Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

"Are they really the remains of a mermaid?" Hattori Heiji frowned as he examined the remains poured out of the jar.

"No, these aren't mermaid bones, they're the mutilated remains of a person after a fire!"

With his sharp eyes, Conan immediately saw through the truth.

“Conan, you’re right, these are indeed human remains after the fire.” Hattori Heiji straightened his hat. “In the fire three years ago, it wasn’t mermaids who were burned to death, but humans.”

Hattori Heiji looked up and realized that a lot of time had passed. The sky was foggy, and it had started to rain.

Hattori Heiji quickly put the bones back into the jar, returned the contents to their original state, and filled the jar with soil.

……

Heiji Hattori and Conan went to the Ebihara family home for a wake, silently sorting out their thoughts.

When the two arrived at Ebihara's house, it was already completely dark, and the rain was pouring down even harder.

The two shook off the rain, signed the guest list, and went inside.

Hearing the door open, Shimabukuro, dressed in black, turned around and saw the group of people. He stood up and greeted them, "Mr. Hattori, Conan, you're here too."

"You are—" The two of them didn't recognize Shimabukuro Kimie at first.

"I am Kimie Shimabukuro, the shrine maiden you have met."

The two looked at Shimabukuro Kimie and realized that she was the shrine maiden who had changed her shrine maiden outfit into a black uniform skirt suit.

"Sorry, I didn't recognize you at first glance." Hattori Heiji scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"It's ok."

Shimabukuro Kimie smiled softly, then secretly glanced behind Hattori Heiji before looking away.

"Sister Junhui, were you looking for someone just now?" Conan asked.

"Huh?" Shimabukuro Kimie deliberately paused, hesitating, "Um... didn't Mr. Hayashi come along?"

"You mean Lin Xiaofeng? Didn't he say he would come to see you? I thought he went to see you?" Hattori Heiji frowned, becoming suspicious of Shimabukuro Kimie.

"Ah, yes..." Shimabukuro Kimie couldn't answer. She had already drugged Lin Xiaofeng, and he was supposed to wake up tomorrow, but now Lin Xiaofeng was gone.

"Sister Junhui, what do you want to see Brother Lin Xiaofeng about? Please tell us."

"It's nothing... I was just asking." Shimabukuro Kimie smiled awkwardly.

At that moment, Fukuyama Rokuro walked towards Shimabukuro Kimie.

"Junhui, have you seen Miss Naoko? Her name is clearly on the guest list, but I can't find her."

"Huh? Naoko's already here?" Kimie Shimabukuro asked in surprise.

"I don't know either, I was just about to ask you..." Fukuyama Rokuro's expression turned worried.

"Boom——!"

Lightning flashed across the night sky, casting a shadowy figure on the paper door.

Conan was the first to notice something was wrong, and then Heiji Hattori saw it too, and immediately opened the sliding door and went out.

A terrible scene appeared.

On the beach, Naoko Kuroe knelt, suspended in a fishing net, her face stiff, her eyes fixed on the ground in front of her, like a mermaid caught in the net, forever unable to speak.

A clear line of tall boot footprints stretched from the beach behind Naoko Kuroe all the way to the sea, eventually disappearing into the waves.

Glistening fish scales were scattered on the road, and Naoko Kuroe also had a few fish scales stuck to her body, making her look like she was made of a mermaid.

The only certainty is that the dugong arrow was taken from Naoko Kuroe, and the murderer even stepped on it before leaving...

245. Woman, the organization needs someone like you.

As the Fukui Prefectural Police arrived and took over the investigation, Hattori Heiji and Conan, who had been wandering around the scene, were ushered aside.

Afterwards, the police investigated the personal belongings of the people who came to keep vigil.

Judging from the current situation, the murderer took Naoko Kuroe's Dugong Arrow. However, after investigation, among the people present, only Kazuha Toyama and Benzo Kadowaki, who were drawn earlier, had the Dugong Arrow on them.

