Fujino pretended to think about it, and turned his head to look at Naoko Kuroe on the side: "Miss Kuroe, do you have any ideas?" ”

"Thoughts?"

Kuroe Naoko was obviously stunned when she heard this, "What can I think......"

"Whether it's Door Association Saori or Miss Shoumei, that person's law of starting seems to start from your social circle."

Fujino met Kuroe Naoko's eyes: "I've heard people on the island say before that Miss Kuroe, you, and Miss Shoumi seem to be good friends who have played with Saori Mono until they grow up." ”

"That's right, Junhui, Shoumi, and Saori and I have been good friends since we were children."

Kuroe Naoko was noncommittal about the relationship between several people: "But, what does it matter? ”

"Now it seems that there have been two people who have been attacked by Xiao Hei, and the characteristics of the crime are particularly clear."

Fujino whispered, "I think the next target may be Ling or Miss Kimie." ”

Hattori Heiji and Conan both lowered their heads and thought for a moment when they heard this.

I think what Fujino said makes a lot of sense.

Although it seems simple, judging by the people who have been attacked now, such a conjecture is quite regular.

Hattori Heiji saved his chin, turned his head to Kuroe Naoko and asked, "Speaking of which, Miss Kuroe, Miss Junhui, how many of you have, do you have any enemies?" ”

"Enemies?"

Kuroe Naoko frowned: "Where will we have any enemies...... Normally we were all on the island and we didn't go out a few times at all...... Even the people of the island don't hold grudges...... Could it be a merfolk?! ”

At this, there was a sudden pause in her words, and then there was a moment of silence, and her face turned white.

The reason was nothing else, but she suddenly remembered that she and two other friends burned the mermaid to death three years ago.

As a believer in merfolk, she immediately picked up her previous thoughts, thinking that it was the ghost of the mermaid who was taking revenge.

Now the other two who set the fire with her have been punished......

Wouldn't that be her next?

"Miss Kuroe, do you remember anything?"

Fujino's eyes narrowed slightly, noticing Kuroe Naoko's strange look.

Sure enough, just as he thought, he was already panicking.

Well, that's right, you're next!

"Nothing...... I just remembered that I still had something to do. ”

Kuroe Naoko shook her head, and she didn't plan to tell her and her friends about arson, so she turned around and said casually: "That's it for today, I'll go first......"

"It's weird......"

Conan looked at the back of Naoko Kuroe who was leaving in a hurry, and said curiously: "Sister Kuroe seems to have something to hide from us. ”

"I feel that way, too."

Hattori Heiji was also a little puzzled, "Miss Junhui, do you know something?" ”

"I don't know...... Although I have been friends with them since childhood, the relationship is not also close, but more like a network composed of Saori as the backbone. ”

Shimabukuro Kimie shook her head helplessly, glanced back at Kuroe Naoko, and there was a hint of murderous intent in her eyes.

"Is that so?"

Fujino nodded when he heard this, and then continued to ask: "By the way, I heard Miss Kuroe say just now that you are usually on the island, and you don't have any enemies in Honshu at all, is that so?" ”

"That's right......"

Shimabukuro Junhui nodded and replied: "We usually live on this island, and we rarely go out, and even if we do, we just go out to travel." ”

"That means that little black is most likely from this island."

Fujino thought for a moment, "If it's because of grudges, then I'm afraid that the only people on this island will be the ones who will attack you." ”

"Won't it?"

Shimabukuro Kimie was stunned when she heard this.

"I think it's a big possibility."

Hattori Heiji took over the conversation: "As you said before, if there is a grudge, it should also be from the island, in fact, in addition to the fact that the two people who were attacked are friends, there is also the fact that they both have dugong arrows, but I don't understand a little, yesterday I remember that Miss Shoumi should have drawn dugong arrows, but why all three of them were present." ”

"I remember too!"

At this time, Conan chimed in on the side: "That sister obviously said that she had won, but in the end, in addition to Sister He Ye, the other two were the drunkard who looked like Uncle Maori, and the sister just now. ”

"What did you say?"

Mori Kogoro heard that he was called an alcoholic, and immediately felt a wave of displeasure.

Conan embarrassed: "Haha...... It's nothing. ”

"But if I want to say, she must have seen it wrong."

Uncle Maori once again played a trick of interfering with the case and bringing the big guy into the maze: "If you want me to say, she must have misread her number and the number she won, so she said that, I used to bet on horses, I encountered it...... Ahem. ”

"But I don't think so."

