This Story is connected to My Story: Doctor Who: The Anime: Series 1
Fictions Mentioned: Doctor Who/Faction Paradox, Case Closed/Magic Kaito, A Certain Magical Index, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Re:Creators, Code Geass, Science Adventure, The SCP Foundation
Episode 1 - The Moonlight Sonata
OP Song:
Detective Conan Opening 1 - Mune Ga Dokidoki (Lyrics in the Description)
Location:
Multiverse Cluster: Aoyama Verse
Universe: DC/MK (Detective Conan/Magic Kaito) Verse
The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case
The One Case that was as Unforgettable as The Brightest Day.
The One Case that was as Unforgettable as The Blackest Night.
The One Case that influenced The Heisei Holmes throughout his lifetime battles against crime and corruption.
The One Case that made him vow to never let any culprit die under his watch ever again.
Insert Song Start:
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (FULL)
A few days ago, Kogoro Mouri received a strange cut-and-paste letter which was accompanied by a phone call from a client by the name of Keiji Asoh, who was asking him to investigate something on Tsukikage Island, which was a part of The Tokyo Division, according to Inspector Megure, who told Kogoro as he was consulting him when he, Conan, and Ran were on Tsukikage Island.
Conan had called The Doctor in advance, in order to tell him as a form of a heads up before leaving Beika, that he was about to embark on a trip to Tsukikage Island by boat and that he would stay there for the next few days with Kogoro and Ran due to A Certain Case that was given to Kogoro through the strange cut-and-paste letter and the strange phone call that followed soon after.
The Doctor's eyes widen at that as he knows about that particular island from that particular case that he had read about in a newspaper all those many years ago.
He realized that The Day had finally come.
This was the case that would greatly influence Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa.
This was the case that would change him and his entire world view forever.
Whether for good or for ill.
The Doctor begins to give Conan a hint that could help him with this particular case, while not divulging the future too much, as this was one of the most important events in Shinichi/Conan's Life and that tampering with it too much can have major consequences down the line.
That, and he needed to learn this lesson the hard way.
"Have you ever tried Beethoven, Conan?"
"Beethoven?"
"Yes, Conan, Beethoven. To be more specific, The Moonlight Sonata. I have a feeling that you might need that particular bit of information in this particular case that you are working on."
It was at that time that Conan began to remember his musical lessons with The Doctor and His Fellow Companions (Touma Kamijou, Kyon, Sota Mizushino, Lelouch Lamperouge).
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil Countess Giulietta Guicciardi. The popular name Moonlight Sonata goes back to a critic's remark after Beethoven's death.
The piece is one of Beethoven's most popular compositions for the piano, and it was a popular favorite even in his own day. Beethoven wrote the Moonlight Sonata in his early thirties, after he had finished with some commissioned work; there is no evidence that he was commissioned to write this sonata.
Conan took The Doctor's advice to heart and thanked him for the advice, and after the phone call, he begins to pack up his things in his bigger on the inside briefcase as he, Kogoro, and Ran go to Tsukikage Island by boat as it sailed across the ocean.
They went to an information center on the island to get information on Keiji Asoh only to find out that the man requesting for the investigation, Keiji Asoh, has been dead for 12 years. He was a world-renowned pianist who suddenly killed his family, set his house on fire, and played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as his house burned down around him.
That one raised eyebrows on Conan, who then recalled about the hint that The Doctor gave him on this case a few days ago before coming to the island, as he now begins to take this case more seriously as he remembers all too well from experience that when The Doctor gives hints about the future, it was usually a sign of a premonition for the many lives to come that could possibly be in danger, and so he decided to hone his observational skills to the max as he scans all of his surroundings with the watchful eyes of a hawk.
Despite thinking the letter is a poor prank, Kogoro decides to investigate anyway and finds out that the island is holding elections for who will be the mayor.
They discovered along the way that approximately two years ago, a passerby heard The Moonlight Sonata being played on the piano from the community center and discovered that the body of the mayor was slumped over the piano. Although he died from a heart attack, the similarity to the death of Keiji Asoh caused the islanders to think that the piano has been cursed which would definitely explain the reactions of the people on the information center if Conan were to be honest.
As they were exploring the island for any possible leads, they meet a woman by the name of Narumi Asai, a female doctor from Tsukikage Island who liked to heal and take care of children, who told them where to meet the mayor if they were to find any more infomation regarding 12 years ago.
At the community center, they discovered a room with a piano, where the former mayor was found dead two years ago.
