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## Chapter 1084: The Setara Family's Grievances
Tsumagari Kurenai watched Setara Renxi smiling and talking to Haibara Ai, felt something was off, no matter how she looked at it. Subconsciously, she searched for Chi Feichei's figure, only to find that Chi Feichei was talking in a low voice with Haga Kyosuke and wasn't paying attention to the situation here at all. She couldn't help but complain in her heart that men were just carefree. With a stern face, she said to Miss Renxi, "Miss Renxi, compared to others' encouragement, you should work harder on your own practice."
She pleaded in her heart for her Miss Renxi to practice the violin more and stop staring at that little girl; it made her nervous.
Haibara Ai turned her head and looked at Tsumagari Kurenai, who was wearing a women's suit and had a serious expression.
She seemed like a rigid and strict housekeeper...
Setara Renxi thought Tsumagari Kurenai was reminding her and smiled, "Butler Tsumagari, don't worry, I'll practice two more times later, and it will be the same tomorrow. I won't disappoint grandfather!"
Next, a group of people went to other music rooms to look around.
Piano, pipe organ, saxophone, cello, trombone, French horn...
The Setara Family had a wide variety of musical instruments in their collection. Besides Western musical instruments, Chi Feichei also saw a bamboo flute in one collection room.
Feichi hid under Chi Feichei's clothes and secretly observed, "Master, this musical instrument looks very much like a snake."
Chi Feichei silently added in his heart, it looks like a snake, the kind that's stiff from death.
"...I don't usually live here. Recently, because of Uncle Choichiro's birthday, I came here in advance to stay temporarily and also help Renxi practice the violin," Haga Kyosuke accompanied Chi Feichei to look at the musical instruments. Seeing Chi Feichei look at the flute on the shelf, he smiled gently, "Most of the musical instruments here were bought by my uncle during his travels in his early years, and some were gifts from guests. Because no one in the Setara Family is skilled with them, they are placed somewhat haphazardly."
Actually, it couldn't be called 'haphazardly'. It was just that compared to the previous rooms full of violins and rooms full of pianos, this room had a wider variety of musical instruments and they weren't completely separated. Shakuhachi and bamboo flute, which looked similar, were placed on the same shelf.
After looking around, a group of people went to the main building for a meal.
In the dining room, a thin old man sat on a seat. His clothes were neat, but his face was full of fatigue, and he had thick dark circles under his eyes. After Haibara Ai entered the door, he quietly sized up Haibara Ai and sighed in his heart.
"Mr. Chi, Miss Haibara, please sit," Tsumagari Kurenai led Chi Feichei and Haibara Ai to their seats, then specifically went ahead to the other side of the long table and pulled out a chair, "Miss Renxi, please."
Setara Renxi had originally wanted to sit beside Haibara Ai and talk more with Haibara Ai, this little sister. However, seeing Tsumagari Kurenai help pull out a chair, she didn't think much of it and sat across the table, "Thank you."
"Young Master Kyosuke." Tsumagari Kurenai pulled out a chair for Haga Kyosuke as well, "Please."
"Welcome, both of you. I am the current family head of the Setara Family," the old man looked at Chi Feichei, his voice soft and full of weakness, "I'm truly sorry. I have physical discomfort and couldn't personally entertain you before. I'm afraid I also won't be able to have a meal with you. *Cough*, please forgive me."
Chi Feichei knew this was Setara Choichiro, Setara Renxi's biological grandfather. He replied, "If you have physical discomfort, you should go rest."
Setara Renxi got up again and went forward with Tsumagari Kurenai to support Setara Choichiro.
"Renxi, you entertain the guests," Setara Choichiro waved his hand at Setara Renxi, only letting Tsumagari Kurenai escort him go out.
Haibara Ai watched the old master leave before withdrawing her line of sight and looking towards Setara Renxi, who had sat back across the table, "The old master does look like he's not feeling well."
Setara Renxi sighed, "My grandfather has been diagnosed with cancer. The doctor said he only has half a year left at most. That's why we wanted to properly celebrate this birthday for him."
