"What's the special reason?"

Hearing Takato's inquiry, Asai Narumi's expression changed slightly, and he was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but smile lightly, and replied with a particularly serious expression:

"There is no particular reason...... Just because I love this little island! ”

In this regard, looking at Asai Narumi's sincere expression, Takato knew that, in a way, Asai Narumi was indeed not lying-

After all, this is the hometown of his father, Keiji Aso!

However, thinking that Takato had at least asked some clues, and there was no need to continue to stay here, he said goodbye to Asai Narumi after pretending to go to the toilet, and walked towards the community center......

……

And when Gao Yuan came to the vicinity of the community activity center, before Gao Yuan got closer, he had already heard the villagers gathered outside the community activity center, demonstrating and venting their villagers' demands-

"Down with the tyrannical atrocities of the current village chief!"

"Stop the encroachment on farmland!"

"Give me back the fishing grounds!"

One after another, these three shouts were the most intense in the crowd, and some scattered cries were drowned out in these three streams of shouts.

In this regard, Gao Yuan had no intention of delving into the entanglement of interests on this island, so he walked into the community activity center alone, and then in the corridor of the activity center, he saw Kogoro and his party waiting here-

At the same time, in an office in the community center where you can see the scene outside the window, listening to the protests of the villagers outside, as the current village head, who is in his fifties, with a bald head and a slightly chubby body, Kuroyan Chenji couldn't help but say angrily:

"Damn! It's really rude to pick the day when the former village chief did the rituals to make trouble! ”

"What a nasty guy!"

In this regard, the only daughter of the village chief on the side, Heiyan Lingzi, who was wearing a black dress, couldn't help but say disgusted by the shouts of the villagers outside, and then yelled at another man in his thirties wearing glasses in the house:

"Hirata! What are you doing here? Don't go ahead and try to shut up those guys! ”

"Yes...... Yes, Miss......"

In this regard, the man called "Hirata", with a slightly timid expression, replied respectfully to the Kuroiwa father and daughter, and then ran out in a panic.

And he is Kuroiwa Tatsuji's secretary, Kazuaki Hirata.

- "Do you think that's going to be the case?" ”

At this moment, another tall and thin man standing by the door, with dark skin, wearing a knitted hat and sunglasses on his head, was leaning against the wide edge of the door, and couldn't help but say lightly.

"Weekly, Monday......"

Hearing this man's words, Reiko Kuroiwa couldn't help but be surprised, and the man she called "Monday" was her fiancé, Murasawa Monday.

Looking at the attitude of Heiyan's father and daughter towards the villagers, even as Heiyan Lingzi's fiancé, Murasawa sarcastically said without any scruples:

"I just asked a few villagers what they think, and it seems that your father is not very optimistic this time."

- "That's right, I am the candidate who has the most popular support this time!" ”

Just as Murasawa was saying this on Monday, Hideo Kawashima, a tall man with two mustaches on his lips, came in and said.

In the face of the provocation of the competitor at this time, Kuroiwa Chenji retorted unhappily:

"Humph! This guy will only buy people's hearts with money! ”

"Hehe, each other."

Listening to Kuroiwa Tatsuji's rebuttal, Hideo Kawashima did not deny it, but just said it meaningfully.

At this time, Hirata Kazuaki, who had just gone out, quickly turned around and reported to Kuroiwa Tatsuji with some concern:

"Village Chief, there is a gentleman who wants to see you......"

"Who? Pick this kind of time? ”

In an unhappy tone, Kuroiwa asked in a not very good mood.

"Yes...... It's a detective from Tokyo......"

Hirata Kazuaki said this timidly, and then Kuroiwa Tatsuji's face couldn't help but be shocked......

……

"How? Does the current village chief agree to meet? ”

Walking into the community center, seeing the three of Kogoro waiting here in the corridor, Takato couldn't help asking.

"I don't know. I've already met the village chief's secretary just now, and it's unclear whether I can see the village chief......"

Xiaolan couldn't help but answer in the face of Takato's inquiry, while Kogoro sat on the only sofa in the corridor, smoking a cigarette, waiting a little impatiently, and said unhappily:

"It's slow...... How long are we going to wait here? ”

"Oh, that's it......"

In this regard, Gao Yuan couldn't help but reply, and then noticed that Conan at this time was looking towards a door at the end of the corridor with some curiosity, so Gao Yuan also walked to Conan's side, looked in through the glass of the door, and saw the scene in the room behind the door-

The empty room, and the only thing in it, a black piano.

Seeing this, Takato knew that this was the piano that Keiji Aso had used back then, so without waiting for Conan to open the door curiously, Takato took the initiative to push open the door and walked in.

And in this regard, Conan was the first to bear the brunt, and walked into here quickly with great curiosity.

At the same time, it seemed that they were waiting outside a little impatiently, and Kogoro and Xiaolan also followed Conan and Takato, and entered the room together to see-

"Is it a piano?"

