"Did you find her?"
After wrapping up Conan's call, Hoshikawa Teru rose to his feet and watched his somewhat bedraggled teammates emerge from the seawater.
Even though they had come fully equipped and prepared, no one knew when Curacao would fall into the sea, where she would land, whether she could return from death on her own, or whether she would need treatment. Everyone who had come to retrieve her was understandably on edge.
"We found her..." Asai Narumi climbed ashore, pulled off her waterproof suit, and shook out her wet hair. "People who fall into the sea are really hard to catch. What a pain."
Since they had not rehearsed for this situation, they had nothing beyond a rough estimate of where she had fallen into the water. To prevent any accidents, they could only bring extra hands and equipment to facilitate the rescue.
—Fortunately, this was not merely a theme park but an aquarium. The keepers and performers had plenty of diving equipment too. Otherwise, they would not even have known where to rent the necessary gear at the last minute.
"Luckily, she looks like she's in decent shape." Shimabukuro Kimiye poked her head out of the water, wiped the droplets from her face, and motioned for Akemi Miyano to take the safety rope from her.
Having grown up on a fishing island, she was the strongest swimmer among them and had volunteered to handle the search and carry the injured person.
The safety rope was quickly secured to the anchor point set up onshore, and the people in the water climbed up one by one along the rope.
Sitting onshore, Hoshikawa Teru watched them looking like drenched ghosts and shook his head helplessly before getting up to help.
Before long, Curacao's "corpse" was brought ashore.
After her