Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

next morning.

The last rehearsal at Domoto Concert Hall.

"The content of the performance is exactly the same as the official performance, and you can choose where you want to sit. The final rehearsal is really great!" Suzuki Sonoko walked into the concert hall with emotion, "Brother Fei Chi and Uncle Mao Li didn't even want to come to see it. Rehearsal, they will regret it!"

"Because on the way, Dad suddenly found that he had forgotten his things, so he asked Brother Feichi to take him back to pick them up, so he couldn't catch up with the rehearsal." Mao Lilan turned to talk to Suzuki Sonoko with a smile, "They said that they would go to West Domo after lunch. Come to the city, it’s also great to watch the official performance directly.”

"That's right," Suzuki Sonoko said with a look of hope, "He stays in the private room, even if the official performance starts, he won't be disturbed by anyone!"

"Then why didn't Sister Sonoko book a private room?" Mitsuhiko asked doubtfully.

"Yeah," Yuantai glanced at Suzuki Sonoko, "The Suzuki consortium is also the investor, isn't it?"

"Hey, I sat outside specially for you," Suzuki Sonoko stopped in the corridor, put his hands on his hips, leaned over to look at the three children, and said confidently, "I'm afraid you are too boring staying in the private room. The VIP seat we are sitting in has the best view, we can see the whole concert hall clearly, and the environment is a bit more open, so that you don’t feel too stuffy, we are the only ones there, and you don’t have to worry about disturbing others!”

The statement of 'disturbing others' immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the three children, and they pestered Suzuki Sonoko to chatter.

"We won't..."

"So?" Hui Yuanai moved closer to Conan, turned to look at the policeman at the door, and asked in a low voice, "What did Uncle and Brother Feichi do?"

Conan held the back of his head with his hands, with a relaxed expression on his face, "Didn't Yuanzi say that? Uncle forgot to bring something, so let Brother Chi take him back to get it."

"Really?" Hui Yuanai glanced at Conan coldly.

Conan said in a low voice speechlessly, "Okay, uncle pretended to sprain his hand and asked Brother Feichi to take him back. Last night, uncle proposed to buy ingredients by himself, and he sneaked in the office on the second floor for a while before going to bed. I was curious and went downstairs to have a look, and found two sleeping pills in his desk drawer."

Hui Yuanai was startled, and then realized, "Then, I'll come with Uncle later..."

"Probably the police found a substitute for Brother Chi." Conan smiled and rolled his eyes, "As long as the substitute is about the same height, make a good disguise, and imitate Brother Chi's walking posture, it won't be noticeable from a distance. Sometimes they will go directly to the private room before the opening, and will not meet with acquaintances."

"So that's the case, because the uncle used to be a policeman, so he can better understand the police's current mood..." Hui Yuanai joked, "It is worse and more unacceptable to let others be bait than to be injured by one's own people. It seems that After the police's two protection actions were frustrated, Uncle Maori stood by the police without hesitation."

"Yes," Conan said with emotion, "Officer Mumu and the others were really hit hard this time. Uncle Maoli should have discussed it with the police without telling us, otherwise Officer Mumu insisted on opposing Brother Chi's coming to serve as a police officer yesterday." The bait."

"Leaving that aside, have you ever thought that the person who will come may be a substitute for Brother Feichi and Uncle Mao Li?" Hui Yuanai asked back.

Conan smiled dryly, "No, it's impossible..."

It is possible that Uncle Mao Li was put down by Chi Feichi, and then Chi Feichi instigated a bewildered police substitute to come here disguised as the uncle.

But this time the uncle is playing tricks, and he is not facing Shangchi Feichi head-on, so he still has a good chance of success.

...

Those who participated in the final rehearsal included Akiba Reiko, Domoto Yiki and Yamane Ziyin who had booked the show, as well as the person in charge Domoto Xianya and curator Pu Kazuo.

Not only Chi Feichi was absent from the rehearsal, but also the organ tuner Hans Müller.

Mao Lilan heard that Hans-Müller could not be contacted at all. Seeing that Tang Ben insisted on continuing the rehearsal, he asked worriedly, "Don't you need to call the police? This is already considered missing, isn't it?"

"But if the police come, it will take a lot of time to ask questions." Domoto explained resolutely, "This concert will be attended by celebrities from all walks of life, including many well-known musicians from other countries. The performance time, or making mistakes during the performance, will ruin the reputation of Domoto Academy. I can bear it when I am old, but the previous graduates of Domoto Academy and the students who are still in school may be questioned by others during the performance. !"

Domoto Xian also smiled to smooth things over, "It's not sure that he's missing for the time being, maybe he just overslept? We'll contact him later. If it doesn't work, we can ask someone to visit the hotel where he stayed."

Mao Lilan hesitated for a moment, but did not insist.

In the final rehearsal, Yamane Ziyin's state has been adjusted, and her performance is completely different from the last rehearsal. In addition, she and Akiba Reiko have changed into costumes, which looks a lot more formal and grand. The three children are all obedient. Quiet and watch the show.

Conan listened to the music, and quietly paid attention to the score and craftsman standing by the stage.

Last night at Dean Domoto's house, he saw the photos of Pu and Takumi when they were young, and he always felt that they were very similar to the photos in Soma Hikaru's archives...

But now there is no evidence, even if it is proved that Pu and Takumi are Soma Hikaru's father, there is no evidence to prove that Pu and Takumi are the murderer.

