Chapter 458 Born in darkness, melted into darkness
"Hello, Miss Shimabukuro, we meet again."
Looking at Qin Zhibo's outstretched hand, Shimabukuro June was a little confused. Didn't he shake hands with the tourist in front of him last time?
Although she was thinking this in her heart, Shimabukuro Kimie still extended her hand politely and responded.
When the two hands were held together, Qin Zhibo started an investigation.
【Survey√】
Name: Shimabukuro Kimie
Will:60
Lucky:45
[Evaluation: The blood of mermaid flows through the body]
[Skills: Arts and Crafts (Performance), Disguise, Voice Changing, Cooking, Car Driving.]
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When they shook hands for the first time, Qin Zhibo just took a look at Shimabukuro Kimie's gender and stopped. He didn't see the lowest level of skills.
But this time, Qin Zhibo finally saw that Shimabukuro Kimie was the one with the three-piece transformation suit.
The three-piece transformation set refers to performance, disguise, and voice change. As long as you have these three skills, you can transform into other people at will.
As for the person Shimabukuro Kimi transformed into, Qin Zhibo also had a rough guess, but he was not sure yet.
Because the height difference is really too big.
"Miss Shimabukuro, can you please go for a walk on the beach?"
Shimabukuro Kimie glanced at the direction of the beach with a somewhat embarrassed expression, but still stood up.
"All right."
As soon as the two of them left through the side door, Conan and his party pushed in through the front door.
As soon as they entered the wake room, Conan and Hattori Heiji both looked at Kadori Benzo who was kneeling on the cushion.
This is the number one suspect in their minds right now, and even his daughter, Saori, who has been missing, may be a helper.
So their goal today is to further observe Monaribe Benzo, ask Ebina's parents about the shipwreck five years ago, and determine the motive for the murder.
Ebina's parents are receiving guests outside, but the night is still long and there is plenty of time.
But at this moment, a female scream suddenly sounded from the side door of the wake room toward the seaside.
Qin Zhibo walked to the side door and was about to go to the beach. Before the door could be opened, a few thunders lit up the dark beach, and a body hanging on a fishing net suddenly became visible.
Shimabukuro Kimie screamed in fright, attracting other people in the wake room.
"What happened!?"
Hattori Heiji ran over to take a look, and also saw the corpse hanging on the fishing net, staring at a very regular pot lid.
"It seems to be Miss Naoko!"
Reacting to this, Hattori Heiji quickly asked Uncle Mori to get a flashlight, but Qin Zhibo had already taken out the nuclear lighter and walked to the beach.
Seeing that Qin Zhibo was wearing a light, Conan remembered that his watch could also shine, so he quickly illuminated it and followed him to the beach.
Seeing that his good gay friend was glowing, Hattori Heiji quickly followed suit.
As they walked, the three of them observed the footprints on the beach.
There is only a string of straight footprints leading to the beach. If these footprints were made by Kuroe Naoko herself, could this be...
Hattori Heiji and Conan looked at each other and thought of that proper noun.
But before he could even say it out loud, Qin Zhibo denied what they were thinking.
"It's not a secret room murder, you see"
Following the direction of Qin Zhibo's finger, the two saw behind the fishing net hanging the body of Kuroe Naoko, and a long series of footprints leading straight into the sea.
Not only that, there were some small sequins scattered on the ground next to the footprints.
Conan quickly squatted on the ground and picked up a piece before he was sure what it was.
"These are fish scales"
Qin Zhibo put on white gloves, took the scales from Conan's hand and checked them in front of the lighter.
Uniform round scales, half light blue and half fritillary white.
【Survey√】
[A familiar scale]
No matter how many people die in the same series of cases, only one mission will be triggered.
The mission had already been triggered when Ebina died before, so now Qin Zhibo can investigate directly without triggering the mission.
Qin Zhibo discovered the footprints behind the fishing net just now through investigation.
As for this scale, Qin Zhibo certainly seemed familiar with it.
These were exactly the kind of scales that fell from Shimabukuro Keikazu's body when he was chasing him in the Mermaid Forest.
After Mouri Kogoro borrowed a flashlight, Hattori Heiji and Conan began to investigate the surroundings carefully.
The number of scales is not too many, but their distribution position is puzzling.
The number of scales around Naoko Kuroe is relatively large, while the number of scales along the footprints is relatively small.
There are also some scales on Naoko's body.
From this point of view, it looks like a mermaid covered in scales really came from the sea and killed Naoko, so the scales on her body fell off more when the target struggled violently.
At other times, because it is just ordinary walking, the scales do not fall off very much.
Although it is very logical to spread the scales like this, the murderer doesn't really think that the police will identify the murderer as a mermaid, right?
Conan and Hattori Heiji didn't understand the murderer's mind, while Qin Zhibo stood beside Kuroe Naoko and quietly picked up the skills on the corpse.
【Corpse Investigation√】
[Name of the deceased: Naoko Kuroe]
[Time of death: half an hour ago]
[Cause of death: strangulation]
[Complete corpse investigation, acquired skill: Accounting]
[Repeated acquisition of skills will be converted into 1000 skill proficiency for that skill]
After the investigation was completed, Qin Zhibo's accounting skills were successfully upgraded to one level, and his ability to detect false accounts became even better.
At this moment, the Fukui Prefecture police arrived belatedly after a day's absence. They hurried over with flashlights and scolded these people for leaving the scene of the murder.
Maori Kogoro gave a brief explanation and introduced his identity to the indigenous police here.
"The three of us are all legitimate detectives with professional ethics and will not destroy the scene at will."
The policeman was stunned for a moment and counted the people on the beach with his fingers.
"Is this kid One, Two, Three also a detective?"
Mouri Kogoro was startled, and then he realized that Conan was also following him, investigating seriously.
Seeing that the police officer was referring to him, Conan scratched his head and giggled twice, "hehehehe", and was rewarded by Mouri Kogoro with a trick to "get out of the place".
"Now the remaining three are detectives." Mouri Kogoro explained again.
But the police glanced at the beach, their eyes still full of doubts.
"One, two, there are obviously only two of us, where did the third person come from?"
Hearing this, Hattori Heiji, who had been standing on the beach calmly, became unhappy.
"Hey, hey! Am I not a human being?"
Suddenly, a strange Kansai accent came from the direction of the dark seaside, startling these ignorant indigenous policemen.
"Who is talking?"
"Come out and let me see you!"
Qin Zhibo glanced at the police officers who were looking around, and then at Hattori Heiji who was standing next to him.
He sighed helplessly and lit Hattori Heiji with a nuclear lighter.
This is a sad story "born in darkness and melting into darkness".
But who says that the one who stands in the light is the hero?