Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 380 Yellow Hair Died Too

"Try again!"

Shiro Suzuki refused to give up and continued performing CPR.

His arms were already trembling slightly from the exertion, but he still refused to stop.
"Maybe Kaori can still come back to life!"

Lin Xiuyi stood to the side and slowly shook her head.

He crouched down and carefully examined Kaori's body.

Sunlight streamed through the clouds onto the girl's pale face; her eyes were wide open, and she clearly died in agony.

Lin Xiuyi glanced at his clothes, which were soaked through and clung to his skin. Apart from some minor bruises on his wrists, he did not find any obvious external injuries on his body.

It appears that he drowned while swimming in the sea.

However, the girl was not wearing a bikini. Instead, she was wearing the same clothes she had on the bus yesterday: long hair loose, a tight-fitting short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and a Buddha image on her chest.

What's wrong with her clothes?

Lin Xiuyi raised her head and looked at the other twin girl beside her, Shizuka, who had a ponytail.
"Why did you go swimming in the sea dressed like that?"

"Wa-ka had something to do today and didn't come with us..."

Shizuka's voice was barely audible, with a noticeable tremor.

When she looked up, Lin Xiuyi noticed that her eyes were red and swollen like peaches, and tears kept sliding down her cheeks, gathering into droplets on her chin.

"Do you know where she went?" Lin Xiuyi pressed, noticing that Jingxiang's body stiffened for a moment when she heard the question.

"This..." Shizuka bit her lower lip, her eyes darting around, clearly hesitant about whether to tell the truth.

Upon seeing this, her wealthy boyfriend immediately strode forward and pulled his girlfriend into his arms.

"Why are you asking so many questions?" The rich kid blocked Lin Xiuyi's view. "Can't you see that Shizuka is already very sad?"

“I’m just trying to determine Kaori’s cause of death,” Lin Xiuyi explained calmly. “There are many reasons why someone could drown in the sea, such as being pushed into the sea or committing suicide.”

He paused, softening his voice.
"As twin sisters, Shizuka must also want to find out the cause of Kaori's death."

"What does this have to do with you..."

The rich second-generation Wu Si suddenly remembered Lin Xiuyi's identity halfway through his sentence and abruptly changed his words.
"Even if you're going to investigate, at least wait until Shizuka's emotions have calmed down a bit!"

“…Okay, Satoshi,” Shizuka gently pushed her boyfriend away and wiped her tears with the back of her hand.

Her nose was red, and her voice was thick with nasal tone: "All I know is that I made an appointment with Taisuke to go out with Xiang this morning, but I don't know what they were going to do."

Taisuke is that blond guy who likes to flirt with girls.

When Shizuka mentioned him, Huang Mao's friend Cheng nodded: "Tai-suke did indeed go out early this morning. When I asked him where he was going, he proudly said that he had a date with a beautiful woman."

At this point, Ah Cheng gave a bitter smile.
"That guy is always like that; he can't walk past pretty girls."

"A date with a beautiful woman?" Lin Xiuyi frowned. "Besides that, did he say anything else?"

“Let me think…” A-Cheng looked up in thought. “Oh right, Taisuke also said he could get some money today and then he could pay me back what he owes me. That guy has owed me 50,000 yen for three months now. Apart from that, there’s nothing else.”

Money and beautiful women...

Suddenly, Lin Xiuyi recalled the scene he and Tomoko had witnessed at Ejima Shrine the day before.

At that time, Taisuke and Shizuka had an argument, and he seemed to have discovered some secret about the girl, which he wanted to use to blackmail her.

"Where is Huang... Taijie? Has he come back?" Lin Xiuyi asked.

“No,” Ah Cheng shook his head. “I haven’t seen him since he went out this morning.” Just then, a group of people swimming in the shallow sea not far away suddenly burst into panicked shouts, startling several seagulls that were perched on the nearby reefs.

People on the shore turned to look, and saw a blurry human-shaped object bobbing up and down with the waves on the azure sea.

Although the people in the shallow sea stopped swimming, no one dared to go forward to check.

Lin Xiuyi sighed, took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and stepped into the sea.

The icy seawater immediately soaked through his trouser legs, causing him to shiver involuntarily.

Lin Xiuyi took a deep breath, plunged into the water, and swam vigorously toward the floating object.

As the distance closed, the blurry outline gradually became clearer.

Floating on the sea was none other than the blond-haired Taisuke they had just been discussing.

Taisuke's body floated face down, his blond hair spreading out in the seawater like a clump of seaweed.

Lin Xiuyi swam over and carefully turned the body over.

Taisuke's face was pale from being soaked in water, and his eyes were half-open, as if he was still staring at something.

Judging from the swelling of his skin, he had clearly been dead in the sea for some time.

"Shuichi, what's going on?"

Kogoro Mouri's voice came from afar.

Seeing Lin Xiu go into the sea, he rushed over to help. He was standing in waist-deep water, his hands cupped around his mouth as he shouted.

"Someone's dead! Come help drag him back!" Lin Xiuyi shouted.

"How come we still run into cases even though we're in Kanagawa?" Kogoro Mouri muttered as he swam over. "I came here for a vacation..."

The two of them worked together, supporting Taisuke's body on either side, and struggled to swim towards the shore.

The bodies were much heavier than expected, and the resistance of the seawater also slowed their movements.

By the time they finally reached the shallow water, both of them were panting heavily.

"Taisuke!"

The members of the Tokyo University tennis club all looked horrified when they saw the blond-haired man's bloated corpse.

Saki Toda let out a short scream, her legs went weak, and she almost fell, but fortunately Shiro Suzuki caught her in time.

"How could this happen? First it was Kazuka, and now even Taisuke..."

Saki Toda's voice trembled, and her face was as pale as paper.

She gripped Suzuki Shiro's arms tightly with both hands, leaning her entire body against him.

"The fact that both Waka and Taisuke have run into trouble is clearly not a coincidence,"

Tomoko glanced at the two people huddled together, then continued,

"This morning, I went for a morning run and saw the two of them board the tour bus one after the other. I didn't pay much attention at the time and thought they had made plans to go out together. I never expected it to turn out like this."

Just as Lin Xiuyi was about to ask about the details, he heard a hoarse voice say, "Excuse me, everyone, could you please make way?"

As the voices were heard, two local police officers in uniform walked over.

The older officer was in his fifties, his face weathered and his uniform impeccably worn, while the younger one looked to be in his early twenties, with a youthful air about him.

(End of this chapter)