"How dare you! This is a dugong arrow!" Mentou Sayori was so angry at Mizuo Sosuke that she was shaking all over. "Aren't you afraid of being cursed by the mermaid?"
Mizuo Sosuke watched the flames engulf the arrow and said with a smile, "You are not afraid, so why should I be afraid?"
Menjue Saori's pupils shrank. "I don't understand what you are talking about. Mermaids won't curse me!"
"Oh? Then why are you and Miss Shimabukuro so close, but you still haven't been able to get the Dugong Arrow? If this is not the curse of the mermaid, what is it?"
Mizuo Sosuke's words were illogical, but Kadono Saori had already gone a little crazy at this time, and her thoughts quickly went astray. "No, I didn't do anything. If there was really something wrong, how come Naoko and Sumi were fine? Dugong's arrow, dugong's arrow."
As she said this, she rushed to the brazier, ignoring the pain, and pulled out the arrow that had not yet burned out with her hands. Her movements were so fast that the people around her had no time to stop her.
After pulling out the broken arrow, she rushed to the waterfall with the arrow, and used the flowing water to extinguish the flame on the arrow. "It's mine, it's mine. I finally got the dugong arrow!"
Mizuo Sosuke would not let her have her wish, he quickly snatched the arrow and threw it into the waterfall. The water flow was so fast that the dugong arrow disappeared in a moment.
Menjue Shazhi felt as if she had lost her parents, and fell to the ground, "Dugong's arrow, my dugong's arrow."
Mizuo Sosuke crossed his hands in front of his chest and said, "It's not your dugong arrow, it's my dugong arrow. Even if I break it, it's still mine. I can do whatever I want with it."
"I'm going to kill you! You disrespect mermaids, and you will definitely get retribution." Mentou Saori was completely crazy and rushed towards Mizuo Sosuke with bared fangs and claws.
The man in a black suit, who had been watching the farce, was quick to grab her.
Mizuo Sosuke shuddered and said with a pale face, "I threw away my things and refused to give them back to you. If you are still not convinced, then call the police!" After that, he left quickly.
"Wow, it seems that Mr. Mizuo really hates that prostitute." Hagiwara Kenji sighed. Mizuo Sosuke is a well-known figure in the Metropolitan Police Department. He knows a lot about this novelist and knows that he easily faints when he gets emotional. But today he didn't faint and he was fighting on the front line. This shows how much he hates the prostitute Saori.
Matsuda Jinpei also nodded in agreement, "Mr. Mizuo was so brave today that he didn't faint. He's amazing."
Mizuo Sosuke happened to come over at this time and whispered to the two of them, "Hurry up, hold on to me."
The two of them then realized that his back was soaked with sweat and he looked quite frightened.
"Teacher Mizuo, why do you deliberately provoke Miss Mentou?" Kuroba Kaito asked curiously. Although he had only known Mizuo Sosuke for a short time, he could tell that this man was not someone who liked to cause trouble. But today, he deliberately provoked Mentou Saori again and again.
Mizuo Sosuke trembled as he took the water handed to him by Miyazaki Ren, took a big sip, and took out a lollipop from his bag and put it in his mouth before answering vaguely, "Such a simple thing still needs me to teach you? Kudo is smarter than you, don't ask me if you want to figure it out yourself."
Heiyu Kaito was choked for a moment and decided to just think for himself. He didn't want to care about these self-righteous adults anymore!
Then he saw that Mizuo Sosuke, who had rested for a while, found Shimabukuro Kimie. It was unknown what the two said to each other. He only saw that when they parted, Shimabukuro Kimie bowed 90 degrees to him and stood up after a long time.
Then Mizuo Sosuke found Matsuda Jinpei, Hagiwara Kenji and Miyazaki Ren and planned something. Kuroba Kaito wanted to get closer to listen to their plan, but was ruthlessly driven away by Matsuda Jinpei again.
Hei Yu Kuaidou was furious and made up his mind. Although he didn't know what their plan was, he knew that among the targets there must be Menkua Sazhi. As long as he followed Menkua Sazhi secretly, he would know their plans.
