Chapter 172: Awakening from a Dream
The sky is cloudy and sunny, the moon is full and lacking, and people also have joys and sorrows. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Life and death are parts of no one's life that are missing.
There is always the possibility of meeting each other, but when you die, there is nothing.
All we can do to treat the deceased is inaccessible condolences and thoughts.
When people died, a memorial service was held on the island, and almost all the villagers went.
It's nighttime.
But it's not about tourists.
The uncle is also considered a tourist, so he didn't run over, but played his own.
Let's say wandering around and finding a little girl.
So with a very friendly (obscene) and kind (trivial) smile, he walked over and talked with the little girl.
Maybe it's because there are more tourists on this small island, so the little girl is not afraid of life.
In addition, under the attack of the uncle's sugar-coated shells, he quickly relaxed his guard and walked around with the uncle.
Anyway, she couldn't get out of this small island, and her parents seemed to have gone to the memorial service, so no one cared.
Two people, one big and one small, as if there was no generation gap, chatted about the sky and the constellations.
"Mom said I'm a Sagittarius, what about you, uncle?"
"Me? I'm a hand Sagittarius for the time being? ”
"For the time being? Hand Sagittarius? Is there such a constellation? ”
"You'll know when you're older."
"Oh."
The little girl answered, and continued to lick the lollipop that the uncle had bought for her.
The uncle looked at her out of the corner of his eye.
I deliberately bought a palm-sized lollipop for her to lick slowly.
Ahem.
"Little girl."
"Huh?"
"Can you tell me about Miss Junhui?"
"Sister Junhui?"
"yes, you know a lot."
"Sister Junhui is a good person."
"Well, and then what?"
"And then? And then what? ”
“……”
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Some people seem to be doing meaningless things, but in fact, every move has a deep meaning behind it.
Do you think that the uncle is ostensibly chatting with the little girl, but in fact he is getting information?
Wrong.
He's just chatting with the little girl, by the way......
Well, there's actually nothing about it either.
It's dark.
While chatting with the little girl, the uncle found that the police had arrived on the island.
Tonight, there is no moon and no stars, and the weather is very gloomy.
But it didn't rain.
There was another homicide at the memorial service, and this is already the second homicide.
However, with the presence of the police, Conan and Hattori Heiji didn't do much.
Not all cops will give face to detectives, and it's also a high school student detective with a small child.
If the uncle is there, maybe the police will give him a face and ask the uncle to assist in the investigation.
But the uncle is not there.
Even waited until the shrine's warehouse caught fire before the uncle returned to the shrine.
The fire burned fiercely, but the uncle just watched quietly and did not participate in the rescue.
Some things are known from the beginning, so the uncle is very calm.
On the contrary, Xiaolan and the others are very worried, and at this moment, they are not in the mood to settle last night's account with the uncle.
Conan and Heiji Hattori were surprised by their uncle's behavior.
As soon as the uncle came here, he acted on his own, and when he heard about the murder, he didn't seem to be surprised, and he even ran to Shimabukuro Kimie's room in the middle of the night last night......
So what the hell is Uncle doing?
They were a little skeptical about it, thinking that the uncle might know something.
But if you think about it carefully, it was Hattori Heiji who received the commission, not an uncle, and even if he knew, he knew more than the uncle.
So this suspicion seems a little unreasonable.
The two of them studied it for a while, but they didn't figure it out.
In the end, I didn't continue to study, but considered the case.
The fire burned all night.
The police, the villagers are all helping to put out the fire.
But it wasn't until the next day, when it was slightly bright, that the fire was extinguished.
However, the warehouse had completely burned down, and a burnt corpse was found inside.
……
The one who once said: some people are dead, he is still alive, and some people are alive, he is dead.
There are always some people who will always live in the hearts of a certain person or some people.
No matter what, what happened on Mermaid Island, what should have happened and what shouldn't have happened, is happening.
This time, the uncle was just a bystander.
Because he ran away early, when Conan finally found out the truth, the uncle was not anesthetized.
The more times like this, the more the uncle feels that he is different from Conan and Hattori Heiji.
Perhaps, in comparison, they are pure detectives, they are looking for the truth for the sake of the truth.
Uncle is different, uncle does not necessarily have to find the truth, nor does he think that the person who kills must accept sanctions or something.
Although it is difficult for him to understand the feelings of the murderer.
There are some things that are difficult to understand without experiencing them personally.
Anyway, on the third night of coming to Mermaid Island, after several people died, Conan and Hattori Heiji teamed up to find out the truth.
At the same time, it also revealed the secret of the longevity woman.
This is a lie that is long overdue.
In fact, the fact that the longevity woman is fake is known to the elderly people on the island.
It's not that they see through Kimie Shimabukuro's disguise so well, but from the beginning, they know the truth.
Originally, this lie should have ended when Kimie Shimabukuro's mother died in a fire a few years ago.
But when they saw Kimie Shimabukuro's pretending to be a longevity woman, they didn't know what to say.
And so the lie continued, until now.
Many times, many things, in fact, are clearly stated at the beginning, and may not develop bad results.
However, there is no if.
So when we do things, we generally don't think about whether we will regret it in the future, but whether we will regret it now.
We can't know what the future holds, all we can grasp is the present.
Just as there is no immortality in the world.
Immortality and immortality are only illusory after all.
And now, for the people of the island, it's time to wake up from the dream.
……
The weather has been gloomy, but it just hasn't rained.
In the morning, the wind was strong and the waves were strong, as if they wanted to stop the shrine maiden who was silently guarding the island from being taken away by the police.
However, it cannot be stopped.
Uncle didn't come out until this time, and he didn't know where he ran last night.
The police knew his name, so they said they wanted to talk to Kimime Shimabukuro, but they didn't stop him.
The uncle also met with Shimabukuro Junhui smoothly.
"Miss Junhui, I think you might want to think about working for me now."
That's what Uncle said.
When I first came here, I had such a purpose, but at that time, Shimabukuro Junhui refused.
But that's because she has too many worries and too many things that she can't let go.
But now, there aren't so many of her presences to bind her.
There are only uncles and Shimabukuro Kimie on the boat, and those policemen are very good at being people, giving them space to be alone.
Shimabukuro Kimie just thought about it for a moment, and shook her head helplessly.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Maori, but I can't help you."
"Why?"
"My hands were stained with blood, and being tried and sent to prison was just a small atonement for my insignificant sins."
They are all people who are going to prison, so how can they help people work?
In this regard, the uncle did not say much.
Just took out a cigarette and bit it in his mouth, originally wanting to light it.
But the wind was too strong for the lighter to do its job.
Maybe you should buy a windproof lighter, but with such a strong wind, I don't know if those windproof lighters won't be useful.
The police soon left with Kimie Shimabukuro.
The villagers of the entire island came to see them off.
This shrine maiden who has contributed a lot to the island is very prestigious here.
The uncle didn't say much, just stood quietly to the side.
"See you in Tokyo, Miss Mikoto."