The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"So Miss Lianxi, what happened to this legendary famous piano?" Uncle Maori carefully closed the piano case, finally feeling relieved, and asked seriously.

"......This is a birthday gift given to Grandpa Choichiro by Grandpa Tanjiro, the father of Uncle Haga Kyosuke." Shitara Renki did not answer directly, but first talked about the origin of this famous piano.

"It sounds like they are brothers? Why would the younger brother's son have the last name Yuga?"

Shitara Renxi's expression suddenly turned sad and frightened: "That's because 30 years ago, when Grandpa Tanjiro delivered the zither, he happened to run into a burglar who broke into the house and robbed it!"

"Grandpa Tiaoyilang was tied up obediently, and thus escaped the disaster. Grandpa Danjilang was beaten badly because of his fierce resistance, and died of his injuries..."

"After that, Uncle Kyosuke was raised by the girl's family, the Haga family, and changed his last name to Haga."

Uncle Maori felt that this sounded terrifying. He hesitated for a moment and looked at the guitar case, as if he could see through the wood: "I'm afraid the robbers were targeting this guitar? Fortunately, it was not stolen..."

Shitara Renxi also nodded, feeling very fortunate: "I heard that they took the wrong one. Our Shitara family is a musical family, and the violin collection at home is almost as high as a mountain."

Conan listened and suddenly his eyes flickered a few times.

If the robber who broke into the house did not have a plan, the only way he could have killed someone was that he recognized the famous piano during the robbery. How could he have taken the wrong piano?

And if he had known about the existence of this Stradivarius and done his homework in advance, how could he have been fooled by other violins?

Neither the positive logic nor the negative logic makes sense.

However, he did not think too much about it. Perhaps there was something wrong when Renxi Shitara conveyed the story incorrectly.

Professor Lecter suddenly laughed.

Home invasion...

At this time, after 30 years of development, the Shitara family, whose status was rising, still lacked foundation, let alone 30 years ago.

Why not rob a newly wealthy musical family, even at the cost of killing people? Then why not go find a richer family?

Rich people have abundant assets and value health and life more. Even if they are robbed, they will not care too much as long as it is not a serious injury. On the contrary, they are much easier to rob than the upstarts who do not have much wealth and may fight for their lives.

Robbers are not fools.

"So, you want me to catch the criminal from thirty years ago?" Uncle Maori sweated and asked cautiously.

Fortunately, Renki Shitara denied this.

"Of course not." She frowned worriedly. "I want you to help solve two horrific incidents that happened in the past two years."

"One is the incident two years ago when Grandpa Genzaburo's wife, Grandma Yongmei, missed a step on the stairs and fell to her death. The strange thing is that although I call Grandma Yongmei grandma, she is actually only in her forties and she exercises regularly. It is impossible for her to die from such a ridiculous reason."

"Another time was last year when my father, who was cautious by nature and always paid attention to safety in everything he did, accidentally fell to his death because he leaned on the rotten balcony railing."

She swallowed, with a pleading look in her eyes: "I would like to ask Mr. Mao Li to investigate these two matters!"

Mao Lilan was embarrassed and smiled awkwardly: "Isn't this all an accident?"

"That's why it's so scary!" Shitara Renxi's breathing became a little disordered, and it can be seen that she was terrified: "They both died on Grandpa's birthday!"

“And before that, they all played this Stradivarius in front of grandpa!!”

"!"

After these words were spoken, the timid Mao Lilan got goose bumps all over her body and became a little restless.

Uncle Maori also became a little more serious.

Conan frowned slightly, his expression looking somewhat serious.

"Once is okay, but it's happened twice in a row. I almost feel like it's a curse! Who knows, it might be my turn this year..." Shitara Renxi put one hand on the guitar case with a complicated expression, reluctant to leave but also a little bit of distance.

"If you're so scared, why don't you just stop pooping?" Conan gave a suggestion that he thought was very reliable.

"But I want to pull it!" Shitele Renxi said aggrievedly with mist in her eyes.

Conan: "..."

What kind of person is both good at cooking and fun-loving?

"Why don't we just pull it on normal days and not on birthday parties?" Uncle Maori also gave a solution.

"No, it's not like we can take it out whenever we want..." Shitara Renxi's voice weakened a little, and she looked at the figure of Butler Jinqu walking outside the door and whispered, "Look, Butler Jinqu has walked past the door several times. He must be monitoring us."

"If it wasn't for Grandpa's birthday and he wanted me to play a song to celebrate his birthday, I wouldn't have been able to touch this guitar. Even now, I borrowed it because I'm 'familiar with the feel.'"

She touched the case, opened it again, looked at the exquisite work of art, and said reluctantly: "After Grandpa passes away, this instrument will be in the hands of Grandpa Xian Saburo. Maybe then I will never have the chance to touch it again..."

"As a violinist, who wouldn't want to try playing on this instrument?"

Uncle Maori didn't understand music, so he naturally couldn't understand the musician's obsession. He resisted the urge to yawn and asked, "Then what can I do?"

Shitara Renxi begged earnestly: "Before I officially play, please help me remove the curse on this Stradivarius!"

"Curse..." Uncle Maori forced a smile, "Let's not talk about whether there is a curse or not. Detectives can't solve this kind of thing at all."

"Eh?" Shitara Renxi was surprised, "Can't a detective help with anything?"

She had seen many detective stories in the news before, such as solving haunted house mysteries, murders, ancient treasures, and street legends...

She thought detectives were omnipotent.

But at the very least, removing the curse shouldn't be a problem, right? After all, there were news reports about catching ghosts in the past.

Uncle Maori narrowed his eyes and was a little speechless: "This should be consulted by a monk or wizard..."

Professor Lecter became interested. He had just seen the Stradivarius very clearly.

There was no doubt that there was no curse attached to the harp, and if there was any, it was just something he had used to fool people many years ago.

Moreover, after so many years, the magic attached to the piano gradually dissipated, and it became a weakened version such as "slightly corrected pitch" and "strings that won't break easily".

At least one thing is certain, that is, this harp does not have the power to curse and kill people.

In this way, the two incidents mentioned by Renki Shitara become very intriguing.

Judging from the magical situation in the Shitara family's annex, it's not like other wizards have cast some kind of curse here.

If we ignore the possibility of pure coincidence, then there may be an interesting story with ups and downs behind this ordinary "music family".

Professor Lecter was looking forward to these people bringing a sufficiently attractive story.