It was not until the following evening that the police finally arrived on the island. Yet the autopsy results left them equally baffled. Like Conan and the others, the coroner could not determine the cause of death. Logically, whether the three had fallen into the water and smashed their heads or been killed with rocks, their entire skulls should have been shattered.
Cases where the surface appeared completely intact while the bones inside had been utterly pulverized were practically unheard of. Of course, according to the coroner, if they had been swept by the current and slammed into something like a reef, injuries like those were not impossible. But it was difficult to determine whether they had been caused by another person. After all, by normal reasoning, it was basically impossible to kill three people that way and leave them with almost identical causes of death.
And that was why martial arts could not appear in detective novels. Fang Zheng, however, felt it had nothing to do with him...
The only useful finding was that all three had died five days ago—the day Hattori Heiji received the letter and called Kadowaki Saori. But Kadowaki Saori had not answered the call, which meant she had already been murdered by then.
So everyone theorized and theorized, only to find that Kogoro's accident theory was somehow the most convincing one...
As a result, when Hattori Heiji and Conan returned to the room, both wore grim expressions.
"Yo, find anything?"
Fang Zheng chuckled as he looked at the two and asked. They sighed helplessly and sat down.
"No. We asked the people on the island, and most of them think the three died in some kind of accident."
"Some people also said they were cursed by a mermaid..."
"But we can be certain that