Chapter 521: The Cursed Piano of the Citizen Pavilion
"Resolutely resist the village chief of Kuroiwa!"
"Give us back the farmland! Resolutely resist the evil deeds of the village chief of Kuroiwa!"
After a late lunch at a nearby family restaurant, Fujiwara Yo and his party arrived at the public hall, where they saw men in sleeveless undershirts shouting slogans of boycott without relying on loudspeakers, and the locals of Moonshadow Island next to them also cooperated with the holding of homemade signs and banners.
Mori Kogoro stopped and squinted his eyes, staring at the contents of the sign, and muttered:
"Don't pollute the fishing grounds of Moon Shadow Island Village anymore, and prohibit the return of polluted fishing grounds to farmland...... Tsk, it seems that the current village chief has a very bad reputation, no wonder Dr. Asai said that the one named Kawashima will win this village chief election."
"He probably won't have time to see us out there, right?" Fujiwara Yu put his hands in his pockets, silently took this scene into his eyes, and replied loudly.
"Well, forget it, let's go sit down for a while, we can't stand here stupidly."
Walking up the steps of the public hall, I came to the closed door and knocked on it, and soon there was a sound of hurried footsteps inside, probably because I was worried that the villagers standing outside were boycotting the village chief.
The door was slowly opened, and standing inside the door was a squinting man in a suit, he pushed his square-framed glasses, looked at several unfamiliar faces in front of him, and his gaze briefly lingered on the purple-haired young man for two seconds before he asked:
"Well, do you have anything to do?"
"I'm a detective from Tokyo, and I want to consult the head of Kuroiwa Village about something, I wonder if he's available right now?" Mori Kogoro stepped forward, he deliberately did not say the name of Keiji Aso, for fear that if he said it, the other party would not see him.
A detective from Tokyo?
Although Squinting had some doubts in his heart, he nodded and pointed to the seat next to him, and said:
"Then please rest here first, and I'll report it."
"Well, I'm sorry for you."
Seeing the squint leave, but what they didn't expect was that the squint was gone and never returned, and the Maori Kogoro, who was a little impatient after waiting for dozens of minutes, took out his mobile phone to check the time, glanced at the end of the corridor in confusion, and said a little speechlessly:
"What are the villagers of Moonshadow Island doing? Are the staff of the public hall so untime-conscious? Even if you don't see us, why don't you come out and let us know, how long will we have to wait?"
"They must be busy preparing for the rituals, right? Dad, let's wait a little longer, it's only sixteen o'clock anyway, and we just had lunch not long ago, so it's not too late to wait half an hour before leaving." The empathetic Maolilan responded.
Fujiwara Yu took out his mobile phone to check the information on LINE, and after making sure that there were no unread messages, he walked around the corridor casually, listening to the footsteps behind him, and knew that Kudo's kid was following him without guessing.
He reached out and pushed open the unlocked room, and found that there was only one piano in the large space, and as he approached the piano, he noticed that there was a thick layer of dust accumulated on it, but the floor of this room was wiped clean.
Piano ...... at the public hall Could it be that Keiji Aso played it before his death, so no one wants to touch it?
After following the walk in, Mori Kogoro sighed, "There is a lot of space", and then walked to the window, and he found that the back door was connected to the beach, and it was quite pleasant to play the piano and enjoy the sea breeze here.
Mao Lilan looked down at the piano in front of him, and said with some curiosity:
"It looks like no one has been taking care of this piano for a long time, and I don't know if I can still play it."
Before he could stretch out his hand, a squinting voice sounded at the door, and he stopped loudly with a frightened expression:
"No, you can't! You must not touch that piano, it was played on the day Mr. Aso died, when he held a concert here, and that piano has long been cursed!"
"Curse? There is no such thing as a curse." The materialist Fujiwara Yoshita said that the truly terrifying thing in this world is the human heart, not the curses and ghosts that do not exist.
Squinting at their expressions of disbelief, he quickly explained:
"It's really a curse, and the same thing happened to the former village chief in addition to Mr. Aso!"
"Do you mean Isamu Kameyama?"
Squinting and nodding, he looked down and recalled the past that made him tremble:
"That's right, it was a full moon night two years ago, and I happened to pass by here that day, and it was supposed that there should be no one in the public hall at that time, but suddenly there was a piano sound inside, so I opened my mouth and shouted, "Who's inside", but the piano stopped abruptly, and when I went inside, I saw Mr. Kameyama fall on the keys, and he died completely.
[In view of the general environment,
The cause of death was a heart attack, and the chilling cause was ...... The piano piece he was playing before he died was the "Moonlight Sonata" that Mr. Aso kept playing in the midst of the flames! Since then, the piano has slowly become known as the "cursed piano", and the villagers dare not even touch it."
Maolilan, who was already afraid of demons and monsters, turned pale, and she subconsciously grabbed her father's elbow, trying to find a little security.
But she never imagined that the materialists here exceeded the standard - Fujiwara Yu wore dust-free gloves to prevent his fingers from being stained with two-year-old ashes, and after he lifted the piano lid, Conan, who was kneeling on the piano bench, played his familiar "Bayer No. 8 Etude" on it.
The cheerful sound of the piano made Maolilan's back cold, and she was like a fried cat, so frightened that she hid directly behind her father, and carefully poked her head out only to find that the culprit who frightened her was Conan.
The initiator, Conan Edogawa, played the piano with a fixed face, looked up at the squinting eyes, and said suddenly:
"There's nothing unusual about this piano."
"Nothing wrong except it's dirty." Fujiwara Yo, who was also staring at the piano with a fixed face, helped to add.
Squinting didn't expect that there were people here who were not afraid of the curse of the piano, so he hurriedly stopped the glasses children from continuing to play the piano, and after driving them out of the door, he said with a serious face:
"Anyway, please wait outside until the service is over!"
"Oh? Why are you here?"
As soon as Squinting Eyes finished speaking, Asai Narumi, who had changed into a long black dress, stepped forward with a smile, she looked at Mao Lilan with a smile, and asked out loud:
"Have you seen Chief Kuroiwa?"
"Not yet, are you here for the ceremony?"
"Yes, since I came to this island, the first corpse I examined was Mr. Kameyama's, so I wanted to come and put a stick of incense on him." Asai Narumi looked a little lonely when she said this, but she quickly cheered up, stretched out her hand to the tall man on the side, and introduced, "I forgot to introduce, this is Mr. Shimizu, who is one of the candidates for village head."
Shimizu Masato is simply as his name suggests, he has no superiority at all, and his smile is warm:
"Hello people, I'm Shimizu Masato, please give me a lot of advice."
"Then we won't bother you to participate in the ceremony."
Maori Kogoro nodded politely to Masato Shimizu, and then led everyone to the outside of the public hall, his mood at this time was a little complicated, I really didn't expect to be on the island for so long, and I haven't figured out who sent the letter of entrustment to me.
He took out his phone and glanced at it in wonder, it was not a few minutes before the sun went down, it seemed that he could only spend the night here tonight, and he wondered if the TV set in the hotel could see Miss Yoko's concert live.
Hey, that's unlucky.