Chapter 157 Aerobic Diving Incident Resolution
Chapter 158: Aerobic Diving Incident Resolution
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"Ms. Kisaki Eri, who is coming to our hospital from the Queen's Hotel, and Ms. Matsuzaki Harumi, who is also coming from the Queen's Hotel. Please both of you come to the director's office immediately. Mr. Maori Kogoro is waiting for you there. I repeat, from the Queen's Hotel..." (Going directly to the director's office? That's really impressive.)
"Eh? The Dean's office?" Mom heard the broadcast and was a little confused.

"Dad?" Xiaolan was also confused.

"Hmph, that old guy actually uses such tricks. Well, I'd like to see what other tricks he has up his sleeve!" As she said that, the mother walked towards the dean's office angrily, accompanied by Xiaolan and Miss Matsuzaki Harumi who had just been called.

On the other side, I had arranged everything long ago and helped my father, who had been anesthetized and asleep, to the dean's seat. Conan also ran back from the broadcasting room, ready to start solving the case. After arranging everything, my mother and Xiaolan came here. As soon as I opened the door, my mother yelled at my father.

"What do you mean? You even went out of your way to ask us to come here via the radio. If you really have something to say to me, tell me now!"

"Oh... so scary." Conan was standing behind his father's chair, breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Really...you're worthy of being my mother. Your aura is even stronger than before." Looking at my mother's angry look, I couldn't help but touch my cold neck.

"Well... I think it might not be good for me to be here now." Standing behind us, Harumi Matsuzaki said with difficulty. "I'd better come back later. Besides, I'm also worried about Takako's condition." Harumi said and was about to go out the door. But just as she turned around, Conan called her in a fatherly voice.

"You are understandably worried. After all, this is related to the current case. Is it a murder case or an attempted murder case?"

"Eh?!"

"Huh?!" Harumi and her mother were both shocked.

"That's right, this incident was not an accident at all, but a complete criminal act set up by the murderer!" Conan said coldly in his father's voice. "The key to solving the case is that the wound on Miss Kiwako's hand is on the back of her hand. As we all know, the mouth of a sea snake is very small. If it is really a sea snake that bites someone, it can only bite the fingers, or the arms, calves and tiny parts of the body. However, Miss Kiwako's wound appeared on the back of her hand that the sea snake could not bite at all. This fully proves that the sea snake that bit Miss Kiwako was someone who was rushed to rescue Miss Kiwako. The snake's head was clamped by the hand, forcing the sea snake to open its mouth, revealing its fangs and then biting into the back of Miss Kiwako's hand. And the initiator of this incident is you, Miss Matsuzaki Harumi!"

Conan's words made Matsuzaki Harumi's body tremble slightly. In this quiet environment, I could clearly hear her heartbeat quicken in an instant.

"I see..." The mother beside him folded her arms, squinted her eyes and chuckled. "So you have seen through the truth a long time ago, but you have been pretending to be confused. Okay, then I ask you a question, detective. What evidence do you have to prove that Harumi is the real murderer? Couldn't someone else have committed the crime at that time? And the reason why everyone ran over was because Miss Guihezi was drowning. If it weren't for this, everyone would have had no chance to get close to Guihe..."

"What if the drowning was not an accident, but was intentional?" Conan interrupted his mother in his father's voice. "What if the drowning was just a plan set up by Takako to test Mr. Masahiko?"

"Test Mr. Yayan?" Xiaolan wondered.

"That's right. When two people are in love, both men and women want to know how the other person feels about them. Sometimes, in order to attract the person of the opposite sex they like, they will deliberately pretend to be intimate with other people of the opposite sex. Married couples may also deliberately not wear wedding rings on their hands. In this way, they hope to attract the attention of their other half."

"Hmph." At this point, my mother snorted coldly. I looked at her left hand. Indeed, my mother did not wear a wedding ring today. Recalling the first time I saw her at the beach, she was wiping her hair while wearing glasses and looking for something. Thinking of this, a sly smile appeared at the corner of my mouth.

