The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

The running water-like triplets sounded one after another, and the quiet melancholy accompanied by a hint of deep darkness continued to echo in the corridor.

"It came from there..." Mao Lilan identified the direction from which the sound of the piano came, turned his head, and looked at the two ajar doors of the piano room with a slightly fearful gaze.

The story of the cursed piano that Hirata told earlier today replayed in her ears, making her legs shake involuntarily.

The clear and melodious piano music continued to advance and began to twist and rise, gradually involving a series of anxious and uneasy feelings. It also broke through the endless chanting sounds in the venue and suddenly reached the ears of the guests present.

"what sound?"

"This, this song...!"

Naomi Asai, who was sitting upright, also raised his head, listening to the methodical legato, and his fingers on his knees flicked gently, following the series of jumping scales, dancing rhythmically.

He still remembered that he was still with his father, sitting excitedly in front of the piano, and his father led him to press the keys little by little. His father played this piece of music and said to him with a smile -

"Have you felt it? This surging, heartstring-trembling feeling? This is the first movement, it's..."

"It's an impromptu dream, a prelude and a beginning." Narumi Asai said in an inaudible voice.

"Mr. Kawashima——!"

After a series of footsteps, the door was slammed open by several people.

"Cough, cough..." Kawashima Hideo, who was sitting in front of the piano, heard the call of the person outside the door. He stiffened his neck and turned his head, looking at the person who walked in with bloodshot eyes.

"What's going on, Mr. Kawashima, Mr. Kawashima?" The current village chief and his group, who were the first to run in, hurriedly stepped forward and helped Kawashima Hideo, who seemed to be having difficulty breathing.

Kawashima Hideo looked at them with dull eyes.

"Are you ready?" Asai Narumi, who was at the end of the crowd and walked unhurriedly, heard the voice from behind.

He smoothed his hair and nodded slightly.

"Then let's put an end to our revenge."

When he heard these words, something cold fell into his palm.

What this is... he naturally knows very well, and even said that this is the mechanism set up by himself.

Closing his eyes, Asai Narumi twitched the corners of his mouth and pressed the button without hesitation.

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"嚓——"

Hearing this small noise behind him, Karasawa stopped talking to Miyano Akemi, turned his head, and looked back at the shadow Kawashima Hideo who was tied to the pile of gold coins.

A candle was cut off at the waist after the sound of the mechanism, and slowly fell down, igniting the pungent-smelling liquid on the ground.

In an instant, a raging fire ignited.

Not far away from them, the unconscious Shadow Kawashima briefly regained consciousness due to the heat wave and pain.

Seeing the corners of his robe being licked by the fire, he burst into a series of shrill screams and twisted his body, trying hard to stay away from the intensifying fire.

"It's on fire, help, help! No, no, ah——!"

A series of painful roars continued to be heard. Amidst the shouts and tremors, the entire large room filled with gold coins and treasures and painted with poppy patterns was completely ignited in the fire. The entire wooden structure house was burned. The flame began to slowly collapse.

"He still made a decision." Miyano Akemi, who was watching this scene, was not surprised, but said inexplicably, "Since he has made up his mind to get rid of these people, why did he choose such a tortuous method? Because he doesn't have to see it with his own eyes. Seeing the deceased wailing in the fire will help you make up your mind?"

"No, on the contrary." Karasawa, who pulled Miyano Akemi and used the hook lock to start retreating in the hall, denied, "Asai Narumi just wanted to see all this with his own eyes and let them die in "Moonlight", That’s why I chose to do this.”

"Isn't it to exonerate yourself?" Miyano Akemi said jokingly, watching the collapsed building fly past her, "What a perfect criminal method, didn't he just complete a murder in front of the detectives?" ?"

"No." Also watching the beautifully decorated house collapse bit by bit, Tang Ze shook his head, "He knows very well that no matter how sophisticated and tortuous the method is, the murderer is still himself... What we provide him is not a way to escape. The lucky road of reconnaissance vision is a stage where revenge can be fulfilled heartily."

"you mean?"

"Well, he knows that he is a person with blood on his hands, and he has a death wish."

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"Dr. Narumi, Dr. Narumi, look at Mr. Kawashima, this is..."

Naomi Asai, who held the button in his hand, was brought back to his mind by the sound in front of him, and he squeezed through the crowd with an anxious look on his face and walked into the surrounded piano room.

"Give me a minute, give me a minute, don't block the air, let's try to help him open his airway!" Asai Narumi stepped forward to check with great urgency. However, only he knew the reason for his real urgency.

"Uh, uh..." Kawashima Hideo fell to the ground and was twitching slightly. The moment Asai Naomi touched him, dark liquid suddenly overflowed from his mouth and nose.

Soon, something dark and shiny came out of his ear holes and the corners of his eyes, like spoiled blood or some kind of thick sludge.

"ah!"

"ah--!"

This strange scene caused another small-scale commotion, and screams of fear rang out one after another from the crowd.

"Mr. Kawashima, cheer up, Mr. Kawashima!" Strong hands firmly grasped Kawashima Hideo's shoulders. Asai Narumi stared at this scene intently, staring at Kawashima Hideo no longer moving in his hands. Almost losing my breath.

This kind of death... really fits the way a demon should die.

Asai Narumi's hands began to tremble uncontrollably, and his voice was the same: "He, he lost his breath... He can't survive anymore..."

This performance was in line with everyone's expectations for her, but only he knew the reason for the trembling.

He let go of his hand and let Kawashima's limp body fall to the ground with a muffled sound.

Asai Naomi raised his head with unfocused eyes, looked around, and finally settled on the piano.

The atmosphere at the scene was very frozen due to Kawashima's sudden death. Everyone was recalling his strange death state just now and did not dare to express their anger.

So in such silence, the melodious sound of the piano was like the moonlight pouring in from the window, quietly filling the entire space.

"Then, are you playing the piano by yourself?" Mao Lilan, who was rushing to the front and therefore very close to the piano and could see the keys clearly, covered her mouth with force, for fear that she would burst out into a scream out of fear.

Everyone's eyes also stopped at the keys of this old piano that was in disrepair.

The black and white keys of the untouched piano were pressed and played on their own, as if there was someone they didn't even see sitting on the piano chair playing to their heart's content.

Mao Lilan closed her eyes, and the scream that she endured finally broke out.

"Yeah - there's a ghost -"

The high-decibel female voice broke through the center of activity filled with sandalwood and candlelight, and spread far away along the silent sea outside the window.