While the group were waiting outside, suddenly the first movement of The Moonlight Sonata was being played, and Hideo Kawashima was found dead in the piano room.
Conan then realized that the murder will happened again, and so he and The Mouris decided to sleep at the piano room, along with the policeman and Narumi Asai.
Megure and his men arrived the next day and started to interrogate the suspect. While interrogating Reiko, the second movement of Moonlight Sonata is played, and Tatsuji Kuriowa was found dead at the broadcasting room.
Both Reiko and Narumi were excluded from the suspect list due to the fact that they have an alibi during the time of murder.
While all of this was going down, Conan manages to decode the musical notes which were from the murderer.
It was about Revenge from 12 years ago.
Conan began to realize that the music sheet left with the victims are codes.
Music Note Codes.
The old policeman that he had met earlier had revealed to him that Keiji Asoh had left some music sheets in his safe. While everyone else was trying to unlock the community center storage room, Conan heard a sound coming from the piano room. He then saw a suspicious person checking below the piano. Conan tried to chase the person, but the person in question ran away before he could get to him. Conan tripped while chasing the suspicion person and found the body of Shuichi Murasawa who was unconsious on the floor.
Not long after that, Ken Nishimoto was found hanged in the storage room, along with the music sheets.
Conan was utterly furious that a murder has happened once again and that it had happened under his own watch, and so he decided to take matters into his own hands as he was looking through Keiji Asoh's last music sheets. After analyzing them one more time, Conan began to realize with his eyes widening on who was truly the culprit all along and that the culprit was someone that he had met and known all this time.
"You realize it don't you? You're next." ("Wakatteru na? Tsugi ha omae no ban da.")
Evidence
First Murder
Victim: Hideo Kawashima Cause of Death: Drowning Location: Piano Room Time of Death: 30 minutes – 1 hour before being found The first movement of the Moonlight Sonata was played from a tape recorder. There was a sea water trail from the door to Kawashima's body and he has dirt and sand on the back of his shirt. Kawashima's jacket was found on the beach. The doors and windows of the piano room were locked from the inside. There were several minutes of silence at the beginning of the tape. The Moonlight Sonata sheet music was found, but the notes in the fourth bar were "strange". Conan decoded that the "strange" notes actually say: "The hellfire of hatred made you pay."
Second Murder
Victim: Tatsuji Kuroiwa Cause of Death: Stabbed to death Location: Broadcasting Room Time of Death: 5 minutes and 30 seconds before being found The second movement of the Moonlight Sonata was played. Nishimoto discovered the body. The tape has 5 minutes and 30 seconds lead in silence. Music notes written with the victim's blood were found. Conan decoded the music notes: "You realize it don't you? You're next."
Third Murder
Murder: Ken Nishimoto Cause of Death: Hanging Location: Storage Room Time of Death: 30 minutes before being found The third movement of the Moonlight Sonata was set to play. Sheet music that looked liked a suicide note was found under his feet. The decoded note said he regretted killing Kawashima and Kuroiwa and that he didn't want people to find out the wrongdoing they did years ago. There was no chair or anything to stand on, so Nishimoto couldn't hang himself. No one would bother writing a suicide note in code.
Other incriminating evidence
The dusty piano in the city hall was tuned perfectly. After the first murder, there was someone outside the piano room whom Conan and Kogoro failed to catch. When the gang returned to the city hall after the second murder, there was someone in the piano room who jumped out the window and Murasawa was found unconscious on the floor. After the third murder, Conan returned to the piano room and found a tuning hammer for the piano. Under the piano was a secret drawer with cocaine in it. Upon looking at the pictures of the crime scene where Kuroiwa was murdered, there was a button with its red light on near the victim's neck. Conan found that Hirata has powder-like substance under his sleeves and his left hand was bandaged. He also had lots of foreign money with him. Keiji Asoh left sheet music in his safe to which it read: "To my son, Seiji". Asoh had a son who became ill when he was a child and had to be hospitalized, meaning he was NOT killed in the incident that took the lives of the Asoh family.
Conclusion
The person who knocked out Murasawa in the piano room was Kazuaki Hirata. The bandage on his left hand was the result of smashing the window when he was trying to escape. He was also the one that Kogoro and Conan chased outside the piano room. The piano room was his meeting place with Kawashima when doing business: dealing drugs. He was using the piano's secret compartment as a hiding place for cocaine he got from overseas to which he exchanged later for large sums of money. The reason why he was always talking about the cursed piano was because he wanted to keep everyone in the town away from it. Murasawa saw the drugs that he had left in there earlier so he hit him. Still, he was unrelated to the murders because he wouldn't have related the piano to the crimes.