After the tourists dispersed, Shimabukuro Kimie specially gathered everyone on the island and claimed that she had received instructions from the mermaid to move the grave of the mermaid's remains to the depths of the forest. The American Shrine will be closed for one day tomorrow, and she would like to apologize to everyone in advance.
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It was a dark and windy night with a full moon high in the sky. It was so quiet inside the American Shrine that you could hear a pin drop.
"Why hasn't Saori come yet?" Ebihara Sumi looked at her watch impatiently.
"I called but no one answered. Forget about her. Let's take action first." Naoko Kuroe put down her phone helplessly and said, "It will be too late if we don't start now. Jun Hui will move the mermaid skeleton away tomorrow. By then, we won't be able to find it if we want to."
"Then let's not wait for her, let's move faster." The two men carried the hoes and swung them vigorously.
They were not worried that Shimabukuro Kimie would suddenly appear, because before that, they had specially found this good friend and put a large amount of sleeping pills in her bedtime milk.
Only Choshoupo and Junhui live in the American Shrine. Choshoupo lives deep in the shrine due to her physical disability and it is impossible for her to hear any noise outside, while Junhui has fallen asleep under the effect of sleeping pills. Today they must get the mermaid's skeleton!
The two brought all the tools with them, and with the help of modern tools, they saw the coffin in a short while. Ebihara Sumi and Kuroe Naoko looked at each other, and they couldn't stop smiling.
As the coffin lid was pushed open, the two saw only half of the skeleton. After a flash of dazzling light, the skeleton disappeared, and there was actually a living mermaid sitting in the coffin.
The mermaid has long black hair like seaweed, but she is not as beautiful as in fairy tales. Her eyes are frighteningly large, with black pupils that take up the entire eye without a trace of white. Her mouth is very big, a bit like the legendary slit-mouthed woman, and the teeth inside are like shark teeth, sharp and pointed, and they glow coldly in the moonlight.
The most terrifying thing is that she has no lower body. The place where the fish tail should be is empty, and only the ears that look like fish fins reveal her identity.
"￥#@￥%" The mermaid's nails were as sharp as her teeth. The cold nails scratched the faces of Sumi Ebihara and Naoko Kuroe, speaking a language they could not understand.
"Let me go, you ugly bastard, let me go!" The minds of Naoko Kuroe and Susumi Ebihara went blank. They struggled to escape the mermaid's grip, but the mermaid was incredibly strong and no matter how hard they struggled they could not get away.
The mermaid tilted her head. What should have been a cute movement turned out to be extremely weird when she did it. She seemed to realize that she couldn't communicate with the language. She paused and said slowly, "Tail, my tail, give it back to me." Her voice was hoarse, not like that of a normal person. It was high and distant, with a bit of the feeling of a dolphin calling.
Naoko Kuroe bravely reached out and touched the mermaid. It was cold and wet. It was not an illusion. "It's really a mermaid!"
"Ah!" Ebihara Sumi collapsed, "Let me go, I didn't steal your tail, it must be Choju Po, Choju Po stole your tail, she ate the mermaid meat!"
"Yes, yes, it's the old lady. You found it in the warehouse of the old lady's house." Naoko Kuroe quickly agreed.
"Changshou Po?" The mermaid repeated the name blankly, but the strength in her hands became stronger.
"Hiss." Naoko Kuroe felt pain and explained in a panic, "It was really the long-haired woman who snatched your tail. She ate mermaid meat and has the power of a mermaid. I saw it with my own eyes, right, Shoumei!"
Ebihara Sumi nodded like crazy, and the mermaid stared at her with her big black eyes, "Chang Shoupo, mermaid power, why?"
"She can survive a fire. We saw it with our own eyes. Last year, there was a fire in their warehouse. We saw her walk into the warehouse and the next day she appeared in front of everyone intact."
The mermaid seemed interested in the topic and she loosened her grip on Naoko Kuroe a little.
