Chapter 21: Moonlight, Moonlight! (c)

"Really, how long are we going to have to wait!" In the living room, Mori Kogoro impatiently extinguished the cigarette in his hand.

"Strange, what about Conan and Kaede?" Xiaolan looked around looking for the two children.

At this time, Conan and Asa Yu were standing at the door of a room, Conan gently pushed the door open, and the two walked in.

"Piano ......" looked at the only item in the room, and Conan groaned.

"No, you can't!" Xiaolan also walked into the room to pull the two children out.

"What a big room!" Mori Kogoro also walked in. He walked to the window and looked out of the window, "I see, there is the sea behind the public hall!" ”

"This piano is so dirty!" Xiaolan looked at the piano and said.

"It's okay, just sort out a little bit." Conan said as he wiped the dust with his hands.

Secretary Hirata, who walked to the door, was shocked when he saw this, "Don't! You can't touch it! ”

Everyone was startled, and saw Secretary Hirata say with a gray face: "This piano...... It's the cursed piano that Mr. Aso played at the recital! ”

"Won't it?" Kogoro said strangely, "How can you be cursed?" ”

"It's not just Mr. Aso!" Secretary Hirata hurriedly said, "The same thing happened to the former village chief!" ”

"Oh?" Kogoro was taken aback, "So today's rituals are the former village head, Mr. Isamu Kameyama?" ”

"Yes," Mr. Hirata said after a moment's hesitation, "this was two years ago......"

"It was a full moon night, and I happened to pass by here, so there shouldn't be anyone in the hall at that late hour. But......" Hirata said with a frightened face, "there was the sound of playing the piano inside!" ”

When I opened my mouth to check if there was anyone, the sound suddenly stopped. When I walked in......"

"Mr. Kameyama is lying on the piano! The cause of death was a heart attack! And ......" Hirata's face was already extremely pale, "The music he played was the sonata that Mr. Aso had been playing in the flames before he died, Moonlight!" ”

"From then on, the piano slowly became a cursed piano." Secretary Hirata ended his story, and before anyone knew it, everyone felt a slight chill in their hearts.

Conan stepped forward, opened the lid of the piano, and pressed it indiscriminately, making a crisp sound. "This piano is no different!" Conan said with a smile despite Xiaolan's already slightly pale face.

"Total ..... Anyway, stay in the reception room until the end of the evening service. Secretary Hirata, who turned pale with fright, turned around and left.

β€œ...... What a timid man! Conan looked at his back speechlessly.

"Hey, you're still here?" An energetic female voice came, and when everyone looked back, it turned out to be the female doctor of the clinic, Narumi Asai. She changed into a black skirt and looked youthful. She was also followed by a man in a black suit.

"You're here for tonight's ceremony, aren't you?" Mori Kogoro said as he looked at her in a black outfit.

"Yes, because when I first came to this island, the first autopsy was on Mr. Kameyama." Asai Narumi replied, "So I want to come and burn incense as a tribute." ”

"The subject of the first autopsy ....." Conan rolled his eyes, and Asa Yu couldn't help the smile that appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"That's right," Asai Narumi said, "this is Mr. Masato Shimizu that I said." ”

"Hello." Shimizu Masato said with a smile.

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Night.

In the mourning hall, all the guests knelt on the ground, and an abbot in front of the spirit was muttering the scriptures.

"Kawashima, you are the one who summoned detectives to spy on my heart, right?" Chief Kuroiwa asked Mr. Kawashima beside him in a low voice.

"Huh? How can it be! Mr. Kawashima snorted coldly and got up and walked outside.

"You want to run away, don't you?" The village chief of Kuroiwa whispered.

"You're thinking too much." Kawashima looked back, "I'm just going to the toilet." With that, he walked out of the room.

On the steps outside the door, Conan and his party were sitting bored.

"Feel it, right?" Conan asked Asaka who was sitting next to him in a low voice. "That Piano ......"

"Hmm." Asa Yu also said in a low voice, "With my years of experience in playing the piano, it is impossible for the piano sound to be so normal after playing it for many years, there will definitely be noise." It seems that someone has specially maintained that piano. ”

"Well, someone must have secretly adjusted the rhythm......" Conan suddenly frowned, "Did you hear anything?" ”

Asa Yu listened to it, "Piano sound, this piece is...... Moonlight! ”

"Oops!" The two glanced at each other and quickly ran in the direction of the public hall.

......

Pushing the door open heavily, ignoring the surprised eyes of the people around him, Conan gritted his teeth, "Damn, it's too late!" ”

"The man is dead." Asaba looked at Mr. Kawashima's face and said calmly.

"Lan, go and inform the police!" Maori Kogoro said loudly to Ran. Xiaolan said yes and ran out. "Doctor Chengshi, I'm sorry for you to come to the autopsy."

"Okay." Asai Narumi stepped forward in agreement.

Damn it! It was already rehearsed on the letter that day! Conan gritted his teeth, on the night of the full moon, someone will die!

Asa Yu looked at the puddle of water next to the corpse and frowned.

"Curse! That's a curse! Secretary Hirata was so frightened that he stepped back again and again, "This is the curse of the piano!" ”

"What a curse!" Maori Kogoro snorted coldly, "It wasn't the piano that happened!" It's this tape recorder! As he spoke, he took out a tape recorder from the corpse's feet, clicked the play button, and the cold melody of the moonlight wafted out of it.

"This is a murder carried out by someone taking advantage of the events of two years ago!" Mori Kogoro has the final word.

"Hey, who are you?" Miss Kuroiwa's fiancΓ©, Murasawa, asked on Monday.

"I'm a detective from Tokyo," Mori Kogoro said proudly, "Mori Kogoro!" ”

"Oh, space pilot!" Someone destroyed all of Kogoro's pride with a single word.

"It looks like a character in a mystery novel!"

"Your name is Akechi Kogoro."

Although "......" knew that the situation was wrong, but looking at Kogoro's distorted face, Asaba couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Conan gave him a blank look, as if to rebuke him for not doing his job.

"Don't worry, I've noticed what I should have noticed." Asa Yu put away his smile and pointed to the water trail next to the corpse.

......

"The estimated time of death is between half an hour and an hour, is the cause of death, it should be suffocation." Cheng Shi provided the results of the autopsy.

"Sea ......" Conan looked at the water trails, and then at Asa Feather who was looking out of the window.

"I think the cause of Mr. Kawashima's death must have been drowning." Chengshi said, "However, I don't dare to make a conclusion without an autopsy." ”

"Dr. Serumi is right," Conan began, "the coat on the beach must be Dr. Kawashima's, and there are traces of water dragging in the room." There is also sand on the back. There should be no problem, right? The last sentence was whispered by him to Asa Yu.

"Maybe." Asa Yu looked thoughtfully at the autopsy.

...... I hope you don't end up doing that stupid thing. Asa Yu sighed lightly.