The Split-Actress in Conan's World

The next afternoon, Professor Lecter had a quick bite to eat in the village and then went to the activity center to check on the progress of the case.

As a result, all he saw were "unknown objects" sleeping in a mess on the ground.

Fortunately, there were still people awake at the scene. Uncle Mori and Inspector Megure, who rushed over from Tokyo in the middle of the night, were still discussing the case.

"Oh! Professor, you're here!" Kogoro Mouri greeted.

"What are they doing?" Professor Lecter pointed at three people sleeping on the floor. There was Conan between Mouri Ran and Asai Narumi, and the three of them were sleeping soundly.

"They didn't sleep in the middle of the night, waiting for Inspector Megure to arrive, and it was almost dawn when they finished explaining the details of the case." Kogoro Mouri had no sense of embarrassment at all, he fell asleep early last night.

Inspector Megure took out a list with some difficulty: "There are 38 villagers who came to attend the ritual alone. Even just confirming their names and addresses is a huge workload. If we can't narrow down the suspects, we won't be able to solve the case tonight."

Conan suggested dividing the suspects into several levels according to the degree of their involvement with the deceased, and giving priority to investigating those acquaintances.

In the end, the most suspected people were identified as the candidate Masato Shimizu, the current village chief Tatsuji Kuroiwa, his daughter Reiko Kuroiwa and her fiancé Shuichi Murasawa, the village chief's secretary Kazuaki Hirata, and the suspicious-looking Ken Nishimoto.

During this period, the village chief Kuroiwa Tatsuji had a fierce temper, scolded Secretary Hirata, and asked him to get rid of the "cursed piano" within this week.

Then he left the scene angrily.

Professor Lecter looked thoughtfully at Asai Shigemi who had just returned, but Asai Shigemi avoided his gaze.

She had gone to the bathroom on the pretext of washing her face, so I guess she had already finished.

Not long after, melodious piano sounds came from upstairs and drifted into everyone's ears.

"It's the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata!" Mao Lilan recognized the song and realized that something bad was going to happen again.

Asai Chengzhi behind him apologized softly in his heart.

Then they stood up together and pretended to be frightened.

Conan, who had the fastest reaction, had already followed Nishimoto Ken upstairs before the song started. When he saw Nishimoto sitting on the ground at the door of the broadcasting room with his mouth almost dislocated, his heart skipped a beat.

Kuroiwa Tatsuji was sitting on a chair with a fruit knife stuck in his back. He was lying on the broadcasting platform covered in blood and looked dead.

The blade penetrated the heart about five centimeters deep, and the method was extremely cruel.

"Village, village chief!"

"father!"

At this time, everyone had arrived at the crime scene and looked at the dead Kuroiwa Tatsuji in disbelief.

"Hurry up and find the forensic personnel and the legal pathologist!" Inspector Megure quickly gave orders to his subordinates around him with an unsightly look on his face.

Someone was killed right under his nose!

"Well, there are forensic personnel, but the forensic doctor..."

The police officers around him were also in a dilemma.

"Well, if you need me, I can help!" Asai Narumi stood up with a determined look in his eyes.

"Then thank you for your help." After careful consideration, Inspector Megure decided to ask her for help.

hateful!

Another victim...

Conan pounded on the wall and gritted his teeth.

Although he knew that there would be more murders, he was unable to stop it!

In this way, isn't it completely different from the time I faced Miss Yami? ?

The horrific explosion that day seemed to reappear before his eyes, and the scorching flames seemed to be mocking his powerlessness.

"Judging from the condition of the wounds, Mr. Kuroiwa was brutally murdered a few minutes before his body was discovered."

Asai Narumi took the handkerchief handed to him by a police officer, wiped his hands, and his words were full of regret.

In just a few minutes, a young life disappeared silently.

Inspector Megure found a tape on the broadcasting station and agreed: "Just as Miss Chengshi said, there is a blank space of about five and a half minutes at the beginning of this tape."

"The murderer must have killed someone, and then started playing the tape. We heard the piano music five and a half minutes later."

Maori Kogoro pondered: "It is exactly the same method used to kill Kawashima Hideo."

Inspector Megure turned around and looked at the whole scene majestically: "The police have already guarded the entrance and exit here, so the murderer can't escape."

"That means the murderer is among you!"

Hearing this, several suspects looked at each other, their eyes full of suspicion.

At this time, the police officer made a new discovery and called out to Inspector Megure: "Inspector! Under the chair where the deceased was sitting, there seems to be something written in blood!"

Several people hurried over.

“It’s sheet music!”

