The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"Really? Dad, please cheer up!"

Uncle Mori leaned on Hattori Heiji's shoulder, his steps unsteadily. Mori Ran held one of his arms and complained helplessly.

Conan looked at the ridiculous scene and the corners of his mouth twitched.

He followed the group with his hands in his pockets, then heard Fukuyama Rokuro's voice coming from inside the house.

"Kim Hui..."

He called out to Shimabukuro Kimie, causing her to look back in confusion.

As if hesitating on his words, he looked away and tilted his head slightly, looking a little unsure.

"Have you considered that?"

After a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind. His eyes no longer dodged, but stared directly at Shimabukuro Kimie without any deviation or hesitation.

"I was serious."

"Rokuro..." Shimabukuro Kimie was stunned for a moment when she saw his appearance, then she took the initiative to avoid his sight and did not look at him.

There was a complex and gentle smile on her face.

"No way."

"This is not fair to the deceased Sumi."

She paused for a moment, then looked at the shrine with a corner of the roof exposed in the center of the island with some relief: "Besides, this island still needs me. I can't just leave here like this."

"sorry......"

The ending of this apology sounded a bit sour. If she thought about it carefully, she had apologized to many people for different reasons in the past two days alone.

But these reasons ultimately point to the same mood.

Fukuyama Rokuro lowered his eyes and did not say anything else. He just slowly turned around and walked back to the mourning hall. His back looked a little lonely.

Like believers abandoned by God.

There is nowhere to go and nothing to rely on.

Conan took in the strange atmosphere between the two men. He pushed his glasses up and a white light flashed on the lenses.

Several people headed towards the shrine.

Because she had to take care of the drunk Uncle Maori, Shimabukuro Kimie deliberately slowed down her pace.

Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha also took this opportunity to chat with her.

Naturally, we couldn't help but ask about Fukuyama Rokuro.

Don’t underestimate high school girls’ sensitivity to the atmosphere!

"It seems that Mr. Fukuyama and Ms. Kimie have a good relationship."

Mao Lilan sighed tentatively.

Shimabukuro Kimie's face showed no sadness or joy, she just smiled calmly: "Because we grew up together and went to the same university."

"It's not just me and Rokuro, the same goes for Saori, Sumi, and Naoko. We all graduated from the same university."

"So you were together until you graduated from college?" Yuanshan Heye exclaimed.

"Well, and because we both love watching movies, we even formed a film club in college. In our junior year, we even made a movie called "The Story of the Bhikkhuni" for fun."

A look of reminiscence appeared on Shimabukuro Kimie's face, and she seemed to miss that time very much.

"When I participated in the competition, I won first place, which made everyone very excited. We even joked about entering Hollywood."

"That sounds great..." Yuanshan Heye stretched out his voice enviously, with his hands behind his back, imagining how colorful his future university life would be.

Not knowing what she was thinking of, she secretly glanced at Hattori Heiji who was struggling to support Uncle Mori, her pretty face blushed, and she lowered her head slightly.

"Yeah, those were great days..."

Shimabukuro Kimie's eyes showed a hint of disappointment: "But in the end, everyone couldn't give up this island and came back here."

"Saori and Naoko work as clerks in a small gift shop, while Sumi works as a tour guide for tourists from the main island at the pier."

"Lu Lang went out to sea with his father and became a fisherman, and I returned home and learned to be a shrine maiden from my grandmother."

"Three years have passed like this in the blink of an eye."

"And no one expected that Sumi and Naoko would encounter something like this in the end..."

For some reason, when they heard her words, Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha felt a little upset.

The atmosphere was a little heavy for a while.

Shimabukuro Kimie seemed to notice this, and she perked up and smiled, pointing to the shrine which was not far away and said, "We're almost there, everyone, make more efforts."

......

"The Foreign Minister, the Cabinet Secretary, and even a lot of old guys who just retired not long ago..."

With the help of the flashlight, Adam looked through the list of important figures who had visited Mermaid Island and participated in the dugong festival in recent years, and was amazed.

He took out his cell phone and took a few pictures.

