Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

Inspector Megure, who has been facing all kinds of fancy clues at the scene for many years, was the first to react.

At this time, Miwako Sato came with a tape and a player. She carefully put on gloves to avoid her fingerprints. She put in the tape and pressed the switch.

The strange music sounded in the room again, it was a completely unfamiliar tune.

Toru Amuro noticed that the Dean of Academic Affairs asked Aoyagi Akiko softly, and the latter shook his head.

"...Does he want us to just listen to the piece and then write down the score?"

Jinpei Matsuda also reacted.

His words caused most of the people present to fall silent, and Toru Amuro also frowned.

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When Rabbit heard the code in the music score, his first reaction was the Moonlight Sonata murder case in the original novel.

Could it be that the person who taught the Koshiba family this method of secret code was Keiji Aso?

In the original work, there is a type of person who can accurately determine the specific note just by listening to the sound of the playing, such as Conan, such as Hanega Kyosuke, and there seems to be a female singer in the later period.

They all have an absolute sense of music, and Conan is even tone-deaf.

People with absolute musical sense are like left-handed people. Rabbit has never met any in real life, but in the Conan world, there seem to be quite a few of these two types of people.

I wonder if anyone here has it? Amuro Toru is quite versatile, I wonder if he can...

Just when the rabbit was worried, he heard Qingliu Bingguang suddenly speak.

"I'll try."

"Teacher Qingliu?" The Dean of Academic Affairs was stunned for a moment. "Even if you are a music teacher, you may not be able to..."

"I can hear it," said Aoyagi. "Every note is very clear. I can't hear it wrong."

Rabbit stared at him blankly, suddenly remembering what happened when they first arrived at the tower apartment.

That day, Aoyagi Binkou was playing the piano in his apartment. After he finished a song, he knew that the piano had some inaccurate pitches, and he could even tell which notes were too high and which were too low.

Could it be that he also has absolute musicality?

Is there really anyone in real life who has this ability?

Something seemed to flash through the rabbit's mind.

But the situation was critical at the moment, so he didn't think too much about it.

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"..."

Because of the bomb, Matsuda Jinpei, who had long been suspicious of Aoyagi Akimitsu, once again turned to this long-haired foreign teacher.

But he did not point out the other party's suspicious behavior on the spot.

His father was mistakenly identified as a suspect because of the police's rash judgment, and he never recovered. He would not randomly identify others without solid evidence.

"Let's test whether we can hear it accurately first." said Jinpei Matsuda.

The others looked at Matsuda Jinpei who was "making trouble" at this time, but he ignored all the gazes and only looked at Aoyagi Akimitsu.

His face was calm and composed. From the time he was interrogated as a suspect to now when other people were targeted, his expression and eyes remained unchanged, as if he didn't care about the situation at all.

"Although the situation is urgent, we cannot make any mistakes. Fortunately, the teaching building has been defused and we can re-enter it."

"Is it okay? Teacher."

He stared into those light brown eyes, which looked particularly sharp under the sunglasses.

Chapter 53 Noah’s Ark

The group re-entered the teaching building.

The once bustling school is now empty. When Toru Amuro sees the academic dean who treats the school as his home and the students as his own children, his eyes well up.

"I don't know where Hojo is..." The Dean of Academic Affairs sighed deeply.

Amuro Toru remained silent, lost in thought.

According to the case three years ago and the nanny's description, Koshiba Yukiji's target this time is Kudo Yusaku's only son Kudo Shinichi, and Hojo Shinji should not be within the scope of his revenge.

Given Hojo Shinji's bullying behavior, could it be that they had some other conflicts at school? Or was it Hojo's father, who had...

When Toru Amuro thought of this, he looked up at Aoyagi Akimichi who was walking a little ahead of him.

And why did Koji Koshiba target this FBI agent? What does the blasphemer in the letter mean?

While the public security undercover agent was thinking, they arrived at the music classroom on the fifth floor.

As soon as he entered, Toru Amuro heard a very slight ticking sound. He was startled and reflexively thought that there was another bomb here, but the moment he turned his head, he saw Jinpei Matsuda looking back.

The two looked at each other unexpectedly, and soon walked away as if nothing had happened.

Not only Amuro Toru heard the voice, but Sato Miwako also heard it and looked around with a suspicious look on her face.

"Don't worry, that's the sound of the clock."

Matsuda Jinpei said calmly: "After removing the bomb under the piano, there was still a sound in this room. At first I thought there was another bomb, but later I found out that it was just the clock."

Toru Amuro finally understood why Matsuda noticed and suspected Aoyagi Akiko.

Matsuda Jinpei didn't say much. He walked to the piano and opened the piano cover with one hand: "Next, I will play one or several notes at random. Please tell me which key it is."

"I don't know much about music, so don't use those professional terms. Just say the number of white or black keys from left to right." He paused, "Do you think this is okay, teacher?"

