Chapter 61 Piano
Kogoro has been struggling in society for so many years. He came to the gate of the community activity center to explain his purpose. Although he was obstructed by the staff, he finally successfully brought the staff into the community activity center with his verbal and perverted words.
The staff led them into a lounge and signaled them to wait for a while here.
"I'll tell the mayor Mr. Heiyan about your purpose, but he's very busy now, so it's hard to say whether he can meet you. Before that, you can rest here for a while."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work."
After the staff left, Kogoro sat on the sofa in the lounge. He stretched his waist first, then lit a cigarette, and took a deep breath.
"Ah, I can finally take a rest. I'm so tired all the way."
Xia Ri nodded in agreement.
Since they set off in the morning, they encountered many discomforts. First, there was heavy fog, but after getting off the boat, they could not find the client, and then they encountered demonstrations. Alas, I really hope that everything will go smoothly in the future and don’t hit walls everywhere again.
The shouts outside the window became less and less. When the summer walked to the window, you could clearly see that the people who were demonstrators just now had left here in groups of three or five.
In fact, most of these demonstrations are organized and premeditated, but no matter how long the demonstration lasts, as long as it does not develop into a riot, it may not have much effect.
The sound of the door sounded in my ears. Xia Ri turned her head and looked at it. Conan opened another door in the lounge and was looking inside.
Xiaolan walked forward and stopped him, "Conan, don't move around at will..."
Conan looked back at Xiaolan, pointed his hand into the room, and shouted in an exaggerated manner: "Wow! There is such a big piano inside!"
"piano?"
Kogoro stood up curiously and walked towards the room, while Xia Ri followed him and entered the room.
The room was very empty. Not to mention hanging paintings or flower pots, there was nothing in the whole room except for a piano placed in the corner.
"What a big room..." Kogoro murmured, "But why is there only one piano in such a big room?"
Xia Ri was also very confused, so he naturally could not answer Kogoro's question.
"But I didn't expect that the sea was behind this room. From here, it was really a unique view."
Xiaolan and Conan had already walked to the piano at this time. When Xia Ri walked over, they happened to see Xiaolan frowning.
"This piano is really dirty..." Xiaolan said in confusion, "Since it is placed here, you should find someone to take good care of it..."
The sun shone in from the window and reflected on the piano. When Xia looked down, it was really dirty. It had accumulated a thick layer of floating ash on its surface. It seemed that no one had wiped it for several years.
Xia Ri was about to reach out to touch the piano, but suddenly a loud shout came from behind him.
"You can't touch that piano!!"
Xia Ri was shocked by the sudden shouts. When he looked back, he saw that the staff member who had brought them into the community activity center had returned at some point. At this time, his face looked very ugly and he was looking at them with a terrified look.
"I was scared..." Kogoro said dissatisfiedly, "It's wrong for us to break into this room privately, but you don't need to be so loud!"
Xia Ri looked at the staff's face and knew that the reason he was like this was not necessarily because he blamed them for breaking into the room privately, and there might be some hidden information they didn't know.
After thinking about it for a while, Xia Ri had already thought of the key.
"Is this piano... the one from 12 years ago?"
The staff nodded.
"That's right... This piano is the cursed piano used by Mr. Aso in the concert held on the night of suicide 12 years ago!"
"The cursed piano!?" Hearing this, Kogoro curled his lips, "Don't say it's so scary, it's just a piano used by the deceased. What else do you say about being cursed? What does this have to do with curses?"
"It's not just Mr. Aso's case." The staff member also showed a look of fear on his face while speaking. "Even the former village chief... he died because of this piano..."
Xia Ri recalled the news he had heard before and said, "Is the former village chief? Is the former village chief Yu Kameyama who will hold the 2nd anniversary celebration here tonight?"
"Yes..." The staff member lowered his head, his tone full of fear, "It happened two years ago, and it was also a full moon night..."
"At that time, I happened to pass by the community activity center. In the community activity center, which should have been empty, there were suddenly a pleasant sound of piano... And when I asked who was inside, the piano stopped immediately..."
"I was very curious at the time, so I walked into the community activity center and came to this room. I saw the village chief of Guishan lying motionless on the piano, and he was already dead..."
"After checking, the cause of Kameyama's death was a heart attack... What's even more frightening is that the song he played before his death was the song that Keiji Aso repeatedly played in the blazing flames - Beethoven's "Moonlight"!"
“Huh!?”
Imagine the scene at that time, and the faces of Kogoro and Xiaolan and his daughter changed again and again at the same time.
"It's so supernatural, is it really a curse?"
Xia Ri didn't believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods, let alone this curse that sounded very fantastic. He knew in his heart that something must have happened at that time that led to the staff seeing this strange scene.
Sighing, the staff continued, "And from now on, no one on the island dared to touch this cursed piano again..."
Lengthen…
Several harsh piano notes suddenly reached the ears of several people. Xia Ri looked down at the piano and found that it was Conan who was fiddling with the keys on it with his fingers.
"There's nothing special about this piano..."
However, before Conan could speak, Kogoro slapped his head hard and pulled him to the side.
"You little guy, don't move around, okay? I thought the piano was playing by itself!"
The staff's face became even more ugly. He gave up his seat and invited Xia Ri out of the room.
"Anyway... Mr. Kuroyan also has to preside over Mr. Kameyama's ritual, and before the ritual is over, you should continue to wait in the lounge!"
Chapter completed!