Chapter 432 "Temperance"
Everyone's eyes were immediately attracted to this simple drawing with smooth lines on the score, including Asai Narumi.
"The Phantom Thieves of the Heart..." Seeing this familiar logo, Mouri Kogoro frowned deeply, "Are they following me again?"
If I have to say it, it’s true, aren’t they here just because of Moori Kogoro’s request?
The mole Conan felt guilty for half a second, and then began to observe the music score on the ground intently.
"This is the beginning of the first movement of "Moonlight Sonata." Obediently without touching the paper, Mao Lilan bent down to observe for a while and said with certainty, "That's right."
"Ah, Ah..." As soon as she finished speaking, the long-faced man with a frightened expression in the crowd made some thick spitting sounds in his throat when he saw the piece of music falling, and turned around and ran away with a horrified expression.
Mouri Kogoro saw this scene and couldn't help but ask: "Who is that? Did he know the deceased?"
No matter what the reason, he ran away from the crime scene in such panic , there will definitely still be someone related to the case. When the police arrive, they will still have to focus on questioning this person.
"Ah, that's Mr. Takeru Nishimoto." Kazaki Hirata replied smoothly, "This has been his character in the past two years. He is always surprised and makes you laugh."
"In the past two years?" Conan immediately grasped the key point, "Since the death of Guishan Village Chief?"
"Indeed, I heard that he was also a high-ranking person in the past, with a rich family, eating, drinking and whoring. Gambling comes from everything... But since Mr. Kameyama passed away, he seems to have been severely frightened. He hides at home all day long and is unwilling to communicate with others when he comes out." Finally leaving the piano, Hirata Kazuaki breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the village chief who looked pale, "By the way, village chief, you and Mr. Nishimoto seem to have grown up, right?"
"Ah, Yes, that's right..." Kuroiwa Tatsuji laughed awkwardly and said, "We haven't had that much contact in the past few years. Oh, the police are here."
Mouri Kogoro noticed his collar that was also wet with sweat and raised his eyebrows.
There are so many secrets on this island...
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“It’s very late now, and the interrogation work may not be carried out one by one, so everyone can go back and rest. Tomorrow we will notify everyone who needs to further participate in the interrogation to come, please pay attention to safety. "Be careful with the doors and windows!" The only policeman on the island stood at the door of the activity center, looking at the residents scattering and shouting.
"It doesn't look like a murder, right?"
"Yes, it just happens at this time..."
"It must be Aso's ghost that is causing trouble, I don't think so. I said, he will not be able to rest in peace if he dies like that.”
"It's hard to say, maybe Kameyama is not satisfied with the ritual?"
"Amitabha, Amitabha..."
Narimi Asai, who left with the crowd, listened to these chaotic words. The sounds passed by his ears one by one, he tightened his coat, raised his head and bathed in the cool moonlight, and slowly adjusted his breathing.
He had walked the road from the community center to the clinic too many times, but only today, his mood was so stable and relaxed.
The melody of "Moonlight Sonata" echoed in his heart. For the first time in so many years, he felt an unprecedented calmness in this melody, and the same gentle smile hung on his softly contoured cheeks. smile.
So even after returning to the clinic and seeing three uninvited guys in his room, his mood did not fluctuate much.
"The first act has come to a successful conclusion." He looked at these strange thieves with different shapes and threw the white chrysanthemum in his hand on the table beside him. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your help."
Although his plan might be able to be implemented smoothly without them, the fire in his heart that has been burning for more than ten years will have nowhere to vent until the day when his life ends.
Not only can he take revenge, but with their help, he can even make everything really seem like his father's ghost has returned and personally take away the lives of those evildoers...
The best is this This fear can condense into dark clouds that cannot be penetrated by sunlight in the sky above Moon Shadow Island. It can last forever in everyone's hearts, causing those poisons that should not live here to lose their nutrients and wither and wither.
If it could be done to this extent, it would be even better, more ideal than the best-case scenario he expected.
"Did you intentionally leave the emblem on the music score?" Thinking of the marks on the music score, he asked again, "You actually took the initiative to show your involvement in this matter, which is beyond my expectation. ”
He thought that removing the culprit with his own hands and stopping the spread of evil with his own words would be enough to satisfy their demands - no matter what the outcome, using supernatural power to kill people would be enough to satisfy their demands. Once you have contact with them, it may lead to suspicion and fear.
“Although we don’t show our true colors to others, please don’t get me wrong. We have always acted openly and provided you with such power and convenience. To say that the Phantom Thieves are innocent in your plan would be a bit deceiving. "Tang Ze nodded the blindfold on his face and laughed.
"We need to hide our faces because we are all 'dead people'." Miyano Akemi touched the lace mask on her face, and her outlined red lips bloomed into a bold smile, " If your identity is discovered, trouble will occur.”
"Dead people..." Asai Narumi was stunned by her choice of words.
Tang Ze smiled and said nothing.
Miyano Akemi would not add such a strange setting without authorization. This is naturally what he arranged.
