The scenes that followed were entirely predictable.
In the broken, tilted footage, Reika Shifui and Nikaido Yuji struggled and grappled in the water.
Wracked by the agony of drowning, the two young people from the yacht club, who should have been decent swimmers, could barely cry for help. Before long, the footage fell completely silent.
It was not hard to imagine that this had been their final recording before death.
"We confirmed at the scene that Miss Reika Shifui's feet became tangled in aquatic weeds and plants after she fell into the water. Mr. Nikaido Yuji was unable to break free because she had tightly gripped his clothes. The two of them perished together like that."
The head of the search-and-rescue team quickly explained this to the police and the hurriedly arrived President Shifui.
President Shifui's face was ashen, clearly devastated. The police had already learned about the previous night from the other witnesses, namely Mori Kogoro and the others, and had no objections to his conclusion.
Reika Shifui had jumped out the window and run away in front of everyone.
She had also entered the forest on her own.
Nikaido Yuji had actively left the group because of an argument. Before his death, he had even found the person they had been searching for, Reika Shifui. No matter how one looked at it, it seemed like independent action.
The case could basically be ruled an accident.
Although there were rather too many aspects of this accident that defied normal logic, well, perhaps that was just how wealthy, idle young people were.
Rebellious and dramatic, always looking for thrills, whether they survived depending entirely on how tough their luck was—it was not unheard of...
"There were no traces of anyone else at the scene?" Conan could not help asking.
It