Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 52 Absolute Music
10:15 a.m., Minato Middle School.

There was a gloomy atmosphere in the temporary resettlement site, with the teachers, staff and police looking ugly.

Officer Megure looked down at his watch: "Kudo was definitely taken away from home at 4pm yesterday. Hojo is not sure yet. The last time the neighbor saw him was before 5pm, he ran out of the house..."

——At this time, it has been more than twelve hours since the two students disappeared.

Matsuda Jinpei had no intention of smoking for a long time, and the police officers from the first search section didn't care why he, a bomb disposal policeman, was here.

Everyone is trying hard to think about the existing clues, especially the employees in the kitchen who have interacted with Koji Oshiba in daily life, trying hard to recall what is abnormal about each other's daily life.

"Have you contacted their parents?" Matsuda Jinping suddenly asked.

"We had already contacted the Hojo family when we found out they didn't come. Mrs. Hojo answered the call. Hojo-kun had a history of staying out all night several times in the past, so they didn't call the police yesterday." The dean of academic affairs said, "The Kudo couple are abroad. No contact yet.”

"I mean, are there any now?" Matsuda Jinpei said, "Maybe while we were thinking hard, those two brats had already gone home early."

Sato Miwako said speechlessly: "We have sent people to their home a long time ago and have contacted the Kudo couple. If we receive a strange phone call or anything else, we will notify here as soon as possible."

Just as Officer Megure was about to interrupt, his phone suddenly vibrated. He took it out and looked at it: "It's Brother Yuzuo calling...Sorry, excuse me."

Toru Amuro glanced at his walking figure and looked away.

He originally didn't like that the Metropolitan Police Department always relied on detectives and mystery novelists to solve cases. He always felt that this would make the current police lack the ability to think for themselves, but now the other party's child is involved...

"Really?!"

Officer Megure burst out with a shout of surprise, and everyone looked at him.

The police officer from the First Investigation Division looked back at Miwako Sato: "Sato, go and get the tape and player from the studio!"

"Do you have any clues?" the academic director asked with concern.

"He said that the other party played that strange piano music in the school. It was definitely not for no reason! That is probably a clue for guidance!"

In the voice of Officer Memu, a kitchen handyman stood up: "By the way, I remembered that Xiaochai sometimes sorts out music scores after work. He said that their family's secret communications are recorded on them."

After hearing the secret communication, Toru Amuro became interested, but due to his current identity, he did not ask straightforward questions.

As a police officer, Matsuda Jinpei asked directly: "What communication?"

"That is, I heard him say that his parents once learned a secret code from another musician - starting from the far left of the piano keyboard, put 26 English letters in order, and then convert the message you want to convey into words: Roman notes, recorded on the score..."

"........."

As a great music geek, Jinpei Matsuda had to organize his thoughts: "...Does it mean that you can read the piano score and translate what they want to convey?"

"Probably so." The logistics employee said uncertainly.

The police who were responsible for searching the broadcast studio together with Miwako Sato said: "But we only found threatening letters and tapes at the scene. It was determined that the tape only contained the strange piano music and nothing else."

"Could it be that……"

Officer Memu, who has been facing all kinds of gimmicky clues at the scene all year round, was the first to react.

Miwako Sato came with the tape and player. She carefully put on her gloves early to avoid getting her fingerprints on them. She put in the tape and pressed the switch.

Strange music sounded in the room again, a completely unfamiliar piece of music.

Toru Amuro noticed that the dean of academic affairs asked Aoyagi Himitsu softly, and the latter shook his head.

"...Does he want us to listen to this piece of music directly and then write down the score?" Matsuda Jinpei had the same reaction.

His words caused most of the people present to fall silent, and Toru Amuro also frowned.

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When Rabbit heard the musical score code, his first reaction was the Moonlight Sonata murder case in the original work.

Could it be that Keiji Aso was the one who taught the Xiaoba family this code method?
In the original work, there is a kind of person who can accurately judge the specific note just by listening to the sound of playing, such as Conan, such as Haga Kyosuke, and there seems to be a female singer in the later period.

They all have an absolute sense of music, and Conan is also a tone-deaf one.

People with an absolute sense of music are like left-handed people. Rabbit has never encountered any of them in reality, but in the world of Conan, there seem to be a lot of these two types of people.

I wonder if any of you are here?Toru Amuro is more versatile, I wonder if he can...

Just when Rabbit was worried, he heard Qingliu Binguang suddenly speak.

"I'll try."

"Teacher Qingliu?" The academic director was stunned for a moment, "Even if you are a music teacher, you may not be able to..."

"I can hear it." Qingliu Binguang said, "Every sound is very clear and you can't hear it wrong."

Rabbit stared at him blankly, suddenly remembering what happened when they first arrived at the tower apartment.

Aoyagi Binguang was playing the piano in his apartment that day. After the song ended, he knew that the piano he was playing was out of tune. He even knew which ones were too high and which were too low.

Could it be that he also has an absolute sense of music?

...Does anyone really have this ability in reality?

Something seemed to flash through Rabbit's mind.

But the current situation was critical, so he didn't think too much about it.

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"..."

Because of the bomb, Matsuda Jinpei, who had long been suspicious of Aoyagi Binguang, turned to the long-haired foreign teacher again.

But he did not point out anything suspicious about the other party on the spot.

His father was mistakenly regarded as a suspect because of the police's reckless judgment, and he fell into despair after that.He will not identify others randomly without certain evidence.

"Let's test it first to see if we can hear it accurately." Matsuda Jinpei said.

Others looked at Matsuda Jinpei, who wanted to "add to the chaos" at this time, but despite their gazes, he only looked at Aoyagi Binguang.

There was a calm look on that face. From the moment he was questioned as a suspect to now when he was targeting other people, his expression and eyes had never changed, as if he didn't care about this situation at all.

"Although the situation is urgent, we can't make any mistakes. It just so happens that the teaching building has been detonated and can be re-entered."

"Is it okay? This teacher."

He stared closely at the light brown eyes, which were particularly sharp under the sunglasses.

(End of this chapter)