Chapter 15: Murder on Lunaris Island 2
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"Who are you? What exactly do you want to do? ā
Hideo Kawashima asked Yibin, who turned his back to him, sharply.
"Who am I? I am here to punish you for your sins! ā
Yi Bin turned his back to Hideo Kawashima and said in a gloomy tone.
"It doesn't matter who you are. Now that you know the sea. Lo. Because of things. Well, go die! ā
Hideo Kawashima took out a dagger from his arms and stabbed at Yibin.
However, when the dagger was about to stab Yibin, Hideo Kawashima suddenly found that his body was out of his control.
And then, as if an invisible hand controlled himself, he dragged himself to the sea and pressed his head into the water.
Hideo Kawashima wanted to struggle, but he couldn't. In the end, he could only drown in the sea because of lack of oxygen.
When he was pressed into the sea by an invisible force, Hideo Kawashima did a lot of the wrong things he had done over the years.
Is there really a God in this world?
Maybe that's my retribution.
Hideo Kawashima finally closed his eyes. Just died peacefully. There was also no expression of pain on his face.
Yi Bin always kept himself suspended above five centimeters on the ground, and dragged Hideo Kawashima all the way from the sea to the piano room of the public hall with his mental power.
Then sit Hideo Kawashima in the piano chair and let him lie on the keyboard of the piano. After placing a tape recorder in the piano and the score of "Moonlight" behind the lid of the keys, he left the piano room and locked the door from the inside with telekinesis outside. Then he hid outside the public hall.
Press the button of the tape recorder with telekinesis, and the tape recorder will start playing the pre-recorded piano song "Moonlight". Then he quietly returned to his sea-view villa three hundred meters away.
After hearing the piano music - Moonlight, Conan took the lead and rushed in.
Between Hideo Kawashima, he was lying wet on the keyboard of the piano, and from the side of the corpse, there was a clear water stain that stretched to the back door. The melody of "Moonlight" still echoes in the room.
This scene was all watched by Conan, Xiaolan, and Kogoro, who happened to be rushed over.
Asai Narumi was very surprised to see this scene, because it was not yet the time for him and Hideo Kawashima to meet, and he had not even started to implement the plan, and Hideo Kawashima was already dead!
Suddenly, Narumi Asai remembered the card from earlier. Don't..
Kogoro immediately ran to Hideo Kawashima to check. Then it was found that Hideo Kawashima was dead. And the time of death is not long, and the body still has body temperature.
"Xiaolan, hurry up and inform the police."
"Doctor Chengshi, can you please come to the autopsy?"
Kogoro asked Chengshi in a low voice.
"Oh, okay."
Narumi Asai put away the look of surprise in his eyes and walked over to Hideo Kawashima to begin the autopsy.
"By the way, the letter already pruned it. On a full moon night, someone will die on this Moon Shadow Island! ā
Conan was annoyed as he thought of the contents of the teaser letter he had sent to the detective agency.
"Ahh It's a curse, this is the curse of the piano. ā
Kazuaki Hirata, the secretary of the village chief, pointed to Hideo Kawashima who fell on the piano in horror and shouted in fear.
Kogoro searched for the sound and found the tape recorder that was still playing "Moonlight" in the body of the piano.
"Oops~ Where is the curse. It's not the piano that makes the sound. It's this recorder. ā
Kogoro said as he took out a tape recorder from the piano.
When the recording was turned off, the sound of the piano disappeared.
"Judging by the scene and what happened two years ago, this is a planned killing!"
Kogoro said to the others present with a serious expression.
"Kill! Homicide? ā
"Oops! You don't say something nonsense. And, who the hell are you? ā
Murasawa asked Kogoro on Monday.
"I'm a detective from Tokyo, and I'm Kogoro Mori."
Kogoro straightened his collar and said confidently.
"Oh! Space pilots. ā
"It's not. He often appears in mystery novels. Right. ā
"That man is wise."
"And who is this man?"
It's a pity that after hearing Kogoro's name, the people present didn't seem to have heard of this name.
Conan crouched next to the water stains on the ground. It was found that the water stains on the ground were actually seawater.
At this time, Asai Narumi had already done a preliminary autopsy.
"It is inferred that the time of death does not exceed half an hour. The cause of death should be asphyxiation. I think Mr. Kawashima must have drowned in the sea. ā
Narumi Asai told the contents of the autopsy recorded on a notepad.
"He died from drowning?"
Kogoro asked suspiciously.
"Without an autopsy, I can't determine the final cause of death."
Narumi Asai explained.
"I don't think Dr. Sungsil's words are wrong."
"There was a clear water stain from the foot of the corpse that stretched to the beach outside the door, and there was also a clear trail of objects dragging on the ground. And the water stains on the interior of the room are also seawater. ā
"And Mr. Kawashima also had mud and sand on his back. Judging by the locked doors and windows of this room, the first few minutes of this tape recorder should be blank. ā
Conan rewinds the tape recorder button and rewinds the tape.
