishima as his tool.

The truth takes center stage as Hajime reveals that the culprit did something during the play that proves they committed the crimes. Hajime reveals that the culprit is the police superintendent. She had committed these murders because the drama troupe had played a hand in ruining her life. Hajime also reveals that the superintendent is also actually the twin sister of one the victims, she had given herself a new identity and face. Hajime figured this out because the two had held their spoons the same way and a DNA test proved that the two were indeed biological sisters. Faced with this evidence, she reveals that when she was younger she went down a dark path and ended getting involved in drugs.

Eventually she killed the man that had given her the drugs and tried to force her into prostitution. When she went to her sister she did not hesitate to help, things seemed fine until the police arrived and believing that her own sister betrayed her she fled. Seeing no way out she had decided to kill herself, until she spotted a pair shoes and several belongings near a cliff belonging to someone who had jumped into the ocean. Seeing this as an opportunity she switched the IDs and she became the woman she is today. She decided to take a path of justice and find the ones responsible for selling the drugs that found their way to her. Which had her crossing paths with the drama troupe, she had collected enough evidence to take them down for good. However it was then that she was reunited with her sister and she accidentally revealed her true identity. Ever since the drama troupe members used her position as a police superintendent to steal for them and bail them out of their crimes. Having enough she decided to rid herself of them and the sister who she believed betrayed her.

One day when Hajime, Miyuki, and Fumi are at amusement park they meet four beautiful women that are also best friends. However later on, one of them is murdered in a Mirror Labyrinth that they are all in. Inspector Kenmochi arrives and Hajime learns that the other three women have perfect alibis during the murder. After investigating Hajime manages to figure out how the victim Komine was killed in the mirror labyrinth and who was responsible.

Hajime reveals that the murderer is Kazuna who had the strongest alibi of the three women. As it turns out she had killed Komine beforehand and falsified the time of death using a trick. The mirror labyrinth had been breaking down and she used this to her advantage. She went to the end of the other side of the labyrinth where on the other side Komine’s already dead body was and screamed pretending to be her and threw her safety alarm over the mirror to where her body was. Then she ran to where Komine’s body was giving her the perfect alibi. Faced with this evidence she confesses and reveals that Komine had caused her father’s death. A few months back both Kazuna and Komine had both applied to the same tv station to be news anchors. But Komine felt that she did not stand a chance against Kazuna but they both agreed to do their best.

Hajime figures out all of the tricks used for the series of murders, and he tells everybody who is the "Scorpion". Hajime reveals that one of the female crew members is the scorpion. With help from Kenmochi, they learn that the girl was in fact the little sister of the stuntman who died filming their movie. She reveals that she had suspected some foul play when her brother had mysteriously disappeared and since the police wouldn’t help she took action. She watched over a dozen amateur films at school festivals hoping to find her brother’s film as she had read the script and knew its plot and settings. Eventually she found the film in question and secretly eavesdropped on Kurasawa and the others, and learned that her brother had died when performing a stunt that involved him jumping from one apartment rooftop to the other. He was successful, but a downdraft caused him to lose his balance and he fell to his death.

Akechi was called by the police since he might have the opportunity to kill the student. However, Akechi himself managed to prove his innocence and figured out the real murderer. Akechi deduces that one of his friends nicknamed Watson is the murderer. Watson confesses and reveals that the reason why he did what he did was because the delinquent had caught him cheating in one of the exams that he took to stay in the elite class.

As a result he was repeatedly blackmailed by him, until one day when he gave the victim his hush money he asked Watson to send the girl of the elite class to him for some “fun”. Enraged Watson bashed his head in with a book and set up a trick to hide his body for the time being. When Akechi asked him why he had to cheat on the exams, he revealed that lately he had grown too lax and he could not focus like he usually could. In the end, Watson decides to turn himself in and leaves them much to their sadness.

Hajime chooses to return to the show ship rather than returning to Tokyo, and he tells the group members how the killer murdered Tang Renmei and Todo before revealing their identity. The killer is revealed to be Miyuki’s pen pal Yang Laili, she reveals that she was actually born in Japan and her father was actually her kidnapper and her real father’s murderer.

Mr. Inokuma takes his students to his hometown called Cormorant Village to see a local classical performance, but someone is found dead when the festival is in process. With some hints from Hajime, Fumi finally solves the case and figures out who the murderer is.

Fumi reveals that the murderer is in fact her own teacher Mr. Inokuma. She reveals that she had figured this out because her teacher had arrived to retrieve his two students, however no one not even the police knew that there was two students. As the boy Fumi was on a date with had run off when they were being chased by the murderer. Meaning only the killer themselves could have known that there were two kids that had witnessed the murder. Another piece of evidence was the fish stuffed in the victim’s mouth, which was done to hide the blood from the killer after they were bitten by the victim.

