Conan Rick's Investigator

The other is Qin Zhibo, who is also standing in the water. He represents forgiveness.

This forgiveness is certainly not forgiving your enemies, but forgiving yourself and giving up punishing yourself in the same way as punishing your enemies.

After half a minute of silence, Ma Chengshi chose Qin Zhibo.

He walked across the cool waves, threw himself on Qin Zhibo and cried, his crying voice revealing his somewhat hoarse voice.

Although it felt a bit strange, Qin Zhibo still lent him his broad shoulders and gently hugged this lonely and helpless man.

……

Outside the community center, the Maori family was still waiting.

"Really? How long will the ritual last?"

Kogoro Mouri, who was sitting on the steps, stretched lazily, looked up and saw the full moon in the sky, and complained in dissatisfaction.

At this moment, a string of beautiful music came from the community center.

The jumping notes poured into people's ears like a magic sound, and the famous song called "Moonlight" was played under the full moon.

Conan immediately became alert and rushed into the piano room.

In the piano room, Hideo Kawashima was lying on the floor with his lower body wet, and a very obvious water mark stretched from it to the back door of the piano room.

It’s Mr. Kawashima!

Too late!

Looking at Hideo Kawashima's slightly twisted body, Conan sentenced him to death with just his eyes.

After all, he received a murder notice in advance, and today happened to be a full moon, so this person was doomed to die.

However, when Kogoro Mouri walked over to perform a simple "autopsy", he came to a result that caught Conan off guard.

"Mr. Kawashima..."

"Still alive..."

Well, dead...

Judging from the water marks on the ground, the first scene should not be this piano room, but...

and many more!

Conan, who had already started thinking about the murder method according to inertia, suddenly noticed the autopsy results told by Kogoro Mouri.

Still alive...

Although from the perspective of respecting every life, this is good news.

But for some reason, Conan felt a little regretful in his heart?

……

"Hey! Mr. Kawashima!"

"Mr. Kawashima! Wake up!"

With the vigorous shaking of Kogoro Mori, Hideo Kawashima gradually woke up.

"Mr. Kawashima, how do you feel now?"

"My head hurts a little..."

Kawashima Hideo covered his head with his hands, grimacing, but otherwise he was fine.

So Kogoro Mouri asked in his routine mode.

"Mr. Kawashima, do you remember what happened just now?"

Kawashima Hideo thought for a few seconds and said slowly, "It seems that the ritual was halfway through and I got up to go to the bathroom."

"Then in the toilet, my vision suddenly went black and I lost consciousness..."

At this time, Secretary Hirata once again spread alarmist remarks.

"It's a curse!"

"This is the curse of the piano!"

His slightly exaggerated expression and retreating steps, coupled with the continuous playing of "Moonlight" in the piano room, immediately made the superstitious villagers who attended the ritual begin to believe this statement.

"It's the terrible cursed piano..."

"It must be Keiji Aso's spirit that's causing trouble, Amitabha..."

"Did today's ritual disturb Aso Keiji's soul?"

"Then it will be necessary to add another ritual..."

Among the group of people who were discussing the matter, Ken Nishimoto, who had lost a lot of weight, stared at the piano as if he had seen a ghost, his expression terrified and his legs trembling.

The current village chief, the bald uncle Kuroiwa Tatsuji, also broke out in a cold sweat, his eyes widened and he said nothing.

But just when the discussion of the case began to turn to metaphysics, a staunch materialist fighter stood up.

"Ghosts and curses don't exist in this world!"

"It's obvious that someone knocked Mr. Kawashima unconscious in the toilet and then moved him to this room."

Kogoro Mori's attitude was firm and his words were powerful, but the elderly villagers didn't care at all.

"How do you know there's no curse?" A wrinkled old woman stepped forward, leaning on a cane. "Ahem, the food I've eaten is saltier than the roads you've walked."

"If you keep talking nonsense and disrespecting the deceased, I'll hit your butt with this cane!"

"What gives you the right to give orders here? Who are you?" The current village chief's future son-in-law also began to speak.

"Yeah yeah……"

Amidst everyone's doubts, Kogoro Mouri began to introduce his identity with confidence.

"I'm the famous detective from Tokyo, Kogoro Mori!"

In Kogoro Mori's opinion, Tsukikage Island is not too far from Tokyo, and his reputation should be enough to intimidate everyone present.

result……

"Ah! That's the space pilot."

"No, he often appears in mystery novels, right?"

"That's Kogoro Akechi."

