Conan: The Heart Thief

The middle-aged man seemed to be stimulated, and murmured: "It is absolutely impossible for such a thing to happen! This is impossible, absolutely impossible, because... because of him. He died more than ten years ago!"

"Dead!" Kudo Yukiko screamed in fright.

Conan and Haibara Ai looked at Lin Xiao in confusion, hoping that Lin Xiao would continue to take action. It was obvious that the two little kids were very curious.

"Excuse me, can you tell me what is going on?" Lin Xiao walked up to the director and said.

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Please follow me, we will talk here."

Everyone followed the middle-aged man to his office. After they sat down, the director slowly said, "Aso Keiji was born on this island. He was a famous pianist in the past. It was a full moon night twelve years ago... After many years, he returned to his hometown and gave a huge piano concert in the village community center. But after the concert, he suddenly locked himself in his home with his family and set a fire. It is said that he killed his wife and daughter with a knife. In the blazing flames, he seemed to be entangled by something and kept playing the piano... It was Beethoven's piano sonata - "Moonlight"!"

"Ah. How scary!" Kudo Yukiko screamed and threw herself directly into Lin Xiao's arms. Obviously, this somewhat horror story scared Kudo Yukiko.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..." Lin Xiao raised his hand to comfort Kudo Yukiko, just like comforting a frightened wife.

Seeing this, Haibara Ai couldn't help but let out a "tsk" sound, and then looked at Conan, but... Conan acted as if nothing had happened, his mind was completely on the case.

Lin Xiao comforted Kudo Yukiko and said, "I just heard that the village chief is in the community center. Let's go and ask the village chief about the situation."

The group then walked towards the village community center and happened to pass by a clinic where a female doctor was walking a child out. The doctor looked very friendly and easy to talk to.

Kudo Yukiko smiled and said, "There is a clinic up ahead, should we go ask?"

"Yeah. I'll go."

Lin Jiaming walked into the clinic. He saw a beautiful woman in a white coat. She had a pretty face, a tall and graceful figure, and a ponytail. In such a remote place, such a beautiful woman is extremely rare.

"What a woman..."

Lin Xiao sighed, the woman in front of him, weak and graceful, even more feminine than other women. It is said that men understand men's hearts better than women, and when a man turns into a woman, he is indeed more feminine than a woman.

Chapter 122 The Water is Deep!

Asai Chengzheng thought Lin Xiao was a patient, so he asked, "Sir, are you feeling unwell?"

"No, I'm not feeling unwell. Are you Dr. Asai Narimi?"

"Hey? Do you know me?"

"It's written on the clinic's sign." Lin Xiao pointed to the sign introducing the staff hanging on the clinic. "Actually, I want to ask, Doctor Asai, do you know how to get to the community center?"

"Oh, go straight to the end of the second corner ahead."

"Thank you."

"will not."

Lin Xiao turned to leave but was stopped by Asai Narimi.

"and many more."

Asai Narumi followed Lin Xiao out of the clinic.

"what happened?"

"I see that you... and your companions are all from other places. Are you traveling here?"

Outside the door, everyone looked at Asai Narimi.

Lin Xiao replied: "Well, yes."

"I see, the scenery on this island is unique, it feels great... the air is fresh, and it's very quiet..."

Asai Makoto, who was immersed in his own fantasy, was awakened by a sound.

"Shimizu! Shimizu Masato! Please vote for Shimizu Masato!" Rumble, a car passed by directly.

Asai Narimi said a little embarrassedly: "Ah! This is an exception, because the election for village chief is about to be held, and they are responsible for canvassing votes."

"Village chief election? What's going on?" everyone asked curiously.

Asai Narimi said: "Yes, the candidates include Mr. Shimizu who has just become the fishermen's representative, Mr. Kuroiwa, the current village chief whose popularity has declined recently, and Mr. Kawashima, the largest capitalist on the island..."

Kudo Yukiko stepped forward and said honestly to Asai: "Actually, we are not here to play. He is Lin Xiao, a detective, and we are here with him to investigate the incident on the island."

"Investigate the incident?" Asai Chengshi was confused.

Conan added: "Big sister, it's like this. Brother Lin Xiao is a detective. He received a letter made up of words cut from a newspaper. It said, 'When the next full moon comes, shadows will begin to disappear again on Tsukikage Island. Please investigate clearly, Aso Keiji.'"

Asai Narimi exclaimed, "Aso Keiji? Impossible, Mr. Aso died more than ten years ago, how could he have sent a letter?"

Yukiko Kudo continued, "He not only sent a letter, but Mr. Aso also paid 50 yen for the investigation and called to ask Lin Xiao to come to Yueying Island. Is that right, Lin Xiao?"

Lin Xiao hummed, and said, "We heard the staff of the mansion talking about the story of Keiji Aso, but we were going to ask more. Unfortunately, the people in the mansion are very taboo..."

Asai Narimi said: "The former village chief, Mr. Kameyama, who died three years ago, also died on a full moon night. He was the first person I performed an autopsy on since I came to the island. That night, someone passed by the community center and heard the sound of a piano coming from the community center. He walked in curiously to check. When he approached, the piano sound stopped immediately. He walked in and found that Mr. Kameyama had fallen on the piano and died. And the piano music was Beethoven's piano sonata "Moonlight" that Mr. Aso had been playing continuously when he died."

Conan's glasses flashed a light: "So, what Brother Lin Xiao received was not a letter of commission, but... a murder notice!"

"That should be it!" Lin Xiao said, "According to what Miss Asai just said, if the cases all happened during the full moon, then it is very likely."

