At night, in front of Yueying Island Community Activity Center.
The fire was burning, dancing wildly in the billowing smoke.
Fortunately, there was an open space around the community activity center, so the fire did not affect the woods behind it and the fire did not spread.
However, the building is unlikely to be saved - just like the fire twelve years ago.
Who is the person who set the fire? The police who have searched here already know the answer. Xiaolan stood on the edge of the fire, feeling sad.
"Could it be that... Narumi had originally planned to commit suicide?" She couldn't help but talk to herself, justifying Asai's honesty. After all, in her heart, Asai was more honest than the quiet and gentle doctor Miss Asai.
Beside her, although Bai Jingjiu was also watching the fire scene, he was actually watching the live broadcast inside the fire scene with other puppets.
In the fire scene, Asai Makoto lay down in front of the piano, posing, waiting for death to come.
"It's all over..."
After that, all that was left was to send the real Aso out of the island, to the villa in Yoneka Town, and reunite with Aso.
"No! It's not over yet!"
Suddenly, a child's voice sounded not far away, making Asai sit up straight in surprise and look in the direction of the sound.
That was the main entrance of the piano room. Conan appeared at the door, dirty and angry, looking at Asai Honesty, "No! You can't die!!"
As he said that, Conan took out the important piece of evidence passed down from the police - Aso Keiji's music score and showed it to Asai Makoto, "Look! On the music score left by Aso Xian, isn't it written very well?" understand!"
"[Naruto, you have to live strong alone]!" Conan looked at Asai Honesty, a person who also gave him a great impression, and smiled hard, "Let's get out of here before it's too late. !”
Asai Honesty: "..."
Seeing Conan like this, Asai Makoto, Shirai Ku, and Shirai Yui who were also watching the live broadcast outside the fire scene, as well as the puppets scattered elsewhere, all showed a trace of evil smiles at this moment.
Asai sat at the piano and replied: "Get out of here and spend the rest of your life in prison?"
Conan was stunned.
Shiraijiu also asked him the same thing. Conan couldn't deceive himself. He actually felt that those four people had bloody hands and deserved their deaths. It was really not worth it for Aso to risk his life because of four people.
However, he also understood that Aso actually killed four people. Even if he escaped from the fire scene by luck this time, what awaited him after he got out would definitely be a life of imprisonment for the rest of his life. There would be no luck.
These were things he had never considered before.
In the past, he only needed to find the truth and lead everyone to deduce the truth. He also enjoyed happiness in the process. As for the fate of those prisoners... he had never paid any attention to it.
Was he wrong?
Conan couldn't think of an answer.
But now is not the time to worry about the correct answer.
"Anyway..." Conan ran over, trying to pull Asai Makoto's arm out, "Mr. Narumi, let's get out of here first!"
Still haven't figured out the answer? The genius high school detective...
Asai Makoto let out a long sigh and stood up, "It seems that I have no chance to wait for your answer anymore..."
Conan was stunned: "Huh?"
The next moment, Asai Makoto suddenly grabbed Conan's collar and easily lifted him up, "Let me tell you the correct answer."
"I, no matter what, have killed someone. If you kill someone, you should be punished. Little brother, you are right to find out the truth. But even Holmes, at the end of the case, when facing the murderer with hidden secrets, They will all be given a chance to choose.”
"And my choice is to spend the rest of my life here."
After saying this, Makoto Asai threw Conan hard out of the window with great strength. Before the flames completely engulfed the building, he successfully threw him out of the window and escaped from the sea of fire.
"Damn it!!" Conan fell heavily to the ground along with the broken windows, but he quickly got up again, turned around, and rushed towards the sea of fire again, but was pulled by Xiao Lan who happened to see this scene and ran over. live.
"Danger!!"
The building in front of him was completely engulfed in flames at this moment. Conan ran over, it was a desperate act, and Xiaolan would not let go no matter what.
At this moment, a melodious piano sound came from the building surrounded by flames.
"This is... a live ammunition..." Xiaolan pulled Conan and looked at the sea of fire with him.
It's a code... Conan's pupils reflected flames.
[Come on, little detective]
…
The fire burned until dawn, and when it stopped, only the remains of the building remained. Because it was late at night, there was no one else in the building, and there were no other casualties. The police only found a burned male body in the ruins of the building, where the piano room once was.
The police removed part of the body's DNA and sent it to Tokyo for testing to finally confirm the body's identity. But everyone knew the identity of this charred corpse.
As the fire gradually extinguished, Murasawa, who had been unconscious after being hit on the head, also regained consciousness on Monday. During the police inquiry, he told the story of how he was beaten by Hirata Kazuaki.
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As for the reason why he appeared in the piano room of the community activity center in the middle of the night, it was because as a music student, he admired the pianist Keiji Aso very much, so he usually maintained the piano when he had time...
As for Hirata Kazuaki, he is also under police investigation on the premise that the police found a large amount of poisonous powder in his home.
Everything was over. After the awakened Kogoro Mouri figured out what happened, he habitually accepted everyone's praise with a shameless attitude, and concealed the things that he was completely unconscious of when reasoning. He took Xiaolan and Conan with him , and Bai Jingjiu, the four of them left Yueying Island together.
After getting on the boat, Xiaolan remembered the beginning of all this and couldn't help but wonder: "But why did Chengshi send a letter announcing the murder to his father? Is it a challenge to his father?"
I feel like Cheng Shi is not this kind of person...
Xiaolan couldn't figure it out.
Conan, who was watching the sea beside her, was also thinking about Chengshi. He felt a little regretful and a little depressed, so he answered freely: "I think he must be hoping...that someone can stop him from killing..."
Yes, he first sent letters to Uncle Maori and led them to Moon Shadow Island before he started killing people. He probably hoped that they could stop him from killing people in time. Unfortunately...
[I, no matter what, I have already killed someone. If you kill someone, you should be punished. 】
Conan recalled what Cheng Shi said during the fire scene.
Perhaps the reason for coming to them is to ensure that he will be found to be the murderer...because [if you kill someone, you should be punished]...
Even Sherlock Holmes, at the end of the case, would give them a chance to choose when facing the murderer with hidden secrets...?
Conan looked at the boundless sea with a wry smile on his face.
Really, I was taught a good lesson, Aso realized...
