Chapter 104 Moonlight - The Law of Exclusion

"You say, could it be the next victim's message?" Mori Kogoro didn't speak, but Officer Twilight spoke.

"Yes, that makes sense. Isn't that how mystery novels are written? Leave a foreshadowing for the next crime. Miwako Sato echoed her chief's words.

"That is, there will definitely be the next one who dies." Mori Kogoro summed up the consensus of everyone in this way.

Conan was on the sidelines, listening to the conversation between Du Kang and several people, and did not interject.

After all, it's a child, and people are soft-spoken. And Conan also wanted to hear it, to hear what kind of thinking Du Kang, who he thought was the most suspicious, was thinking.

"However, if it is really a serial killing. Then the murderer must know that his actions yesterday will definitely attract the police. Du Kang continued to speculate as things unfolded.

"Du Jun, what do you mean?" Miwako Sato heard Du Kang's subtext.

"Just call me Du Kang. I have a distant cousin named Du Jun, and it's a little awkward for you to call me so directly. "I mean, is this really the only one who died?" ”

"Brother, you mean, ...... last night" Conan understood what Du Kang meant.

The murderer, before the police arrived, made everything a given fact.

Anyway, there is not much difference between killing two people and killing three.

In Japan, the death penalty is imposed on murderers, the first being intentional homicide, and the second being killing more than two people.

If you just kill someone, you can stop it. After killing more than two people, it is unlikely that you will stop.

"Isn't that right? If it were me, I would have done the same. Du Kang didn't mind a bunch of police officers putting suspicions on him at all, "Before the police arrived, the case was solidified." ”

"Moreover, isn't it more convenient to kill people at night than to act during the day." Du Kang analyzed from the timing of the crime, "The moon is dark and the night of murder, the wind is high and the sky is on fire. ”

"However, this is the only one that has been reported so far." Miwako Sato heard Du Kang's suspicion and distrust of the police, "Our police are not even wrong about the number of cases reported. ”

"I'm not targeting the police." Du Kang said, "You also said it, so as not to make a mistake in the number of cases reported, think about it yourself, what is the logical problem in it?" ”

"Logic, yes?" Miwako Sato repeats her words and realizes that there is no logical problem. On the contrary, he felt that Du Kang was vaguely targeting the police.

"That is, it is possible that someone died, but no one reported it. yes, Du Kang, that's what you mean. Kogoro Mori reflected the logical loophole in Du Kang's words against Miwako Sato.

As a former criminal policeman, Kogoro Maori got the answer to Du Kang's question very simply. Although he is not a police officer of the four sections, he knows how to understand it somewhat. Some cases happen, but if no one reports them, the police won't get involved. And in some cases, even if the suspect is locked and the evidence is available, but without a body, it cannot be determined as a dead case.

"That's right. If someone dies, but no one reports it, do you think it's possible? Du Kang looked at Miwako Sato and asked.

"You mean, there will be a third dead?" Sato's tone was urgent.

"You look at Asai Narumi's light and breezy appearance, if you don't know it, you have killed all the people who should be killed." Of course, this is Du Kang's thoughts, but what he says is different.

"Listening to the tune, it should indeed be the second movement of the moonlight. I should have remembered that the second movement of Moonlight is not in C sharp minor, but in D flat major. I should have reacted when I saw those five flats just now. "If it were a serious criminal, there would have been a third movement." The question is ......"

"What's the problem?" Miwako Sato plays the role of the detectives very responsibly.

"Brother, do you mean it's more than three?" Conan next to him asked, "But, if it's not three, why use moonshine." The Moonlight Sonata is a three-movement piece. ”

"It's not impossible. It's just that the next round may not be moonshine, but something else. For example, the storm, for example, pathos. Du Kang said.

"Although this island is called Moon Shadow Island, it is even more suitable with the Moonlight Sonata. However, if the murderer feels that the murder is more pathetic, or that his life is more tragic, there will be a pathos sonata at the end. ”

"Or that the island has a strong storm every certain season, and the murderer is expected to end it in its entirety at that time, accompanied by a storm sonata. It's not impossible. ”

The storm and pathos that Durkon spoke of are also Beethoven's sonatas. It's like "Moonlight Sonata".

The Tempest Sonata, Piano Sonata No. 17, in D minor, is also three movements. The title of "The Tempest Sonata" is taken from Goethe's poem of the same name, and the title of "The Tempest Sonata" is taken from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" according to Schindler's request for Beethoven's interpretation of the piece. And the "Pathos Sonata", Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, is also in three minor keys.

"That is to say, the reference of quantity is meaningless." Mori Kogoro speculated.

Three, six, nine. At this point, there is no reference point anymore.

"Sato, have you seen Alice in Wonderland?" Looking at Conan, who pretended to be a little adult, Du Kang felt that it was more pleasant to chat with the girl.

"What do you want to say?" Seeing Du Kang suddenly pull to another place, I don't know what Du Kang wants to do.

"When Alice falls down the rabbit hole, she finds the key on the table. But the keys were out of reach. It just so happened that there was a cake in front of Alice, and she thought that if she ate the cake, if it became bigger, she could get the key and open the door, and if it became smaller, she could jump through the crack under the door. Du Kang gave the example of Alice in Wonderland, "Do you think there are any logical loopholes in it?" ”

"Loopholes, are there loopholes?" Miwako Sato didn't even think about it, so she reacted, "It's very reasonable." ”

"It seems that you are not fit to be a logician." Du Kang spat out like this. After all, it would be too hasty to even think about jumping to conclusions.

Even ordinary people find that there are no logical loopholes, and after listening to what Du Kang said, they will think about it again to see if there is something they have overlooked.

Just hand in the exam paper in advance with the candidate, you handed it to the teacher, the teacher took your paper, then looked at it, and said to you, "You are going back to check it". If you put it in the mind of a normal person, it must be the teacher who reminds you that some questions are written. Even if you don't feel that you have made any mistakes for a while, you can take it back first, and you should give the teacher a face.

And Miwako Sato's attitude seems to be the kind of "rest assured, the questions are all done correctly, and there is no need to check." If it's wrong, it's the wrong one."

"I didn't intend to be a logician." Miwako Sato said this, but she still thought again about the possible loopholes in the question that Du Kang said.

"Is it not big enough or small enough?" Miwako Sato thought about it for a moment and said.

"Is it the law of the middle of the row?"