Ms. Moriarty wants to save Beika Town today too.

"There's no difference at all."

Conan tried to make others understand this through his actions.

Naturally, they were driven out by the man.

He stood in front of the door and said, "In short, please wait at the entrance before the ceremony is over!" After that, he left Mao Li and the other two and left without looking back. At this time, Dr. Cheng Shi walked towards them.

"Oh, you guys are still here?"

"Ms. Chengshi, are you here to attend the ritual as well?"

"Yes, because when I came to this island, the first person I performed an autopsy on was Mr. Kameyama, so I wanted to burn incense and pay my respects." He said, and then began to introduce the tall man next to him, "This is Mr. Shimizu, the one I just mentioned."

Shimizu Masato smiled and said, "Nice to meet you. I'm Shimizu. Thank you for your guidance."

After a brief exchange of greetings, Cheng Shi and Shimizu Masato headed to the ritual site.

"It looks like it won't be finished in a short while..."

Maori Kogoro and the other two were waiting in the living room, but they couldn't wait any longer, so they sat down at the door. At this time, they saw Winnet coming.

"Miss Winnet?" Mao Lilan, who was leaning against the wall pillar, took a step forward.

"I was taking a walk and thought of coming over to wait for Dr. Chengshi. I thought we should just go back together." Winnett saw that they were all sitting at the door looking at the sky and said, "Haven't you met with the village chief and others yet?"

"Yes, the funeral is still going on. What a shame, a whole day is wasted like this." Kogoro Mouri complained.

Conan didn't say anything. He was still worried about the piano in the room because it was too strange. If it was true as the man said, the piano should not have been used in the past few years. However, when he pressed the keys randomly, the sound was normal. It must be that someone secretly adjusted the tune for some purpose.

What does the letter to my uncle mean? Conan was thinking, and suddenly he found Winnet's face appeared in front of him.

"Ah, ah..." Conan was startled.

"Is my face that scary?" Winnet covered her cheek with one hand and tilted her head slightly in fear.

Conan took two steps back, and suddenly someone appeared in front of him. Anyone would be startled.

Winnet said to Conan: "If you frown and tense like this, you will age quickly."

Ha, ha ha, it would be great if I could really age quickly, Conan thought. If he could turn back into Kudo Shinichi, he wouldn't be so restricted when investigating cases like he is now. Alas, it's all tears to talk about it.

Just then, the sound of music could be heard throughout the building.

Moonlight! Damn it! Conan ran quickly after hearing the music. He ran through the living room and ran straight to the room where the piano was. He passed the adults standing in front of the door who dared not move and pushed the door open.

There was a man lying on the piano in the room.

"It's Mr. Kawashima!" said the man before.

Conan saw the man was motionless and thought, Damn it! It's too late!

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227 Disappearing Shadow

While Conan was shocked, Kogoro also ran over. He crossed the crowd and came to Kawashima, who was lying on the piano, and checked his pulse. As he expected, Kawashima's vital signs had stopped. He turned to everyone and said, "He is dead."

"What did you say!?" the bald, fat chief of Heiyan Village exclaimed.

Kogoro Mori ignored the other party.

Although he was unhappy about waiting for too long, he didn't ignore the other party for personal reasons. He turned to Xiaolan beside him and said, "Xiaolan, go and notify the police as soon as possible."

"Yes." Mao Lilan replied.

Following her father Kogoro, a detective, she gradually got used to the scenes of murders. Without showing too much panic, she ran out of the room and rushed towards the village police station she saw on the road.

Maori Kogoro remembered that Cheng Shi had performed an autopsy on the former village chief Kameyama, so he turned toward the door and said to Cheng Shi, "Doctor Cheng Shi, could you please perform the autopsy?"

"Oh, okay..." Cheng Shi was a little nervous because he knew who the real murderer was.

I hope nothing goes wrong, Cheng Shi thought to himself, and then walked towards Kawashima's body.

Conan, who witnessed all this, was racking his brains. He thought of the content of the letter that was mailed to the office, which had already given a preview: on the night of the next full moon, shadows will begin to disappear again on Moon Shadow Island. In other words, on the night of the full moon, someone will die on this Moon Shadow Island.

At this time, the man who had driven Conan and his group out of the room, Hirata Kazuaki, screamed again: "It's a curse!" He stepped back in panic, pointed at the piano with his right hand, and his hand was shaking as he pointed, "Which piano's curse is this!"

