Tuesday, April 2, the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.

Commissioned by Keiji Aso, the four of Mori, Ran, Conan, and Yamazaki came to Moonshadow Island early this morning, but after going to the island, the four of them knew that Keiji Aso had been dead for twelve years. So in order to find out the truth, the four Maori found the current village chief, who was at the public hall and was busy with the death ceremony of the former village chief, but he said that he was busy with affairs and asked them to come back after the ceremony.

In this way, after dark, the four Maori chatted outside the public hall while watching the full moon while waiting for the end of the ceremony. However, suddenly, a piece of music sounded from inside the public hall, and it was the moonlight song that was appropriate for the occasion, that is, the moonlight song that the people of Lunaris considered a curse.

After hearing the music, the Maori four immediately outflanked the public hall in three ways.

The sound came from the room where the piano was played, and Conan went in and saw it, and was immediately astonished, because there was nothing in it, no, the front cover of the grand piano was turned open, and the back cover was propped up. When I ran over to look, it turned out that there was a tape recorder behind the piano, and the sound came from there. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, Conan was about to speak to Yamazaki, who had just entered the door, when Maori's voice came from outside, "Yamazaki, here." ”

Maori ran along the artificial seawall by the sea to the side door at the back door, where the piano was kept. When I got to the back door, I found a man lying on the beach, so I ran over. When I looked at it, I was immediately taken aback, and in a sea of water, which must have been stained red with blood, a shirtless man was lying motionless on some clothes, which made the sea water just reach his chin, and his eyes and mouth were covered with adhesive tape. Mori immediately informed Yamazaki, threw off his shoes on the seawall and walked into the water a few steps away.

Hearing Maori's shout, Conan immediately opened the back door and ran towards Maori, a dozen meters away from the sea. As soon as Conan ran out of the room, Yamazaki passed by him and rushed to Mori first.

Maori, who went into the water, pressed the man's neck when he was not underwater, and immediately shouted again: "The person is still alive, go and call Miss Chengshi." So saying, he dragged him ashore.

Yamazaki, who was still a few steps away, immediately shouted, "Conan, go and ask for Miss Narumi." ”

"Okay. Conan, who was not far behind him, immediately turned around and ran towards the public hall.

Yamazaki took two more steps, then threw off his shoes as well, rushed into the water, and helped Mori drag the man to shore. Yamazaki then held the man's shoulder with his left hand in front of him, allowing Mori to tear off the tape from his hands that he was tied behind his back, and then with his right hand, he tore off the tape from his mouth.

Tearing off the tape from the man's hands and letting Yamazaki, who had just torn off the tape from his eyes, lay him flat, Mori stood up and said, "It seems that there is no problem." ”

"It's not clear yet," Yamazaki said as he took two steps back and tore off the tape that bound the man's feet, "and he's still bleeding." ”

Looking at the blood in the man's chest and abdomen, and thinking back to the wounds that could still be distinguished when he was dragged to shore, Maori asked, "By the way, did you see his wounds?

Yamazaki said, "I think it was carved by a human. ”

"If I'm not mistaken," said Conan, "it's the score of the moonlight." Conan ran into Lan near the back door, and after asking Lan to call Miss Chengshi to call the police by the way, he turned back and went back.

"Moonshine?" asked Maori, "by the way, did you see anyone suspicious?"

"I didn't see it. Yamazaki replied.

Conan replied, "Sister Lan shouldn't have seen it either. ”

"Hey, Yamazaki," Maori asked, seeing that the blood was already pouring down to the ground, "did you see where he was bleeding? ”

"Nope. Yamazaki replied.

Conan asked rhetorically, "Could that be the reason for the deep wound?"

"I didn't pay attention to it. Maori replied.

Yamazaki replied, "Me didn't either. ”

"Hey, Uncle Maori, didn't that letter foretell that on the night of the full moon, people on this island would disappear. If he disappears, I'll kill him," Conan asked, "Can you tell me what it was like?"

"Go," Maori said, "it's none of your business. ”

"I want to know," Yamazaki said, "maybe I can find some clues." ”

"Okay. Maori then described what he had just seen.