Asai Narimi said, "Wait! Mr. Kameyama died of a serious heart attack!"

Lin Xiao shook his head and said, "Doctor Asai, you said that Mr. Kameyama had a serious heart disease, so it is very likely that someone deliberately frightened him and frightened him to death!"

Asai Narimi's face turned pale and he said, "Yes, is that so?"

Lin Xiao took out the envelope and said, "In this letter, 'full moon' refers to the full moon night the day after tomorrow; 'again' means it is a continuation. This continuation can be said to be the murderer's choice of the same full moon night as the murder scene where Mr. Aso and Mr. Kameyama died; 'beginning' means the murderer is going to kill someone; and 'the shadow disappears' means someone has died."

Asai Narimi asked: "Then who would do this?"

Lin Xiao looked at Asai Chengshi and curled his lips: "Yes. Who would do this? Doctor Asai, you should know better than us."

"What!" In an instant, Asai Narimi's face turned pale.

……

When everyone arrived near the community center, they saw some villagers protesting non-stop.

"This is……"

Lin Xiao's mouth twitched, and he said, "It seems that it is not so easy for us to meet the village chief."

Inside the Civic Center.

The current village chief, Kuroiwa, was very angry when he saw those people protesting against him being the village chief. He also saw his subordinate, Hirata, running in in a panic and said in a panic, "Village chief, someone outside wants to see you."

Hei Yan, who was angry, said with an unhappy look on his face: "Who else would come to see me at this time?"

Hirata stammered, "Yes, he is a high school detective from Tokyo."

Hearing that it was a detective, Hei Yan was shocked and asked in astonishment: "What? Detective?"

In the lobby of the Civic Center.

Kudo Yukiko said impatiently: "That village chief is too arrogant. How long do we have to wait?"

"Sister Yukiko, Edogawa is missing." Haibara Ai suddenly reminded Kudo Yukiko.

Kudo Yukiko looked around and said, "Strange, where is Conan? Lin Jun, have you seen Conan?"

Lin Xiao gestured to the side, signaling the restless guy to go over there.

So, Kudo Yukiko took Lin Xiao and Huihara Ai to look for Conan, and saw Conan in a room, fiddling with a piano. Yukiko hurriedly said: "No, Conan, you can't touch it casually!"

Lin Xiao walked into the room, looked around, and said, "Oh. This room is so big. Behind the community center is the sea."

Ai Haibara walked to the front of the piano and said to Conan who was climbing on it: "This piano is so dirty. Edogawa, what are you doing?"

Conan took out a white handkerchief and said, "I found something strange in the crack of the piano."

Upon hearing this, several people came closer to take a look.

At this moment, Hirata, the secretary of the village chief, came over to the community center. Seeing the door was opened, he rushed over and shouted, "What are you doing? No. Don't touch it!!"

Everyone looked back in confusion and saw a fat gentleman with glasses who said hurriedly, "Don't touch that piano! That piano. That cursed piano that the pianist Mr. Aso played at the concert on the day he died."

"Huh?" Kudo Yukiko hurriedly left the piano. "Who are you?"

"I'm Hirata, the village chief's secretary. This piano is cursed and very dangerous. You should leave here quickly," said Hirata.

Lin Xiao naturally did not believe Hirata's superstitious words and said, "No way, how could the piano be cursed?"

Hirata, however, told the story that Asai Narimi had just told him with a horrified look on his face, and then added, "Because the piece that Mr. Kameyama played until his death was the Moonlight Sonata that Mr. Aso played in the flames, from then on, this piano was unknowingly called the cursed piano."

Hirata cleared them out directly. "In short, whether you believe it or not, please wait at the entrance until the ceremony is over."

Afterwards, he locked the room where the piano was placed and left angrily, as if it was because they did not listen to his advice.

"Brother Lin Xiao, look what I found."

Conan took out a white handkerchief from his pocket, with white crystal particles in the middle.

Lin Xiao took it and sniffed it: "Drugs?"

Conan said affirmatively: "Ah... It's high-purity heroin. They actually used the community center to hide the drugs. This village is not simple."

When Kudo Yukiko heard this, she knew that this village was full of conspiracy. Using the community center as a hiding place for drugs meant that the village chief was leading the drug trafficking and there must be a lot of villagers involved.

"What should we do? Should we call the police?" Kudo Yukiko panicked.

Lin Xiao shook his head: "Since the village chief is leading the drug trafficking, there must be many villagers involved in the village. The villagers are covering up for each other. In the absence of evidence, even if the police come, they will not be able to find anything."

"What should we do then?" Kudo Yukiko was confused.

"Someone has been hiding in the village for many years under an assumed name. Perhaps he can help us."

"Someone?" Kudo Yukiko was even more confused.

Haibara Ai and Edogawa Conan also looked at each other, not understanding what Lin Xiao meant.

Chapter 123: Forcing Asai Narumi to Wear a Swimsuit

When the group walked to the entrance of the community center, they saw Asai Makoto wearing a black uniform, so they walked up to him and asked him.

"Attending a ritual? What ritual?"

Just as everyone was wondering, Asai Narimi explained, "It's Mr. Kameyama's ritual!"

"It's so boring to attend religious ceremonies. Take us to the beach to play. We are not familiar with this place, and Miss Asai can take us there to play." Lin Xiao said shamelessly.

Of course Asai Narumi would never agree to that. If she went to be a tour guide, how would she carry out her plan?

"No. I have to attend a religious ceremony and can't leave. Let's go to another time." Asai Narimi said.