It was not until almost 5:30 in the afternoon that Xiaolan and others were woken up by the police, and they went to the village office together to wait for the police summons.
This wait lasts for half an hour.
The three people who had stayed up all night suddenly yawned nonstop, and their eyes were blurred with tears. Shiraijiu, on the other hand, had always been expressionless and pale, looking sickly. It seemed that it didn't make much difference to her whether she slept or not.
"Xiaojiu, are you feeling well?" Xiaolan worriedly touched Bai Jingjiu's short, smooth hair.
Bai Jingjiu replied coldly: "Fortunately, I have no problem."
"Really? Don't force yourself~"
Makoto Asai, who was sitting on the other side of Xiaolan, also came over and smiled, "Yes, little sister, if you feel uncomfortable, please tell me~"
Xiaolan immediately nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes! Miss Asai is a doctor!"
Yes, yes, it's a cross-dressing doctor who just killed a person last night.
Shiraijiu, who couldn't tell the story, glanced at Asai Makoto and said nothing.
Asai Makoto suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, at this time, Mouri Kogoro opened the door and walked out of the office. Xiaolan quickly changed the subject: "Ah! Dad! How is it? Has the murderer been found?"
Mouri Kogoro, who had finally slept, came over with a tired look on his face and answered: "It's difficult. There are thirty-eight people from the village who came to participate in the ritual. Just confirming their names and addresses is tiring enough..."
During this period, Dr. Asai yawned again and asked: "Then when will it be my turn..."
Mouri Kogoro looked at Asai Honesty like this and felt a little embarrassed, "Ah, you don't seem to be in good spirits, so I'd better take the last photo..."
This is...
Asai Makoto immediately turned around and continued to yawn as he walked and greeted: "In that case, let me wash my face first..."
Because he didn't know when it would be his turn, Asai Makoto kept waiting outside, only to say that he was the last one...
It's better to let him go in immediately to answer the police's questions. The sooner the questions are answered, the sooner he can be released and he can go to bed earlier...
Conan didn't care about the state of others, so he turned to Mouri Kogoro and asked, "Sweetheart, how many people have not been questioned?"
Mouri Kogoro thought for a while, looked at the people waiting in the hall and replied: "Well, if Miss Honesty is also included, the ones left over there are the village chief's daughter Kuroiwa Reiko and her fiancé Murasawa Monday.
, the village mayor candidate Masato Shimizu, the village mayor’s secretary Kazuaki Hatazo, and Kenroku Nishimoto who are currently under interrogation.”
"That guy is really serious. He didn't say anything when you asked him anything..." Mouri Kogoro started the murderer elimination method, "I guess, the murderer should be him!"
However, even if he felt that Kenroku Nishimoto was the murderer, Kogoro Mouri knew that feeling was one thing, and the most important thing was to have evidence.
Speaking of evidence, Kogoro Mouri thought of the piano sheet that must contain important information: "It would be nice to know what Kawashima is hinting at us..."
Bai Jingjiu listened and wanted to roll his eyes, "Uncle Maori, uncle Kawashima was drowned by the murderer and then dragged to the piano, right? Did he have time to write piano music?"
Mouri Kogoro was stunned when he heard this, and Conan was also stunned at the same time.
If it weren't for the fact that Shirai's voice was so different from his own, he would have thought that he had said what he was thinking! Did Shirai... actually think of the same thing as him?
Mouri Kogoro was clicked by Shirai Ku, and when he realized what he was saying, he felt that what he said made sense, "Ah...then...this music score was not hidden by Mr. Kawashima..."
"Is it what the murderer left behind?!"
Xiaolan was also shocked, "What did the murderer want to do by leaving this music score?"
Shiraijiu: "Send a message? Just like sending a letter to Uncle Mouri before, a murder notice or something..."
Mouri Kogoro, Xiaolan, and Conan were all shocked.
Kill, murder notice?!
Mouri Kogoro clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "Damn it! This murderer is too arrogant!"
Compared to Mouri Kogoro who felt angry that he was being provoked as a famous detective, Xiaolan was more concerned about the next victim, "But we can't understand the message in the fourth line at all. Can we not find it?"
The next victim?"
"No." Conan took a deep breath with a solemn expression, "The message left by the murderer may not be for us."
"Huh?" Xiaolan was confused. But Mouri Kogoro had been a detective for so many years, and he finally still had some detective thinking.
"It's not for us, that is to say, the message this score wants to convey is someone who can understand it... and the person who had the biggest reaction after seeing the score last night..."
Mouri Kogoro suddenly raised his head and looked at the office he came out of before, "Mr. Nishimoto?!"
"What a cursed piano!!"
At the same time that Kogoro Mouri said the name of Kenroku Nishimoto, another loud shout sounded in the hall at the same moment, covering up his exclamation.
Everyone followed the sound and looked over, and saw the current village chief, Mr. Kuroiwa, scolding the village chief’s secretary, Kazuaki Hirata: “It’s the presence of that kind of thing that makes you believe those nonsense again and again!!”
"That's true, but..."
"Okay! Hirata, you have to get rid of that broken piano within this week!!"
After Kuroiwa Village Chief finished speaking, he turned around and left without waiting for Hirata and Akira to say anything else.
Seeing his superior like this, even Hirata Kazuaki, a secretary, could sigh, "It's... the village chief..."
After the village chief left, the hall became even quieter.
Thinking about what he had deduced before, Mouri Kogoro was now particularly concerned about Kenroku Nishimoto, and turned back into the office to continue participating in the interrogation.
For this reason, Conan and Konan paid special attention to the interrogation in the office, and waited quietly for the results with a hint of anxiety. However, Shirai Ku noticed that Asai Makoto, who said he was going to wash his face and sober up, until now,
Haven't come back yet.
However, the target Nishimoto is still in the office. Even if Asai Makoto wants to take action, it is impossible now.
…
Wait... After seeing the score last night, Nishimoto did have the biggest reaction, but that doesn't mean that others didn't react as well.
Just like...
Shiraijiu thought of the time when he found the piano score last night, and when he just talked about the cursed piano, the black mist overflowed from his body, Kuroiwa Tatsuji...
In Bai Jingjiu's mind, a throbbing began to spread.
【past!】
As the voice of Baijiu rang in Bai Jingjiu's mind, Bai Jingjiu's body couldn't help but move.
This is not controlled by her...
This is the behavior of Baijiu...
So, he is... completely sober after drinking baijiu!!
In Shiraijiu's mind, an emotion called joy was fermenting.
But this could not stop Baijiu from craving for resentment at this time.
"Toilet." Bai Jingjiu said hello to Xiaolan concisely without replying, raised his foot and twisted the wheel on the side of the shoe, adjusted it to the lowest setting, and slid away quickly.
"Ah..." Xiaolan, who only had time to raise her hand, blinked before finishing her words awkwardly, "Do you want me... to accompany you..."
