Mouri Kogoro received a letter from a mysterious person called Kurataya Komakichi saying he wanted to give him his family treasure. So, Ran and Conan decided to accompany him to Yamaguchi. The letter said: "I'll be waiting in front of the large fox at the Yuda hot springs Station at 3 PM" signed Kurataya Komakichi. He suddenly exlcaimed himself that he would be rich and woke up the whole train wagon making Ran and Conan a bit uncomfortable. They later arrived at the Shin-Yamaguchi Station and again, Kogoro exclaimed himself that they arrived in Yamaguchi. Because they had plenty of time before the meeting started, they decided to do sightseeing but Kogoro ran into Natsume Asuka, a Yamaguchi news site reporter at Yamaguchi Shimbun and she gave him her business card. When she asked Kogoro why they were in Yamaguchi, he said that they were only sightseeing not mentionning the mysterious letter from Kurataya Komakichi. She asked them to be their tour guide and evidently, the famous detective accepted because she was a beautiful lady. The trip starts when Asuka brings them to Kozan Park telling them that at the Muromachi Period, Yamaguchi was even more prosperous than Kyoto and that people nicknamed it Nishinokyo or the Kyoto of the west and it was where there was the Rurikoji Five-Story Pagoda, one of the three greatests of Japan along with the ones of Hōryū-ji and of Daigo-ji and that the pagoda lights up at night.Then, they went to Chinryutei, the house of the merchant Abe Family where thinkerers such as Saigō Takamori and Kido Takayoshi held secret meetings regarding the Satchō Alliance.Ran added that the room where the thinkers thought was really tiny and Kogoro said that standing in this room made him feel patriotic. Asuka then asked Mori Kogoro what were his plans for the evening and he responded by saying he was meeting someone named Kuataya Komakichi.
Après avoir évité une balle de justesse, Kogorô Môri s’inquiète pour Asuka, qui pourrait très bien être la prochaine cible de Komakichi Kurataya. Mais alors qu’il contacte la jeune femme afin de la protéger, cette dernière se fait enlever...
１年前に古民家カフェ店主、宝田の腕に発砲し、時価数億円の慶長小判千両を盗んだ強盗犯の倉田屋駒吉。小五郎はニュースサイト記者の明日香に頼まれ、コナン、蘭と共に事件を調査する事に。そんな折、明日香が何者かにさらわれ、小五郎とコナンは二手に分かれて明日香を捜す。小五郎は不審な行動をとる鷹丈警部を駒吉と疑う。コナンは鋳物工場で手足を縛られた明日香を発見。ベルトコンベアの上の明日香は金属溶解炉に迫っていて…
La reportera Natsume es secuestrada y todo parece apuntar a la misma persona que cometió el otro crimen. El secuestrador no parará ahí e intentará ir a por la vida de Kogoro
为了追踪仓田屋驹吉的下落，柯南等人来到荻市进行调查，却不慎遭到了神秘人的枪击，所幸无人受伤。因担心明日香的安危，毛利小五郎迅速向明日香致电，正当二人通话时，明日香却遭到了神秘人的绑架。宝田先生告诉众人犯人疑似是藤木律师，并猜测明日香被绑架的地点在指月公园。而柯南则在明日香掉落的手机中发现了其他线索，只身一人前往目的地搜寻明日香的下落。
Kogoro si allontana poco prima di essere interrogato dalla polizia, assieme a Ran e Conan viene messo sotto protezione, ma i tre vogliono raggiungere Asuka per avvisarla di essere in pericolo.
