Trouble in Paradise
Chapter 2
Last time...
"I wonder what went wrong; he's a pro at that song. It's not like him to mess up."
More wrong keys were played in bunches until there was silence.
"I'm worried," said Lilith as she stood by her sister.
Conan looked at Kana and was shocked to see her expression. She was extremely pale and looked like she had seen a ghost.
What's wrong with her?
Then he got a bad feeling in his gut and chose not to ignore it this time.
"Miss Lilandra; show me where the piano room is, now!"
"Um, ok." They rushed to the piano room and Lilandra nearly dropped dead at the sight she saw.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Lilandra as she entered the room to see Robert, stabbed in the back with a knife. "R-r-robert!"
Conan rushed towards the body. The other guests gasped as they entered the room.
"No one is allowed to leave!" declared Conan. "Someone call the police, Rachel, get the inspector!"
"Ok!"
Lilith cried into her sisters arms.
"Move out of the way! Let me through!" urged a tall man with black hair styled over his eye and glasses carrying a briefcase as he rushed toward the body. He kneeled next to the body as he opened his case. He took off his fancy gloves and put on doctor gloves and examined the body.
"Hey, mister, are you a doctor?" That's odd, how did he know to bring a medical kit to the party?
"Yes. There is nothing we can do. He's dead. I suspect that the time of death would be about five to ten minutes ago."
"Wow," said Conan in fake surprise. "Why are you so calm, mister?"
"I'm a doctor, I see death all of the time. What about you?"
"I live with Detective Moore, and get to on cases with him so I see this a lot too."
"Oh."
"Hey you! Stop messing with the body!" screamed Richard as he saw the doctor.
"Mr. Moore I presume? My name is Hatori Sohma. I'm a doctor."
"Oh... a doctor? That's convenient."
"Mr. Hayden probably died about five to ten minutes ago."
"Thank you, I can take it from here now."
"Dad, the inspector is here!" said Rachel as she came into the room with Inspector Meguire.
"Well Richard, it's like death follows you."
"Yeah, well..."
"Richard look! Robert wrote down a name in blood," spotted Conan.
"Hey Conan! Stop playing around!"
"No! I'm serious look!" There was a name written in blood.
Lilandra
Lilandra gasped as she saw her name.
"So it was you!" accused Richard.
"N-no! I didn't kill him! I wouldn't!"
"Oh yeah? Well then tell me where you were when he died."
"Well, I was getting some fresh air outside and I heard music when I came back."
"So if I'm right then what your saying is that no one can account for your real whereabouts before you came into the main room?"
"... Yes."
"Then case closed! The Great Detective Moore strikes again!"
"I'm not so sure. Lilandra was talking to me and Rachel when the piano was playing. If he died after the wrong notes then Lilandra didn't do it. I'm her alibi," said Conan, angering Richard.
"Would you shut your mouth!"
"Richard, the boy does have a point," said Inspector Meguire.
"There's another thing. The heat is turned on in here so there's a possibility that the murder happened between the time Robert left the room and the time we found him. The heat being turned on would make it feel like his body temperature hasn't changed. In that case, anyone who knows how to play piano could have done it. I say that because the person could have killed him, and then started playing the piano to make it sound like he was still alive," deducted Conan. "I also have another theory. Lilandra, does this place have an announcement system?"
"Ah, yes. You can operate it from anywhere on the premises."
"Then if that's true then the killer could have broadcasted a recording of the song while Robert was dying. I have one more question; does this house have any secret compartments?"
"Yeah. They're everywhere. I just find them like every day."
"I've concluded that the killer could be anyone who exited the main room, anyone who can play the piano, anyone who was on bad terms with Robert."
"When did you get this smart Conan?" said Richard.
"Oh, I just learned it all from you."
"Now, everyone line up, we're going to do introductions first then questions," declared Inspector Meguire. They all got into a line and started.
"My name is Lilandra Johnson."
"I'm Lilith Johnson, her twin sister."
"Axel Kino."
"Um... I'm Kana Johnson."
"Names Vanitas Altair."
"I'm Kosuke Ueki." It was the boy that was mad with Robert earlier.
"Hatori Sohma." The doctor.
"I'm Kagome Higurashi." The girl was tall and slender. She had long black hair and wore a beautiful green dress."
"I'm Ai Mori." The blue haired girl that was with Ueki.