"So, Dad, you mean..."

"Yes, that was a play performed by Miss Takako, the purpose of which was to test Mr. Masahiko's feelings for her. The evidence was the word 'that's great' she said after she saw Mr. Masahiko when everyone rescued her."

"But, they are obviously getting married. Why does Miss Gui Hezi have to stage such a drama?" Xiaolan continued to ask.

"That's because Miss Guihezi found that her fiancé was not angry when she flirted with a celebrity. So she thought such a plan was necessary." Mom took over Xiaolan's question, "So, the two of them joined forces to stage a drowning farce."

"Two people?"

"Yes, two people." Mom confirmed. "In this plan, there must be someone who can find Gui Hezi in the first time when she is drowning, otherwise Miss Gui Hezi may be rescued by other guests, and then the plan will fail. And the other person in this plan, I think, should be you, Miss Chunmei." After listening to her mother's words, Chunmei lowered her head and said nothing. "As for the starting signal of the plan, I think it should be when Miss Gui Hezi told you to get a towel."

"But Miss Harumi tried to stop her." Xiaolan seemed to not believe the fact in front of her. The loving girl was unwilling to believe that Miss Harumi was the criminal.

"Of course Miss Harumi had to stop her." Conan continued. "Because I, the famous detective Maori Kogoro, was present, she had to stop Miss Kiwako's plan, but Miss Kiwako insisted on completing the test. However, she had no idea that behind this test, Miss Harumi had another outrageous plan. I think that when Miss Harumi left us to go back to the room to get a towel, she emptied her waist bag and put the sea snake in it. After getting the towel, she returned to the restaurant and found an opportunity to wave to Miss Kiwako in the sea, signaling the start of the plan. Then all she had to do was go into the sea and let the sea snake bite her hand."

"Really? Then let me ask you, Mr. Detective." Mom did not back down at all. "The sea snake that was used as the murder weapon has now escaped into the sea. Without the murder weapon, there is no way to establish evidence in court."

“So I just said that Miss Chunmei prepared the sea snake in advance, but after the incident, Miss Chunmei never left us, so I think we can definitely find relevant evidence in her waist bag now, such as the sea snake’s body fluids, cortex, scales, or traces of the tape used to fix the sea snake.

"Tape marks?"

"That's right." Conan continued. "After putting the whole sea snake into the waist bag, it is not only laborious to take it out, but there is also the risk of being bitten by it. However, if you use tape to fix the sea snake and only expose its head, you can pull it out in an instant.

"So... that was the wing-like creature I saw at that time." Xiaolan suddenly realized.

"Yes, that should be part of the tape. Next, we just need to investigate Miss Harumi's waist bag, and I believe the truth of the matter will become clear."

"But... why did Miss Harumi want to kill Miss Kiwako? She was obviously her brother's fiancée." "Well... the following is my guess." Conan continued in his father's voice. "I think that Miss Harumi's feelings for Mr. Masahiko may not only be the feelings between siblings, but maybe it would be more accurate to say that she loves him."

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Xiaolan retorted. "Ms. Harumi and Mr. Masahiko are brother and sister."

"No, I just found out from the side in the hotel just now that Mr. Masahiko, Mr. Ayang and Miss Takako are childhood sweethearts. Miss Harumi is not among them. I guess Miss Harumi should be the child who went there with her parents after their remarriage, if I am right. Miss Harumi should have started to get in touch with them after college. After all, Mr. Ayang was too polite when he spoke to Miss Harumi."

"Actually... Actually it wasn't in college, but in my second year of high school." At this point, Harumi was no longer able to hide it. "At that time, my mother and I went there for the first time, and that was the first time I met Yayan. When I was helpless, he was the best person to me. I fell in love with him. Because there was no one like him around me. But there was always a Guihezi next to Yayan's brother. Every time she mentioned her brother's childhood, I got very angry. It was as if she was telling me that you don't know anything about Yayan. Soon after, they got engaged, and then got married. But in the end, even though Guihezi knew what was on my mind, she still asked me to cooperate with her plan with a frivolous smile."