Aoyagi Binguang nodded.

"Try not to play two adjacent keys at the same time, as that will make unpleasant noise." The FBI agent, who was disguised as a music teacher, only made this request.

Matsuda Jinpei neither agreed nor refused, and said to him, "Please turn your back so that you don't see the piano keys."

Upon hearing this, Aoyagi Binkou turned around and turned his back to the piano. There was no object or person in front of him that could give him any hints.

Amuro Toru noticed the rabbit on his shoulder and remembered its strange behavior yesterday. He stepped forward and said, "Teacher Aoyagi, can I help you hold your pet first?"

"sorry to bother you."

Aoyagi Akimichi took the black rabbit off his shoulder with one hand and handed it to Amuro Toru; Amuro Toru took it with both hands, stroked its head, and then pressed its hands and feet in his arms to make sure that Aoyagi Akimichi could not see its movements.

After completing these preparations, Jinpei Matsuda raised his hand and pressed a white key.

"White 13."

Amuro Toru looked and saw that Matsuda Jinpei's finger was indeed pressing on that key.

"Dong dong."

"White 34, Black 2."

"Ding ding ding dong bang."

“白5，黑17，白13与黑8二键和音，白7与黑30二键和音，白21、白22与黑10三键和音。”

When he finished the last note, Aoyagi Binguang's expression was as ugly as if there were bugs crawling on his body. He couldn't help but say, "Officer, could you please not make such a discordant sound?"

"Sorry, I forgot."

Matsuda Jinpei put down his hands without any guilt on his face and walked away from the piano: "Congratulations, you got it right. Your hearing is really amazing."

Toru Amuro paid attention to Matsuda's expression.

Although Aoyagi Akimitsu successfully demonstrated his ability to distinguish sounds far beyond that of ordinary people, proving that he was indeed capable of identifying bombs, Matsuda did not dispel his suspicion of him.

There was a small exclamation among the faculty, and it was the Dean of Academic Affairs who spoke first: "Then please ask Mr. Qingliu to listen to the song again and write down the score as soon as possible."

……

The song itself is not long, and Aoyagi Akimichi wrote down the music score in a few minutes.

Jinpei Matsuda took it and suddenly heard someone coughing next to him. He paused and handed the music score in his hand to Officer Megure beside him.

Inspector Megure had a good temper and did not chase away the guy who interfered with the case of the Investigation Division. Instead, he concentrated on looking at the music score and quickly translated it word by word.

"—Behold! I am about to bring a flood upon the earth, and it will destroy all the earth..."

"All flesh, in which there is the breath of life, shall die. But I will establish my covenant with you."

Ominous words echoed in the room, and the classroom, which had originally had a slightly lively atmosphere, once again became like a icy cave.

"It is from Genesis chapter 6, verses 17 and 18."

Aoyagi Binguang, who was in charge of translation, was the only person sitting there. With his good memory, he quickly gave the specific source.

“That chapter tells the story of Noah’s Ark.”

The knowledgeable Toru Amuro also recalled the relevant content.

"Noah's Ark?"

Sato Miwako's knowledge reserves were not as good as the one hanging on the wall in front of her, but she was not a fool. She knew the story and quickly picked up the threatening letter.

"The flood washed the earth and drowned all the sinners except Noah's family, and then gradually faded away, corresponding to the sentence 'the soul will be cleansed and return to the pure land'..."

She murmured, "If the torture by fire refers to the fire caused by the explosion of the bomb, then the torture by water... are the two teenagers now locked in the water and he wants to drown them?!"

"ark……"

Megure Jusan also frowned and thought deeply. Soon he thought, "That's right! When I investigated the Xiaoshiba brothers later, I found that their parents' death was not an accident. It was because of the investment failure. They were frustrated and chose to commit suicide. They wanted to cheat insurance to leave some money for the two children! What a pity..."

"Unfortunately, all the insurance money was swallowed up by the relatives who took over the custody of the minors." Matsuda Jinpei added coldly.

"The name of that project is the Ark Paradise Project!"

Inspector Megure said: "In three places in Tokyo, an underground ark was built, where tourists could visit, eat and live, but due to improper management, it closed down within a few months."

When he heard the three places, Toru Amuro's eyebrows jumped, and he quickly remembered that in many cases, there would always be exactly three suspects.

But now they don't have to choose one of the three. The Metropolitan Police Department has tens of thousands of police officers, and there are enough police forces for them to send people to every place.

The situation was urgent, and Officer Megure immediately took out his cell phone and made a call, explaining the situation briefly and quickly, asking the Metropolitan Police Headquarters to send police to the three locations as quickly as possible. Other police officers also took action.

Aoyagi Akimichi watched their actions and exclaimed, "As expected of the police from the largest police station in the country, they are so efficient."