In the second murder, they found that he had been dead for only a few minutes but when Conan fell on the code of blood, it didn't smear when it takes 25-30 minutes for human blood to dry. It was just a trick that the killer used to manipulate the time of death of the victim. Upon looking at the pictures, there was a button that was lighted near Kuroiwa's neck. But after the body was moved, the light was turned off. This was actually the reverse button. While the police weren't looking, the killer turned off the light. The killer used the reverse side (the blank side that didn't have the song), which played for over 30 min and then it reversed. That was when the 5 minutes and 30 seconds of gap played before the music started.
In the third murder, the killer didn't have the time to put a chair or desk at Nishimoto's feet because he had to escape in time. The killer was probably male because the murders required a lot of physical strength.
The purpose of drowning Kawashima was to send the forensic examiner back to Tokyo, because it was impossible to do an autopsy on the island. The tape in the second murder was a setup so the killer could create an alibi.
Conan deduced that the killer was Narumi Asai and that she was, in fact, Asoh's aforementioned son, Seiji Asoh. Asai was probably the surname of the family that adopted him. After graduation, he came to the island as a female doctor. The pronunciation of his name was not written on his diploma, nor the medical license, because if they checked his history, they would have found out that he was a man: the kanji forming Asoh's name could be read as either "Seiji" (a male-only name) or "Narumi" (a female-only name): coupled with Asoh's feminine features and rather girlish voice, it let him masquerade as a female doctor rather well, plus falsifying the times of death and manipulating the crime scenes. He also stayed all night so that they'd make him last for questioning, keeping the "disguise" intact.
As for Murasawa, he was an admirer of the late Asoh and he was the one who kept the donated piano in tune just like that night.
As Conan-through-Kogoro explained all of this, suddenly the police came in and said that Seiji/Narumi had escaped. While they were looking for him, the community center building suddenly went up in flames: it turns out Seiji, who had realized that he had been found out, locked himself inside and set it on fire, intending to die like his father.
Conan, carrying Asoh's last music sheets with his message for the then-young Seiji, managed to slip in and told Seiji, who was sitting at the piano, while urging him to keep on living as he explains his reasons.
Seiji's motive dated back when his father, the pianist Keiji Asoh, and his family was murdered. Kawashima, Nishimoto, Kuroiwa, and Kameyama used Asoh's international concerts as a front for their international drug trade. When Asoh stated that he wouldn't cooperate any longer, they got scared that their secret might be exposed, so they locked the family in their home and set it on fire, . This was all written in the sheet music that he left behind in the safe as his confession to his remaining son. Seiji was hospitalized in Tokyo at the time of the murder, and later was adopted by a friend of the Asoh family.
Seiji went back to the island, under his "Narumi" disguise, because he never believed the official "Keiji Asoh killed his family and himself" version and wanted to find out the truth. As said above, when he told Kameyama that he was Asoh's son, the late mayor was terrified and told him everything an then had a fatal heart attack. Seiji played the Moonlight Sonata that his father loved so much upon seeing the mayor dead, and ultimately that gave him the idea of taking justice in his own hands.
Seiji confirmed that he was the young boy who escaped his family's murder, plus everything that Conan-through-Kogoro had already said (explained below in "Motive"). When Seiji was done, Conan insisted that he should escape and live; Seiji refused, however, saying that he was already too bloodstained. Then, he grabbed Conan and threw him through the window, saving his life.
Conan was trying to run back towards the burning house in order to attempt to get him out and save him but Ran managed to stop him by grabbing his hand as he tries to tell her to let her go when suddenly he heard it from his own two ears.
The Moonlight Sonata.
Afterwards, Seiji played one last music code message in the burning flames that be: "Thank you, little detective."
While all of this was happening, Conan, who was feeling so helpless and frustrated at this situation that was before him, as he couldn't do anything to help Seiji without Ran trying to stop him from going back inside to save Seiji, when suddenly he begins to hear a familiar ancient sound that was coming from the burning community center as his eyes began to widen in recognition as he hoped and prayed with all of his heart that maybe, just maybe, The Doctor will be able to come and save him in time.
Vworp Vworp Vworp
The TARDIS materializes at the last second to Seiji Asoh's current position in the burning community center, to Seiji's confusion and shock.
"What! What is this?!"
