Half a day later, the test results finally came out.

"Oh, I see. Thank you for calling."

Click!

After hanging up the phone, Kogoro Mouri's face began to darken.

"What were the results of the test?" Hattori asked nervously from behind Mori.

Mori slowly turned his head, his expression gradually becoming serious.

"The police compared the shape of the teeth of the charred corpse with the dental treatment marks of Miss Junhui and found that they were completely consistent."

!!!

No! Why! My shrine maiden sister!!!

[That girl was so beautiful, how could she just disappear?]

[Waaaaah, my Junhui!]

Upon hearing this news, Fukuyama Rokuro seemed to lose all his luster, instantly kneeling on the ground and pounding on the floor.

"No, no, I don't believe it, this can't be true!" he shouted, kneeling on the ground, his voice filled with disbelief.

Conan and Hattori, who were standing there, had already clenched their fists tightly!

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Afterwards, the group went to the place where the old woman was resting.

They were kneeling outside the door, explaining everything to the old woman who was resting in bed.

"Is that so? Junhui is dead..." Her tone was calm, seemingly devoid of any emotion, but everyone assumed she was suppressing her grief.

"We are very sorry, this was all due to our momentary negligence." Hattori Heiji apologized to the old woman on behalf of everyone.

“Young lives are passing away one by one, while I drag this body along, barely clinging to life,” the longevity woman said.

"By the way, I heard that the old lady entrusted someone to move the mermaid's grave to the mountains two years ago. Who did you ask to do that?" Conan asked the old woman.

"What's the point of asking these questions? He left me behind just like that." The old woman's words to Conan conveyed an attitude that even if she told them, it wouldn't make a difference.

"That's it..."

………………

"Hey old man, have you found any clues?" After leaving the old woman's place, Hattori, along with Kazuha and Conan, came to Kogoro Mouri's place.

"There's nothing."

Kogoro Mouri stood up. "This case is really strange. If we don't find the suspect, we won't know what the motive is. Besides, it's also puzzling why Miss Kimie would dress up as Saori."

"I think the killer's purpose was to make people think that it was Saori who died, not Kimie," Hattori Heiji guessed.

"So the murderer is Saori then," Mori continued, following Hattori's lead.

"It is also possible that this was a trap set by the murderer."

rustle!

"That's... the sound of ocean waves?"

The sea lapped against the beach, creating a soft, rustling sound.

"After you go out from here, it connects directly to the sea..." As she spoke, Kazuha seemed to remember something and began to sob. "Miss Kimie told me this last night."

Kazuha wiped away her tears, her voice gradually weakening.

Hattori watched quietly. "No matter who this murderer is, one thing is certain: we must not let him continue to get away with it. He is a murderous monster who doesn't care about human life."

Hattori looked so cool when he said those words, but the viewers' attention was completely elsewhere.

[You wretched black chicken, why don't you just hug it already!]

[Black Chicken is such a straight man]

Sure enough, all these detectives are the same!

Wait, my Asakawa isn't like that!

[I really laughed. Is Asakawa a detective? His main job is a barista, okay?]

"Dad!" Just then, Xiaolan rushed out of the house.

"What's wrong, Xiaolan?"

"Someone just made a phone call to Miss Junhui's house, and what they said was very strange."

Hearing this, Mori was a little confused. "What's so strange about it?"

"He said he was very grateful to the shrine for parting with the Dugong Arrow, that the one million he contributed was very worthwhile, and that his son's surgery went very smoothly."

"What did you say?!" Kogoro Mouri and Heiji Hattori were both shocked.

"He paid a million to get that arrow?!"

"Yes, he said that a man who works at the shrine sold him the arrow the day before yesterday morning."

“So, the person who called must be one of those who returned their number plates on the morning of the celebration,” Kazuha said.

"It seems so," Xiaolan replied uncertainly.

"So, what's that person's name?" Hattori asked quickly.

"He said he didn't know the man's name, but he was a tall man with stubble on his face, and he was probably around fifty years old."

"What did you say?"

"That's right, it's Mr. Kadokawa!" In an instant, both Conan and Hattori thought of this person.

“Hey, there wasn’t a celebration yet, so that arrow was…” Mori thought of a possibility.

"That's right, so it must be the arrow that Saori lost some time ago."

"Moreover, Mr. Menxie was lucky enough to draw that arrow on the day of the celebration, and the list of people who bought the number plates disappeared without a trace," Conan rationally analyzed.

"Yes, that's worth considering. The arrow of Naoko, who was killed on the night we kept vigil for Miss Sumi, was also stolen..."

"It seems I need to go and visit the boat owner's family who held the vigil that day, Kudo... Ah! No, no!"

Hattori straightened his hat and casually called out Conan's real name, but immediately realized his mistake and quickly corrected himself, "Ah, no, no! Uncle, the Kadokawa family is in your hands now, ahahaha."

After saying that, he immediately ran away, leaving only a few people behind.

"That kid..." Conan sighed silently as he watched Hattori's departing figure.

The perspective shifts to the other side, where Asakawa Yu is sitting quietly in the house with Miyano Akemi.

"Boss, what exactly are we doing here?"

Seeing that the two had been waiting here for so long, Miyano Akemi began to feel confused. Come to think of it, she seemed to have never guessed what her boss was thinking.

"Waiting for someone." Asakawa Yu only said this one sentence, and then stopped talking.

"Waiting for someone? Boss, who are you talking about..."

Slide!

Akemi Miyano was speaking when the door to the room was pushed open.

To Miyano Akemi's surprise, the person who opened the door was none other than her!

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