Mr. Inokuma had a bandage over his left arm and he removes it showing a bite mark, mostly likely from the victim. He confesses to being the murderer and Fumi asks him why he did this and he reveals that he had a past with the victim. As it turns out they had met years ago, when Mr. Inokuma had gone to a river with his wife and son when an accident occurred. His son who was swimming had starting struggling in the water and Mr. Inokuma saw the man fishing and asked him to help his son, however his just threw his fishing rod in the water and ran away.

Mr. Inokuma tried in vain to save his son whose body was found not too long after. He found it strange that his son who was great at swimming had struggled so much and saw that his son had strange markings all over his body, which were consistent with injuries from a wire. He then realized that the man had run off because his fishing wire had gotten tangled with his son and he decided to run off rather than get in trouble. Mr. Inokuma told the police about this but there wasn’t much they could do. He accepted that it was just a horrible accident and believed that he would never see that man again. However, he would when that man had nearly killed him and his students while driving his car. Seeing that man smiling nonchalantly made his boil blood, causing his suppressed anger and grief to explode.

Hajime and Officer Kenmochi go to a restaurant to have something to eat. The waiter serves them very well and gives them a good meal, but Kindaichi still finds something suspicious. He eventually manages to figure out that the waiter in question had committed a murder and attempted to cover it up. The waiter had done several suspicious things: he did not know where the toilet paper was in the bathroom, the apron that was delivered was for a woman not a man, and finally he panicked when Kindaichi had accidentally knocked over the seat he was on which revealed some fruits that were still cold.

Hajime solves the final riddle Watanabe left behind and reveals who is truly responsible for the murders. Hajime reveals that his classmate Senke is the murderer and explains that he had used various tricks to kill the medical students. Hajime reveals that the dying message that Watanabe left behind which was a melon, referred to the person who had the highest number in their name meaning Senke.

Faced with all the evidence, Senke reveals that he killed three of the medical students because they had murdered his girlfriend Rio. He had first met her when he saw an injured dog on the street, no one was willing to help it except for Rio who without regard to her life went to help the dog. Senke saw for himself how much she cared for dogs and fell in love with her, he asked her to be his girlfriend. But Rio turned him down as she was terminally ill and only had six months left to live, but nonetheless he decided that time would be enough and she accepted his confession. However, this love would never sprout because one day Senke learned that Rio who had gone to the hospital for treatment had died suddenly.

He could not understand how she could suddenly take a turn for worse as she still had six months to live. Senke knew something was off and tried to find out what had happened, he eventually learned that the ones that treated Rio weren’t even real doctors but interns. Watanabe and his friends were the ones responsible, Senke eavesdropped on them and learned that they had used Rio as an experimental Guinea pig to test their new drug. But it ended up backfiring and caused Rio’s condition to worsen and eventually killed her. But not only did they not care about what they did to Rio, but they said that she was going to die anyway so it did not matter. This pushed him over the edge and he decided to kill all of them in revenge.

Hajime finds out that Miyuki has someone else accompanying her during her outing, so he trails her to find out who this person is. However, Miyuki is involved in a car accident soon after with the driver fleeing the scene.

When Akechi was preparing for the chess tournament, another Japanese chess player was found dead in a room. While having a match against Kenneth Goldman, Akechi tells him his deduction and reveals that he knows that Kenneth killed his friend. Akechi was able to deduce that his friend had figured out that Kenneth had been cheating in the chess tournament all along.

Kenneth along with his mate Patricia O'Brian had been working together to cheat in the chess tournament. Kenneth owned one of the buildings which was right behind his opponent’s seat and he used that building as a giant chessboard that was being controlled by his mate Patricia. She also was watching the tournament via television and used a chess game program on her laptop to replicate his matches and used a A.I to figure out the best move for Kenneth to make, which she then displayed on the building using the lights in the rooms to represent the chess pieces.

Hajime and Miyuki go to an amusement park, but Miyuki accidentally splashes a cup of coffee onto a wealthy woman's purse, which leads to an argument between the two. Hajime manages to defuse the situation and goes into the park with Miyuki and their classmate. However, when Miyuki and the others are playing in the pool the wealthy woman collides with Miyuki. When she resurfaces the wealthy woman is found dead with what appears to be fresh blood pouring from her body.