It was the same music score that suddenly appeared, just like when Kawashima Hideo died!

"It appeared again... The deceased must want to tell us something!" Kogoro Mori said heavily as he squatted in front of the bloody music score.

"No way!" Conan retorted casually while writing in his little notebook. "If he had this much extra time and energy, he might as well run away and ask for help. Why would he waste it writing something like this in blood?"

"It's probably the same as yesterday's incident. The murderer left it there deliberately..."

Kogoro Mori was repeatedly sabotaged and finally couldn't bear it anymore and silently clenched his fists.

Boom!

A big bump appeared on Conan's head and he was knocked to the ground by a punch.

The next moment, Kogoro Mouri and Conan were both startled.

Conan hurriedly got up, and Mouri Kogoro grabbed his collar and lifted him up.

Seeing that the bloodstains were not destroyed, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"This is important evidence!"

Kogoro Mouri drove Conan out of the scene, cursing at him.

"Stand aside, you little troublemaker."

Conan could only remain speechless.

It's obviously you who broke the defense!

Bai was punched in the face and he was not in a good mood. He happened to see Nishimoto Ken with a look of "Death is right beside me" on his face, his eyes full of fear.

Due to the occurrence of a new case, Inspector Megure listed all the people in the room as suspects and treated them equally, even Asai Narimi who had just helped with the autopsy was no exception.

Except for Maori and his group.

So it’s time for the “alibi” segment that everyone loves to see.

"Why am I also listed as a suspect in my father's murder?" Before Kuroiwa Reiko had even wiped away her tears, she was already suffocated by the news.

"And I was being interrogated by you from around 6:20 until my father's body was found. If the crime really happened at around 6:, you know it couldn't have been me!"

"Well, that makes sense..." Kogoro Mouri and Inspector Megure looked at each other and were convinced by her.

When Mao Lilan heard this, she quickly pulled Asai Narimi and said, "Then Miss Narimi should not be a suspect either, because she has been with us since about 6 o'clock."

"Isn't that right, Conan?"

Conan nodded and hummed.

Asai Narumi glanced at Mao Li Ran secretly, wondering what he was thinking.

Professor Lecter stroked the umbrella handle with interest. The frosted texture felt pretty good.

If he remembered correctly, Asai Narimi left at around 6 o'clock.

That means the person was dead for about half an hour.

Although it is difficult to tell the difference between half an hour and just a few minutes after death, isn't she afraid that someone will come out and ask for a rectal temperature test?

"Then there are only five men left as suspects..."

Inspector Megure stroked his chin and looked at them with a scrutinizing gaze.

Professor Lecter is one of them.

Although he had been sitting here for nearly an hour, he did not specifically say anything to clear himself of suspicion.

He wanted to see how bad these policemen's observation skills were.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for Kogoro Mori to come out and prove his innocence.

"I remember that Mr. Lecter has been here since he came in the afternoon. He probably didn't have time to commit the crime."

"Well, me too. I've been in this corridor since six o'clock." Hirata Kazuaki quickly took himself out.

Inspector Megure did not believe his one-sided story and asked others seriously, "Who can testify for him?"

Hirata and Ming looked at them for help: "You must have seen it, right?"

"I'm really sorry, I happened to go to the bathroom at around 6:30, the most critical time." Shimizu Masato denied it bluntly.

Inspector Megure's eyes became sharp!

Going to the bathroom at this time is very suspicious!

But soon Shimizu Masato added: "Don't look at me like that, I have a witness. Mr. Murasawa was there at the time."

"Hey, hey, I only met you in the bathroom for a minute or two. I can't guarantee your whereabouts at other times."

Murasawa Shuichi said in a ambiguous tone.

Shimizu Masato's face darkened.

"By the way, Mr. Nishimoto," Inspector Megure turned to the first person who discovered the body, "Weren't you the first one to discover Mr. Kuroiwa's body?"

"Why did you go to the studio?"

Xi Ben couldn't calm down at all, and he said incoherently and panickedly: "Yes, it was that guy Hei Yan who said he had something to tell me, and asked me to go to the studio at 6:30!"

"Well, Mr. Kuroiwa did say that he had an appointment with someone in the evening, so he hoped to arrange the questioning in the morning." Inspector Megure remembered that this was indeed the case, so he let Nishimoto Ken go.

But the wise and brave Kogoro Mori did not let this suspicious man go!

"Humph, I think you called the deceased to the studio and then killed him!"

"No, no!"

"That's right, it can't be wrong, otherwise why would he ask you out?"

