Chapter 914

"Miss Kanako Kawahara and Miss Reiko Akiba both possess absolute pitch and would easily notice any off-key notes, which would cause your plan to fail. That is why you prevented them from participating in the performance, and even the organ tuner could not escape your wrath. Did you go to such lengths just to make Mr. Domoto trigger the bomb himself?"

Fuwa Takumi's eyes narrowed beneath his frames, and he began to blink more frequently: "Why do you..."

Akaso Kaze faced the old musician and interrupted him bluntly without a shred of courtesy.

A musician who plots to destroy a concert hall is not worthy of respect.

"Mr. Domoto gave up the piano and chose the organ, which he is unfamiliar with. If it were the piano, he would not have failed to hear the difference in timbre."

"The only person who knows Mr. Domoto that well is probably you, his partner of over thirty years, right? Suspecting you is not a very difficult matter."

"Yes, indeed, it is only me... The only thing I didn't expect was that an Onmyoji would come to watch the rehearsal and even specifically bring Reiko over. I felt something was amiss just a moment ago."

Fuwa Takumi lowered his head, his face gloomy, his fingers pinched until they turned white.

"It is all Domoto's fault. Because of his selfishness, after I lost my wife and child, even my final musical career lost all meaning!"

"For these past two years, I have been waiting for this day every single moment, in order to get rid of the organ that made him no longer obsessed with the piano, this Domoto Concert Hall, and the musicians and music fans from all over the world who came to listen to the organ performance!"

"Just as you said, I agreed to serve as the curator here because being the curator is the most advantageous way to tamper with the organ and install the bombs. It is a pity that I still lost at your hands in the end!"

Fuwa Takumi gritted his teeth fiercely and suddenly pulled a handgun from his chest, pointing it at himself: "Lord Akaso, I know you are very powerful, but you shouldn't stop someone who wants to commit suicide. Now, I just want to see Domoto one last time."

"Mr. Fuwa," Akaso Kaze said, looking at Fuwa Takumi without paying any mind to the muzzle of the gun, "why have you never considered whether Mr. Domoto might have had some hidden difficulties?"

"What?" Fuwa Takumi's body froze.

"Isn't that what a partner is for? If it were me, the first thing I would think of is his hidden difficulties, rather than blaming everything on him."

Akaso Kaze tore open the final truth before Fuwa Takumi's bewildered gaze.

"Have you really treated Mr. Domoto as a partner? Designing so much to vent your own anger, even agreeing to be the curator of the Domoto Concert Hall just to destroy Mr. Domoto—don't you think Mr. Domoto is very wronged?"

Not waiting for Fuwa Takumi to open his mouth to refute, Akaso Kaze shook his head and walked away.

"The real reason Mr. Domoto chose to retire and give up the piano is actually because your hearing has declined, and you are no longer able to tune the piano accurately, often resulting in deviations in timbre."

"Impossible!" Fuwa Takumi collapsed onto the sofa, unable to accept it, muttering excitedly, "I have absolute pitch! How could I..."

The room door suddenly opened, and several people walked in.

Leading them was Mr. Domoto himself.

He looked at Takumi Fuwa, sighed, and said, "Fuwa, you are no longer young. Miss Kanako Kawahara happened to hear the deviation in tone from the piano you were responsible for tuning at the Domoto Music Academy just before it was blown up, and she even sent a text message to Miss Reiko."

"I treated you as a partner for life, so I was unwilling to find another tuner; I had no choice but to select another instrument."

Inspector Megure looked at Fuwa Takumi, whose face was blank and whose emotions were on the verge of collapse, and stepped forward to take away his handgun.

Akaso Kaze walked over and put his arm around Reiko Akiba.

He suddenly felt something was strange and looked down at Conan, who had appeared out of nowhere.

"Huh, you don't seem to have much of a reaction this time," Akaso Kaze asked.

Conan stared at Akaso Kaze with a pair of dead fish eyes.

"As for that, I've long since gotten used to it. Especially after hearing that Reiko entrusted you with this, I just gave up directly. Coming to listen to your deduction is just to satisfy my curiosity."

Akaso Kaze couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

Has the great detective Conan just laid flat?

Conan, however, was thinking something different in his heart.

He was thinking of a famous quote he had heard before.

If you cannot resist, you might as well lie back and enjoy it. ===== CHAPTER 916 =====