"I'm afraid that the prisoner will take Mr. Kawashima to the beach and drown him in the middle of the ceremony, and then carry the body to this room and lock it. Press the switch on the tape recorder and walk out of the room into the hallway. ā
Conan pressed the tape recorder to play the case.
only to find that loud music was playing in the recorder immediately. There are no blank sections in the tape.
This immediately overturned Conan's previous reasoning about the modus operandi. Because after pressing the play button of the tape recorder, the prisoner did not have enough time to escape from the room.
"You little ghost. You still have a lot to learn, don't just reason about the criminal's modus operandi. ā
After Kogoro found out that there was no blank space on the front of the tape, he punched Conan in the head and reprimanded.
"If the door to this room is locked, since we've been in the hallway all the time, I think it's likely that the prisoner has been hiding behind the door all the time, and then blending into the crowd while we opened the door while our attention was focused on the corpse."
Kogoro touched his mustache and analyzed it seriously.
"Wait a minute. Do you mean that the prisoners are still among us? ā
Reiko Kuroiwa asked nervously after glancing at the people at the scene.
"That's right, the prisoner is among the people at the scene. Has anyone seen Mr. Kawashima leave his position in the middle of the ceremony? ā
Kogoro asked everyone present.
"I know about it, I'm sure he said he was going to the bathroom."
Chief Kuroiwa recalled.
"Has anyone else seen anyone leave their seats?"
Kogoro, who had made his initial return, asked again.
"How can you remember all of that kind of thing?"
Murasawa complained on Monday.
"So what if Mr. Kawashima ever offended someone?"
Kogoro asked another question.
"It's not an offense, but the happiest person after Mr. Kawashima's death is probably Mr. Shimizu, who is a candidate for village mayor like Mr. Kawashima."
The current village head, Mr. Heiyan, did not hesitate to splash dirty water on Mr. Shimizu's body.
"What are you talking about! You yourself too. Chief of Kuroiwa! ā
Shimizu Masato immediately retorted.
Then the chief of Kuroiwa and Masato Shimizu quarreled.
"Alright. Stop arguing. ā
Kogoro persuaded on the side.
"But why did the prisoner bring the body to this room?"
Conan thought about it.
"That's because the prisoner wants to blame the piano for the murder."
"By the way, when did this relationship start here?"
Kogoro turned his head to the people present and asked.
"It was donated by Mr. Aso fifteen years ago, and it has been here ever since."
"Mr. Aso's name is also engraved on the lid of the keyboard."
Kazuaki Hirata, secretary to the village chief, explained.
Hearing this, Kogoro immediately ran to the keyboard of the piano to check the lid of the keyboard.
But a sheet of music was found on the lid.
"Sheet music? I didn't see this thing when I looked at it during the day. ā
Kogoro said strangely.
And after discovering the score, Ken Nishimoto suddenly received some stimulus and ran out like crazy.
"Who's that guy?"
Kogoro saw Nishimoto's crazy appearance and asked the village chief's secretary beside him.
"He's Mr. Nishimoto, and he used to be quite powerful, and invested a lot of money in wine, women, and gambling."
"But after the death of the previous village chief two years ago, I rarely went out as if I was afraid of something."
"It seems that the village chief and he should be childhood playmates."
"Seems like that, yes."
The village chief of Kuroiwa reluctantly admitted.
"The police are coming!"
Xiaolan suddenly ran over with an elderly policeman.
"Xiaolan, you're too slow."
Kogoro complained angrily.
"I can't help it, because this policeman is not in the office. So it took me some time to look around. ā
Xiaolan explained helplessly.
"Well, it's late today, and the investigation will start tomorrow morning."
After Kogoro finished speaking, he asked everyone to go back.
"Where is the murder, it is Mr. Aso's soul! Amitabha! ā
An elderly village name looked at the public hall and said.
In the middle of the night, Xiaolan and Asai Narumi walked on the dim road together.
"I'm really surprised by Conan's detective."
Asai Narumi said curiously.
"Because this kid usually likes to play simulated detective games the most."
Xiaolan explained with a smile.
"But his persuasiveness is really amazing."
"No, I'm just imitating my uncle. Because I've been watching my uncle work all the time. ā
Conan said the pretext that had been prepared long ago in a childish tone.
"Compare it to me. This little imp is far from it! Hahahaha~~"
Kogoro smiled narcissistically as he pressed Conan's head.
"Well, then, we're going back to the hotel."
Kogoro said goodbye to Asai Narumi.
"Well, goodbye. Please hurry up and fix the murder. Because I don't want to do autopsies anymore. ā
Asai Narumi said with a low expression.
"No problem, as long as it's handled by my Maori Kogoro, it's going to be very simple."
Kogoro said confidently.
Conan looked at the back of Asai Narumi walking under the street lamp, and suddenly realized.
In the content of the teaser letter, the so-called beginning and disappearance of the phrase does not mean that it ends here.
After telling Kogoro the news that someone would die, Mori Kogoro was also shocked by the news.
Kogoro, who realized that the murder would continue, immediately ran back towards the public hall.
And Conan, who was bent on solving the case, also dragged Xiaolan back to the public hall.