Chapter 100: Keiji Aso's commission

So the letter is actually a crime teaser?

Conan is a little bit enlightened, he received a lot of crime notices before he became smaller, when he was the beloved high school student detective Shinichi Kudo.

Like this, the purpose of writing himself is very vague, and the invitation is like a riddle, and Conan has not seen it before.

This kind of prisoner who likes to use riddles to predict his murder is often some people who have not weak wisdom, but they use them in crooked ways.

They deliberately use this tricky way to attract detectives, so as to have a contest with them, to satisfy their inner desire for performance and victory.

The most typical is the strange thief who always likes to get along with gems, and every crime trailer he leaves behind is a riddle, attracting cops and detectives and even many ordinary passers-by to be fascinated by his riddles.

Conan recalls the murderers who had mailed him a crime notice, and all of them, except for the strange thief Kidd, had already been sent to prison by himself without exception.

After all, he is the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era/Reiwa era, and no one can beat himself in reasoning!

"You mean, someone is provoking me, a detective, to see if I can stop him?"

Uncle Maori also quickly understood what was going on, isn't this what some prisoners with a showlike habit like to do?

Attracting those police officers and detectives to their crime scene for an interesting PK between the perpetrators and the executors of justice, everything sounds so reasonable.

"Bastard, he actually treats human life as a game, I must not spare him!"

Uncle Maori spoke, and Toru Amamiya nodded approvingly.

He has always disliked the overly bells and whistles of events, like his spoilers or reasoning, he likes to be simple and crude, preferably fast, so that he can free up time to fish.

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"I'm very sorry, but I didn't find Mr. Keiji Aso you said on the resident record sheet." The man in charge of the inquiry flipped through the notebook in front of him and answered Kogoro Mori's question.

"No?! Could you please check it again...... He did send me this letter from here. ”

Mori Kogoro looked a little surprised, and with a reluctant face, he took out the letter of entrustment in his arms and repeatedly confirmed the address.

At this time, an elderly staff member passing by heard the commotion and came to watch, and the young staff member seemed to see a savior, and asked the senior who had lived on the island for a long time.

"The gentleman said that one of the islanders had written to him asking him to come here."

"It's a guy named Keiji Aso, but I didn't find this person in the island's resident register."

"Hemp... Keiji Aso! The older staff shouted in surprise, and everyone in the Moon Shadow Village office turned their attention to this place.

"No, it can't be a letter from him......"

The older staff looked a little flustered, even with the ordinary islanders who were watching the excitement, as if this Keiji Aso was some kind of urban legend.

This strange behavior caught Conan's attention, and he listened carefully to the older clerk's story.

"More than 10 years ago, Keiji Aso was dead."

The elderly clerk quickly explained to the group in front of him, and by the way, explained the somewhat mysterious death story of Keiji Aso.

It happened on a full moon night twelve years ago, and because it was so weird, it has been remembered by the island's residents until now......

Keiji Aso, who was a famous pianist at the time, had for some reason locked his entire family in the house and set it on fire after attending a homecoming concert held by the islanders for him at the community center.

According to eyewitnesses who went to the rescue, Keiji Aso first killed his wife and daughter with his own hands with a knife, and then played the same song over and over again seemingly helplessly in the midst of the raging fire.

The whole event is full of supernatural atmosphere, and the sudden madness of Mr. Aso, a famous pianist, for no reason, and the last piece he plays in the flames, have become an unforgettable nightmare for the islanders.

And the piece he played at that time was Beethoven's famous piano sonata - "Moonlight"!

The older man told the story with emotion, and the Maori family of three was immersed in the story, and Toru Amamiya keenly noticed a strange figure behind the door.

But he quickly turned his attention elsewhere, and Kotoko Iwanaga gently tugged at Toru Amamiya's sleeve, motioning for him to look in the other direction.

A figure stood next to the elderly staff member and listened to the story with Toru Amamiya.

It's just that unlike Toru Amamiya and his group, this person's face is not fear when he listens to such a strange story, but pain and sadness that is difficult to resolve.

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Leaving the Moon Shadow Village Office, the Mori family immediately plans to go to the community center to investigate clues.

Toru Amamiya and Kotoko Iwanaga quietly left the group, one twisting and shaking off the followers behind them, and walked into a dark alley.