"As for Aunt Ayane... that is, Renxi's grandmother," Haga Kyosuke looked at Setara Renxi sitting beside him, "Because her father didn't pay attention to the severely corroded railing last year and fell from upstairs to his death, Aunt Ayane has been absent-minded afterwards, so she couldn't come to have a meal with us either."
Setara Renxi smiled, "My mother divorced and remarried many years ago. It's said she fell in love with someone else, so I'm the only one who can entertain you!"
Tsumagari Kurenai turned back to the dining room, followed by servants bringing in the dishes.
The meal wasn't completely dull. Setara Renxi chattered and shared some interesting stories, and she could even get Haga Kyosuke, Chi Feichei, and Haibara Ai to say a few words.
However, Haibara Ai felt the atmosphere was a bit heavy, and she didn't understand why she had this feeling.
Perhaps it was because the number of people who could come to eat in a music family like the Setara Family was pitifully small, and in the end, only the four of them sat at the table, making it seem a bit empty.
Perhaps it was because Haga Kyosuke and Chi Feichei's expressions were too calm when they lowered their eyes to eat.
Or perhaps it was because the interior decoration of the old Western-style house exuded a sense of decline, and her Brother Feichi was also emitting a weird aura, affecting her perception...
In short, the atmosphere in this home was really weird.
After the meal, Setara Renxi took Chi Feichei and Haibara Ai to the living room, with Tsumagari Kurenai following closely.
Haga Kyosuke whispered a few words to Tsumagari Kurenai and left mysteriously for a moment. When he returned to the living room, he held two wooden boxes in his hands. After placing them on the table, he opened the box lids and smiled at Chi Feichei, "Mr. Chi, these were actually given to me by a client who commissioned me to compose music. They are temporarily stored at the Setara Family. No one in the Setara Family has ever learned these two musical instruments. You paid attention to that shelf just now, so I decided to give them to you."
Chi Feichei refused very directly, "Sorry, I don't accept."
Haibara Ai, who had just picked up her teacup to drink black tea, almost sprayed it out. She looked at Setara Renxi, who had directly sprayed hers out, and speechlessly put down her teacup.
Her Brother Feichi's refusal was really straightforward. She'd better wait a bit for the tea and drink it later, lest her Brother Feichi cause trouble again.
Haga Kyosuke was stunned, "Why?"
"I don't know how to play the Shakuhachi. As for this bamboo flute..." Chi Feichei looked at the red bamboo flute in the box on the table, "No fate."
Setara Renxi used a handkerchief to wipe the water that had sprayed onto her dress and was stunned when she heard that.
No... fate?
"Huh? Really?..." Haga Kyosuke had a string of question marks above his head. He didn't know what expression to make and didn't know how to answer.
Haibara Ai was not surprised by the moment of silence and didn't feel awkward. She took a sip of tea with a calm face.
Setara Renxi was also carefree and quickly remembered another thing, "Then do you want to listen to the piece I'm going to perform tomorrow? I want to practice two times before sleeping."
No one objected, so the before-sleep entertainment became listening to the violin and discussing the piece.
Before going to sleep, Setara Renxi asked Haga Kyosuke and confirmed that there were no problems with her performance. Suppressing her happy mood, she took Chi Feichei and Haibara Ai to see their rooms, told them the location for breakfast in the morning, and then invited, "Ai, there's a bathtub at home, let's go take a bath first!"
Haibara Ai and Mouri Ran also often took baths together. Just as she was about to nod and go get her yukata, she was stopped one step ahead by Tsumagari Kurenai.
"No!" Tsumagari Kurenai's heart was full of a sense of crisis. Seeing Setara Renxi and Haibara Ai look over, she softened her excessively strict expression and patiently advised, "Miss Renxi, you still have to perform tomorrow, please rest early. As for the guests, leave them to me."
"Butler Tsumagari, you're too nervous..." Setara Renxi laughed, but seeing Tsumagari Kurenai's insistent expression, she still compromised, "Okay, okay, I'll go rest first, then I'll leave the guests to you!"