As The TARDIS began to envelop him, Seiji began to notice the brass interior corridor with lots of little lights in the shape of holes. There were also growths that reminded him almost of coral, and it was all centered around a center piece of machinery which was the console room where a man with a brown suit and a light brown Duster-type overcoat along with a brown tie with raised diagonal stripes of navy and light blue along with Converse All Stars Shoes, as he was standing in the middle of the console, as he looked at him with crossed arms and a determined, sympathetic, and disappointed look that was turned towards him.
"I don't think so! Your not getting away from life that easily! Not on my watch!"
"Who- Who are you?" Seiji asked in confusion and bewilderment.
"I'm The Doctor!"
Then he touched the switches that was used to turn on The TARDIS Speakers to play The Moonlight Sonata as it was being played on the piano a few seconds ago when the flames were burning brighter as the community center was set ablaze in it's full glory.
Insert Song: End
After Seiji's "death" which was staged by The Doctor as part of A Certain Plan ("Keikaku") to preserve history while also bringing Seiji himself to justice.
He was sentenced on trial by The ID (Inter-Dimensional) Court to serve at least 5 years of imprisonment in reparation for his crimes while also doing inter-dimensional community service among alien children in The Inter-Galactic Center which was under the surveillance of The SCP Foundation and under the protection of The Temporal Powers Alliance (TPA).
This was a punishment that was actually pretty light, all things considered. It was also a second chance for Seiji to start building a new life of his own as he was finally free of his dark past while allowing himself to move on with his life in memory of the last request that his father gave him before he died.
Before he was about to be taken away by The STARS Clone Trooper Prison Guards, he gave one last look towards The Doctor and Conan, who were watching him as he was about to be taken away, while saying the same words directly, which was what he played that night in the piano when the community center was burning.
The Last Music Code Message.
"Thank you, little detective."
Conan smiled a little at that as he said to him.
"Your welcome."
By the end of the case, Conan and Ran talked about Seiji as they and Kogoro were leaving by boat. They wondered why did Seiji summon Kogoro in the first place when he knew how risky that would be for his plan, and Conan speculated that it wasn't just a challenge - that deep down, Seiji wanted Kogoro to stop him.
As they were speculating these thoughts, The Doctor began to call Conan to his side, while giving a knowing look and a nod towards Ran, who noticed as she nodded to The Doctor in turned, as they began to discuss the fate of Seiji, along with asking Conan with a paternal and concerned voice on whether or not he was truly alright even though he knew already that he really wasn't but he needed him to let it out of his chest so to speak.
For keeping things to yourself often leaves trouble down the line.
"Are you alright?"
"No. Not really."
The two were in silence for a while as they begin to contemplate the still waves of the ocean.
"He was suppose to be dead you know."
Conan turns towards The Doctor with a look of surprise and shock.
"Seiji Asoh was never truly meant to survive that very night. His death was a vital moment in your own history as well as the history of this universe as it was this very case that led to you making a personal vow that you would never let any of the culprits take their lives ever again under your own watch and made the firm resolution to never let this happen ever again while the community center was in flames. And if I am not mistaken, you have already made that vow, haven't you."
The Doctors turns towards Conan with a pointed expression while Conan nodded in assent as to The Doctor's deduction on the matter.
"Good! Then let this be a lesson to you, Conan. Deductions and Observations always go hand in hand. Never forget that!"
And Conan never truly did, for it was on that very moment that his personal vow that he had made on that very night when the community center was burning in flames was resolved into his mind, heart, and soul as he takes these hard lessons that he learned and experienced towards the unknown future to come in his fight against his enemies in this universe.
The Black Organization.
And it's hidden puppet masters.
"The Committee of 300."
ED Song:
STEP BY STEP - ZIGGY (Romaji/Japanese/English Lyrics) | ジギー
Characters:
The Tenth Doctor - A: David Tennant
Shinichi Kudo/ - VA: N/A
Conan Edogawa - VA: Minami Takiyama
Seiji Asoh/Narumi Asai - VA: Ai Orikasa
Ran Mouri - VA: Wakana Yamazaki
Kogoro Mouri - VA: Akira Kamiya
Inspector Juzo Megure - VA: Chafurin
STARS Clone Troopers - A: Temuera Morrison
Timeline:
Doctor Who/Faction Paradox: Tenth Doctor - Post-Planet of the Dead, Pre-The Waters of Mars
Era: Post-Time War Era, Pre-Day of the Doctor changes
Case Closed/Magic Kaito: Episode 11 - Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, Episodes 1000 - 1001 - The Moonlight Sonata Murder