The four people returned to where the others were, waiting for the diving Taira Ie to come back and leaving together.
An hour passed.
There is still no sign of Ie Taira.
Hattori Heiji and Edogawa Conan looked at each other and suddenly rushed out.
The two divided the work and cooperated, one half and half, and ran around the island.
Finally, at the beach where we met next to each other, I discovered the existence of Ie Taira.
It's just that the other party has turned into a corpse.
She was lying on the beach, her body below her abdomen was sometimes covered by sea water, her face was calm and could even be said to be peaceful, her eyes were closed, her hands were clasped on her chest, and she looked like she was praying in her sleep.
But her cold body temperature announced the fact that she was dead.
There were some scratches on her body, especially on her limbs, as if they were scratched by branches or something like that.
There was also a strangulation mark on his neck.
If nothing else, the strangulation mark on her neck was the cause of her death.
Hattori Heiji and Edogawa Conan squatted beside her, touched the carotid artery, felt it for a moment and then shook their heads.
"She is dead." Hattori Heiji announced.
"This..." Everyone's eyes suddenly widened.
Why did the murder happen suddenly?
A good person turned around and disappeared and then died?
"The murderer also left these terrible words." Hattori Heiji's eyes fell on the beach next to the body.
There is a sentence there [I am the messenger from the underworld.]
"It's really annoying." Hattori Heiji said.
It seems to be a very ominous sentence, and it is very baffling.
"The murderer must be among us, or around us. Judging from the wounds on the limbs, he must have killed the deceased in the forest and then brought him to the beach. The words were also left not long ago."
Hattori Heiji expressed his reasoning.
"How do you know that he stayed here not long ago?" Noburo Ikema asked.
"It's very simple." The person who answered the question was Edogawa Conan.
"Because of the color of the beach, it should be darker here. If the writing was left before, it must have been washed away by the sea water." The primary school student explained matter-of-factly.
"That makes sense..."
"Then...is the murderer right next to us?" Several people immediately looked at each other, becoming somewhat suspicious.
"Then what should we do with her body now..." Yoshitsugi Kume and Noburo Ikema couldn't help but ask.
You can't just leave it like this forever...
"You two should move her body aside first..." Hattori Heiji directed the two of them.
"Lend me your camera Kazuha, lend me Conan's slippers and watch..." Hattori Heiji started asking others for props again.
Edogawa Conan had a puzzled expression on his face, but still gave the thing to the other person.
Hattori Heiji put his slippers under the line of writing for comparison, used his watch's flashlight to illuminate it, and then used his camera to take a picture of the words.
Then he stood up, returned the camera to Toyama Kazuki, threw the elementary school student's slippers and watch back, and ran away.
Edogawa Conan just ran over to pick up his slippers and watch, and when he looked up, he could only see the back of Hattori Heiji.
He suddenly showed an expression of enlightenment and shouted loudly to Maori Ran and Toyama Kazuha to stop Hattori Heiji.
I also tried to catch up.
But it was no use, he could only watch as Hattori Heiji rushed into the sea without saying a word.
"Why didn't you stop him? Diving in this sea is very dangerous!" Edogawa Conan looked at Maori Ran, Toyama and Ip Man who did not stop Hattori Heiji as he said.
"Why do you want to stop him? Heiji can't stop him from doing anything he wants to do." Toyama Kazuha looked used to it.
Although she is worried, she will support the decision made by Hattori Heiji.
"It's just that this sea area is very fast. If you are not careful, you may be washed away. He is so courageous." Daito Mikihiko said with emotion from the side.
"Is it dangerous?" Toyama Kazuha seemed to understand how dangerous what Hattori Heiji was doing.
"It is indeed very dangerous." Daito Mikihiko nodded and affirmed.
"Hattori——" Edogawa Conan shouted towards the sea.
"Heiji——" Kazuha Toyama and Ran Mouri also started calling Hattori Heiji's name.
Shuji Tsushima opened his mouth tentatively on the side, but in the end he didn't shout.
Forget it, he'd better watch quietly.
Things like shouting out loud are just not in his temperament.
Despite their calls, the sea remained calm and not a single person could be seen.
Just when Yuan Shan and Ye showed anxious expressions, the sound of water breaking sounded.
Hattori Heiji poked his head out of the sea and used the sea water to get ashore.
"That guy must be worried that I will stop him, so he threw away my things." Edogawa Conan complained mercilessly.
"Someone must want to defeat Mouri Kogoro, so he is so anxious." The primary school student said with a dead eye.
But Shuji Tsushima heard what he really meant.
How about defeating Mouri Kogoro? Hattori Heiji clearly didn't want to lose to the elementary school boy behind Moori Kogoro.
"Do you know this is very dangerous?" Edogawa Conan said to Hattori Heiji with half-squinted eyes.
"I just want to find out the truth as soon as possible." Hattori Heiji rubbed the back of his head and smiled as if he didn't care about life and death.
"Do you want to find out the truth as soon as possible or are you worried that others will find out the truth before you do?" Edogawa Conan said abruptly.
The smile on Hattori Heiji's face suddenly became a little embarrassed.
How should I put it, these two reasons are half and half.
But I definitely can’t admit it directly.
He laughed and completely ignored the question.
"We're taking a step ahead." Tsushima Shuji was already riding on the motorboat, waving to them.
"You go first." Hattori Heiji also waved his hand.
After watching the three motorboats disappear, they rubbed their chins and thought about what they should do.
"Should we go back first or stay here? We should take the body back first and wait for the police to come..." Hattori Heiji said.
"However, it seems that something unexpected happened." Mikihiko Daito motioned for them to look at the sea.
The ship that originally stayed there has now disappeared without a trace.
Hattori Heiji had a blank expression on his face.
"Where's the boat? Where's the boat that parked there before?" He couldn't help but ask.
What about such a big ship? How can you say it doesn’t exist?
"As you can see, the ship is gone." Daito Mikihiko said.
"Could it be that the captain was the murderer? After killing someone, he fled in the boat?"
"Then how are we going to go back now?"
"The people from the TV station will probably come to pick us up when they find out we haven't gone back, right?"
Several people whispered among themselves.
"Actually... I was supposed to have a break today, and the rehearsal should have been completed yesterday... In other words, I didn't tell the TV station that we would land on the island today..." someone said.