Naoko Kuroe breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Later, your remains were found at the scene. It must be that the old lady hid you in the warehouse. Because she took your fish tail, the fire did not harm her, but burned your body instead."
Next to him, Susumi Ebihara also came back to her senses a little. "That must be the case. If the longevity woman hadn't taken your mermaid tail, how could she have survived? And she must have calculated that you were about to wake up, so she was busy trying to move your grave to the depths of the forest."
The mermaid stared at the two men with her inorganic eyes. They felt the pressure coming at them. After a while, the mermaid said with certainty, "It was the fire. You did it!"
Under the gaze of the mermaid, the fragile psychological defense of Ebihara Sumi collapsed again, "Sorry, we didn't mean to do that. We didn't mean to target you. We just wanted to test whether Chojuwa really has the power of a mermaid."
Naoko Kuroe glared at Sumi Ebihara with hatred. How could this stupid woman admit it? But her accomplice had already confessed, so she would be in trouble if she didn't confess. She thought for a moment and said, "I'm really sorry. We have always respected you. We were not the mastermind of the fire. We were drunk that day. It was another person who threatened Saori and suggested it. She was the one who instigated us to burn together, and she was the one who lit the torch."
The mermaid seemed very angry when she heard this. She scratched the faces of the two men with her nails, and two bloody marks immediately appeared on their fair faces. "You lied to me, and you are dishonest. If you tell the truth, there will be a reward."
Upon hearing this, the simple-minded Ebihara Sumi's eyes lit up and she began to tell the whole story, including how they avoided the surveillance around the warehouse, how they used Kimie's name to lure Choshopo into the warehouse, where they bought the gasoline, and how they destroyed the evidence afterwards.
In Susumi Ebihara's narration, although the three were drunk, the arson was not a crime of passion, but a premeditated murder that had been planned for a long time. Although it was indeed Kado Saori who started it, it was Naoko Kuroe who perfected the plan, and Susumi Ebihara was the one who destroyed all the evidence in the end because she was careful.
"You are very good. I reward you." The mermaid seemed very satisfied with Susumi Ebihara's confession. She released the hand that was holding her, and Susumi Ebihara curled up and breathed heavily.
The mermaid turned her head and looked at Naoko Kuroe, "You, lied to me, and you will be punished." Her hands kept tightening, as if she was going to strangle the other person's neck.
Naoko Kuroe could barely catch her breath. "She hasn't finished her words yet. She wants to steal your bones!"
"Oh?" The mermaid relaxed her control over Naoko Kuroe and pulled Sumi Ebihara up again.
Ebihara Sumi, who had finally relaxed for a moment, fell back into the clutches of the mermaid because of her friend's betrayal. She was not willing to accept this and retorted, "Don't believe what this woman said. She was the one who wanted to steal your bones. She was the one who first mentioned it. Mermaid bones have the same effect as mermaid meat."
"You're lying! You clearly said that you prepared all the things!" Naoko Kuroe screamed and retorted.
The two women started to expose each other's past, and in the end, they even brought up the incident when they cheated and stepped on ants when they were children.
After a long while, the two men, with their throats smoking, could no longer curse and finally stopped, panting.
"Pa pa pa" a strong light came on, shining on the two people, and the mermaid in the coffin stood up.
Stand up?
A police officer in uniform appeared. "Sumie Ebihara, Naoko Kuroe, you two are under arrest for premeditated murder!"
The mermaid took off her nails and tore off the disguise on her face, revealing that it was actually Shimabukuro Kimie!
"Ah! You lied to me!" Ebihara Sumi pulled at the officer's trousers and explained, "Officer, listen to me. No one was killed in the fire. Isn't the old lady alive and well? We didn't kill anyone!"
"No, Sumi, the longevity woman is long gone." Shimabukuro Kimie looked down at Kuroe Naoko, "There is no longevity woman at all. It's just a lie made up for this island. Mom was my grandmother before me. The longevity woman in the warehouse is my mother. The so-called mermaid skeleton is actually my mother's corpse. Before she died, she asked me to protect her beloved island. The longevity woman you saw is actually me in disguise."
