"Something terrible has happened! Officer Sato, Kangawa Ryu... he's dead!"
Nishino kept pounding on Xu Yue's door. When Xu Yue opened it, he was met with Nishino's urgent voice.
"Dead? What happened?"
"I don't know. I was going to call everyone to dinner, but when I went to get Mr. Kangawa, I found his door wasn't closed. I pushed it open and saw his body."
"You confirmed he was dead?"
"There was a bloody hole in his eye socket, and his brains were coming out. I figured he had to be dead..."
Since there was a genuine police officer, Xu Yue, on board, Famous Detective Kogoro Mouri was relegated to the backup team. By the time he arrived with Conan, Xu Yue had already reached the scene and conducted a preliminary examination of the body.
"The body has only just begun to stiffen. Time of death was approximately half an hour ago. The room is in complete disarray, and even the pillowcases and quilt were slashed apart. Whoever did this was clearly searching for something. It was an obvious home-invasion murder."
After speaking, Xu Yue stood and looked around before continuing.
"The cause of death was a bullet fired through the eye socket. Death was instantaneous. The murderer had a firearm."
Only then did the others, who had gradually arrived, show traces of fear in their eyes.
There was a murderer with a weapon on the ship. Who could possibly feel at ease?
"Call the police using the satellite phone. We should be entering Tokyo's jurisdiction by now."
"Wait, the ring around the victim's neck is gone."
At that moment, Kogoro Mouri seemed to have noticed something and spoke as if he had been pumped full of adrenaline.
Whenever he was around Officer Sato, his title of Famous Detective