The flowing triad sounded one after another, and the quiet melancholy accompanied by a hint of deep darkness reverberated in the corridor.

"It's from there......" Maolilan discerned the direction from which the sound of the piano was coming from, turned his head, and looked at the doors of the two hidden piano rooms with a slightly frightened gaze.

The story of the cursed piano that Hirata had told her earlier today replayed in her ears, causing her legs to shake involuntarily.

The clear melodious sound of the piano continued to advance, and began to zigzag upward, gradually involving a series of restless feelings, which also pierced through the coiled chanting sound in the venue, and suddenly reached the ears of the guests present.

"What sound?"

"This, this tune ......!"

Narumi Asai, who was sitting upright, also raised his head, listening to the orderly legato as his fingers resting on his knees flicked slightly, following the series of jumping scales, dancing rhythmically.

He still remembers that he was still sitting at the piano with his father, and when his father led him to press the keys a little bit, his father played this piece and said to him with a smile—

"Do you feel it? This surging, heartstring-tugging feeling? This is the first movement, which is ......"

"It's an impromptu dream, a prelude and a beginning." In a low, inaudible voice, Asai Narumi said.

"Mr. Kawashima——!"

The sound of footsteps was followed by a door that was slammed open by several people.

"Ahem, ahem......" Hideo Kawashima, who was sitting at the piano, heard the call of the outsider, stiffened his neck and turned his head, looking at the person who walked in with bloodshot eyes.

"What's going on, Mr. Kawashima, Mr. Kawashima?" The current village chief, who led the way into the door, hurriedly stepped forward and helped Hideo Kawashima, who seemed to be having a hard time breathing.

Hideo Kawashima looked at them with a godless gaze.

"Are you ready?" Falling at the end of the crowd, Asai Narumi, who was not in a hurry, heard a voice from behind.

He stroked his sideburns and nodded slightly.

"Then put an end to your revenge."

At the same time as he heard this, a cold object fell into his palm.

What is it...... Naturally, he knew very well, and even said that this was the mechanism that he had assumed with his own hands.

Closing his eyes, Asai Narumi tugged at the corners of his mouth and pressed the button without hesitation.

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"Bang-"

Hearing this small noise behind him, Karasawa stopped talking to Akemi Miyano, turned his head, and turned to look at Hideo Kawashima, who was tied to the pile of gold coins.

A candle, severed by the clink after the sound of the mechanism, slowly pours down, igniting the pungent smell of liquid on the ground.

In an instant, a raging fire ignited.

Not far from them, Kawashima, who had lost consciousness, briefly regained consciousness because of the heat and pain.

Seeing the corners of his robe licked by the fire, he let out a series of terrible screams, twisting his body, trying to get away from the growing fire.

"It's on fire, help, help! Don't, no, ah——! ”

A series of screams of pain continued to be heard, and in the midst of this shouting and tremor, the entire large wide room, which was full of gold coins and treasures, and painted with poppy patterns, was ignited in the flames, and the entire wooden house began to slowly collapse in the flames.

"He still made a decision." Akemi Miyano, who was watching this scene, was not surprised, but said incomprehensibly, "Since he has made up his mind to get rid of these people, why did he choose such a tortuous method?" Is it because you don't have to see the dead wailing in the fire, and you can make up your mind? ”

"No, it's the opposite." Karazawa, who pulled Akemi Miyano and began to retreat in the hall with a hook lock, denied it, "Asai Narumi chose to do this just to see all this with his own eyes, and to let them die in "Moonlight". ”

"Not to exonerate yourself?" Watching the collapsed building fly upside down, Akemi Miyano said jokingly, "What a perfect criminal method, didn't he just complete a murder in front of the detectives?" ”

"It's not." Also watching the beautifully decorated house collapse little by little, Tang Ze shook his head, "He knows very well that no matter how delicate and tortuous the method is, the murderer is still himself...... What we offer him is not a fluke to avoid the reconnaissance vision, but a stage where he can complete his revenge heartily. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Well, he knows that he is a man with blood on his hands, and he has a will to die."

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"Dr. Serumi, Dr. Serumi, look at Mr. Kawashima, this is ......"

Asai Narumi, who held the button in the palm of his hand, was recalled by the voice in front of him, and he also squeezed through the crowd with an anxious face and walked into the surrounded piano room.

"Let's go, let's go, don't block the air, let's try to open his airway!" Asai Narumi stepped forward to check his pace very eagerly, but the reason for his real eagerness was only clear to himself.

"Uh, uh......" Hideo Kawashima, who fell to the ground and twitched slightly, suddenly overflowed with pitch-black liquid from his mouth and nose at the moment when Asai Narumi touched him.

Soon, the piercings of his ears and the corners of his eyes were also black and shiny, like spoiled blood, and like some kind of sticky sludge.

"Yikes!"

"Ah——!h

The eerie scene caused a small commotion, and the screams of fear in the crowd rang out one after another.

"Mr. Kawashima, cheer up, Mr. Kawashima!" Strong hands gripped Hideo Kawashima's shoulders tightly, and Narumi Asai stared intently at the scene, staring at Hideo Kawashima no longer moving in his hands, and soon lost his breath.

Such a state of death...... It's really in line with what a demon should look like when he dies.

Asai Narumi's hand began to tremble uncontrollably, and the voice was the same: "He, he's out of breath...... It's no longer possible......"

This kind of performance met everyone's expectations of her at the scene, but the reason for this trembling was only known to him.

Let go of his hand and let Kawashima's limp body fall to the ground completely, making a muffled sound.

Asai raised his head in disfocus, looked left and right, and finally fixed his gaze on the piano.

The atmosphere at the scene was very frozen for a while because of Kawashima's violent death, and everyone was reminiscing about his strange state of death just now, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out.

So in such silence, the melodious sound of the piano is like the moonlight outside the window, quietly filling the entire space.

"The piano, playing by yourself?" Rushing to the front, and therefore very close to the piano, Mao Lilan, who could see the keys clearly, covered his mouth hard, for fear that he would burst into an exclamation because of fear.

Everyone's eyes also stopped on the keys of this piano that had fallen into disrepair.

The piano was untouched, and the black and white keys were pressed and played by themselves, as if there was really someone they didn't see, sitting on the piano chair and playing indulgently.

Mao Lilan's eyes closed, and the screams that he endured and endured finally broke out.

"Ahh

The high-decibel female voice broke through the activity center of sandalwood candlelight and spread far away along the silent sea outside the window.

(End of chapter)