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

"Conan, don't run around!"

Conan, who had just quietly opened the piano room door, was grabbed by the back of his collar by Ran, who had rushed up from behind.

Kudo Kazuma couldn't help but laugh as he watched his unlucky older brother being dragged around like a cat by the scruff of his neck.

Kogoro Mouri, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, pushed open the door to the piano room: "Let's go in and take a look, just in case we find any clues."

In the empty piano room, there was only one piano stool in the center.

Kogoro Mouri walked to the window and looked out: "There's the sea right behind here..."

Kudo Kazuma and the other two gathered around the piano.

Kazuma Kudo raised his hand to his chin: "This piano is a bit dirty. It hasn't been used in a long time, has it?"

Upon hearing this, Conan immediately tried to open the piano lid to take a look.

"Stop right there—" The village chief's secretary suddenly rushed in from outside, looking flustered. "That's the piano Mr. Aso played before his accident. It's cursed. Don't touch it!"

"There's no such thing as a curse!" Kogoro Mori said, looking unconvinced. "Ichishin is right, that Keiji Aso might have been murdered!"

He's seen murder cases before, hasn't he?

Seeing their disbelief, the secretary added, "Besides Mr. Aso, the former village chief was also cursed by this piano."

Conan tilted his head: "Is it the one who performed the ritual today?"

This question successfully triggered his "always answer" buff, and the village chief's secretary said with a sigh, "Yes... that was two years ago."

"It was also a full moon night. I happened to be passing by and heard piano music coming from the community center, which should have been empty. It was... it was the Moonlight Sonata that Keiji Aso played before he died..."

The secretary looked shaken: "When I leaned closer to the window to see if anyone was inside, the piano music suddenly stopped! When I went in, Mr. Kameyama was already slumped over the piano..."

"His cause of death was a heart attack, but what is this if not a curse?"

Seeing the secretary's agitation, Kudo Kazuma nudged Conan and whispered, "What curse? I bet there's something mysterious about this piano."

Conan thought the same thing, so he immediately went up, lifted the piano lid, and pressed several keys on the piano with his little hands.

"This piano is no different from the others at all, so where is the curse?"

Kazuma Kudo raised an eyebrow.

Not necessarily. Now, this piano is truly cursed by death.

The secretary reacted violently to Conan's reckless actions and shoved the four of them out of the piano room without any politeness.

"In short, please wait in the entrance hall until the ritual is over!"

The secretary stormed off.

Following behind Conan, Kazuma Kudo rested his chin on his hand and leaned close to Conan's ear.

"So, is there really no secret to this piano?"

Conan and Kudo Kazuma were in the same position, one hand supporting their chin, and they shook their heads thoughtfully: "Something's not right."

"According to the secretary, this piano must not have been used for many years, but when I played it just now, the sound was normal... as if someone had secretly adjusted the tuning..."

Kudo Kazuma rubbed his unlucky older brother's head and said with some emotion, "You're so smart! You're only seven or eight years old and you're already so smart. You can even tell whether a sound is normal or not just by listening to it. It reminds me of someone..."

Conan's body suddenly stiffened.

The guy behind him looks like his bratty younger brother...

[Wait...we haven't been exposed, have we?]

"...It reminds me a lot of when I was a child..."

Conan's face darkened, and he couldn't help but mentally complain about his bratty younger brother.

That's utter nonsense! He's the one with perfect pitch, okay?

However, the little brat was indeed very smart when he was young, no wonder he's Shinichi Kudo's brother...

Kudo Kazuma knew that this unlucky guy was definitely cursing him in his heart.

He plopped down on the steps in the entryway and said to Kogoro Mouri and Ran, "There's definitely something wrong with a piano that can stay in tune even after years of not playing it."

"I think it's probably like Uncle Mori said, not a curse, but a murder."

"If everything is based on the premise of a murder case, then the village chief's secretary's overreaction is very problematic... Maybe he is the murderer, or maybe he knows something inside."

Xiao Lan, who was standing nearby, thought for a moment and said, "Maybe there's something wrong with the piano itself?"

“That’s right!” Kogoro Mouri chimed in, “If the piano itself has a secret that it can’t be touched, then it’s perfectly reasonable for them to make up some kind of curse…”

Everyone chimed in with their own comments, which gave Conan a lot of inspiration, and he lowered his head to ponder.

As night deepened, the full moon hung in the sky like a jade plate.

Kudo Kazuma gazed at the moon, lost in thought, and began to wonder why his soul package hadn't arrived yet...

As he was pondering this, a familiar feeling came from the community center behind him, and he subconsciously looked towards the piano room.

The spirit has arrived!

The other three looked at him with suspicion: "What's wrong?"

"It suddenly occurred to me that the letter of authorization said that shadows would begin to disappear on the night of the full moon... Could these shadows be referring to the Aso Keiji family and the former village chief who died on the night of the full moon?"

Conan jumped to his feet: "Does that mean someone's going to be killed tonight?"

As soon as he finished speaking, melodious piano music came from the piano room.

Xiaolan's expression changed: "It's...it's moonlight..."

Conan turned and ran towards the piano room, and Kogoro Mouri and Kazuma Kudo also got up and ran in that direction.

Kudo Kazuma also picked up his unlucky, short-legged brother.

A number of islanders had gathered outside the piano room, but none of them dared to go inside.

Conan glanced at his bratty little brother holding him, then immediately pointed to the piano room door: "Ichima, let's go in!"

With his free hand, Kudo Kazuma pushed the door open, then rolled his eyes, taking advantage of the fact that his unlucky brother couldn't see.

So you're really not pretending anymore, huh? Would it kill you to call me "Brother Yizhen"?

In the dimly lit piano room, a tall, thin man was slumped over the piano, water dripping from his clothes.

Tick, tick, tick...

No one dared to make a sound; only the dripping of water and the sound of a piano echoed in the empty, dimly lit room…

In Kudo Kazuma's eyes, a black wisp of spirit floated beneath the man who had already become a corpse.

Beside the corpse, the soul of the deceased stared intently at Asai Makoto in the crowd.

The soul's face displayed a complex mix of emotions: ferocity, fear, pain, and regret...

Kogoro Mouri stepped forward and checked the other person's breathing and pulse, then sighed deeply: "Ran, call the police, the person is already dead."

Kudo Kazuma also stepped forward, absorbed the spirit, and observed the deceased's expression before saying to Mouri Kogoro, "It looks like he suffocated to death, and there's sand behind him, and this water... Could he have drowned?"

"As expected, uncle, you were right. This isn't a curse; it's murder!"