Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 364 Death is coming
Apart from these two groups, no other tourists boarded the bus.

When it was time to depart, the tour bus slowly started moving and drove along the winding coastline.

Lin Xiuyi sat by the window, still pondering the name of Sonoko's father.

Outside the window, the azure sea meets the sky in the distance, with several white yachts dotting the water like scattered pearls, creating a stunning picture.

"Wow—" Narumi exclaimed involuntarily, pressing her entire body against the glass window. "So beautiful."

Yukiko, sitting in the front row, turned around and said with a grin, "It'll be even more beautiful when we get to the Shonan coast! I heard the seawater there is incredibly clear, and you can even see the coral on the seabed!"

"Really?" Narumi's eyes lit up immediately, and she leaned forward unconsciously, her little hands gripping the back of the seat in front of her.

“Oh, right,” Yukiko suddenly remembered something, took out a tube of sunscreen from her delicate woven bag, skillfully dotted a few white dots on her face, and then handed the sunscreen to Reiko while spreading it evenly. “Apply the sunscreen first, the sun will be even stronger later, be careful not to get a tan.”

Reiko took the sunscreen and carefully applied it to her face.

Then, as if she had just thought of something, she turned to ask, "Sungmi, do you want to apply some too? Your skin is so fair, it's easy for you to get sunburned."

Cheng Shi paused for a moment, then subconsciously looked at Lin Xiuyi with a questioning look in her eyes.

“You should definitely apply it,” Lin Xiuyi nodded in agreement. “You rarely go out, and the sun at the beach is too strong. You need to be careful not to get sunburned.”

After receiving permission, Narumi took the sunscreen Reiko handed her and carefully squeezed it into her palm.

His movements were clumsy, clearly indicating that it was the first time he had done something like this.

Seeing his clumsy movements, Furuya Rei couldn't help but chuckle and reached out to help.

"Make sure to apply it to the back of your neck too," Liuli reminded her, "that's the area most prone to sunburn."

The girls on Lin Xiuyi's side were applying sunscreen, and the air was filled with a faint scent of sunscreen.

On the other side, Tomoko and the others initially admired the scenery outside the window, but soon became bored by the monotonous view.

To pass the time, they started taking turns singing.

The noise kept Tomizawa Chikage awake, so she opened her eyes, tapped the back of her chair, and said to the person behind her, "Shuichi, let's do something, it's so boring just sitting here."

"Shall we sing too?" Kogoro Mouri asked.

"No!" Liuli rolled her eyes at him. "Your voice is too harsh on the ears to sing in the car."

"Well, we have to do something, right?" Kogoro Mouri scratched the back of his head, his face full of frustration.

“You can tell me a story,” Reiko stood up, leaned back in her chair, rested her chin on the back of her hand, and looked in her brother’s direction. “Onii-chan, can you tell me a story?”

Seeing that everyone else was looking at him, Lin Xiuyi could only nod.

After a moment of contemplation, he slowly began, "Let me tell you a story about Final Destination. During summer vacation, a class of students went on a trip by bus. Not long after the bus started traveling along the coastal road, a girl named Yui saw a terrifying hallucination."

He was telling an adapted version of the Final Destination story, which quickly captivated the audience by incorporating realistic elements.

Gradually, even Tomoko and her friends stopped singing and began to listen to Hayashi Hideichi's story.

Two months later, Yuon was walking home. Of all the classmates she used to hang out with, she was the only one left. However, no further incidents occurred around her during those two months. Yuon thought her feigned death had fooled Death, but then...

Just as Lin Xiuyi was about to tell the ending of the story, the bus suddenly stopped, and the inertia caused everyone to lean forward, interrupting the tense atmosphere of the story.

"Passengers," the driver greeted with a smile, "we've arrived at the coastal viewpoint. You have one hour to get off and explore."

"Alright, let's get off the bus," Lin Xiuyi stood up and stretched.

"Onii-chan, what's the ending of the story?" Reiko asked eagerly.

"We'll talk about it later," Lin Xiuyi pinched her sister's cheek and walked towards the car door.

"Can't you say it now?" Reiko pouted.

She turned to look at the others and found that everyone had an expression of wanting more.

"That story was really well told. I'm still a little scared after hearing it," commented the long-haired girl sitting next to Tomoko. "He's an advisor to the Metropolitan Police Department, so he must have handled a lot of cases. Could that story have actually happened?"

"How could that be? There's no such thing as a Grim Reaper in this world!" Tomoko shook her head with amusement, and watching Lin Xiu's retreating figure as she got out of the car, she snorted in dissatisfaction, "You just keep us in suspense. It would have been better if you had just told us the ending earlier."

"If you ask me, they'll all die in the end."

The blond-haired man laughed loudly, his voice so loud it was almost shrill.
"It's Death who's making the move; he definitely won't let anyone live. There's a saying, 'If the King of Hell wants someone to die at midnight, he won't let them live until dawn.'"

After he finished speaking, he nodded smugly and showed a proud smile.

"You're talking about Yama, the King of Hell, who's probably different from the Grim Reaper," the bespectacled man from the Suzuki family interjected.

"I'm telling you guys," Shizuka, the twin girl with ponytails, said, clinging to the rich kid's arm, her voice tinged with coquettishness, "Why are you still talking about this? It's a horror story, what's there to discuss?"

She shrank closer to her boyfriend as she spoke, clearly still a little scared.

"Shizuka, were you terrified?" The twin girls wearing Buddha statues on their chests teased with a light laugh. "I saw it. When that high school student was telling his story, you were clinging to Satoshi's arm, trembling with fear."

“Waka, you’re not much better than me,” Shizuka retorted immediately. “You’re even more afraid of ghosts than I am, otherwise why would you wear a Buddha statue every day?”

Amidst the twins' bickering, Tomoko and her group disembarked from the bus.

The sea breeze immediately hit my face, carrying the salty, damp scent and the warmth of the sun.

After getting off the bus, Lin Xiuyi stood at the edge of the observation deck, stretching her somewhat stiff shoulders.

"It's so high," Reiko exclaimed, leaning on the edge of the railing and looking down.

The observation deck where everyone is now is built on the edge of a cliff, with steep rock walls and surging waves below the transparent glass railing.

The waves crashed against the rocks with a deafening roar, and the white foam they splashed up glittered in the sunlight.

"Don't lean on the railing," Lin Xiuyi quickly pulled her sister down. "Have you already forgotten the story I just told you? The railings here are constantly exposed to the sea breeze and are rusting very quickly. What if they break?"

(End of this chapter)