The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"Maybe that music score is the key to this case!" Inspector Megure guessed.

Maori Kogoro was already impatiently stepping forward to grab the old policeman's collar, trying to shake out the clues: "Tell me, where is the sheet music now?"

"It should be in the warehouse of the community activity center..."

The old policeman was so frightened that he couldn't help but take a few steps back and escape from his clutches.

"Okay, go to the warehouse and get the music score immediately!" Inspector Megure dispatched the police officers decisively.

The old policeman said slowly: "Don't worry, you can't get in without the key."

He spoke so slowly that it was frustrating.

"Where is the key?" Kogoro Mouri asked hurriedly.

The old policeman raised his index finger and asked as if it was a riddle: "At the police station."

Inspector Megure was so angry that he was sweating and his fat body was shaking.

"Why don't you go get it?!"

The old policeman fled in panic.

"I want to go with uncle too!" Conan took advantage of the opportunity to catch up, his two short legs flapping their wings very fast.

After they left, Shimizu Masato crossed his arms impatiently and said in a bad tone: "I say, you don't want us to wait here all night, do you?"

"I'm still busy dealing with the candidacy!"

Ken Nishimoto simply walked away in a daze without saying a word.

This is not a good thing, Inspector Megure thought, this island is an isolated one anyway, the only pier connecting to the main island has been controlled, the criminal can't escape anywhere.

"Then everyone should go back tonight. We will notify you when we have collected the key clues."

With a wave of his hand, he dismissed all the suspects in the room.

Upon hearing the sound, Mao Lilan left immediately and followed the direction Conan and the old policeman left.

The activity center, which had been bustling all day, suddenly became deserted, which seemed a bit eerie in the quiet night.

Activity center warehouse.

In the darkness, a figure was busy.

"That's not the way people who commit suicide hang themselves."

Professor Lecter's unique gentle but calm voice sounded, and the dark shadow was startled and almost dropped the hanging corpse to the ground.

Asai Narumi grabbed the rough hemp rope and was about to tie it to the corner of the table.

"How perceptive, Professor?"

Professor Lecter did not turn on the lights, but walked into the dark warehouse casually as if he was strolling in the garden.

"I know that the Moonlight Sonata has three chapters."

He squatted under Ken Nishimoto's body and glanced at the music score placed there by Narimi Asai, on which was a suicide note written in secret code.

"There is a slight flaw here. The sheet music should be placed in a direction that is convenient for me to see, not towards the body."

"Besides, if you choose hanging as the method of execution, Sherlock Holmes will soon be able to figure out the time of death and thus discover your trick of delaying the murder time with the phonograph."

Asai Chengmi smiled sheepishly: "After all, I don't have much experience in this area."

"And it's enough to hold them back for a while."

Professor Lecter stood up, walked to the pile of miscellaneous items in the corner with a black umbrella, and saw a charred safe underneath.

"Mr. Chengshi, you should have read the words your father left you a long time ago, right?"

After securing Ken Nishimoto's body, Asai Narumi broke out in a slight sweat. She walked to Professor Lecter's side and also looked at the safe, with a myriad of thoughts running through her mind.

She found the music score on the first day she arrived on the island as "Asai Narimi".

It contained a suicide note written on it, using the secret code that her father and she had agreed upon when they played games when they were young.

Keiji Aso accidentally discovered that several people on the island were secretly selling contraband. At that time, the criminal gang headed by the former village chief Kameyama Isamu kept threatening and bribing him, but failed to get him to go along with the crime.

On the night of the concert, they were determined to silence Keiji Aso forever, so they set a fire and burned Aso's family to death in the house. They then announced to the public that Keiji Aso had gone mad for some reason, killed his wife and children, and then burned himself to death.

However, Keiji Aso also has an unknown son named Aso Shigemi, who escaped the disaster because he was hospitalized in Tokyo at the time.

Asami Asano couldn't believe that his father, who had always been kind to others, would do such a thing, so he concealed his identity and disguised himself as a woman, and came to the island under the alias Asai Narimi. After some investigation, he found the safe in the warehouse.

I also understood everything from my father's last words.

Although Keiji Aso asked him to live on bravely in his last words, how could Aso Shimizu swallow this?

His family and life were destroyed by those demons, and he wants revenge!

In order to avoid being recognized, he realized that he had to make the resume of "Asai Narumi" more authentic, so he began to inject female hormones for a long time to cover up his male sexual characteristics and deliberately learn female behavior.

Until now, he couldn't recognize himself.

But it was all worth it, as no one suspected a powerless female doctor.

