Chapter 540: Dissonant Finale
"Do you know who the prisoner is?"
Hibisuke Haga was called back to the third floor with the others, and when he saw that Gao Cheng and Uncle Mori were staying by Officer Twilight's side, there was still some confusion on his face.
"Or a serial killing?"
"Yes, in the past two years, as well as Mr. Saburo and Mrs. Aine who were killed today, they were all written by the same prisoner......"
Gao Cheng looked next to him, and was stunned by Conan because he kept talking nonsense, and sat in a chair.
"Yes, it looks like it's just an accident or even a suicide, but it's all the murderer's design."
"But," asked the old man with his violin in hand, "why do you need this Stradivarius to solve the puzzle?" Do you already know who the person who changed the piano is? ”
"I'll explain that."
"Uncle Maori" suddenly sounded: "Actually, I asked the city boy to ask you to bring it......"
"Huh?!" Officer Twilight looked at the sleeping uncle in a daze.
"Before the joto kid starts reasoning, I want to use this violin to play a song as a prelude to solving the puzzle to cheer up your spirits." "Uncle Maori" said calmly.
"Prelude, prelude?"
"Yes, just like I pulled in front of Miss Hasuki before......"
"Huh?" Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, and said anxiously, "Dad, wait a minute......"
"Is that okay?" "Uncle" continued to ask.
"This," Shiraku Renxi couldn't help but sweat a little when she thought of her uncle playing the violin, and said with a dry smile, "Still, don't you want it?" ”
"Hey!" When Choichiro saw his granddaughter's reaction, he immediately knew what was going on, and said angrily, "What did you take my Stradivari for?" ”
"That's it! What are you going to do if a layman like you break it? ”
The housekeeper couldn't help but scold, but next to him, Hibiki Yuga persuaded him good-naturedly: "Just let him take a look, uncle, maybe he knows who changed the piano......"
Gao Cheng stood on the side, quietly watching as Hibiki Haga got the violin and wanted to give it to the sleeping uncle.
He knew Conan's intentions, and if anyone wanted Uncle to touch Stradivari the most, it was undoubtedly the murderer himself, because the uncle's fingerprints were also a key clue in the police investigation.
If the bag is adjusted before the uncle plays the violin, the suspects are undoubtedly Hibisuke Haga and Renxi Shiraku, because no one can fool in front of the musical genius Hibisuke Haga, and if the bag is transferred after the uncle leaves fingerprints, then the murderer must also want to muddy the water, and then let the uncle touch the real thing, so that people can't judge the time.
In fact, for him, such a temptation is dispensable, but it is good to have one more piece of evidence against him.
Gao Cheng looked coldly at the mildly smiling Haga Hibiki.
The system can improve his playing level, but with little talent, he may not be able to master absolute tone in his life, after all, he has passed the best childhood, so he is both envious and a little respectful of this musical genius who is popular with little girls, even more so after knowing the rarity of absolute tone.
He can't catch up with music, but now it's in the field of crime, and Hibisuke Haga doesn't necessarily have a talent for horror in music, and even leaves an irreparable hole because of his obsession with music......
"Mr. Maori," Hibiki Haga stepped forward and handed Stradivari to his uncle, "just let us hear it......"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Hibisuke," "Uncle" didn't move, but said in a flat voice, "Even if you succeed in getting my fingerprints, it's useless, maybe you don't know, I was not the only one who touched the violin at that time, but also the Joto boy." ”
"Huh?" Hibiki Haga's body froze.
"The handover process of the violin was first proofread by Mr. Hibisuke in this room, and then handed over to Miss Hasuki, and then after she showed it to me, the annex was on fire, and the violin was received by the housekeeper in the storage room......"
"Uncle" said to himself, "The people who have the opportunity to mix the violin are Mr. Hibisuke, Miss Renki, Tsuqu Butler, and Mr. Tsuichiro, who can freely enter and leave the storage room, but no matter who the person who mixes the violin is, after learning that I have played the violin, I will definitely find a way to let me meet the current violin again......"
The housekeeper interrupted: "It may also be that the piano has been adjusted before the school sound, and Young Master Xiangfu is just ......."