Maori Kogoro, who was checking the piano, sighed. "Alas, what kind of curse is this?" He picked up the recorder hidden in the edge of the piano, "It's not the piano that makes the sound, it's just this recorder." Kogoro quickly thought of the death of Kameyama Village Chief two years ago. He came to the crowd and said, "Based on what happened two years ago, this is a planned murder!"

"Kill, kill someone!?" Hirata Kazuaki was so frightened that his whole body was shaking, and his raised right arm was shaking like an epileptic patient.

Among the people who were attending the ritual, Murasawa Shuichi, who was wearing black sunglasses, a gray knitted hat, and a long chin, stepped forward to stop them. He was the fiancé of the current village chief Kuroiwa's daughter. "Hey, hey, hey, don't say such nonsense," he questioned Maori Kogoro, "Who are you?"

Kogoro, who had anticipated that someone would ask him about his identity someday, pulled his suit jacket with both hands, closed his eyes and lowered his head, and announced to the questioner: "I am a famous detective from Tokyo - I am Maori Kogoro!"

"Oh! The astronaut!" a man shouted.

Maori Kogoro almost fell down. He thought that he had become a famous detective because of his frequent appearances and popularity, but he never expected that these people didn't know him at all!

"Who is that?"

"I remember the pilot's name was Mao Liwei!"

"No! He often appears in mystery novels, right?"

"That person is Akechi, Kogoro Akechi!"

"So... who is this person?"

After a discussion, the people who came to attend the ceremony turned their attention to Kogoro.

It was unbelievable that these people had never heard of him! At this moment, Kogoro felt very discouraged, with his hands on the piano, looking down and thinking.

While Kogoro was making his debut, Conan was not idle. He crawled on the ground, saw the swirling water stains, lightly touched them with his fingers, and then put them in his mouth.

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Salty!

It was sea water. Conan looked in the direction of the water stains, and the source was the back door of this room.

Winnet, who was quietly sitting in the crowd, was initially amused by Kogoro's theater, but after seeing Conan's actions, she became nervous again.

At this time, Dr. Cheng Shi, who served as the coroner, also came to a conclusion: "The estimated time of death is thirty minutes to an hour ago. The cause of death is probably suffocation."

"I think Mr. Kawashima must have drowned in the sea." Cheng Shi looked towards the doors and windows.

Maori Kogoro wondered: "He died of drowning..."

"I can't make a conclusion without an autopsy," Cheng Shi emphasized.

He was not the one who committed the murder. During the entire ritual, he sat in a prominent position and "accidentally" made some noise, which increased everyone's impression of him. In other words, he was not the slightest suspect in this murder case.

Cheng Shiyong glanced at Winnett out of the corner of his eye. He felt that this incident was no different from what he had originally designed, except that the executor had changed. If possible, he still wanted to do it himself instead of pushing the blood onto other people's hands.

Conan walked to the window and said, "I think what Dr. Chengshi said is correct!"

"Look," Conan pointed his finger out the window, "the coat on the beach outside must belong to Mr. Kawashima. From this door to the piano, there are also continuous traces of being dragged from the beach."

"There was also dirt and sand on Mr. Kawashima's back."

"Given that all the doors and windows of this room are locked, the first few minutes of the tape should be blank."

Conan's rapid-fire reasoning astonished everyone present.

Maori Kogoro widened his eyes and gritted his teeth: "This, this kid, when did he, this..."

Winnet was also surprised by Conan's clear thinking. His reasoning was even faster than Kogoro's? Winnet thought that it might just be because he was the first to come up with it, but despite this, he was confident and concise in his words, and had a strong persuasive power, and his logic was so clear that it was impossible to refute.

Conan continued to infer:

"I'm afraid the criminal left during the ritual, came to this room, went through the back door, took Mr. Kawashima to the beach and drowned him, then moved the body to this room, came back and locked it, turned on the recorder, walked out of the room to the corridor, and then returned to the room where the ritual was held."

After he finished speaking, he noticed that everyone was looking at him in shock. Conan thought to himself, I've overdone it again. It's so inconvenient to be smaller! He immediately pretended to be a child, put his hands behind his head, and looked at Kogoro with a smile: "Is that so, uncle?"

Maori Kogoro was very annoyed by Conan's attention. Why did he tell him everything before asking him? It was really annoying! But in this situation, he couldn't lose face, so he could only bite the bullet and admit it, saying that he had already thought of it.

"Yes, that's right." Kogoro smiled to hide his embarrassment, supporting the piano with one hand, standing with his left leg tucked behind his right heel, and looking up slightly. "If the door of this room is locked, since we have been staying at the entrance just now... So according to my judgment, the possibility that the criminal has returned to the memorial hall is quite high."