After exchanging a few words with a policeman, Hattori Heiji sat down next to Conan and whispered, "Conan, do you have any clues?"

“Absolutely not,” Conan said solemnly. “The only things we can confirm right now are the murdered Ms. Ebihara Sumi and Ms. Kuroe Naoko, and the missing Ms. Kadowaki Saya… They all seem to be involved with the Dugong Arrow.”

"Huh? Isn't Kazuha in danger?"

Hattori Heiji slapped his forehead, quickly took out his phone, and asked Kazuha what she was doing.

"Hello? Kazuha, where are you?"

"Oh, I'm with Aunt Yukiko and Aunt Shizuka. It's raining heavily, and Lin-kun isn't here, so we decided not to go to the funeral hall. We're having local seafood barbecue now; the seafood is all freshly caught near American Island, it's so delicious! Heiji, you and Conan, do you want to come?"

"Idiot, we didn't come here to play."

"What's that for?"

"A letter of authorization! An authorization!"

"That was your request, it has nothing to do with me. Goodbye."

Hattori Heiji hung up the phone, furious.

"I already told you I didn't come here to play, but Kazuha still insists on following me. It's so annoying."

"Alright, Heiji-nii. It's good that Kazuha-neechan is alright."

Conan offered some words of comfort. Hattori Heiji immediately felt better, realizing that Conan was definitely his soulmate.

Meanwhile, the Fukui Prefectural Police announced that the investigation was over and everyone could go home.

Shimabukuro Kimie gritted her teeth, hurried back, and began to implement the next plan.

She hid Saori Kadowaki's body in the shrine's storeroom, where the shrine's registers, archives, and various documents were kept. She planned to burn them all to destroy all the evidence, and then fake her death.

When she returned to the shrine, she found Lin Xiaofeng leisurely flipping through the register in the storage room, completely ignoring the corpse of Kadowaki Saori beside him.

"Mr. Lin! What happened to you..."

She rubbed her eyes. How did Lin Xiaofeng, who had clearly disappeared, suddenly appear in her house?

"Former Foreign Minister, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Governor of the Bank of Japan..." Lin Xiaofeng looked at the list in his hand and sighed, "A whole bunch of big shots who used to be in charge of Japan's political affairs!"

"The higher a person's position, the more they want to live forever..." Shimabukuro Kimie smiled bitterly.

"Kurosawa Jinki, Uozuka Sanrou, and Miyano Shirin, do you have any impression of these three people?" Shirin Kofune looked at Shimabukuro Kimie.

Shimabukuro Kimie was taken aback, thinking that Lin Xiaofeng was going to arrest her, but instead he asked such an irrelevant question.

Even so, Kimie Shimabukuro thought about it carefully.

"Oh. I don't remember Shiho Miyano. I do remember Jin Kurosawa and Saburo Uozuka. Even though it was summer, those two were dressed all in black. They looked hot and silly, and they stood out in the crowd. Were they stage actors?"

"They're not stage actors, they're professional killers."

"Ah, a professional assassin shouldn't be unremarkable, hiding in the crowd so that no one notices them."

Shimabukuro Kimie found it unbelievable; if he was an assassin, why would he deliberately make himself so conspicuous?

"That's exactly it. Apart from me, the Raven Organization is full of spies, double agents, and a bunch of useless bastards. They need someone like you."

"The Raven Organization? What's that?"

"I'm in an international criminal organization called Raven. Although it's called an international criminal organization, this organization doesn't do anything productive. They invest all the money they make through crime into drug research and development. They've also attracted a large group of international agents: the FBI, the CIA, the Japanese Public Security Bureau, the German Federal Bureau of Investigation, MI6..."

"Ah this..."

Kimie Shimabukuro simply couldn't imagine what kind of organization could survive the onslaught of these renowned international intelligence agencies.

