Detective Conan: Birth of the Demon Child

I wish I could fly into the sky.

Find the place in my dreams

......"

A melodious and ethereal song suddenly drifted from the distant sea. The heavenly music brought smiles to the faces of the passengers on the cruise ship as they listened intently.

"Heiji...Heiji, come quick, look! What's that?!"

Kazuha Toyama instinctively looked in the direction from which the singing was coming, her eyes widening suddenly. Grabbing Heiji Hattori's arm, she exclaimed excitedly, "It's a mermaid! It's a mermaid!"

"How could there possibly be... Holy crap!!!"

At first, Hattori Heiji was quite impatient, but when he saw with his own eyes the strange creature with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish on the sea hundreds of meters away, he almost popped his eyes out.

"Conan, Uncle..."

Hattori Heiji rubbed his eyes in disbelief and turned to Conan and the others, asking, "Did you guys see what that was? Am I seeing things?"

(○o○)

Conan and his friends weren't much better off than Heiji Hattori; they also had dumbfounded expressions, their worldviews completely shattered!

Although there were still hundreds of meters between the cruise ship and Yan Lingji, everyone could already clearly see her general outline.

Moreover, there were no other ships, cameras, or directors around Yan Lingji, which clearly indicated that she was the legendary mermaid.

Most importantly, the cruise ship had only recently left American Island, which is famous for its mermaid legend.

The discovery of the legendary mermaid in the waters near the American islands today is simply too plausible.

"She really is a mermaid!"

"Hurry up and bring the boat closer!"

"If I could receive the blessing of the mermaid, I would surely be able to live forever."

The other passengers on the cruise ship soon noticed Yan Lingji's presence and couldn't help but shout excitedly.

Suzuki Seimei noticed that some clever passengers had already started taking out their phones to take pictures of Yan Lingji, and he couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

Pfft! ! !

As soon as Suzuki Seimei had a thought, Yan Ling Ji, who was singing, suddenly stopped singing, leaped out of the sea, drew a graceful arc in the air, and then plunged into the deep sea.

If anyone had any doubts before, then when Yan Ling Ji soared into the air, revealing her half-human, half-fish body in mid-air, all the tourists could then conclude that she was indeed the legendary mermaid.

After Yan Lingji submerged back into the sea, Suzuki Seimei simply used his mind to remotely recall her to the system space.

The reason why Suzuki Seimei had Yanlingji do this was not simply to scare Conan and the others, but to take the opportunity to promote Shimabukuro Kimie.

Once the passengers who took the photos of Yan Lingji spread the pictures of the mermaid, it will inevitably arouse more people's curiosity about mermaids, and may even arouse the greed of many people who want to come to this sea area to catch mermaids.

However, since Yan Ling Ji's substitute has already been retrieved by Suzuki Seimei, those people definitely won't be able to find the legendary mermaid.

If the mermaid cannot be found, then more people will definitely turn their attention to the Longevity Woman, and her status will naturally rise accordingly.

If the Longevity Granny were to seize the opportunity to display some magical abilities and deceive those wealthy and powerful visitors, she would surely be able to establish a network of relationships that could cover the entire island nation.

Of course!

It would be a pipe dream for Shimabukuro Kimie to build such a vast network of relationships on her own.

Therefore, Suzuki Seimei instructed Tachibana Maya to arrange a group of people to assist Shimabukuro Kimie as newly recruited employees of the shrine.

"It's all your fault for shouting and scaring the mermaid away!"

"Bullshit! You were the one who was yelling the loudest just now."

"Who told you to ask the captain to bring the ship closer? With such a big cruise ship coming close, it's no wonder the mermaids would be scared away!"

After seeing that Yan Lingji had dived into the sea and showed no signs of reappearing, the other passengers couldn't help but start blaming each other again.

call--

Looking in the direction where Yan Ling Ji disappeared, Ai Haibara rubbed Black Whirlwind's head vigorously before calming herself down.

When Ai Haibara noticed Seimei Suzuki's calm demeanor, she couldn't help but ask curiously, "Seimei, why don't you seem surprised at all? That was the legendary mermaid!"

"I don't think there's anything surprising about it. After all, the world is so big, and there must be many things we've never seen before in those unknown areas that humans haven't yet set foot in."

Seimei Suzuki shook his head and said, "Take the prehistoric overlord dinosaurs, for example. If someone hadn't discovered dinosaur fossils, who would have thought that such enormous creatures once existed on Earth?"

Therefore, I believe that some creatures in myths and legends are very likely creatures that actually existed in the past, but later became extinct for some reason.

"..."

Upon hearing Suzuki Seimei's words, Haibara Ai was slightly taken aback at first, then nodded with some admiration and said, "What you said makes a lot of sense!"