"I'm Koga Yamada, the drummer of the Black Knights. Nice to meet you." The guy was tall and had black hair in an up ponytail. He wore a tux with a brown head band on this forehead.
"Ichigo Kurosaki." This guy had short spikey orange hair, with a deep scowl. Scary.
"I'm Chad." This guy was tall, and very muscular. He was tan skinned with wavy brown hair that went to his chin.
"I'm Renji Abarai." This guy had flaming spikey red hair like Axel but it was tied back with a hair tie. "The midget here is Rukia Kuchiki," he said pointing to the shorter girl with black hair and a short white dress. After the rude comment, the girl swiftly kicked him in the shin.
"Don't call me a midget!"
"I'm Inuyasha Kadoiya," This guy was one of the weird ones. He had long messy white hair and he wore a read kimono.
"My name is Miroku Takagawa, I'm a monk." He had short black hair that was tied into a small baby ponytail. He was wearing a blue kimono and held a golden monk staff. "And this lovely beauty is Songo Tateyama," he said as he reached his hand down and squeezed a certain part of the woman. She wore a beautiful spring yukata that was violet and white. She had long black hair. She quickly slapped the monk because of his perviness. It left a burning red mark.
"Miroku, you stupid lecherous monk!"
"I'm Boris Airay." This guy had magenta hair and weird ear piercings. He also had the same under eye triangle tattoos that Axel had. He wore a black tux jacket that was unbuttoned and his white dress shirt showed a bit of his chest. He had chains hanging from his black pants but the craziest thing about him was the large fluffy black boa that was draped over his shoulders.
"My name is Alice Liddell." This girl had long, neat, blonde hair with a pretty bow. She had on a long purple/ black dress that had cool renaissance sleeves.
"It's nice to meet you all, I'm Inspector Meguire, this is Detective Richard Moore, his daughter Rachel, and Conan Edogawa. We are here to find out which one of you killer Mr. Robert Hayden. First question was anyone here on bad terms with Mr. Hayden."
Lilandra, Vanitas, Ueki, Kagome, Ai, & Boris all raised their hands.
"He always creeped me out and usually like to prove me wrong. I can sometimes be sour whenever I'm proven wrong, especially by him," said Lilandra.
"Naturally, if my girl doesn't like someone, I don't like them either," said Vanitas.
"Robert beat up one of my friends and he had to go to the hospital. Sure, I hated Robert, but not enough to kill him!" exclaimed Ueki.
"That guy always gave me creepy chills. He was kinda weird," said Kagome. "I always tried to ignore or avoid him as much as possible."
"Like Ueki said, he beat up one of our friends, I just tried to keep my distance from him," explained Ai.
"I just didn't like the guy at all. He was a freaking know-it-all," said Boris nonchalantly.
"Oh, please. You just didn't like him because we were good friends," said Alice.
"Oh yeah? Then tell me what those secret meetings you had with him were."
"I can't believe you don't trust me enough to be able to meet a friend!"
"If it was just meetings with a friend then why couldn't I come?!"
"Because, he was teaching me how to play the piano so that I could play/sing you a song on your birthday!"
"Is that it? I'm so sorry that I didn't trust you."
"Whatever just forget it," she finished as she walked to the other end of the line, beside Lilandra.
That guy has a sure motive to kill Robert; he thought that the guy was stealing his girlfriend.
"Well that was ... I don't know. Moving on, I want to know who left the main room and what you did."
Lilandra, Lilith, Kana, Ueki, Hatori, Koga, Chad, Inuyasha, Boris, and Alice answered.
"Well, as I said before, I went outside to get some fresh air. After that, I came back and was talking to Rachel and Conan about the music," explained Lilandra.
"I asked Conan if he knew where Robert went. When I couldn't find him, I went back to the main room as the music was playing. Kana was with me," said Lilith.
"Yeah, I was," Kana agreed shakily.
"I stepped out of the room to take a call. I found that the main room was too noisy so I just stood outside of the door. While I was on the phone I saw Ueki and Koga leave at the same time but they headed in the same direction," said Hatori.
"I had to go to the bathroom but I didn't know where it was because this place is so big. Koga showed me the way," explained Ueki.
"He's telling the truth, he always forgets where the bathroom is and I always have to show him where it is," added Koga.
"Hmph, I wouldn't be surprised if you two did more than just the normal in that bathroom together," scoffed Inuyasha.
