Shame He Had a Mouth

"Messenger of Gusou?"

"Demand Mabui?"

"Could it be a local legend?"

Ran, Kazuha, Momiji, and the others were all puzzled upon hearing this.

"Guso refers to the underworld, while Mabui refers to the soul."

The dark-skinned, Blondie member of the duo explained, "This is an ancient Ryukyu legend. If a woman doesn't come home at night..."

The eccentric thug next to him chimed in. "Hell messengers dressed in all black will silently crawl out from the beach and quietly devour their souls!"

"Forehead..."

Fujino glanced at the two of them, speechless for a moment. "Is that messenger of hell you're talking about dressed in all black?"

The two thugs were taken aback. "Huh?"

Conan immediately saw through the fact that these two were making things up, trying to scare Ran and take advantage of them.

As the king of jealousy in Southeast Asia, he couldn't stand it, so he chimed in, "And that messenger from hell, does he also like to prey on cute girls, and can even suddenly disappear into the water?"

"Um... I think so?"

The two hesitated for a moment, then nodded blankly.

This so-called legend was just something he made up to scare girls.

Why did these little devils complete it?

"Ahem..."

Hattori Heiji saw through their intentions, suppressed a laugh, and coughed lightly. "Isn't that Xiao Hei you're talking about?"

"Yes."

Conan nodded in agreement. "That guy is all black, he comes and goes without a trace, last time on the America Island, he specifically targeted women..."

"And that guy can suddenly disappear into the water."

Hattori Heiji started a charade. "Last time I saw him kill someone with my own eyes, then jump into the sea and disappear without a trace. You're not talking about Xiao Hei, are you?"

"However, Xiao Hei doesn't only like to prey on girls."

Conan twitched his chin, giving the two of them a meaningful look. "He especially likes to target lawbreakers and petty thugs..."

"Yeah, especially those petty thugs who like to hit on girls."

Fujino pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement. "I heard that he would just beat them to death with a stun Electric Baton."

The two thugs. "..."

How can these fabricated legends actually make sense?

Moreover, the target audience has changed from girls to them.

Reverse the Heavenly Dipper is...

How come these people are all so incredibly strong in combat?!

"Heh, you two, you've reaped what you sowed by making up rumors, haven't you?"

The blonde woman gave the two of them a speechless look. "What do you mean by 'emerging from the sea'? You always use these kinds of legends to fool little girls. Didn't expect them to have heard of a similar legend and be proven wrong today?"

"We didn't make this up."

Fujino reminded him, "That guy Xiao Hei, is a real person. He kidnapped several women and killed a man on the beach."

"Real?"

The two thugs hesitated for a moment.

"That's right, that's right!"

Conan nodded in agreement. "And it disappeared into the water in an instant, I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Gurgle..."

The two thugs swallowed hard, feeling a chill run down their spines.

Although they dare to make up legends, they still have a sense of awe for real legends... as for whether they are true or not.

The detective said it, so how could it be fake?

What's more, there was a little child who said the same thing...

Don't ask, because whatever the detectives in this world say is right.

A baby over two hundred months old also doesn't lie.

"Really."

The blonde woman's face paled slightly, and she gave the duo of thugs a resentful look. "I was supposed to go swimming at the beach later... now you guys have ruined my mood."

"We were just joking..."

The two thugs were on the verge of tears. "We never imagined there were actually people like that!"

"White..."

At this moment, Hattori Heiji, who had been silently observing the blonde woman, suddenly murmured, "It should be white."

"White?"

Upon hearing this, Conan looked away, raising his eyes in confusion.

"I mean, that older sister's swimsuit must be white."

Hattori Heiji continued with certainty, "And it must be a high-cut bikini..."

"You... you're incorrigible."

Fujino glanced at the Heiji speechlessly, then whispered to Kazuha beside him, "Hey, Kazuha, Hattori's guessing other people's swimsuits again..."

"What?!"

Kazuha hearing this, Kazuha was startled, a vein bulging on his temple, and he threw a punch at Hattori Heiji's face.

"Hey, wait a minute!"

"Ah!!"

A few minutes later.

"That Fujino guy is really inhuman."

Hattori Heiji, with a bruise under his eye, stared resentfully at Fujino outside the cabin.

Because of Fujino's report, he was successfully beaten up by Toyama Kazuha, a second-dan Aikido practitioner.

And he hammered out a panda eye...

"You've known him for more than just one day, and it's a bit much that you keep guessing about his swimsuit... But..."

Conan, sitting to the side, suppressed a laugh and said, "Your eyes are really funny, they look like a panda's."

"Tsk..."

Hattori Heiji clicked his tongue with mixed feelings. "Why is Fujino targeting me the moment we meet?"

"Heh, who told you to try and trick him?"

Conan chuckled from the side, "He probably already guessed that you brought him into the show to challenge him."

"This shouldn't be happening..."

Hattori Heiji was a little annoyed. "No matter how you look at it, this is all going to benefit him, isn't it? And didn't he just trick me when we met..."

"Forehead..."

Conan paused for a moment. "Is it possible that having a child guess someone else's swimsuit is really a bit inhumane? Is Fujino trying to teach you a lesson?"

"Ah, this..."

Hattori Heiji rubbed his chin, lost in thought.

In his mind, although Fujino had a sharp tongue, he couldn't find any fault with him, and in fact, he was a model detective (crossed out).

Although his character is unknown, he'll definitely step up when needed...

It's a pity that it only has a mouth.

But thinking about it carefully, it does seem a bit too outrageous that he would take his child to peek at swimsuits.

Thinking about this, he suddenly realized. "No wonder something was wrong... Damn it, Kudo, it's all your fault for not telling him your identity, otherwise how could I have accidentally hurt you?!"

"Tsk, you're really slow on the uptake, only just realizing I'm a child?"

Unlike the two dog-headed duo arguing about whose fault it was to be punished by Fujino was leaning against the railing outside the cabin, one hand in his pocket, talking about serious business on the phone. "Hey, Hiroki, can you hear me?"

"I can hear you."

Hiroki Sawada's voice came from the other end of the phone. "The satellite communication equipment on this ship seems to be able to replace the base station and establish a communication channel for the two of us."

"As expected of you..."

Fujino silently admired the AI tech geek's abilities and asked, "So, did you find any information about this place?"

"Of course we found it."

Hiroki Sawada responded on the other end of the phone, then reported, "The town mayor here is named Kinjō Hyōgo. Although there isn't much information about him online, there are some scattered reports..."