Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

Have you seen it a lot?

The two were slightly startled.

Watanabe Toru introduced him from the side: "Uncle is a famous detective."

"Detective?"

The two of them looked even more stunned. After a while, Misaki Jōji suddenly thought of something and exclaimed, "Could it be that you are the famous, sleeping Maori Kogoro?"

Maori Kogoro nodded slightly: "It's me."

"It's really you." Misaki Joji looked incredulous. "I thought it was just another passenger with the same name."

Maori Kogoro said: "If Captain Takamori really gets into trouble in there, then the police will be most suspicious of you."

Although he was talking about the two of them, Kogoro Mouri's gaze was always on Waka Oji Kanyan.

Perhaps he was also shocked by Maori Kogoro's identity, so Waka Oji Ganyan finally compromised and said to Misaki Joji: "Go and get the supervisor key."

"Yes."

Misaki Jōji nodded and hurriedly took out the keyblade.

425. Shipwreck

The room was opened and everyone looked inside.

The room was pitch black and there was no movement.

"It seems he's not inside." Misaki Jojiro said as he entered the room.

"But it looks like it was here just now." Kogoro Mouri frowned as he looked at the breakfast on the dining table.

boom!

At this moment, a sudden sound startled everyone. When they looked over, they realized it was the sound of a bread maker heating bread.

Misaki was stunned: "Captain, the captain has disappeared."

Maori Kogoro looked at the watch on the table and asked, "Is this the captain's watch?"

"Yeah." Misaki Joji nodded. "It's his habit to set the alarm at 7:30 every morning."

"It looks like the Mary Celeste." Just then, a voice came from door 293.

Everyone turned around to see reporter Akai Yoshikazu standing at the door. Seeing everyone turn their heads, he continued, "Isn't this the exact same scene as on the Mary Celeste?"

"Mary Celeste?" Xiaolan was stunned.

"This is a ghost ship discovered in 1873. The captain and everyone on board suddenly vanished, leaving only the breakfast preparations." Akai Yoshikazu said, "Indeed, it's just like what you see now."

Everyone was silent, and their faces looked very, very ugly.

……

The news of the captain's disappearance quickly spread among the crew.

The two young men who had previously approached Xiaolan immediately questioned the ship staff.

"Is it true that the captain is missing?"

"Isn't that the same warning letter from the ghost captain? It says that everyone on this ship will disappear."

"Please calm down, this is probably just a simple accident, maybe he fell from the deck..." Prince Ruo said soothingly.

"But how are we going to sail without the captain?"

This remark seemed to have touched a sore spot in Prince Ruo, and he sternly said, "Actually, we, the navigators, are the ones driving the ship. We will have no problem reaching our destination."

The two young men fell silent instantly.

"If the prince is a navigator."

At this moment, Mizusaki Joji hurried over and whispered a few words in Waka Oji Ganyan's ear. Waka Oji Ganyan's face changed drastically, and he followed Mizusaki Joji and left in a hurry.

On the other side, Kogoro Mouri was still staying in Captain Takamori's room, thinking hard.

"How could a person disappear for no reason? This is too unbelievable." Kogoro Mouri frowned.

"Uncle." Watanabe Toru suddenly discovered something, pointed at the light switch, and said, "There's blood here."

"What!!" Maori Kogoro hurried over and touched the switch with his finger. After finding that it was sticky on his finger, he said solemnly, "The bloodstain hasn't solidified yet. It seems that it was just applied not long ago. Did we miss it this morning?"

"Uncle, it seems that there was indeed a fight in the room. The captain is not missing, but murdered."

"That's right." Maori Kogoro pinched his chin and nodded. "The switch was off in the morning and no one noticed it. That means the fight happened at night when the lights were on. The murderer even placed breakfast in the room to confuse us. The captain was still alive in the early morning... But, the specific time..."

Seeing that Maori Kogoro was in trouble again, Watanabe Toru had to remind him: "Uncle, we rushed to this room at 7:30 in the morning. When we arrived, the bread in the bread maker was baked. Assuming that the bread was baked at 5 o'clock, then the murderer used the bread maker at around 7:25."

"That's right." Maori Kogoro clapped his hands, his eyes lighting up again. "Let's focus on the alibi around 7:25 and ask for the alibis of everyone on the ship."

……

Because of Kogoro Mouri's identity as a famous detective, everyone is relatively cooperative with him.

In the restaurant.

Katori Yoko said in disbelief: "Huh? Was the captain really killed?"

"That's right." Maori Kogoro nodded and said, "How can people disappear? Such nonsense is out of the question. So, I would like to ask you, Miss Yoko, what were you doing around 7:25 in the morning?"

Katori Yoko said: "I was in the broadcasting room at that time..."

"Eh? Did you remember it so quickly?"

Katori Yoko explained, "Because this is my job, every morning at 7:25, I will use the radio to announce that breakfast is ready. After the broadcast, I will be with Mr. Misaki who is looking for the captain."

Maori Kogoro nodded. He didn't believe Katori Yoko's one-sided story. When he asked Misaki Jōji about this matter, he nodded and said, "Miss Yoko is right. Besides the two of us, Third Class Navigator Takekawa Junyu is also with us. You can go and confirm it with him."

Kogoro Mori naturally went to find another navigator to confirm.

Hearing Maori Kogoro's question, Takemura Taiga said lazily, "I didn't expect him to say that. Let's just leave it at that."

"So that's it?" Maori Kogoro frowned. "What does this mean?"

Takemura Taiga tilted his head back and said, "I didn't remember it clearly because I fell asleep."

