"Well, if you want to see the village chief, Mr. Kuroiwa Tatsuji, you should be able to meet him at the community activity center." Asai Narumi said, "Not just him, but the three people I just mentioned should all be at the activity center at this time~ "
From the perspective of a disguise master, Asai Narumi's expression and tone have been imitated so well that Yukiko Kudo may not be able to see his true gender in front of him.
Mouri Kogoro was confused: "Why?"
"Why? Because the memorial ceremony for the second anniversary of the death of former village chief Kameyama Isamu will be held there tonight."
The Maori trio all showed confused expressions: "Former village chief, second anniversary?"
What a coincidence that they came at the right time.
Um? Could it be that the person pretending to be Keiji Aso actually wanted them to investigate the cause of Isamu Kameyama's death?
"Um, let me ask you a question, Miss Asai." Mouri Kogoro asked, "Do Keiji Aso and Isamu Kameyama have a good relationship?"
Asai Narumi was stunned when he heard this: "Aso, Aso Keiji?"
"Oh, Dad, you will definitely not know if you ask Dr. Asai. She also just came here to be a doctor, and Kei Aso died more than 20 years ago." Mao Lilan reminded her father in a low voice.
But Narumi Asai laughed: "It doesn't matter. In fact, I have heard of Mr. Aso's name. I heard from the villagers that he seemed to have been a great pianist."
"I'm afraid he is mentally unhealthy, right?" Mouri Kogoro tried to explain Aso Keiji's behavior of dragging his wife and daughter to self-immolation from a medical perspective. "Does Tsukikage Island Clinic have any records in this regard?"
Asai Narumi's facial expression stiffened for a moment, and then quickly returned to normal: "This... I haven't discovered it yet. The islanders don't really want to talk about it, so I don't know much about the specific situation."
"Well, that's such a pity."
While they were talking, they had already walked to the community activity center.
Before even stepping into the room, I could already clearly hear the shouts coming from inside——
“Oppose the autocratic atrocities of the current village chief!!”
“Stop land grabbing!!”
“Give me a clean fishing ground!!”
The shouts grew louder and louder. Except for the current village chief Kuroiwa Tatsuji, the other two candidates seemed to have many fans who supported them.
The village chief is the biggest official on Moon Shadow Island. If the famous detective Mouri Kogoro wants to see the village chief, he has to sit obediently in the activity center and wait.
Mao Lilan saw Yu Jiang coming with them and asked strangely: "Teacher Qingshui, aren't you going to go for a walk on the beach?"
"Such a rare excitement is in vain if you don't see it." Yu Jiang replied matter-of-factly.
Mao Lilan's eyes widened in shock, and she almost thought she was hallucinating.
It’s really not like the serious math teacher in class could say such a thing.
Ikue and Mouri Kogoro waited for a long time at the activity center, and the village chief had no intention of seeing them. Tired of waiting, Yujiang took a walk near the activity center.
As luck would have it, the place where he was walking happened to be right outside the auditorium, and the village chief Kuroiwa Tatsuji was talking with his subordinates here.
On a remote island like Tsukikage Island, the soundproofing effect of the buildings is not very good, so all the voices of Kuroiwa Tatsuji fell into Ikue's ears, even if he didn't want to hear them.
"Damn it, you singled out the former village chief to do trouble on this day. How rude!"
"What disgusting guys! Hirata! What are you doing standing there? Why don't you shut up those guys quickly!!"
"Yes, yes ma'am!"
"I just asked some villagers for their opinions. It seems that your father is not very favored this time."
"W-Monday?"
"That's right, the candidate with the most support from the people this time is none other than me!"
At first, people in the Kuroiwa Tatsuji camp were worried about the public opinion outside, and then another candidate joined their conversation.
Yujiang saw that the man was well-dressed and guessed that he must be Hideo Kawashima, the richest man in Yueying Island.
"Village Chief, there is a gentleman who wants to see you." The secretary came back with a request from Mouri Kogoro to see the village chief. "He is a detective from Tokyo."
Unexpectedly, upon hearing the identity of Mouri Kogoro, Kuroiwa Tatsuji and the lady next to him showed frightened expressions, and broke out in cold sweat: "Detective, detective?!!"
Um?
Yu Jiang glanced at them one more time.
Generally speaking, people who are afraid of detectives have ulterior motives. Either they have done something embarrassing and are afraid of being found out by detectives, or they have committed illegal crimes and are afraid that detectives will find clues.
Is this Kuroiwa Tatsuji someone related to the organization?
Yu Jiang was thinking when he suddenly heard Kuroiwa Tatsuji shouting: "Who is there?!"
Yu Jiang suddenly trembled.
"Hirata! Go to the piano room quickly!" Kuroiwa Tatsuji ordered hurriedly.
Yujiang breathed a sigh of relief.
That is to say, his tracking technology is not easy to deal with these guys. How could he be noticed by these people?
Just as everyone in the room was distracted by the movement in the piano room, Yu Jiang returned to the activity center along the same path.
The three of them, Mouri Kogoro, were no longer here. Ikujiang walked forward along the corridor and soon saw a group of people.
"No, it's not just Mr. Aso's incident!" Hirata Kazaki, the village chief's secretary, explained to Mouri Kogoro in a panic, "A similar thing happened to the previous village chief."
Mouri Kogoro was confused: "The former village chief? Is he the one who will hold the ceremony tonight?"
"Yes. It happened two years ago, and it was also a full-moon night." When mentioning what happened two years ago, Hirata Kazuaki was still frightened.
"At that time, I happened to pass by the community activity center. There was a pleasant sound of the piano coming from the activity center that was supposed to be empty at the time. When I asked who was inside, the gin wine suddenly stopped.
"I walked in out of curiosity and saw Mayor Guishan lying on the piano, dead. The cause of death was a heart attack."
It was clearly daytime, but there was a haze on Hirata Kazuaki's face, which looked a bit scary: "What's even more frightening is that the song Kameyama Village Chief played before he died... was Aso twelve years ago. Beethoven’s “Moonlight” that Keiji played repeatedly in the fire!!”
As soon as these words came out, everyone present had goosebumps all over their bodies.
"So can Mayor Guishan know how to play the piano?" Yu Jiang suddenly poured a basin of cold water on the side.
Hirata Kazaki was stunned: "Y-should...Actually, I don't know. I've never seen Kameyama Village Chief play the piano before."
"That means there is someone else playing the piano. This is just the result of his pretense. It would not be surprising if the mayor of Kameyama can play the piano. Maybe he just thought of Keiji Aso who also played Moonlight ten years ago."
Yue's analysis can be called rational, but why does he think Mouri Kogoro and the others prefer ghost legends?
