Heiji and the others find Ran unconscious in a shed and realize the Shiragami carried her there to address her wounds. Heiji's investigates and realizes how the culprit is framing Shinichi. Heiji reveals that Shinichi is the one who stabbed Kawuchi and no trick was involved. The Shiragami appears and reveals himself to be the real Shinichi and that the amnesic Shinichi is actually Makoto who underwent plastic surgery to look like him. As evidence, Heiji reveals that there were many broken hand mirrors in the shed; Heiji explains that Makoto hated Shinichi and seeing Shinichi's face in his reflection caused him to break the mirror in anger. Makoto confesses and declares that the mayor's death was not a forced double suicide but a robbery which ended in murder since the mayor had no motive to murder his wife and himself. Heiji reveals that the mayor found out he had type AB blood yet his wife and son had type O; This means his wife had an affair and that he did not father his son and thus murdered his wife in a fit of rage. While driving back home, the group notices a car driving out of control. They stop the car and notice that the driver has been strangled to death.