My neighbor's name is Conan

If you think carefully about the relationship between Ito Tamonsuke, Kataoka Renka, and Rausu Tatsuhiko, their relationship is really very similar to the characters in "The Phantom of the Opera".

"By the way, Brother Tamonsuke seemed to have mentioned before that he would not respond to monsters' requests or something." Conan said.

"That's the same thing." Mao Lilan continued: "In The Phantom of the Opera, the weirdo also asked to change the heroine."

"What's going on?" Maori Kogoro looked at Ito Tamanosuke and the others and said, "It seems like everyone is hiding something from us."

"Oh, you are indeed a famous detective." Rausu Tatsuhiko said, looking at Ito Tamanosuke and said, "I think you should tell them what happened."

Everyone looked at Ito Tamonsuke. Now everyone knew that something bad must have happened here before.

Ito Tamonsuke lowered his head in silence for a moment, then raised his head and said, "I understand."

Ito Tamonsuke then told what happened before, "At first I really thought it was just someone playing a prank and didn't take it seriously.

Because he didn't seem to want to do anything, he just suddenly appeared and scared people who saw him, that weird guy with blue light all over his body and red eyes. The problem is, I received ten such letters later. "

"What letter?" asked Kogoro Mouri.

Ito Tamonsuke took out all ten letters from his pocket.

Maori Kogoro checked the ten letters and said, "The contents are all the same. What does it mean? A huge response, a single blow to death, go away, Sanuki Kinkunro Theater weirdo."

After hearing what Kogoro Mori said, everyone wondered what these words meant.

Suzuki Sonoko thought for a moment and raised her head and said, "He said that the response from the general public is to act, of course he wants to."

"Kill them with one blow and disperse." Mao Lilan thought for a moment and said, "This sentence also feels like acting."

"It should be a secret code." Conan looked at everyone and said.

Qing Musong curled his lips and said when he heard this.

He hated codes the most.

Conan continued, "Just remove the sa sound."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Conan in surprise.

Rausu Tatsuhiko looked at Conan in surprise and said, "I'm surprised you guessed it."

"Remove sa?" Mao Lilan looked confused.

Maori Kogoro was also thinking about this matter. After a while, he suddenly showed a happy smile: "Oh, that's right, so that's how it is. Sanuki is pronounced with sa removed. He meant that we should remove sa when reading this text. Let me see."

But after removing the "sa", I found that it still didn't read smoothly.

Seeing Maori Kogoro's stupid look, Conan was speechless. He had no choice but to give another suggestion: "First change all the characters to hiragana, then remove the word sa, and then read it again."

"So it becomes..." Mao Lilan began to do as Conan said, "Change the heroine to Renhua."

This is the real content of the letter.

"This thing is clearly a threatening letter." Kogoro Mouri screamed, then looked at Ito Tamonsuke.

"But, if I do what I am told every time I receive a letter like this, the show won't be able to go on." Seeing Kogoro Mori's gaze, Ito Tamonsuke understood what he meant, but he still said it.

The truth is, if I had a strong reaction every time I received a letter like this, the show would not be able to go on.

"That's right, but it was because it was not dealt with that what happened just now happened." The actor Kawatake Otsuya, who was just being obsessed with by Suzuki Sonoko, disagreed with Tamonsuke's words.

"Captain." At this moment, Karube Asumi said with a firm look in her eyes, "I still want to act."

"As long as Miss Asumi is willing, I agree." Hearing this, Ito Tamonsuke was still very happy. He hoped that the play could continue instead of being interrupted because of some intimidation.

Kawatake Otomi leaned against the wall holding his sword, and said with a chuckle, "Yeah, if you back down like this, you can't be called an actor."

"Hey, hey, is this really okay, Mr. Mori?" Rausu Tatsuhiko seemed uneasy and asked Kogoro Mori.

"The threatening letter doesn't seem to have a direct connection with the lantern falling down." Maori Kogoro thought for a moment before saying, "As for the cut marks on the rope, we need to conduct a detailed investigation to find out whether it was cut with a knife."

Ito Tamanosuke understood what Maori Kogoro meant, and he said, "That's decided, the roles will go on as planned. For today's special premiere, I hope everyone will keep the same mood as for a regular performance starting tomorrow and perform well."

