The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

He carefully tapped and inspected every part of the piano.

Finally, they found hidden compartments under several of the piano keys.

Some of the hidden compartments still clearly contained some white powdery crystals.

Heroin?

Yu Aragaki took out his phone and snapped a few photos. Then he took out a small plastic bag, bent down, and carefully collected some powder as evidence.

"Done!" Aragaki Yu muttered softly, then prepared to get up and leave the room.

Just as he looked up, he saw the sheet music that had been sitting on the piano shelf for a long time.

"Moonlight...?"

After hesitating for a moment, Aragaki Yu took the sheet music off the plate and stuffed it into his pocket.

"Onmyoji, there are people on the beach outside."

Just then, Yuya Aragaki heard the Yuki-onna's warning.

He crouched down and cautiously approached the window, peeking out the window.

In the distance, a dark figure could be seen slowly walking along the beach, seemingly dragging something.

Although the darkness prevented Aragaki Yu from seeing clearly what was happening in the distance.

But at this moment, he could roughly guess that this must be Asai Narumi dragging the unconscious Mr. Kawashima, preparing to drown him at the beach.

After Aragaki Yu whispered a few instructions in Yuki-onna's ear, Yuki-onna nodded and flew towards Asai Narumi's direction.

Under the moonlight, the figure of the Snow Woman slowly emerged behind Asai Narumi, gradually revealing her true form.

Because Asai Narumi was struggling to move the unconscious Mr. Kawashima, he didn't notice this scene.

"Who..." Just as she felt the chill on her back and was about to turn around to check what was happening, she felt a sharp blow to the back of her neck.

She felt everything go black before her eyes, and she immediately fainted on the beach, losing consciousness.

In her dazed state, she only saw a dark figure slowly walking towards her from the side.

Aragaki Yu looked at the two people who had fainted at his feet.

That's right, they are Asai Narumi and Mr. Kawashima.

Fearing that someone might pass by, Aragaki Yu dragged Mr. Kawashima's body to the bushes nearby.

Then he carried Asai Narumi, who was still unconscious.

Aragaki Yuu, padded with the weight on his shoulder, couldn't help but be surprised: "I didn't expect this thing to be so light. It seems he went through a lot of trouble to disguise himself as a woman!"

Yuu Aragaki walked along the coastline into the distance, looking for a suitable place to talk.

Feeling the softness in his palms and arms, Yuu Aragaki inexplicably felt a stirring of desire within him.

"Pah! What am I thinking! This guy is a cross-dresser!" Aragaki Yu shook his head, quickly banishing the strange feeling from his mind.

The Snow Woman, now back to her Lucky state, floated to the side, looking at Aragaki Yu's head-shaking movements with some confusion, utterly bewildered.

Not long after, Aragaki Yu found a beach a little further away from the community center.

He then placed Asai Narumi on a relatively flat spot, while Aragaki Yu sat on the beach, gazing at the coastline, quietly waiting for her to wake up.

……

"Mmm, ah~"

Because the Snow Woman didn't use her full strength, it didn't take long for the unconscious Asai Narumi to utter a soft murmur.

She slowly opened her eyes, clutched the back of her neck, struggled to sit up, and then looked around in confusion.

"you're awake?"

Asai Narumi, who was wondering why she had suddenly fainted, suddenly heard a familiar voice next to her and reflexively looked towards the source of the voice.

She saw the boy named Aragaki Yu from earlier that day sitting beside her, staring at her. Instantly, she became much more alert.

"How...it's you!?" A hint of panic flashed in Asai Narumi's eyes first, then confusion and surprise, and finally, relief slowly followed.

"As expected, this boy saw right through everything I wanted to do!" Asai Narumi thought to himself with a self-deprecating smile.

Looking at Aragaki Yuu, whose expression remained unchanged, Asai Narumi hesitated before asking, "You saw everything just now?"

"Mm." Yuu Aragaki nodded.

Asai Narumi was silent for a while, her body tensed up at first, but soon relaxed.

She casually let her upper body fall backward and lay down on the beach.

With her hands behind her head, gazing at the boundless starry sky, she turned to Aragaki Yu and asked, "When did you find out?"

Looking at Asai Narumi lying beside him, Aragaki Yu said directly, "I knew from the beginning that the letter was the one you sent to Mouri Kogoro, right?"

“Yes, I sent a letter of request to the famous detective Mori, hoping he could stop me from committing this heinous act of murder. However, I also really wanted to kill them to avenge my father. So, I wanted to leave this choice to the famous detective.” Asai Narumi, lying on the beach, nodded and said, “However, I never expected that the one who saw through everything was you, the boy who came with Detective Mori.”

Aragaki Yuu remained silent. Asai Narumi paused for a moment, then said quietly, "I wonder if this is my good fortune or my misfortune."