When Ebihara Sumi heard this, she let go of her hand with lifeless eyes. She covered her face and cried, "I'm sorry, Junhui, I didn't know..."
Naoko Kuroe was still struggling, "Even if this is the case, we can't be convicted. We were just too scared and deliberately made up lies. This kind of fraudulent testimony cannot be counted in the law!"
Shimabukuro Kimie was stunned. She stared blankly at this friend who she had grown up with. It seemed as if she had never known her before. "You are so shameless!"
"Haha, the testimony obtained in this way is illegal, but the places where your evidence is hidden can prove your guilt." Mizuo Sosuke walked out, crossed his arms and said coldly, "Besides, the one who surrenders first will have a reduced sentence. I believe Miss Ebihara will be willing to be this witness!"
"Yes, I'll be a witness. I point fingers at Naoko Kuroe. It was premeditated murder and she is the mastermind!" When Sumi Ebihara heard this, she immediately started shaking and shouted, pointing at Naoko Kuroe.
Since then, the two main perpetrators of the American Shrine Warehouse arson case have been arrested.
"Thank you, Mr. Mizuo!" Shimabukuro said with tears in her eyes.
This was all planned by Mizuo Sosuke. He first repeatedly provoked Kado Saori, and then had Shimabukuro Kimie deliberately announce the news that the mermaid skeleton would be moved. Under his provocation, Kado Saori, who was obsessed with mermaids, would also doubt whether she was really cursed by the mermaid, and thus shifted her target to the mermaid skeleton. Ebihara Sumi and Kuroe Naoko, two people who were also obsessed with mermaids, would not miss this opportunity and would definitely fall into the trap and come together to steal the mermaid skeleton.
Then Inspector Nakamori, who has extensive connections, contacted the police in Fukuoka Prefecture, and the police secretly landed on the island. For Inspector Nakamori's sake, they were willing to watch such a show.
After Miyazaki Ren's modification, the coffin was divided into two layers, the upper layer contained a bone prop with only half of the body, and the lower layer was where Shimabukuro Kimie, who was made up, hid. After Ebihara Sumi and Kuroe Naoko opened the coffin, Shimabukuro Kimie on the lower layer opened the flashing prop given by Miyazaki Ren, activated the mechanism, and took the opportunity to come to the upper layer.
With Shimabukuro's superb makeup skills and the various props given by Miyazaki Ren, such as a mechanical hand that amplifies her strength, she easily played the role of a mermaid and deceived the superstitious Kuroe Naoko and Ebihara Sumi, thereby obtaining their testimony.
Mizuo Cangjie frowned, not happy at all, "Where on earth did Mentou Saori go?" He thought about what happened today, and suddenly bit the lollipop in his mouth, "Oh no, Mentou Saori is in danger!"
At this time, Nakamori Aoko also ran out, "Dad, hurry up, he's gone!"
"Well, in that case, it's not a big problem." Mizuo Sosuke regained his composure.
Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei lacked key information and had no idea what was going on. Curious, they approached Mizuo Sosuke and asked, "Mr. Mizuo, can you explain this to me?"
"Hmph, when I was buying arrows tonight, the woman who threatened me wanted to exchange a secret with me. Although I refused, I was not the only one with her at that time."
"Could it be possible?!" The two thought of a possibility and were filled with shock.
"No doubt, that's what you think. So, what kind of fantasy do you have about those rotten persimmons? Don't you really think they are approachable and public-spirited?"
"No." Hagiwara Kenji shook his head. "Although I know they are unreliable, I didn't expect them to act so recklessly. Will Miss Mentaiko be okay?"
"Whether everything is okay or not, we'll know when the magician comes back." Mizuo Sosuke yawned, squinted his eyes, and leaned his head on Miyazaki Ren's shoulder.
Miyazaki Ren made an impatient "tsk" sound, but slightly adjusted the angle to make him lean more comfortably.
What's going on with these two people? Matsuda Jinpei looked at Hagiwara Kenji and Hagiwara Kenji shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
Just as Mizuo Sosuke expected, Kuroba Kaito came running to ask for help a moment later, "Ms. Mentai, she was caught by the man in black suit."
