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# Chapter 1088: Far More Than Just Fine
"You'll know when they get back."
Chi Feichei took out his cigarette case. Considering Setara Renxi and Haibara Ai were close by, he got up and walked to the window.
Haibara Ai turned her head to watch Chi Feichei walk to the window to smoke. Her right hand in her coat pocket gripped the pill box tightly.
Although Brother Feichi was sometimes not interested in certain cases, since she had known him, as they spent time together, this situation where he lost interest in everything rarely occurred.
Could it be that his illness had relapsed?
Setara Renxi couldn't stand the heavy atmosphere anymore and asked in a low voice, "Ai, are you hungry? Do you want something to eat to tide you over?"
Haibara Ai nodded, "Let's wait for everyone else."
The room fell silent again.
Chi Feichei stood by the window, smoking with his back to the others.
The other three sat at the table in silence.
When Chi Feichei returned, Haibara Ai saw Feichi poke his head out. She reached out and pulled Feichi out, placing him on the table. In her heart, she was struggling with how to get Chi Feichei to take his medicine.
Feichi lazily flicked his tongue, lying flat as usual.
Setara Renxi had been feeling stifled for a long time and couldn't hold it in anymore. She reached out and tried to touch Feichi, "Feichi is really well-behaved."
"By the way," Haga Kyosuke looked towards Chi Feichei, "I've perfected the piano notes Feichi played last time. It's a very special piece. Do you want to hear it?"
Feichi immediately perked up his head. Chi Feichei had no objection and nodded.
"There's nothing to do just sitting here waiting," Setara Renxi said, "Then let's listen to it."
There happened to be a piano in the room. Haga Kyosuke got up and stepped forward to sit down. He placed his hands on the piano keys and began to play the piece.
After Haga Kyosuke got up, Feichi whooshed off the table and quickly crawled onto the piano Haga Kyosuke was playing. He lowered his head and seriously stared at Haga Kyosuke's fingers as he played.
He had a part in this piece; he had to remember it and learn it!
Chi Feichei listened for a while and had to admit that Haga Kyosuke had perfected it very well. The piano notes Feichi had poked out with his tail earlier were all included. The overall tempo of the piece was bright and cheerful, yet it carried a strange and nonsensical feeling...
It could be named "Melody of the Crazy Snake".
It was just a pleasant but abnormally cheerful tempo.
Haga Kyosuke played it once, then turned to Chi Feichei and said, "Mr. Chi, I haven't named the piece yet, but I think it would be great to name it after Feichi. What do you think?"
Chi Feichei nodded, "Okay."
Congratulations to Feichi for achieving the achievement - obtaining a piece perfected by a Composing Genius with Absolute Pitch and named after himself.
Feichi flicked his tongue happily, staring at Haga Kyosuke expectantly.
He hadn't learned it yet; he wanted to see it played again.
Haga Kyosuke turned back and saw Feichi looking at him with his round black eyes. He didn't feel scared at all, but rather thought Feichi was quite cute, "You like it too? Then, I'll play it formally once. This piece is for you..."
Saying so, Haga Kyosuke started playing again.
This time, halfway through playing, Mouri Ran, Mori Kogoro, Conan, and Tsumagari Kurenai opened the door and entered the room with anxious faces.
Inside the room, the cheerful piano music stopped.
Mori Kogoro was startled for a moment, "Miss Renxi, are you okay?"
"Me?" Setara Renxi was confused, "I'm fine."
Conan remembered the piano music from just now, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
Far more than just fine, these people were actually still listening to such a cheerful piano music here. Setara Genjiro's corpse hadn't even been taken away yet. Is this really appropriate?
These people from the Setara family are too unconcerned.
Is this probably 'Nothing can stop me from playing music'?
Haga Kyosuke got up from the piano, "Mr. Mouri, did something happen?"
"We were worried that Miss Renxi might become the murderer's next target," Mori Kogoro said seriously.
"Murderer?" Setara Renxi was surprised, "But my great-uncle he..."
"It's this kid," Mori Kogoro glanced at Conan and walked to the table to sit down, "In Mr. Genjiro's room that caught fire, we found cigarette butts that weren't completely burned. One of the cigarette butts didn't have a tooth mark on it, so this kid thinks this wasn't an accident, but murder."
