0 Detective Conan Episode 223: And There Were No Mermaids (The Deduction)

Episode 223: And There Were No Mermaids (The Deduction)

After the festival three years ago. The warehouse caught fire and a body was discovered. The police concluded that it might be a tourist who was looking for an extra arrow to steal, but accidentally set the warehouse on fire.

Scenario: Conan and Heiji investigate Naoko's brutal murder and discover a trail of fish scales that suggest Naoko's killer came from the sea. The area and history of the Mermaid's Grave which was supposedly a grave of a mermaid that was moved to a forest on mermaid island after grave robbers tried to steal its bones for immortality. They learn that Mikoto is over 130 years old, an arrow carrier, and the head of the festival. While investigating the murders, Kimie is burned alive in the warehouse near the shrine. Conan, after a few more hints and clues, reveals to Heiji over the phone that he knows who the murderer is and to meet him later. However, as Heiji discovers the mermaid's grave in the forest, he falls off the cliff and Kazuha, while successfully pulling him back up, ends up falling off the cliff herself. Heiji jumps off the cliff after her and they both end up hanging from a tree branch. Kazuha sees the branch slowly breaking from the weight of both of them and stabs Heiji's hand with her arrow in order to make him let go and save himself.

During Toshimi's funeral, Naoko was found murdered by someone at the fishing net. The foot prints of the criminal went toward the ocean and vanished, and her arrow is missing. Is Naoko murdered by the mermaid!?

Conan and Heiji investigate the area and history of Mermaids Grave, a forest on mermaid island. They learn that an elder who is over 130 years old is a holder of the arrow and the head of the festival. Three years ago a warehouse got burned down and a half body was discovered missing its legs. The police from the coast said that the body was of a middle age woman, and concluded that it might have been a tourist, who snuck into the warehouse to look for a dugong arrow and accidently started the fire. The deceased was never identified. But rumors had been going around that it was a body of a mermaid. The year after the incident, the bones were buried on the island, but later moved into the forest on orders from the Elder due to grave robbers who had stolen bones from the grave. In myth it was believed that bones of a mermaid grant long life. It was that incident that made the Elder famous around the country. Naoko suggest that Toshimi had been looking for the grave, and Kimie confirms that Toshimi often spoke of it.

Not long after Ran and Kazuha saw a strange woman resemble Saori, the warehouse was set on fire. The burnt body was identified as Kimie. From circumstances, everything pointed to Saori being the true mastermind of the three murders. Was she really the woman Ran and Kazuha saw? Or it's the other two suspects, her father and Rokuro?

While investigating two more murders occur. First Naoko being strangled and her arrow is missing. The only connection between the three women, beside being childhood friends, is that they all three believed in the power of the arrow, and that the Elder was immortal. Heiji and Conan decides to take a look at the book with the names and numbers for those who anticipated in the festival's lottery, but the most recent one is missing. While Kimie goes out to search for it. Heiji and Conan takes a look at the old ones. Conan finds a name, Shiho Miyano, and remembers that it was Haibara's real name, but doubts that's her. Then Kimie gets burned in the warehouse near the shrine. After the corpse's identity is determent by dental records, Rokuro breaks down crying and the 'Elder' takes to her bed muttering about seeing young life dying, while she still lives. The group splits up, Heiji and Kazuha goes out searching for Benzo, while Rokuro takes the rest to Saori's house, so Ran can see a picture of Saori and determent if she was the woman, she and Kazuha saw. After searching a bag for travel in the house Conan realizes that something is missing. He reveals to Heiji he knows who the murderer is, relay his theory, and asks him to meet up later, but later Heiji and Kazuha fall off a cliff after they discovered the much-talked-about grave. At the grave Heiji sees that someone has visited it recently and begins to wonder if Conan's solution was correct.