Kogoro Mouri looked proudly at the speechless Ken Nishimoto, then he shifted his expression to an expressionless state and stepped over to put his arm around Inspector Megure's shoulders.

"Inspector, there is no doubt that the murderer is..."

"The murderer is Shimizu Masato!"

Kuroiwa Reiko pointed her hand directly at Shimizu Masato and shouted shrilly, her voice shattered.

Kogoro Maori glanced at the woman who interrupted him and decided to listen to what she had to say.

"The only three candidates are my father, Kawashima, and Shimizu Masato. If the other two die, he can be elected village chief without any effort!"

"Stop accusing others!"

Shimizu Masato glared at the woman fiercely.

Conan didn't pay attention to this "party struggle" drama, but just stared at the notes in his notebook.

"Conan, what are you looking at?" Mao Lilan came over.

"The music score copied from the murder scene..." Conan answered casually.

"Mr. Kawashima, who was unfortunately killed yesterday, and Mr. Kuroiwa, who was just killed, didn't they both leave a piece of music score with them? I guess that must be the secret code left by the murderer."

He carefully compared the musical notation, hoping to find some patterns in it.

"In order to solve this mystery, I copied it down and studied it... What is the mark next to this note?"

Mao Lilan took the notebook and took a look. She was delighted to find that she recognized the symbol: "This is the sharp and flat sign. Our music teacher taught us that once this symbol is added next to a note, it will be raised or flattened by a semitone."

"On an instrument like the piano, it refers to the black keys!"

Piano keys...?

Conan was stunned. When he was Kudo Shinichi, he often skipped classes because of cases, which resulted in him not attending many music classes. In addition, he was a bit tone-deaf, which led to him not having much understanding of basic music theory.

But when it comes to piano keys, he actually understood the solution to the code!

"You're the next one, understand?"

"What!?"

Reiko Kuroiwa, who was proposing to Inspector Megure to arrest Masato Shimizu directly, suddenly heard a creepy child's voice and shuddered.

"Conan?"

Mao Lilan also felt a little cold.

"Actually, the code is very simple. Just match the piano keyboard to the 26 English letters and convert them into Roman letters, and you can get the answer!" Conan showed them his little notebook.

"And the message Mr. Kawashima left at the scene of his murder was this sentence."

"And the music score that Mr. Kuroiwa just played is..."

"The hatred of the fire of karma will be avenged here!"

"Karma fire? Could it be!?"

The expressions of Shimizu Masato and others changed suddenly, and they all thought of the terrible fire.

"The vengeful spirit of Keiji Aso who set himself on fire 12 years ago!"

The one who reacted the most was Ken Nishimoto. He almost jumped up and his calves were shaking.

"That guy, that guy..."

"He's still alive, Keiji Aso is still alive!"

The old policeman yawned, his calm appearance forming a sharp contrast with the others.

"Mr. Aso passed away 12 years ago..."

"Uncle Policeman? When did you come?"

Mao Lilan asked stupidly.

"Just now, if I had continued to sleep, I would have been disturbed to death by these forensic personnel from Tokyo!" He pointed at the police officers who disturbed his sweet dreams.

"Hey, are you sure that Keiji Aso is really dead?" Inspector Megure couldn't help feeling embarrassed when he saw the old man giving orders to his police officers.

The old policeman pretended to recall something. It was really difficult for him to remember something so clearly at his age.

"Yes, at that time, the remains of him, his wife and daughter were found in the wreckage at the fire scene. Later, we compared their teeth and proved that they were indeed a family."

"Almost everything on the scene was burned to ashes. The only thing left was a handwritten sheet of music in a fireproof safe..."

"Music score?!"

This keyword successfully attracted everyone's attention.

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When writing this chapter, I found a bug. Mr. Aoyama's initial setting of this comic conflicts with the later content. Yes, it is Conan's so-called "tone-deaf" attribute.

In the Tsukikage Island case in the comics, Conan was unable to recognize the "flat and sharp signs" after getting the music score, and had to be reminded by Xiaolan before he could discover the relationship with the piano keys. This undoubtedly shows that Conan does not know much about basic music theory, but in the 400th chapter of the comics, there was a case about a violin family that mentioned that Conan could play the violin. In Xiaolan's memory, there was also a detailed description of Shinichi's "weird" playing habits. In addition, in the movie "The Terrifying Score", Conan could understand the secret code conveyed by Ai just by the sound of the flute, which shows that Conan actually understands music theory.

Finally, I decided to write out Xiaolan's reminder according to the original comic (after all, this is one of her few scenes of solving a case), which made me think about how to solve this book bug later...