These five fish were the five people who had disappeared from the fishing boat.
That explained a lot.
The disappearance of five crew members would undoubtedly have dealt a serious psychological blow to the crew and thrown things into turmoil.
When the Captain first heard about it, he firmly believed it was a ploy by the crew to threaten him, but afterward, he would gradually have realized that things were not as he had imagined.
With that as the tipping point, compounded by the conflicts that erupted, everyone would have started fearing for their own safety, wondering who the "killer" behind the five crew members' disappearance was... or who they were.
As the person with the strongest motive, the Captain would undoubtedly have been most of the crew's prime suspect-even the players had initially believed he had something to do with it.
Under those circumstances, the crew might have gone on strike at best, or seized the boat at worst.
They must have had plenty of conflicts, both large and small, along the way. Tensions kept escalating, while the Captain, burdened by debt, would have been unable to agree to the crew's demands for higher wages or an early return to port.
Everyone was under immense mental strain, and the Captain was clearly the one in the most dangerous position, as well as the first to be pushed to the breaking point.
Only the Captain knew he had not caused anyone to disappear. To him, one or more killers who would murder people to achieve their goals had been lurking aboard all along...
So he chose to strike first, drugging the food with sleeping pills before throwing everyone into the sea.
That was why he had said, "If you want to blame someone, blame whoever struck first."
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