Toda Kiwako was brought ashore.
Soon, everyone found the marks of a sea snake bite on the back of her hand.
"Kiwako, she really was bitten by a sea snake!"
Matsuzaki Harumi stared at the snake bite wound on her hand in astonishment, covering her mouth.
"She won't die, will she?!"
"She's not dead yet."
Fujino held out the sea snake he was gripping, looking around at the group.
"Can someone help me hold this sea snake?"
"Uh..."
Everyone present was speechless.
Only then did they realize.
This guy Fujino had apparently been holding this sea snake the entire time.
Someone just got bitten, and he's still holding a live sea snake!
How bold... wasn't he afraid of being bitten?
"Forget it. Why are you all so timid?"
Fujino sighed softly, casually snapped the sea snake's neck, then tied it around his waist like a belt.
Conan, watching Fujino tie the sea snake around his waist, couldn't help but twitch his lips.
Good grief. This Fujino guy, always ridiculous, but today he was excessively so...
Why did he suddenly feel a bit... bizarre?
Under everyone's gaze, Fujino knelt down and tentatively felt Toda Kiwako's pulse.
The pulse was weak, no joyous pulse detected, next menstrual cycle approximately...
Seeing the pulse was relatively stable, Fujino took out a short red string from his pocket and tightly tied it around the wrist of the arm Toda Kiwako had been bitten on.
After snake venom enters the body, it spreads rapidly.
He didn't know if tying it would help, but his first aid knowledge said so.
[Detected Host performing treatment. Increase healing effect on others by 100%]
As the system prompt sounded by his ear, Fujino bent down slightly, brought Toda Kiwako's hand wound to his mouth, and sucked hard.
The taste of blood filled his mouth.
He spat out the blood containing some venom, then shouted towards Conan,
"Conan, quickly get me something containing tannic acid!"
"Understood!"
Conan nodded knowingly, then immediately ran towards the nearby restaurant.
"Hey, Conan, what happened?"
Seeing Conan running back frantically, Mouri Kogoro, standing inside the restaurant looking towards the beach, couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Kiwako-neechan was bitten by a sea snake!"
Conan's eyes darted around, searching for something containing tannic acid.
"Bitten by a sea snake?"
Ai Haibara looked back and saw Fujino kneeling by the seaside on the beach, administering first aid to Toda Kiwako.
She lowered her head, thought briefly, picked up the iced tea in her hand, and walked towards the beach outside the restaurant.
"Iced tea?"
Conan looked back at the iced tea in Ai Haibara's hand.
That's right, iced tea!
He remembered iced tea contained tannic acid.
Thinking this, he immediately grabbed the remaining bottles of iced tea from the table and ran after her.
"Tannic acid, used to neutralize sea snake venom."
Ai Haibara handed the iced tea to Fujino. "This is what you wanted him to find, right?"
"Mhm."
Fujino looked back at the approaching little Ai Haibara.
"Hurry up and rinse your mouth. Sucking snake venom so recklessly."
Ai Haibara glanced at Fujino. "It'll be troublesome if the snake venom enters your oral mucosa later."
"Are you worried about me?"
"..."
Fujino chuckled lightly, took the iced tea, poured the entire contents into his mouth, then spat it out onto the nearby sand.
"There's more iced tea here!"
Conan ran back frantically, carrying three or four bottles of iced tea.
"You're late, kid. Not even as fast as Ai-chan."
Fujino took the iced tea and poured the tea water onto Toda Kiwako's wound.
According to his medical knowledge, the best treatment for sea snake poisoning was immediate antivenom injection.
But there was no antivenom here.
Snake venom was complex; different types required different antivenoms.
His medical kit did contain snake antivenom, but not specifically for sea snakes.
Without antivenom, he could only use emergency measures to keep Toda Kiwako alive.
They'd have to inject the antivenom once they reached a hospital.
"Detective Fujino, how is Kiwako's condition now?"
Seeing Fujino stand up, Matsuzaki Masahiko asked anxiously.
"Everything that could be done has been done. Ms. Toda should be fine for now."
Fujino glanced at the system interface, initiating the classic four-choice selection process. "Next, we need to find the real culprit behind this case."
"The real culprit?!"
Matsuzaki Masahiko paused upon hearing this, stunned. "Detective Fujino, do you mean Kiwako being bitten by the sea snake wasn't an accident?"
"Correct."
Fujino nodded, sweeping his gaze across the crowd. "Ms. Toda being bitten by the sea snake this time was indeed no accident, but a premeditated attempted murder."
Nearby, Conan also nodded upon hearing this.
He had also felt something was amiss about this incident.
He hadn't expected Fujino to figure it out so quickly...
Truly a man on par with himself.
"A premeditated attempted murder case?"
Itou Hiroshi walked over. "Who would do such a thing?"
"Well, I don't know yet, but I've already figured out the method used."
Fujino pointed to the bite on Toda Kiwako's hand. "Haven't you noticed? The part Ms. Toda was bitten by the sea snake is the back of her hand. Normally, a sea snake's mouth cannot open that wide. Clearly, someone deliberately opened the sea snake's mouth wide and made it bite Ms. Toda."
Saying this, Fujino lifted the sea snake tied around his waist, pointing to the small wings on its head. "Look closely. This sea snake is called a sea snake. Unlike other sea snakes, this one has two transparent wings on top of its head."
"Transparent wings?"
The crowd gathered around, looking. "Isn't that just tape?"
"Correct."
Fujino nodded. "This is just tape. But why would the sea snake that bit Ms. Toda have tape on its head?"
"Surely no one is bored enough to tape a sea snake and release it back into the sea. Besides, even if someone did, the tape would lose its stickiness after some time and fall off."
Pausing, Fujino continued,
"Clearly, someone hid the sea snake, using tape to fix it inside some kind of container to prevent it from escaping and attacking them."
"If I'm not mistaken, that person took out this sea snake when Ms. Toda was drowning, then opened its mouth and forcibly made it bite Ms. Toda."
Saying this, Fujino looked around at the group, beginning the classic four-choice elimination.
"Which means, the culprit is among you four: Matsuzaki Harumi, Matsuzaki Masahiko, Itou Hiroshi, and Kawazu Kunio."