"But the boss really didn't lie. He has been here every time in the past five years."

Adam said to himself, looking at the name of James Lecter which always appears on the roster every year.

"How about you help him eliminate it?" he asked Noah in the headset.

"I don't think so. If the professor wants to erase these traces, it should be easy. Maybe he left them here on purpose." Noah guessed the professor's psychology uncertainly.

Adam thought about it for a moment and decided not to do anything unnecessary.

Since the boss doesn't require it, just let it go.

“But it’s really amazing.”

He carefully put the list back into the cabinet, exactly where it had been placed, without the slightest deviation, then stood up and looked around the old house.

“Not only did they create traces of the two people’s lives, but they also used props on the bed to fake the scene of the priest sleeping.”

He gently opened the wooden door of the room and looked at the thin figure on the low couch. When he got closer, he saw that there was no real person under the bedding.

"That girl might unexpectedly have a talent for acting." Noah said in the headset.

Adam looked at her blankly: "How old are you? How can you call someone like that..."

"My life and AI life together amount to 23 years!" Noah's voice was full of pride.

"..."

Adam was about to say something when suddenly a rustling sound came from next door.

He quickly held his breath, turned off the flashlight, and looked out through the gap in the wooden door.

A furtive shadow climbed in through the window, but his hands and feet slipped as he climbed over, causing him to fall heavily to the ground with a muffled cry of pain.

"Ugh..."

The black shadow quickly got up again, touched his waist, and crawled to the cabinet where Adam had looked at the list before, and opened it.

Then he said "Oh" in surprise, took out the top list and held it in his arms, and breathed a sigh of relief as if he had survived a disaster.

The moonlight shone in from the window, illuminating his face.

"That's Monkyou Saori's father, Monkyou Benzo." Noah said in the headset at the right time.

Adam watched with interest as the drunk stuffed the list into his arms, then clumsily closed the cabinet door and climbed out through the window he had come in through.

interesting.

After the man left, he walked out of the room and tidied up the cabinet which was obviously a bit messy.

Apart from the fact that this year's roster was taken away, there was no other flaw.

After doing this, he stepped back and nodded with satisfaction.

"Adam's expression right now is just like that of a villain in a comic book who has succeeded in his conspiracy." Noah's disgusted complaint sounded in his ears.

"...It was you, a little brat, who got me involved."

Just then, a vague voice came from outside the house.

"You guys help Mr. Maoli to the room over there to rest for a while. I'll go get the roster."

Adam quickly went into hiding, sneaked back into the priest's room, hid under the bed, and used his excellent hearing to judge the situation outside.

There were six heartbeats, and judging by the strength of their rise and fall, three were women, two were sturdy adult men, and one was a child.

The woman with the stronger heartbeat was walking towards this side, while the others seemed to have gone to the room on the other side.

"If he's discovered, Adam's life will be over." Noah's mocking voice rang out in the headphones. Adam was concentrating on listening at the moment, so this sentence was particularly harsh.

However, he couldn't utter a word in reply.

Noah seemed to have seized this opportunity and became unscrupulous, uttering sarcastic remarks one after another.

Adam finally couldn't stand it anymore. He tapped his fingers on the headphones and said in Morse code: "Shut up, or I'll take off the headphones."

This artificial idiot finally calmed down a bit.

There were two heartbeats in the room, gradually approaching this side, probably from the elementary school student and the Osaka high school detective.

First there was the sound of a cupboard being opened next door, followed by the sound of rummaging.

"Hey, how come it's gone? I remember clearly storing it here..."

This is the voice of the shrine maiden.

"Can't find the roster?" The Osaka detective's accent was very recognizable.

"Well, only this year's roster is missing."

"Could it have been taken away by that old woman?" the Osaka detective guessed.

Adam heard the sound and looked at the bed in front of him. He thought that there was a doll lying on the bed and felt a sense of absurd humor.

"That's impossible..." The witch denied it casually, but to Adam it sounded like a suicide.

The elementary school student finally spoke up: "Does anyone else know where the things are stored?"

