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"Huh?! Really?"

"Kazuha, what did you say? You won?" Hattori Heiji, who was also stunned when he heard the news, quickly came over to ask.

"Look, it's real!" After saying that, Kazuha showed everyone the number plate in her hand, and without a doubt, it was indeed the winning number.

"That's great, congratulations to you and Ye."

"That's wonderful, Kazuha."

When they saw that their good friend had actually won the lottery, Ran and Akemi Miyano were not jealous because they hadn't won themselves, but instead happily congratulated her.

【No way, Xiaolan didn't win?】

【Don't say that, Kazuha is actually incredibly lucky, okay?】

Afterwards, the staff used water to extinguish the fire that was still burning on the paper door, and the longevity woman left.

After a while, her great-granddaughter, Kimie Shimabukuro, took her place.

She slowly walked to the door and announced, "Everyone, please listen carefully. We will be officially awarding the Dugong Arrows in one hour. Please gather at Mermaid Falls immediately."

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The waterfall's waters continuously crash against the rocks, creating a thunderous roar that is truly awe-inspiring.

Kimie Shimabukuro stood in front of the waterfall, with two torches beside her.

"Now, please invite our three lucky guests to come forward tonight," said Kimie Shimabukuro.

"Okay! I'll be right there." Kazuha raised her hand and walked forward excitedly, accompanied by another person.

"Who is the other one? Has the other person arrived yet?" Seeing that only two people came up, Shimabukuro Kimie asked loudly to the crowd.

Just then, a middle-aged man who looked drunk staggered up and said, "I'm here, it's me."

After saying that, he held up the number plate in his hand to indicate it.

"That's strange, something's not right. I thought that lady had also won." Hattori Heiji said, recalling the lady's appearance in his mind.

"Yeah, why haven't we seen her?" Conan was also puzzled.

"Do you think it's possible that the young lady you're talking about has actually arrived, but something unexpected happened that prevented her from coming up to collect the Dugong Arrow?"

Behind them, Asakawa Yu calmly uttered these terrifying words.

"You...you mean..."

Hattori didn't continue, because they knew what I meant, but at this point they didn't believe that anyone would actually choose to kill someone because of a dugong arrow.

"Now, please, the three of you, receive the light of bliss!"

Just then, a loud bang came from the sky. Looking up, I saw that it was fireworks set up by the organizers.

"Wow, so beautiful!" Exclamations of surprise came from the crowd.

"Look, what's that?" Just then, someone in the crowd noticed something was wrong.

Looking in the direction the man was pointing, everyone saw a scene that terrified them.

Indeed, right in the middle of the waterfall was this woman with long, flowing hair, her body swaying gently from side to side.

She looked just like a mermaid swimming upstream in a waterfall, except that her face was frighteningly pale!

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"Shoumei, could it be that she committed suicide, or was she killed by someone?"

After causing the commotion, Kogoro Mouri and his group immediately evacuated the crowd and, together with others, moved Kotobuki's body down from the ground.

"No, neither of those is possible. The rope around Sumi's neck is a fixed rope installed on the riverbank specifically to prevent danger."

After listening, Mori came out and said, "I see. So, Miss Sumi lost her balance after walking to the riverbank in the dark. Although she grabbed the rope, the current was too fast, causing the wooden stake to fall."

"So she was strangled to death by the rope on her way down the waterfall."

Although it sounds reasonable, something actually feels off as soon as you listen to it.

"Don't you find it a bit strange? The village festival is clearly held below the waterfall, so why would Miss Sumi come to the forest at this time?"

To avoid unnecessary trouble, Asakawa Yu directly pointed out the flaws in Mori and his team's reasoning.

“I think she’s probably looking for the mermaid’s grave,” said Naoko Kuroe, who was standing next to Kimie Shimabukuro, looking up.

"What?" Upon hearing about the mermaid, everyone turned to look at her.

"Because the mermaid's grave is somewhere in this forest. Three years ago, on the night of the festival, after the shrine's warehouse caught fire, the mermaid's bones were reburied here."

Naoko began to recount events from three years ago.

"That's possible. I know that Tomomi has always been very concerned about that matter."

"Wait a minute, what are you guys talking about? Are you sure those skeletons are really mermaid remains?" Hattori couldn't help but ask his biggest question when he saw these people talking about mermaids.

Of course, Asakawa Yu knew that those were not mermaid remains at all. Behind this incident lay a tragic past, but clearly, now was not the right time to uncover it.

"It's hard to say. That's what the villagers on the island say, but the police from the mainland believe it's the remains of a middle-aged woman."

But Naoko Kuroe clearly didn't think so. "That's utter nonsense. You can only say that if all the bones below the waist of that skeleton are still intact."

"Huh? Below the waist..." Mori was a little confused.

"Because a beam that had burned down happened to fall near the waist of the skeleton, the villagers found that the place where the foot bones should have been was completely smashed after they moved the beam away," the man named Fukuyama Rokuro explained.

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"What did you say?!" Hearing this, Conan and the others could vaguely guess what had happened next.

"That's why the TV reported that a mermaid's corpse had been found here, and because of that, the longevity woman became a celebrity overnight."

After their explanation, Conan and his friends finally learned the true nature of the so-called mermaid.

"But didn't the police already say it was the body of a middle-aged woman?" Conan asked.

“I think there must be some unknown past behind this, right, Ms. Shimabukuro Kimie?” Asakawa Yu looked at Shimabukuro Kimie, her eyes seemingly scrutinizing her.

Upon seeing those eyes, Shimabukuro Kimie felt a moment of hesitation, but quickly regained her composure.

Little did she know, Asakawa Yu had already seen it all...