"Because when Uncle and Brother Chi Feichei smoke, if their hands are full, or if they're thinking about a problem, they'll bite the mouthpiece," Conan went to the table, pointed at the cigarette butts in the ashtray, and said in a cutesy child's voice, "Looking at the cigarette butts left by Mr. Genjiro, he also had the habit of biting the mouthpiece. Only that one cigarette's mouthpiece didn't have a tooth mark. Isn't that strange?"
"So that's it. You suspect that the cigarette without a tooth mark on the mouthpiece was a tool someone intentionally used to start the fire?" Haibara Ai said, subconsciously looking towards Haga Kyosuke.
Although she wasn't sure when Setara Renxi and Tsumagari Kurenai left the Annex Building, or whether or not they went back in between, Haga Kyosuke went to put away his draft before leaving the Annex Building and was alone for about ten minutes, giving him time to commit the crime.
Moreover, about twenty minutes after they arrived at the Main Building, the Annex Building caught fire. Excluding the time it took for the fire to spread, it was enough for a cigarette to burn to a certain length and ignite some flammable material.
Haga Kyosuke saw Haibara Ai looking at him and smiled calmly, "Before I left the Annex Building, I did go to another room alone. I had the opportunity to do something, but I just went to the Music Room on the first floor to put away my draft."
"It couldn't be Uncle Kyosuke!" Setara Renxi immediately retorted, "He even rushed into the fire before to save Grandmother. How could he be the murderer? Moreover, just based on the mouthpiece having no tooth mark, you can't say it's murder. Maybe Grandpa Genjiro suddenly didn't want to bite the mouthpiece, or fell asleep as soon as he lit the cigarette."
Feichi darted towards Chi Feichei. After being caught, he drilled along Chi Feichei's arm into his clothes sleeve, curiously listening to the conversation outside.
"It's not just this. At present, in this home, starting from Mr. Setara Danjiro, Mr. Haga Kyosuke's father, the names of the people who died afterwards are sorted by the initial letters C, D, E, F, G," Mori Kogoro looked at Haga Kyosuke, then said seriously to Setara Renxi, "Of course, I don't think the person doing this is Mr. Haga Kyosuke either, but Miss Renxi, whose name starts with H, you'd best pay attention to your safety. Although Feichi's name also starts with H, he isn't a person from this home, so the possibility of encountering danger isn't great."
Haga Kyosuke stroked his chin, "Speaking of which, my father and mother can indeed be included."
"How is that possible?" Setara Renxi gave a dry smile, "It must be a coincidence. This isn't some mystery novel."
Mori Kogoro was startled for a moment, "That's true, but Miss Renxi, weren't you taking a bath just now?"
"Grandpa Genjiro just passed away, how could I possibly still be in the mood to take a bath?" Setara Renxi said with a dry smile.
Mori Kogoro felt he had lost the opportunity to call Setara Renxi in the bathroom and muttered in a low voice, "That's really a shame."
Mouri Ran glanced at Mori Kogoro, "What are you thinking?"
"Then why did you play such a cheerful piece just now?" Conan turned into a problem child.
"These are the piano notes Feichi played earlier, and then Uncle Kyosuke perfected them into a piece," Setara Renxi looked towards Haga Kyosuke, "Because you suddenly ran out, we were going to wait anyway, so we might as well listen to it first."
Conan pondered for a moment and felt it also made sense.
"Then what about the Requiem tonight?" Tsumagari Kurenai asked.
"Requiem?" Mori Kogoro was doubtful.
"It's a tradition of our Setara family," Setara Renxi explained, "Every time a relative passes away, a family member will play a Requiem."
"Until last year, Mr. Genjiro played it, but now..." Tsumagari Kurenai was conflicted, "Looking at Master and Madam, they can't play it either."
Setara Renxi quickly waved her hand, "I, I can't. I can't calm down at all."
"Then I'll do it," Haga Kyosuke spoke up, looking towards Mori Kogoro, "You guys stay too? Listen to it together; Haga Kyosuke's live performance is very rare to hear."
Mori Kogoro nodded, "Ah, Okay."
"But most of the musical instruments are in the Annex Building and were burned down," Tsumagari Kurenai said, "Now only the piano and the one in the Storage Room are left..."
"Please, not the Stradivarius," Haga Kyosuke waved his hands repeatedly, "My hands will tremble."
"Then how about using my violin?" Setara Renxi proposed.
