Chapter 839: Will it answer when you call it?
Is that Stradivarius? Of course it is.
Fresh and hot, the Stradivarius just came out of the palace of Shitakuhara Saburo.
According to Karasawa's prediction, it's hard to say whether the Shitaku family can gain anything else tonight. This piano is enough.
Before the banquet started in the afternoon, Asai Narumi took out a handful from the hall, which came from the hall of Shitara Kanon, who was in a bad mental state at the time.
Out of some almost paranoid obsession, when Haga Kyosuke knew that their ability could not only make evil people lose their twisted personalities and repent for the past, but also repair the cracks in their souls and allow people with mental problems to successfully recover, He immediately made a request, hoping to wake up Shitara Kanone who was in a trance.
He was seeking revenge, hoping to see the expressions of fear and regret on his enemies' faces. If possible, he hoped that the other party would be as awake as possible instead of dying drifting away in a dream.
Because the shape was a bit weird, Haga Kyosuke had some mental barriers when it came to using it, so he didn't choose to use it in the end.
Tang Ze can understand his choice. After all, anyone who sees a baby doll with a somewhat weird design turned into a piano in front of his own eyes will find it difficult not to look at it with colored glasses. This piano.
Anyway, according to Asai Narumi's description, even if there were no rumors of a curse on this piano in the past, after seeing this scene, you would rather believe that it was.
Just like this, Kyosuke Haga walked onto the stage step by step, holding the harp from the soul of the deceased. The lights of the venue dimmed, and it once again entered a mode that made it easier for people to focus on watching the performance.
Mouri Kogoro frowned instinctively.
An accident just happened in the darkness. A conductor who was still alive and kicking before turning off the lights fell to the ground and fell unconscious after just one piece of music. Now he has to enter that kind of environment again. , he instinctively felt uneasy and uncomfortable.
"Do we have to turn off the lights?" He asked Shitara Renxi in a low voice, "Are the guests here not in the mood to appreciate it carefully?"
Standing next to a person who had just died, In the hall where the pool of blood has not yet been cleaned, who can really think that this is a concert venue and concentrate on enjoying the charm of music?
Shitara Renxi clenched her hands, looking even more uneasy than him: "No, this, this doesn't conform to the process. There should be no one operating the lighting control in the background..."
Even if it is simple Lighting layout and operation, the stage effect that matches the performance still needs to be edited by the lighting engineer and controlled by the console. People were killed at the front desk, and even the most caring lighting engineer should have known that tonight’s show would not go on. How could he still stay backstage and adjust the lighting?
Mouri Kogoro was still stunned, but Conan immediately stood up and ran towards the room on the side of the hall.
If this is the case, then what is currently in the background...
The commotion in the audience has nothing to do with Haga Kyosuke, who is already in the spotlight.
He put the violin on his shoulder and looked down at the violin, which was shining brightly in the light.
It is not the real body, but the piano that was like a miracle in Sanlang's memory thirty years ago.
So if we have to talk about the condition, it may be better than the original instrument that unfortunately was forced to remain silent in the storage room for thirty years. Just stroking its elegant and oily body makes me feel better. You can feel a beautiful and thorough rhythm.
Is this a good thing among countless regrets? Haga Kyosuke wasn't sure.
However, in his original plan, there would be a blood-stained fake piano that would be shattered into pieces when the next victim fell to the ground. Now, after receiving the "gift" from them, it is even more... .
He closed his eyes gently and began to play.
The graceful and smooth sound came, and Xingchuan Hui, who was leaning on the edge of the backstage console, pushed the push rod on the panel again in accordance with the prearranged order.
The last few weak light sources in the hall were completely extinguished, and they fell into an even more complete darkness than before. Only Haga Kyosuke and him were left standing in the light, as if there were light spots escaping. The piano in hand.
Tangze raised his hand and covered his eyes to prevent the light that might emit from attracting anyone's attention.
Kyosuke Haga closed his eyes and played the piano, his thoughts slowly returning to this moment one year ago and two years ago.
Asai Chengmi told him that his ability may be related to telling the truth. Regarding the subsequent revenge, they do not need their help, as long as he can master this ability more accurately and use it on others, even if only He himself can complete all arrangements flawlessly.
