"It's really strange, if only we knew who bought which number plate last night."

Hattori scratched his head, looking very annoyed.

“That’s easy,” Shimabukuro Kimie suddenly said.

"Hmm?" Conan and Hattori both craned their necks to listen after hearing this.

“Because I will write down all the people with each number on the roster, in that case, why don’t we go and take a look at that roster now?” With that, Kimie Shimabukuro prepared to stand up.

"Of course!" Hattori and the others agreed without hesitation.

After a while, a group of people appeared at the door.

"Hey! Be careful, Dad." Hattori helped the drunk Kogoro Mori slowly walk out, while Asakawa and the others followed behind.

"I didn't drink that much!"

Kimie Shimabukuro followed behind the group, but as she walked, a voice called out to her from behind, "Kimie!"

Shimabukuro Kimie turned around and saw that it was Fukuyama Rokuro.

“I know the time isn’t right, but could you please reconsider that matter? I’m very serious.” Fukuyama Rokuro stood before her, staring intently at her.

"Don't do that. Not only would it be unfair to the deceased Sumi, but I also have my great-grandmother to take care of. So it's impossible for me to leave this island. I'm sorry."

After saying that, Shimabukuro Kimie turned and left without a trace of regret.

As they walked, Xiaolan and her friends started gossiping about what had just happened to Shimabukuro Kimie.

"I see. So the five of you went to the same university all along."

"Yes, because we all love movies, we even joined the film studies club at university. A few of us even made a film called 'The Story of a Bhikkhuni,' which we submitted to an exhibition and won a gold medal. Everyone was very happy and said we could go to Hollywood."

Kimie Shimabukuro then began to tell everyone their past stories.

"Eh...that's not bad." Kazuha also thought it was impressive.

"But later on, everyone still couldn't forget life on the island and came back. Unexpectedly, something like this happened to Sumi and Naoko..."

And so, the group chatted all the way until they finally arrived at the shrine of Kimie Shimabukuro's family.

"That's strange. I remember putting her in this drawer. How could she be gone?"

Inside the room, Kimie Shimabukuro was flipping through the roster, but she couldn't find it anywhere.

"You mean the roster is missing?"

"Yes, only this year's are missing."

"Do you think your great-grandmother might have taken it?" Hattori guessed from the side.

“That’s absolutely impossible.” To everyone’s surprise, Kimie Shimabukuro stated outright that it was impossible.

"Does anyone else know that the roster is kept here?" Conan asked from the side.

“Almost everyone on the island knows about this.” With that, Kimie Shimabukuro stood up. “Just to be on the safe side, I’ll look in other rooms.”

After hearing this, Ran and the others volunteered to help Kimie Shimabukuro search for her.

"Then I'll come along too. You guys wait for us here, boss."

After saying that, Akemi Miyano left the room with Kimie Shimabukuro and the others.

At this moment, only Asakawa Yu, Hattori Heiji, and Kogoro Mouri, who was still fast asleep, remained in the room.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, Hattori and the others simply picked up the old registers scattered on the ground and started looking at them.

"Wow, the people who have been here are quite impressive. There's a former foreign minister, a former home minister, and the president of the Bank of Japan. It turns out everyone wants to live forever."

Conan was also quietly flipping through the book in his hand. As he looked at it, he actually saw a name that he was very familiar with.

Shiho Miyano?! I think that guy's real name is Shiho Miyano...

"Brother Qianchuan, come look here! I've found something really interesting..."

"what!!!"

Conan thought that Asakawa Yu and Haibara seemed to have a pretty good relationship, so he prepared to call Asakawa Yu to come and see, but he was interrupted by a scream from outside!

"That voice... is Xiaolan's!"

So, after hearing the scream, Conan and the others immediately ran out.

"What happened?!"

"There was a woman over there just now... with brown hair and glasses..."

“They just stood there staring at us!”

Ran and Kazuha finished recounting everything they had just witnessed, their voices trembling.

Asakawa Yu looked at Miyano Akemi and saw that she also had a tense face. It seemed that what Ran and the others had just said was true.

"Could it be...?" Without prior agreement, Conan and Hattori simultaneously conjured up Saori's face in their minds.

"Could it be Saori?!"

Hattori was about to go out and check when he was drawn to the broken glass on the door. "What happened to the glass? How did the glass on the glass door get broken?"

"Where is Kimie?" Only now did Conan realize that Kimie Shimabukuro wasn't with Ran and the others.

"Oh, she said she wanted to look for it at the newly built warehouse."

"So where is that warehouse?" Hattori continued to press.

"I think we don't need to ask anymore, so let's look over there."

Everyone looked in the direction Asakawa Yu was pointing, and then they saw a scene that shocked them all.

!!!

"Why is it so bright there?!"

"Is it possible?!"

Clearly, Conan and Hattori had considered one possibility.

Sure enough, when they arrived there, they saw the warehouse in front of them engulfed in flames!

After notifying the fire department, Asakawa Yu and the others moved away from the area to avoid being burned by the fire.

The warehouse burned all night, and just like three years ago, it was reduced to ashes.

The same thing happened three years ago; in the end, a charred body was found in the warehouse...

"A charred corpse?" Hattori was talking to Fukuyama Rokuro, who had just returned from fighting the fire, at the door of the room.

"That's right. Although the deceased was charred all over, she was wearing glasses and blue clothes. This has been confirmed. I think that must be Saori, who has been missing."

"Then...then what we saw last night was..."

Is it a ghost?

Upon hearing that Saori was dead, Ran and the others who had seen Saori the night before were immediately frightened. But to Asakawa Yu's surprise, Miyano Akemi was just as scared as they were. It just goes to show that girls are all afraid of ghosts and monsters.

"Junhui...Junhui, where are you?" The old lady's voice came from inside the room.

"Miss Kimie hasn't returned yet," Hattori Heiji said.

"I'm worried, I want to go with the old woman to check on her."

"Then I'm going too."

So, Xiaolan and Heye followed the old woman out.

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