Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

Conan paused, then looked up at Hattori with a smug look in his eyes: "Uncle Maori bought it for me."

"Detective Maori really dotes on you."

"Ahehe."

Ever since Xiaolan passed away, Conan and Maori Kogoro's relationship has heated up rapidly.

An hour later, Mermaid Falls.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the lucky winners tonight received the dugong arrows handed to them by the shrine maiden Shimabukuro Kimie.

"It's clearly just an ordinary arrow, with a few runes on it at best. Yet it's being hyped up as an arrow of immortality. People these days... are so superstitious."

The Dugong Sacrifice officially ended after the arrows were sent out. Bai Quanyi, who was standing in the first row waiting for Jinghua, sighed in a low voice.

"In fact, the Dugong Arrow was originally called the Cursed Arrow."

After the crowd dispersed, Shimabukuro Kimie, who hadn't left with the others in the shrine, appeared before Shiraizumi Masaru with three others following behind her. "My mother once told me that the Dugong Arrow was originally called the Cursed Arrow by the islanders, meaning it was a protective object used in spells to exorcise demons and ward off evil spirits."

"However, since my great-grandmother's generation, the islanders have changed the arrow into the 'Dugong Arrow', which represents the mermaid, in order to attract tourists to the island."

"A blessing object?" Ikebana Jinghua looked at the arrow in her hand. She didn't feel that the arrow had any magic at all. It was probably just a gimmick.

Even so, Ikenami Shizuka still carefully kept it as a souvenir of her trip to the American island.

After the ceremony, the three girls are going to visit the American Island together, but no one knows where Hattori Heiji and Edogawa Conan are fooling around.

So, only Shiraizumi Masushi and Shimabukuro Kimie were left.

"Ms. Shimabukuro, it's time to solve your case."

"Huh? Oh."

Shimabukuro Kimie suddenly realized what was happening and nodded.

at the same time.

A dark shadow hidden above the Mermaid Waterfall secretly watched the target separate, then opened the notebook he carried with him and drew a horizontal line on the name "Hattori Shizuka" with a pencil.

"Then, the test begins."

puff.

The fallen stones at my feet sank into the waterfall, and a dark shadow in the moonlight grinned. A chilling chill lingered in the lonely night, unnoticed by anyone.

……

"I didn't kill anyone!"

"I didn't kill anyone!"

"no!"

"'Longevity Lady' is clearly not dead!"

Twenty minutes later, in the shrine warehouse.

Because of losing the dugong arrow, Monkyo Saori, who has been feeling uneasy, is almost mentally collapsed as she looks at the mermaid hanging on the beam in front of her.

Eight minutes ago, she found a dugong arrow in her room. She thought it was lost and found again, but she saw a text message on it from a mermaid asking her to meet in the warehouse.

Saori Menkyo, who was already superstitious, became extremely nervous until she actually saw the legendary mermaid in the warehouse.

A mermaid who can fly to the rafters with a flick of her tail.

"In order to bring Shimabukuro Mikoto back to life, I tried my best and fell into a deep sleep for three years..."

A clear and ethereal voice came out from the mermaid's mouth. Menxie Saori was completely dumbfounded when her secret was revealed: "No!"

"No!"

"Three years ago, Naoko, Sumi, and I were just drunk! We were just drunk!"

"We just wanted to test whether the Longevity Lady was truly immortal, so she set the fire—"

boom!

Before he could finish his horrified words, the door of the locked warehouse was kicked open, and the police and islanders' representatives who had been lying in ambush around the warehouse appeared in front of the terrified Menxie Saori.

"Police...Police?"

"That's the truth of the matter, officer."

From the warehouse beams, Shimabukuro Kimie, her voice restored, tore off the disguise and waved. The wire threaded through the back of the mermaid suit then lowered, allowing it to slowly fall to the ground.

"Jun Hui?"

The horrified Menxie Saori suddenly reacted: "Junhui you——"

Snapped!

With a cold face, Shimabukuro Kimie didn't give her friend a chance to question her and slapped her in the face.

The sudden sound of applause was extremely clear.

Outside the door were Shiraizumi Masu and the police from the American island. Of course, Hattori Heiji and Edogawa Conan were also present. With their noses for cases, it was easy for them to discover that something was going to happen in the shrine.

"Is this the case you were talking about, regarding Shimabukuro Kimie?"

Outside the warehouse, Conan watched Shimabukuro Kimie who was harshly questioning Menkyo Saori in the warehouse, with the silent moonlight reflected on his glasses.

Bai Baiquanyi, who was collecting the steel wire, nodded when he heard this.

"So, you knew from the beginning that Monkyou Saori, who wrote to invite me to the American island, was one of the murderers who deliberately set fire to and killed Miss Shimabukuro's mother three years ago?"

After watching this disguise drama, Hattori Heiji felt a little heavy-hearted.

"Yes."

After collecting all the steel wire, Shiraishi shrugged. "Next, as long as the police can bring Kuroe Naoko and Ebihara Sumi to justice, this case will be over."

This is also the reason why he suggested Shimabukuro Kimie to choose Menkyo Saori, whose temperament is extremely prone to collapse, as a breakthrough point.

The other two are not easy to deal with, and only Saori has been in a panic since she lost her arrow.