"No, I'll go get the violin in my car. You guys wait for me in Renxi's room. Although it can't compare to a famous violin made 300 years ago, it's a belonging left to me by my father, and the sound quality can still be guaranteed," Haga Kyosuke walked towards the entrance, then suddenly turned back and said, "I don't want anything unlucky to happen again after using that famous violin. Besides, if I take out that violin, Aunt Ayane will be unhappy."
Mouri Ran watched Haga Kyosuke leave, "Unhappy? What does that mean?"
"Madam seemingly mixes Young Master Koto and that violin together. Before Young Master Koto passed away, he used the Stradivarius to perform in front of Master," Tsumagari Kurenai turned to look at the clock on the wall, "So from that day onwards, accompanied by the bell ringing at midnight, Madam will take out that violin from the Storage Room and caress it alone in her room."
Mouri Ran suddenly felt a chill down her spine, "Midnight..."
Midnight, an old lady holding a violin and caressing it in her room. One day or two was fine, but if it continued for a while, she felt it was very strange, so strange that her whole body felt uncomfortable.
"Yes," Setara Renxi smiled helplessly and got up, "Let's go wait in my room."
Mouri Ran forced a smile and nodded, "Okay."
Conan looked at Feichi's head poking out of Chi Feichei's cuff and said nothing.
In the eyes of other people, Chi Feichei's behavior of carrying a snake with him when eating, sleeping, and going out could also be considered strange, just like some kind of abnormal dependency complex.
Moreover, the dependency wasn't on a normal animal.
They were used to it and could accept it. Even he had seen Feichi several times upon waking up. He would only feel strange if he saw Chi Feichei not carrying Feichi. So for the Setara family, Setara Ayane's behavior should also be nothing out of the ordinary.
After the group went out, Mouri Ran turned and asked, "By the way, Brother Feichi, did Feichi shed his skin?"
"He finished shedding it." Chi Feichei handed Feichi to Haibara Ai who had come over.
Haibara Ai received Feichi, and while following the group towards Setara Renxi's room, she lifted Feichi and looked him over, "Indeed, you've gotten a bit fat."
Feichi corrected, "I follow Master for morning exercise every time; I've grown stronger, I'm not fat."
Pity, the words Feichi said could only be heard by Chi Feichei and were ignored by Chi Feichei.
Mouri Ran smiled, "That indicates Brother Feichi is raising you very well!"
(Bonus Chapter postponed)
(End of Chapter)
"You'll know when they get back."
Chi Feichei took out his cigarette case. Considering Setara Renxi and Haibara Ai were close by, he got up and walked to the window.
Haibara Ai turned her head to watch Chi Feichei walk to the window to smoke. Her right hand in her coat pocket gripped the pill box tightly.
Although Brother Feichi was sometimes not interested in certain cases, since she had known him, as they spent time together, this situation where he lost interest in everything rarely occurred.
Could it be that his illness had relapsed?
Setara Renxi couldn't stand the heavy atmosphere anymore and asked in a low voice, "Ai, are you hungry? Do you want something to eat to tide you over?"
Haibara Ai nodded, "Let's wait for everyone else."
The room fell silent again.
Chi Feichei stood by the window, smoking with his back to the others.
The other three sat at the table in silence.
When Chi Feichei returned, Haibara Ai saw Feichi poke his head out. She reached out and pulled Feichi out, placing him on the table. In her heart, she was struggling with how to get Chi Feichei to take his medicine.
Feichi lazily flicked his tongue, lying flat as usual.
Setara Renxi had been feeling stifled for a long time and couldn't hold it in anymore. She reached out and tried to touch Feichi, "Feichi is really well-behaved."
"By the way," Haga Kyosuke looked towards Chi Feichei, "I've perfected the piano notes Feichi played last time. It's a very special piece. Do you want to hear it?"
Feichi immediately perked up his head. Chi Feichei had no objection and nodded.
"There's nothing to do just sitting here waiting," Setara Renxi said, "Then let's listen to it."
There happened to be a piano in the room. Haga Kyosuke got up and stepped forward to sit down. He placed his hands on the piano keys and began to play the piece.
After Haga Kyosuke got up, Feichi whooshed off the table and quickly crawled onto the piano Haga Kyosuke was playing. He lowered his head and seriously stared at Haga Kyosuke's fingers as he played.
He had a part in this piece; he had to remember it and learn it!
Chi Feichei listened for a while and had to admit that Haga Kyosuke had perfected it very well. The piano notes Feichi had poked out with his tail earlier were all included. The overall tempo of the piece was bright and cheerful, yet it carried a strange and nonsensical feeling...