No matter how much moisture there is in the middle, just tell them whether they are dead or not!
Miyano Akemi, not only is her social identity dead, but she also died once in person; Hoshikawa Teruto's account has been hacked, so it would be a bit rude to say that he is not dead. .
As for Tang Ze himself, his operation of stealing other people's accounts and then using other people's accounts to steal his own is a bit of a matryoshka, but it makes sense. "Tang Ze Zhao" is a dead person in the eyes of the organization.
From this perspective, the reason why the Phantom Thieves use Masks is inexplicable and quite convincing.
As for the reason why she was asked to do this to Asai Narumi——
"How about it? We have proved to you that we are excellent collaborators, haven't we?" Looking at it Asai Narumi, Karasawa stretched out his hand to him, "It's time to go to the next hall. Who are you going to start with, Kuroiwa Tatsuji or Nishimoto Ken?"
"Yes, you have faithfully fulfilled your promise... "Hearing him pronounce their names in such a plain tone, quite confident of "taking the enemy general's head out of ten thousand armies", Asai Narumi smiled and held his outstretched hand, "Nishimoto Ken, He has my father’s relics in his hands.”
"As you wish." Tang Ze nodded.
Noah, who had been listening to their movements, activated the navigation to another world with understanding, and the surrounding environment changed accordingly.
While they were changing the world, Tang Ze heard the familiar sound effect and Leon's familiar magnetic voice.
"I am you...you are me..."
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[cooperation Asai Narumi/Aso Minoru]
[Arcana: Temperance rank 1]
[Survived in the fire of karma, died in the flames, and emerged decisively in self-struggle and balance The pace of my life has been stopped by the shackles of reason... Another breeze that disappeared into the torrent of fate was held back by your palm.
The so-called Tarot positive and negative, flame represents destruction and nirvana. The future is by no means static, so don’t hesitate to move forward.
By the way, he can change his makeup and voice, and he can also lurk for many years to secretly investigate the truth of events more than ten years ago. More importantly, he seems to have certain cognitive abilities... Stop pretending, I know you are tempted and want to poach people, why don't you hurry up and try to fool me? 】
[Acquisition ability "Music Appreciation lv1"]
Leon is really...
Everyone just knows it well. It's not good to say this kind of thing. Yes, when Karasawa saw the shadow of Asai Narumi, his eyes really lit up and his mood was soaring.
After he came to the world of Ke Xue, he met eighty to eighty palace masters, and countless shadows, big and small.
But like Narumi Asai's palace, it can break the barriers of independent space, or it may be that the palace has not yet been born, but is only in the shadow stage, and it vaguely controls the impression space of the entire Moon Shadow Island, and even directly controls it. This kind of thing is broken off from the complete impression space...
Before seeing it with his own eyes, Tangze would have never imagined that such an operation could exist!
Being born in a palace is enough to show that one has a strong desire or a persevering heart. The palace of birth has this special effect, so it is almost certain that this person has the power of a persona.
As soon as he came out of the impression space of Yueying Island, Tang Ze immediately began to investigate the palace conditions of several quasi-dead people, preparing to use them to communicate with Asai Narumi.
If such a suitable candidate cannot join the Phantom Thieves, it would be a dereliction of duty on his part as an HR!
"We're here, this is Nishimoto Ken's palace." Karasawa let go of Asai Narumi's hand with a normal expression, and raised his hand to gesture to the house behind him where the music was booming and the lingering laughter was constantly coming out.
"...It really fits my imagination of him." Asai Narumi observed the building in front of him with a pink light and a very ambiguous atmosphere, and sneered twice.
Nishimoto Ken was originally the most hopeless of the remaining scum.
People who can use this kind of industry to gain wealth and power for themselves are like two years ago because they believed his disguise and really thought he was a young woman, so they immediately chose to trick him out alone late at night to have sex. Like the evil leader of Guishan Village.
If you want to say that these people are not involved in other illegal industries except this industry itself, then you can just lie to yourself.
Ken Nishimoto is a bastard with all five kinds of poisons, but he can become a powerful person by relying on no bottom line... Even if he became a frightened bird because of Kameyama's death, and lived in fear for two years, Asai Narumi Nor does he think he was punished enough.
If those things can be easily written off after a few years of fear, then what will be used to repay the blood and tears of the victims?
"He has the safe left by my father." Asai Narumi said calmly, "I need to find them first, please."
"Since I have taken it If you accept this task, we will definitely complete it for you. There is no need to repeat the words of thanks." Tang Ze waved his hand, looked at the courtyard in front of him that looked like a custom street, and shook his head.
Or do we all say that pornography, gambling, and drug addiction are not separated from each other? Tang Ze knew very well what a place that made a living would become like.
You see, Tangze's ultimate goal here is to promote and imprison drug-related personnel. Who dares to say that he is not saving Yueying Island from fire and water, right?
So——
Tang Ze didn't even bother to find the entrance, he flew up and kicked directly on the wooden door.
"Scum, open the door, your Grandpa the Phantom Thief is here!"