"Who is this person, then?"

Maori Kogoro: Hey! Don’t you guys watch TV or read newspapers?

Chapter 97 Conan: Is this the world of adults? (3k, please subscribe)

Kogoro Mouri's "young" mind suffered 10000 critical hits. He held on to the piano with some injuries, but unexpectedly found a tape recorder inside the piano.

He quickly picked up the tape recorder and said seriously, "Everyone, please look! The sound isn't coming from the 'Cursed Piano,' it's from this tape recorder."

As he said this, Kogoro Mouri stopped the recorder and turned off the BGM "Moonlight".

At this time, Kogoro Mori's eyes caught sight of Narumi Asai in the crowd.

"Doctor Chengshi, please take Mr. Kawashima downstairs to rest first."

"Oh well."

Asai Narumi walked towards Kawashima Hideo and passed by Conan who was thinking.

Conan, who had an extremely sensitive sense of smell and hearing, immediately heard a slight unusual sound.

Pah, pah...

The sound is a bit like treading water.

Conan followed the sound and immediately looked at Asai Narumi's feet.

The black silk on the heel is somewhat crystal clear under the reflection of light, as if...

Take with salt!

Of course, Conan would not think that the salt grains appeared on Dr. Chengshi's feet because they were salty.

The salt particles are what's left after the seawater evaporates, and the sound of stepping on the water is probably because the seawater on the toes has not completely evaporated because it is covered by slippers.

She had just been to the beach!

"Doctor Chengshi, there are salt particles on your socks. Did you just go to the beach?"

Conan's words immediately alerted Kogoro Mouri who was standing next to him.

Even if Kogoro Mori didn't inspect the scene carefully, he could still see the water marks on the ground.

The water marks continued to the back door of the piano room, and outside was the beach.

Therefore, the movement trajectory of the criminal carrying the unconscious Kawashima Hideo should be toilet → piano room → beach → piano room.

Thus……

"Doctor Chengshi, may I ask what you were doing at the beach just now?"

Kogoro Mori looked at Narumi Asai with great confidence, as if everything was clear.

But at this moment, an unexpected person stood up.

"I'm sorry, Miss Chengshi and I were just walking on the beach, so your shoes got wet."

The person who spoke was Qin Zhibo.

Both Kogoro Mouri and Conan were a little surprised by Qin Zhibo's testimony, but they could not doubt it.

Because no matter how hard they racked their brains, they would never have thought that a detective who came to Yueying Island from Tokyo for today's impromptu plan would give false testimony for the female doctor he met for the first time.

And what’s more important is Xiaolan’s next speech.

Xiaolan looked at Qin Zhibo and Asai Chengshi with a gossipy look on her face, and said in surprise, "Mr. Qin must have invited Miss Chengshi after seeing her go into the community center, right?"

In fact, when Qin Zhibo was about to leave the team, Mao Li Ran saw that Qin was staring at Asai Narumi.

Coupled with Qin Zhibo's approaching behavior in the morning, Mao Lilan, who was also a little love-sick, naturally thought of this causal relationship.

In this way, Mao Lilan created a reasonable motivation for Qin Zhibo and Asai Narumi's "beach date".

Chat up in the morning and invite for a walk in the evening...

There is nothing wrong with Qin Zhibo and Asai Narumi!

So Maori Kogoro regarded the two as witnesses again, "Ahem, so did you two see anyone suspicious while walking on the beach?"

"No."

"No."

Both of them shook their heads, causing the investigation into the attack on Hideo Kawashima to reach a bottleneck.

So next, Kogoro Mouri announced the existence of the murder warning letter to everyone. Although no one was killed in this attack, it must be taken seriously.

If any villager sees any suspicious person, he must report it to Kogoro Mori in time.

Besides, if it was just an attack case and not even the wallet was lost, the case would not be big enough to alarm Mr. Megure who was far away in Tokyo.

In addition, the murder notice letter is a riddle and does not specify the exact time, place, or person.

So the only policeman on the island who responded was an old man in his sixties.

……

As soon as the old policeman arrived at the piano room, he recognized Mouri Kogoro based on his name.

"Ah! Is that the famous space pilot?"

Kogoro Maori was embarrassed again and could only directly introduce the details of the attack to the old policeman.

Conan next to him rolled his eyes at the unreliable old policeman and didn't take the role of this policeman seriously at all.

The biggest role of this elderly man is to record such an incident that happened on Yueying Island.

What Conan can't understand the most now is why the criminal stopped committing the crime.