The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

Seeing the human body swaying in the water of the waterfall, Shimabukuro Kimie opened her eyes wide.

How, how could it be this child? They clearly agreed...

She raised her head blankly, looking at the figure reflected in the bright flames. Before she could recover, two figures had climbed over the isolation rope one after another and rushed to her side.

"Miss Shimabukuro!" Conan grabbed Shimabukuro Kime's wrist, "You are very familiar with the environment here, right? Take us there!"

He had no time to care about his overly mature tone, he could only feel his heart tightening.

Calm down, calm down...!

It’s impossible to see the specific situation above from here, and it’s not yet time to despair. Maybe Tang Ze has just lost consciousness, and he hasn’t...

Looking at the slippery rock walls on both sides of the waterfall, as well as the moss and vines covering the cracks in the rocks, Hattori Heiji resisted the urge to rush closer, tried to stay calm, and urged clearly: "Hurry, miko. Miss, I remember you had a ladder yesterday..."

However, his words were quickly interrupted by the next movement.

I don't know if it was the effect of the water flow or something else. Tangze's body hanging in mid-air slowly slid downwards in their sights, and the expressions of the two anxious detectives changed.

Could it be that he was hanged, oh no, fixed above...

Before the two of them could react, as the shaking intensified, Tang Ze's body slipped downwards for another section, and then the speed gradually accelerated, and along with the things involved above, it followed the water of the waterfall downwards. The pool fell down.

"...The water pool here is connected to the underground cave, so it will be washed into the sea by the undercurrent!" As a reflex, Shimabukuro Kime warned loudly.

But in fact, she didn't need to remind her. The two detectives were already rushing toward the pool like arrows.

Tang Ze, who seemed to be unresponsive, fell straight down, sending a spray of water into the pool below the waterfall, which directly wet the clothes of the two detectives who ran to the pool.

Then there was another bigger wave, splashing up.

At the other end of the rope, the things that Karasawa brought down were also smashed down.

At a glance, Conan felt that it looked like a human body...

"Karasawa! Karasawa!" Hattori Heiji shouted twice, but received no response. He jumped down without hesitation and plunged towards the position where Karasawa fell.

By this time, several other people who had been greatly shocked and finally came to their senses also ran to the pool.

Mao Lilan grabbed Conan who wanted to follow him, and shook his head vigorously: "A person who fell into the water unconsciously cannot be pulled up with the strength of a child. Don't go down and cause trouble for Hattori!"

With her backhand, she grabbed Toyama Kazuha, who saw Hattori Heiji's clothes completely submerged in the water, and wanted to step on them. She pulled the two of them close to the edge of the pool, and anxiously looked down at the white waves. The water surface where the situation cannot be seen clearly.

Although the reaction was not as timely as that of the detectives, Mao Lilan, who had been suffering from anxiety for a long time since Tang Ze's disappearance yesterday, and even fantasized about many bad endings, now seemed to have the plan that she had rehearsed many times in her mind suddenly come into use. The physical controls work well.

With a straight face, Mouri Kogoro looked at Shimabukuro Kimie, who covered his mouth and froze on the spot: "Miss Kimie, can you please find a few more people to take a look, if Hattori can't pull Karasawa up... …”

"Oh, okay, okay!" Shimabukuro Kimie nodded hurriedly and turned to look at the islanders in the crowd.

The residents here once made a living by fishing. Most people, especially the fishermen, have excellent water skills, and they are definitely more familiar with the seawater environment than the young man from the island who jumped off.

So she immediately scanned the crowd twice, trying to identify a few suitable rescue candidates.

However, this time she saw clearly that the islanders were abnormal.

As hanging people appeared in the waterfall, the entire ceremony was plunged into noise and chaos.

Some people were screaming, some were calling the rescue phone or calling the police reflexively, and some people had inexplicable excitement on their faces and raised their cameras and mobile phones to take pictures. Shimabukuro Kimie, who was standing in the center, looked at her like this, It is completely a noisy and real appearance of sentient beings.

