The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

There are also group fishing activities where everyone sets off together on a boat in the morning, and unique mermaid festival rituals.

Around noon, the man, who was said to be 130 years old, appeared before them for the first time.

He was a short, elderly man with heavy Japanese-style makeup on his face.

Without using Eagle Eye, Jiang Hang carefully observed the other person's physique.

It must be said that it is truly remarkable that someone could study disguise techniques to this extent on their own.

Body shape, smell, voice, and expression.

Without using Eagle Vision, the opponent would appear as an old woman, making it impossible to detect any flaws.

Although it's not quite on par with the level of Phantom Thief Kid, and it can't compare to Kuroba Toichi, whose appearance even Hawkeye has to work hard to recognize.

However, one is a family secret technique plus the fraternity's secret teachings, while the other is purely self-taught, so the difficulty of the two cannot be compared.

Judging from this, Shimashiro Kimie's talent for disguise is at least at an advanced level.

If given the opportunity, it would be possible to recruit the other party into the Brotherhood.

However, considering that there are already too many women in the fraternity, apart from Yusuke Sakata, the former Osaka police officer who was recruited by him, it seems that they are mostly women.

So let's try to recruit Shimashiro Kimie as an employee of our company first, and then see how things go.

As he muttered to himself, Jiang Hang's eyes met those of the "fateful one" in the air a few times.

Perhaps because his gaze was too sharp at that moment, the other person's body seemed to tremble for a moment, and then he quickly turned his head away, not daring to meet Jiang Hang's eyes again.

Chapter 515: Chapter 511: The Mermaid Festival Lottery Ceremony

Shimashiro Kimie felt a little nervous at this moment.

Almost from the time she became an adult, she had been helping her mother pretend to be her great-grandmother.

In fact, the man who was rumored to have gained immortality by eating mermaid flesh on the island had already died thirty years ago.

But for the sake of the mermaid festival on the island, her grandmother disguised herself as a mermaid for ten years over the next thirty years, and then her mother disguised herself for more than ten years, and even taught her the skills of makeup to look like a mermaid when she was very young.

In fact, in order to better portray the identity of Mingyang, her mother chose to die in the same shipwreck five years ago after her father's death at sea, thus completely abandoning her original identity and only appearing in public as Mingyang.

After a fire three years ago took her mother's life, this responsibility fell on her shoulders.

In fact, she was only 24 years old at the time and did not want to take on this task, which would tie her life to this small island and the identity of this centenarian.

But she will never forget that when her mother was dying in the fire, she still called her in her final moments, asking her to sacrifice her life to continue playing the role of a guardian for the future of the island.

So after that, she persisted for another three years until now.

If it weren't for the fact that the Dugong Arrow that Kadowaki Saori drew was sold for money by her alcoholic father, and that Kadowaki Saori hadn't come to her with a fearful expression, wanting to know the burial place of her mother's remains in order to gain the power of immortality.

She probably will never know until her death that the fire was actually started by her own friends whom she had known since childhood.

Even the reason is so simple.

Because they failed to draw the Dugong Arrow back then, they got drunk in their regret and saw "Master Destiny" walking into the warehouse.

Then someone made that suggestion—since everyone on the island says that Master Mingyang ate mermaid flesh and gained the ability to remain young, why don't we just test whether the legend of the mermaid is true or false?

Then came that fire, which completely bound Kimie Shimashiro's life, which might have had other possibilities, to this small island.

It was precisely because she knew this truth that she thought of using this mermaid sacrifice to kill the three people who had killed her mother.

However, no one expected that Saori Kadowaki would send a letter for help to the eagle-eyed detective under such circumstances.

And the other party actually came to Mermaid Island in person to investigate the disappearance of Kadowaki Saori.

Thinking about what the other person said to her last night, suggesting that Master Mingyang should retire, and recalling the look in the other person's eyes just now.

Could it be that the other party has already seen through my disguise?

Shimashiro Kimie had no idea what to do.

So much so that her memorial ceremony, which she had rehearsed for years without a single mistake, almost went wrong several times, and she was saved entirely by her instinctive reactions.

However, everyone present seemed to notice that she was not quite right, but they didn't think much of it, since it wasn't surprising for a woman in her 130s to have some problems.

As long as nothing unexpected happens during tonight's most important draw ceremony.

After all, this year's Mermaid Festival is undergoing a major reform, with three dugong arrows appearing simultaneously, and even tourists now having the opportunity to draw one.

If the feedback this time is good, then it will obviously continue to bring good benefits to Fish Island in the future.

However, Shizuka Sakaki and Yuno Koharu seemed a little worried about the body of the person in question. After watching the memorial ceremony, they couldn't help but whisper to him that they hoped the person in question wouldn't have any health problems.

Of course she has no health problems.

The biggest problem for a healthy 27-year-old adult woman is probably menstruation.

