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Chapter 44 Intertwined Murder Cases (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

A murder occurred and the memorial service for the former village chief Kameyama Isamu was forced to be terminated.

Everyone gathered in the piano room.

Nanatsuki Koshimizu reached out and felt the pulse of Murasawa Shuichi who was lying on the ground.

Said to Kuroiwa Reiko who was worried beside him.

"Don't worry, he's not dead. He'll be fine if he gets timely treatment."

Only then did Kuroiwa Reiko breathe a sigh of relief. She carefully helped Murasawa Shuichi up and held him in her arms.

Clang.

As Murasawa Shuichi's body was moved, a small object fell out of his body.

Kogoro Maori picked up the thing with some confusion.

"What is this? It looks familiar..."

"Please give it back to me. It's my favorite prop that Monday can't let go of."

Reiko Kuroiwa angrily snatched the props back from Kogoro Mori's hands.

Uncle Maori was too embarrassed to get angry with Kuroiwa Reiko.

After all, her fiancé is lying here with his life or death unknown, so she is definitely feeling unwell.

"Hey, uncle, I know what that is."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki said as she squatted beside the piano, deep in thought.

"Those are the tuning hammers used to tune pianos."

"It seems that Mr. Murasawa likes piano very much."

(I know this, too.)
Conan muttered to himself as he scanned the crowd in the piano room.

When I realized that Asai Narimi was really not here, I couldn't help but sigh.

The Moonlight Sonata that just sounded was not played on the piano.

Instead, it came from a radio placed next to the piano.

Someone deliberately used the legend of the cursed piano left by Keiji Aso to intimidate the people here.

"Really? Is there a doctor on Moon Shadow Island? We can't go on like this."

"Also, please call the police. This is already a criminal case."

Kogoro Maori shook his head and said calmly.

The crowd, which was originally a little panicked, couldn't help but calm down after seeing the calm Kogoro Mouri.

Yes, since the famous detectives from Tokyo look so confident, the case will definitely be solved soon.

"Mr. Maori, there is only one doctor on Tsukikage Island, his name is Asai Narimi."

"She was at the ritual meeting just now, but I don't know where she is now."

After Shimizu Masato explained the situation, Kogoro Mori's eyes immediately lit up.

Okay, okay, then, isn’t it obvious who the murderer is?
The murderer attacked the victim and then fled through the window. If he was not at the ritual meeting, there would be no need for him to choose to kill here, let alone flee.

From this point of view, the murderer could only be Asai Narimi, who was originally here but has now disappeared.

"Hehe, then, I already know the truth."

"It's really a pity. I'm afraid Dr. Asai will not treat Mr. Murasawa Shuichi, because the murderer who attacked Mr. Murasawa Shuichi... was her!"

Conan, who was already directing the useless adult team Murasawa Shuichi to provide emergency treatment, was speechless.

Since the victims could all have come in through the community center, why couldn’t the murderer be one?
If it was Asai Shigemi who attacked Murasawa Shuichi, then where is the evidence? Where is the evidence?
He touched his chin and looked at Nanatsuki Koshimizu, only to find that the female detective was thinking about something.

(Hey, hey, hey, no way? Do you really think that Uncle Maori’s reasoning is correct?) “Come to think of it, I was with Doctor Asai just now.”

"She was wandering around the bathroom and ran away after hearing the sound of Moonlight Sonata."

"From this perspective, Dr. Asai is indeed a suspect, but there is still a problem with the timing..."

Ding ding ding, ding ding ding ding, ding ding ding…

The sound of Moonlight Sonata rang out again.

Nanatsuki Koshimizu's reasoning was interrupted, and everyone looked at the cursed piano in surprise.

Because the sound did not come from the turned-off tape recorder next to the piano, but from inside the piano!
“Curse…Curse ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

A slovenly middle-aged man who was attending the ritual shouted in horror.

He ran out of the piano room without looking back.

At this time, even Kogoro Mori began to sweat on his forehead.

(Damn it, there really isn’t a curse, is there? After all, Xiang Yuanguang knows magic…)
(Even if there really is a curse in the world, this is not impossible!)

Snap————

Nanatsuki Koshimizu doesn't care about curses or not, she is a materialist.

He opened the piano lid and looked in surprise at the tape recorder inside.

"Strange, why would the murderer place two tape recorders in the piano room?"

(Two, two tape recorders...!?)
Conan's thoughts exploded, silver needles filled his brain, and his glasses lit up.

(So ​​that's how it is...! It's true that Asai Narimi wanted to kill Kawashima Hideo, so he placed a tape recorder in the piano room in advance, intending to create a special atmosphere to cover up his crime process. However, he didn't expect to hear the tape recorder music that shouldn't have sounded before killing Kawashima Hideo.)
(That's why Asai Narimi quickly returned to the piano room to check the situation of the recorder, but he happened to uncover another murder case, causing another murderer to fail in his attempt to kill Murasawa Shuichi...)
(Both of them planned to use the piano curse left by Keiji Aso to cover up their murder methods and processes, so they prepared tape recorders at the same time, but in the end they just happened to collide with each other!)

Conan didn't know what to say now.

Does it mean that Asai Narumi is lucky, or that Murasawa Shuichi is lucky.

If Asai Narimi had not planned to kill anyone, Murasawa Shuichi would have been killed directly.

If Murasawa Shuichi had not come to the piano room, Asai Narimi would have been imprisoned for murder.

Everything seems too coincidental, which is a bit weird.

"…Am I late?"

A familiar voice sounded from the door. This time, Conan looked up and saw two acquaintances.

One is Takagi Wataru of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and the other is Dr. Asai Narimi.

When Officer Takagi saw Murasawa Shuichi lying inside, he couldn't help but become nervous.

But seeing that no one was crying, I thought that he was probably just unconscious and not dead yet.

He took the certificate out of his pocket and showed it to everyone.

"I'm Officer Takagi Wataru of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division 1, the Criminal Investigation Division 3."

"There has been an attempted murder here, so I ask you to stay here to avoid problems with the subsequent investigation. I have already reported this to Inspector Megure of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."

"Inspector Megure of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department will bring people to investigate tomorrow at noon at the latest. Is that ok, everyone?"

Conan noticed that Asai Narimi had handcuffs on his wrists.

(Asai Shigemi was arrested as the criminal who attacked Murasawa Shuichi. It's troublesome.)
(No one can leave now... Then we can only wait until Inspector Megure arrives at Tsukikage Island tomorrow to proceed with the next step...)
"Officer Takagi, I want to point out one thing. There was another person in the community center who should have been there but didn't. That person was Kuroiwa Tatsuji's assistant who had been guarding outside the piano room during the day - Hirata Tomaki!"

At this time, Nanatsuki Koshimizu raised a new suspect.

"Therefore, please use the radio in the community center to summon Hirata Kazuaki to come here for investigation!"

(End of this chapter)