"Ok?"

Bai Baiquanyi, who was about to enter the warehouse, heard a slight movement coming from the bushes next to the warehouse.

"vomit!"

The sound of exhausted vomiting was heard in the jungle (Qian Lihao). Conan and Hattori looked at each other and immediately walked towards the direction where the sound came from.

"Uncle Maori?"

"Detective Maori!"

In the bushes, Kogoro Mouri, wearing a kimono, was slumped on the ground with a flushed face.

"I'm warning you...don't come over here...hiccup~"

"Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude to you."

As if he had seen some monstrous beast, Kogoro Mouri staggered to his feet with the help of a big tree, and gave Conan and Hattori who were approaching him a powerful hug and throw!

Boom!

Bai Quanyi came across and knocked him to the ground!

"Conan, what's going on with your uncle Maori?"

Conan, with an equally solemn expression, recalled what happened before dinner: "After dinner, I went out to attend the festival, and Uncle Maori was still drinking by himself in a izakaya."

This is also why when Hattori asked where Mori was at the festival, Conan said he was sleeping in the hotel.

Without the supervision of his daughter Xiaolan, the drunkard Kogoro Mouri got drunk.

"Forget it, I'll send Maori Kogoro back first."

Carrying the unconscious Maori Kogoro on his back, Shiraizumi Masu headed straight outside.

264. Lost nutrition must be replenished

A wooded area on the American Island.

Snapped!

The axe blade flashed with a sharp cold light and swayed in the woods. The mobile phone components fell to the ground and scattered all over the place. The two girls were forced back by the chaotic axe blade and took several steps back.

Yuanshan Heye: "Aunt Jinghua..."

Xiao Ai: "Sister Jinghua!"

Toyama Kazuha clenched his fists and looked nervously at Ikenami Shizuka who was being approached by the gangsters.

"Hurry up, give me the dugong arrow! Do you hear me, Obasan?"

Several drunken men pulled the collars of their shirts and roared at the beautiful woman in beige kimono in front of them, as if they not only wanted to snatch the dugong's arrows, but also wanted to do something bad to the beautiful woman together.

"Obaa-san?"

Then, a well-shaped mark appeared on Ikebo Jinghua's forehead, and then she flashed and killed all the gangsters with a knife.

Toyama Kazuha asked, "That's not right—Ai, why are you calling Jinghua Auntie Sister? She's Heiji's mother. You should call her Auntie like me."

Xiao Ai said, "But Sister Jinghua is my brother's woman. Calling her aunt instead of sister is too weird."

Yuanshan Heye held his forehead and said, "Forget it, it's really too confusing."

Ikenami Jinghua straightened her clothes and said, "Ah—it's really disappointing to encounter a gangster who wants to steal dugong arrows. Let's go back."

Yuanshan Heye said: "Aunt Jinghua, you are so amazing!"

Xiao Ai said: "Apart from my brother, Sister Jinghua has the highest fighting power!"

……

The three women were walking back when they happened to meet Shiraizumi Masushi and Hattori Heiji who were sending Kogoro Mori back to the hotel.

Then, the three women told Shiraizumi Masu and Hattori Heiji the story of how they encountered several gangsters who wanted to steal Jinghua's dugong arrows, and how Jinghua killed them all by herself.

Hattori Heiji scratched his nose and said, "You actually want to steal the dugong arrow from the old lady. You really don't know how to live or die!"

"Obaa-san?"

"Eh? No! Mom, I was wrong..."

"Snapped!"

Hattori Heiji was hit on the forehead by a folding fan from Ikenami Shizuka, and he fell to the ground with a bump on his head, which pushed up his baseball cap.

Seeing this, Xiao Ai couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Hattori-san's baseball cap is so funny."

Bai Quanyi shook his head and reached out to embrace Ikenami Jinghua in his arms.

"Hattori-kun, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but your mother is so beautiful (ciac), how can you call her Oba-san? You have to call her Miss Sister, okay?"

Yuanshan Heye said: "Aunt Jinghua is not a little sister at all, she is more like a big sister. Aunt Jinghua's breasts are really big——"

"That makes sense, that's Big Sister."

Bai Quanyi even rubbed it specially to verify that what Yuanshan Heye said was true.

Ikebo Jinghua smiled sweetly and murmured softly: "What little sister or big sister? I am Bai Jun's woman."

Hattori Heiji was stunned. His mother was too partial. She let Shiraizumi touch and hug him without any resistance.

"Damn it! I'll endure it!"

Hattori Heiji swallowed his breath and thought that since he was going back to Osaka anyway and his mother was still in Tokyo, out of sight, out of mind.

Everyone returned to the shrine and went back to their rooms to rest.

Hattori Heiji, who was on the other side of Shiraizumi Masaru, fell asleep early.

Shiraizumi Mashi looked out the window and found Shimabukuro Kimie in the courtyard.

Shimabukuro Kimie, wearing a shrine maiden costume, is particularly beautiful under the moonlight.

Bai Quanyi had an idea and came to the courtyard.

"Ms. Shimabukuro..."

Bai Quanyi shouted.

Hearing the voice, Shimabukuro Kimie turned around and looked at Shiraizumi Masu.