It could be named "Melody of the Crazy Snake".
It was just a pleasant but abnormally cheerful tempo.
Haga Kyosuke played it once, then turned to Chi Feichei and said, "Mr. Chi, I haven't named the piece yet, but I think it would be great to name it after Feichi. What do you think?"
Chi Feichei nodded, "Okay."
Congratulations to Feichi for achieving the achievement - obtaining a piece perfected by a Composing Genius with Absolute Pitch and named after himself.
Feichi flicked his tongue happily, staring at Haga Kyosuke expectantly.
He hadn't learned it yet; he wanted to see it played again.
Haga Kyosuke turned back and saw Feichi looking at him with his round black eyes. He didn't feel scared at all, but rather thought Feichi was quite cute, "You like it too? Then, I'll play it formally once. This piece is for you..."
Saying so, Haga Kyosuke started playing again.
This time, halfway through playing, Mouri Ran, Mori Kogoro, Conan, and Tsumagari Kurenai opened the door and entered the room with anxious faces.
Inside the room, the cheerful piano music stopped.
Mori Kogoro was startled for a moment, "Miss Renxi, are you okay?"
"Me?" Setara Renxi was confused, "I'm fine."
Conan remembered the piano music from just now, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
Far more than just fine, these people were actually still listening to such a cheerful piano music here. Setara Genjiro's corpse hadn't even been taken away yet. Is this really appropriate?
These people from the Setara family are too unconcerned.
Is this probably 'Nothing can stop me from playing music'?
Haga Kyosuke got up from the piano, "Mr. Mouri, did something happen?"
"We were worried that Miss Renxi might become the murderer's next target," Mori Kogoro said seriously.
"Murderer?" Setara Renxi was surprised, "But my great-uncle he..."
"It's this kid," Mori Kogoro glanced at Conan and walked to the table to sit down, "In Mr. Genjiro's room that caught fire, we found cigarette butts that weren't completely burned. One of the cigarette butts didn't have a tooth mark on it, so this kid thinks this wasn't an accident, but murder."
"Because when Uncle and Brother Chi Feichei smoke, if their hands are full, or if they're thinking about a problem, they'll bite the mouthpiece," Conan went to the table, pointed at the cigarette butts in the ashtray, and said in a cutesy child's voice, "Looking at the cigarette butts left by Mr. Genjiro, he also had the habit of biting the mouthpiece. Only that one cigarette's mouthpiece didn't have a tooth mark. Isn't that strange?"
"So that's it. You suspect that the cigarette without a tooth mark on the mouthpiece was a tool someone intentionally used to start the fire?" Haibara Ai said, subconsciously looking towards Haga Kyosuke.
Although she wasn't sure when Setara Renxi and Tsumagari Kurenai left the Annex Building, or whether or not they went back in between, Haga Kyosuke went to put away his draft before leaving the Annex Building and was alone for about ten minutes, giving him time to commit the crime.
Moreover, about twenty minutes after they arrived at the Main Building, the Annex Building caught fire. Excluding the time it took for the fire to spread, it was enough for a cigarette to burn to a certain length and ignite some flammable material.
Haga Kyosuke saw Haibara Ai looking at him and smiled calmly, "Before I left the Annex Building, I did go to another room alone. I had the opportunity to do something, but I just went to the Music Room on the first floor to put away my draft."
"It couldn't be Uncle Kyosuke!" Setara Renxi immediately retorted, "He even rushed into the fire before to save Grandmother. How could he be the murderer? Moreover, just based on the mouthpiece having no tooth mark, you can't say it's murder. Maybe Grandpa Genjiro suddenly didn't want to bite the mouthpiece, or fell asleep as soon as he lit the cigarette."
Feichi darted towards Chi Feichei. After being caught, he drilled along Chi Feichei's arm into his clothes sleeve, curiously listening to the conversation outside.
"It's not just this. At present, in this home, starting from Mr. Setara Danjiro, Mr. Haga Kyosuke's father, the names of the people who died afterwards are sorted by the initial letters C, D, E, F, G," Mori Kogoro looked at Haga Kyosuke, then said seriously to Setara Renxi, "Of course, I don't think the person doing this is Mr. Haga Kyosuke either, but Miss Renxi, whose name starts with H, you'd best pay attention to your safety. Although Feichi's name also starts with H, he isn't a person from this home, so the possibility of encountering danger isn't great."
Haga Kyosuke stroked his chin, "Speaking of which, my father and mother can indeed be included."