Tsumagari Kurenai let out a sigh of relief in her heart. She found that Chi Feichei still hadn't noticed at all and again sighed that men were just careless. But who would have thought of this kind of thing? She could only worry a bit more. As long as Miss Renxi wasn't too excessive, she would pretend to be unaware and quietly guide things back on track from the shadows.
Before going to wash up, Haibara Ai secretly slipped something to Chi Feichei and whispered, "Keep it with you. At least don't take it off for these few days."
At night, the old Western-style house of the Setara Family was completely silent.
Haibara Ai was a bit unaccustomed to the unfamiliar room and was looking through research materials on her mobile phone.
She hoped Brother Feichi would put on that Exorcism Charm properly, at least so there wouldn't be any problems these two days.
If she hadn't gotten this Charm, she really wouldn't have dared to bring Brother Feichi here to stay temporarily.
In the room diagonally opposite, Chi Feichei sat on the bedside, preparing to open the Charm Haibara Ai gave him to check it.
"Master, I heard that if you open a Charm, it won't be effective," Feichi reminded him, lying on the pillow.
"This Charm should be given to Conan."
Chi Feichei still didn't open it in the end. He put it in his coat pocket and lay down in the bedding.
The Charm Haibara Ai gave him had the two large characters 'Exorcism' embroidered on it. The intention couldn't be more obvious.
But this Charm should be given even more to Conan.
He remembered this plot very clearly.
Thirty years ago, Setara Choichiro borrowed the Stradivarius violin from Setara Danjiro, the father of Haga Kyosuke and his own younger brother. As soon as he played it, he fell in love with that timbre and was unwilling to return it to Setara Danjiro. He also got into a dispute with Setara Danjiro and pushed Setara Danjiro down the staircase. Finally, he also disguised himself as robbers, attacked and committed robbery, killing Setara Danjiro and his wife. He also agreed with his third younger brother, Setara Genjiro, and his wife to collude and falsify things together, and told the outside world that the violin was given to him by Setara Danjiro.
Haga Kyosuke's mother was weak due to illness. Due to being overworked from taking care of her husband, who was severely injured from being beaten by robbers, she died one step ahead. Afterwards, his father, whom he couldn't save, also passed away.
That year, Haga Kyosuke was only two years old. After the incident, he was adopted by people from his mother's side and changed his surname to 'Haga'.
After Setara Choichiro and Setara Genjiro obtained that violin, they also seemed to be cursed. No matter who used it to perform, there would be a little problem. Either the strings kept breaking, or they fell ill, or they got tenosynovitis due to excessive practice. So, that violin was sealed away by Setara Choichiro.
Until today two years ago, on Setara Choichiro's birthday, Setara Genjiro's wife proposed to use that violin to perform and even asked Haga Kyosuke, this genius with absolute pitch, to help tune it. As soon as Haga Kyosuke heard it, he recognized that this was the violin his deceased father had once given him. Then it was absolutely impossible for his father to give it to Setara Choichiro as a birthday gift again.
Under Haga Kyosuke's questioning, Setara Genjiro's wife told the truth about falsifying the robbery that year, but accidentally stepped wrongly on the staircase and fell down.
And on today last year, Setara Kōjin, Setara Renxi's father and Haga Kyosuke's cousin, also fell from upstairs when planning to use that violin to perform.
Haga Kyosuke made a discovery. Starting from his deceased mother, the names of the deceased people in this family afterwards all had a pattern. The first letter of his mother's name 'Chinami' in Romaji was C. Afterwards, his father Danjiro was D. The Third Aunt who fell down the staircase two years ago had a name starting with E. Setara Kōjin, who fell to his death last year, who was Haga Kyosuke's cousin and Setara Renxi's father, was F.
If the musical scale is represented by English letters, it is CDEFGAB. In German, it is CDEFGAH. The deceased people are exactly sorted according to the musical scale.
In this family, there is also Setara Genjiro, whose name starts with G, Setara Ayane, whose name starts with A, and Haga Kyosuke himself, whose name starts with H. Plus Setara Choichiro, whose name starts with C, they can exactly form a CDEFGAHC cycle.