Kyosuke Haga thought this would be difficult. The moment he stood in front of Shitara Eime and Shitara Suito and heard the truth from their mouths, almost all his past perceptions were shattered. It's such a shattering feeling that no one wants to experience it a second time.
However, when the piano sounded, his thoughts involuntarily flowed with the precise and smooth scales, flowing to those relatives who stood in front of the stage with their eyes closed in silence every time he heard this piece of music. , and the expressions on their faces that are hard to distinguish between true and false.
The blood stains have been cleaned up, and the damaged railings have been rebuilt, but the old rot has long been rooted in it and is difficult to erase.
When did he first hear this music? It seems to be at my father's funeral.
This self-pity piece that Mozart could not finish was originally a gentle piano piece, but it was so deafening to his young ears.
It was deafening, just like... in those moments...
After his mind completely entered the music, the next second, he was sitting in the audience blankly, watching the dream begin. The performer of Haga Kyosuke's Shitara Ayaon stood up blankly and staggered up the steps.
The two phantom thieves, who were each using their own abilities to enhance the appeal of music and weaken Shitara Kanon's spiritual will, stopped at the same time.
In the darkness, Shitara Kanyin quietly walked up dozens of steps, bypassed the deserted second-floor corridor, and walked to the side of the railing.
With a "bang", Conan found the console and pushed open the closed door.
The room was empty. Xingchuan Hui, who noticed his movement, had already been one step ahead of him and left lurking in the shadows.
Conan didn't care so much, he turned on the flashlight on his watch, checked the operation label on each push rod on the console, quickly found the main valve of the light, and pushed it all the way. To the end.
The "Requiem" outside the venue happened to come to an end, and amid the aftertaste of the piano music, the hall became bright again.
When Haga Kyosuke raised his bow, Shitara Kanon's crying voice sounded almost immediately.
He turned around and looked towards the place where the sound came from, and saw Shitara Kanyin looking at his figure holding the violin with a longing and painful look in his crazy eyes.
"Surrender, surrender...my child..."
"Xuanyin, what are you doing! Put down the piano?!" After the lights came on, I found that my wife across the table had disappeared. The missing Shitara shouted something, but his hand was honestly pressed on his chest, as if he was ready for something to happen.
Not only Tiao Yilang, but also everyone else in the hall screamed in horror.
The position where Shile Xuanyin stood and her current posture looked too dangerous. She stood on the protruding terrace used to display decorations on the corridor railing, leaning forward, almost losing her balance.
"Aunt..." Haga Kyosuke turned around and stared at her with complicated eyes.
He used to respect this kind elder. After losing his parents, he was very envious of Jiangren for having such a good mother who loved him infinitely and could compete with her husband and even the family for him.
However, this enviable trait is the real opportunity for her to become a ghost. This is how he faces this reality.
"Danjiro." Before the hurried rescuers rushed forward, Shitara Kanon's expression suddenly returned to normal, and she shouted to Haga Kyosuke in a calm tone, "I When we arrived, you had already fallen to the ground. I was in a panic, and so was Jiang Ren, but Tiao Yilang said that this way Qin truly belongs to us. I wanted to refute, but Jiang Ren's expression, his expression..."
Perhaps because of the change of heart, Shitara Ayane, who had finally regained some normal sense of right and wrong, had tears in her eyes.
Kyosuke Haga knew that she regarded him as her father, and looked at her with a complicated look.
Shitara Tiaoichiro fell into a daze. At that time, Shitara Ryoto was also a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child who was immature and frightened by the unexpected situation. Faced with such a father and son, Shitara Tiaoyi Le Xuanyin could not do anything to disobey them.
In contrast, she seemed to be less guilty as she was not the decision-maker, but when he heard her crying voice and her confession to Danjiro, Haga Kyosuke still could not say anything like forgiveness or understanding. .
After all, the person who has the power to forgive them and understand them has been dead for thirty years.
So he just held the piano in his hand and stood there without giving any response, still staring coldly at her body that was about to collapse.
"I'm sorry."