As a result of this, Miyuki is accused of being the murderer but Hajime vows to prove her innocence. Eventually Hajime manages to deduce that Ogino Chika an acquaintance of the wealthy woman had murdered her. She had set up her body after killing her in a way so that she would be found in the waterway of the pool. First she drew some blood from the woman, then slit her throat in the shower to avoid leaving any blood behind, and finally placed the corpse in a pool float face down with two cups full of her blood mixed with plasma. Originally the corpse was supposed to sink into the pool because Ogino had punched a small hole in the pool float which would cause it to lose air slowly. But unfortunately and coincidentally Miyuki happened to be in front of the pool float which caused the body to sink prematurely.

Kindaichi solves the trick used by the murderer and he uses that trick to lure the killer out. The killer in return reveals that three of the four victims that he killed were responsible for driving his younger sister to commit suicide. He reveals that when he was younger that he and little sister Haruka were in an orphanage together and he was eventually adopted forcing him to leave his sister behind. Years later, he discovered that his sister had become a popular actress and he confirmed this by sending her a letter with a code that they only knew about.

Hajime manages to figure out that the culprit disguised themselves as Inspector Kenmochi in order to commit the murders and frame him in the process. The murderer in a shocking twist is revealed to be one the victims: Busujima. Busujima had killed his supposed accomplices in the heinous case which involved a female college student who was subjected to horrific torture for weeks before being killed.

Busujima reveals that he did not hurt her as he was in love with her. When he was studying in a restaurant he met the waitress who worked there, she would comfort him and give him support which caused him to fall in love with her. One day, his two friends had asked to borrow his apartment for a while and he agreed although reluctantly. During that time he found it strange that the waitress hadn't come to work for weeks, but believed that it wasn’t anything to worry about. He visited his two friends in his apartment and knew that they had the waitress there, even though they tried to hide her. After he left his apartment he witnessed the waitress jumping out of the window of his apartment to her death. Horrified, he asked what they had done and they convinced him that he was guilty too and together they burned and buried her body.

Hajime figures out that this is a murder case targeting the Shimomura's. He figures out who is behind the murders, the person being one of the participants in the survival games. The woman in question had rigged each game to kill both of the Shimomuras in case one of the traps failed to kill them in the previous games.

For the first game, 3d glasses were placed inside the masks and for Shiho her glasses were placed upside down in her mask as a result she saw completely different questions on the television as the letters and words became scrambled making it impossible for her to answer any of the questions. When the final question came up, in her eyes it said to push the last person outside the room unknowingly sealing her fate. As for the young man, the reason he reached for the frame was because when he heard the word etiquette during the question, which also means label and the board had wine labels on them. The woman knew that the boy was studying to a sommelier and would immediately figure out what etiquette would mean.

The reason the woman did all this was because one of the other participants and her employee was actually her biological daughter. Her daughter was actually related to the Shimomuras and by killing the woman and her son, her daughter would get the inheritance securing her future. She had faked her death and took on a new identity, however by sheer coincidence she was reunited with her daughter after she applied for a job at the bar that she owned. She decided to orchestrate this scheme in order to help her daughter, but she reveals that she’s very ill and doesn’t have much time left.

Kindaichi and Akechi both solve the case after figuring out the truth. Kindaichi reveals that the culprit in a shocking twist is the young boy Jun. Kindaichi had figured this out because when he checked inside the cave where a young boy and his father had been left trapped inside of. He noticed that something essential was missing, the young boy’s shoes and combined with the picture that Jun had with him, helped him figure out the truth. This all revealed that although Jun had the appearance of a child, he in reality was a grown adult. A photograph taken of him when he was younger confirmed this, as he looked exactly the same in the photo as he did now.

Kindaichi revealed the reason for him not aging physically was because he had been trapped in a dark area and was deprived of sunlight for so long that he remained trapped in his young body. A woman reveals that she knew Jun as they met when they were kids and was the young girl in the photo with him. Jun reveals his motive was that the three people he killed were the ones responsible for trapping him and his father in that dark cavern. His father had been obsessed with finding a treasure from an old war, that supposedly was a large cache of gold bars. One day, he got his opportunity when the hotel where the army had hidden their treasure had burned down in a fire. Jun knew that his father was responsible for the fire, but decided not to say anything and accompanied his father to china to find the treasure. He recruited three of his students from a Japanese university to help him transport the treasure.

Eventually, they found the cavern and the treasure, which turned out to be several large crates packed with large gold bars. The three students seeing this, let their greed get the better of them and ambushed both him and his father. They took the gold and trapped him and his father in the dark cavern. His father during his last moments told him to get revenge on the three who trapped them in the cave. During the time he was trapped in the cave, he trained nonstop to fulfill his father’s last wishes. Until one day, he was saved by a mysterious person who agreed to help him fulfill his revenge. Jun then reveals that he had fun with Kindaichi, when he was helping him hide and when they were running around avoiding the police. He asks Kindaichi if they are friends and Kindaichi says they already are.

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