But that didn't include the islanders she was familiar with.

The islanders, including Naoko Kuroe who was holding an arrow broken into two sections, and the attendants who were standing around the shed to help her set off the fireworks, all just stood there and stared expressionlessly. Ahead, the surrounding movements could not alarm them at all. They seemed so out of place in the boiling crowd.

"Kunhui!" Fortunately, not everyone was in such a state. Fukuyama Rokuro struggled to squeeze through the crowd, lifted the rope, and ran over quickly, "What happened!"

"Rokuro, hurry up, someone has fallen, they may be swept away by the current!" Shimabukuro Kime grabbed his arm, "Go and help them!"

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The human body is slowly swaying under the wash of water.

The sun rises and the moon sets, and time passes slowly. The person hanging there just sways and rotates slowly with the wind and water flow, without any trace of movement.

Then it got dark again.

A faint fire slowly ignited from below, and amidst the joyous celebrations, the fireworks rose.

As the bright light rose into the sky, and reflected by the suddenly blooming fire trees, he could finally see clearly the person hanging there.

I saw clearly the pair of out-of-focus, cloudy, and completely lifeless... blue eyes.

"!"

Hattori Heiji suddenly opened his eyes and sat up straight from the ground.

He woke up suddenly and his reaction was exaggerated. He almost bumped into Toyama Kazuyo who was squatting next to him worriedly and leaning over to observe him.

"Hey, Heiji!" After narrowly missing Hattori Heiji's forehead, Toyama Kazuha covered his eyebrows and shouted in fear, "You're scary!"

"I, I am..." Hattori Heiji blinked twice before he slowly recovered from the burst of fear, panic and sadness, and saw the surrounding environment clearly.

He had just been lying on his back, placed next to the fire.

Not far away, the rinsing water of the Mermaid Falls is still falling downwards slowly, with sparkling waves and a delicate pool below, just like a mermaid's tail, reflecting the brilliance of scales.

A little further away, although there was a lot of commotion, the tourists were stopped by Mouri Kogoro and others again and again, so they did not get closer. They were still making noisy noises, and occasionally there were dazzling flashes, bright and unscrupulous. stand up.

Oh yes, he just saw Tang Ze fall into the water, and then he followed it without thinking...

"Before going into the water, you should at least take off your obstructive clothes and observe the water environment!" Toyama and Ye shook their hands that were red from wringing out their coats and scolded them dissatisfiedly, "If it weren't for Mr. Fukuyama Help, you really probably didn’t have the strength to surface completely just now. If you run to save others, it’s not worth it if you can’t save them!”

"I..." Pulling the blanket on his body and feeling his still damp underwear, Hattori Heiji woke up completely, looked around, and quickly found what he wanted to see.

The same pure white blanket was covered on another person next to the fire.

Tangze's eyes were closed tightly, and his brown hair that was wet with water was still stuck to his cheeks. He looked very embarrassed and pale.

After all, they still couldn't save him...

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a few seconds, feeling a huge emotion rising from the bottom of his heart, causing a blockage in his throat, as if he was silenced by some substance that filled his chest.

"...When is the time of death?" Hattori Heiji heard his trembling voice, as if he was trying his best to maintain a clear enunciation.

"When else could it be, it must have been half an hour to an hour ago..." Toyama Kazuha raised his head and looked at the stiff-faced Hattori Heiji strangely, "Why are you shivering? Are you cold? Should you send him away?" Can you go back and change your clothes?"

"What, an hour ago?" Hattori Heiji's voice suddenly became louder, even attracting the attention of Conan who was studying on the other side and didn't know what he was studying. "You mean, the murderer kidnapped him for two days, but in Did we just kill him? Then, wouldn't it be our negligence..."

Yuan Shan and Ye stared blankly at him for two seconds, who was about to cry, and then followed his line of sight and glanced at Tang Ze, who was lying peacefully on the ground.