After these words were spoken, no one spoke anymore.

Seeing that Ito Tamonsuke insisted, Aoki Matsu and others also left the backstage and sat down in the audience seats.

Not long after, the Jinkunluo Kabuki drama finally began.

The stage hall was never full, but people kept coming in from outside.

Because the tickets were given by Ito Tamonsuke himself, Aoki Matsu and his friends had great seats, sitting in the second row from the front, and could clearly see every move of the actors on the stage.

Several people sat in a row, Aoki Matsu sat on the outside, next to him were Sayuri and Shinna Kaori, and to the right were Suzuki Sonoko, Mouri Ran, Conan, and Mouri Kogoro.

When the hall darkened, the show finally began.

"You are here, my dear."

This was the first line of the opening, spoken by Ito Tamonsuke who played the monster. He was wearing a half-ghost mask, a knife on his body, and another knife on his back. He fell from the sky and landed steadily on one knee.

Then he stood up and said passionately: "Trust me, sing with confidence, those who believe in me will gain immortal life."

The stage was brightly lit, and the heroine on the lift began to appear. Karube Asumi slowly rose from underground to the ground. She was wearing a kimono and a transparent veil on her head, looking beautiful. "Who is there?"

The heroine spoke in confusion. As soon as she finished speaking, the weirdo turned and left. The heroine hurriedly chased after him and shouted, "Wait a minute, are you a god or a devil?"

The weirdo stopped and turned his back to the heroine without turning around.

When the heroine was about to go up to see what was going on, Kawatake Otomi, who played the heroine's lover, appeared. He was dressed as a samurai, chasing the heroine over, drawing his sword, and saying, "That guy is a devil!"

After speaking to the heroine, he held the knife in both hands and shouted at Superman: "Fight with me, you who live in a world without light, a dark world."

Hearing this, the weirdo finally turned around, looked at the heroine's lover, raised his hands and shouted, "You stupid and rude young man, let me curse you! Since you want to take away my love and my victory, then I will let you know how amazing the power of darkness is."

Their conversations, expressions and actions, coupled with the sudden purple lights on the stage and the various changes in the background, were very exciting.

Suzuki Sonoko was moved by what she saw. She said excitedly: "It's so touching."

Shinna Kaori also liked the play and said with a smile on her face, "It's really good."

"Really? Really? It's really beautiful." Upon hearing this, Suzuki Sonoko turned her head and looked at Shinna Kaori happily as if she had seen a close friend.

On the other hand, Mao Lilan, who was standing next to him, looked at Mao Li Kogoro who had fallen asleep next to him and was very speechless. "Sure enough... whoever called dad went back to drink again."

Conan was watching with great interest, but he soon discovered that something was wrong with Karube Ashimi. Her head was shaking slightly from side to side, as if she was looking for something.

Conan looked up subconsciously, and saw a man dressed as a samurai with red eyes appear above the Kinmaru-za and flash past Conan's sight.

Conan was shocked! [That is...]

Suzuki Sonoko also saw it by accident, pointed in a direction and asked in confusion: "What is that?"

Before Mao Lilan could look over, someone else noticed it and screamed "Ah!!!"

Hearing someone screaming, many people subconsciously followed the other person's finger and looked up to the upper floor.

Above everyone's heads was a coffered ceiling.

And on the lattice ceiling, there stood the strange man that Ito Tamonsuke mentioned!

A weirdo appeared!!!

There was a burst of screams at the scene, and the faces of the actors including Ito Tamonsuke changed drastically.

Aoki Matsuya frowned and looked at the strange man.

For some reason, the weirdo gave him a strange feeling, as if it was a little unreal, a bit like a - projection! ?

At the same time, Kirube Asumi covered her throat and made babbling sounds, as if she wanted to speak but couldn't.

The audience closest to her noticed her abnormality at the first moment and screamed, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Others also noticed Akemi Kirube's unusual behavior.

"This is the same, just like The Phantom of the Opera." Mao Lilan's face turned slightly pale, and I don't know what she was thinking about.

"No way?" Suzuki Sonoko said in horror.

"It's true." Mao Lilan just nodded.

"Come down, quickly draw the curtain." Seeing the crowd getting more and more noisy, Ito Tamonsuke knew that this would not work, so he asked someone to draw the curtain, and at the same time shouted to Karube Asumi outside: "Ms. Asumi, come in quickly."

