Ai Haibara first silently grumbled to herself.
Then she crossed her arms over her chest.
She turned to Fujino and asked, "Now that we know why their family has been experiencing paranormal incidents, what should we do?"
Ai Haibara was curious.
She was curious about how Fujino would handle this case.
"Nothing much."
Fujino clasped his hands behind his head, walked over to the sofa, and plopped down. "All we have right now is a recording. We don't have any concrete evidence to hand to the police and conclusively prove their crimes. Someone among them really did kill someone, but thirteen years have already passed. We don't even know where the shipwreck was, so that person's body has probably disappeared somewhere long ago."
"Besides, the other two merely stood by and did nothing. Even if they were arrested, at most they'd be charged with concealing and shielding a murderer."
"I think the person behind those pranks must have realized that too."
Ai Haibara propped up her chin. "The prank card mentioned the soul of the fifth person. That would refer to someone besides the servants who died in the villa and their families. The reason he hasn't reported them and had them arrested all these years must be that there isn't enough evidence."
Yet as she spoke, a puzzled look appeared on her face. "But it really is strange. Why did that person only remember this two years ago, eleven years after the incident, and start carrying out these 'pranks'...?"
"There are two possibilities."
Fujino held up two fingers and waved them before her eyes. "The first is that, at the beginning, he hadn't yet broken through the restraints of his moral bottom line and still had a conscience. He spent all these years looking for evidence of the three