Two years ago, she caught Kameyama Isamu selling contraband, so she invited him to the piano room in the activity center, wanting to confront him face to face and find out if he still remembered Keiji Aso.

When Kameyama Isamu knew that he was Aso Keiji's child, his expression was really horrible. Under Aso Minoru's questioning, he admitted to killing Aso Keiji and revealed every detail, even giving out the names of other people in the entire contraband trading chain.

He even knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, asking the police not to hand over the evidence of his crimes. He was willing to agree to any request.

Unfortunately, Masashi Miura didn't intend to let him off just like that.

Kameyama Yong immediately changed his attitude. He started with sarcasm and told Asanari that there was no evidence of the murder, and the evidence of selling contraband in his hands was only enough to send him to prison for a few years.

He clamored that as long as he could not be sentenced to death, he would have ways to reduce his sentence and would be released soon.

The death penalty is strictly enforced in this country.

For the first time, Asami's determination wavered, and he suddenly realized that so-called revenge could not be achieved through fair means.

While he was stunned, Guishan jumped up bravely, trying to subdue him by using his size advantage and then make him get contraband.

Fortunately, he is still a man.

He reacted quickly, subdued Kameyama Yong, and injected the potassium chloride that had been prepared long ago into his body.

Not long after, Kameyama Yong's heart stopped beating.

That was his first murder.

"Professor, do you think there is a heaven in this world?"

Ma Shengsheng said in a tone that was almost whispering. Without waiting for Professor Lecter to answer, he muttered to himself: "I contradictoryly hope it exists, but at the same time I hope it doesn't exist."

"If there is a heaven, then good people like Dad will definitely go to heaven, right?"

He suddenly choked up.

"But people like me will definitely go to hell!"

"If there is no heaven or hell in this world, then after we die, we can meet in the underworld, right?"

Ma Chengshi pulled off the hairband, and her ponytail fell down and draped over her shoulders, which gave her a somewhat neutral look.

It’s just that due to the long-term injection of estrogen, the Adam’s apple is still a little less obvious.

He bowed deeply to Professor Lecter, lowering his head very low.

"Thank you for keeping this secret from me."

He was finally able to use his original male voice without restraint. Although he hadn't used this voice for a long time and it sounded a little funny and hoarse, he laughed happily.

It's like the kite's string in the sky has broken.

I lost something, but also seemed to have gained something else.

"Although I don't seem to be qualified to say this from my position..."

He touched the back of his head shyly, looking as honest as a young man who had just started out, and his eyes were sincere.

"Have a nice vacation, Professor."

Under Conan's secret guidance, the police soon discovered the contraband hidden in the secret compartment of the piano. At this point, Inspector Megure was under even greater pressure.

As the last remaining member of the contraband trafficking gang, Kazuaki Hirata had no choice but to plead guilty based on the two pieces of evidence: the secret compartment discovered by Conan and the foreign currency found on him, and was temporarily detained by the police.

The serial murder case has led to an old case. Everyone rushed to the warehouse, eager to get the music score left by Keiji Aso and reveal the truth.

So Nishimoto Ken, who was hung facing the gate, was shocked.

Fortunately, Conan, now in a furious state, was at full firepower. He quickly used his experience to rule out the possibility of suicide. He racked his brains to pretend to be innocent and cute, making Maori Kogoro realize that Nishimoto Ken was not the real murderer.

The old policeman took the key tremblingly, opened the safe, and the much-anticipated music score finally appeared.

Conan could tell at a glance that the music score from twelve years ago used the same secret code as that in this murder case, and he got important clues through translation.

Not all of Keiji Aso's family died in the fire. A son named Chengji survived.

But Conan had just caught the real murderer's tail, and everyone was still in shock that "such a big female doctor turned out to be a man". When they reacted, they were surprised to find that the real murderer was not at the scene!

No way? !

The moment Conan discovered that Asai Narumi was gone, he thought of something. An ominous premonition came to his mind, and he ran out of the warehouse.

When everyone arrived at the activity center, they only saw a blazing fire.

Just like the full moon night twelve years ago.

"Inspector Megure! It seems that the building was filled with gasoline in advance, and the fire is so big that we can't get close!" A police officer reported while covering his mouth and nose. In fact, he didn't need to say much, because everyone present could see how fierce the fire was.

There is no way for the people inside to survive.

Mao Lilan anxiously grasped her clothes, her turquoise eyes reflecting the raging flames, "Could it be that Cheng Shi has already made plans to burn himself to death?"

Everyone present fell silent.