At this time, Kawatake Otomi was with Kiribe Asumi. He helped Kiribe Asumi walk behind the curtain.

The next moment, the lights in the hall came on and light returned here.

When everyone looked up again, the strange man above their heads had disappeared.

Maori Kogoro also woke up suddenly because of the sudden dazzling sight. "What's wrong?"

"Something happened, let's go to the back and take a look." Aoki Matsu stood up and walked towards the backstage.

Seeing this, Conan hurriedly ran up.

But Aoki Matsu was stopped, and Conan took the opportunity to slip in.

There was no other way. Qing Musong couldn't force his way in under the watchful eyes of everyone, so he could only go back.

"How is it?" asked Shinname Kaori when she saw Aoki Matsu coming back.

Qing Musong shook his head and said, "I was stopped and didn't go in. I don't know what's going on inside."

***

On the other side, in the background, Ito Tamanosuke was dealing with the matter urgently.

In the backstage lounge, several people surrounded Akemi Kirube, and she still seemed unable to speak.

"What's wrong?" Kataoka Renka went up and asked.

Ito Tamonsuke walked outside and said, "Did someone swap Miss Asumi's mouthwash?"

"What!?" Kataoka Renka was shocked.

For a dramatic actress, voice is the most important thing.

"Let's talk outside." After arriving outside, Ito Tamonsuke said as he walked, "She felt that the medicine seemed a little different from the usual ones, but when the curtain rose, she walked directly onto the stage, and the result was..."

"That's too much. Who is it?" Kataoka Renka said angrily. Suddenly her face changed. "Could it be..."

The first thing Kataoka Renka thought of was the strange man who had just appeared. When the strange man appeared, it happened that Kiribe Ashimi was unable to speak. This was really too much of a coincidence.

One has to think too much.

Ito Tamanosuke did not talk about this topic anymore, but changed the subject. "Now is not the time to think about this problem. The key point is what should we do with today's performance?"

The performance was only halfway through. If it was stopped at this point, the show would be completely ruined.

This was a major blow to Ito Tamanosuke and his team.

But the problem is, the heroine, Ashimi Kirube, can’t speak now. What should we do?

Ito Tamonsuke turned to look at Kataoka Renka next to him and asked, "You were Miss Asumi's inscription before, right?"

"Yeah." Kataoka Renka was stunned, but still nodded.

"Then you should remember all the lines, right?" Ito Tamonsuke continued to ask.

Hearing this, Kataoka Renka guessed what Ito Tamonsuke wanted to say, and her face was full of surprise: "You don't want me to play the female lead, do you?" Just when she said this, she waved her hands repeatedly: "I can't do it, I..."

"There's no time to make excuses now. The audience is waiting." Before Kataoka Renka could finish her words, Ito Tamonsuke interrupted her.

"But..." Kataoka Renka still seemed to lack confidence and unable to make a decision, but Ito Tamanosuke said, "It's decided. Get ready and start the performance in fifteen minutes."

After saying that, Ito Tamonsuke left. After something like this happened, he, as the captain, had a lot of things to deal with and couldn't stay here for long. He nodded to Aoki Matsu and turned away.

Before leaving, Ito Tamonsuke looked at Kataoka Renka and said, "Hurry up."

"Oh, what should I do? I can't do it." Kataoka Renka looked worried and had no confidence.

……

Because of the glaring light, Maori Kogoro woke up completely and said dazedly: "Weird man, I think this is a performance?"

Hearing the discussions around her, Suzuki Sonoko echoed, "I see other audience members think so too."

At this time, Mao Lilan looked around, looked at Aoki Song and asked: "Aoki brother, Conan?"

"Conan went to the bathroom." Aoki Matsu gave Conan his favorite excuse.

A moment later, the play continued and the hall dimmed again, with all the lights focused on the stage.

However, this time the heroine was changed to Kataoka Renka.

After the female lead was changed, the play went unexpectedly smoothly and ended with thunderous applause.

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko were both very happy and felt happy for Kataoka Renka. "Renka performed very well, not inferior to Ms. Asumi."

Although the play has ended, many things are still not over, such as the strange man who appeared before, Miss Lu Mei’s temporary inability to speak, etc.