Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends

Under a tree with a waist circumference as thick as ten times that of Conan, Suzuki Sonoko hugged Mao Li Ran and cried bitterly.

"5555 Xiaolan, you actually forgot me! Am I no longer your best friend? Which man cheated you away?"

Mao Li Ran was extremely embarrassed. She actually left her best friend in the store and felt guilty.

Patting Suzuki Sonoko on the back, she kept apologizing: "I'm sorry, Sonoko, I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it!"

Other friends around were either equally embarrassed or guilty, and some were gloating.

That's right, especially Conan and Yuya.

"Puff!" Yuya couldn't help it in the end, and the sneer accidentally leaked out.

As we all know, laughter is contagious, so Conan couldn't help it either, lowering his head and shaking his shoulders.

Miyano Shiho couldn't help but look sideways, aren't you friends who grew up together, is it really okay to laugh like this? The boat of friendship can capsize at any time!

Fortunately, Hattori Heiji held back.

He and Suzuki Sonoko were just ordinary friends, not very close. If he laughed out loud, he would be complained to Toyama Kazuha when he got home, and his mother would ask him to practice kendo.

Suzuki Sonoko didn't know if she had eyes on the back of her head or super hearing, she suddenly turned around and glared at him.

Yuya reacted very quickly, and almost when Sonoko turned her head, he restrained his smile and pretended to be very guilty.

But Conan was not so lucky. He was lowering his head to hold back his laughter and didn't notice that Suzuki Sonoko turned her head.

Until he felt that the atmosphere was not right, there was a burst of murderous aura above his head, he looked up and saw - oh, it was over.

"Bang bang bang!"

A series of bangs, Conan directly cosplayed the big Buddha in the temple.

"Hahahahaha!"

Laughing at Conan made them feel less stressed. Yuya and Hattori Heiji burst into laughter, patting Conan's shoulders and poking his stacked headbands with their fingers.

Conan's forehead darkened, his eyes drooped, and he slapped the claws of his two friends in anger.

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On the other side, Shimabukuro Kimie sent Yuya and the others away, then turned and went into the house. After a while, he came out again, standing under the cherry tree with a dazed look on his face.

That boy was indeed the high school detective - Kamiya Yuya.

She had heard this name from the guests who came to the Mermaid Festival, and just now she heard Miyano Shiho call him Yuya.

Originally thought they were just the same name, but they came specifically to find Kadowaki Saori. Shimabukuro Kimie felt a little uneasy, so she checked and found out that it was the same person.

Could it be that Saori asked the detective to help her find the lost dugong arrow? Or...

Shimabukuro Kimie's face suddenly changed. Oh no, he won't ruin his revenge plan, right?

Thinking of this, Shimabukuro Kimie looked around and confirmed that no one was paying attention to her, then she secretly came to the warehouse behind the shrine.

"Crash!"

The door was opened.

Some sundries were piled up in the warehouse, and in the innermost corner, a woman sat against the wall with her hands and feet tied and her mouth blocked.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the woman raised her head slowly, her eye sockets sunken, her face pale, her lips chapped and there was a trace of blood on them.

"Saori..." Shimabukuro Kimie looked at her friend who had been half dead after three days of hunger, and a look of hatred flashed in her eyes. She walked over and tore the cloth out of her mouth.

The one tied in the warehouse was Saori Menbe who had been missing for three days!

"Jun, Junhui, why did you lock me up here?" Saori Menbe pleaded weakly in a hoarse voice. "Please let me go. If I'm wrong, please tell me and I'll apologize. I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

She twisted her body while crying, but her body was so weak that she couldn't shed a single tear, and she fell down.

"Apologize?" Shimabukuro Kimie's face was full of ridicule and hatred, "Is your sorry useful? How many sorrys do you have to say to get my mother back?"

"Mother?" Menle Saori was puzzled, "Didn't your mother die in a shipwreck? What does it have to do with me?"

Shimabukuro Kimie didn't answer, but sneered, "Don't you want to know the secret of the longevity of the longevity woman? I'll tell you now."

Menle Saori's eyes suddenly showed a look of desire.

