"However, Nishimoto also saw the corpse at the time and was so frightened that he shouted 'curse' on the spot. Later, it was he who spread the word when he was drunk."
"We still don't know what triggered Kameyama's heart failure." Kogoro stroked his chin, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration. "Could it be that Kuroiwa said something to him in order to take his place..."
It seems that the uncle has already identified the Black Rock Village Chief as the primary suspect and is trying his best to refine this logic.
Yoruichi Toyama and Tooru Amuro exchanged a glance, and neither of them said anything more.
They have no evidence at all, and suspicion will remain just suspicion.
“So I think I should go take a look at that piano first,” Yoruichi Toyama said.
The piano that was carried out from the fire where the Aso family perished, a symbol of the "curse".
...
After splitting into three groups and rushing around for half a day, plus a long discussion, it was already close to evening.
Kogoro claimed he had an appointment with Mr. Kawashima and therefore wouldn't investigate the piano.
"You young people will understand the importance of building good relationships with key people in the future."
As he was leaving, the uncle spoke with an air of knowing-it-all wisdom.
It's like everyone knows you're after a free banquet.
Watching Kogoro's retreating figure, his daughter, prospective son-in-law, disciple, and colleagues all wore the same expression.
Only Akemi seemed relatively calm.
Then Ran, under the pretext that "children shouldn't run around," forcibly dragged Conan back to the hotel they had booked.
Conan, who is powerless to resist his girlfriend, looks rather pitiful.
However, as soon as they left, Amuro Tooru and Toyama Yoruichi exchanged a glance and then breathed a sigh of relief.
It's not that I don't believe in the reasoning ability of that famous detective, but now that Asano Minami is still secretly watching, I have to be careful.
"Miss Akemi, is she also..."
Amuro Tooru had just made his suggestion, but before he could finish speaking, Akemi interrupted him firmly.
"I'll go with you."
Investigating just a piano shouldn't be dangerous.
Yoruichi Toyama took a moment to recall the original plot.
Although the current situation is beyond our control, if it were just Asano Minori, he wouldn't dare to lay a hand on the detective he himself had called in to investigate.
The three of them easily found out the piano's whereabouts at the village's activity center.
The piano that witnessed the tragedy 12 years ago and the death of the village chief of Guishan two years ago sits quietly in an empty activity room.
Dusty colored lights hung from the ceiling of the roof, suggesting it was originally intended to be used as a small dance floor.
The melodious sound of a piano filled the air, and the colorful lights spun, illuminating the gleaming marble floor in a dazzling array of colors...
People danced in pairs, enjoying the beautiful night...
The imagined scene made the abandoned activity room seem even more desolate and isolated.
Even the staff member on duty at the activity center who was leading the way couldn't help but sigh.
"What a pity that such a good piano is ruined..."
Hearing his tone, Yoruichi Toyama turned her head away.
"Is this piano still playable? Wasn't it supposed to have been moved from the fire?"
“I don’t know about those,” the young attendant replied, as expected. “The piano is still playable; there were dances every weekend a few years ago.”
"If it weren't for the fact that the village chief of Guishan Village died here two years ago, giving people the creeps..."
"Why don't we just move the piano to another room?" Yoruichi Toyama suggested.
The duty officer couldn't help but grin.
"If it's just a dead person, it's been so long, not many people are bothered by it."
"The main thing is that when the village chief of Guishan Village was found, many people heard the sound of a piano..."
Amuro Tooru, who had never heard of this detail, raised an eyebrow.
"Was it the village chief of Guishan who played it before he died?"
"I don't know," the duty officer replied. "But among the people who came to the scene, someone immediately shouted something about a 'curse' and ran away in fright."
"Is it Mr. Nishimoto?"
The duty officer nodded.
"And what's with all this talk about Aso's ghost? That's impossible! That koto was clearly played by a person!"
"What piece was that you were playing?" Yoruichi Toyama pressed, "Or was it just something you randomly played?"
It should be said that the answer to this question is one of the reasons why he insisted on investigating the piano.
Amuro Tooru and Akemi, who were still unaware of the inside story, heard the duty officer give the answer that they were concerned about.
"It's Beethoven's piano sonata 'Moonlight Sonata'."
...
"Moonlight Sonata, isn't that the piece that Keiji Aso played in the fire?"
After the duty officer left, Amuro Tooru immediately shared his thoughts.
"If it was Asano Minoru who was playing the piano at the time, had he already discovered that Kameyama was connected to the deaths of his family members...?"
"Then why did he send a letter of authorization and leave before we arrived on the island?"
"Is there such a possibility..." Akemi, who had been silent all along, slowly spoke, her gaze fixed on the piano that carried too many stories.
"When Asagi Minoru discovered that Kameyama was one of the murderers who killed his family members, he found out that Kameyama was one of the murderers."
"But he couldn't be sure who else was involved."
"So he sent letters of request to both Mr. Mori and Yoruichi, asking them to uncover the truth of what happened back then, while he waited in the shadows to kill those murderers one by one..."
Looking out the window towards the beach, a bright, clear moon has already risen above the sea.
Moonlight streamed into the activity room and shone on the silent piano.
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