Stay away from Conan

Chapter 633 Strange Music Score

Ever since the old policeman from Yueying Island came to the community activity center at the scene of the incident, the villagers who had been attending the ceremony of the former village chief dispersed.

In this regard, Mouri Kogoro and Xiaolan did not need to stay at the scene, so they walked back to the hotel——

"Really, this commission is really inexplicable. I haven't even figured out the situation of the sender, and yet I encountered something like this. This island must be too strange!"

Along the way, Kogoro muttered and complained, seeming to be deeply depressed about his decision to come to the island this time:

"And what kind of messy commission letter is this..."

With that said, Kogoro took out the commission letter from his pocket and muttered impatiently:

"On the night of the next full moon, shadows will begin to disappear again on Moon Shadow Island... Keiji Aso..."

"Stop talking, Dad!"

At this time, listening to Kogoro reading the contents of the commission letter, Xiaolan on the side seemed a little scared, trembled, and couldn't help but say:

"This letter sounds a bit flimsy now... Otherwise, we should leave this island quickly..."

Probably because the death of Ken Nishimoto that happened tonight was so strange, Xiaolan, who was originally looking forward to having fun on the island, began to worry.

"Um……"

Seeing Xiaolan's performance, Kogoro also replied helplessly:

"Didn't I tell you earlier that I don't think there would be anything fun on this isolated island. Besides, I shouldn't have paid attention to this inexplicable letter in the first place..."

As he said that, Kogoro once again looked at the letter, which was pasted with words cut out from newspapers and magazines. He seemed to have thought of something, and his expression suddenly became ugly——

"'Shadow disappears'... Shadows can only be produced when illuminated... And on this island... light? "Moonlight"!"

Stunned, Kogoro, who was just feeling depressed at first, suddenly became panicked at this moment——

"The famous pianist Aso burned himself on fire at home twelve years ago. This was the piece he played in the blazing fire...

"Two years ago, the former village chief Isamu Kameyama who died of a heart attack played the same song "Moonlight" by Beethoven before his death...

"And when this song appeared again, someone happened to die! Could it be that this means that the death event will happen again?"

Holding the letter in his hand tightly, Kogoro stared at the words on it with a very serious expression, feeling a dangerous sense of urgency——

"By the way, dad..."

At this time, hearing Kogoro's muttering, Xiaolan also realized the problem and reminded her emphatically——

"The letter also said 'beginning to disappear'..."

Hearing this, Kogoro suddenly looked at the sentence at the end of the letter, then his eyes widened in shock and he said:

"Is this a hint...that this murderous incident is about to begin!"

Almost yelling, Kogoro had cold sweat on his face, and he was very angry. He clenched the letter paper in his hand, feeling that the current situation might be serious and unexpected——

"Damn it! It turns out that this letter is a challenge issued by the murderer to my famous detective Mouri Kogoro!"

As he said that, Kogoro was startled, then turned around and ran towards the community activity center he left before——

"Okay, Xiaolan, you go to the hotel first, I'm going to the community activity center where the piano is now!"

"Hey? Why are you going to the activity center?"

Xiaolan asked with surprise when she saw this.

"The three incidents so far all occurred near the piano, so the possibility of another murder there is quite high..."

After saying this, Kogoro ran away quite a distance.

In response to this, Xiaolan couldn't help but hurriedly said:

"Wait a minute...the key to the hotel room..."

I wanted to tell Kogoro, but Xiaolan, who still had the key to the hotel room on Kogoro, saw that Kogoro had disappeared, so there was no other way, so Xiaolan could only bravely follow him...

…

"Are you crazy?"

Just when Kogoro came to the piano room of the community activity center, the old policeman who was laying the floor in the piano room and was preparing to be on duty all night looked at the old policeman who came back here. Kogoro couldn't help but said:

"What do you mean, if these four people stay together for one night, the truth of the case will be revealed? You even brought your daughter..."

"Really, didn't I tell you not to follow me?"

In this regard, Kogoro looked at Xiaolan who was following closely and said helplessly.

"But...the key to the hotel..."

After hearing Kogoro's inquiry, Xiaolan could only express helplessly.

At the same time, when he saw that in the piano room, Ken Nishimoto's body had been removed from the piano and moved to the open space aside, and covered with a white cloth, Kogoro couldn't help but angrily questioned the old policeman. road:

"Also, who moved the corpse casually!"

"Ah, it's me."

In response, the old policeman on the side said very calmly:

"Even a Bodhisattva would be heartbroken to see that kind of death."

Saying this, the old policeman with gray hair and reading glasses put his hands together and made a Buddhist salute to the body covered by a white cloth in front of him, as if he was reciting "Amitabha" very piously.

Seeing this, Kogoro on the side had no choice but to show an embarrassed expression and said to the old policeman:

"It's really nerve-wracking. The scene hasn't been formally searched yet..."

Saying this, Kogoro began to look around the scene casually. Then when Kogoro looked at the piano, he suddenly found that the sheet of music on the piano was not there. Then Kogoro couldn't help but be shocked——

"Where did that sheet of music go? That's an important clue to solving the case. Who did it?"

Looking a little angry, Kogoro only felt that things had become more difficult this time.

However, in response to Kogoro's excited reaction, the old policeman who finished chanting the Buddha's name also looked calm and began to search in his pocket——

"This...is me too..."

As the old policeman spoke, he took the sheet of music out of his pocket, placed it in front of Kogoro, and said calmly:

"I'm afraid of losing it, so..."

In this regard, watching this old policeman commit numerous taboos in criminal investigations, including moving corpses, destroying the scene, and randomly taking away evidence at the crime scene, facing this elderly and only policeman on the island, , out of the principle of respecting the elderly, Kogoro could only suppress all kinds of dissatisfaction in his heart. After angrily complaining about "this dead old man", he could only helplessly accept the music score handed over by the old policeman——

"Why?"

At this time, when Kogoro took the music score, Xiaolan on the side came up to take a look, and then said unexpectedly:

"Isn't this the score of "Moonlight"?"

"What? This is actually the score of "Moonlight"!"

Hearing this, Kogoro couldn't help but asked with a horrified expression.

"Well... you listen..."

With that said, Xiaolan took the sheet of music and placed it on the piano's music stand. Then she sat on the chair in front of the piano and started playing——

"The live piano...well...forget it..."

With this thought in his mind, Kogoro used the live piano to play the music score when he saw his daughter.

Kogoro, who wanted to stop him, looked at the old policeman on the side and thought that since the scene was so damaged, he could only ignore it.

So, Kogoro had to listen to Xiaolan play it first to confirm whether this piece of music was really the piano sonata of Beethoven's "Moonlight".

Then, following the beautiful melody at the beginning, several random syllables sounded suddenly and one after another, completely out of tune——

"Hey, if you don't know how to play, then don't play!"

Helpless, Kogoro couldn't help but sigh.

"Nah!"

Hearing Kogoro's questioning, Xiaolan helplessly pointed to the music score and explained in a strange way:

"It's the fourth line of this score that's written very strangely..."

"The fourth line?"

Hearing this, Kogoro couldn't help but move forward and look at the content of the music score. Then he immediately realized something and said with some surprise:

"Maybe this music score is an important clue left by Mr. Nishimoto! In this case, it is very likely that the murderer will return to the scene to retrieve this physical evidence..."

Kogoro said with a nervous expression.

However, at this moment, when Kogoro looked away from the music score and gradually raised his head, with his keen intuition, Kogoro suddenly saw that outside the window of this room, there was a figure looking towards the house. While spying——

"Who is where!"

Frightened yet courageous, Kogoro shouted sternly out the window...