Hattori's eyes narrowed slightly, "At that time, Sumi's wooden card was not on his body...... If that were the case, one of the two people who received the prize at that time must have used Sumi's wooden card. ”

At this time, Maori Kogoro suddenly opened his mind: "Then as long as you find out who the wooden card is, won't you be able to figure out who is the attacker?" ”

"If only it were that simple."

Speechless for a moment, Conan said helplessly: "None of us have seen what Miss Shoumei's number plate is, and it will not work at all to conclude the attacker based on this kind of evidence alone." ”

Shimabukuro Junhui's expression changed slightly when she heard this, and she wanted to say something, but she hesitated for a moment and still didn't say anything.

In fact, she wanted to say that in her home, there was actually a list of people who drew lots.

But after thinking about it, if it is really the same as the reasoning of these detectives, then that little black is likely to be exposed.

Although she doesn't know who Xiao Hei is, if she thinks about it, it may be Kuroe Naoko, or the door association Benzo.

But these two people, no matter how she thought about it, she couldn't figure out which one was Xiao Hei.

One is a well-known drunkard in the village, and the other is one of the murderers of his mother.

It's not reasonable to think that these two people are right.

"With her current situation, it was too difficult to ask for the number on the bib."

Rokuro Fukuyama, who had just returned to the ward to appease Ebihara Sumi, walked out, heard the conversation of several people, and suddenly mentioned: "If it's a number plate, I remember that there should be records at the shrine, right?" ”

"Is there anything like this?" Hattori Heiji was puzzled.

"In order not to mistake the names of the people who participate in the lottery every year, we do record them on the roster."

Shimabukuro-kune glanced at Fukuyama Rokuro with resentment, and then sighed: "It's just that that kind of thing happened last night, and I haven't had time to check this year's list." ”

Conan's eyes flashed with essence when he heard this: "Then Sister Junhui, can you take us to see that roster?" ”

"Well, no problem."

Kimie Shimabukuro was a little reluctant, but the three detectives in front of her were here, and she was not very easy to refuse.

…………

Ten minutes later.

Under the leadership of Kimie Shimabukuro, Fujino and his party came to Shimabukuro's house again and came to the room where the miscellaneous items were stored.

"Here it is, draw the list of dugong arrows."

Kimie Shimabukuro handed a stack of thick notebooks to everyone.

"That's a lot......"

Hattori looked at the large number of records in front of him, and couldn't help but have a headache.

"These are the lists from previous years."

Kimie Shimabukuro said, pulling out a notebook from the pile of notebooks and explaining, "This year's list is here. ”

Hattori Heiji was a little helpless, so he could only start to look through it slowly.

Fujino, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, and casually drew two or three lists of the last two years.

If memory serves, the lists appear to have the signatures of Gin, his younger brother, and Shirley.

He wanted to confirm the real names of Gin and Vodka.

It's just two or three books.

With the effect of the perception bonus, Fujino quickly found the leaf.

The quick page turning in his hand stopped, and he looked at the notebook, and he saw: [Kurosawa Array], [Uozuka Saburo], [Miyano Shiho] several names.

"It's not ...... as I remember"

Fujino thought about it, but he felt that the name Gin was a bit ......

It's quite in line with the other party's temperament.

His name has always been uncertain.

Now that he has seen it with his own eyes, he has a little certainty.

After all, if you consume a white wolf cigarette for a bad name, it will be a bit more than worth the loss.

But even if you know about it, you have to think about it.

Shiho Miyano uses his real name, so there must be no problem.

As for Uozuka Saburo and Kurosawa Jin, these names......

He wasn't sure if it was true or not.

I can only find an opportunity to practice the truth.

"Brother Fujino, what are you looking at?"

At this time, Conan noticed Fujino who was flipping through the books.

Reminiscent of the previous situation when Fujino quickly found the gangster from multiple screens at high speed.

He had reason to suspect that Fujino was secretly collecting some evidence behind his back.

As far as he is concerned, Fujino, an old critic, is sneaky in everything.

Even sometimes he can see through the truth directly, and before he can figure it out, people have already begun to prove it.

"Nothing."

Fujino shook his head and didn't say much.

It's just that I'm a little speechless in my heart, and secretly complains about Conan, this kid, why do you stare at yourself every day?

