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 Mouri Kogoro’s request?

Conan, the mole, 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 her words, the long-faced man with a frightened expression in the crowd made some thick spitting sounds in his throat when he saw the sheet of music falling, and turned around and ran away with a horrified expression.

When Mouri Kogoro saw this scene, he couldn't help but ask: "Who is that? Did he know the deceased?"

No matter what the reason is, someone who ran away from the crime scene in such a panic must still be someone related to the case. When the police come, they still need to focus on questioning this person.

"Ah, that's Mr. Ken Nishimoto." Hirata Kazaki replied smoothly, "His personality has been like this 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 Chief Guishan Village?"

"It's true. I heard that he used to be a high-ranking person with a rich family, and he was involved in all kinds of food, drink, prostitution and gambling... But since the death of Mr. Kameyama, he seemed to have been seriously frightened and hid all day. They stay shut at home and don't want to communicate with others when they come out." Seeing that their attention finally left the piano, Hirata and Ming breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the village chief who had a pale face, "By the way, village chief You and Mr. Nishimoto seem to have grown up together, right?"

"Ah, yes, that's right..." Kuroiwa Tatsuji laughed twice awkwardly and changed the subject, "We haven't had that much contact in the past few years. I don't know very well. Oh, the police are coming. ”

Mouri Kogoro noticed his collar which 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 first. Tomorrow we will notify everyone who needs to further participate in the interrogation to come over. Please pay attention to safety and be careful of doors and windows!" The only policeman on the island The old man stood at the door of the activity center, watching the residents scattering in all directions, and raised his voice to give instructions.

"It doesn't look like a murder, right?"

"Yeah, it just happens to be this time..."

"It must be Aso's ghost that is causing trouble. I told you that he will not rest in peace if he dies like that."

"It's hard to say, maybe Guishan is not satisfied with the ritual?"

"Amitabha, Amitabha..."

Asai Narumi, who left with the crowd, listened to these chaotic sounds passing by one by one, 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, he felt so calm 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, which caused the same gentle smile to hang on his softly contoured cheeks.

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 casually threw the white chrysanthemum in his hand on the table next to him, "Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your help."

Although his plan might be able to be carried out smoothly without them, the fire in his heart that has been burning for more than ten years will probably 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 truly feel like his father's ghost has returned and personally take away the lives of those evildoers...

It would be best if this fear could condense into a dark cloud above Moon Shadow Island that the sun cannot penetrate, and it could last forever in everyone's hearts, allowing those poisons that should not live here to lose their nutrients and wither away.

If it could be done to this extent, it would be even better, more ideal than the best-case scenario he expected.

"Did you leave the emblem on the score intentionally?" Thinking of the marks on the score, he asked again, "You actually took the initiative to show your involvement in this matter, which is beyond my expectation."

He also thought that removing the chief 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 a problem once it happened to them. Contact 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." Karasawa nodded. The blindfold on his face and he 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, "When someone detects my identity, There will be trouble."

"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, you can tell whether they are dead or not!

Miyano Akemi, not only is her social status 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.

Understood from this perspective, the reason why the Phantom Thieves use Masks is inexplicable and quite convincing.

As for the reason why she specifically wants her to treat Asai Narumi like this——

"How is it? We have proved to you that we are excellent collaborators, haven't we?" Looking at Asai Narumi, Karasawa stretched out his hand, "It's time to go to the next hall. Who are you going to start with, Kuroiwa Tatsuji, or Ken Nishimoto?”

"Yes, you have faithfully fulfilled your promise..." Hearing him pronounce their names in such a plain tone, with the confidence of "taking the enemy general's head out of ten thousand armies", Asai Shimi smiled and held the hand. He stretched out his hand, "Nishimoto Ken, he has my father's relics in his hand."

"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.

And just as they were switching worlds, Tangze 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]

[Surviving in the fire of karma, passing away in the flames, taking decisive steps in self-struggle and balance, and being shackled by the shackles of reason... Another breeze disappearing in the torrent of fate is retained by your palm.

