Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

He looked at Maori Kogoro who was not far away and said, "Uncle, I have to trouble you again..."

……

wheelhouse.

Misaki Joji was operating the steering wheel, with Katori Yoko by his side.

Just then, (ahcj) mechanic Taichi Otsuki walked in. Seeing the loving couple, he jokingly said, "I really envy you young people..."

Misaki Joji's face flushed slightly as he whispered, "Mr. Otsuki, you should pray. There are many reefs nearby, and maneuvering is very complicated. If you're not careful, you could be in trouble in an instant."

"If only my old bones could still control it." Otsuki Taichi walked behind Misaki Jōji and sighed, "I don't want you to carry this burden alone..."

Just then, a scolding voice came in.

"Mr. Otsuki, stop pretending. You are the murderer who killed Captain Takamori, Mr. Navigator Prince Waka, and Mr. Gana."

When they heard the sound, several people looked and saw Kogoro Mouri, Ran beside him, and Toru Watanabe walked in.

Misaki was stunned: "Mr. Otsuki is the murderer? How, how could it be..."

Seeing that the matter was about to be exposed, Taichi Otsuki suddenly looked fierce, took out a dagger from his arms, and took Misaki Jōji hostage.

"Don't come over here. If I kill this guy, my revenge will be over. I can't be caught by you before then."

The sudden accident caught everyone by surprise.

Maori Kogoro said: "Mr. Otsuki, calm down. The only one who can operate this ship now is Mr. Misaki. If you kill him, you will die too."

Otsuki Taichi snorted and said nonchalantly, "I've already thought this through clearly. I want all of you to accompany me on this journey."

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Just then, an alarm suddenly sounded in the steering room.

Misaki Jōji's expression changed, and he quickly said, "Oh no! It's a reef! We're about to hit one."

"What!!" Everyone's faces changed.

"If this continues, the ship will be smashed to pieces and everyone will die."

However, Otsuki Taichi had no intention of letting go of Misaki Joji, and seemed to really want to take everyone to hell together.

The alarms sounded more and more urgent, and everyone held their breath and looked at Taichi Otsuki.

At the critical moment, a figure ran over and skillfully operated the steering wheel, changing the course of the passenger ship.

The alarm stopped.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's truly remarkable, such skillful maneuvering." Maori Kogoro clapped his hands softly, looking at Katori Yoko, who had just taken control of the ferry. "But I'm curious. How is it that you, having never steered a rudder before, can steer the ship so effortlessly? Miss Yoko, could you give me an explanation?"

429. Rising Sun and Setting Sun

Maori Kogoro looked at Katori Yoko with a burning gaze: "You finally stepped into the trap I set for you. The murderer who killed Captain Takamori, Mr. Navigator Wakaoji, Mr. Gana, and Mr. Akai is you."

Under the stunned gazes of the crowd, Otsuki Taichi lowered the dagger that was on Misaki's neck and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Misaki."

"What, what is going on?" Katori Yoko still had an innocent expression.

Maori Kogoro explained, "I planned all of this, and asked Mr. Otsuki to help me. You used the boat-handling skills you just showed everyone to arrange a clever murder scam."

"W-what?" Katori Yoko denied: "I, I just want to think of a way to stop the ship, and, and the murderer is not Prince Ruo? He left a suicide note......-"

"No, you wrote that suicide note." Maori Kogoro shook his head: "You calculated that if you use Morse code, the handwriting verification will be impossible."

"But I don't understand Morse code." Katori Yoko continued to deny.

Even Misaki Joji stood in front of her and defended her: "No, I believe Yoko would never kill anyone. I know her character better than anyone else. Besides, she has no motive, right?"

"No, she has a motive." Maori Kogoro said seriously: "The four people who were killed had a deep connection with the Far East that sank three years ago, and Yoko is a relative of the victims at that time."

"W-what!!" Misaki Jōji's face changed slightly. "You mean Yoko, is she a relative of the deceased on the Far East?"

"That's right." Maori Kogoro nodded slightly, looking at Tokihara Chie who had rushed over after hearing the noise. "By the way, there's another relative of the deceased in that tragedy on this ship, Miss Tokihara, am I right?"

Tokihara Chie was silent for a moment, then asked, "How do you know?"

Maori Kogoro took out the magazine that Akai Yoshikazu gave him: "In the report about the sinking of the Far East published by Mr. Akai, the name of the victim was recorded, Masaki Tokihara. The surname Tokihara is not common. I'm afraid he is your..."

"It's my husband." Chie Tokihara no longer concealed the truth. "I boarded this ship for revenge. Prince Ruo, I saw with my own eyes how he pushed my husband to his death. I had already made up my mind to kill Prince Ruo and then die myself. However, when that day really came, I found that I couldn't do it no matter what. When I learned that Prince Ruo had committed suicide, I had lost the reason to live, so..."

"So this is the reason why Miss Tokihara jumped into the sea." Xiaolan looked at Chie Tokihara and felt a surge of sympathy in her heart.

Maori Kogoro continued, "The ship that collided with the Far East was a cruise ship called the Ryuo Maru. According to Mr. Akai's records, he interviewed Mr. TK, the only surviving crew member of the Ryuo Maru."

