When they arrived at the room where Reika Shifuku had been, they found it completely empty!
Normally, that would not have meant much, but with Conan here... no, with all the tires slashed, there was clearly a problem. Someone had planned this.
"Let's split up and look for her."
The villa was huge, with plenty of empty rooms, but none of them gave up as they searched the other rooms.
Yet even after searching every room in the entire villa, they still found no trace of Reika Shifuku.
"Could she be out in the woods?"
"Was she kidnapped?"
Someone raised the possibility. Reika Shifuku was the heir to the Shii Consortium, so it would not have been surprising if someone had kidnapped her for ransom.
Since they could not find her inside the villa, they naturally had to search the woods outside. Perhaps the young lady had gone out on her own, but perhaps there really was a kidnapper!
If it was a kidnapper, the tires outside might have been slashed by them as well.
With that, the group rushed into the woods outside the villa one after another and split up to search.
However...
In the end, they did not find Miss Reika Shifuku. Instead, on their way back, they discovered Yuji Nikaido drowned in the fountain!
"Nikaido!"
"Yuji!"
After discovering Nikaido with his head submerged in the water, they hurried over, pulled him up, and laid him flat on the ground. But when Xu Yue and Kogoro Mouri placed their fingers on his neck in turn, they both shook their heads.
"He's dead. He died not long ago. Preliminary assessment: death by drowning. There are signs of struggling. He was probably attacked from behind, then had his head forced into the water."
Xu Yue was a professional. As