Shitara Kanon let out one last cry, and then the whole person fell from the edge of the railing, falling headfirst on the stiff white marble.
“Ahhh——”
“Grandma?! Ahhh...”
"Where's the ambulance? Call an ambulance quickly..."
"Oh my God, that piano, that piano..."
Conan, who was also rushing forward, widened his eyes. The piano body that slipped out of Shitara Kanone's arms broke on the hard marble surface, and the shattered strings made a harsh crackling sound.
"Oh my god..." The parts of the violin fell to his feet. Seeing this priceless violin being destroyed in front of his eyes, Mao Lilan, who originally still had the strength to hold Shitara Renxi, couldn't help but cover up. Shut up.
Losing the coercion, Shitara Renxi rushed towards her grandma who fell to the ground, reached out and touched her blood-stained face, and finally broke down and cried.
Of course, Shitara Tiao Ichiro also rushed over quickly. His decayed body seemed to have suddenly gained great strength, not like a dying old man at all. He ran to the position where Shitara Kaanyin fell to the ground in a few steps.
However, what he reached out to touch was not his dying wife. He just tried to pick up the violin fragments on the ground with trembling hands.
"Stradivarius, my piano, my things..."
With such a tragedy happening in front of him, Haga Kyosuke still stood on the stage without moving.
He looked at Shitara, who was kneeling beside the piano, and asked softly: "Why did she say she was sorry to my father? Also, what she just said..."
Holding the shapeless body of the instrument in his arms, Shitara's body stiffened and he gasped for air without looking back at his nephew who asked the question.
Even at this time, even though so many lives have been lost on this piano, he still can't even tell the truth to the children of the victims who should theoretically legitimately own this piano.
Kyosuke Haga tightened his grip on the violin and closed his eyes.
Is it so difficult to just want to hear an explanation, to hear the other person tell him what he did before he died?
Can a peerless piano make people give up their humanity and keep it as their own even if they risk the lives of their relatives and friends?
A faint golden light fluttered in his eyes. Kyosuke Haga exhaled and said in a cold voice: "Don't cry, that's a fake."
"What? But this piano, my grandma got it from me." In my hand..." Shitara Renxi suddenly raised her head, wanting to refute, but after seeing Haga Kyosuke's expression clearly, she stopped talking, unable to speak.
Yes, after the piano was taken out, it was handed over to Kyosuke Haga for calibration. It was only after he completed the tuning that it came into her hands.
If anyone really has the chance to switch it, Kyosuke Haga is undoubtedly one of them.
"Impossible, this is impossible!" Shitara Tiaoyilang's expression immediately distorted, "I have heard it, I am familiar with its timbre——"
"Of course it is possible. After all, this is the imitation that you tried so hard to deceive my father. If you don't make it similar enough, how can you deceive others?" Kyosuke Haga interrupted him, "My father can hear it. But you can't do it, doesn't it mean that you don't deserve it in the first place?"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Shitara Tiaoyilang didn't know what he said, and he didn't care about himself. With his fragile body, he stood up directly from the ground, "That's my piano! You are just a thief, a liar..."
As he spoke, his cloudy eyes locked on Haga Kyosuke's hand. .
Standing at such a close distance, he could finally see clearly what the violin Haga Kyosuke had brought him looked like.
Recalling that Kyosuke Haga claimed that he had exchanged genuine products, he suddenly opened his eyes angrily and rushed over, completely ignoring the panicked and stunned looks of the guests in the venue, as well as the old wife who had stopped breathing. , staring straight at the violin in Kyosuke's hand.
"Give it back to me, give it back to me, you greedy bastard..."
Kyosuke Haga took a few steps back, avoiding Tiao Ichiro's steps that couldn't be called fast at all, and jumped After getting off the high platform, he returned to Asai Narumi.
Asai Narumi silently bent down and handed the other two piano cases in the package at his feet to Haga Kyosuke.
Kyosuke Haga lifted the handles of the two piano cases, shook open the lids, and revealed the two violins perfectly embedded in the velvet, and let out a sneer.
"Since you said this is your piano, come and identify it. If you can identify which one is it, I will give it back to you, how about it?"
(End of this chapter)