"A musical genius with an absolute sense of tone can't tell the truth from the fake when proofreading?" "Uncle" said solemnly, "Mr. Hibiki, if you are willing to admit that you can't tell the difference, I have nothing to say. ”
Hibisuke Haga held the violin and was silent.
"But," Shirakuren said hurriedly, "even if Uncle Hibiki replaces Stradivari, it can't be said that Uncle Hibiki is the murderer, wasn't Uncle Hibiki with us when grandma had an accident?" ”
"That's right," Twilight looked at the sleeping uncle, "This was a secret room when Mrs. Aine jumped off the building, and the room of the string Saburo that caught fire before was also a secret room, isn't it?" ”
"It's just a murderer's trick."
Gao Cheng glanced at Conan, who was hiding behind, and walked out and said, "The fire scene is definitely not a secret room. ”
"Not a secret room?" Twilight pointed to Uncle Mori, "It wasn't Mori who broke open the door with Mr. Hibisuke......"
"Uncle just followed and knocked on the door, saying that it was Mr. Hibikisuke who was locked," Gao Cheng took out the twisted lock with a handkerchief, "This is the doorway on the door frame of Mr. String Saburo's room, just look at this...... Only the upper hole is twisted, and if it is knocked open in a locked situation, it is impossible for the lower hole not to be deformed......
"Generally speaking, this kind of door with a doorknob on the top and a safety lock on the bottom, and the buckle hole below should be deformed, which means that the door was not locked at that time."
"But," Lan said strangely, "the door was locked when we entered......"
"Because Mr. Hibiki locked it with his hand, after knocking on the door with his uncle, everyone's attention was on the room, and they didn't care about these ...... at all."
"What about Mrs. Ayane's room?" Twilight glanced at the silent Hibisuke Haga, "This was the secret room at the time, and Mr. Hibisuke was playing the violin in the downstairs room......"
"That's why I brought Stradivari here," Gao Cheng said calmly, "and at that time, Mr. Hibisuke's performance was the key. ”
Twilight's chubby face twitched, "Brother Chenghu, do you mean that Mr. Xiangfu used a requiem to make Mrs. Aine jump off the building?" This kind of thing is too ......."
"What if the Requiem was just an introduction?"
Gao Cheng stepped forward and closed the two windows.
"This should be the state at the time of the crime, what if Mrs. Aine discovers that the violin that is considered to be the real thing is a fake by the bedside, and breaks the violin in a rage and suddenly hears a real Stradivarius playing a tune outside the window?"
"Real ...... Stradivari? ”
"Yes, the violin that Mr. Hibisuke was using at that time was not his usual instrument at all, but a Stradivari that was mixed up."
When everyone heard Gao Cheng's explanation, they all showed unexpected expressions, and they didn't expect Haga Hibiki to be so bold.
"Uncle Hibiki'......"
"No, that's not right," Twilight reacted, "Brother Joto, even if that's the case, Mrs. Aine won't jump off the building, right?" ”
"This is going to use the murderer's mechanism," Gao Cheng raised his head and looked at the window frame, "Actually, as long as you check the top of the window, you can find that there should still be traces of tape fixing things on it, in fact, there is a small tripped object next to Mrs. Xuanyin, which is the tip of the baton fixed to the window......"
"There really is!" Twilight examines the window glass above and notices that there are indeed faint traces of duct tape.
"At the scene of the fire, the two symphony batons of the string Saburo were not found, leaving only the empty box," Gao Cheng continued, "I think it must have been brought here by the murderer." ”
"But what does this have to do with Mrs. Aine jumping off the building?"
"In addition to the tip of the baton, a violin bridge ...... dropped downstairs."
Gao Cheng paused, and turned to look at Hibiki Haga.
"Mr. Hibisuke fixed the baton stolen from Mr. Susaburo on the left and right windows, and hung another Stradivari replica on a rope outside the window, as long as the two batons were crossed, the violin would follow away when the window was opened, and finally fell along with the tip of the broken baton......"
"What about the violin?"
"It was hidden in the room downstairs, and because of the other rope, the violin did not fall downstairs, but only hit the wall by the window downstairs, and then it was put away by Mr. Hibisuke, and the baton was also tied with a string and recovered from downstairs......"
