Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

Upon returning to the base, Kudo Kazuma saw Gin waiting for him and ran away without saying a word.

This organization's model worker definitely has ulterior motives; they're probably going to assign me tasks. Luckily, I ran away quickly.

Before Kudo Kazuma even got home, he received a message from Gin.

careless...

He could argue with the person in front of him and pass the task to someone else, but now that the task has been assigned to him, it's not easy to refuse...

Muttering to himself, Kudo Kazuma opened the information and checked the mission description.

The targets are several drug traffickers who, after failing to infiltrate an organization, are resorting to underhanded tactics. Their destination is...

Moon Shadow Island?

It seems I can't shirk this task.

The next afternoon, when the elementary school students were leaving school, the bored Persian cat jumped out of the back window of the study and onto the street behind it.

Helpless, Kudo Kazuma could only chase after the cat, running towards the Mouri Detective Agency.

"Conan! Help me stop that cat!"

Conan, carrying his schoolbag, turned around and saw his younger brother chasing a snow-white Persian cat towards him. He quickly tried to stop the cat.

As if it had human nature, the cat saw that it was surrounded by people from both sides, so it twisted its body and ran up the stairs of the Mouri Detective Agency, where it was finally blocked by Conan at the door.

"Thanks." Kudo Kazuma picked up the cat.

Conan pushed open the door, chuckling as he said, "You're welcome."

Kazuma Kudo followed him inside: "This cat is called Kei. I just brought it back from the company."

"Huh? What's that uncle doing?"

Seeing that Kogoro Mouri wasn't drinking but instead was studying something with his head down, Kazuma Kudo and Conan exchanged a glance and both ran to the desk.

"Ah, it's Kazuki!"

Kogoro Mouri pushed the paper in his hand away: "I got this from the mailbox."

The two brothers went closer to take a look and saw that it was a square piece of paper with words cut from a newspaper that formed a sentence.

"On the next full moon night, will shadows begin to disappear again on Moonshadow Island?"

"What is that?" Kudo Kazuma stroked the fur of the cat, Kagemitsu. "It can't be a prank, can it?"

Conan blinked his big eyes and continued reading: "Please investigate the reason—Keiji Aso... Is this a letter of request?"

Kogoro Mouri shook his head with a serious expression: "The commission fee of 550,000 yen has already been transferred. But this commission is weird... it really feels like a prank."

Just then, Xiaolan returned and asked curiously as soon as she entered, "Huh? What happened? Why is Yizhen here too?"

Kudo Kazuma, holding the cat Hikari in his arms, greeted Ran: "I came here following the cat."

Conan gave him a furious glare, then darted over to Ran and told her about the strange request Uncle Mori had taken on.

“The money’s already been transferred, it’s definitely not a prank,” Xiaolan said earnestly. “Dad, it’s the weekend in a couple of days, I think we should go…”

Kudo Kazuma nodded in agreement: "If it's just a prank, I'll reimburse your boat tickets, and we can pretend we're going to Moonshadow Island for a visit."

With those words from him, Kogoro Mouri immediately made the decision: "Okay, I'll book the boat tickets, and we'll set off tomorrow!"

……

"This person really isn't on the resident register..."

The first step of the island survey encountered difficulties.

The staff on the island are new, and they can't find Keiji Aso's name.

Fortunately, an older middle-aged man happened to pass by and was stopped by the staff.

"Director, do you know Keiji Aso?"

The staff member, oblivious to the director's increasingly grim expression, continued, "This gentleman was commissioned by Mr. Aso Keiji to conduct an investigation on the island, but I couldn't find him..."

"Impossible!" the director interrupted in horror. "Asou Keiji, how could Asou Keiji accept a commission!"

The surrounding islanders all looked at Kogoro Mouri and his group who were inquiring about Keiji Aso. Most of them had the same fear on their faces as the director. Some were whispering among themselves, discussing something in secret.

Kudo Kazuma frowned and said, "But, Uncle, not only did you receive a letter of authorization signed by Aso Keiji, you also received a commission fee."

The director shook his head repeatedly, his voice trembling as he said, "Impossible, impossible... Keiji Aso died more than ten years ago!"

"That happened twelve years ago..."

The director roused himself and led the four to the reception room, where he told them the story of a pianist who had returned home after many years away, only to kill his wife and daughters and burn down his house after a performance.

……

"...He seemed to be possessed by something, playing Beethoven's Moonlight incessantly in the firelight...tsk tsk, it sounds like a supernatural event."

As the four walked out, Kudo Kazuma repeated the director's words while spouting nonsense.

Xiao Lan shuddered upon hearing this: "Then, could it be that the letter of authorization was sent by a dead person?"

"How could that be? I even answered the phone!" Kogoro Mouri said, frowning. "I still think this is someone playing a prank under the guise of a dead person."

"A prank of 550,000 yen? If that's true, then the other party really has too much money to burn." Kudo Kazuma shrugged.

Conan tilted his head, looking at the pieced-together letter: "The postmark on the letter is from Tsukikage Island. I think someone on the island probably wanted to investigate Keiji Aso, right?"

Kudo Kazuma clapped his hands: "More reliable than a prank. Why don't we go to the village and ask the village chief about the specific details surrounding Aso Keiji's death? What if it wasn't a supernatural event, but a murder?"

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the others all tightened.

After walking a few steps, the four of them saw the clinic on Moonshadow Island. Xiaolan hurried a few steps forward and went to ask the female doctor outside the clinic for directions.

The female doctor was slightly taken aback when she saw Kudo Kazuma, but then warmly gave them directions.

After giving directions, she smiled and said, "My name is Makoto Asai, and I'm a doctor on the island. You're from Tokyo, right? I was born in Tokyo too."

“Look, isn’t this island very different from Tokyo?” She raised her arm, very happy. “The air here is so fresh, and it’s so quiet…”

Before they finished speaking, a propaganda vehicle sped past them.

The loudspeaker on the bus kept blaring, "Masato Shimizu, please vote for Masato Shimizu!!"

Makoto Asai felt awkward for a moment, then withdrew his arms and said, "It only happens occasionally, because we're electing a village chief recently..."

As she spoke, she also introduced the three candidates for village chief.

Kudo Kazuma thought for a moment, and thought, "Well, there are three candidates, and two of them are on the mission file. Are these the village chief candidates?"

When Asai Makoto said it, it was a death list.

Amidst the shouts and protests of many people holding up placards, the group of four followed Asai Makoto's directions to the community center on the island.

There were quite a few people at the community center because of the third anniversary of the former village chief's succession ceremony.

For a moment, no one knew where to find the village chief. Fortunately, they met the village chief's secretary, who arranged for them to wait in the reception room.

After waiting for a long time without seeing the village chief, Conan, lost in thought, slipped away while Kogoro Mouri and Ran weren't looking.

Seeing this, Kudo Kazuma nudged Ran and followed her...