The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Ms. Shimabukuro, I'm afraid it will take some time to put out the fire in the warehouse. Can you please take me to meet your father?"

Although it was a question, Qin Zhibo's tone was unquestionable.

Shimabukuro Kimie hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

“But please be mentally prepared.”

Under her leadership, Qin Zhibo came to a hidden place in the courtyard behind the shrine, where there was a cellar door.

Opening the cellar door, stepping on the creaking wooden floor with their feet, the two entered the cellar together.

"This is an air-raid shelter built during the war. Very few people in the village know this place."

Amid Shimabukuro Kime's introduction, Qin Zhibo looked around and found that the space here was indeed very large.

In the deepest part of the space, a faint light emitted by an oil lamp lit up a corner, and a figure stood next to it.

"Jun Hui."

"Is it Jun Hui?"

The man made a voice, and Shimabukuro Kime responded softly, "It's me, father."

"The person next to you is."

"It's the detective you met in the forest yesterday."

The man's body seemed to be stunned by the surprise, and he stood stiffly until Qin Zhibo gradually approached.

In the dim light, the man's body showed a strange deformity.

The figure has human-like features, but the spine on the back is curved like a bow. One of the arms exposed under the short sleeves is smooth and smooth, with a skin color like a newborn baby, and the other arm is covered with light blue scales. .

This is exactly the kind of scales Qin Zhibo saw in the forest and on the beach.

The weirdest thing is the head. Half of the face is a normal human face, but the left eye has a huge eyeball that protrudes so much that the eyelid cannot be closed. The skin nearby is also gray-green.

On both sides of the neck, there are several fleshy gaps of unknown meaning. As the man's breathing speeds up due to nervousness, the fleshy gaps themselves seem to be squirming and trembling.

Qin Zhibo: Will -2

Seeing the detective who had tracked him, Keiwa Shimabukuro couldn't hide the surprise on his face. He backed away slightly, subconsciously trying to cover up the terrible signs of transformation and the unpleasant fish smell on his body.

But at this moment, Qin Zhibo actually stretched out his hand contrary to common sense.

"Hello, Mr. Shimabukuro."

Facing Qin Zhibo's extended hand, Shimabukuro Keiwa was extremely shocked. After hesitating for a moment, he put his hand with the webbed fingers on his clothes, wiped it on his clothes, and held Qin Zhibo's hand together.

When the two hands came into contact, Qin Zhibo started an investigation.

Keika Shimabukuro, male, 52 years old, social credit 0, all kinds of human information are equally complete.

"Mr. Detective. You."

Shimabukuro Keiwa hesitated, while his daughter next to him quickly solved his doubts.

"Mr. Qin already knows everything."

"Oh, that's it." Shimabukuro Keikazu reacted, and his head, which was originally bowed because he was shy about seeing others, bowed even deeper.

"Actually, I don't completely know, for example, why you killed those three people."

The three people Qin Zhibo mentioned were naturally Saori Kadori, Hisumi Ebihara, and Naoko Kuroe.

Under Qin Zhibo's inquiry, Shimabukuro Keiwa revealed his motives.

"All this is to avenge Naoko"

"Naoko has been working hard to play the role of longevity woman for the prosperity of this island. However, three years ago, because they could not draw arrows, they got drunk alone and set fire to the warehouse of the shrine."

"They saw Naoko walking into the warehouse pretending to be a longevity woman, and they wanted to test whether she was really immortal."

"Back then, Naoko faked her own death and sacrificed her original identity to stay on this island in order to play the role of a longevity woman."

"She really loves this island so much and has devoted so much to it, but she didn't expect something like this to happen."

Deeply in love, Shimabukuro Keikazu shed painful tears.

Shimabukuro Kimie walked to her father, patted her father's shoulder to comfort her, raised her head and added: "I didn't know about this originally, but after Saori lost the arrow, she came to me to ask for it, and said that if If not, you can tell her about the Mermaid Tomb, she also wants to gain the ability to not die even if she is surrounded by flames."

"That is obviously my mother's grave."

After explaining the entire motive, Qin Zhibo roughly understood what kind of story this was.

Feudal superstition kills people

But looking at the half-human, half-fish Keikazu Shimabukuro in front of him, Qin Zhibo felt that he was not so superstitious.

What they believe may be real, but it's just not as beautiful as they imagined.

Qin Zhibo looked at Shimabukuro Keikazu and asked: "What about your body?"

The topic finally turned to his own body, and Shimabukuro Keiwa bowed his head as if resigned to his fate.

"At first, the eyeballs gradually swelled until they could not be closed, and then the skin turned gray-green, with a cold and moist surface, and gradually grew scales."

"Then webs grew between the five fingers, and the skin on the back of the neck became more and more wrinkled, and finally formed a structure like fish gills."

"This is a unique disease on the island. Junhui's great-grandmother Shimabukuro Yaqin mentioned it when she was still alive. In the past, some people on the American island would suffer from this strange ichthyosis between the ages of 20 and 40. It only took 2 years. By the 3-month onset period, people will no longer look like humans and ghosts will look like ghosts.”

"In the past, people had no treatment for this disease, and the villagers were very scared, so they would give the sick people a boat and enough food to send them out of the island to make a living."

Qin Zhibo nodded, knowing that this sounds like making a living by oneself, but in fact it means exile.

"I originally thought this was just a scary story left by the older generation, but five years ago, my body suddenly started to show abnormalities and turned into this ghostly appearance."

"Saori's mother and Rokuro's mother also fell ill at the same time." Shimabukuro Keiwa raised his head, letting Qin Zhibo see his face, "Seeing that we couldn't hide the matter, we discussed following the old rules. Let’s take a boat and leave the island together.”

"Originally Naoko wanted to leave with us, but I persuaded her to leave. There are still Kojima and Junhui that she has loved since she was a child. She can't leave."

"More than half a month after we were at sea, we encountered a storm at sea. The boat was capsized and I and two others fell into the sea."

"When I woke up again, I was washed up on an uninhabited island shaped like a turtle."

"There was an abandoned villa on that island, so I lived in it and used some tools left in the villa to live a solitary life there fishing every day."

"But one day half a month later, while I was still sleeping, several robbers suddenly broke into the island and arrested me."

"It seems that the group of robbers just robbed some treasure from the nearby mayor's house and were discussing where to hide it on the island."