Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 46 Blood Music Score

"Conan-kun's reasoning ability is excellent. He has the potential to become a detective at a young age. It must be because of the famous detective Mr. Mori."

On the way to the hotel, Ishino praised Conan's performance today, and Kogoro Mori felt inexplicably relieved when he heard it.

"Hahaha, this brat is just a little clever, and he's far from it!"

"Haha, the logical ability is really good..." Ishino looked at Conan who was speechless, and changed the topic to the case, "But when I think that the prisoner has not been found yet, I always feel that the matter has just begun..."

"At the beginning... Could it be?!"

Hearing this word, Conan suddenly thought of the content on the notice letter, and shuddered violently.

"It's not good! Uncle Maori! The prisoner may continue to kill!"

Kogoro Mori, who was startled by Conan's sudden exclamation, almost subconsciously gave him a chestnut, but after hearing what the other party said, his expression suddenly became serious.

Seeing that Mori Kogoro stopped his hand in time, looking like he was waiting for the next sentence, Conan ignored the cuteness and acted, and directly explained the hidden meaning in the commission letter he guessed.

Hearing this, Kogoro Mouri took out the entrustment letter and read it carefully, his complexion changed suddenly, he hurried back and shouted to several people at the same time: "I'm going to guard the piano room, you go to the hotel first! "

Seeing Xiaolan and Conan looking worried, Ishino took the initiative to say: "If you are worried about Detective Maori, you can go with me. I will help you to check in at the hotel."

"Well, it's important to solve the case, so I'll trouble you, Uncle Shibata!" After speaking, Conan and Xiaolan chased after Mori Kogoro.

……

Kogoro Mori, who rushed all the way back to the community center, wanted to reprimand the other party for destroying the scene after seeing the crime scene cleaned up by the old policeman, but he couldn't say it in the end.

Fortunately, the sheet of music that might be an important clue was put away by the old patrolman and was not discarded casually, so everyone began to study it.

Among them, only Xiaolan could read the piano score, so she was the one who restored the passages on the score through the piano...

"Xiaolan, did you play it wrong? It sounds so strange?" Mori Kogoro doubted his daughter's piano skills.

"No! It's strange to write the score on the fourth line!" Xiaolan tried to prove that her ability was fine.

Mori Kogoro checked the fourth line of the music score carefully, and found that it was obviously different from the normal music score, so he speculated that it might be a code left by the deceased.

Just when Maori guessed that the murderer was likely to come back to take away this important evidence, there was a "creaking" door opening sound behind them.

The three of Maori turned around nervously, only to realize that it was Narumi Asai who called the hotel and learned that they were all here to watch the night, so they specially brought supper over.

So the five people in the room sat down and began to eat supper. During the period, they talked about the experience of Asai Narumi coming to the island, and the situation when Kameyama Yu died two years ago.

Just as Asai Chengshi walked to the bed and said that the window was not locked at that time, a black shadow suddenly appeared outside the window.

After realizing that he was spotted by everyone in the house, the black shadow quickly ran away into the bushes behind him, and when Mori Kogoro and Conan chased them out through the window, they had already disappeared without a trace.

Those who failed to catch the suspect had to take turns to rest and stay in the piano room to prevent the other party from reappearing until the police support arrived the next day...

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It was already noon the next day when Mori Kogoro was woken up from his sleep by Police Officer Megure.

Since Maori was in charge of the vigil in the first half of the night, and the other four in groups of two were in charge of the second half of the night, so when he woke up, the other four were explaining the situation to Police Officer Megure, and after handing over the list of personnel at the scene yesterday, they were next to him. Lie down and fall asleep.

"Mr. Maori, here's the breakfast I brought for you. Although it's already noon, you can still eat it after warming it up."

"Mr. Shibata, are you here too?" Looking at Ishino who handed him the breakfast, Mori Kogoro didn't refuse, and took the food bag.

"Well, I see that you didn't go back to the hotel to rest last night, so I bought breakfast for you early in the morning." Speaking of which, Ishino pointed to the sleeping people next to him, "They have already eaten, This one is specially reserved for you."

"Thank you very much." After finishing speaking, Mori Kogoro got up and followed Police Officer Megure out of the room. After going to the bathroom to wash up, he ate a few mouthfuls of breakfast and went to the village office to join the busy investigation work.

It wasn't until around 6 o'clock in the evening that Xiaolan, Conan, and Asai Narumi woke up, dozed off all the way to the office, went to the bathroom to wash up, and then returned to the lobby to rest one after another.

At this time, most of the people had already been questioned and left. Only Murasawa Monday, Hirata Kazuaki, Shimizu Masato, and Asai Narumi, who was at the bottom, had not entered the interrogation room.

At this time, Ken Nishimoto, who had obviously been interrogated, looked at his watch anxiously, and walked through the corridor to the second floor above the stairs.

Feeling a little strange, Conan immediately chased after him, but before he reached the second floor, he heard the second movement of "Moonlight" coming from above.

When everyone rushed to the studio where the sound came out, Xi Ben was sitting on the ground with a face full of horror, pointing at the village chief Heiyan lying in front of the console, covered in blood and with a knife stuck in his back, with trembling arms .

Police officer Megure stopped Reiko Kuroiwa who wanted to rush into the room, and loudly summoned forensics personnel to come for an autopsy.

However, he immediately remembered that the forensic doctor had returned to Tokyo with Hideo Kawashima's body before, and had no choice but to let the only doctor present at the scene be responsible for the autopsy.

At this time, Conan, because the murderer was around to complete the attack again, and was also irritated by the murderer's brutality and calmness, a strong fighting spirit was ignited in his heart...

Soon after, Asai completed the autopsy and concluded that the head of Heiyan Village was stabbed in the heart from behind and died on the spot a few minutes before the body was found.

Police officer Megure found the tape used to play the second movement of "Moonlight" from the recording device on the console. There was indeed a 5-minute blank time at the front.

At the same time, forensic personnel also found a piece of music written in blood on the floor under the seat of the deceased.

Seeing Conan who ran from the outside to the score, squatted down and started to pick up a pen to start recording in a small notebook, Mori Kogoro directly gave him a chestnut.

Conan didn't pay attention, and lost his balance and fell down on the music score. Maori was so scared that he quickly picked him up.

The two breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the score had not been destroyed.

At this time, Shi Ye, who was standing among the crowd at the door, still secretly recorded this scene, planning to appreciate Uncle Mao Li's "acting skills" after returning home.

(End of this chapter)