Seeing that there was only one piano in this big room, Xiaolan couldn't help but sigh, and then followed Gao Yuan and Conan to the piano to observe.

And Kogoro couldn't help but notice that from the window of this room, he could directly see the sea outside-

That is, behind the activity center is the seaside.

"This piano is so dirty...... Usually you should find someone to take good care of it......"

Seeing such a good piano, which was actually full of dust, Xiaolan said with a little pity.

"It looks like no one has used it in a long time...... Could it be that Keiji Aso used this piano twelve years ago? ”

Knowingly, while Gao Yuan said this, he had already begun to lean down, put his hand under the base of the piano, and began to grope -

If memory serves, the piano in the original is ......

"Can't touch that piano!"

At this moment, Kazuaki Hirata, the secretary of the village chief, suddenly rushed to the door of the room, pointed to the people gathered in front of the piano at the moment and shouted-

"That's the cursed piano that Mr. Aso used in the concert on the night of his suicide!"

Hearing this, Xiao Lan, who was already afraid of this kind of thing, was suddenly startled, and then the whole person took a few steps back, and then asked in horror:

"What cursed piano?"

"No...... It's not just Mr. Aso......"

A little stumbling, Hirata Kazuaki said nervously:

"Something similar happened to the former village chief......

In this way, Kazuaki Hirata began to tell about the death of the former village head Isamu Kameyama two years ago-

It was also a full moon night, and when Kazuaki Hirata happened to be passing by the community center, he heard the sound of a piano coming from the event center, which was supposed to be empty. And when he went in curiously, he saw the village chief Kameyama lying on the piano, already dying of a heart attack.

- "What is even more frightening is that the piece he played before he died was Beethoven's "Moonlight" that Keiji Aso played repeatedly in the raging fire at that time! Since then, no one on the island has dared to touch the cursed piano! ”

At the same time, even Kazuaki Hirata, the narrator, was afraid, and Kazuaki Hirata told something about the curse of the piano.

And this kind of narration obviously scared Kogoro and Xiaolan who were present.

But even so, for Takato and Conan, they are still unmoved by this-

Because Gao Yuan knows the plot of the original work, after listening to the words of Kazuaki Hirata, he is basically sure that some basic situations have not deviated, and there is a secret about this piano, which is estimated to be the same as in the original work.

As for Conan, he was purely curious......

Directly press the keys of the piano and start playing at will!

- "This piano doesn't seem to be anything special. ”

Conan couldn't help but say.

And Gao Yuan also took advantage of the situation, swiped his fingers across the keys, made a series of sounds, and then couldn't help but look at Conan and asked in a low voice:

"How's the pitch?"

"Please go out!"

Seeing Takato and Conan using the piano so unscrupulously, Hirata Kazuaki's expression was even more frightened, and he stepped forward to dissuade him-

"Anyway, before the end of the ceremony, I'd better trouble you to wait here......

Sending Gao Yuan and the others out of the room, Hirata Kazuaki closed the door of the room with his backhand.

In this regard, Kogoro and the others didn't have any ideas, but they were familiar with the plot of the original work, and after confirming that the condition of the piano might be no different from the original, they began to consider whether to try to contact the person who was suspected of being banned from narcotics......

"Oh? Are you still here? ”

At this moment, in the corridor, I saw Narumi Asai who had changed into a black slim dress, followed by a middle-aged man with a kind expression, who happened to come here too-

"yes. But Miss Chengshi, why did she come here? This is ......"

Xiaolan replied politely, and at the same time looked at the middle-aged man and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Ah, I happened to meet Mr. Shimizu on the road! Let me introduce you, he is also a candidate for this village chief election, Mr. Masato Shimizu! ”

Asai replied.

"Hello, I'm Shimizu Masato, please advise."

Politely, Shimizu Masato couldn't help but reply.

"Mr. Kameyama is the deceased who I inspected for the first time since I came to this island, so I came here to burn incense and pay respects."

Asai explained to Ran why he came.

So, because Kogoro and the others were not from the village, and they were not invited to participate in the worship ceremony of the former village head, before the end of the ceremony, Kogoro and the others could not see the current village head, Kuroiwa Tatsuji, for the time being.

Therefore, before the end of the ceremony, Kogoro and the others could only wait outside the community center now-

"Huh? What about Mr. Wise? ”

It's just that when Kogoro and the others came to the community room, they found that they didn't see Takato's figure......

……

Night fell, and the moon in the sky tonight was indeed a full moon.

In such a sky, followed by moonlight, Asai Narumi looked at Takato who stopped in front of him, and couldn't help but show a very surprised expression-

"I'm sorry, Dr. Asai. I'm afraid I won't be able to stop you from killing, so I've been following you since just now......"

Somewhat helpless, Gao Yuan looked at Asai Chengshi in front of him, and couldn't help but say......

(End of chapter)