Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Maori yawned and walked out of the bathroom.

The Curse of Stradivarius is the content of Renki Shitora's commission this time.

This Stradivari violin, worth hundreds of millions of yuan, was a birthday gift from Hanega Kyosuke's father, Tanjiro, to his brother Choichiro 30 years ago. However, on the day of the gift, robbers broke into the house and robbed it. Only Choichiro, who was tied up and obeyed, was safe and sound. Tanjiro was seriously injured because of his resistance and died...

Afterwards, Haga Kyosuke was raised by his mother's family, the Haga family, and changed his surname to Haga.

The curse started two years ago, with the deaths of two Stradivari players. The year before last, the wife of Shitara Gensaburo fell to her death in a mysterious way. Then last year, Shitara Renki's father, Shitara Kanto, fell to his death after leaning on a rotten balcony railing.

Both of them died on Mr. Choichiro's birthday, and this year it was Renki Shitara's turn to play with the Stradivarius.

The events of the past two years were indeed somewhat suspicious. Although they all seemed to be accidents, the timing was too coincidental. In his opinion, it seemed necessary to investigate.

However, Shitara Renxi's commission was to solve the Stradivari curse, a job that should have been undertaken by a monk or wizard...

"Ok?"

Crossing the corridor, Maori saw Yuga Kyosuke again, who seemed to be discussing the banquet with the housekeeper who always had a stern face.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the housekeeper, who was always stiff towards everyone, actually softened her expression a lot when facing Yuga Kyosuke.

"Mr. Maori?" Yuga Kyosuke noticed Maori with his sharp eyes and immediately greeted him with a smile, "Didn't Renxi want to talk to you about something?"

"Oh, I went to the bathroom..."

"Mr. Xiangsuke!" There was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor, and Xiaolan took the lead and ran over hurriedly, "Oh no, the annex is on fire!"

"Grandpa Genzaburo is still sleeping in there!"

Renxi Shitara was almost crying. She followed the crowd to the annex without stopping. The second floor and above had been completely engulfed in flames, with thick smoke billowing out.

"Where is your third grandfather's room?"

“The first room on the second floor!”

Yuga Kyosuke was already at the front, he rushed up to the second floor and knocked on the door loudly: "Uncle! Can you hear me? Uncle!"

"Is the door locked?"

Mao Li followed up to the second floor.

"Yes, Mr. Maori!"

Yuga Kyosuke pulled the door handle hard and said anxiously, "Help me!"

"No other choice, let's knock it open together!"

Maori braved the heat wave and slammed the door with Yuga Kyosuke at the same time, counting down. They broke into the room with a loud bang, but the fire inside was out of control. In the billowing smoke, a charred figure was entangled in the flames and stood motionless.

"uncle!"

"Three grandpas!"

"Don't go!" Maori covered his mouth and nose, and reached out to stop Yuga Kyosuke and Shitara Renki, "It's too late to save them!"

Conan was with Maori. When he saw the fire outside, he knew it would be difficult to save people. Judging from the fire situation, the room on the second floor was most likely the starting point of the fire.

"Is there anyone else in the annex?" Maori asked Renxi Shitara.

"should not……"

“Lian, Lianxi… cough cough!” Old man Tiaoyilang climbed up the stairs with difficulty while coughing, “Ayane… Ayane is still in the audio-visual room…”

"Grandpa?" Shitara Renxi hurriedly supported the old man, "Didn't I tell you to go back to the main building after listening to the tape?"

"Ayane fell asleep in the audio-visual room..."

"Where is the audio-visual room?"

Mauli asked loudly.

"It's the innermost room on the third floor!" Shitara Renxi looked at the stairs where the fire was coming down in despair.

"Third floor?"

Mao Li took a step forward and was immediately avoided by the heat wave. "No, I can't go up without a fireproof suit..."

Yuga Kyosuke filled a bucket of water in the bathroom and poured it on himself. He walked over to Mori with his wet body and said, "That's all. I'll leave the rest to you, Mr. Mori!"

"Hey!"

Maori watched in horror as Hanega Kyosuke rushed into the thick smoke. Before he could react, Conan followed him, also splashed with water.

"Uncle! Hurry and park the rented van under the window of the audio-visual room!"

"That's too much, Conan!"

