I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"Rather than that, I need to borrow your tea, Uncle Maori."

“Eh…eh eh eh?”

Kogoro Mori was a beat slow to react. When he came to his senses, the black tea was gone. Instead, what appeared in his hand was a bamboo skewer with squid tentacles already eaten. He was so angry that he threw the skewer on the ground.

"It's fine if you took my tea, but you even threw bamboo sticks at me!"

"Since you can't help me with anything else, you can at least take out the trash, right?"

"Ok?"

A familiar voice came from behind him, and Kogoro Maori subconsciously turned his head to look.

At the same time, the slim figure of the female lawyer walked past him and continued walking forward without looking back.

It was as if the words just now were just spoken to the air.

"…What? You're being so arrogant…"

Kogoro Maori muttered unhappily.

……

The perspective changed, and when Serabelle returned to the beach with the black tea, Toda Takako's wound had been almost treated. All the poisonous blood that could be sucked out had been sucked out, and the blood vessels at her wrists were tightened with laces to prevent the poisonous blood from entering her body from flowing too quickly.

The person in charge of handling these things was another man who came with Matsuzaki Masahiko and others. He was tall, had wheat-colored skin and refreshing short hair, giving people the feeling of a reliable big brother. It was said that he was a childhood friend of Matsuzaki Masahiko, Toda Takako, and Matsuzaki Haru, and his name was Ito Hiro.

He was the one who was responsible for lifting Toda Takakazuko's head out of the water.

Seeing Serabelle bringing the black tea, he reached out to take it with familiarity, took a sip, gargled, and spit it out, then poured the rest on the bitten area on Toda Takakazuko's hand.

On the other side, Matsuzaki Masahiko, who had gone to call an ambulance, also came back and reported with his mobile phone.

"The hospital has already sent a car. They said it will be here in three minutes at most."

Itoyo looked back at him, nodded and said, "Okay, then Yayan, see if you can find a parasol nearby. The sun is too strong at noon, and the high temperature will easily speed up blood circulation."

"I, I know..."

Masahiko Matsuzaki agreed readily, turned around and ran to find a parasol.

While the two were talking, Serabelle leaned over to Takako Toda and looked at the place on the back of her hand where she was bitten by the sea snake, then uttered a soft "hmm" in a rising tone.

Without thinking, he took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera function, pointed it at the latter's hand and took two photos.

"…Any new discoveries?"

!!!

A sudden female voice came from her ear, which scared Serabelle who had just taken a photo, and the things in her hands almost flew away.

When I turned around, it was actually Kisaki Eri.

For some reason, she didn't continue sitting at the table, but came here, looking over Serabel's shoulder curiously at the phone in his hand.

Not far behind, a certain blonde British girl also slowly walked over, followed by Sera Masumi, who raised her delicate face slightly.

"What's wrong?"

Uh……

Serabelle hesitated for a moment, then beckoned to them to follow her.

Returning to the table in the store, he called up the photo album on his phone, opened the photo he had just taken, and placed the phone flat on the table so everyone could see it.

Serabel pointed his index finger at the top of the screen... Due to time constraints, the photo he took was a little crooked, but it was still possible to see that it was the back of Toda Takako's hand.

And on the back of the latter's hand, about two or three centimeters upward along the middle finger, there were two small parallel holes, which were the places where he was bitten by a sea snake.

However, the two small holes were blocked by a message notification falling from the top of the screen the next second.

It was a text message.

[Yukiko: Hey, hey, what are you doing? ]

"..."

The timing was just right, and at once four pairs of eyes and eight gazes were focused on the message banner.

then--

Sera Masumi tilted his head.

Kisaki Eri looked surprised.

Akai Mary's eyes were sharp.

Only Serabelle's fingertips trembled slightly.

You had to pick this time to post, didn't you?

Chapter 119 The murderer must be Rayquaza!

Let’s not talk about Yukiko suddenly sending a message to gank at the perfect time…

Some tourists were bitten by sea snakes at the beach. This is obviously not a trivial matter that can be compared to accidentally slipping and breaking the skin while climbing a mountain.

Especially under the premise that this beach still belongs to the beach hotel nearby.

After all, if the news gets out, no matter how beautiful and famous this beach is, it is unlikely that anyone will come here in the future.

So the hotel manager also rushed over, and arrived almost at the same time as the ambulance that was rushing over.

Under the scorching sun on the beach, the rear doors of the ambulance opened to both sides, and three medical staff jumped out of the car carrying a stretcher.

Two of them carried the almost unconscious Toda Takako onto a stretcher, while another one took a prop similar to a blood pressure monitor and reinforced the latter's arm to further prevent the spread of the poison.

Every step was arranged so neatly that the whole process took less than twenty seconds.

"Did any of you see what a sea snake looks like? What kind is it?"

Waving to the other two to carry the patient to the ambulance, the medical staff responsible for reinforcing the arm looked up and asked.

Hearing this question, everyone present turned their attention to Xiaolan, who had been waiting outside with Conan for the ambulance to arrive.

The unicorn girl clasped her hands in front of her chest and took a step forward: "I did see it, and I remember its appearance, but I don't know what kind it was..."

"It's okay. We have a complete illustrated guide of sea snakes in our hotel. All you have to do is remember their appearance!"

At this time, it took a while to find a suitable manager to restore the hotel's reputation.

