Kamen Rider: I, Conan, am Faiz

Chapter 41: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case (3)

"What's going on! Who is playing the piano?!"

"Why does this song sound familiar? I seem to have heard it somewhere before..."

"Wait! There is indeed a piano in the Civic Center, but..."

Kuroiwa's male secretary Hirata seemed to have thought of something, and his expression suddenly became extremely panic. Kuroiwa Village Chief beside him saw this and scolded him angrily: "If you have something to say, just say it! You are so annoying!"

"A...Aso Keiji...In the piano room of the community center, there is the piano that Mr. Aso used in the concert before his death!"

"What did you say!"

When Heiyan and other villagers from Yueying Island heard this, they were immediately shocked!

"Where is that piano room? Tell me now!"

Compared to the panicked villagers of Tsukikage Island, Kogoro, as an outsider, was obviously much calmer. He directly grabbed Hirata's secretary and asked about the location of the piano room.

"I...I...I'll lead the way."

After being frightened by Kogoro, Hirata instantly regained his composure and then took Kogoro and the others to the piano room. At this time, "Moonlight" was still playing, and finally stopped at the end of the first chapter.

"bump!"

Kogoro used his strength to slam open the door of the piano room, and the next moment the scene inside the piano room instantly appeared in front of everyone. Kawashima, who had left earlier to go to the toilet, was now lying on the piano, wet all over, with an expression on his face that could be described as dying with his eyes open.

"Curse...Curse! It's Keiji Aso's curse! He's back! Ah!!!"

A decadent middle-aged man in the crowd saw this scene and immediately let out a shrill scream, then ran away without looking back.

"Xiaolan, call the police!"

"Yes!"

He skillfully took out his phone and called the police. About an hour later, Officer Megure arrived with his men by boat, and then began a series of work including the autopsy.

After tying the body bag and letting the police take it away, Officer Megure then read out the information he had at hand: "The deceased's name is Kawashima Hideo, he is 57 years old this year, and the cause of death is drowning after being pushed into the sea by external force. According to the current investigation results of our police, the seawater that drowned Mr. Kawashima came from the seawater flowing outside the community center."

After telling all the investigation results, Inspector Megure slowly turned his gaze to Kogoro, and then said helplessly: "By the way, brother Mori, why did you appear at the crime scene again? How many times has this happened?"

Facing Inspector Megure's connotation, Kogoro scratched his head a little embarrassedly and smiled: "Oh ~ Maybe this is the fate of a detective, always appearing at the crime scene in time."

"Alas, I feel more like you are being haunted by the god of death. Go find a master to take a good look at you."

After shaking his head and sighing, Officer Megure immediately walked out of the piano room. "Let's record the statements of other people first and see if we can find any clues."

"Inspector Megure, please wait a moment! I'll go with you!"

Just like that, Kogoro followed Inspector Megure out of the piano room, and not long after the piano room returned to calm, Conan and Xiaolan walked in quietly.

Xiaolan said worriedly, "Shinichi, this is a crime scene. It's not good for us to just come in like this, right?"

Conan smiled and took out his equipment: "Don't worry, I have prepared gloves and shoe covers, so there is no need to worry about damaging the crime scene."

"I see, you are very thoughtful, Shinichi."

"Just so-so."

After putting on gloves and shoe covers, Xiaolan and Conan officially entered the piano room. Conan's attention was immediately attracted by the huge piano. He then sat on the chair and began to look at the piano carefully.

Seeing Conan's actions, Xiaolan's expression suddenly became a little puzzled: "Shinichi, what are you going to do?"

Conan did not answer immediately, but gently pressed the keys, and the next moment beautiful notes popped out.

“There’s something wrong with this piano.”

After pressing several keys, Conan made a serious assessment of the piano.

Xiaolan didn't quite understand for a moment: "What's the problem? The notes played are obviously very accurate."

Conan explained: "That's why it's not right. This piano model needs to be tuned regularly. If it has really been left here for twelve years without being moved, the notes it produces would definitely not be so accurate."

Xiaolan suddenly understood when she heard this: "So, Shinichi, you mean that someone is secretly tuning this piano?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that."

Conan jumped down from the chair and began to tap gently around the piano. Finally, when he hit the bottom of the piano, a hollow sound seemed so harsh.

【There is a secret compartment! 】

"Xiaolan, help me."

"it is good."

Xiaolan quickly lay down under the piano, and then with a little force she successfully opened the secret compartment underneath the piano. Conan reached his hand in and fumbled around for a while, and instantly felt a granular touch.

"what is this?"

Pulling his hand back from the secret compartment, Conan saw a few white crystals similar to salt in his hand. He then put it to his nose and smelled it, and instantly a strong sense of stimulation came to his nose!

"Ahem! It's a D grade!"

"Shinichi are you okay?"

Seeing Conan suddenly coughing violently, Xiaolan hurriedly patted Conan's back to help relieve the cough.

"What happened?"

At this moment, Dr. Cheng Shi happened to pass by the piano room. After hearing the noise inside, he hurried in to ask.

Seeing Dr. Cheng Shi, Xiao Lan subconsciously said, "Dr. Cheng Shi, you came at the right time. This piano..."

"There's so much dust on this piano, it's choking me~"

Without waiting for Xiaolan to finish her words, Conan grabbed Xiaolan's arm and started complaining in a childish tone, while putting the secret compartment back as quickly as possible.

Although Xiaolan was a little confused about Conan's behavior, she still followed Conan's words reflexively: "Conan, you are really something. I told you not to touch this piano. You are such a disobedient child."

Conan apologized pitifully: "Private Masai Xiaolan sister, I know I was wrong."

"Okay, Xiaolan, don't blame Conan. Children of his age are at their most curious, so it's normal for him to do these things."

I don’t know if it’s because Xiaolan and Conan work together too well, or because Dr. Chengshi is too naive, but in any case, Dr. Chengshi didn’t doubt anything at all, and instead spoke well of Conan.

After successfully getting away with it, Conan pretended to be casual and asked, "By the way, Dr. Chengshi, haven't the police gone to take your statements? Are you done yet?"

Dr. Cheng Shi smiled and explained, "Not yet. Because the police didn't have enough people, and I was at the end of the queue, so I just went to the bathroom. Anyway, I just need to stay at the community center during this period."

"That's it~"

After hearing Dr. Chengshi's explanation, Conan responded with a cute smile, but a barely perceptible light flashed between his slightly narrowed eyes.

Meanwhile, the Citizens' Viewing Room

"Really! I am really innocent! Please believe me!"

At this moment, the decadent man who had run away crazily was excitedly telling Officer Megure that he was innocent. Because he was too excited, two police officers had to be dispatched to hold him down.

Officer Megure wiped the saliva from his face and patiently explained, "Calm down, Mr. Nishimoto. This is just a simple questioning. If you are really innocent, we, the police, will naturally not embarrass you."

"Okay... I understand..." Xiben lowered his head and grabbed his thighs tightly with a frightened expression.

Seeing that Nishimoto had finally calmed down, Officer Megure immediately began to ask questions: "First, I would like to ask Mr. Nishimoto to answer me, why did you run away screaming when you saw the body? Do you know something?"

"Curse...Curse, it's Keiji Aso's curse...Two years ago it was Kameyama, now it's Kawashima, and next..."

Just as Nishimoto was mumbling like he was possessed, the radio in the community center suddenly rang, and the song playing on the radio was "Moonlight"! But this time it was the song from the second chapter.

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