Since Suzuki Seimei didn't try to conceal his voice, Conan and the others naturally heard his conversation with Ai Haibara.

After being comforted by Suzuki Seimei, Conan and the others suddenly felt that the mermaid that had just appeared wasn't so hard to accept after all; they could just treat her as a newly discovered species.

Chapter 289 Teacher Judy (First Update, Please Vote)

There are creatures similar to humans on Earth, such as monkeys and gorillas, except that they can't speak!

Moreover, there are also creatures in nature that can mimic human language, such as parrots and mynahs.

Thinking about it this way, it's not entirely unacceptable that mermaids look similar to humans and can imitate human language.

To put it simply, if parrots become extinct in the future, then future humans will never have seen an animal that can mimic human language.

So when future humans discover the records of parrots made by people today, they will surely think that these colorful-feathered animals that can speak are creatures made up by our ancestors.

After some self-comfort and some mental contemplation, Conan and his friends' nearly shattered worldview was finally stitched back together, and they reluctantly accepted the fact that mermaids exist.

……

Several days later

Beika Town Arcade

O(∩_∩)O haha~

Looking at the freshly made funny photo booth pictures, Ran Mouri couldn't help but laugh, "Sonoko, look at these thief photo booth pictures, they're really hilarious!"

"Right! And this arcade is quite far from our school, so we don't have to worry about running into other classmates."

Recently, a trend of taking selfies has suddenly become popular among high school students.

So after school, Sonoko specially brought Suzuki Seimei and the others to this arcade to take photo booth pictures.

"How childish~"

Seeing the way Sonoko and the others were making a fuss, Suzuki Seimei curled his lip in disdain.

Photo booths are such childish things that Suzuki Seimei was tired of playing with them in his past life; they're ancient relics that have been out of use for who knows how many years.

Kawaii~

However, when Suzuki Seimei took the photo booth picture from Sonoko and saw the picture of Ai Haibara with a magical girl background, he suddenly felt that the photo booth picture wasn't so childish after all.

Really fragrant!

Ran Mouri pointed to the machine next door and said, "Sonoko, look over there! It looks like they have wedding-themed photo booths over there. How about we take some pictures together?"

"That...that..."

Sonoko's expression changed slightly as she said, "Ran, actually I think it would be nice if we split up occasionally and took some individual photo booth pictures!"

???

Ran Mouri blinked in confusion at first, then suddenly realized, and said with a teasing look, "You think I don't know? You definitely want to use that photo booth picture when you write to Makoto Kyogoku, right?"

?(????ω????)?

Upon hearing this, Sonoko's pretty face flushed slightly.

"I remember when Dr. Araide received an admiring letter from a girl last time, he said that it's now fashionable for girls to put their own photos on their letters."

Ran Mouri laughed and said, "You must have heard what Dr. Araide said before, which is why you wanted to come and take photos!"

"No...no, that's not true!"

Sonoko put on a stubborn expression and awkwardly changed the subject, saying, "Speaking of which, I really do feel sorry for Dr. Araide."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Dr. Shinichi finally quit his job as a basketball coach, and we thought he could relax a bit, but now he has to take charge of the drama club."

Sonoko couldn't help but complain halfway through her sentence, "But now that Shinichi, that show-off, is gone, it's understandable that everyone's attention is focused on Dr. Araide!"

(ノ￣ー￣)ノノ(o_oノ)

Hearing Sonoko's comment, Conan's lips twitched.

"Really? I don't think so. I think everyone has a very good opinion of Judy, our English teacher this semester!"

Sonoko waved her hand and said, "I think only those stinky boys would like her! She wears those revealing clothes all the time and comes to school to show off. I don't think she takes us seriously at all."

Hehe~

Conan thought to himself, "You have the nerve to criticize others? You always like to show your belly button with your clothes, don't you?"

Ran Mouri said, "But I think when Ms. Judy teaches, she explains things in a simple and easy-to-understand way, making it very easy for people to understand."

"It's because she teaches so seriously that I find her boring! The school finally got an American English teacher, she should tell us more American jokes!"

Upon hearing this, Suzuki Haruaki couldn't help but say, "Sonoko-neechan, it's really gossipy of you to talk about people behind their backs like that!"

"What?! You dare call me a gossip?"

Sonoko first angrily ruffled Suzuki Haruaki's hair, then pinched his cheek and said, "I'll say whatever I want, she won't listen anyway..."

"Hey! E on!"

Before Sonoko could finish speaking, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind her, startling her.

"Isn't that Ms. Judy?"

Looking in the direction from which the sound came, Ran Mouri showed a somewhat surprised expression.

A beautiful foreign woman with short blonde hair and a dashing appearance was holding a game gun and playing a shooting game where she was shooting monsters at the game console screen.