Toru Amamiya stood still in the dark alley, a slightly illusory figure standing in front of him and the others.

It was a ghost in a suit, full of the air of an artist, and a little sad in his eyebrows.

From the moment when this ghost appeared in front of himself and others, and the resentment and sadness he felt when he heard the story of Keiji Aso's death.

Toru Amamiya easily guessed that the ghost who appeared in front of him was the protagonist of this incident, and Keiji Aso, who was also closely related to his mission.

"Princess, Mr. Amamiya, I'm sorry to disturb you so abruptly."

Keiji Aso, who looked very gentlemanly, bowed slightly to the two of them and said in an almost pleading voice.

"Maybe this request will be a little offensive, but please save my child, please save Matsumi!"

Keiji Aso looked so pained that he almost burst into tears as he spoke.

- As a serious weird person who naturally became a ghost after death because he had enough obsessions, Keiji Aso was actually desperate for a long time after his death.

As a ghost who can't have much contact with reality, even if Aso Keiji becomes a ghost, most of the time he can only watch the bandits who killed his wife and daughter continue to carry out their illegal activities on Moonshadow Island, living freely.

But this desperate life was suddenly ended one day a few years ago.

On that day, Keiji Aso, who wandered around the island in despair, occasionally gathered enough strength to pick a suitable night to appear, and tried to intimidate his enemies with his peculiarity as a spirit body, saw a figure on the island that he would never have imagined.

His own son, Amaki Shi.

In order to hide his identity, he dressed up as a girl, and took advantage of the convenience of the island's information that was not so circulated with the outside world, and hid on the island as a female doctor, Asai Narumi.

With the inexplicable feeling that his son suddenly became a daughter, Keiji Aso tried to figure out why his child came to his hometown so incognito.

And finally two years ago, Keiji Aso learned about his child's obsession for so many years.

At that time, he looked at his female ... The son, who was taken a fancy to by Kameyama Yong, tried to pull Chengshi into his house to do something wrong.

It's a pity that although Chengshi is wearing girls' clothes and has long hair and combing girls' hairstyles, no matter how she looks at it, she is a standard cute girl.

But no matter how his appearance changes, Chengshi is still the fierce man who took out a big man than Kameyama Yong.

In the middle of the excitement, he was forcibly interrupted.,And after learning that Chengshi came to investigate the cause of his father's death.。

Tortured by the long-standing psychological pressure after the murder and Keiji Aso's routine explicit intimidation, Isamu Kameyama, who was so fragile that he was about to collapse with just a straw, struggled to reveal the truth of the events of that year, and then died of a heart attack.

And Keiji Aso saw that his child Chengshi finally learned the truth about his family's death.

Watching him fake the scene of the corpse with a heavy face, he put the corpse down on the piano, making the villagers think that he died in a similar form to Keiji Aso.

Keiji Aso knew that his child was trying to attract a little attention from the villagers in this way, and wanted to make a little unusual wave for the events of that year.

But unfortunately, in the end, Kameyama finally closed the case with a sudden death from a heart attack, and his actions did not bring any change to things except for another strange story among the villagers.

It seemed that the incident ended so easily.

But Keiji Aso, who is very familiar with his child, knows that his child may have made up his mind to avenge himself by any means.

It's just that many years have passed since he was killed, and the evidence at the scene has basically been destroyed by the incident, and it is undoubtedly difficult to avenge himself legally.

And murder is a felony, and Keiji Aso doesn't want his children to go down that path.

After all, in addition to being a legal felony, homicide can also torture a person's heart for life.

After so many years of despair and pain, Keiji Aso has long since stopped expecting his enemies to easily surrender and accept the punishment they deserve.

Or rather, rather than seeing his enemy Fufa, Keiji Aso hopes that his children can live well, rather than embarking on the road of no return to murder.

"Amamiya-san, I've heard that you need to educate criminals in order to gain spiritual energy cultivation, but I implore you to stop Chengshi before he makes a big mistake this time."

"If you are willing to accept my commission, I can hand over to you all the cultivation that I have cultivated for many years and have been close to the Earth Binding Spirit, and compensate for your losses."

"I hope you can save my son."

Keiji Aso pleaded and bowed his head deeply.