And if Pu and Takumi did everything, it doesn't make sense: Pu and Takumi should have known about Soma Mitsu's death and the reason for Soma Hitsu's death long ago. If they want to take revenge, why wait until three years later?

What was it that stimulated you? Or have you run into some big trouble?

Well, after the rehearsal is over, you can ask Domoto about it!

...

The last rehearsal was over, and Domoto waved to confirm the details with the performers. Conan could only leave the concert hall first, followed Suzuki Sonoko to have lunch, and then turned around and returned to the concert hall.

In the concert hall, Qiuting Lianzi was sitting in front of the pipe organ, stretching out her hand to try to tune the stoppers, when she heard someone running over, she turned her head in doubt, "Conan?"

"Miss Qiu Ting, where is the dean?" Conan looked around and found that everyone else was gone.

"The dean is going to have lunch. I don't know if he is in the lounge now." Qiuting Lianzi pulled out the stopper, pressed a key on the keyboard, and listened to the sound with a frown. , there seems to be something wrong, but I'm not sure which stop it is, the organ is indeed more troublesome."

"Mr. Hans-Müller hasn't contacted yet?" Conan asked.

"Yeah, I can't get through the phone. Mr. Xianya called someone to go to the hotel where he was staying to check the situation, but the murderer probably wouldn't do anything to him..." Qiuting Lianzi got up and pulled the skirt of the white dress He walked out, "Let's go, I'll go to the dean of Tang Ben to talk about the organ, aren't you going to find him?"

"Hmm!" Conan followed decisively, raised his head and asked, "Miss Qiu Ting, are you familiar with Mr. Pu He?"

"It's not very familiar, but he is the exclusive piano tuner of Dean Domoto. He has been doing it for thirty years. They are like old friends. Until two years ago, Dean Domoto switched to playing the organ, so that he can relax Everyone in Domoto Academy knows him, and I am no exception." Qiuting Lianzi went to the lounge, lowered her head and asked Conan, "Do you have any questions, Mr. Puhe?"

Conan hesitated for a moment, and did not rashly say his guess, "Has he encountered anything special recently?"

Qiuting Lianzi thought back, "I haven't heard of any special things happened to him, it's still the same."

"Is that so..." Conan didn't ask any further, thinking that these things could only be clarified by asking Domoto.

When the two reached the lounge, there was no answer when they knocked on the door.

Qiuting Lianzi guessed that Tang Benyi might be relaxing by the lake behind the concert hall, and took Conan to find someone.

Conan thought that there were police officers near the concert hall, and was eager to find Domoto to ask questions and quickly solve the case, so he didn't take much precautions, and followed Qiuting Lianzi to the lake.

Just when the two of them didn't see Domoto's figure and were discussing where to find someone, a black figure quietly came behind the two of them. First, he knocked Qiu Ting Lianzi unconscious with a wrench, and before Conan turned around, another wrench knocked him down. conan...

...

Maori Detective Agency.

"No, it doesn't look like it at all," Mori Kogoro stroked his chin and looked at the policeman in black uniform in front of him, "Be more imposing!"

A certain policeman stared with a fierce expression on his face.

Mori Kogoro instructed, "No, no, the expression should be a little colder, as if you don't want to talk to others!"

A certain policeman restrained his gradually ferocious expression due to over-practice, and looked at Kogoro Mori expressionlessly.

"I always feel that something is missing..." Mori Kogoro looked at his apprentice who had fallen asleep on the sofa, and found that it was difficult to describe that feeling just by looking at Chi Feichi's calm expression when he fell asleep, so he raised his head irritably. Raised his right hand and scratched his hair, "Isolate myself from everyone, but the feeling that if you provoke him, he will beat you..."

A certain policeman was devastated, and felt that Kogoro Mori was trying to embarrass him, "Mr. Mori, I think this is all right, we have to hurry to Nishitama City, if we delay, we will miss the admission time! I think, we should You are too familiar with Mr. Chi, that's why you always don't feel like it, Police Officer Mu Mu said, as long as we imitate Mr. Chi's walking habits, we will enter the venue farther away from the crowd, so it will be difficult to be seen."

"That's right..." Mori Kogoro felt that it was a bit embarrassing for a normal person to completely imitate the expression, eyes, and impression of a snake maniac. He straightened the collar of the white dress on his body, "Let's go! We'll talk about it when we get there."

After the two hurried out, they closed the door with a 'click', but it was not locked.

After a while, a soft sigh came from the room.

Chi Feichi sat up on the sofa, raised his hand and rubbed the space between his brows.

His teacher is really too boring, and the policeman who came to act as a stand-in doesn't seem to be very good at acting.

Although Sanwu Goldfinger was there and the effects of the sleeping pills didn't affect him for a long time, he had woken up and lay down for more than an hour. Those two people were still adjusting and adjusting repeatedly, which made him feel tired.

Feichi crawled to the door, didn't speak, just stayed in front of the crack of the door, his lowered voice seemed a bit sneaky, "Master, there seems to be police guarding the stairs."

"There are probably downstairs too." Chi Feichi stood up, and when Feichi crawled back, he bent down and picked up Feichi, and said softly, "Let's go out from the window of the tea room, climb directly to the roof, and then go from the roof to the nearby residential building. Go to the roof and leave."

He didn't want to argue repeatedly with Mumu Shisan and Mori Kogoro about whether to use a substitute, so he drank the drugged juice together.

As one of the funders, he has more than one invitation letter here, and the police can use a double if they want, so it doesn't affect him to watch the fun.