"TK?"

"That's Mr. Gana," Maori Kogoro explained. "According to him, the reason the Ryuo Maru collided with the Far East was entirely because the captain at the time, Mr. Kashima, was extremely drunk, which led to the accident."

"No, no, this is all nonsense." Katori Yoko, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke again: "My father didn't drink at all."

Everyone present was surprised to hear Katori Yoko address Captain Kashima.

Katori Yoko clenched her fists, her eyes filled with endless anger. "This kind of thing will become clear as soon as we investigate. Yes, I am the daughter of Kashima Shingo, the captain of the Ryuohmaru. But, you accuse me of murder based on this one thing? Do you think I had a motive to kill Mr. Garner?"

"Yes, Dad, didn't Mr. Ghana die because he took Mr. Mizusaki to task?" Xiaolan asked doubtfully, "It's impossible for Miss Yoko to kill Mr. Mizusaki."

"That's right." Katori Yoko said loudly, "Joji and I love each other."

Maori Kogoro looked into Katori Yoko's eyes and said, "All of this is part of your plan. If an investigation is launched, you will obviously be suspected because of your connection to the Far East incident. So, you have to make sure that Mr. Misaki, who has nothing to do with the Far East, is also targeted. You want to divert the investigation away from the Far East."

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"Mr. Mizusaki." Maori Kogoro looked at Mizusaki Jōji and said, "I'm afraid you were given sleeping pills, so you have no idea at all."

Misaki hesitated, "Well, well..."

Katori Yoko quickly interrupted him, resting her head on his shoulder and saying, "We slept in the same room that morning, but even so, how could I have known that Mr. Garner would be at the helm during his shift? Mr. Garner's shift is in the evening."

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"No, you are very sure that Mr. Garner will go to the wheelhouse at six in the morning." Maori Kogoro said in a strong voice. He took out a photo from his pocket and asked, "This is a photo taken by Mr. Akai. Do you know what time the sun rises?"

Otsuki Taichi took a look and said, "It should be sunset around five o'clock."

"You're wrong. This is actually the sunrise at five in the morning," said Kogoro Mouri.

"Chao, Chaoyang?" Otsuki Taichi was stunned.

"Yes." Maori Kogoro nodded slightly. "Even the veteran Mr. Otsuki made a mistake, so Mr. Ghana fell into your trap."

Katori Yoko's expression changed for the first time.

Maori Kogoro continued, "That night, you murdered Prince Waka, who was steering the ship in the wheelhouse. Then, just like Captain Takamori did, you threw the body into the sea. You took the helm yourself, reversed the ship's course, and fixed it to the north. Then, you installed a poison needle on the steering wheel and summoned Mr. Misaki to your room, naturally with the intention of making him oversleep."

"Even then, Garner woke up at six because his alarm clock rang. He opened the curtains and saw the sun near the horizon, but the ship was heading in the opposite direction. He thought he had overslept, and since it was already six in the evening, he rushed into the wheelhouse. Everyone knows what happened next."

430. Determination

Although Maori Kogoro's reasoning was sound, Katori Yoko clearly had no intention of admitting guilt. She snorted coldly and said, "This is all just your imagination. Don't forget, I have an alibi. I was not in the captain's cabin on the day the captain disappeared. Everyone knows this."

"Yes, you were in the broadcast room at the time." Watanabe Toru nodded slightly, "But you prepared breakfast without even setting foot in the captain's cabin."

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?" Katori Yoko forced a smile: "How can I prepare breakfast without stepping into the captain's room?"

Maori Kogoro said, "That night, after you killed the captain and packed up everything, you prepared breakfast in the captain's room. You turned off all the switches, including the induction cooker and coffee maker, set up the frying pan with the beaten eggs, and set the coffee. Then you went to the power room and turned off the power to the captain's room. When you returned to the captain's room, you turned on the switches for the toaster, induction cooker, and so on."

"So, at 7:25 the next morning, they returned to the power room and turned on the power in the captain's room, making us mistakenly believe that the captain had just made breakfast. If I'm guessing correctly, the power switches on this ship, no matter where they are, are divided into four rooms, one for each..."

Katori Yoko gritted her teeth at the inference of Maori Kogoro, but at this moment, Misaki Jōji fell to his knees with a plop, a trace of pain on his face: "Yoko, I had no idea that you were the daughter of Captain Kashima. Please forgive me..."

Everyone was stunned by Misaki Joji's sudden action. Even Katori Yoko stared at her beloved in a daze: "Jangji, you..."

Misaki Joji finally revealed the truth: "Actually, I was also on that Far East at the time. It's all my fault because I left the lookout as a lookout."

Katori Yoko looked at Misaki Joji in disbelief, her voice trembling: "No, you lied to me, didn't you..."

Misaki Joji held his head in his hands and recounted what happened that year: "That day, I was assigned to the lookout because I was clumsy. But when the party started that evening, Captain Yingshou asked me to leave the lookout and join him. At the time, I was so busy being grateful that I had no idea such an accident would happen."

