Chapter 407: The Mermaid Burned to Death, the Legend of Immortality

Chapter 407: The Mermaid Burned to Death, the Legend of Immortality

Under a big tree whose waist circumference was ten times thicker than Conan's, Suzuki Sonoko hugged Mouri Ran and cried bitterly.

"5555 Xiaolan, you actually forgot about me! Am I no longer your best friend? Which man deceived you away?"

Mao Lilan was extremely embarrassed. She actually left her best friend in the store and felt extremely guilty.

Patting Suzuki Sonoko on the back, he kept apologizing: "I'm sorry, Sonoko, I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it!"

The other kids around were either feeling equally embarrassed, guilty, or gloating.

That’s right, Conan and Yuya were especially mentioned.

"Puchi!" Youya couldn't help it in the end, and a sneer accidentally leaked out.

As we all know, laughter is contagious, so Conan couldn't help it and lowered his head and shook his shoulders.

Miyano Shiho couldn't help but look sideways, aren't you friends who grew up together? Is it really okay to laugh like this? The friendship can be broken at any time!

Fortunately, Hattori Heiji held back.

He and Suzuki Sonoko were just ordinary friends, not very close. If he laughed out loud, Toyama Kazuha would complain to him when he got home, and his mother would ask him to practice kendo.

Suzuki Sonoko didn't know whether she had eyes on the back of her head or super hearing, but she suddenly turned around and glared at him.

Yuya reacted very quickly. He stopped smiling almost as soon as Sonoko turned her head, pretending to look very guilty.

But Conan was not so lucky. He was lowering his head to hold back his laughter and did not notice that Suzuki Sonoko turned her head.

Until he felt that the atmosphere was not right and heard murderous aura coming from above his head, he looked up and - oh no, it was over.

"Bang bang bang!"

After a series of bangs, Conan directly cosplayed the big Buddha in the temple.

"Hahahahahaha!"

Laughing at Conan was not that stressful. Yuya and Hattori Heiji laughed loudly, patting Conan on the shoulder and poking the stacked headband with their fingers.

Conan's forehead darkened, his eyes drooped, and he angrily slapped the claws of his two dog friends away.

...

On the other side, Shimabukuro Kimie saw Yuya and others off, then turned and went into the house. After a while, she came out again and stood under the cherry tree with a dazed look on her face.

That boy turned out to be the high school detective - Yuya Kamiya.

She had heard this name before from guests who came to the Mermaid Festival, and just now she heard Miyano Shiho call him Yuya.

Originally, I thought they just had the same name, but they came specifically to look for Saori Kadowaki. Shimabukuro Kimie felt a little uneasy, so she went to check, and it turned out that they were the same person.

Could it be that Saori is looking for a detective to help her find the lost dugong arrow? Or...

Shimabukuro Kimie's face suddenly changed. Oh no, he wouldn't ruin her revenge plan, right?

Thinking of this, Shimabukuro Kimie looked around, and after making sure that no one was paying attention to her, she secretly came to the warehouse behind the shrine.

"Wow!"

The door was opened.

There were some sundries piled up in the warehouse, and in the innermost corner, a woman was sitting against the wall with her hands and feet tied and her mouth blocked.

Hearing the door open, the woman raised her head slowly, her eye sockets were sunken, her face was pale, and her lips were cracked with traces of blood.

"Saori..." Shimabukuro Kimie looked at her friend who had been hungry for three days and was half dead. Hatred flashed in her eyes. She walked over and tore the cloth out of her mouth.

The person tied up in the warehouse was Saori Kadowaki who had been missing for three days!

"Jun, Jun Hui, why did you lock me up here?" Kadowaki Saori begged with a hoarse voice. "Please let me go. If I did anything wrong, please tell me and I will apologize. I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

She cried and twisted her body, but her body was too weak to shed a single tear and she fell down.

"Apologize?" Shimabukuro Kimie's face was full of sarcasm and hatred. "Will your apology be of any use? How many times do you have to say sorry before my mother comes back?"

"Mother?" Kadowaki Saori was puzzled. "Didn't your mother die in a shipwreck? What does it have to do with me?"

Shimabukuro Kimie did not answer, but sneered and said: "You want to know the secret of the longevity lady's longevity, I will tell you now."