"Almost everyone on the island knows about it." Hey, hey, please protect your privacy. It's obviously a guy disguised as two people!

"People would come to us and look for the older celebrities on the roster and make fun of them."

After another round of distressed rummaging, she seemed to stand up, and the floor made a slight stepping sound.

"I'd better look in other rooms."

The heartbeats of the other two girls had already reached the door of the next room.

"Then let me help you find it!" This seemed to be the girl with horns on her head.

Soon the girl who was close to Detective Osaka also spoke up: "I, I'll help too!"

After a while, the three men came to the door of the room where Adam was hiding.

Just when Adam thought they would all rush in, the witch suddenly said, "Well, Xiaolan and Ye, go look in the room in front. I'll first see if Grandma kicked off the quilt, and then go to the warehouse to check."

The two girls said "Oh" as if they understood something, and then ran to another room.

Not long after, Adam heard the wooden door of the room being gently opened.

Come on, it sounds weird for a doll to kick the blanket...

He thought rudely in his heart.

The cupboard beside the bed for storing clothes was opened, and the witch seemed to take out a set of clothes from it.

What followed was an intriguing friction sound, and a black suit jacket fell to the ground beside the bed. Adam turned his eyes slightly and glanced at it out of the corner of his eye.

Then the skirt fell off.

This guy......

Fortunately, the witch didn't seem to make any unnecessary moves. Soon after a slight noise of someone flipping through the window, the room fell silent again.

I don't like going through the door...

After a while, two sharp screams were heard, making Adam feel dizzy.

What are those two girls doing?

"What happened?" The Osaka detective and elementary school student next door quickly rushed out.

The two girls said in terrified voices: "There is a person with dyed brown hair and glasses. She, she has been staring at us!"

"It's right here in this yard!"

"Could it be Miss Saori?!" Detective Osaka seemed very surprised.

Oh, I got it.

It turned out that the witch ran out and scared people.

Adam looked at the bed in front of him, and suddenly heard the faint sound of someone climbing up the window.

are you back?

However, after the witch climbed back from the window, she did not move. Instead, she took two deep breaths and slowly slid down to sit against the wall.

It was a suppressed sob.

She was very restrained. Adam could hear that she covered her mouth tightly with her hands, so the crying sound only struggled to spread to the wooden door and was completely isolated, without a trace being heard out.

His excellent hearing allowed him to clearly hear the crackling sounds not far away.

That is the joyous sound of flames.

It turned out to be the case.

Adam suddenly understood why the witch was crying.

I see......

The witch quickly swallowed her sobs, walked to the bed, and lifted the quilt to reveal a doll dressed as an old priest.

She put those things on herself swiftly, sat in front of the mirror to touch up her makeup, and then pulled out a red rope from somewhere, gritted her teeth, bent her calves behind her back, and tied them to her thighs with the red rope.

It looks painful.

But she just gritted her teeth and said nothing.

Soon, the lifelike "Priest" appeared in the room, and the shrine maiden "Shimabukuro Kimie" disappeared completely.

The girl is ready to play the role of an old person for the rest of her life.

She bound her living soul to this decaying shell, just like the mermaid in the legend who was caught in the net and died.

She looked at the ugly old face in the mirror with calm eyes.

Leaving the mirror, she went to the bed and tidied the bedding. After doing this, she bent down again, as if preparing to pick up the clothes she had taken off earlier.

However, when she bent halfway, her fingertips touched the skirt and she paused.

Well, finished.

This thought occurred to Adam very calmly.

He could already hear the witch's heartbeat start to speed up after it stopped beating for a moment.

It looks like he's been discovered.

He began to think about how he was going to get out of this situation, well, without showing his face.

But the witch dressed as an old priest simply picked up her clothes gently, folded them neatly, and put them back in the closet.

There was no other action or words from beginning to end.

She left the room and closed the door softly.

Adam came out from under the bed, looked deeply at the direction she left, and suddenly felt a little sorry.

He turned around and saw that the window through which the witch came in and out was wide open.

The moonlight poured in through the open windows, bringing a sense of peace and tranquility.