Only a small figure kicked open the crumbling door and was almost licked by the flames.

Conan endured the high temperature and choking smoke, hugged the music score to his chest to prevent it from getting burned, and rushed forward to the piano room where the fire was deepest.

Professor Lecter glanced at the full moon in the sky with a sense of realization, then calmly raised the long black umbrella in his hand and opened it.

It's raining.

The fine raindrops fell on the sand and gravel, making crackling sounds, which combined with the sound of flames burning the cement was very annoying.

It was as if the heavens could not bear to see this tragedy and mercifully sent down nectar.

Unfortunately, the sea of ​​fire did not surrender. Instead, it treated the rain as nutrients and climbed all the way to the middle of the sky, dyeing the full moon red.

Ma Cheng Shi sat on the piano bench, gently pressed his cheek against the keys, and felt the burning heat on his back.

He whispered: "It's all over..."

"No, it's not over yet!" A loud child's voice came from outside the fire. Conan carefully pushed the door open little by little, and took a running start to jump over the fire wall at the door.

"You can't die!" He ran to Aso Shigenori and handed him the music score he had protected so well, like offering a treasure. "Look! Isn't it clearly written on the music score left by Mr. Aso?"

"Chengshi, you have to be strong and live on your own..."

Cheng Shi looked at this child, crossing numerous seas of fire, getting himself covered in wounds, just to send a sentence to himself, the "murderer" -

To live.

He couldn't help but feel a burning sensation in his heart, and that burning sensation almost suppressed all the flames around him.

"You really look like Sherlock Holmes..." A brilliant smile appeared on his face, and the brilliance of that moment made Conan remember it for a long, long time.

"Mr. Chengshi, let's get out of here quickly, there's still time!" Seeing that Ma Chengshi was still sitting in front of the piano motionless, Conan couldn't help but get anxious and tried to pull him out forcibly.

"Yes, there's still time..." Cheng Shi stood up slowly and stroked the piano keys with a lingering look.

He suddenly grabbed Conan's collar, lifted him up, and threw him out of the window.

"But now I no longer need redemption."

"hateful!"

Conan struggled to get up and rushed back, ignoring the dust and scars all over his body.

A strong hand grabbed the back of his collar, as if relaying to Chengshi.

Reason returned to his mind, Conan dropped his arm weakly, looked back at the hand blankly, then saw Professor Lecter's calm face and the black umbrella that was big enough to block the two of them.

A crystal drop of water slid down from his head, cutting a long white mark on his little face that was burned by smoke and fire, and then it became dirty.

Conan sat helplessly in front of the blazing flames, with a black umbrella above his head, which was particularly appropriate for the scene.

Melodious piano music floated out from the raging fire, it was the familiar melody of the Moonlight Sonata.

The monotonous chords sometimes descended and sometimes ascended, forming a strange movement that faded away in the lonely night sky. People clearly felt the tranquility contained in the song, as well as...

miss.

This is a piano piece composed of secret codes, which is Masamichi's unique farewell to the little detective.

"You already knew Cheng Shi's identity, right?"

Conan's voice was as calm as water, blending into the drizzle. He sat under an umbrella, and the wind and rain became his best accomplices, making it impossible to see his expression.

Professor Lecter knew that the boy had come to his senses, and looked down at the whorl of hair on the back of Conan's head, which looked like an "apple stem".

"Young Holmes, are you going to bring me to justice?"

Conan shook his head, sat up from the ground, and wiped his glasses with his tattered clothes.

"In this case, there is a murderer who cannot be punished by the law. Everyone on the island is this murderer, including you and me."

"After precocious puberty, are you going to become autistic again, kid?"

Conan looked at him with a complicated look, didn't say much, and walked towards Uncle Maori and the others.

Finally, the story of Moonshadow Island ends here. The crime of this isolated island started with a fire and ended with a fire. There is a sense of dramatic fate.

......

Jiang Gutian, a psychological clinic.

A room that was specially cleared out had a row of glass cabinets neatly arranged.

Most of the cabinets were empty, except for the first cabinet where a page of music with burnt edges lay quietly.

Next to it, there was a nameplate with the following information written on it in marker.

“Collection - "Moonlight Song"”

“It comes from a cursed pianist. He pioneered the use of large sections of rising and falling notes to rewrite the chords, adding a very beautiful atmosphere to the whole song. The only pity is that the original song was destroyed in a fire, and only one page of the incomplete song was saved.”

“Collector’s comment: A piano piece born out of destruction and sublimated into redemption… But I still prefer Chopin.”