So Haga Kyosuke wanted to kill the remaining people according to the musical scale, including himself. And Setara Choichiro had cancer and only had half a year left to live, so he had to complete his own plan on Setara Choichiro's birthday this year.
Finally, he would naturally be seen through and exposed by Conan, who ran over...
Thinking from his angle, he of course didn't hope Haga Kyosuke would murder. It would be a real pity if such a genius, who could help the company adjust sheet music and talk about music with him, died.
Anyway, Setara Ayane was already crazy because of her son's death, and Setara Choichiro was also about to die from cancer. Although Setara Genjiro was still lively, there was no need to rush to seek revenge and insist on killing people according to the musical scale order, committing a crime despite the risks.
But this is just thinking from his angle. He thinks lightly, but Haga Kyosuke might not think it's light.
That incident at Morizono Kikuto's family was a misunderstanding. The old butler had always been considerate of Kikuto Morizono. If they communicated well, the knot would be untied. But Haga Kyosuke's matters were much more complex. Not to mention that revenge for killing parents was originally very difficult to resolve, Haga Kyosuke was only two years old in the year his parents died. If he didn't have any special history afterwards, he shouldn't be so obsessive, obsessive to the point of even including himself in the death list, obsessive to the point of disregarding all those years of glory, achievements, and friends.
If he couldn't figure out where Haga Kyosuke's obsession was in his heart, it simply couldn't be resolved.
Asking directly was also useless. If Haga Kyosuke intended to murder, he would hide it. If he could truly be honest, then there would be no need for him to persuade, which would indicate that Haga Kyosuke had already given up.
And if Haga Kyosuke was just too sentimental, then it would be even harder to persuade. He had no confidence in his 'Persuasion Skill'.
So he refused to accept the bamboo flute twice.
Haga Kyosuke went in and even left a flute for him, wandering around under his nose all day. Wasn't that making him recall memories?
When he thinks of Haga Kyosuke, he will naturally go visit, but he would rather this flute be burned in the annex building than take it back.
End of Chapter
Tsumagari Kurenai watched Setara Renxi smiling and talking to Haibara Ai, felt something was off, no matter how she looked at it. Subconsciously, she searched for Chi Feichei's figure, only to find that Chi Feichei was talking in a low voice with Haga Kyosuke and wasn't paying attention to the situation here at all. She couldn't help but complain in her heart that men were just carefree. With a stern face, she said to Miss Renxi, "Miss Renxi, compared to others' encouragement, you should work harder on your own practice."
She pleaded in her heart for her Miss Renxi to practice the violin more and stop staring at that little girl; it made her nervous.
Haibara Ai turned her head and looked at Tsumagari Kurenai, who was wearing a women's suit and had a serious expression.
She seemed like a rigid and strict housekeeper...
Setara Renxi thought Tsumagari Kurenai was reminding her and smiled, "Butler Tsumagari, don't worry, I'll practice two more times later, and it will be the same tomorrow. I won't disappoint grandfather!"
Next, a group of people went to other music rooms to look around.
Piano, pipe organ, saxophone, cello, trombone, French horn...
The Setara Family had a wide variety of musical instruments in their collection. Besides Western musical instruments, Chi Feichei also saw a bamboo flute in one collection room.
Feichi hid under Chi Feichei's clothes and secretly observed, "Master, this musical instrument looks very much like a snake."
Chi Feichei silently added in his heart, it looks like a snake, the kind that's stiff from death.
"...I don't usually live here. Recently, because of Uncle Choichiro's birthday, I came here in advance to stay temporarily and also help Renxi practice the violin," Haga Kyosuke accompanied Chi Feichei to look at the musical instruments. Seeing Chi Feichei look at the flute on the shelf, he smiled gently, "Most of the musical instruments here were bought by my uncle during his travels in his early years, and some were gifts from guests. Because no one in the Setara Family is skilled with them, they are placed somewhat haphazardly."
