The next morning.
Domoto Concert Hall for the last rehearsal.
"The content of the performance is exactly the same as the formal performance, and you can choose where you want to sit. The final rehearsal is really great!" Suzuki Sonoko walked into the concert hall with emotion, "Brother Chi and Uncle Maori actually didn't want to come to see it. Rehearsal, they will regret it!”
"Because Dad suddenly realized that he had forgotten something on the way, so he asked Fei Chi to send him back to get it. He couldn't catch up with the rehearsal." Mao Lilan turned to talk to Suzuki Sonoko with a smile, "They said they would go to Nishitama after lunch. It would be great to come to the city and watch the official performance directly.”
"That's right," Suzuki Sonoko said with a look of longing, "He stays in the private room and won't be disturbed even if the official performance starts!"
"Then why doesn't Sister Yuanzi book a private room?" Mitsuhiko asked doubtfully.
"Yes," Genta glanced at Suzuki Sonoko, "The Suzuki Foundation is also the investor, isn't it?"
"Hey, I'm sitting outside just for you," Suzuki Sonoko stopped in the corridor, put her hands on her hips, leaned over and looked at the three children, and said confidently, "I'm afraid you guys will be too bored in the private room. The VIP seats we sit in have the best view, we can clearly see the entire concert hall, and the environment is a bit more open, so you won’t feel too stuffy. We are the only ones there, so we don’t have to worry about you disturbing others!”
The expression 'disturbing others' immediately aroused dissatisfaction among the three children, who pestered Suzuki Sonoko to chatter.
"We won't..."
"So?" Haiyuan Ai came close to Conan, turned to look at the police at the door, and asked in a low voice, "What on earth did uncle and Fei Chi do?"
Conan raised his hands to hold the back of his head, with a leisurely look on his face, "Didn't Yuanzi say that? Uncle forgot to bring something, so he asked Brother Chi to send him back to get it."
"Really?" Haiyuan Ai glanced at Conan coldly.
Conan was speechless and whispered, "Okay, it was my uncle who pretended to sprain his hand and asked Brother Fei Chi to take him back. Last night, my uncle suggested that he go buy ingredients by himself, and he stayed furtively in the office on the second floor for a while before going to bed. I went downstairs out of curiosity and found two sleeping pills in his desk drawer."
Hui Yuan Ai was stunned for a moment before reacting, "Then, I'll come over with uncle later..."
"Maybe the police found a substitute for Brother Chi," Conan smiled and rolled his eyes. "As long as the substitute is about the same height, disguise yourself, and imitate Brother Chi's walking posture, you won't be able to tell if you are far away. Sometimes they will go directly to the private room before the show without meeting anyone they know."
"I see, because my uncle used to be a policeman, he can better understand the current mood of the police..." Haihara Ai joked, "It is worse and more unacceptable to let others act as bait and get injured than to get injured yourself. It seems that After the police's protective actions were thwarted twice, Uncle Maori stood by the police without hesitation."
"Yes," Conan said with emotion, "Officer Memu and the others were really hit hard this time. Uncle Maori should have discussed it with the police without telling us, otherwise Officer Memu would have insisted on objecting to Brother Chi coming over yesterday. It’s bait.”
"Let's put that aside, have you ever thought that those who come then may be the substitutes of Brother Chi and Uncle Maoli?" Haihara Ai asked in return.
Conan smiled dryly, "No, it's impossible..."
Uncle Maoli was knocked down by Chi Feichi, and then Chi Feichi instigated the bewildered stand-in policeman to come over disguised as the uncle. It was possible.
But this time my uncle is playing dirty tricks, and he is not facing Shang Chi Feichi head-on, so he is still very hopeful of success.
…
Those who participated in the final rehearsal included Reiko Akiba, Ichiwa Domoto and Shion Yamane who had booked the performance, as well as Genya Domoto, the person in charge, and Kazuo Takumi, the curator.
Not only Chi Feichi was absent from the rehearsal, but also the organ tuner Hans Müller.
Mao Lilan heard that Hans Muller could not be contacted at all. When Domoto insisted on continuing the rehearsal, he asked worriedly, "Don't you need to call the police? This is considered missing, isn't it?"
"But if the police come, asking questions will delay a lot of time," Domoto explained firmly with a wave of his hand. "This concert will be attended by celebrities from all walks of life, including many well-known musicians from other countries. Regardless of the delay, The performance time or mistakes during the performance will bring Domoto Academy into disrepute. I can bear it as I get older, but previous graduates of Domoto Academy and current students who are still in school may be questioned by others during the performance. !”
Domoto Xian also smiled and smoothed things over, "We are not sure yet that he is missing. Maybe he just overslept? We will contact him later. If that doesn't work, we can also have someone go to the hotel where he is staying to check."
Mao Lilan hesitated for a moment and did not insist anymore.
During the final rehearsal, Yamane Shione's condition was adjusted well, and her performance was completely different from the last rehearsal. In addition, she and Akito Reiko both changed into costumes, which made it look more formal. The three children all behaved obediently. Quiet and watch the show.
Conan listened to the music and quietly noticed Pu and Takumi standing by the stage.
Last night at Dean Domoto's house, he saw the photos of Shi and Takumi when they were young, and he always felt that they were very similar to the photos in Soma Hikaru's file...
But there is no evidence now. Even if it is proved that Sho and Takumi are Soma Hikaru's father, there is no evidence to prove that Takumi and Takumi are the murderers.
