Conan wants to lie down but won't let him

Chapter 45 Moonlight Intervention

"If you want to do this, I will expose you the moment you kill Kawashima Hideo. Let's go, let's talk somewhere else. Someone will smell the scent and come here soon." Fujiwara Hiroshi said as he took Asai Narumi out through the back door of the community center leading to the beach without giving Asai Narumi a chance to refuse.

When they arrived at the woods beside the deserted beach, Fujiwara Hiroshi let go of Asai Narumi.

"I saved you in the hope that you could serve me in the future. You're a top graduate of Toudou University's Medical School and already hold a medical license, which means your medical skills and talent are beyond reproach. Dying like this would be a disservice to your talents. Besides, your father wouldn't want you to sacrifice your own life to avenge him."

"What exactly do you want me to do?" Asai Narumi didn't quite understand what Fujiwara Hiroshi wanted him to do!

"I am planning to form a special security team, but during the period, some personnel may suffer various injuries. At this time, a doctor is needed to treat them, and you are the one I have found who is very suitable. Of course, there are many doctors who meet this condition, but I admire you more. There is really no need to sacrifice your life for these people who are already destined to die, so I stopped you before you took the final path of death. Don't worry, if you agree to serve me, I will not treat you unfairly. That Xi Benjian will be handed over to you for handling, and he will not be allowed to escape. Even if you go back with me and confess your guilt, I will find a way to bail you out. Of course, before you come out, I'll let you successfully avenge Ken Nishimoto, but once you're out, you'll have to stay hidden and work for me. You won't need to work anywhere else; your workplace will be right here, on your beloved Moon Shadow Island. So what? Make your choice: join me, or leave with the regret of not being able to successfully avenge Ken Nishimoto? "Fujiwara Hiroshi seemed to be giving Asai Narimi a choice, but in reality, Asai Narimi had no other choice. Given the chance to avenge his last enemy, Ken Nishimoto, Fujiwara Hiroshi knew Asai Narimi would definitely join his ranks. After all, like a drowning man, he'll cling to even a straw.

"Can you tell me who you are? Why do you want to form such a private special security team?" Asai Narumi still asked his own questions.

"Hahaha! I knew you would ask this. Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Fujiwara Hiroshi, and I am the current head of the Fujiwara Group. Some people cannot compete with our Fujiwara Group in business, and some malicious people will take risks and directly attack others. Therefore, I plan to form such a special security special team that can handle these matters and protect my family. At the same time, there are some confrontations and games in the dark that the Japanese police cannot intervene in, and we can only rely on our group itself." Fujiwara Hiroshi stated his purpose without any concealment.

After listening to Fujiwara Hiroshi's narration, Asai Narumi thought for a moment, and Fujiwara Hiroshi did not interfere. After all, this was a decision that concerned the rest of his life.

"I have decided to join your consortium." Asai Narumi said firmly.

"Have you thought it through? Once you choose to join, you can no longer quit. Everything must be carried out according to my orders. There can be no questioning, only obedience. So before you join now, you have to think it through." Fujiwara Hiroshi still threw out his request and asked Asai Narumi to think it over carefully.

"No need, I don't care what you want to do. I can't refuse the candy you gave me. Even if it is poison, I can only swallow it myself. Since I agreed, it means I have thought it through very clearly. As long as I can complete the final revenge on Ken Nishimoto, I am willing to pay any price. This life will belong to you from now on." Asai Narumi firmly stated his position.

"Okay. Since you have thought it through, come back with me and finish the final steps of this case first. You are welcome to join us!" Fujiwara Hiroshi stretched out his hand, and Asai Narimi also shook it.

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Meanwhile, Conan, who accompanied the policeman to retrieve the sheet music, finally retrieved the handwritten sheet music left by Keiji Aso after a long search by the unreliable policeman. He deciphered the last words on the sheet music and discovered that Asai Narimi's true identity was Asai Narimi. He hurried back to the village mansion and learned from Ran Mouri that Fujiwara Hiroshi had deduced that the murderer was Asai Narimi, and then Asai Narimi ran away.

Conan secretly cried out that it was not good. He had guessed what Asai Narimi was going to do and kept speeding up to run towards the community center. On the way, Conan kept telling himself to go faster. He didn't want Asai Narimi to commit suicide at the community center.

When Conan arrived at the community center, the whole building was eerily quiet, and it seemed that nothing he was worried about had happened. Conan looked around, especially focusing on the piano room.

"This is..." Conan smelled the pungent smell of gasoline and a gasoline drum lying on the floor as he entered the piano room. "As expected, Asai Narimi wanted to emulate his father, Aso Keiji, and set himself on fire, hiding himself in the flames. However, judging by the current situation, he must have been interrupted halfway through, and there's no one at the scene now. Where could he have gone? Did Fujiwara Hiroshi stop him?"

Conan was still searching the community center to see if there were any other clues. Surprisingly, he found a secret compartment under the piano. Conan pushed open the secret compartment and it seemed to be a secret compartment designed to hide things. Under the secret compartment, Conan found some white powder and licked the white powder with his tongue.

"Is it heroin!?"

It was drugs. Conan lowered his head in thought. Was it that person? No wonder he kept trying to stop us from exploring the piano. He also found a whole bag of fully packaged heroin in the secret compartment. He already had a plan in mind to lure the snake out of its hole.

At this time, Xiaolan also came to the community center.

"Conan, are you there?"

"Conan, if you're here, just answer."

Conan heard Xiaolan's call, hurried out of the room and responded.

"Sister Xiaolan, I'm here."

"Conan, I finally found you. You ran so fast, we couldn't find you anywhere. Everyone has gathered at the village mansion. Brother Fujiwara has brought Doctor Chengshi back, and Doctor Chengshi is now making his final confession."