"Kaito, are you okay?" Nakamori Aoko hurried forward and supported Kuroba Kaito who was gasping for breath.
"It's okay, don't worry, Aoko." Kuroba Kuaidou comforted Xiao Qingmei first, and then emphasized to everyone, "I saw Miss Mentaiko being knocked unconscious by the man in black suit and taken away. I followed her and found her tied to a chair."
"Let's go, the last criminal should be caught soon." Mizuo Sosuke urged, "Finish it soon and go to bed early, I'm so sleepy."
Seeing his calm and composed look, Kuroba Kaito knew that he had lost this time, "Damn it, I will definitely win next time!"
"Well, I believe in fast fighting." Nakamori Aoko encouraged.
Following Heiyu Kuaidou's instructions, everyone found a wooden house near the Mermaid Falls.
Miyazaki Ren took the lead and kicked open the door of the wooden house. Under the dim light, the door was tied to a chair, surrounded by a circle of black suits, "Police, don't move!"
The men in black suits looked at each other, and finally the one who seemed to be the leader raised his hand and said with a smile, "Misunderstanding, we just invited Miss Doorie to be our guest."
"Who would tie up the guests when they visit their house?" Matsuda Jinpei complained.
Morofushi Kagemitsu recognized that this was the man who had come to buy arrows from him. He should be a subordinate of Nakatani Masahiro. "Did Mr. Nakatani send you here?"
"Miss, you are joking. I just admire Miss Concubine and invited her to be my guest. As for the tying up, it's just a little game, right, Miss Concubine?"
As he spoke, the man in the black suit turned his head and stared at Menqie Shazhi, then slowly smiled, "I believe Miss Menqie will seriously reply to the police. After all, your father is still waiting for you at home. I heard that he likes to drink. There is a lot of water in the United States. You have to go back early and don't let your father have any accidents."
The man in the black suit pronounced the words "father" and "accident" in a very serious manner, and everyone present knew that he was threatening.
"Too arrogant! Are you threatening the witness in person?" Inspector Nakamori shouted angrily at the man in black suit.
The man in the black suit was not affected and still had that polite smile on his face. "Of course not. I'm just concerned about Miss Gate."
"Yes... yes, I, we... are just guests, and have nothing to do with this gentleman." Menxia Shazhi stuttered. At this time, her eyes were red and her face was pale. She no longer had her previous arrogance.
Without the testimony of the parties involved, everyone had no choice but to let the group of men in black suits go. The Fuzhou police took away the doorman Shazhi, and everyone had no choice but to return to their residence.
Even though they knew what kind of people these high-ranking officials were, Hagiwara Kenji and his colleagues were still a little stunned when they faced their arrogance for the first time. This was their first time to come into contact with such a deep and hidden darkness, kidnapping and illegal imprisonment, and public threats, and no one could do anything about them.
If Kuroba Kaito hadn't informed them, what would have happened to Mentai Saori? Would he have accidentally fallen into the water and died? And looking at the skilled look in the black suit, it's not hard to guess that this is not the first time they have done this.
"Damn it, are we just going to let them continue to be so arrogant?" Jinpei Matsuda said as he hammered the tree trunk next to him in anger.
"Matsuda, calm down." Nakamori Ginzo, who had been very angry in the wooden house, persuaded, "You can't do anything to them now, but you are all outstanding young people. As long as you are willing to work hard, one day you will be able to reach a higher position and change everything. The future of Japan depends on you young people."
"Inspector Nakamori, has Inspector Tenai encountered something like this before?" Kenji Hagiwara asked suddenly.
"Inspector Tianjing? He has encountered more than just this. It's just the tip of the iceberg, just the tip of the iceberg." By the end of his speech, Ginzo Nakamori's voice had become barely audible.
Hagiwara Kenji and his colleagues felt a sinking feeling in their hearts. If the kidnapping and threats against family members were just the tip of the iceberg, then what exactly had happened to Inspector Tenjing?