She raised her hand and slapped Hattori Heiji firmly on the back. Conan, who was leaning over, seemed to hear the echo in his chest.

"What are you talking about! You're talking about that side!" The ruthless Toyama and Ye pointed at the place surrounded by people, "Tangze is still alive and well!"

"Ah?" Hattori Heiji, whose mood had just risen, was also stunned and looked towards the place she pointed.

With her eyes wide open and a rough hemp rope wrapped around her neck, Hisumi Ebihara was surrounded by Shimabukuro Kimie and others. Her pale complexion already foreshadowed her fate.

Regardless of whether Karasawa was alive or not, this woman was definitely dead.

Hattori Heiji breathed out and sat back exhausted: "That's right, it scared me to death, that's good... Uh, oh, it's not..."

He breathed a sigh of relief and blurted out a few words. After he finished speaking, he realized that someone had died. It would be fine if he said it here. It sounded wrong, so he stopped talking in embarrassment.

"The rope on Karasawa brother's body is connected to that." Conan pointed to the rope that extended along Ebihara Hisumi's body and submerged under Karasawa's blanket. "So, Karasawa brother, he was actually killed by Ebihara just now. The lady’s body, um, is hanging over there..."

After imagining that weird scene, Conan's facial features wrinkled up.

"So, brother Karasawa, this time, uh, probably the murder weapon...?"

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"Sumei, how could..." Shimabukuro Kimie covered her mouth and knelt on the ground, murmuring in confusion.

She lowered her head and looked at Ebihara Hisumi's extremely frightened face, and then looked at Karasawa who had not yet woken up, but his breathing was steady and his vital signs were normal, and she doubted whether it was genuine.

Is this the method of those monster thieves?

Using one person as a counterweight to hang Shou Mei to death, well, no matter how you think about it...

"We may have to go up there and take a look." Fukuyama Rokuro, who had been browsing for a while, let go of Ebihara Hisumi's cold body with a solemn expression, "It's not yet certain what Hisumi is fixed on top. Normally, She must be lighter than that boy, if the two of them were connected together, they would fall off quickly."

"Anyway, um, it's definitely not suicide, right?" Mouri Kogoro looked at Ebihara Hisumi, who had a very sad death look, and then at Karasawa who was warming himself by the fire not far away, scratched his head, and suppressed it. One sentence.

Several people glanced at him with strange expressions on their faces.

"...That's true." Mao Lilan added respectfully, "Suicide, well, it shouldn't be possible for someone to tie a rope around their own neck, then tie the rope to someone else, and then push the person down... …”

Then the cost of this suicide method is a bit too high...

"But since it's a murder... the murderer definitely can't be Karasawa, right?" Mouri Kogoro crossed his arms and clicked his tongue, "This kid has been missing for two days. And he jumped off a cliff into a waterfall. This kind of thing The method of killing is a bit too dangerous."

"Then, what did the murderer think?" The murderer himself, Shimabukuro Kime, made a sincerely confused voice.

Yes, Shou Mei did hang herself to death. She could still recall her desperate expression while apologizing frantically while feeling the rope around her neck getting tighter and tighter.

Although this was the second person she had strangled to death, she still couldn't adapt to the feeling of looking at a living body that slowly stopped moving in front of her.

However, this did not prevent her from feeling from the desperate expression that they were experiencing the experience of their mother's last moments before her death. The feeling of oxygen being taken away bit by bit and watching the life being exhaled by herself must be very scary. Right?

It's okay to be scary. It's scary enough to comfort my mother's spirit in heaven.

But what on earth do those gang of phantom thieves think?

Is this what they call a solution to the problem? By hanging a child who had been missing for two days in a waterfall and dragging Shou Mei's body down?

Ah, so the boy named Tangze was kidnapped by them?

The puzzled Shimabukuro Kimie's CPU was about to burn. He looked back and forth between Karasawa and Ebihara Hisumi with a dull expression, and for a moment he didn't know how to continue to react.