"Join my organization, and I'll help you escape the law. Otherwise, you'll spend the rest of your life in prison."

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"If I join your organization, do you want me to become a hitman for a criminal organization?"

"Yes."

"But I simply don't have that talent."

"Does she really have no talent?" Lin Xiaofeng pointed at Kadowaki Saori's corpse. "Judging from Kadowaki Saori's corpse, both the fatal wounds and the way the body was handled were quite good."

"..." Undeniably, Shimabukuro Kimie felt that she might actually have this talent.

Lin Xiaofeng approached Shimabukuro Kimie, brushing her black hair behind her to reveal a delicate and beautiful face.

. .. ...

“Ms. Shimabukuro, I’ve actually suspected you for a long time, but I didn’t expose you. Instead, I kept observing you.”

"Eh?"

"Meticulous, ruthless in killing, and skilled in disguise... Woman, the organization needs someone like you."

"Thank you for the compliment... No one has ever praised me like this before..."

Shimabukuro Kimie blushed slightly, feeling quite embarrassed.

"So, what's your answer?"

“I wanted to join Mr. Lin’s organization, but even if you let me go, the law won’t let me go. Since you’ve found out, I’d better turn myself in and not cause Mr. Lin any more trouble.”

"Miss Shimabukuro, I only ask you, are you willing to join the organization and become my comrade?"

"To become...Mr. Hayashi's companion?" Shimabukuro Kimie's gloomy eyes suddenly lit up. "I'm willing!"

“Very good, I have arranged an escape route for you. Now leave according to the route I gave you, and someone will meet you.”

"how about you?"

"I'll help you clean up the mess."

"Aren't you afraid I'll run away?"

"Then you will surely die."

"I won't run away. Since I promised you, I will keep my word."

Having said that, Shimabukuro Kimie left the shrine following the directions Lin Xiaofeng had given her. As she left, her hope for life, which had previously been completely gone, was rekindled.

246. We chatted in the room until we were covered in sweat.

Lin Xiaofeng found the three women, who had just finished eating seafood barbecue.

As soon as Lin Xiaofeng arrived, Yukiko and Shizuka showered him with attention and care, and the three of them got along very well. Yukiko and Shizuka were already good friends, so it was perfect for them to both be Lin Xiaofeng's girlfriends. They wouldn't have any conflicts, and their intimacy even deepened.

Seeing how well the three got along, Kazuha felt envious. She wished she could get along as well with Heiji Hattori. In reality, the two of them often argued and hurt each other when they were together, with more bitterness than joy.

"Lin-kun, aren't Heiji and Conan with you?" Toyama Kazuha asked.

"Hmm. No, I think they're still investigating the case," Lin Xiaofeng replied.

"So what have you been doing all day?"

"secret!".

　"One, two, three" "Secret?"

"Yes, as a detective, there are many secrets."

"Tsk, forget it."

Yuanshan and Ye puffed out their little faces.

Yukiko and Shizuka weren't too concerned about what Lin Xiaofeng was doing, as long as he didn't bring back their best friend.

Back at the hotel, Lin Xiaofeng took Yukiko and Shizuka to their room, taking advantage of Conan and Heiji's absence to indulge himself.

When people get along, they live out their lives in a moment of peace. Sometimes they share their thoughts and feelings in a private room, and sometimes they entrust their lives to others and live a life of unrestrained freedom.

Lin Xiaofeng thoroughly enjoyed the experience with two mature and beautiful women.

Kazuha Toyama was all alone, watching TV idly in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel.

It was quite late when Hattori Heiji finally brought Conan back to the hotel.

"Kazuha, why are you all alone?"

Heiji Hattori was surprised to see Kazuha Toyama watching TV alone.

"Oh. You're back. Lin Xiaofeng is busy with Aunt Yukiko and Shizuka Ikenami right now. I was bored, so I watched TV by myself."

"What are they busy with?" Hattori Heiji asked, his face full of doubt.