The medical staff on the vehicle glanced at him and nodded.

"Okay, then we'll take the patient back to the hospital first. You can call us as soon as you confirm the species of the sea snake."

Matsuzaki Masahiko, who was concerned about his fiancée, raised his hand and said, "I am the patient's fiancé. Can I get in the car as well?"

"Okay, come on up."

Without any further ado, the medical staff turned and got into the car.

Then the door closed and the ambulance sped away in a cloud of dust.

At the same time, Serabelle, who had left the beach and ran to the restaurant, turned back, followed by Akai Mari, Sera Masumi and Kisaki Eri.

"What do you mean, it's done?"

the guy asked as he took a bite of grilled squid tentacles.

Conan turned around and said, "No, the hospital doesn't know the type of sea snake yet, but Xiaolan has memorized its appearance, so we have to go to the hotel to confirm it through the illustrated book... Uh, what is that in your hand?"

It was only then that he suddenly realized that Serabelle not only held a string of squid tentacles in one hand, but also various large and small bags in the other.

"This is our lunch."

Serabelle raised the plastic bag in her hand that was full of food and had the restaurant's logo printed on it.

"I guessed that we would not be able to have lunch after this incident, so I went back just now to ask the waiter to pack up all the food in advance. This is called foresight... Okay, let's go, don't we have to go to the hotel next?"

After saying that, he turned around with a big bag and walked towards the hotel.

Iron!

Conan was stunned and didn't know what to say for a moment.

You really should just eat and drink, without missing anything, right?

And why do I always feel like there's something wrong with this guy compared to before?

……

Ten minutes later, Serabelle and her group arrived at the hotel's collection room in a mighty procession.

Of course, it is called a collection room, but it is actually an exhibition hall.

Like many local tourist hotels, the Sand Beach Hotel next to the beach also houses a collection of various Izu local animal specimens, such as shells, starfish, etc.

Although no one would go to the hotel just to see this kind of thing, it is one of the traditional items that can be avoided but cannot be missed.

There was a small compartment in the collection room, similar to a utility room or storage room. The hotel manager went in and came out within two minutes with a thick booklet in his hand.

"Basically all the species of sea snakes in Izu are included in it. Please take a look."

"Um……"

Xiaolan, the only one present who knew what the sea snake looked like, took the illustrated book and looked through it immediately.

Several other college students from the diving club also gathered nearby, staring intently with bated breath, mobile phones in their hands, ready to call the hospital to report at any time.

The booklet was turned page by page, and the only sound in the entire space was the sound of the paper rustling.

Suddenly, Xiaolan's pupils shrank slightly, and she quickly pointed to the upper left corner of the open page in the booklet.

"That's the snake!"

The girl saw that the photo in the illustration below the landing point was a black and blue sea snake, spitting out its tongue and looking extremely poisonous.

"Selective sea snake?" Itoyo read the label at a glance, "But why would this kind of sea snake appear in Izu?"

"Well, actually this is possible."

The hotel manager said stiffly.

"Although this sea snake does not appear in Izu most of the time, it occasionally comes to Izu along the Kuroshio (Japan Current)."

"So you knew there would be sea snakes in this season but still chose to open the beach!" Kogoro Mouri was furious.

"No, no, this kind of snake will hardly hurt people. Normally, it will hide away from people when it sees them. In the past forty years, there has only been one incident where a person was injured. That was because a fisherman accidentally put the snake in a box and was bitten when he tried to catch it with his hands."

The hotel manager hurriedly waved his hands to explain.

"Then...are there any variants of this snake?" Xiaolan asked.

"Variant?" The manager was stunned.

"Well, when I was underwater I saw this kind of snake that seemed to have two small wings on its back..."

Xiaolan pointed at the corner of her mouth with her index finger and tried hard to recall.

"Maybe it's some seaweed or something like that that got caught in the sea?" Matsuzaki Haru, who had been silent, suddenly spoke up.

"Then I'd rather believe that the murderer is Rayquaza."

Serabelle, who had already changed the snack in her hand from squid tentacles to scallops, said lightly.

"Moreover, I don't know if you have noticed one thing, that is, the wound on Ms. Toda's hand is located two or three centimeters up along the middle finger and parallel to the wrist joint, in the center of the back of the hand. In other words, if the sea snake wants to bite that place, it must first swallow Ms. Toda's middle finger and ring finger before it can bite, and that is definitely not the place where a normal sea snake will bite."

"That means someone deliberately used a sea snake's fangs to pierce the back of Miss Toda's hand." Kisaki Eri, who had seen the photo in the restaurant, continued.

"That's it in a nutshell."

Serabelle exhaled breath with a strong seafood flavor from her mouth.

"But the problem is that there was no one else on the sea when Ms. Toda was drowning, which means the only possible time to kill her was when she went to rescue her. And because the snake was too conspicuous to hold directly in her hand, the murderer had to use something else to cover it up... So the question is, who was the only person holding something in his hand at the time?"

Kisaki Eri added at the right moment: "If you confess now, it can be considered as surrendering."

"That means..."

As soon as these two sentences were uttered, everyone in the room looked at Matsuzaki Haru, who looked a little timid.

Only Kogoro Mouri looked at Eri Kisaki and then at Serabell in a daze.

Why do I feel like these two people work well together?