Can you avoid Conan's anesthetic needle today?

Chapter 17 17. Cruise Ship at Sea 6

As the relevant personnel on the ship were invited one by one, Matsubara Hidenori urged impatiently, "Now that everyone is here, we can start reasoning. Once the case is over, we can go home."

"Of course we can start, but Mr. Matsubara doesn't seem to care much about Mr. Amase's death!" Conan said while hiding behind Rina Yonogi.

"Ha, if I didn't care about this, I would have left long ago. Okay, tell me, who killed him."

"Mr. Songyuan, are you really so confident in yourself that you think you have nothing to do with the crimes on this ship?"

"What are you talking about? I didn't kill him, so of course it has nothing to do with me."

"Well, you are indeed not the murderer." Conan agreed with his statement, and then said nothing more and began to reason about the murder case.

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"Then let's start with why the deceased was killed. Everyone present, except for Baisha Meixi who turned herself in, and us who were with her at the same time, had a certain amount of time gap during this period. In theory, they all had the opportunity to use some very simple methods to complete the final murder."

"Coincidentally, Miss Baisha seemed to know from the beginning that someone was going to kill someone, and the time of death of the deceased happened to be different from the time when she was away from the crowd. So, it is easy to think that the murderer's motive is related to Miss Baisha. But you have known each other for a long time, why today? If you wanted to take advantage of the cruise ship environment, you were all on the ship when you came here, and you had ample opportunities to do it."

"Then there is only one possibility. Something happened last night. For example, someone provided help to Shirasa Miyu in the hope that she would get rid of Amase Masahiro's control. Although he lied last night that he was not afraid of this threat and shocked Shirasa, in fact, this help could threaten Amase Masahiro. That's why he stayed in the house abnormally and spent the whole morning using the surveillance on the ship to observe the person he suspected of betraying him."

Baisha Meixi couldn't help but speak up, "Since you know what kind of person he is, don't use the word betrayal!"

"Of course you can, but Ms. Baisha, do you still choose to hide it for that person?"

"I didn't see anyone, and I don't know who killed him. I don't want to live anyway. Wouldn't it be great if I could take the blame for the person who killed Amase Masahei?" There was deep despair in Baisha Miyu's words. She was not afraid of death. What she was afraid of was that her brilliant life would fall into hell because of her. If only she were braver.

If she hadn't been manipulated by intimidation at the beginning, she wouldn't have been trapped in a situation from which she couldn't escape; if she had been more resolute when threatening him last night, she would have discovered that this man would also be afraid; if she hadn't been tortured by him today and become so unconscious that she didn't even notice that he was not dead, then she could at least have killed this man with her own hands.

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"Ms. Sakuragawa, are you suffering now because you can't comfort her in front of everyone? Although I sympathize with your experience, violence can never truly end painful things." Conan turned the topic to Sakuragawa Yoshizuki, who was keeping silent but did not show any surprise at the facts of the case he explained.

As the person who probably knows the most about everything, Sakuragawa Yoshizuki would certainly not be surprised at all.

Inspector Megure was surprised after hearing what Conan said, "You...you mean, the murderer is Sakuragawa Yoshizuki!?"

"Yes, Ms. Sakuragawa was a strong suspect from the beginning."

"But...but she didn't enter the deceased's room, so how did she put the sleeping pills in there?" Officer Megure was puzzled.

"It was through milk tea. She asked Miss Fujimiya Yuki to help her deliver the milk tea to the deceased. She might have also asked her to help pass on a message. As long as she said something like Miss Sakuragawa specially asked him to deliver it, she could maintain her usual love-obsessed personality. The arrogant Amase Shohei would naturally drink the milk tea as he wished."

"That's indeed the case. Ms. Yono is indeed a famous detective. Where is the loophole in my story?" At this time, Fujimiya Yuki seemed neither humble nor arrogant. She was not as timid as she was at the beginning when facing Matsubara Hidenori. Even when it was revealed that she had given false testimony to cover up the murderer, her voice remained as steady as usual, and she even took the initiative to ask questions.

"Because how could Shohei Amase, who is concerned about his own safety, have the mind to do such a thing? When I learned about his usual style from Mr. Nakamura, I was more certain of this."

"It's Nakamura..." Fujimiya Yuki turned around and looked at Nakamura Kaku, whose brain couldn't keep up with the huge amount of information he was receiving. "Nakamura, you now know who the murderer is! You never thought about it."

"Yes... yes, Sakuragawa seems to like Amase so much, it could be anyone but her, Amase may be a scumbag but their relationship seems pretty good?"

"What a fool..." Fujimiya Yuki couldn't help but curse as she looked at Nakamura. She didn't know why she was threatened by the same fool as him. It's true that you shouldn't take yourself too seriously. For example, when she wanted to help Sakuragawa Yoshizuki this time, she was seen through by the detective at a glance.

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During their conversation, Yingchuan Jiayue no longer hid her concern for Baisha Meixi in front of everyone. She walked over to her, half hugged her and said, "Even if you have done everything for me, please take good care of your body. I know it's hard, but try to live hard, okay? Promise me, Jiaxi."

Baisha Meixi couldn't help crying in her arms, "Okay, sister, I will definitely become better. Next time, it's my turn to protect you..."

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Sakuragawa Kazuki comforted Shirasa Miyu, walked up to Inspector Megure and stretched out her hands, waiting for the future that belonged to her, "Detective Yono, I think maybe my motive for killing was not protection, but hatred. I didn't hate that scumbag, but I hated myself for loving that guy. How ridiculous it is that I decided that he was a lover worthy of entrusting my life to just for some useless care, and gave all my love to him..."

"Mr. Sakuragawa, it's not your fault that you were cheated. You know nothing at all. The ones who are wrong are obviously the people who cheated you and bystanders like me who pretended to be innocent." Fujimiya Yuki walked forward and held Sakuragawa Kazuki's pale and cold hand tightly, as if hoping to give her some strength and warmth.

When Shohei Amase was pursuing Sakuragawa Yoshizuki, she chose to stand by and watch. Watching the sunny campus goddess gradually lose herself was something that made Fujimiya Yuki feel painful. So when she realized that Sakuragawa Yoshizuki might have used milk tea to deliver sleeping pills, she decided to help her at least once, to thank her for ending Shohei Amase's life and to redeem her own completely polluted soul.

What a pity, Rina Yonogi is truly an amazing detective.

Baisha Meixi was still sobbing intermittently, "Why, why was it my sister... Actually, when I said I didn't know, I really wasn't sure if it was really her who did it. I thought, even though my sister said so, maybe it was someone else who did it. Why did the detective think she was the biggest suspect from the beginning?"

Because I haven't written in the past two days due to exams, I feel like I've lost my form. I feel like this chapter is so gloomy. I may have to stop updating soon. I feel like if I don't finish writing this case, I'll have to wait for someone to read it. I don't know if I'll still be in the mood to write after I finish it.

After all, I have completed most of the credits I should have taken this semester, and I feel like I have been relieved of a heavy burden. I want to relax completely. I want to go out and play!! I want to watch The Wandering Earth 2!