Actually, it couldn't be called 'haphazardly'. It was just that compared to the previous rooms full of violins and rooms full of pianos, this room had a wider variety of musical instruments and they weren't completely separated. Shakuhachi and bamboo flute, which looked similar, were placed on the same shelf.
After looking around, a group of people went to the main building for a meal.
In the dining room, a thin old man sat on a seat. His clothes were neat, but his face was full of fatigue, and he had thick dark circles under his eyes. After Haibara Ai entered the door, he quietly sized up Haibara Ai and sighed in his heart.
"Mr. Chi, Miss Haibara, please sit," Tsumagari Kurenai led Chi Feichei and Haibara Ai to their seats, then specifically went ahead to the other side of the long table and pulled out a chair, "Miss Renxi, please."
Setara Renxi had originally wanted to sit beside Haibara Ai and talk more with Haibara Ai, this little sister. However, seeing Tsumagari Kurenai help pull out a chair, she didn't think much of it and sat across the table, "Thank you."
"Young Master Kyosuke." Tsumagari Kurenai pulled out a chair for Haga Kyosuke as well, "Please."
"Welcome, both of you. I am the current family head of the Setara Family," the old man looked at Chi Feichei, his voice soft and full of weakness, "I'm truly sorry. I have physical discomfort and couldn't personally entertain you before. I'm afraid I also won't be able to have a meal with you. *Cough*, please forgive me."
Chi Feichei knew this was Setara Choichiro, Setara Renxi's biological grandfather. He replied, "If you have physical discomfort, you should go rest."
Setara Renxi got up again and went forward with Tsumagari Kurenai to support Setara Choichiro.
"Renxi, you entertain the guests," Setara Choichiro waved his hand at Setara Renxi, only letting Tsumagari Kurenai escort him go out.
Haibara Ai watched the old master leave before withdrawing her line of sight and looking towards Setara Renxi, who had sat back across the table, "The old master does look like he's not feeling well."
Setara Renxi sighed, "My grandfather has been diagnosed with cancer. The doctor said he only has half a year left at most. That's why we wanted to properly celebrate this birthday for him."
"As for Aunt Ayane... that is, Renxi's grandmother," Haga Kyosuke looked at Setara Renxi sitting beside him, "Because her father didn't pay attention to the severely corroded railing last year and fell from upstairs to his death, Aunt Ayane has been absent-minded afterwards, so she couldn't come to have a meal with us either."
Setara Renxi smiled, "My mother divorced and remarried many years ago. It's said she fell in love with someone else, so I'm the only one who can entertain you!"
Tsumagari Kurenai turned back to the dining room, followed by servants bringing in the dishes.
The meal wasn't completely dull. Setara Renxi chattered and shared some interesting stories, and she could even get Haga Kyosuke, Chi Feichei, and Haibara Ai to say a few words.
However, Haibara Ai felt the atmosphere was a bit heavy, and she didn't understand why she had this feeling.
Perhaps it was because the number of people who could come to eat in a music family like the Setara Family was pitifully small, and in the end, only the four of them sat at the table, making it seem a bit empty.
Perhaps it was because Haga Kyosuke and Chi Feichei's expressions were too calm when they lowered their eyes to eat.
Or perhaps it was because the interior decoration of the old Western-style house exuded a sense of decline, and her Brother Feichi was also emitting a weird aura, affecting her perception...
In short, the atmosphere in this home was really weird.
After the meal, Setara Renxi took Chi Feichei and Haibara Ai to the living room, with Tsumagari Kurenai following closely.
Haga Kyosuke whispered a few words to Tsumagari Kurenai and left mysteriously for a moment. When he returned to the living room, he held two wooden boxes in his hands. After placing them on the table, he opened the box lids and smiled at Chi Feichei, "Mr. Chi, these were actually given to me by a client who commissioned me to compose music. They are temporarily stored at the Setara Family. No one in the Setara Family has ever learned these two musical instruments. You paid attention to that shelf just now, so I decided to give them to you."
Chi Feichei refused very directly, "Sorry, I don't accept."
Haibara Ai, who had just picked up her teacup to drink black tea, almost sprayed it out. She looked at Setara Renxi, who had directly sprayed hers out, and speechlessly put down her teacup.