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"You can't stay in a nice hotel, but you come here to spend the night with a dead man. Are you serious?" The old policeman holding several quilts held his waist and sighed as he handed them to Mouri Kogoro. , "We don't have many tourists here, so the hotel conditions are not very good, but it's not that bad..."
"I'm worried that the prisoner will attack again." Mouri Kogoro took the quilt. , glanced at the daughter and naughty child who were following behind like tails, "They just don't trust me."
"Hey, children should not spend the night in such a dead place, it is harmful to the body It's not good..." The old man said nonchalantly and opened the door of the piano room for them. "If you insist, there is nothing I can do."
"Excuse me," Mao Lilan said softly to him. Bowing slightly, he couldn't help but be startled when he saw the scene in the room, "Hey, who moved the victim here? I remember that Dr. Chengshi was trying first aid by the piano..."
" It's me." The old man pointed to the body covered with white cloth, "Anyone who sees this kind of death will be heartbroken."
"Ah, that sheet of music is also missing." Conan quickly scanned the room twice and said.
One of his purposes for following here was to examine the sheet of music and then get in touch with joker...
Appearing at the scene of the crime like that, there was no way that joker had no knowledge of the case. Bar?
And joker, who has been tracking down addictive hallucinogens, unexpectedly became involved in the murder case, which made him have many associations.
Could the deceased, the murderer, or the events that happened on this island in the past have anything to do with the poppy field?
"What?! That's a crucial clue. Who took it, from the Phantom Thieves?!" Mouri Kogoro's heart suddenly rose, and his voice couldn't help but rise twice.
"Music score, are you talking about this?" The old policeman smoothed his beard and took out a page of paper from his arms.
"You! You said that this case was probably a poisoning, how could you touch it directly like this?" Seeing that he didn't even wear any gloves and folded the evidence twice, Xiao Mao Li Wulang only felt his forehead pounding.
“Wouldn’t it be easier to lose a piece of paper if you just put it here?” The old policeman waved his hand indifferently, “It’s poisonous or not, I’ve been working on this island for decades. I don’t know if there is such a poison on this island?”
“Maybe it’s something from the island, right?” Mao Lilan said, carefully taking the music sheet, “We’re not sure who the murderer is yet. Not an island resident..."
The old policeman laughed, waved his hand, and said in a nonchalant manner: "Yueying Island is a very lonely island. The people on the island are fishing and farming. Their ancestors have been here for generations. Where are there any outsiders? In the past week, , you are the only three foreigners who have come to the island, not one more.
“Just the three of us? Conan raised his glasses, "Have no other ships approached?" "
"No. "The old policeman said with certainty, "I patrol the island three times a day, and I am familiar with every place where a boat can be parked. It’s impossible for someone to swim here from Tokyo, right? "
Conan, who has indeed met Joker himself and two of his team members: "..."
Ah, I can't say...
Could it be possible that joker and the others really swam here? !
Imagine the three strange thieves crawling out of the sea wet...
Stop it, it's too weird.
Shaking his head, Conan shook this strange picture out of his mind, and saw Mao Lilan spreading the music score flat, looking at the staff and notes on the paper and lost in thought, then asked: " Sister Xiaolan, what are you looking at?"
"The score of "Moonlight" is a bit strange." She looked down the notes one by one, hummed along for a while, and pointed. Pointing to the fourth line, "The first three lines are indeed the beginning of the first movement of "Moonlight Sonata", but the fourth line, is this out of tune at all?"
"Let me see..." Mouri Kogoro took the paper from his daughter's hand and stared at the line of notes. "Maybe this is the clue left by Mr. Kawashima. I'll think about it carefully. This is What secret code..."
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"This is a game my father would play with me when I was young." Asai Narumi stroked the yellowed paper in her hand. , carefully laid it flat, ran his fingers over the faded lines one by one, and smiled nostalgically, "In order to train my hearing for notes, he combined the black and white keys on the keyboard with the 26 letters one by one. Correspond, and then convert what you want to say into notes by pressing the keys... The two of us occasionally chat using the keys like this."
"So your father's legacy is this music score. ?" Xingchuan Hui looked up at the "Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor" on the first page, "Didn't he die in the fire? Did he really have time to leave such information as the music score?"
"Maybe? It was not left in time, but something that he had wanted to tell me for a long time... When he found out that his performance had become a channel for underground transactions, he was suffering from it and made up his mind to identify and reject them. He should have something before I had a premonition. He kept playing "Moonlight" before his death, which must be what he was referring to..."
Asai Narumi said, took a breath, skipped the part that belonged to the score, and skillfully read the untuned notes written by his father.
"I-S-H-O... (Suicide note)" The moment he read out the Roman pronunciation, Asai Narumi's expression went blank.
Even if it was something he had expected, when everything really happened... it was still like this, so...
"Father..." He touched the stack of flames. murmured the surviving paper.
One chapter, but 5k!
There is still a chapter of 5k, so even if you pay back 3 plus updates [make a fist]
(End of this chapter)