The detective had made a mistake. Winnet remained calm. Although the door was locked, there were more windows in the museum than just this room. In the dark, it was not impossible to get in through other windows - that's what she did.

She was careful not to leave any traces when climbing over, and the complicated situation at the scene also pointed the suspicion to the inside of the venue.

"Wait, wait a minute, what do you mean," said Kuroiwa Yoko, the daughter of Kuroiwa village chief, suspiciously, "is the criminal still among us?"

Maori Kogoro said confidently: "Yes, the criminal is in here!"

"Excuse me, did anyone see Mr. Kawashima leave his seat in the middle of the ritual?" Maori continued to ask.

"I know about this," Chief Heiyan volunteered, "I'm sure he said he was going to the bathroom."

"What about the others? Did you see anyone leave their seat?"

Murasawa Shuichi muttered: "Ah... How could I remember everything like that?"

"So, what if Mr. Kawashima once offended someone?"

"It can't be said that he was offended, but the person who was happiest after Mr. Kawashima's death was Mr. Shimizu, who was also a candidate for the village chief election like him," said the village chief Kuroiwa.

When his name was mentioned, Shimizu looked anxious. "What did you say!?" he shouted, "Aren't you the same yourself, Chief Kuroiwa?"

"Yes, that's right! If someone didn't use Mr. Kawashima's votes as their own votes," Kuroiwa Yoko raised her head with her hands on her chest, "then my father would have been elected long ago."

"What!?"

"Okay, stop arguing." Kogoro stepped forward to stop both sides.

At this time, Conan said to himself: "But why did the criminal move Mr. Kawashima back to this room?"

"That's because he wants to attribute this murder to the curse of the piano," Kogoro said as he walked, raising his hand. He stopped in front of the piano and turned around. "By the way, when was this piano placed here?" he asked.

Hirata Kazuaki explained: "It was donated by Mr. Aso fifteen years ago, and it has been here ever since."

"Oh, is that Mr. Aso?"

“Yes, his name is engraved on the cover of the keyboard.”

Upon hearing this, Maori Kogoro went to the piano lid to check. However, a sheet of music appeared inside. He remembered that this sheet of music did not exist when they broke into the room in the evening.

"This, this is! Is this sheet music? This is weird!"

Kogoro took it out. "During the day, this sheet of music did not exist," Kogoro said. A man in the crowd trembled after seeing the sheet of music, then ran to the entrance and rushed out yelling. Kogoro was a little dumbfounded: "Who is that man?"

Hirata Kazuaki came up and answered, "He is Mr. Nishimoto. He used to be quite powerful, but after the previous village chief passed away two years ago, I heard that he seemed to be afraid of something and rarely went out."

"By the way," he looked at the village chief of Heiyan again, "the village chief and he should have been playmates in childhood, right?"

"It seems to be like that." Heiyan said perfunctorily.

The next moment, Mao Lilan, who had run to call the police, also rushed back and brought back an elderly policeman.

"The police are here!" she gasped violently.

"Xiaolan, isn't it too slow?" Kogoro complained.

"Because he wasn't in the police station, I was looking for him everywhere."

Winnett walked over to the panting Xiaolan and handed her the handkerchief: "Please use it."

"Thank you, Miss Winnet."

The old police officer held his hat and walked to the center of the crime scene. Hirata Kazuaki explained to him: "This is him, his name is Maori Kogoro."

"Oh!" The old police officer knocked his palm with his right hand as if it were a hammer, and walked up to Kogoro with admiration, "It's the famous..."

"Yes." Kogoro Mori smiled.

Finally someone recognized him.

"Is that the space pilot?"

Kogoro was ashamed: "Please, you got the wrong person."

After briefly explaining the situation to the old police officer, it was already past 9:30 and everyone started to make noises to go back. Maori Kogoro asked for the list of people who would be attending the ceremony and then let them go.

At the main entrance, he announced: "It's already late tonight, the investigation will begin tomorrow morning."

The three Maori people, Chengshi and Winnett walked side by side on the night road.

Cheng Shi, who witnessed Conan's performance at the scene, said admiringly: "I am really surprised by Conan's famous reasoning!"

"Indeed, just like a real reliable detective." Winnet agreed.

Mao Lilan explained for Conan: "Because this child likes to simulate detective the most."

"But his persuasive power is really amazing, everyone says so." Cheng Shi looked at Conan.