The long-haired man's words made everyone exchange glances, and panic swept through them.
After a brief bout of chaos, Jiang Xia headed toward the boat. "If they really came to silence us, they should already have gotten off. But there's been no movement this whole time... Let's go take a look first."
As soon as he moved, the others followed in a rush, some willingly and some not.
The two or three crew members left behind looked around nervously and shivered in the sea breeze. They had no choice but to brace themselves and follow too, forming a rather imposing-looking group.
The farther they walked along the pier, the clearer the boat became. Sure enough, something was very wrong—it had not docked normally at the pier. It had crashed into it, and its bow had knocked down part of the pier.
"No one came down." Mouri Ran clenched her fists and whispered to Jiang Xia, "Could he be waiting for us to board before launching a surprise attack?"
"Hmph, maybe he's just too scared to come out." Hattori Heiji swept his flashlight around the boat casually. Then he blinked. "Hm? I think I just saw something strange..."
"Ah!!!"
As he swung the beam back, the two high school girls shuddered and suddenly let out terrified screams.
Even Hattori Heiji, who was accustomed to seeing corpses, could not help staring at the spot illuminated by the beam, stunned for a moment.
—A corpse hanging from the railing abruptly appeared in the center of the light.
The unscrupulous captain who had supposedly killed Miss Taira and sailed away was now hanging by the neck from a rope, dangling from the hull with grievance in his eyes like an elongated life buoy.
His feet hung down into the sea, while his head and