Conan Moslin

The emaciated man hanging in the warehouse was naturally Ken Nishimoto.

A piece of music was neatly placed on the ground at his feet.

There was silence in the warehouse for a moment.

For Conan, two murders happened in one day, but he still hasn't identified who the murderer is. This is a dereliction of duty as a detective.

Conan picked up the music score and began to read it.

"This is... a suicide note." Conan quickly flipped through the music score and then briefly described the contents of the score to Li An.

Mr. Nishimoto felt regretful for killing Kawashima and Kuroiwa.

Because these five people had made mistakes in the past, they killed people to silence them in order to avoid being exposed. These five people included Kameyama who died two years ago, Kawashima who was killed this time, Nishimoto who committed suicide by hanging himself, and Keiji Aso who set himself on fire 5 years ago.

Nishimoto was afraid that the secret of his past would be discovered, so he sneaked into the warehouse to destroy the music score, but he couldn't find it. He chose to commit suicide because he had no other choice.

However, this is clearly not true.

Conan looked at the very conspicuous safe with burn marks not far away in silence.

"Is it over?" Kuroba Kuriya asked him, but his tone clearly did not mean that.

Conan also thought so: "Anyway, Ms. Li An, please talk to the police officer first."

Li An nodded.

Conan comforted her: "It's not your fault. No one would have thought that the person who hid the drugs and the person who killed people were two different people."

In fact, there is another possibility. The person who hid the medicine killed Xiben and then stole the medicine.

However, this was quickly rejected by Conan.

"I don't need your comfort." Kuroba Kurian said, "I just want to tell you that when I was performing the magic show, I found that there were other people coming."

"It's... who is it!"

"I didn't see it." Li An felt that Conan shouldn't ask such a question, "I just felt that someone was coming. Imagine what it would be like to have a blinding light shining directly into your eyes..."

Conan remembered the white light when he was not far from the community center.

Oh fine.

Although he hasn't confirmed what the prop is, but... it is actually an indiscriminate attack.

"Mr. Maori and Dr. Asai will be here soon. Let's wait for her to perform the autopsy before continuing the investigation."

Buzz—her cell phone vibrated.

"Hello? It's Yuuko..."

Can you make phone calls in the fantasy world? Probably you can.

But hitting outside...

This is the "Storm Village".

Due to force majeure, calls made from the village to other places often have no signal.

So, the call made to "Mr. Police Officer" yesterday was actually made to Li An, or to "Hou Lian".

Although Li An had no intention of avoiding Conan, Conan understood and went to explain the matter of the warehouse to the police officer first.

Conan did not close the warehouse door when he left.

He heard these words from a short distance.

"Really? Mr. Maori is not at the village mansion?"

"He said he found the murderer?"

Conan didn't hear the rest of the words, but a sense of urgency surged in his heart.

Uncle Maori is so powerful this time? Has he found the murderer who killed these three people?

He was just one clue away...

When Conan returned to the piano room, the police officer was still sitting there quietly looking at the two gentlemen.

Murasawa's condition was better than before. He leaned his head against the wall and stopped moving.

Mr. Hirata's eyes had almost recovered from the flash, but his waist, which had just been kicked, was still aching.

Since he had been discovered, he had no choice but to stay here.

The police officer's eyes were scorching, and he didn't dare to run away.

Just as the police officer had told Conan before, he was a timid person who hurt people with his ruthlessness, but was immediately beaten back by Kuroba Kurian.

Conan went straight to the point and explained the situation to the police officer: "Officer, Mr. Nishimoto was hanged in the warehouse..."

The police officer pushed his glasses up dully. "Huh?"

Before he could digest this, Li An hung up the phone and walked in: "Mr. Officer, I heard from Yuko that Mr. Mao Li has identified the murderer of the previous two cases, and they are now on their way to the murderer."

"The case that Conan just mentioned..."

"Mr. Mao Li said that we should ask Dr. Cheng Shi to treat the two gentlemen and perform an autopsy and then bring the report back. It will be about time to bring the murderer and everyone involved in the case back to the village mansion."

At this time, Dr. Asai's somewhat worried voice came from outside the door.

"Excuse me, Miss Yuko just said that someone was injured here?"

"If it's a concussion, the patient shouldn't be moved."

……

At this time, in the village mansion, everyone had left except Ran Mouri and some people who were doing their daily work, including Dr. Asai.

Yes, Kogoro Mori himself is not here either.

So when Yuko came to look for someone, she only found Mao Li Ran.

Mao Lilan herself didn't know where he went: "He said he was going to find the real murderer and asked him to bring him back to the community center, so he went out by himself..."

So, she and Xiaolan are going to search the "map" for someone again?

Yuko said she didn't want to run around anymore, so she made a phone call.

"Mr. Maori is not at the community center..." ... "Yes." ... "What? Are you sure it's there?" ... "After finding Mr. Maori, are we going directly back to the village center? Not to the community center? I understand."

Yuko hung up the phone and said to the bewildered Maori Ran, "I know where Mr. Maori is. Let's go."

……

Conan, who had left slowly without blinking, ran into the warehouse and opened the safe. It was pitch black inside, and inside was a piece of music that was a little yellowed but well preserved with clear ink.

On top of the music score, there was a piece of paper that looked out of place.

There was only a vague sentence written on it, with the handwriting casual and fluttering.

"All this excitement and fanfare, how could we know it was just a dream?"

Conan felt that the handwriting seemed familiar.

This is definitely not the music score from twelve years ago!

Someone else has been here!

This is an obvious thing.

Conan kept this sentence in mind and looked at the music score.

According to the word-for-word translation based on the previous information, this is a letter that Keiji Aso left for his daughter.

The letter contained a father's advice to his daughter, and also expressed the hope that Mrs. Kongmu could protect her daughter and let her grow up safely and healthily. The price he paid was enough to achieve this.

As for what the cost was, he did not write.

Apart from Conan being certain that the girl was the one he knew, the only thing worth noting was the "price".

But I heard from Yuko Sora that Kaoru Sora had passed away.

So...what the price is is unknown.

When I turned halfway through, the letter had already ended.

That is, is there another letter?