"That accident was caused by a conflict between Captain Ying Shou and Navigator Waka Oji. To conceal the incident, they resorted to every possible means, fabricating a report of another crew member's death from the lookout tower, and my record was erased. Then, to spread false testimony in the media, they bribed Mr. Garner with black money, aiming to sway the trial in our favor. I was terrified at the time. No matter what crime I was convicted of, it was retribution I deserved. However, I could endure not being able to board the ship again. If the price was only the remorse of my conscience, I would do it. That was my thought at the time."

"All of this is karma. In order to atone for our sins, the four of us were pushed onto this ship by the invisible hand of the gods."

"Don't blame yourself anymore." At this moment, Chie Tokihara suddenly spoke. She looked at Misaki Jōji, who was crying bitterly, and said softly, "You have already atoned for your sins, fully atoned for them. On the day my husband was killed, you tried your best to rescue him and me. You have atoned for your sins time and time again. The gods will surely forgive you."

Katori Yoko looked at Misaki Joji who was crying bitterly, and after a moment of silence, she finally lowered her head and said: "Mr. Maori, I lost."

Everyone looked at Katori Yoko's bitter smile and felt speechless.

"As for me, I lost my mother when I was young," Katori Yoko recounted her story. "So every time my father went out to sea, I was sent to live with relatives. He was always far away on my birthday and Christmas, but I was very happy because he would always write to me and tell me about interesting things at sea. The day when he came back from the sea was the best anniversary, but these happy days were eventually shattered."

"The newspapers kept writing false reports, convicting my father of that tragedy, constantly inciting the relatives of the deceased and the world to commit evil. Do you understand? The feeling of thousands of people firing on my father, every day, I had to endure it in silence. Until one day, I secretly vowed to kill the person who smeared my father's glory and took away my happy life. Yes, I am convinced that Garner's testimony is 0% a lie..."

"So, I changed my name and deliberately approached Garner. After being cleverly tricked by me, he revealed his secret. From then on, I vowed to kill Takamori, Wakao-oji, and Garner. I honed the boat handling skills my father taught me, approached Mr. Misaki, and asked him to find a way to let me board this ship and begin my revenge plan."

Misaki Zhangji stared at Katori Yoko blankly. He never expected that the girl he liked actually had a side that no one knew about.

Katori Yoko didn't dare to look directly into Misaki Joji's eyes, and turned her face away and said, "Mr. Misaki, I just used you for revenge. Farewell."

……

Three days later.

Maori Detective Agency.

Xiaolan looked at the newspaper and said, "Mr. Misaki, as a former crew member of the Far East, revealed the truth to the media. It seems that the police are going to re-investigate the tragedy."

"Of course. 4.2" Maori Kogoro said calmly, looking at his crossed legs, "In this way, Miss Yoko's father's reputation can be restored."

"That's great! Miss Yoko will definitely be relieved to know this news." Xiaolan said, and her mood became depressed again: "But Mr. Mizusaki and Yoko, are they really unable to go back?"

Maori Kogoro scratched his head and said, "Actually, I met Mr. Mizusaki once afterwards and he gave me an envelope, hoping that I could give it to Miss Yoko."

"Envelope?" Xiaolan was stunned: "Is it a letter?"

Maori Kogoro shook his head: "It's not a letter, there's a ring inside."

"Ring?" Xiaolan's eyes widened, and then she became happy: "Mr. Mizusaki is telling Miss Yoko his determination."

431. Heir

Summer vacation is almost half over.

In the dense forest, lightning flashed in the dark night sky.

A car was searching quickly.

The driver was a young woman. Looking at the increasingly bad weather, she sighed and said, "This weather is really bad."

"Is a typhoon coming?" Xiaolan, sitting in the back seat, looked out the window and said, "It looks like there will be a heavy rain soon."

"What does it matter?" Maori Kogoro, who was sitting in the passenger seat, said nonchalantly, "We're just looking for sheet music in the villa anyway. Miss Yuka, are you sure the sheet music is in the villa?"

"It can't be wrong." Yamane Yuuka replied while driving, "Because the late Mr. Mido used that villa as his studio. By the way, Mr. Maori, have you listened to the tape?"

"of course."

Yamane Yuka smiled and said, "Teacher has a habit of writing down his impressions of the music in poems before composing. The only poems that have been verified are those recorded on this tape."

She inserted the tape into the player in the car, clicked play, and then a deep voice rang out in the car.

"The first poem of 'Demon Suite': Ah, the flash of lightning passes, but the darkness grows even thicker. The time for the demonic feast has arrived. The knight chosen as tonight's offering, holding the sacred key, will not become the devil's bait..."

……

The car stopped in front of a luxurious villa.

Several people entered the house together, and Yamane Yuka said, "Mr. Maori, please wait here for a moment..."

"Okay." Kogoro Mouri nodded.

Ten minutes later, Yamane Yuka still hadn't returned, and Maori Kogoro couldn't help but wonder, "Why hasn't Miss Yuka come back yet?"

Xiaolan was also a little surprised: "Did something happen?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a scream was heard.

The three of them hurriedly ran into the inner room.

boom! !