"The sea is only up to the chin?" Conan asked rhetorically.

"Maybe it'......s when the tide is high," Maori said.

Yamazaki asked, "Then why is the music playing at this time?"

"Well," Maori said, "maybe he's miscalculated the time of the high tide." ”

At this time, Ran ran over with Dr. Asai with a medical kit, and as soon as he saw the man, Dr. Asai exclaimed, "Mr. Kawashima." Then he crouched down to check on him.

After a while, Dr. Asai said, "There are no other external injuries, but there is a problem with his blood, and he must have been injected with some kind of anti-blood clotting drug, so the wound is not deep, but the blood does not stop." Carry him to the clinic first, he needs a blood transfusion. Then he stood up and said, "You have to take him to a big hospital immediately, fortunately he is a universal blood type, and the blood reserves on the island can fully support it." ”

"Well, Uncle Maori, lift his shoulder, Conan, go to the sea and get his clothes, there may be some clue on there. Yamazaki said, then said to Ran, "Use the satellite phone in your bag, I taught it last night, remember." ”

"By the way, Miko called the police," Maori said, "and it was a homicide." ”

So, putting on his shoes, Maori raised his shoulders and Yamazaki raised his feet, and together they carried this naked and upper-body man with blood on his chest and abdomen, and walked towards the public hall step by step, and the blood on this man's body was still dripping drop by drop.

After a while, Conan came over to help hold his waist, and continued, "His clothes were cut by a sharp weapon, and nothing else." ”

"Sharp cuts?" said Maori, "I guess I want to save time." ”

As soon as the five Maori entered the public hall, they attracted an exclamation. Seeing that the villagers were just standing in front of the door of the piano room, but no one came in, Maori said, "Come on a few people, take a hand." ”

The man who drove them out cried, "Curse, this is the curse of that piano." ”

Looking at the tape recorder in the piano next to him, Maori said, "It's not the piano that makes the sound, it's the tape recorder." ”

Conan immediately took the tape recorder out from behind the piano, and at this time, the ten-minute long moonlight song continued to play. In front of everyone, Conan pressed the shutdown button on the tape recorder, and the music immediately stopped, and seeing this, several brave villagers immediately came up to help.

Mr. Kawashima was handed over to the villagers and asked them to go to the clinic with Miss Chengshi, and of course, Ran, who was holding a satellite phone as a locator, also went with him.

Putting down Mr. Kawashima and straightening his clothes, Mori said loudly, "This is a deliberate murder based on two previous incidents. ”

A villager dressed in gray immediately asked, "Hey, hey, don't talk about some nonsense, who are you?"

"Me?" Mori smiled, "I'm a detective from Tokyo, Mori Kogoro." ”

Hearing the name, the villagers immediately began to discuss.

"It's the astronaut. ”

"No, he often appears in mystery novels, right?"

"That's called Wise. ”

"So, who is this man?" ......

Seeing that Mori looked devastated, Yamazaki asked, "Does anyone know when Mr. Kawashima left the room?"

A chubby middle-aged man said, "About twenty-five minutes ago. ”

As soon as he spoke, the others stopped talking, and Yamazaki asked, "May I ask ......?"

"I'm the village chief here, Tatsuji Kuroiwa. The middle-aged man introduced himself, and then introduced the few people standing next to him, one was his daughter, Reiko Kuroiwa. One is the guy who drove people, it was his secretary, Kazuaki Hirata, and the one who was dressed in gray just now, it was the fiancé of Reiko Kuroiwa, Murasawa Monday.

At this time, Conan, who had already checked the room, said: "Judging by the fact that the door and windows are all locked, the first few minutes of the tape should be blank. I am afraid that the prisoner took Mr. Kawashima to the beach, then came back to lock it, turn on the tape recorder, and then walked out of the room to the corridor. Then he smiled and asked, "Isn't it, Uncle Maori?"

"Yes, that's right. Maori said, thinking to himself, this guy has robbed ...... again Then he continued, "If the door to this room is locked, since we didn't see anyone when we came separately just now, I think the possibility of the prisoner returning to the ceremony is quite high......