Shimabukuro Kimie showed a disgusted expression. This person was still dreaming when he was about to die.

She squatted down and whispered in Menle Saori's ear for a while.

Saori Kadowaki's eyes widened gradually, and finally trembled violently, shaking her head with all her strength: "Impossible, this is not true! You are lying to me!"

"Why should I lie to you?" Shimabukuro Kimie raised a cold smile at the corner of her mouth, she was not as gentle and cheerful as she was at the shrine. "It's okay. If you don't believe me, tomorrow I will set fire to this place like I did three years ago, and then you will go to apologize to my mother in the fire!"

After saying this, Shimabukuro Kimie grabbed the cloth strip and stuffed it into Menbe Saori's mouth. She stood up and looked at her coldly for a while, then turned around and left without hesitation.

Leaving behind Menbe Saori's faint sobs, echoing in this warehouse where no one would come.

Shimabukuro Kimie returned to the shrine and continued to perform her duties as a shrine maiden. She swept the petals under the cherry tree with a broom.

But her mind was not here at all, and her eyes fell on the mountain without knowing when.

In the Mermaid Festival three years ago, Shimabukuro Kimie's three friends did not draw the dugong arrow, and one of them was Menbe Saori.

The three were unwilling to accept it, and after getting drunk, they wanted to go to the warehouse of the shrine to steal an arrow, but they didn't expect to see the longevity woman entering the warehouse.

So they locked the warehouse door and set it on fire under the pretext of being drunk, in order to see if the longevity woman really possessed the ability to be immortal.

The day after the fire, Kadowaki Saori and her two accomplices saw the "mermaid bones" in the warehouse, and then saw the longevity woman who was locked in the warehouse yesterday, but appeared in front of everyone the next day without any damage. They were horrified and firmly believed that the longevity woman had indeed eaten mermaid meat and possessed the ability to be immortal.

Therefore, they became the most loyal believers of mermaids.

However, what they didn't know was that the so-called dugong arrow, the so-called mermaid, the so-called longevity, and the so-called immortality were all fake.

Even the longevity woman herself was a false lie.

The 130-year-old longevity woman was actually played by the women of the Shimabukuro family for generations.

Until three years ago, the person who had been playing the longevity woman was Shimabukuro Kimie's mother, Shimabukuro Naoko.

During the fire, Shimabukuro Naoko, who was locked in the warehouse, knew that she could not escape, so before she died, she called her daughter, hoping that she could continue to play the role of the longevity woman for the future of the island and maintain the mermaid festival.

In order to play the role of the short longevity woman, she needed to kneel down and tie her legs together. The fire collapsed the warehouse, and the fallen pillars smashed Shimabukuro Naoko's lower body, making the bones left at the scene look like they really had no legs, just like the legendary mermaid.

Shimabukuro Kimie didn't know what happened, but thought it was her mother's last wish, and reluctantly took on the mission of playing the role of the longevity woman.

But what she didn't expect was that a few days ago, Menle Saori lost the dugong arrow. As a believer of mermaids, she believed in the legend and was sure that mermaids would bring terrible punishment.

In a panic, she relied on the fact that she was a good friend of Shimabukuro Kimie to ask for the dugong arrow and revealed that she and her friend had set the fire that year.

Shimabukuro Kimie was struck by lightning on the spot. She tried to comfort herself that it was the longevity woman who lied first, and both sides were responsible.

The person was already dead, and there was no point in pursuing it.

But the hatred that had not been completely suppressed was immediately ignited by Menwaki Saori's absurd words.

"If there is no dugong arrow, at least tell me where the mermaid's tomb is! Please, I also want to be immortal like the longevity woman!"

Shimabukuro Kimie was stunned.

The way to obtain immortality in the legend is to eat mermaid meat.

Shimabukuro Kimie laughed angrily. This person not only set fire to her mother, but now he wants to dig up her tomb and eat the bones of the deceased.

Shimabukuro Kimie's mind was instantly occupied by a voice, repeating only the sentence "Damn it! They all deserve to die! Kill them! Kill them!"

Not only Menwaki Saori, she will definitely not let the other two people go!