However, the Shimashiro family, with decades of experience in deception, certainly has a way to deal with this.

Shimashiro Kimie is probably only wavering because of his look just now.

I wonder what ideas the other person has come up with after thinking about it all night.

Jiang Hang didn't intend to confront the other party completely right now; he wanted to see what the other party's next move was.

Let Altaïr hover over the mermaid island, acting as his eyes to keep an eye on Kimie Shimashiro's movements.

By the afternoon, Hattori Heiji had finally fully recovered.

Of course, as usual, he was given a little complaint by Toyama Kazuha, so in the afternoon he could only accompany his childhood friend to play around the festival for a while to make up for the absence in the morning.

Throughout the entire afternoon, Heiji Hattori only managed to squeeze in a short break to go to the restroom to ask Jiang Hang if he had made any new discoveries that morning, or if he had completely solved the case.

Jiang Hang shrugged, indicating that he had indeed been playing around all day and hadn't investigated the case.

Hearing this, Hattori Heiji felt a sense of relief but also a bit helpless.

I realize that I am still not as good as the other person.

Seeing Hattori Heiji's expression, Jiang Hang gave him another hint.

Shiho Miyano had been here three years ago, before she left the organization.

Because Sakata Yusuke's case was suspected to be related to the Black Organization, Hattori Heiji learned about the Black Organization from Jiang Hang, and then learned some secret information through his father.

Of course, through Jiang Hang's intelligence, he naturally knew that Shiho Miyano was the developer of the poison called APTX4869 that Jiang Hang had rescued from that organization.

He knew that Conan had shrunk because of this drug.

It is also known that this drug was not initially developed as a poison.

Although Jiang Hang had not mentioned the organization's purpose before, one could guess that it was related to things like immortality and rejuvenation.

So what does this prove?

The mermaid legend on the island was indeed false, so the organization that came to investigate only to confirm that there was no such thing as immortality before leaving.

Could that mermaid-like corpse be the work of that organization?

Hattori Heiji pondered this for a moment, then shook his head.

No, according to the island's residents, the tourism industry on Mermaid Island had been lukewarm until the news about the mermaid remains went viral, which triggered a tourism boom.

That black-clad organization must have arrived on this island after that.

Heiji Hattori pondered what other clues were hidden in the information Jiang Hang had given him.

Then he heard the regret of Toyama and Hajime beside him.

"I heard that the 130-year-old man had his memorial service held at noon today. It's a pity I didn't get to see what he looked like. I only heard that he didn't look that old, maybe only 70 years old. I can only wait until the lottery ceremony tonight to see what he looks like."

Upon hearing this, Hattori Heiji's heart skipped a beat.

He didn't know what a woman in her 130s should look like.

But he did meet some elderly people who were between 90 and 100 years old.

But no matter how you look at it, it's clearly unusual for a 130-year-old to be able to hold such a flexible memorial ceremony.

However, the island's residents and tourists from outside the island were only interested in the rumors of mermaids and immortality, so they didn't think much of it.

But if it involves that black organization, that organization will definitely have seriously studied that person's situation.

Since nothing on the island had changed, Jiang Hang had come specifically to remind him...

In other words, is this current 130-year-old life form fake?

Thinking about this, Hattori Heiji felt that some of his doubts had been answered, but at the same time, more new doubts arose.

If this fate is fake, then when did the real fate die?

Who is impersonating her now?

Why did she do this?

And what is the connection between the fire three years ago and the present?

The clues he currently possesses are insufficient to deduce the true truth, and there is not enough time left for him to explore further.

At least for now, he will never see that Ms. Shimashiro Kimie or that fateful person again.

They're currently busy with the evening's lottery ceremony and don't have time to meet with other outsiders. Otherwise, if everyone could see them whenever they wanted, the tourists would probably block them from leaving the house.

The only thing that could put Hattori Heiji's mind at ease was that Jiang Hang should already know about these things, and with him there, there shouldn't be any more accidents at this festival.

However, even when he had such thoughts, he still felt somewhat unwilling.

Soon it was night.

The lottery ceremony began at 6 p.m.

However, the lottery ceremony for the Mermaid Festival is not public at all. It is simply a matter of the person holding a torch and burning words into a paper door prepared in advance by the shrine.

While it seemed quite ceremonial, there was absolutely no explanation as to how these numbers were drawn.

However, neither the tourists nor the residents present felt there was anything wrong with it, since the lottery system at the Mermaid Festival has been decided by the people themselves for decades.

After all, the registration fee for the lottery is only 5 yen, which is a small amount of money and depends entirely on luck. Not many tourists would take it too seriously.

Then, as expected, Jiang Hang heard his lottery number from Shimadai Kimie and became one of the lucky participants in this Mermaid Festival along with two other island residents.

It was after that person finished writing those three numbers with flames that Jiang Hang made another eye contact with him from a distance.

He seemed to see the helplessness and determination in the other person's eyes.