"Fell asleep?"

"Yes, I have narcolepsy," Takemura Taiga explained. "It's a sleep disorder. I'm extremely tired day and night, and I can fall asleep instantly no matter where I am. Even when the alarm goes off, I can't wake up. Because of this, I'm sometimes late for work. Luckily, no one on the 3.8 will nag me about being late. Neither the captain nor Prince Ruo will bother me."

Then he yawned and stood up: "Well, if there is nothing else, I will leave first. I still have to go to work."

Kogoro Mouri did not stop him and continued to ask the next passenger.

This was a beautiful girl. When Maori Kogoro asked her where she was at 7:25 in the morning, she recalled and said, "I have been in the restaurant since 7 o'clock..."

"Only you?"

The woman shook her head. "Ten minutes later, they came?"

"them?"

"Those two gangsters who wore those clothes." A hint of anger appeared on the woman's face.

426. Take the blame for others

Kogoro Mouri remembered.

The woman continued, "I was saved by the breakfast announcement. When they heard breakfast was ready, they stopped harassing me."

Maori Kogoro was indignant: "How dare you harass such a beautiful lady? This is too much."

So, when questioning one of the two young men, Shigeru Matsubara, Kogoro Mori's attitude was not very friendly. However, when he learned that the two had been together from beginning to end and had never left, Kogoro Mori no longer retreated.

The next person to be questioned was reporter Yoshikazu Akai. When asked about the morning's actions, he calmly said, "I was on the deck taking photos from 6:30 to 7:30 in the morning. The mechanics in the suit can prove this."

Kogoro Mori did not record anything that was omitted.

At this moment, Akai Yoshikazu suddenly came over mysteriously and said, "Hey, great detective, do you want to make a deal with me?"

"Transaction?" Maori Kogoro was taken aback.

"If you can tell me about your search, I will give Captain Ghost his..."

"Impossible." Maori Kogoro rejected it without a second thought: "05 There is no such thing as a ghost captain..."

He stood up and left his seat.

When Kogoro Mouri went to look for Wakaoji Kan'en who was at the helm, the other party was extremely uncooperative. Helplessly, he did not have the right to forcibly interrogate him, so Kogoro Mouri had to give up and go to look for the last staff member who put on the suit, mechanic Taichi Otsuki.

Hearing Maori Kogoro's purpose and his complaints about Prince Waka, Otsuki Taichi laughed and said, "That's because Prince Waka is the murderer."

"What?" Otsuki Taichi's answer surprised Maori Kogoro: "Do you have any evidence?"

Otsuki Taichi said, "Because I think so."

Maori Kogoro scratched his head helplessly: "If that's the case, I'm afraid..."

Otsuki Taichi continued, "That demon intends to eliminate all those who are better than him from this world. Mizusaki, the top student, might also be killed by him."

Maori Kogoro was stunned by what Otsuki Taichi said, and he was obviously a little bit unconvinced: "If the prince wants to kill Mr. Misaki?"

"He doesn't like people who are better than him, and deep down he hates the captain. Their connection originally began on the Far East."

"Far East?"

Otsuki Taichi said, "It was a luxury liner that collided with a cruise ship three years ago and became silent. Prince Shikaku and Prince Waka were both on that ship at the time. After the accident, both fell from the elite ranks and were exiled to this scrap metal ship."

"I see." Maori Kogoro suddenly understood, but he became more suspicious of Waka Oji's behavior.

There are two reasons.

First, he had a grudge against the captain.

Second, he didn't take his own questioning.

……

Time came to the next morning.

There was already a commotion on the deck.

When Toru Watanabe, Kogoro Mori, and Ran arrived, they all looked at a loss.

"What happened?" asked Kogoro Mouri.

Reporter Akai Yoshikazu said, "Prince Ruo left a suicide note and committed suicide. This shirt hanging on the railing is his clothing."

Maori Kogoro picked up the suicide note that was pressed by the shoe, looked at the contents on it, frowned, and said, "What is written on it?"

"It sounds like Morse code." Watanabe Toru came over and said.

"Morse code?" Kogoro Mouri choked. He didn't understand such a profound thing at all.

But if you don't understand Morse code, you won't know what is written on it.

Kogoro Mori was in a dilemma.

At this moment, one of the young people in society, Shigeru Matsubara, suddenly said, "Maybe I can understand it."

"You?" Kogoro Mouri gave him a suspicious look.

Matsubara Shigeru nodded, took the suicide note from Maori Kogoro, and said, "I have been interested in Morse code since I was a child, so I studied it for a long time."

"Don't talk nonsense." Kogoro Mouri warned. Now that things have come to this, he can only let this guy try first.

Matsubara Shigeru said, "I, Prince Ganyan, am suffering from illness. Before I die, I have decided to commit suicide. But before that, I want revenge. I will kill Captain Yingmori and Misaki who framed me. Then I will turn into a piece of seaweed in the ocean..."

"Sui...you said the suicide note said that Prince Ru killed Mr. Mizusaki?" Kogoro Mori exclaimed.

Matsubara Shigeru nodded: "That's what the suicide note said."

"Come to think of it, I really didn't see Mr. Mizusaki." Xiaolan looked around and didn't see Mizusaki Joji on the deck.

"Damn it." Kogoro Mouri cursed inwardly and quickly ran into the cabin.

The others followed closely behind him.

Everyone came to Misaki Joji's room and pushed the door open.

There was no sign of him in the room.

"Damn, are we already too late?" Kogoro Mouri said somewhat unwillingly.