Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 47 The Third Movement
Since the time of committing the crime was determined to be a few minutes before the discovery of the body, the final suspects were locked in Hirata Kazuaki, Murasawa Monday, Shimizu Masato and Nishimoto Ken.

After simple questioning, none of the four had an alibi, so Ken Nishimoto, who was the first witness, became the primary object of suspicion.

"Mr. Nishimoto, why did you go to the studio at that time?" Officer Megure questioned this.

"Yes, it was Heiyan who asked me to go there at 06:30, saying that he had something to tell me..."

"I think you took the initiative to invite the other party to the studio, and then killed him?" Seeing the other party's faltering and concealing, Mori Kogoro sarcastically said, "Otherwise, what reason did the other party use to ask you out? yes, huh?"

"It's Masato Shimizu! He must have killed my father!!"

Just when Ken Nishimoto was panicked and unable to answer, Reiko Kuroiwa suddenly yelled, suspecting that Masato Shimizu killed people in order to eliminate his opponents in the election.

When a group of people were arguing endlessly, Conan on the side, under Xiaolan's reminder, deciphered the secret code hidden in the previous score.

"Ming, bai, do you? Next, one, one, just, yes, you."

Conan explained the principle of the code to the people who looked at him in horror after hearing this sentence, that is to mark each key on the piano with 26 English letters according to the scale, and then interpret the score with Roman pinyin You can get the information in it.

"Then what is the meaning of the music score written in blood just now?!" Mori Kogoro urged anxiously.

Conan took out his small notebook and began to interpret word by word: "karma, fire, zhi, fire, resentment, hate, just, here, here, Zhao, snow..."

"Keiji Aso is still alive! He's here for revenge!!" Hearing this, Ken Nishimoto yelled in horror.

"How is it possible, Mr. Aso ascended to heaven 12 years ago..."

At this time, the yawning old patrolman came slowly from behind, and continued to recall: "In the fire at that time, after comparing the teeth of the remains, it is indeed Mr. Aso's family, and there is still one in the safe Left a handwritten sheet music..."

"Music score?!" Everyone was shocked at the same time.

When he learned that the music score was stored in the warehouse of the activity center, but the key was still in the police station, the police officer Meguro was furious and asked the old patrolman to rush to get it, and Conan also ran out of the gate together.

Looking at the two people who left, Shi Ye felt happy and didn't pay attention to that side. Instead, he sat back on the sofa, closed his eyes and began to rest, preparing for the final drama...

Along the way, Conan asked the old patrolman a lot about Keiji Aso's past, and learned from the other party that Keiji Aso, Nishimoto, Heiyan, Kawashima, and Kameyama were all young, and these four were also witnesses to the fire 12 years ago. By.

In addition, I also learned that Murazawa Monday is a man with a sharp mouth and a bean curd heart, and Secretary Hirata is timid and cowardly, but he often secretly meets with Kawashima at the activity center.

And when the two went to the police station and found the key to the warehouse after searching for an hour, Xiao Lan rushed over panting to inform them that everyone in the activity center had left first.

Realizing that there was a third movement in "Moonlight", Conan started to run the same way he came back. Seeing this, Xiao Lan and the old patrolman had to run with him.

When the three returned to the empty community center, Conan kept urging the old patrolman to open the door.

At the same time, the abnormal noise in the piano room caught Conan's attention. When he rushed into the piano room, he saw only a shadowy man beside the piano in the darkness, and he broke the window and fled in panic. .

He rushed forward and wanted to chase the opponent, but was tripped by Murasawa Yiyi who was lying unconscious on the ground.

But before he had time to check Murazawa's situation, Xiaolan's exclamation came from behind him, and Conan, who was concerned about his girlfriend's safety, immediately turned around and rushed to the previous warehouse.

After that, in the warehouse, I found Ken Nishimoto who was hanging on the roof and suspected to have hanged himself, the tape recorder that had just played the third movement of "Moonlight", and a stack of music scores that fell below the other party...

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"This music score looks like a suicide note." Soon after, Police Officer Meguro took the music score in his hand and began to interpret it.

"According to the statement above, he committed suicide in fear of crime because he killed Kawashima and Heiyan..."

"The superiors explained that he, Kawashima, Heiyan, Kameyama, and even Aso Keiji were all criminal accomplices, and they killed Kawashima and Heiyan to keep their mouth shut."

"You mean, that pianist too?!" Kogoro Mori was surprised when he heard this.

"That's right, the suicide note said that Aso came up with the secret code of the music score, and the five of them did some ulterior things through this secret code..."

"Looking at it this way, it should be that Nishimoto broke in through the back window to steal the music score after hearing that the other party still had a similar score, but failed to find it, and was finally crushed by pressure and committed suicide..."

"It's not suicide, because there's no footsteps at all?" Conan's childish voice was cute, interrupting Kogoro Mori's wrong judgment, "And isn't the suicide note just for people to read? Why bother to write it into a code? How strange!"

Then, Conan told the two of them that he met a mysterious person in the piano room in the middle of the night, and that Murasawa was fainted by the attack on Monday, and successfully won a chestnut rewarded by Mori Kogoro...

The three of them then came to the piano room and saw Murasawa Monday, whose head had been carefully bandaged by Asai, but was still unconscious.

When Kuroiwa Reiko angrily asked the police why Masato Shimizu was not arrested and his fiancé was murdered, Conan found a piano tuning wrench from Murasawa...

When Police Officer Megure announced that all the suspects would be brought to the village office and asked the police to take away the unconscious Murasawa, Conan stayed where he was and began to grope for the bottom of the piano.

Ishino, who stayed at the door of the piano room and hadn't left, once again found Conan in the hidden compartment without leaving a trace, and recorded the process of putting the powder that fell on the ground into his mouth.

Ishino couldn't help complaining about what the Kudos and his wife taught their children in Hawaii...

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After arriving at the village office, Conan found that Secretary Hirata was wearing a bandage on his hand, with blood oozing faintly. When the other party went to the vending machine to buy cigarettes, he found out that the other party was related to hiding drugs and was the prisoner who attacked Murazawa. .

And when the forensic personnel developed the scene photos of the second murder case, when Conan saw the red dot next to Heiyan's body on the photo, he finally had a flash of inspiration, and all the clues in his brain were connected in series.

It's just that when he guided Mori Kogoro to the studio on the second floor, he didn't notice that a certain reporter who had been working with them before didn't come to the village office together...

(End of this chapter)