Chapter 211 It was really just an accident. Added to the leader [High Cold and Courageous Xuan Xiaohua]
While Shimashiro Kimie was dully reshaping her worldview and Kiri Tengu was busy rolling up murderous marshmallows.
A pair of hands reached out silently from the river.
The mermaid grabbed the lifebuoy that Shimashiro Kimie had just placed by the river and secretly dragged it into the river.
——This is the tool that Shimabukuro Kimie prepared to move Kaihara Nami's body. It is no longer useful.
The mermaid took advantage of Shimadai Junhui's inattention and swam away with the lifebuoy, busy destroying the evidence.
The river was very narrow in places and it was easy to get stuck. The mermaid pushed the lifebuoy over the waterfall and let it fall into the river, then she jumped in, intending to push the lifebuoy all the way into the sea to destroy it.
She swam out for a while with the inflated lifebuoy, but felt the speed was too slow, so she opened her mouth and showed her sharp teeth, trying to bite through the lifebuoy and make it smaller.
Before she could bite it, a hand reached out from the side and pulled the lifebuoy away.
Jiang Xia rescued the innocent lifebuoy and sighed as he looked at the stubborn mermaid in front of him.
Then he wiped the water and fingerprints off the lifebuoy, deflated it, and stuffed it back into the shrine's warehouse.
When leaving the shrine, Jiang Xia saw a dead body in the warehouse.
It belonged to Saori Kadowaki. She was washed ashore by the waves after she drowned and was hidden by Kimie Shimabukuro.
Jiang Xia immediately ordered the mermaid to carry the body away, swim away, tie heavy objects to it, and throw it back into the sea.
After dealing with the issues here, he dispersed the puppet and returned his consciousness to his main body.
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The main body is still hanging up in the hotel at this time.
Next to me were classmates who were excitedly discussing what they had seen and heard today.
It was already completely dark.
After dinner, they sat for a while and then went to the Mermaid Waterfall to watch the fun.
Tourists have already gathered here, and islanders are busy setting up the venue and lighting the sacred fire.
Before the ceremony began, Shimabukuro Kimie appeared in the open space below the waterfall.
She stood in front of the sacred fire, staring at the flickering flames, her expression occasionally a little dazed. But overall, her mental state was pretty good.
By the time the event began, Shimashiro Kimie had returned to normal, at least on the surface there was no flaw.
She held three magic arrows and asked the person who had drawn the dugong's arrow to come forward.
Nao Kuroe and a middle-aged aunt climbed over the fence, got the arrows with their number tags.
But the third "lucky one" never showed up.
Shimabukuro Kimie closed her eyes, trying not to look at the waterfall behind her - the third person was now hanging there quietly.
She paused for a moment and urged according to the procedure, but still no third person came forward.
Suzuki Sonoko was among the onlookers, sighing with regret. She had some impression of Kaihara Nami who had drawn the arrow before: "If I had known that sister didn't want the dugong arrow, I should have bought the number plate from her just now... What a waste."
Jiang Xia shook his head thoughtfully: "When she drew the arrow just now, she looked very happy. It's not that she didn't want it, but something delayed her."
Suzuki Sonoko sighed in disappointment, and together with Mouri Ran and Toyama Kazuha, they stared at the two people who got the Dugong Arrow, feeling a little envious.
Conan and Hattori Heiji were also quite concerned about the third person who was late, but the points of their concern were different - the two looked at each other, then turned back to look at Jiang Xia, and gradually had a bad premonition.
Hattori Heiji whispered to Conan: "Maybe something happened."
Conan said in a weak voice: "Don't curse others..."
After saying this, both of them paused at the same time.
The content of the conversation just now gave them a strong sense of déjà vu.
A similar conversation had taken place not long ago on the way here—on the boat they were on, and then…
Conan and Hattori Heiji thought of the two corpses of the Tokumoto family, their faces changed slightly, and they fell into strange silence.
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Although it is rare for someone to draw a number but have the witch stand up, it has happened before.
After waiting for a few more minutes, when the divine fire was about to burn out, Shimabukuro Kimie announced that this scene would be skipped and moved on to the next stage - applying "blessing light" to the person who drew the divine arrow.
The "Light of Blessing" is actually a handful of bright fireworks. It will be set off below the Mermaid Falls, rising into the sky and illuminating the entire waterfall.
The islanders lit up the fireworks.
As the flames shot up and exploded, Shimabukuro Kimie recited words of blessing.
But a commotion soon arose in the crowd, drowning out her voice.
Jiang Xia and everyone else looked up and saw that diagonally above them, Kaihara Nami, who had drawn the third arrow, was hung in front of the waterfall with a rough rope around her neck.
As the water flowed, the figure swayed slightly. Her slender figure and the dress that clung to her legs after getting wet made her look like a mermaid rising into the air.
…
Ten minutes later.
Jiang Xia and several other people crossed mountains and rivers and returned to the place they had just visited - the river above the Mermaid Waterfall.
When something like this happens, as a surface detective, he must come and check it out.
Hattori Heiji and Conan came too, of course. They thought they were unfamiliar with the mountains, so they asked Shimabukuro Kimie to be their guide.
When Shimabukuro Kimie left the river, she did not forget to clean up the traces she left behind.
She also helped clean up any traces of the "mermaid" that might have been there. While cleaning up the scene, Shimabukuro thought she might be able to pick up one or two fallen fish scales, but failed.
The monster is indeed extraordinary, and it seems that it does not have the disadvantage of losing scales...
(End of this chapter)
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