And if everything was done by Sho and Takumi, one thing doesn't make sense: Sho and Takumi should have known about Soma Mitsuru's death and the reason for his death. If he wanted revenge, why did he have to wait until three years later?
Was it stimulated by something? Or encountered some big trouble?
Well, after the rehearsal is over later, you can go ask Domoto for a swing!
…
The last rehearsal was over, and Domoto wanted to confirm the details with the performers. Conan could only leave the concert hall first, follow Suzuki Sonoko to have lunch, and then turn back to the concert hall.
In the concert hall, Qiuting Reiko was sitting in front of the organ, reaching out to pull the sound stopper and trying to tune it. When she heard someone running over, she turned her head in confusion, "Conan?"
"Miss Qiuting, where is Dean Domoto?" Conan looked around and found that everyone else was gone.
"The dean went to have lunch. I don't know if he is in the lounge now." Qiuting Reiko pulled out the sound stop and pressed a key on the keyboard. She frowned and listened to the sound. "I happened to be looking for him too. When the organ was playing just now, , there seems to be a wrong note, but I’m not sure which stop it is, the organ is indeed more troublesome.”
"Has Mr. Hans Muller not been contacted yet?" Conan asked.
"Yeah, the phone couldn't be reached. Mr. Xianye called someone to go to the hotel where he was staying to check the situation, but the murderer probably wouldn't attack him..." Qiuting Reiko stood up and pulled the skirt of her white dress. Zhuo walked out and said, "Let's go. I'll go to Dean Domoto to talk about the organ. Don't you want to go find him?"
"Well!" Conan followed decisively, raised his head and asked, "Miss Qiuting, are you familiar with Mr. Puhe?"
"I'm not very familiar with him, but he is Dean Domoto's exclusive piano tuner. He has been doing this for thirty years. They were like old friends. Until two years ago, Dean Domoto switched to playing the organ to give him some free time. He became the director of the Domoto Concert Hall under construction. Everyone in Domoto Academy knows him, and I am no exception." Reiko Qiu Ting went to the lounge, lowered her head and asked Conan, "Mr. Puhe, do you have any questions?"
Conan hesitated for a moment and did not rush to express his guess, "Has he encountered anything special recently?"
Qiuting Lianzi thought about it, "I haven't heard that he encountered anything special. It's just the same."
"Really..." Conan didn't ask any more questions, feeling that these things could only be clarified by asking Domoto.
When the two arrived at the lounge, no one answered the knock on the door.
Akito Reiko guessed that Domoto Yishang might be relaxing by the lake behind the concert hall and took Conan to find someone.
When Conan thought that there were police officers near the concert hall and was eager to find Domoto to ask questions and quickly solve the case, he followed Reiko Qiuting to the lake without any precautions.
Just when the two of them didn't see Domoto's wave and were discussing where to find someone, a black figure quietly came behind the two of them. First, he violently knocked out Reiko Qiu Ting with a wrench. Before Conan could turn around, he knocked him over with another violent wrench. Conan…
…
Maori Detective Agency.
"No, it doesn't look like it at all," Mouri Kogoro touched his chin and looked at the policeman in black uniform in front of him, "Be more powerful!"
A policeman stared with a fierce expression.
Mouri Kogoro guided, "No, no, your expression should be colder, as if you don't want to talk to others!"
A certain policeman calmed down the ferocious expression that had become gradually due to over-training, and looked at Mouri Kogoro expressionlessly.
"I always feel that something is missing..." Maori Kogoro looked at his apprentice who was sleeping on the sofa, and found that it was difficult to describe the feeling just by looking at Chi Feichi's calm expression when he was asleep. He raised his head irritably. He raised his right hand and scratched his hair, "Isolate yourself from everyone, but if you mess with him, he will beat you..."
A certain policeman was devastated and felt that Kogoro Mouri was trying to make things difficult for him. "Mr. Mouri, I think this is enough. We have to rush to Nishitama City as soon as possible. If we delay any longer, we will miss the entrance time! I think it should be You are too familiar with Mr. Chi, that’s why you always feel that you don’t look like him. Officer Memu said that as long as we imitate Mr. Chi’s walking habits and enter the venue farther away from the crowd, it will be difficult to be seen.”
"That's right..." Mouri Kogoro felt that it was a bit embarrassing for him to ask normal people to completely imitate the expression and gaze of a psychopath. He raised his wrist to look at his watch, became anxious, and understood. He straightened the collar of his white dress and said, "Let's go! We'll talk about it when we get there."
After the two hurried out, they closed the door with a click and did not lock it.
After a while, a very soft sigh came from the room.
Chi Feichi sat up on the sofa, raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows.
His teacher was really boring, and the policeman who was the stand-in didn't seem to be very good at acting either.
Although Sanwu Golden Finger was there and the effect of the sleeping pills did not affect him for long, he had been awake and lying there for more than an hour. The two people were still adjusting and adjusting repeatedly, which made him feel tired.
Fei Chi crawled to the door and didn't speak. He just leaned in front of the crack and said in a low voice, "Master, there seems to be a policeman guarding the stairs."
"There are probably some downstairs," Chi Feichi stood up, waited for Feichi to crawl back, bent down to pick up Feichi, and said softly, "We went out through the window of the tea room, climbed directly to the rooftop, and then from the rooftop to the nearby residential building. Go to the top and leave on the top of the building."
He didn't want to argue repeatedly with Megure Thirteen and Mori Kogoro about whether to use a substitute, so he cooperated in drinking the drugged juice.
As one of the investors, he has more than one invitation letter here. If the police want to use a stand-in, he can use it without affecting his ability to watch the fun.