"Wait a minute," said Miss Reiko at once, "you mean that the prisoners are among us. ”

"That's right, if he hadn't gone out just now," Maori said, and then asked, "Chief Kuroiwa, can you be sure that time?"

"He's sitting next to me," said Chief Kuroiwa, "and he's going to the bathroom." ”

Maori asked, "Did anyone see anyone who followed him out of his seat, or who was not in his seat all the time, or who left his seat often?" ”

"Hmph," Mr. Murasawa said, "how could anyone care about that kind of thing." ”

Mori asked, "So, if you ask Mr. Kawashima if he has ever offended someone?"

"It's not an offense," said Chief Kuroiwa, "but the happiest person after Mr. Kawashima's death is Mr. Shimizu, who is a candidate like him." ”

"What are you talking about," Mr. Shimizu, who was standing in the back, immediately retorted, "Well, you yourself are the same, Chief Kuroiwa." ”

"yes, that's right. Miss Reiko sarcastically said, "If someone hadn't designed and arranged Mr. Kawashima's votes as his own, my father would have been elected a long time ago." ”

"What?" Mr. Shimizu immediately exclaimed.

Seeing that Miss Reiko wanted to say more, Mr. Hirata immediately stepped forward and persuaded, "Miss." ”

Seeing this, Maori immediately walked among them and said loudly, "Okay, calm down." ”

At this time, Conan asked, "But why does the prisoner have to put on the moonlight song? He can go back directly." ”

As he walked over to the piano, Maori replied, "That's because he wanted to blame the piano for the murder." Then he stood in front of the piano, turned around and asked, "By the way, when did this piano start here?"

Mr. Hirata said, "It was donated by Mr. Aso 15 years ago. It's been here ever since. ”

"Oh," said Maori, "it's Mr. Aso." ”

"Yes," said Mr. Hirata, "his name is also engraved on the lid of the keys. ”

Maori immediately lowered the lid of the keys, revealing a piece of paper. When Maori saw it, he was surprised and said, "This—this is the score." Then he picked it up and looked at it, and said, "Strange, I remember I didn't have this one when I looked at it in the morning." ”

"Ah!" a man screamed in terror and ran out.

"Who's that guy?" asked Maori, looking up.

"He's Mr. Simoto. "Speaking of which, he used to be quite rich, and he invested a lot of money in alcohol, women, and gambling. But since the death of the previous village chief two years ago, he seems to be afraid of something, and he has rarely gone out. ”

"Oh. Maori said.

"By the way," said Mr. Hirata again, "the village chief and he must have been childhood playmates." ”

"Oh," Chief Kuroiwa laughed, "it seems like so. ”

At this time, a very old policeman came in and asked, "What's going on here? Who called me?"

Mr. Hirata introduced, "This is the one, his name is Mori Kogoro. ”

Mr. Policeman immediately walked up to Maori, clapped his hands, and smiled happily: "Wow, you are the famous ......"

"Yes. Maori replied immediately.

Pointing to Maori's nose, Mr. Police continued to laugh and said, "Mr. Astronaut." ”

"Please," Maori said helplessly, "you're wrong. ”

Yamazaki stepped forward to tell him what had happened, and Mr. Policeman said, "In that case, let them register their names, and the rest will be talked about tomorrow." ”

At this time, a village elder came over, handed a list to Maori, and said, "This is the list of all those who have come to the service tonight." Then he turned around and left, and sighed in his mouth, "Where is this killing people, it is clearly Mr. Aso's soul that is doing it." ”

"Amitabha. As he spoke, the monk who presided over the ritual turned around and followed the village elder out of the room, and the other villagers followed suit.

Looking at the dwindling villagers, Miss Lingzi, who was standing in the innermost part and couldn't leave, complained: "Really, that kind of piano that will make people scared, why don't you just set it on fire and burn it?"

Mr. Murasawa chimed in, "That's right, maybe it would be better for that kind of piano to disappear." ”

The village chief of Kuroiwa said, "Okay, let's go too." With that, he took Miss Reiko, Mr. Murasawa and Mr. Hirata out of the room after the villagers. ……