As the Tarot says, flames represent 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 powers... Stop pretending, I know you are tempted and want to dig out You're a human being, why don't you hurry up and cheat? 】

[Acquisition ability "Music Appreciation lv1"]

Lyon is really...

It's okay if everyone knows it well. It's not good to talk about 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 Kexue, he met as many as eighty palace masters, if not a hundred, and countless shadows, big and small.

However, like Narumi Asai's palace, it can break the barriers of independent space. In other words, it may be that the palace has not yet been born and is only in the shadow stage. It vaguely controls the impression space of the entire Moon Shadow Island, and even directly controls it. This kind of thing is separated from the complete impression space...

Before seeing it with his own eyes, Tang Ze 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 perseverance. The palace where one is born comes with this special effect. It is almost certain that this person has the power of a Persona user.

As soon as he came out of the impression space of Yueying Island, Tang Ze immediately began to investigate the situation of several quasi-dead people in the palace, preparing to use it 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 Ken Nishimoto'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 kept coming.

"...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.

Ken Nishimoto 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 the head of Guishan Village who believed his disguise two years ago and really thought he was a young woman, so he immediately chose to trick him out alone late at night to do evil things. That way.

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 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 behind by my father." Asai Narumi said calmly, "I need to find them first, please."

"Since we have accepted this task, we will definitely complete it for you. There is no need to repeat the words of thanks." Tangze waved his hand, looked at the courtyard in front of him that looked like a custom street, and shook his head.

Or do they all say that pornography, gambling, and drug abuse should not be separated from each other? Tang Ze knew very well what a place that made a living out of this would become.

You see, Tang Ze'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 and glanced at his daughter and naughty child who were following behind him. "They just don't trust me."

"Hey, children should not spend the night in such a dead place. It's not good for their health..." The old man said nonchalantly and opened the door to the piano room for them. "If you insist, there's nothing I can do about it." .”

"Excuse me." Mao Lilan bowed lightly to him and was startled when he saw the scene in the room. "Hey, who moved the victim here? I remember that Dr. Chengshi was trying first aid at the piano. of……"

"It's me." The old man pointed to the body covered with white cloth, "Anyone who sees this kind of death will feel unbearable."

"Ah, that sheet of music is also missing." Conan quickly scanned the room twice and said.

One of his purposes for coming here was to check the sheet of music and get in touch with joker...

Just showing up at the crime scene like that, it's impossible for the joker to have no knowledge of the case, right?

Moreover, 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 something 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 gloves and folded the evidence twice, Mouri Kogoro felt his forehead suddenly straighten. Jump.

"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 have been working on this island for decades. Is there anything like this on this island? Don’t I know about planting poison?”

"It's not necessarily something from the island that was used, right?" Mao Lilan said, carefully taking the music sheet, "It's not yet certain whether the murderer is 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 have been fishing and farming for generations. How can there be 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, "Are there no other ships approaching?"

"No." The old policeman said firmly, "I patrol the island three times a day, and I am familiar with every place where a boat can be parked. It is 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 it...

Could it be possible that joker and the others really swam here? !

I imagined the three strange thieves crawling out of the sea wet...

Stop, that's weird.

Shaking his head, Conan shook this strange scene 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, are you here?" 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 to the fourth line, "The first three lines are indeed "Moonlight Sonata" The beginning of the first movement, but the fourth line, it’s not in 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 that my father would play with me when I was little." Asai Naomi touched the yellowed paper in her hand, carefully laid it flat, and ran her fingers over the faded lines one by one. He smiled nostalgically, "In order to train my hearing for notes, he matched the black and white keys on the keyboard with the 26 letters one by one, and then pressed the keys to convert what he wanted to say into notes... The two of us occasionally It would be like this, chatting on the keyboard.”

"So your father's legacy is this sheet music?" Hoshikawa Teru looked up at the "Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor" on the first page. "Didn't he die in the fire? Didn't he really have time to leave the sheet music like this? Information?"

"Perhaps it wasn't something he left in time, but something he wanted to tell me a long time ago... When he discovered 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 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's expression went blank.

Even if it was something he had expected, when everything really happened... it was still so, so...

"Father..." he murmured as he touched the stack of papers that had survived the flames.

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