"What!?" Conan didn't expect that Fujiwara Hiroshi not only prevented Asai Narumi from committing suicide, but also brought him back to confess.

"Sister Xiaolan, let's go back quickly." Conan took Xiaolan's hand and ran back anxiously.

"Three years ago, when I came to Yueying Island again as a doctor disguised as a woman, ready to work and find out the truth about my father's death, I met the old pervert Kameyama. He asked me to come to the piano room at the community center on the pretext of work, intending to violate me. Later, when I told him that I was Aso Keiji's son, he was like seeing a ghost, and told me everything they had done. Then I knew that my father and family were burned to death by the four of them. They used my father's international piano concerts as a cover to smuggle and sell drugs all over the world to make a fortune, and they used the set of musical notation codes designed by my father as the code for transactions. They left the code for foreigners to pick up the goods, and then after the goods were in hand, the foreigners used the code to let them withdraw the money. There was no meeting or communication in the whole process, and they continued to accumulate wealth with this method. Until my father found out, he decided not to hold the piano concert tour anymore, but he didn't do it out of consideration for the childhood friendship. I was prepared to expose and denounce them. But they harbored hidden grievances, fearing that my father would one day report them. So, on that full-moon night, they set fire to my entire family and blocked the doorway to prevent any of my father and his companions from escaping. Later, I heard my father, using a piano to cryptically accuse them of their evil deeds, saying that even as a demon, he wouldn't let them go. From then on, they stopped their business, and Kameyama used his earnings to secure himself the position of village chief. Ironically, after spouting all this, Kameyama died. Looking at the piano next to me, I played "Moonlight Sonata" as a final farewell. Unexpectedly, this unintentional act would connect Kameyama's death with the curse that had been circulating since my father's death. Thus, a plan to murder and avenge his father using a specific "Moonlight Sonata" began to take shape in my mind. Asai Narimi confessed all this to Inspector Megure, Kogoro Mori, and all the relevant personnel.

"During that time, I'd actually been struggling with whether or not to pursue revenge, but the hatred I felt wouldn't subside. So, I sent a murder notice and the commission fee to the Mori Detective Agency in my father's name, hoping someone would stop me. However, when I once again saw the hideous faces of Kuroiwa and Kawashima at the memorial service, I couldn't contain my rage any longer. Without giving Detective Mori and his team time to investigate, I immediately carried out my revenge on them as planned. Later, just as Mr. Fujiwara had deduced, I drowned Kawashima Hideo in the sea, then moved the scene to the piano room and set up the scene. I pressed the play button on the tape recorder, deliberately leaving five minutes to create an alibi. The method I used to kill Kuroiwa Tatsuji tonight was exactly the same as Mr. Fujiwara's deduction. My original plan was to kill Nishimoto Ken at the community center after the investigation and fake it as a suicide confession."

After Asai Narumi finished telling the whole story, Conan and Xiaolan arrived late, just in time to hear Asai Narumi's confession at the end.

"Dr. Narimi, this is the last words your father left you. Although he harbored resentment towards the village chief Kuroiwa and others, he hoped that you would not live in hatred and live a good life alone!" Conan took out the music score written by Kei Aso that he found in the warehouse and handed it to Narimi Asai.

"Thank you, little friend!" Asai Narumi replied to Conan in a silent whisper.

"So, Mr. Nishimoto, do you have anything to say about your crimes?" Inspector Megure asked Nishimoto Ken in a stern voice.

"I... I plead guilty!" Nishimoto Ken lowered his head and stopped defending himself. He had been terrified tonight, and the mental torture he had suffered over the past three years had led him to plead guilty. "Actually, I've been living in fear for the past three years. Unlike Kuroiwa and Kawashima, I've always had doubts about Kameyama's death three years ago. There's no way that guy Kameyama would come to the piano room for no reason and have a heart attack there. I always thought that Keiji Aso had escaped and had been hiding for so long to come back for revenge. I didn't expect it to be his son who came back. Perhaps this is fate."

"Since they've confessed, let's return to the Metropolitan Police Department to record their statements with more details," Officer Megure said. "Detain them both at the village mansion, separate and incarcerated, and bring them back to Tokyo together tomorrow."

"Then let's go too, Brother Fujiwara, Xiaolan, let's go back to the B&B. We didn't sleep well last night, so we need to go back early and get a good rest tonight." Kogoro Mouri said.

"Uncle, Inspector Megure, I have something to tell you." Seeing that Inspector Megure was about to pack up and Mouri Kogoro was about to return to the B&B, Conan became anxious and didn't care about anything else. He directly pulled Mouri Kogoro and Inspector Megure to the corner to talk in private!

Conan whispered to Kogoro Mouri and Inspector Megure about the secret compartment he found under the piano in the community center and the drugs he found there. Both of them looked at Conan in disbelief.

"Conan, how did you determine that those were drugs? Could it be laundry detergent? Did you see it wrong?" Inspector Megure said in confusion.

"Officer Megure, I saw this on a TV legal education program when they were explaining the dangers of drugs. Besides, what kind of good person would make a secret compartment under a piano to store laundry detergent in it?" Conan complained. He had no choice but to use the almighty TV program to cover up his mistake. Officer Megure is really something. His brain is dumber than that of an elementary school student. Can a decent person make a secret compartment under a piano to store laundry detergent? It seems that Officer Megure's brain needs to be cleaned with laundry detergent.

"Although we are not sure who put these things here, there is a good way to lure them out. Just tell them that we will take this piano back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department as an important piece of evidence in this case tomorrow. I believe the suspect who deposited these things will take action on his own and take back the bag of drugs." Conan told them his plan to lure them out, and he was sure that the suspect would take action at night.

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