Regardless of whether Aragaki Yu responded, Asai Narumi began to tell her story: "Asou Keiji, who died twelve years ago, was my biological father. My current surname is from my adoptive parents. And my father's death was not an accident. Not only Kawashima, but also the former village chief Kameyama, the current village chief Kuroiwa, and the wealthy Nishimoto, it was these four people who locked my parents and sister in the house and then burned the whole house down!"

Asai Narumi's face still showed pain as he spoke.

"If I'm not mistaken, their motive for killing your father was probably related to drug trafficking, right?" Aragaki Yu, who already knew the inside story, asked casually.

Asai Narumi looked at Aragaki Yu with some surprise, somewhat astonished by the information he possessed, but still answered, "Yes, since I came back, I've started collecting evidence and information from back then. I learned that they used my father's overseas performance trip to get him to smuggle drugs back for sale. My father refused to help them anymore, and fearing exposure, they took my father and my family..."

As she spoke, Asai Narumi's voice choked up involuntarily.

"No... I'm sorry, I lost my composure." Looking at Aragaki Yu in front of her, she quickly turned her head away, wiped away the tears glistening in her eyes, calmed herself down, and smiled slightly at Aragaki Yu: "But I didn't expect that you would know so much."

"Well, I was curious about this place before I came, so I did some research," Aragaki Yu explained casually.

"Oh, right!" Looking at Asai Narumi, whose brows still held a hint of sorrow, Aragaki Yu suddenly remembered something. He took out the piano sheet music he had previously put away from his pocket and handed it to her. "You must not have read your father's 'Moonlight Sonata' properly, have you?"

"Hmm?" Asai Narumi took the sheet music with some doubt. Because she was extremely familiar with her father's favorite piece, "Moonlight Sonata," since she was a child, she had not looked at the sheet music again after returning to the island.

Unexpectedly, as she turned to the last page of the score, her eyes began to glisten with tears again, and she finally couldn't help but cover her face and weep bitterly.

It turns out that on the last page of the sheet music was a coded message conveyed by her father using a musical score he had designed himself.

【Naraka, you must live well on your own!】

Chapter 41 Crossdresser? Real Woman!

"Thank you!"

After a good cry, Asai Narumi hugged the sheet music tightly, seemingly finally letting go of the burden in her heart.

"Cough cough..."

He noticed the sincere and passionate look in Asai Narumi's eyes as she looked at him.

As the moonlight gently shone on her delicate and beautiful face, Yuu Aragaki felt a little lost for a moment.

He quickly looked away, silently repeating to himself, "This guy is a cross-dresser, this guy is a cross-dresser... just a cross-dresser... huh?"

Noticing the sudden awkwardness, it was Aragaki Yu who broke the silence first: "Don't worry, although your murder plan has been exposed, those guys will get what they deserve. Just now, while you were unconscious, I notified the police of the relevant clues."

"Ah."

Silence remained...

“Well… when the police come tomorrow, they’ll find drugs on them. Combined with the evidence you’ve collected over the years, the evidence will be irrefutable. They won’t be able to escape.”

"Yes." Asai Narumi's answer was still as short and abrupt as ever.

“Um…right, right! Now that everything has been settled, you don’t need to hide your identity anymore!” Aragaki Yu said to Asai Narumi, who was lost in thought, while also reminding himself.

"Hmm...hmm?" Asai Narumi's expression finally changed.

"Of course it's your real body! You're not addicted to cross-dressing, are you?!" Seeing the confusion and bewilderment on Asai Narumi's face, Aragaki Yu reminded her.

"Huh?" Asai Narumi looked even more surprised.

"You're still pretending?!" Aragaki Yu said to her irritably, "But tell me, what exactly did you stuff in there?"

As he spoke, Yuu Aragaki casually reached out and grabbed Narumi Asai's chest: "Take your breasts for example, what kind of fake...fake...how can they be so...so soft?!"

Aragaki Yuu suddenly froze.

Asai Narumi was also stunned by this scene, and thus forgot to dodge the groping hand in front of her.

Just then, Aragaki Yu unconsciously clenched his fist twice.

It seems... to be true?

how can that be!

In his utter shock, Aragaki Yu even forgot to pull his hand back from Asai Narumi's body.

"Hmm... Ah~" Asai Narumi couldn't help but let out a soft gasp, her face turning bright red instantly.

When Aragaki Yu came to his senses, he was so startled that he jumped up from the beach, his previously calm expression and attitude completely gone.

He pointed at Asai Narumi, who was still sitting on the beach, and stammered, "You...you...you're actually a woman!?"

Seeing Aragaki Yu's strong reaction and considering what he had said, Asai Narumi probably understood Aragaki Yu's misunderstanding.