When Huaguo national security agent Ikeda Hui, codename “Azure Dragon,” infiltrates Tokyo as an art teacher at Teitan Elementary School, a decade-spanning relic espionage plot and biological crisis begins to unfold. His mission is to investigate a Huaguo relic-smuggling network linked to the Black Organization, but on his first assignment he runs into Ai Haibara, who has been shrunk by APTX4869. Data for an improved antidote, hidden inside an emerald brooch, becomes the prize at the heart of the battle between the Organization and the forces of justice.
On the surface, Ikeda uses his brushes to paint cherry blossoms and blue-and-white porcelain for his classes. In the shadows, his Tang saber, “Chidori,” is ready to slice open encrypted file cabinets, while Morse code and tactical coordinates flow through the “Silver Storm” channel he set up with Conan. When the Organization hunts Haibara after her data is leaked, Ikeda’s “double identity” cracks like crazed porcelain: National Security orders are concealed in his lesson plans, APTX antibodies are mixed into his painting pigments, and even the cherry blossom specimens he gives his students hide the iris-lock password for an underground base beneath Mount Fuji.
From a sniper standoff at Tokyo Tower to a rope-descent escape at the London Eye, from a relic-smuggling ship in Yokohama Harbor to an army of nanorobots in the Terracotta Army’s underground mausoleum, the forces of justice weave their net through symbols of civilization such as “blue-and-white porcelain” and “Pandora’s Box.” The butterfly effect of the IF timeline pushes the story into a multiversal abyss: Haibara willingly returns to the Organization as the “Dark Lady,” Conan permanently reverts to Shinichi Kudo and joins the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and Ikeda himself even puts on “that person’s” ring in a parallel world...
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