"Please have my condolences." It was obvious that her actions were interpreted as the fact that she was temporarily hit by the loss of her friend and could not accept the reality. Mouri Kogoro sighed and said seriously, "We have to find out what happened. Who did this? Not only did he kill people, but he also kidnapped others and almost killed another person. This is such a dangerous person."

"Uh, um..." Feeling that he could no longer explain that he had nothing to do with Karasawa's disappearance, Shimabukuro Kimie lowered his head helplessly.

Hey, maybe this is one of the prices for cooperating with them, taking the blame or something.

Forget it, I'm already such a despicable murderer, and it seems like...

no! She kills for revenge, but she has no bad habit of implicating innocent people! This point still needs to be clarified!

Beside the corpse over there, the murderer himself clenched his fists and secretly gathered strength. Several people here surrounded the unconscious Tang Ze and began to study.

"The rope is tied under the armpits..." Pulling some of the blankets on Karasawa's body, Hattori Heiji stretched out his hand to pluck the knots on his body, "It's tied very tightly. Judging from the knotting technique, , it should be a right-handed hit, provided he didn’t struggle.”

"Otherwise, it couldn't be Tangze's own knot, right?" Toyama and Ye rolled their eyelids, took the blanket he lifted, and held it there for them, waiting for the two of them to finish taking photos and evidence collection.

Hattori Heiji, who zoomed in and out to take a few photos, put down his mobile phone that was still working tenaciously after being soaked in water for a while. While untying the hemp rope for Karasawa, he sighed: "Fortunately, I was inspired and changed my mobile phone before setting off. Tangze’s reminder is still effective.”

That's right, after Karasawa's strong recommendation, Hattori Heiji bought a new mobile phone on the way out, which was exactly the one used by the deceased who fell from the building the day before.

"As a detective, you will inevitably encounter situations where the photo location is tricky. If your phone is lost, your precious evidence may be lost."

Karasawa did not come up with the outrageous bullet-stopping theory, but put forward a very logical and realistic scenario, which instantly convinced the two detectives who had intensively disrupted the evidence collection at the scene.

"The first time you use it when you buy it new is to take pictures of Tangze himself, right?" Angrily Toyama and Ye raised their arms for Tangze and completely untied the rope, "Then you are really grateful to him. "

Don't tell me, it's true.

After thinking about this issue for a while, Hattori Heiji felt that the original soup should be used here. After thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, so he simply skipped the topic: "Well, take a picture of his clothes after unbuttoning them, and take a look at him. The condition of his injuries may make it easier to infer how long he was tied up..."

"Speaking of which, is the yukata he is wearing also the handiwork of the murderer?" Conan, who was looking around and tinkering for a while, frowned, "It looks like a hotel style. Karasawa was taken away wearing a yukata. Leaving?"

"I don't know. The hotel owners said that they didn't see him leave at all." Toyama Heye, the first person to discover the disappearance, shook his head, "It's probably because of the yukata, so someone called him just now ,'mermaid'?"

Indeed, because he was wearing an aqua blue hotel yukata that was not very firm, when Karasawa was suspended in the waterfall, at first glance, he looked a bit like a mermaid.

But no matter how you think about it, it's still very suspicious to call someone mermaid or something like that...

"When he wasn't wearing a yukata, weren't there people on the island who called him a mermaid? I remember..." Hattori Heiji shook his head and looked at the man standing not far away, still holding the broken arrow without saying a word. Naoko Kuroe.

What a coincidence, she seemed to have called her that before...

As if sensing his gaze, Kuroe Naoko raised her head and looked back silently with a pair of dead eyes.

Then, she paused for a moment, and slowly showed a weird smile.

"...Huh?" Mao Lilan, who was accompanying Mouri Kogoro to examine Ebihara Hisumi, frowned, raised his head suddenly, and looked around warily.

This slight shaking feeling...is there a small earthquake somewhere?