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That night, bright moonlight illuminated the small island, but it was hardly noticeable...
Because the small island was now lit up like day by the searchlights of armed helicopters and patrol boats...
In a duplex room of a small inn, Yun Feng, Ran, Kogoro Mouri, and Conan sat on tatami mats. Kogoro Mouri, sipping hot tea, said somewhat jokingly, "Ah, it really seems that rank has its privileges. These police officers and superintendents from Tokyo are all so respectful to Brother Yun. We just have to say we're Brother Yun's friends, and they immediately let us go about our business."
Kogoro Mouri said this because, on the island now, everyone except the police was under strict surveillance. At first, some tried to monitor Kogoro Mouri and his group, but they were immediately verbally shredded by Yun Feng. Yun Feng had told them then that within a certain radius of him, no police were allowed. This Chief Superintendent was here for tourism, not to be imprisoned.
This worried Superintendent Sasaki Hirao terribly. If anything happened to Chief Superintendent Yun Feng, his career as a Superintendent would be over. Finally, he came up with a makeshift solution: everything on the island that could move and was aggressive needed to be strictly monitored by elite troops, not even a dog could be let off. As long as the source was cut off, the Chief Superintendent should be fine.
Yun Feng also smiled upon hearing this and said, "Perhaps they've been driven crazy by this case. But we're almost like family, so I naturally won't let those small fry bother us." After saying this, Yun Feng immediately added in his mind, except for that Conan guy.
Ran also smiled and said, "But now that there are so many police forces on the island, I don't feel scared at all anymore."
Conan also said, relaxed, "That's right, Moon Shadow Island is now an iron cage. The killer simply can't commit another crime. It seems her Third Movement cannot be performed."
However, just then, as if to slap Conan's face...
The sound of piano music suddenly drifted from afar...
This time, the piano music was no longer as flowing and joyful as before...
Instead, it was a furious, storm-like melody, filled with a certain anger...
After the anger, the rhythm shifted to a grand and striking melody, giving the impression of celebrating something...
Aside from Yun Feng, Ran, Kogoro Mouri, and Conan all had expressions of unbelievable shock...
Of course, Yun Feng's feigned expression of surprise was even greater than theirs...
Even Ran, at this moment, no longer felt fear, but shock—shock that the killer dared to commit another crime under such heavy defenses...
Superintendent Sasaki Hirao and Inspector Megure, who were commanding and coordinating in the village hall, were also greatly alarmed. They immediately led a large number of Royal Guards and elite police forces to the source of the piano music...
...
This was an open, desolate area on the island...
As Superintendent Sasaki Hirao and Inspector Megure, leading their elite troops, were about to reach the location, the piano music abruptly stopped. Unlike the previous two incidents, this time they saw a somewhat slender figure... But by the time they fully arrived at the spot, the slender figure had vanished like a ghost, making the police, including Sasaki Hirao, feel as if they were dreaming.
And here, everything was still incomprehensible...
The piano that had previously been in the lighthouse had miraculously reappeared here...
And Saijo, who should have been under strict surveillance by layers of Royal Guards in the village hall, was found dead beside this piano...
His death was extremely peculiar. His facial expression carried a hint of fear, a trace of regret, and a touch of relief... His mouth was stuffed with a large amount of unknown white powder, and his stomach was distended...
Immediately, several professional forensic personnel and medical examiners came forward to collect evidence. They quickly reached a conclusion that made everyone gulp...
All the white powder was high-purity heroin!
This time, the victim, Saijo, had been force-fed a large amount of heroin at once... so much that his stomach had burst from the heroin... But his cause of death was not this; he had died from acute heroin poisoning, leading to shock and respiratory failure.
And just as everyone was gulping, an even more shocking event occurred...
Just then, a deer ran out from somewhere in the distance... It slowly walked to the side of the deceased, Saijo... And then it wailed towards the moon in the sky, as if narrating something...
As if thinking that everyone's nerves hadn't completely collapsed yet...
At this moment, several air police officers in pilot uniforms suddenly ran up, joyfully holding a photo, and shouted:
"Report, Superintendent! We captured the killer's face playing the piano from the armed helicopter!"
Sasaki Hirao and Inspector Megure and the others were overjoyed, quickly snatching the photo to look...
They immediately felt a bone-chilling coldness creep from their heels up to their foreheads... The killer in the photo, playing the piano, looked exactly like...
Someone they had seen in the village archives...
That was...
Keiji Aso, the famous pianist from Moon Shadow Island, who had died twelve years ago!