"Did you say something you mangy mutt!"
"Oh, I was wrong, you're not just stupid, you're senile too!"
"Break it up you two!" yelled Kagome who was very embarrassed.
"Anything for my beautiful Kagome," swooned Koga.
"I left to find a quieter place," said Chad. "I saw the Inu guy walk in the room I was in but he walked away."
"Yeah, I was looking for a quieter place too. I saw that big guy in a room but I wanted to be alone so I went to find another room," said Inuyasha.
"I went to go find Robert to ask him a question on hand positions for a pianist but I couldn't find him," said Alice.
"I feel ashamed for saying this but I was following Alice,"
"No surprise there."
Boris just stood quietly.
"Ok, next is how many of you know how to play the piano. We are not sure if the killer did kill Mr. Hayden then proceed to play the piano but we must explore all of the possibilities. I would like everyone to try to play Fur Elise on the piano please."
As everyone tried to play the piano, Inspector Meguire made a list of everyone that could play it. Only Lilandra, Lilith, Axel, Hatori, Rukia, and Alice could play it.
The inspector thought for a minute until he came to a conclusion.
"Hmm, it seems to me that Axel, Vanitas, Kagome, Ai, Ichigo, Renji, Rukia, Miroku, and Songo couldn't have done it because they never left the room so they're clear."
"Meguire, speak no more! I have this case all solved!" declared Richard.
"Oh really! Well enlighten us."
"The killer was none other than Boris Airay!"
"What the hell! I didn't kill the bastard!" yelled Boris. I don't think he killed Robert either. There must be something that we're overlooking. Huh, is it just me or is Lilith glaring like crazy. She's so nice; I didn't think that she could glare.
"No need to deny it! Everything points to you!"
"You must be bat-shit crazy!"
"You have the right motive and you don't have anyone to confirm you alibi. I bet that if we patted you down that we would find more weapons!"
"You don't need to," he said as he pulled out a gun with a chain on it out of his jacket. Immediately, the police drew their guns too. "Don't get your panties in a bunch; all of my friends know that I carry my gun with me everywhere. I don't go anywhere without it." Borris, having a gun right now doesn't make you look innocent at all!
"This just helps me prove that you did it even more. If you had a gun then you probably had a knife with you also. I say shame on you for trying to blame the wonderful Lilandra by writing her name in Robert's blood!"
"Why would I try to blame Lilandra?! She's always been like a little sister to me!"
"Yeah, I don't believe that Boris would kill Robert! Boris would never do anything like that!" defended Lilith. Why is she defending him?
"You don't have to defend him my sweet Lilith. He will pay for this heinous crime."
With that comment, Lilith looked really peeved. Conan walked up to her innocently.
"Miss, why do you look so mad?" She gasped with a start.
"Oh, Conan! You surprised me."
"What has you so tense?"
"Well, my big brother figure is about to be convicted for murder and I can't do anything about it."
"Well, I heard that your sister is a really great lawyer so I bet she can get him out of it." She scowled.
"Yeah, she can do anything because she's so amazing." Why did she seem so mad when I mentioned her sister being a good lawyer? That's questionable.
"You don't have any evidence against me so you can't convict me!" said Boris with self-satisfaction.
"He's right Richard, even if we did take him to court he would be found innocent due to lack of evidence," added the inspector.
"Damn! Aren't there any fingerprints on the knife?"
"There couldn't be, everyone at the party was wearing gloves."
"Damn."
Conan searched for something, anything to help him figure out this mystery. Then he found it. A beautiful necklace with an amethyst gem on it right beside Robert's head. Conan also had gloves on so he didn't have to worry about his prints when he picked it up.
This looks so familiar. Where have I seen it before? His eyes widened in realization. He sat the necklace back down and quickly used his watch to put Richard to sleep as the man stumbled and luckily fell onto the piano chair. Conan hid behind him as he cleared his throat.
"Ahem. Sorry Meguire about that. I was just blindly accusing this young man."
"You bet you were," scoffed Boris.
"But Richard! If we take him in, maybe we can interrogate him so hard that he'll confess!" said Meguire.
"No. I was wrong. Boris Airay is not the killer."
"Then who is!"
"The killer is….
CLIFFHANGER!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'M SO CRUEL!
Can you figure out who did it?!
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CYA!