Together with Renki Shitara, they helped old man Choichiro, who had inhaled a lot of smoke, out of the annex. At this time, Xiaolan and the housekeeper, who had gone to contact the fire department, also rushed over and hurried to help.

Mao Li drove a van from the other side and backed it up to the window on the third floor.

Mao Li had just parked the car when the glass upstairs was suddenly broken by a football. With a loud bang, the top of the van sank suddenly.

"Bang!" Conan and Yuga Kyosuke, who was holding the fat woman, jumped from the third floor to the van one after another. There were traces of smoke all over their bodies. The fat woman seemed to have stayed in the fire for too long, and it took her a long time to cough and catch her breath.

"Slow down," Xiaolan carefully helped Conan get out of the car, "That's great, thanks to Dad borrowing a van..."

Maori looked up at the annex which had completely turned into a sea of ​​fire, and turned his gaze to Yuga Kyosuke who was taking care of the fat woman.

Although the person did get down, he was still surprised by Yuga Kyosuke's impulsiveness. He actually rushed into the fire without hesitation under such circumstances.

Even if your body is soaked with water, fire can only cause minor burns.

It wasn't long before the fire truck arrived at the scene. The flames that had been engulfing the villa finally slowed down, leaving behind a charred building accompanied by steam and blue smoke, which looked horrible.

Renki Shitara cried non-stop because of the death of her third grandfather, and was gently hugged and comforted by Kyosuke Haga. Next to her, old man Choichiro was supported by the housekeeper and quietly looked at the annex building that had turned into ruins.

……

"Is anyone injured?" a firefighter asked.

"Yes," the housekeeper responded, "Madam, she was burned by the fire."

"Then please go to the hospital for treatment," the firefighter pointed to the car parked nearby, "the ambulance is over here..."

“I don’t want to!!” The fat woman looked at the ambulance as if she saw a monster and hid behind it hysterically, “I’m not going!!”

"But……"

"I'm sorry," Old Man Tiaoyilang came over, "Please don't make it hard on her. A year ago, my son Jiangren fell off the balcony and was taken to an ambulance and never came back... Ayane's injuries are not serious. Could you please treat her at my home?"

"Huh? Okay."

The firefighters had no choice but to follow him into the main building.

"Master Xiangsuke," the housekeeper asked from behind, "are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Yuga Kyosuke smiled at the butler, "Can you please stop calling me Master? That was 30 years ago."

Mao Li fell to the back and asked Shitara Renxi softly, "It seems that your butler has a good relationship with Mr. Kyosuke."

"Because housekeeper Tsukuro originally worked for Uncle Kyosuke's house," Shitara Renki explained, "but because of the robbery incident 30 years ago, Uncle Kyosuke's parents passed away, and Uncle Kyosuke inherited the family business of my mother, the Haga family, so she came here to replace the job of my elderly housekeeper..."

Xiaolan was surprised and asked, "During that robbery incident, wasn't it only Mr. Kyosuke's father who was killed?"

Shitara Renki sighed and looked at the cheerful Kyosuke in front of her: "Granny Chinami was already weak due to her illness, and she had to take care of the seriously injured and unconscious Grandpa Danjiro all night. As a result, she was overworked and died before Grandpa Danjiro..."

Maori did not follow them back to the main building. He frowned and looked at the busy firefighters on the other side. Several team members wearing fire-resistant suits just came out.

"Detective Maori, we've found the cause of the fire," two firefighters walked towards Maori, "It's probably because of smoking in bed. The fire started near the ashtray in the room where the body was found..."

"Since the door is locked from the inside, it's probably not arson. It seems there's no need for you, the great detective, to come out."

"The source of the fire is in that room?" Mao Li glanced at the second floor of the annex and smiled politely, "Can you take me to the scene again?"

“Of course you can…” The firefighters looked at each other in bewilderment.

……

In the banquet hall of the hotel, everyone sat around the table and talked about Stradivari's curse again.

"Of course, Grandpa Gensaburo also used that violin..."

Shitara Renxi's face still didn't look good: "Two years ago, because my mother divorced my father and returned to her parents' home, when Grandpa Gensaburo's wife, Grandma Yongmei, played at the birthday party, in order to comfort my father, she used the Stradivarius that had been sealed for 30 years..."

"Sealed for 30 years?"