"So you want to kill her with a sea snake?" Mom said solemnly.

"Yes. I don't want to hand my brother over to that woman, so! So..."

boom!
Harumi's simple words were like a bombshell to me. In an instant, my mind became empty, leaving only a long purple hair and a face full of sadness. This scene seemed familiar.

"Xiaoxun? What's wrong with you?"

Xiaolan seemed to notice my strangeness. Similarly, my mother and Harumi also turned around and looked at me who was standing at the back.

"No, nothing." I shook my head to indicate that I was fine, walked to Chunmei's side, and looked at her with a different look.

"Xiao, Xiaoxun..." For some reason, when Chunmei saw my appearance, her body trembled slightly, because she read an understanding of herself from the child's purple pupils.

"Go and apologize to Sister Gui Hezi." I whispered. "I think she will forgive you."

"Apologize? But I..." Tears fell from Harumi's eyes. Her body seemed to have lost the ability to support itself. She slowly sat on the ground.

"I... I understand your feelings very well." Unconsciously, I reached out and wiped away the tears from Harumi's eyes. "Because I once had a sister who was as stupid as you." I looked at the person in front of me sincerely, "Go and apologize to her. Believe me, Sister Gui Hezi will definitely forgive you. She will."

"Xiaoxun, I, I... Woo woo..." Facing the child in front of her, Chunmei could no longer control her emotions. She sat on the ground and burst into tears. Regret and sadness were all written on her tear-stained face.

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

Bang!
Just as Harumi was crying, the door of the director's office was violently pushed open. A nurse came in hurriedly. "Excuse me, are you all friends of Miss Toda Takako?"

"Yes, may I ask how is Takako?" After realizing her fault, Harumi no longer hated Takako. So she was the first to ask about her worries.

"Well, please don't worry." The nurse smiled gently. "Miss Gui Hezi is now completely out of danger. The first aid measures have almost completely eliminated all the toxins in her body. We have also injected her with serum. After that, she only needs to rest for two days and she will be back to normal."

"Really? That's great." Harumi finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the nurse's words.

"Go see her." I looked at her encouragingly.

"Well, thank you, Xiaoxun." Without saying anything more, Harumi stood up and ran to the emergency room, leaving us in the room staring at the empty door.

The case was solved, Conan woke up his father, and we all went to Takako's treatment room. Seeing Harumi kneeling beside the bed and crying, and Takako waking up and gently stroking Harumi's head, such a scene made everyone smile with relief. Coincidentally, no one wanted to call the police for this incident, and the whole incident went smoothly.

"I can't believe that, Xiaoxun, you actually have a younger sister." After the incident, Xiaolan bent down happily and looked at me.

"Ah! Ah... Well, I do have a sister, but we are not biological siblings. We used to live very close to each other, but we left because of our parents' work." I scratched my head and lied. I didn't think much about it just now. I couldn't help but say such words. I was so careless that I forgot that Xiaolan and my mother were around... Mom?! I suddenly realized and hurriedly looked at my mother, only to see that my mother was staring at me seriously.

"What...what's wrong? Aunt Eri?"

"Xiaoxun, tell your auntie seriously. Is your sister called Lan?" Mom squatted down and looked at me quietly, as if she wanted to find a flaw in my face.

"Mom... what are you asking?" Xiaolan blushed, "Although this child is called Xiaoxun, it's impossible for his sister to be called..." Xiaolan was interrupted by Yingli before she finished her words. I saw my mother looking into my eyes seriously, leaving me no room for lying, and I also knew that if I looked away a little, my mother would think I was lying.

"No, auntie." I answered with my eyes fixed. "My sister's name is... Ling."

(End of this chapter)