Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 48

"The person who attacked Mr. Murasawa and was involved in a drug deal with Kawashima is you, Mr. Hirata!"

"And the real criminal who caused the three murder cases is the only one who can use his identity to get close to the corpse, and use the tape's automatic flip function to forge an alibi—"

"That's Doctor Asai!!"

After Conan put Mori Kogoro down with an anesthetic needle in the studio, he used a voice-changing bow tie to convey his reasoning to everyone downstairs through the radio.

At this moment, Asai Narumi heard his name on the radio, his face sank, but he didn't have any intention to refute.

"If my guess is correct, Keiji Aso and the other four people who have passed away are accomplices in drug trafficking on the island."

"And 12 years ago, Keiji Aso's family should have been silenced by the other four because of internal strife..."

"It's just that I don't understand why you want to kill the remaining three...?"

When everyone had the same question and waited for Asai Chengmi to give a reason, they suddenly found that the other party had already rushed out of the door and disappeared into the night...

……

At the same time, on the sea behind the piano room in the community activity center, a dilapidated small fishing boat was heaving up and down with the gentle waves.

Ishino was lying on the boat, quietly reading Keiji Aso's last score by the faint moonlight reflected on the sea.

That's right, this music score was sneaked into the warehouse this morning by using his skilled lockpicking skills while the night watchmen were eating breakfast in the piano room in the name of delivering breakfast.

He found this small boat from the abandoned boats in Xiaodao Shipyard in the middle of the night last night. It should be a recently abandoned one, and it can barely be used.

It is precisely because of the failure to find this score that Conan cannot learn the fact that Keiji Aso still has a son alive.

As for the police, this suicide note cannot be used as evidence, and it is even less likely to be used to hold the dead person accountable.

And the suicide note written by this music score is also an important prop for him to subdue Ma Chengshi, so naturally it cannot be handed over to others.

Not long after, the piano sound of the "Moonlight" sonata came from the piano room in front, and the window glass that Shi Ye saw in front of him reflected the brilliance of the dancing flames...

……

When Conan was thrown from the piano room by Shigemi Asai, his body smashed the glass window heavily and flew in mid-air, he felt not only pain, but also unwillingness, regret, hatred and doubt.

Recalling when he rushed into the piano room surrounded by flames, seeing Naruto Asai sitting in front of the piano playing, and the calm and relief on the other party's face, he suddenly didn't know what to say.

The other party raised his head, his decisive eyes passed through the raging flames, causing his footsteps to stop, as if at that moment, any words seemed pale and meaningless.

In the end, before the phrase "why" could be asked, he was picked up by Shiraishi Asai who rushed up and threw it towards the window...

Helped up by Xiaolan who came after him, Conan looked at the building that had been completely engulfed in fire, and fell into confusion and deep thought for a long time.

Detective and reasoning, what is it for?Conan already felt that his previous self seemed to pursue the pleasure brought by reasoning too much, while ignoring some important things in human nature...

"Then... what is that?!!"

The sudden exclamation from behind interrupted Conan's contemplation, pulled his dull eyes back from the flames in front of him, and looked in the direction where people's arms were pointing.

"Yes, it's a big tengu!!" The crowd who were attracted by the fire and gathered one after another exclaimed.

Above the roof of the building where flames were ignited into the sky, a huge head with a long nose, burning blazingly and emitting dazzling fire was slowly rising towards the sky.

"The fruit of hatred spawned by the flower of evil... I will accept it... Hehehe..."

Accompanied by the devil's words from above, the huge head of the big tengu finally disappeared in the air, as if mocking the tiny humans below.

"It's... a curse! It must be a curse!!" The old people in the crowd exclaimed in panic, "There must be sinners appearing on the island, and the big tengu sent divine punishment!"

Under the shroud of fire, as various superstitious speculations spread among the crowd, anxiety gradually spread among the crowd.

It's just that no one noticed that the piano sound that was still ringing in the building before now no longer exists...

……

"Do you... want to... die once and see?"

Asahi slowly opened his eyes, the last voice he heard before he lost consciousness echoed in his mind.

Sensing the ups and downs of his body, he slowly raised his head and looked around, and found that he was lying on a boat, surrounded by darkness, only a hazy full moon in the sky.

As his hearing gradually recovered, he heard the sound of oars coming from the stern of the ship. Following the sound, he saw a slender figure covered in pitch black standing there.

With the help of the faint moonlight, Aso finally recognized the outline of the opponent's face—it was the same face he saw before he lost consciousness...

"Hehehe...It seems that I am really dead...I'm afraid this is Santuchuan..."

Asahi managed to squeeze out self-deprecating words from his extremely dry and sore throat after being scorched by the fire.

"It's just that I didn't expect that the person who came to greet me would be a big tengu. It really is because I committed an unforgivable crime, and I am about to usher in the end of my soul being swallowed by a tengu and I can't be reborn..."

As he said that, Aso forced himself to support himself and sat up. At the same time, he complained about the fact that he did not expect to retain the last pain of his life after death. He looked at the "big tengu" in front of him and asked a question.

"Am I going to be sent to hell?"

The "big tengu" seemed to have finally noticed Aso's real movements, turned his head slightly to look at him, and responded flatly: "Maybe there is hell ahead, maybe not. Hell doesn't exist at all, because of the evil people's hearts, will exist."

Ma Chengshi was stunned for a moment when he heard the words. He lowered his head and recalled the small island where he stayed when he was alive. He suddenly understood something and said with a wry smile: "Yes, there is no hell in the world..."

Then, he raised his head to look at the black shadow in front of him, and after hesitating and struggling in his heart, he finally asked: "I killed those people because of the hatred in my heart, but I still firmly believe that what those people committed His crime is worthy of death..."

"Then what I have done, is it right...or wrong?"

There was a trace of anticipation in Aso's honest eyes, but also a trace of fear. He hoped that the gods and monsters in front of him would affirm his actions, but he was also afraid of hearing the opposite answer.

Facing his gaze, the "big tengu" answered his question with a cold and deep voice without any emotion in his eyes.

"There is no true right and wrong, nor absolute good and evil in the world. Hell and heaven, in one thought..."

(End of this chapter)