Gao Cheng quietly looked at Hibiki Haga.
"It's a pity that because Miss Lianxi has been crying by her side, you didn't have a chance to wipe off the fingerprints on it, and you didn't have time to hide it elsewhere......"
"Liar!" Shiraku Renxi said urgently, "How can Uncle Hibisuke be a murderer?" When there was a fire, wasn't it Uncle Hibiki who rescued his grandmother? Why did he ...... again?"
"It's because of the dissonance," Gao Cheng interrupted, "When you play the piano, if you press two adjacent notes at the same time, it will be quite awkward, and it should be particularly harsh for people with absolute tonality, right?" ”
"It's a nasty sound indeed," Hibiki Haga suddenly smiled lightly, "Discord is an intolerable existence for musicians......"
"You're saving people so they don't get killed at the same time?" Twilight yelled, "What do you think of human life?!" ”
"Let's also ask Uncle Ichiro," Hibiki Haga glanced at the half-dead old man, "30 years ago, he seriously injured my father, not only did he not call an ambulance, but also directed a robber robbery scene, and in the end, my mother also died because of care, and it was this old man who committed these crimes." ”
"...... 30 years ago"
"Of course I had completely forgotten about it, but when I came to proofread Stradivari for his birthday party two years ago, the sound and touch were exactly the same as the violin my dad gave me when I was a child, so I asked Aunt Nagami, and she was so scared that she told me everything......"
"Really?" The old man raised his eyelids and coughed hard, "You killed Yongmi two years ago." ”
"It's true that she fell to her death by stepping on the empty stairs," Hibiki Haga snorted, "and the descendant who accidentally fell from the balcony and died, I think this is simply a revelation from God to me, starting with my mother Chiban, including those who are still alive, just enough to start from C to C, but when I heard that the old man who was supposed to be the last to die was seriously ill and dying, I began to get a little anxious......"
"Young Master Hibiki," the housekeeper lowered her head, "Is the next one in your plan to be me who started working here 30 years ago because I couldn't see through that incident?" ”
"No," Hibiki Haga laughed, "behind CDEFGA in German......"
"That's H in the back, right?" Gao Cheng stood aside with his arms crossed, "If you want to commit suicide, you might as well save some effort." ”
"Huh?" Hibiki Haga was stunned, pushed open the window and looked downstairs, and found that there were a lot of firefighters gathered below at some point, and there was a huge fire mat.
"Just look at your appearance, the housekeeper is not your target, the only thing left is Miss Lianxi with the initials H and you, if you want to kill Miss Lianxi, you don't have to go out of your way to return the real Stradivari."
Gao Cheng owes himself and leaves the rest to Officer Twilight.
"Mr. Hibisuke, maybe you're a musical genius, but you're not very suitable to be a criminal."
"Perhaps." Hibiki Haga was detained by the police without resistance, and a helpless smile of relief appeared on his face.
"Uncle Hibiki'......"
With tears in her eyes, Shiraku watched as Hibiki Haga was escorted away by the police, choking up and unable to speak.
"Miss Lianxi," Gao Cheng walked by, paused, and couldn't help but comfort, "It doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong, Mr. Hibiki doesn't hate you, at least taking back Stradivari is also to hand it over to you, who is in the same situation as his father after his death, for him, handing over the relics left by his father to Miss Lianxi should be the best ending." ”
Walking out of the room, Gao Cheng quickly followed Twilight and his party to send Haga Hibisuke away.
Conan walked beside him and looked at Gao Cheng as if he had a new understanding: "Chenghu, I didn't expect you to be able to say such things." ”
"What do you mean I can too?" Gao Cheng's eyelids jumped, "Isn't that what Hibiki thinks?" ”
"It's not ......"
"Detective Joto!" Hibiki Haga, who was escorted into a police car at the gate of the courtyard, suddenly turned to look at Gao Cheng, who was arguing with Conan, and finally said, "Actually, I don't think you don't have musical talent, and you can always get something if you work hard......"
"Me?" Gao Cheng pointed at himself, shook his head and smiled, "Hopefully, I will try." ”