Her Brother Feichi's refusal was really straightforward. She'd better wait a bit for the tea and drink it later, lest her Brother Feichi cause trouble again.
Haga Kyosuke was stunned, "Why?"
"I don't know how to play the Shakuhachi. As for this bamboo flute..." Chi Feichei looked at the red bamboo flute in the box on the table, "No fate."
Setara Renxi used a handkerchief to wipe the water that had sprayed onto her dress and was stunned when she heard that.
No... fate?
"Huh? Really?..." Haga Kyosuke had a string of question marks above his head. He didn't know what expression to make and didn't know how to answer.
Haibara Ai was not surprised by the moment of silence and didn't feel awkward. She took a sip of tea with a calm face.
Setara Renxi was also carefree and quickly remembered another thing, "Then do you want to listen to the piece I'm going to perform tomorrow? I want to practice two times before sleeping."
No one objected, so the before-sleep entertainment became listening to the violin and discussing the piece.
Before going to sleep, Setara Renxi asked Haga Kyosuke and confirmed that there were no problems with her performance. Suppressing her happy mood, she took Chi Feichei and Haibara Ai to see their rooms, told them the location for breakfast in the morning, and then invited, "Ai, there's a bathtub at home, let's go take a bath first!"
Haibara Ai and Mouri Ran also often took baths together. Just as she was about to nod and go get her yukata, she was stopped one step ahead by Tsumagari Kurenai.
"No!" Tsumagari Kurenai's heart was full of a sense of crisis. Seeing Setara Renxi and Haibara Ai look over, she softened her excessively strict expression and patiently advised, "Miss Renxi, you still have to perform tomorrow, please rest early. As for the guests, leave them to me."
"Butler Tsumagari, you're too nervous..." Setara Renxi laughed, but seeing Tsumagari Kurenai's insistent expression, she still compromised, "Okay, okay, I'll go rest first, then I'll leave the guests to you!"
Tsumagari Kurenai let out a sigh of relief in her heart. She found that Chi Feichei still hadn't noticed at all and again sighed that men were just careless. But who would have thought of this kind of thing? She could only worry a bit more. As long as Miss Renxi wasn't too excessive, she would pretend to be unaware and quietly guide things back on track from the shadows.
Before going to wash up, Haibara Ai secretly slipped something to Chi Feichei and whispered, "Keep it with you. At least don't take it off for these few days."
At night, the old Western-style house of the Setara Family was completely silent.
Haibara Ai was a bit unaccustomed to the unfamiliar room and was looking through research materials on her mobile phone.
She hoped Brother Feichi would put on that Exorcism Charm properly, at least so there wouldn't be any problems these two days.
If she hadn't gotten this Charm, she really wouldn't have dared to bring Brother Feichi here to stay temporarily.
In the room diagonally opposite, Chi Feichei sat on the bedside, preparing to open the Charm Haibara Ai gave him to check it.
"Master, I heard that if you open a Charm, it won't be effective," Feichi reminded him, lying on the pillow.
"This Charm should be given to Conan."
Chi Feichei still didn't open it in the end. He put it in his coat pocket and lay down in the bedding.
The Charm Haibara Ai gave him had the two large characters 'Exorcism' embroidered on it. The intention couldn't be more obvious.
But this Charm should be given even more to Conan.
He remembered this plot very clearly.
Thirty years ago, Setara Choichiro borrowed the Stradivarius violin from Setara Danjiro, the father of Haga Kyosuke and his own younger brother. As soon as he played it, he fell in love with that timbre and was unwilling to return it to Setara Danjiro. He also got into a dispute with Setara Danjiro and pushed Setara Danjiro down the staircase. Finally, he also disguised himself as robbers, attacked and committed robbery, killing Setara Danjiro and his wife. He also agreed with his third younger brother, Setara Genjiro, and his wife to collude and falsify things together, and told the outside world that the violin was given to him by Setara Danjiro.