"Well, 30 years ago, when my father was only 18 years old, he borrowed this famous violin to participate in a competition. However, because the strings broke several times during the performance, he was unable to even make it to the semi-finals..."

There was a hint of fear on Renxi Shitara's face.

"After that, Grandma Nagami, who was supposed to show off the beautiful sound of this guitar on a TV music program, suddenly fell ill with a high fever before the performance. Grandpa Gensaburo, who was preparing for an overseas exam, got tendonitis due to excessive contact with this guitar...

"Then it's now, 30 years after the seal. Two years ago, Grandma Yongmei fell to her death on the empty stairs, and a year ago, my father, who also played the violin, also died..."

Xiaolan felt cold all over after hearing what she said: "It turns out that she is cursed..."

"It's a scary coincidence indeed," Conan wrote down the Shitara family's relationship chart in the notebook, "For three consecutive years, something happened on the day of the birthday party. In addition, Mr. Kyosuke's father was killed on the same day 30 years ago. There are a total of 4 people..."

"Maybe the Shitara family is really cursed. I think we should not hold Mr. Choichiro's birthday party tomorrow, right?"

Xiaolan said worriedly.

"I'm afraid it can't be done," Yuga Kyosuke said, "The doctor said that according to Uncle Choichiro's physical condition, he can only live for another six months at most..."

“Is that so?”

"So I was planning to celebrate at least today..."

"That's impossible," the housekeeper interrupted as she entered the banquet hall. "The master has returned to his bedroom and told us not to disturb him before breakfast tomorrow. The mistress has also finished her treatment and has returned to her room to rest..."

……

In the annex full of puddles, Mao Li walked around the fire scene with his hands in his hands. He paused, borrowed gloves from the firefighters, and checked and picked up some twisted locks in the dripping room.

It was a lock that was knocked off the door frame when someone broke into the door. It was a very ordinary door handle with a safety style.

Maori stood up and looked at the ashtray soaked in water on the table again, with a few cigarette butts floating in it.

It was said that the fire was caused by someone falling asleep while smoking, but that would have to be confirmed if this was a real secret room. Judging from the several consecutive murders that had occurred in the Shitara family, he didn't believe that it was just an accidental fire.

"What is this?" A firefighter found a burnt box, "There's nothing inside..."

"It's a box for batons," Conan walked into the room, "because Mr. Genzaburo is the conductor of the symphony orchestra, right, Uncle Maori?"

"Conan?" Maori turned around and looked at Conan unexpectedly, and found that Xiaolan and others had also followed.

"In fact, Mr. Gensaburo stayed in the banquet hall of the main building for a while," Conan walked to the ashtray and said in a child's tone, "so there are cigarette butts he smoked there, but the ones in the annex are different from those over there. The cigarette butts here don't have teeth marks..."

Conan looked at the cigarette butts soaked in water, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, he looked at Maori seriously and said: "Uncle Maori, you have also discovered it, right? Danjirou was killed by robbers 30 years ago, Emi fell to death from the stairs two years ago, Furuto fell from the balcony a year ago, and Genzaburou died in a fire today... Their names begin with the English letters DEFG, and they all died on their birthday parties. This may be a serial murder case..."

"Wait, wait a minute, Conan!" Xiaolan said in panic, "If it's DEFG, then the next one is H, right? The one whose first letter of the abbreviation is H is Hasuki..."

"Ms. Lian Xi?"

Maori then realized that Shitara Renxi was not here, and hurriedly asked the housekeeper behind him, "Where is Miss Renxi?"

"At this time, the lady usually takes a bath, so she should..."

......

"Ms. Lian Xi!"

At the main building of the Shitara family, Maori rushed into Shitara Renki's room with a sullen face. Just as he was about to find the bathroom, he found that Shitara Renki and Haga Kyosuke were sitting quietly in the living room.

Chapter 151 Possible Suspects

"what?"

Mao Li froze, "Ms. Ren Xi, didn't you go take a shower?"

"Ah? I didn't go," Shitora Renki asked in surprise, "After something like this happened, how could I have the leisure to take a bath?"

"makes sense……"

"What's going on, Mr. Maori?"

Shitara Renxi said confusedly.

"Ms. Lian Xi," Mao Li said seriously, "In fact, we suspect that this is a serial murder case. You are very likely the next target, so..."