"Yashiro Father and Daughter, and the son-in-law who married into the family..."
Fujino walked down the corridor, quietly pondering who would be killed next. The captain should be next... I just don't know what method she'll use.
As Fujino murmured to himself, he suddenly thought of the bombs.
Kusaka Hironari had planted the bombs to buy himself a chance to escape, but what was Akiyoshi Mibuko doing it for?
With such a large yield, and planted in those locations, the purpose was obvious: to sink the entire ship. Could that woman really be planning to make everyone aboard die with it?
But the more he thought about it, the less reasonable it seemed...
The only way to sink something this massive was to blow open the hull, then destroy all the watertight doors. Yet judging from the bombs that had been removed so far, she had only planted bombs on several critical watertight doors.
Based on what he knew about bombs, neither their positions nor their yields were fatal. To sink a behemoth like this, it would take at least thirty minutes to an hour. By then, everyone would probably have escaped safely.
If she truly wanted to kill everyone, the yield was still far too small.
Fujino figured this was time she had left for everyone else to evacuate. And if he thought about it, the only reason for doing that was to kill the captain named Kaito Wataru.
Under maritime laws in various countries, the captain was required to be the last person to evacuate. In other words, before everyone aboard had safely left, the captain could not flee.
If an investigation afterward found casualties, the captain would have to bear responsibility. If he left early, he could even be thrown in prison and eat prison food for