A look of desire suddenly appeared in Saori Kadowaki's eyes.

Shimabukuro Kimie showed a look of disgust. This man was still dreaming even when he was about to die.

She squatted down and whispered in Saori Kadowaki's ear for a while.

Saori Kadowara's eyes gradually widened, and finally she began to tremble violently, shaking her head with all her might: "Impossible, this can't be true! You're lying to me!"

"Why should I lie to you?" Shimabukuro Kimie raised her lips with a cold smile, not even close to the gentle and cheerful look she had at the shrine. "It's okay. If you don't believe me, tomorrow I'll burn this place down like I did three years ago, and then you can go inside the fire and apologize to my mother!"

After saying this, Shimabukuro Kimie grabbed the strip of cloth and stuffed it forcefully into Menwa Saori's mouth. She stood up, looked at her coldly for a while, then turned around and left without hesitation.

The faint sobbing of Saori Kadowara was left echoing in the warehouse where no one would come.

Shimabukuro Kimie returned to the shrine and continued to perform her duties as a shrine maiden, sweeping the petals under the cherry tree with a broom.

But her mind was not here at all, and her eyes fell on the mountain without her noticing.

At the Mermaid Festival three years ago, three of Shimabukuro Kimie's good friends did not draw the dugong's arrow, and one of them was Kadowaki Saori.

The three people were unwilling to give up, so after getting drunk they wanted to go to the shrine's warehouse to steal an arrow, but they happened to see the longevity lady entering the warehouse.

So they took advantage of being drunk, locked the warehouse door and set it on fire, wanting to see if the longevity lady really had the ability to be immortal.

On the second day after the fire, Saori Kadowaki and her two accomplices saw the "mermaid bones" in the warehouse, and then saw the longevity woman who was locked in the warehouse yesterday, but appeared in front of everyone unharmed the next day. They were horrified, but also firmly believed that the longevity woman had indeed eaten mermaid meat and had the ability to be immortal.

Therefore, he became the most loyal believer of the mermaid.

However, what they don’t know is that the so-called dugong arrow, the so-called mermaid, the so-called longevity, and the so-called immortality are all fake.

Even the longevity lady herself is a false lie.

The 130-year-old longevity lady is actually a costumed character played by the women of the Shimabukuro family who have been in makeup for generations.

Until three years ago, the person who played the role of the longevity lady was Shimabukuro Kimie's mother, Shimabukuro Naoko.

During the fire, Naoko Shimabukuro was locked in a warehouse and knew she could not escape. So before she died, she called her daughter, hoping that she could continue to play the role of the longevity goddess and maintain the Mermaid Festival for the future of the island.

In order to play the role of a short longevity woman, she needed to kneel down and tie her legs together. The fire collapsed the warehouse, and the fallen pillars crushed Shimabukuro's lower body, making the bones left at the scene look like they really had no legs, just like the legendary mermaid.

Shimabukuro Kimie didn't know what was going on, she just thought it was her mother's last wish, and reluctantly took on the mission of playing the role of the longevity lady.

But what she didn't expect was that a few days ago, Saori Menra lost the dugong arrow. As a believer in mermaids, she believed in the legend and was sure that the mermaids would bring down terrible punishment.

In a panic, she relied on the fact that she was a good friend of Shimabukuro Kimie to ask for the dugong arrow and revealed that she and her friend had set a fire that year.

Shimabukuro Kimie felt like she was struck by lightning on the spot. She tried hard to comfort herself, saying that it was the longevity lady who lied first and both sides were responsible.

The person is already dead, there is no point in pursuing the matter further.

But the hatred that had not yet been completely suppressed was immediately ignited by Saori Menwaki's absurd words.

"If you don't have the dugong's arrow, at least tell me where the mermaid's tomb is! Please, I also want to be immortal like Changshou Po!"

Shimabukuro Kimie was stunned.

According to legend, the way to gain immortality is to eat mermaid flesh.

Shimabukuro Kimie laughed out of anger. Not only did this man set fire to her mother and kill her, but now he wanted to dig up her grave and eat the deceased's bones.

Shimabukuro Kimie's mind was instantly occupied by a voice, repeating over and over again, "Damn it! They all deserve to die! Kill them! Kill them!"

Not only Kadowaki Saori, she will definitely not let the other two people go!