Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 385 Kogoro, today's success is all thanks to you!

"So I followed the original plan..."

Shizuka spoke expressionlessly, her voice mechanical.

"They threw Taisuke into the sea with a stone, but instead of calling for help to create the illusion that Taisuke had accidentally fallen into the sea, they took another car, bought a simple diving set, and then returned to the hotel."

“When we were little, my dad often took us to the beach, which made us love swimming in the sea.”

"I mingled with the crowd on the beach..."

Shizuka continued, her voice growing colder.

"After seeing Kaori finish playing volleyball, she went swimming and even swam to a secluded spot, so I put on my diving gear and followed her into the sea."

"What happened next was just as he said..."

The girl glanced at Lin Xiuyi, her expression complex.

“I used diving equipment to launch a surprise attack from underwater and drag He Xiang into the sea, where she drowned.”

"She struggled fiercely...her fingernails left many cuts on my body..."

“After that, I changed our clothes in the sea,” Shizuka said, looking down at her swimsuit, “and pretended to be Kazuka as we returned to shore.”

"I thought that no one would find out, and that without Kaori, I could turn back into Shizuka and continue living..."

The girl shook her head with a bitter smile, two lines of tears sliding down her cheeks.
"Who knew it would be exposed so quickly."

At this point, Shizuka looked at the jade Buddha pendant worn on the chest of Kaori's corpse on the ground, and her eyes suddenly softened.

"I bought that Buddha statue from a temple after my parents passed away because I was worried about something going wrong with the incense."

Her fingers lightly touched the Buddha statue, then recoiled as if burned.
"I never expected that it would be the very thing that ultimately exposed me..."

Shizuka, along with the bodies of Kazuka and Taisuke, were all taken away by the police officers from the handover office.

The sirens faded into the distance, leaving only a few messy footprints and a subdued silence on the beach.

The fact that these twin sisters, who are each other's closest relatives, scheme against and harm each other leaves everyone speechless.

“I never expected Shizuka, no, I mean Kazuka, to be so scheming…” Toda Saki hugged her arms and shivered. “I used to like her quite a bit.”

"You can know a person's face but not their heart..." Tomoko looked at her friend and sighed softly with a complicated expression.

"Regardless, the case was solved so quickly," Suzuki Shiro couldn't help but praise, "Lin-san, you really are as amazing as the rumors say..."

"She revealed too many flaws..." Lin Xiuyi shook her head indifferently.

Hearing this, Tomoko, who was standing next to her, pursed her lips in displeasure.

She had previously guessed wrong about Kaori's cause of death and even smugly challenged Hayashi Hideichi.

Now that Lin Xiuyi has said this, it naturally makes her seem very stupid.

After giving a haughty snort, Tomoko turned and walked towards the hotel.

"I'm sorry..." Saki Toda apologized on behalf of her friend and then hurriedly chased after her.

The other members of the Dongda tennis team also lost their playful mood and headed towards the hotel in twos and threes.

Some people were talking in hushed tones, while others shook their heads and sighed.

Before leaving, Suzuki Shiro gave Hayashi Hideichi a gold-embossed business card.

"Suzuki Group...Deputy Manager?" Lin Xiuyi glanced at the business card. It seemed that Suzuki Shiro was not doing too well in the Suzuki family these days. He wondered how he would eventually take power and become the chairman.

However, this is none of his business anymore.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiuyi casually stuffed the business card into his pocket.

"That young lady is so arrogant, how annoying!" Reiko made a face of disgust as she watched Tomoko's departing figure.

"Alright," Lin Xiuyi patted his sister's head, ruffling her soft hair. "We should pack our things too. If we go to the office to make a statement too late, we might miss the evening tram."

"These past two days have gone by so fast..." Midori Orikasa said with a touch of nostalgia, "I wish we could play watermelon smashing one more time."

"It's not fun at all!" Akane Koizumi pouted. "If I had known it would be like this, I would have preferred to stay at home."

“Let’s wait until summer vacation,” Lin Xiuyi said, ignoring the magical girl and looking at Orikasa Midori as he assured her, “We’ll come again after the vacation starts.”

"Really?" The delinquent girl nodded happily, her ponytail bouncing excitedly behind her head.

"You really do care a lot about girls..." Tomizawa Chikage pouted.

“Even if you wanted to come, I would still say the same thing,” Lin Xiuyi said mischievously, looking at her.

"I don't need you to fawn over me!"

Tomizawa Chikage snorted and turned her head away, but the tips of her ears turned red.

Lin Xiuyi wanted to tease him a little more, but Eri Kisaki and Yukiko reached out at the same time and pinched him on the left and right, respectively, making him wince in pain.

“I haven’t had enough fun yet,” Reiko pouted, stomping her foot in frustration. “If only there hadn’t been a case, we could have played a little longer.”

“Nari and I haven’t finished building our castle yet,” Rei Furuya said dejectedly, looking at the beach not far away.

There was a castle there, mostly made of sand, with its exquisite towers already taking shape, but it would never be finished.

“It’s all because you insisted on expanding the castle, Zero-gege,” Chengshi said with a helpless expression. “If it had been the size we originally designed, it would have been finished long ago.”

“It’s really nice to get out and have some fun like this once in a while,” Eri stretched and then pushed up her glasses. “I’ll be able to study with more energy when I get back.”

“Next time I come, I might be a big star!” Yukiko twirled around triumphantly. “Then I probably won’t be able to show my face and play with you guys anymore.”

"Tch, still dreaming?" Eri Kisaki scoffed. "Let's wait until your movie is released before we talk about that."

"Glasses Girl, you can't do without putting me down, can you?" Yukiko stomped her foot angrily, her cheeks puffed up like steamed buns.

"Sigh, we could have played a little longer..." Kogoro Mouri looked longingly at the beach, his gaze lingering on the curvaceous figures of the women in bikinis, completely unaware of his girlfriend's increasingly dark expression beside him.

Ruri narrowed her eyes and grabbed Kogoro Mouri's ear: "I haven't settled the score with you for what happened earlier, and you still dared to peek!"

"What just happened?" Kogoro Mouri asked, looking surprised, but his eyes kept glancing towards the sea.

"What else could it be?" Liuli tightened her grip even more. "If you hadn't been staring at the twins' chests the whole time, how would you have remembered so clearly that there was a mark on her chest!"

"This isn't me, this is..."

Kogoro Mori quickly looked at Hideaki Hayashi, hoping his good brother could explain things to him.

"Don't be modest, Kogoro!"

Lin Xiu glanced at Eri and Yukiko, who were eyeing him menacingly, and said with an unchanged expression while rubbing his waist, which was sore from being pinched by them earlier,

"Your observation skills are too sharp, but it's not your fault. I was able to see through the other party's fake identity today thanks to you."

(End of this chapter)