Ebihara Hisumi's fiance Fukuyama Rokuro affirmed Mori's inference, "It has been raining almost all these days, the river water level has risen, and there is mud everywhere in the mountains, which has also caused the wooden piles fixed to the shore to loosen..."
"Wait a minute, don't you think it's strange? The festival is held in the square next to the pool under the waterfall. Why is she, a female streamer, doing this so late at night?" Hattori looked questioning.
As long as they are normal people, they will not run into the mountains after dark to look for help?
"Maybe...she is looking for the mermaid's cemetery..." Naoko Kuroe said with a solemn face, "There was a fire in the temple warehouse three years ago, and the mermaid bones found from it were buried in the mermaid cemetery. As long as they can be found In this cemetery, you can directly obtain immortality and immortality. It is very possible for Shoumei to come and look for it directly without obtaining the Dugong Arrow..."
"Wait a minute, are you contradicting yourself? How do you think you can obtain immortality by finding a cemetery?" Hoshino Sora interrupted her and asked.
"Of course, just like the Goddess, although there is no meat, taking some bones is believed to be effective. This has been passed down from the Edo period. The bones and meat of the mermaid are the magic medicine of immortality." Kuroe Nai Oko replied seriously.
Hoshino and Sora: "..."
"If your statement is true, then why was the mermaid himself burned into a pile of bones by the fire?" Hoshino Sora asked, "Since a piece of flesh on the mermaid can make people immortal, why is it still dead? This Is it reasonable? Could it be Tang Seng? Before Tang Seng was reincarnated, he was still a golden cicada with profound magical powers."
Kuroe Naoko was startled when she heard this, but she quickly came up with a reasonable explanation on her own, "Maybe the mermaid was already dead, so it was burned to death in the fire. Don't ask me how it died. I don't know. I know, but I know, Lord Goddess definitely knows! Right, Jun Hui?"
"..." Shimabukuro Kime looked confused. Could this also involve the Goddess?
Upon seeing this, Kuroe Naoko thought she had seen through the truth and said confidently: "The goddess gained immortality by eating the flesh of a mermaid. We have no way of knowing how she ate it, but the only thing we can be sure of is Yes, she did become immortal after eating it, there is no doubt about it!"
"Make it as if you have seen it with your own eyes." Hoshino Sora said.
"I..." Kuroe Naoko hesitated. At the critical moment, she did not speak anymore, but silently stepped aside with a strange expression.
"So, where is the mermaid cemetery?" Mouri Kogoro asked Shimabukuro Kimie.
"I don't know." Shimabukuro Kimie shook his head and explained, "Originally I knew, but because many tourists wanted to dig up mermaid bones, my grandmother asked someone she trusted to move the cemetery to an uninhabited place. Even I don’t know what I know.”
"That's it..." Mouri Kogoro nodded, "In that case, since we are not sure whether it is suicide, homicide, or an accident, we should wait for the police to come."
"Hmph." Fukuyama Rokuro picked up Ebihara Hisumi's body and snorted coldly, "If this is homicide, then there is something wrong with Hisumi who came to this place at night."
"You are so indifferent, Sumi is your fiancée!" Kuroe Naoko said sarcastically.
"That's an arranged marriage. I don't like it in the first place..." Fukuyama Rokuro said before carrying the body down the mountain.
Mouri Kogoro looked at his back and frowned, "Arranged marriage... I don't like it. Could it be that he has someone he likes?"
"It really does exist, and it's far away and right in front of you." Hearing this, Kuroe Naoko looked at Shimabukuro Kimie and smiled slightly.
"Could it be that he likes you, Miss Junhui?" Mouri Kogoro was stunned.
If so, this man also has a motive.
Shimabukuro Kimie shook his head repeatedly, "No, we just played together growing up. It's not just me, Saori and Naoko, we all played together growing up."
While asking and answering, everyone walked down the mountain. Hattori took Sora Hoshino and Conan to leave first.
When we arrived at the square by the pond at the foot of the mountain, as soon as we put the body down, a bald middle-aged man rushed over, hugged the body and cried loudly. He was Ebihara Hisumi's father.
Xiaolan also informed Kogoro Mori that the police could not arrive tonight due to wind and waves.
"That couldn't be better, it means that the murderer is also trapped on this island!" Hattori came over.
Mouri Kogoro looked at Hattori, who had come down early, and then at Hoshino Sora, who was holding a lifebuoy in his hand, and couldn't help but ask: "What are you doing? In addition, it is not yet sure whether this was homicide or not. ah!"
"He must have killed him!" Hattori said with certainty, "Akong found this lifebuoy under the pool. I have asked people nearby and they have never seen this during the day. In other words, this It only appeared after nightfall, and the murderer used it to create the illusion of an accidental death!"
"Just strangle Ms. Sumei to death in advance, then put a rope connected to the fence around her neck, and finally put her on the lifebuoy, so that the body suspended in the middle of the waterfall will appear."
"Miss Shoumei last appeared in the temple. Nearly two hours passed when we found her. It only takes less than an hour to go to the waterfall and back. Therefore, both men and women may have committed the crime. Now the murderer must be Still on this island!”
Having said this, Hattori turned the peaked cap he was wearing backwards and showed a confident smile.
…
It started to rain lightly. Hoshino Sora and his party did not visit Kadowaki Saori's father because the guy was already drunk.
They came to Shimabukuro's house to visit Lord Goddess.
After waiting for a long time, everyone heard the sound of "dong dong dong" coming from the door, like wood hitting the wooden board. Immediately, the paper door was opened, and a short old lady with a stooped figure and a cane appeared in everyone's sight. She was the goddess.
Without the cover of heavy makeup, the goddess's hair was sparse, her skin was sagging, her face was full of folds, and she looked like she was about to die.
Hoshino Sora frowned. There was something wrong with the sound of the old lady walking just now. Is that the sound of the soles of her feet stepping on the floor? It's definitely not shoes, the sound of shoes stepping on is not like this!
When he was in the temple before, he didn't pay attention to this because of the noise around him and the short distance, but now he couldn't ignore the footsteps ringing in the corridor! Even if the sound of the crutches hitting the ground was masked, it still couldn't be ignored.
Therefore, Hoshino Sora kept staring at the Goddess, watching her answer Conan's questions and Hattori's questions, until... the voice of Shimabukuro Kimie was heard from outside asking her to take a bath.
Before leaving, Lord Goddess may have felt uncomfortable being stared at by Hoshino Sora, so she frightened Heye who had obtained the Dugong Arrow, doubling the pressure on Heye.
After saying that, the goddess slowly left on crutches.
"Wait a minute!" Hoshino Sora walked out of the room and called her.