"How is that possible?" Setara Renxi gave a dry smile, "It must be a coincidence. This isn't some mystery novel."
Mori Kogoro was startled for a moment, "That's true, but Miss Renxi, weren't you taking a bath just now?"
"Grandpa Genjiro just passed away, how could I possibly still be in the mood to take a bath?" Setara Renxi said with a dry smile.
Mori Kogoro felt he had lost the opportunity to call Setara Renxi in the bathroom and muttered in a low voice, "That's really a shame."
Mouri Ran glanced at Mori Kogoro, "What are you thinking?"
"Then why did you play such a cheerful piece just now?" Conan turned into a problem child.
"These are the piano notes Feichi played earlier, and then Uncle Kyosuke perfected them into a piece," Setara Renxi looked towards Haga Kyosuke, "Because you suddenly ran out, we were going to wait anyway, so we might as well listen to it first."
Conan pondered for a moment and felt it also made sense.
"Then what about the Requiem tonight?" Tsumagari Kurenai asked.
"Requiem?" Mori Kogoro was doubtful.
"It's a tradition of our Setara family," Setara Renxi explained, "Every time a relative passes away, a family member will play a Requiem."
"Until last year, Mr. Genjiro played it, but now..." Tsumagari Kurenai was conflicted, "Looking at Master and Madam, they can't play it either."
Setara Renxi quickly waved her hand, "I, I can't. I can't calm down at all."
"Then I'll do it," Haga Kyosuke spoke up, looking towards Mori Kogoro, "You guys stay too? Listen to it together; Haga Kyosuke's live performance is very rare to hear."
Mori Kogoro nodded, "Ah, Okay."
"But most of the musical instruments are in the Annex Building and were burned down," Tsumagari Kurenai said, "Now only the piano and the one in the Storage Room are left..."
"Please, not the Stradivarius," Haga Kyosuke waved his hands repeatedly, "My hands will tremble."
"Then how about using my violin?" Setara Renxi proposed.
"No, I'll go get the violin in my car. You guys wait for me in Renxi's room. Although it can't compare to a famous violin made 300 years ago, it's a belonging left to me by my father, and the sound quality can still be guaranteed," Haga Kyosuke walked towards the entrance, then suddenly turned back and said, "I don't want anything unlucky to happen again after using that famous violin. Besides, if I take out that violin, Aunt Ayane will be unhappy."
Mouri Ran watched Haga Kyosuke leave, "Unhappy? What does that mean?"
"Madam seemingly mixes Young Master Koto and that violin together. Before Young Master Koto passed away, he used the Stradivarius to perform in front of Master," Tsumagari Kurenai turned to look at the clock on the wall, "So from that day onwards, accompanied by the bell ringing at midnight, Madam will take out that violin from the Storage Room and caress it alone in her room."
Mouri Ran suddenly felt a chill down her spine, "Midnight..."
Midnight, an old lady holding a violin and caressing it in her room. One day or two was fine, but if it continued for a while, she felt it was very strange, so strange that her whole body felt uncomfortable.
"Yes," Setara Renxi smiled helplessly and got up, "Let's go wait in my room."
Mouri Ran forced a smile and nodded, "Okay."
Conan looked at Feichi's head poking out of Chi Feichei's cuff and said nothing.
In the eyes of other people, Chi Feichei's behavior of carrying a snake with him when eating, sleeping, and going out could also be considered strange, just like some kind of abnormal dependency complex.
Moreover, the dependency wasn't on a normal animal.
They were used to it and could accept it. Even he had seen Feichi several times upon waking up. He would only feel strange if he saw Chi Feichei not carrying Feichi. So for the Setara family, Setara Ayane's behavior should also be nothing out of the ordinary.
After the group went out, Mouri Ran turned and asked, "By the way, Brother Feichi, did Feichi shed his skin?"
"He finished shedding it." Chi Feichei handed Feichi to Haibara Ai who had come over.
Haibara Ai received Feichi, and while following the group towards Setara Renxi's room, she lifted Feichi and looked him over, "Indeed, you've gotten a bit fat."
Feichi corrected, "I follow Master for morning exercise every time; I've grown stronger, I'm not fat."
Pity, the words Feichi said could only be heard by Chi Feichei and were ignored by Chi Feichei.
Mouri Ran smiled, "That indicates Brother Feichi is raising you very well!"
(Bonus Chapter postponed)
(End of Chapter)