Haga Kyosuke's mother was weak due to illness. Due to being overworked from taking care of her husband, who was severely injured from being beaten by robbers, she died one step ahead. Afterwards, his father, whom he couldn't save, also passed away.
That year, Haga Kyosuke was only two years old. After the incident, he was adopted by people from his mother's side and changed his surname to 'Haga'.
After Setara Choichiro and Setara Genjiro obtained that violin, they also seemed to be cursed. No matter who used it to perform, there would be a little problem. Either the strings kept breaking, or they fell ill, or they got tenosynovitis due to excessive practice. So, that violin was sealed away by Setara Choichiro.
Until today two years ago, on Setara Choichiro's birthday, Setara Genjiro's wife proposed to use that violin to perform and even asked Haga Kyosuke, this genius with absolute pitch, to help tune it. As soon as Haga Kyosuke heard it, he recognized that this was the violin his deceased father had once given him. Then it was absolutely impossible for his father to give it to Setara Choichiro as a birthday gift again.
Under Haga Kyosuke's questioning, Setara Genjiro's wife told the truth about falsifying the robbery that year, but accidentally stepped wrongly on the staircase and fell down.
And on today last year, Setara Kōjin, Setara Renxi's father and Haga Kyosuke's cousin, also fell from upstairs when planning to use that violin to perform.
Haga Kyosuke made a discovery. Starting from his deceased mother, the names of the deceased people in this family afterwards all had a pattern. The first letter of his mother's name 'Chinami' in Romaji was C. Afterwards, his father Danjiro was D. The Third Aunt who fell down the staircase two years ago had a name starting with E. Setara Kōjin, who fell to his death last year, who was Haga Kyosuke's cousin and Setara Renxi's father, was F.
If the musical scale is represented by English letters, it is CDEFGAB. In German, it is CDEFGAH. The deceased people are exactly sorted according to the musical scale.
In this family, there is also Setara Genjiro, whose name starts with G, Setara Ayane, whose name starts with A, and Haga Kyosuke himself, whose name starts with H. Plus Setara Choichiro, whose name starts with C, they can exactly form a CDEFGAHC cycle.
So Haga Kyosuke wanted to kill the remaining people according to the musical scale, including himself. And Setara Choichiro had cancer and only had half a year left to live, so he had to complete his own plan on Setara Choichiro's birthday this year.
Finally, he would naturally be seen through and exposed by Conan, who ran over...
Thinking from his angle, he of course didn't hope Haga Kyosuke would murder. It would be a real pity if such a genius, who could help the company adjust sheet music and talk about music with him, died.
Anyway, Setara Ayane was already crazy because of her son's death, and Setara Choichiro was also about to die from cancer. Although Setara Genjiro was still lively, there was no need to rush to seek revenge and insist on killing people according to the musical scale order, committing a crime despite the risks.
But this is just thinking from his angle. He thinks lightly, but Haga Kyosuke might not think it's light.
That incident at Morizono Kikuto's family was a misunderstanding. The old butler had always been considerate of Kikuto Morizono. If they communicated well, the knot would be untied. But Haga Kyosuke's matters were much more complex. Not to mention that revenge for killing parents was originally very difficult to resolve, Haga Kyosuke was only two years old in the year his parents died. If he didn't have any special history afterwards, he shouldn't be so obsessive, obsessive to the point of even including himself in the death list, obsessive to the point of disregarding all those years of glory, achievements, and friends.
If he couldn't figure out where Haga Kyosuke's obsession was in his heart, it simply couldn't be resolved.
Asking directly was also useless. If Haga Kyosuke intended to murder, he would hide it. If he could truly be honest, then there would be no need for him to persuade, which would indicate that Haga Kyosuke had already given up.
And if Haga Kyosuke was just too sentimental, then it would be even harder to persuade. He had no confidence in his 'Persuasion Skill'.
So he refused to accept the bamboo flute twice.
Haga Kyosuke went in and even left a flute for him, wandering around under his nose all day. Wasn't that making him recall memories?
When he thinks of Haga Kyosuke, he will naturally go visit, but he would rather this flute be burned in the annex building than take it back.
End of Chapter