"Found it!"

At this time, Hattori Heiji suddenly shouted.

"Have you found it yet?"

Conan was immediately attracted to attention, and turned back and asked, "Who is it?" ”

"It's Benzo."

The service's face, which was usually a little dark, sank: "This list has the names of Ebihara Sumi and Kuroe Naoko, but there is no name of Menxie Benzo." ”

"Nani?"

Conan was shocked.

"Could it be that guy who attacked Miss Sumi?"

Mori Kogoro guessed, "When that guy heard that Miss Sumi had drawn the dugong arrow, he got so bad at it that he attacked her with the strength of his wine, and then came back to exchange it for the arrow as if he had nothing to do." ”

"But what is he doing attacking others and stealing number plates......"

Hattori Heiji was still a little puzzled: "And if he is Xiao Hei, then his daughter is probably also kidnapped by him." ”

He couldn't understand that someone would attack someone for this kind of east-west area.

"Maybe it's for the money."

Fujino thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "I remember that if this thing was expensive, it could be sold for a million yen." ”

"Million yen?!"

Mori Kogoro was obviously taken aback by Fujino's words, "Is this really that valuable?" ”

"Although the dugong arrow doesn't seem to be very valuable, if it were given to those who needed it, it was estimated that even if it was sold for millions of yen, someone would recognize it."

Fujino nodded, he remembered that the arrow that Monokyo Saori stole from Modoya Benzo was sold for a million yen: "In desperate situations, human beings will always pray for something ethereal, even if there is a 1 in 100 million possibility, they will try their best to fight for it...... Menkyo Benzo is Saori's father, and if you think about it, it is probably not impossible that he sold his daughter's arrows. ”

"If that's the case, it's still possible."

Maori Kogoro frowned slightly: "After he found out that his daughter hired a detective, he went to Tokyo to kidnap her, and during the dugong festival yesterday, he found out that Miss Shoumi also drew the dugong arrow and attacked her......"

"Forehead ......"

The atmosphere suddenly became quiet, and Conan, Hattori, Heiji, and Fujino couldn't help but glance at Mori Kogoro speechlessly.

As a detective who is considered a normal person, Mori Kogoro's idea must not have been adopted.

Everyone planned to go to the door association's house first to check the situation and ask the uncle what was going on.

Before leaving, Fujino ran to the toilet again.

…………

Fujino sat on the toilet and stared at the shadow in front of him.

After a few moments, the shadow began to peel away from his body, and then crawled out of the crack in the door as if consciously.

Fujino watched his shadow fade away, and his face was a little strange.

Although this way of action is quite convenient, but the actual operation is a bit weird, such as tentacle horse monkey shochu or something.

After the shadow peeled away, it slowly crawled out of the Shimabukuro house and turned into a human form in the grove outside the house.

Fujino also walked out of the bathroom after sensing that Xiao Hei was already in place.

Now, the plan he envisioned was getting started.

…………

Inside the island's souvenir shop.

Kuroe Naoko stood in front of the shelves, looking down at the dugong arrow hanging from her chest, looking a little uneasy.

The reasoning just now obviously startled her.

The ghost of the mermaid or something, although it sounds outrageous, but for her mermaid believer, it is outrageous step by step.

At this time, she was very scared, and now the other two people who set the fire three years ago have been retaliated against, and as one of the arsonists, she is also afraid of retaliation.

"Dugong Arrows Bless ......"

Kuroe Naoko reverently put her hand on the arrow in front of her chest, and asked for the blessing of the power of the mermaid.

In her eyes, as long as her dugong arrow is not lost, then she will not encounter danger, but will live a long life.

Even if the ghost of the mermaid really came, then she was not afraid at all.

As for the retaliation of the other two, she thought about it, and she could only blame those two people for deserving it.

One is to get the good things like dugong arrows and still publicize them, and the other is a fool who dares to lose that kind of treasure, who will be retaliated against if the two of them are not retaliated?

"Naoko, you've finally got this arrow."

The shopkeeper who was standing in front of the cashier couldn't help but joke when she saw this scene: "I've been arguing for it before, and now I finally get my wish, but I really don't understand, how can you young people be superstitious about such things." ”

"Merfolk are definitely ...... to exist"

Kuroe Nao didn't retort too fiercely: "Saori, Shoumi, they must have all been attacked by the ghosts of the mermaids." ”

(End of chapter)