Moonlight Sonata Plan

That afternoon, on the sea bound for Moonlight Island, a ferry sailed through the fog.

The horn blared as Fujino stood at the bow in a black vest suit, letting the sea breeze wash over him. His thoughts drifted endlessly.

At noon, right after he accepted the task, five hundred thousand yen had suddenly appeared in his system account.

There was no need to think about it. It had to be the commission fee from the "mysterious person" who had hired him to investigate the truth behind Aso Keiji's death.

Originally, he had planned to head to Moonlight Island tomorrow.

But after asking around at the dock, Fujino learned from the boatman that the ferry to Moonlight Island only ran once every two days, so he hurried aboard.

After all, if he missed this one, he would have to wait another two days.

The System Task gave him three days. If he did not board today, then after two days, he would only have one day left. That definitely would not be enough time to complete the task.

As for school, he had already called Hiratsuka Shizuka to let her know he was safe.

That woman was somewhat reckless and had an impressively deep cleavage, but when it came to caring for her students, she truly had no equal.

After learning that Fujino had taken leave, she used force to threaten a certain school doctor into granting Fujino a long leave of absence on medical grounds.

He could come back whenever he wanted, as long as he did not push things too far.

When it came to getting things done, that woman really did have something in common with Fujino.

To be honest, Fujino was a little touched by her thoughtfulness.

She was just a bit too violent.

Moonlight Island village police station.

After getting off the ferry, Fujino did not run to the village office and ask questions everywhere like that idiot Mouri-niisan.

Instead, he went to the island's police station and started making small talk with the only elderly police officer there.

During their chat, so as not to alert the enemy, Fujino disguised himself as a university student majoring in music who had come to Moonlight Island for sightseeing. He claimed that he was there to seek traces of the famous musician Aso Keiji.

At the mention of Aso Keiji, Moonlight Island's former glory, even the aged police officer proudly lifted his head and began recounting his past achievements.

Aso Keiji had been born on Moonlight Island and gone on to the world stage. Before he was forty, he had already become one of the foremost performers, the pride of everyone on the island.

But twelve years ago, an accident suddenly occurred. Aso Keiji, who had returned to Moonlight Island to hold a concert, went home after the performance, locked the door, and set himself on fire.

He first killed his family with a knife, then seemingly helplessly played piano music inside the house until he was burned alive, leaving behind only sheet music locked in a safe.

By the end of the story, the pride in the old officer's eyes had gradually faded, finally turning into regret as he sighed.

Just as Aso Keiji had died in the blazing flames, the island's future had also fallen into a dark standstill...

Upon hearing about the sheet music, Fujino's heart stirred slightly, and he immediately asked to pay his respects to Aso Keiji's music...

Naturally, the old officer agreed.

That afternoon, inside a hotel on Moonlight Island.

"With this, things will be much easier..."

Fujino flipped through the sheet music he had photographed on his phone, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.

Although he could not understand sheet music, he knew its contents perfectly well.

This score recorded evidence of the Moonlight Island drug trafficking ring's crimes from back then, as well as a list of its members.

The current village chief, Kuroiwa Tatsuji; the island's richest man, Kawashima Hideo; former village chief Kameyama Isamu; and Nishimoto Ken, who had once come from a wealthy family, were all key members of the criminal organization.

And if Fujino remembered correctly, the current village chief's secretary, Hirata Kazuaki, was also a member of the criminal organization. He was a lackey responsible for transporting drugs from overseas to the island.

Calling him a lackey was not entirely accurate, though. After all, he both transported and sold drugs, standing on equal footing with the island's drug lords.

"Sending drug traffickers to prison is a little troublesome."

Fujino put away his phone, walked to the window, and looked out over the island's scenery as he quietly pondered.

This time, his task was to solve the suicide case from twelve years ago.

That case itself was easy enough. The one million was practically his for the taking.

The difficult part was sending those drug lords to prison.

To call the police, he first had to gather enough evidence to secure convictions.

In other words, he would most likely have to confront the drug trafficking ring on Moonlight Island directly.

Fujino was not particularly confident about dealing with vicious criminals.

So on the way here, he had been thinking of a plan to divide and conquer them.

Only after obtaining the sheet music just now had he finally perfected that plan.

The preliminary name of the plan was: "Moonlight Sonata Plan."

That night, Fujino began to act.

After sneaking along a side path to the community center, he began staking out the small woods nearby.

If the information he had gotten from the island's intelligence network—that is, the aunties chatting outside the Convenience Store—was correct, Hirata Kazuaki should have just returned from overseas.

And according to Fujino's guess, since Hirata Kazuaki had gone abroad, he must have gone to purchase drugs. That meant he would come to make a transaction within the next couple of days.

The trading location was the piano at the island's community center—the hidden compartment Aso Keiji had made twelve years ago while helping transport drugs from overseas.

At midnight, the moon was full, and cicadas clinging to the trees cried out one after another.

"Damn it, why hasn't that guy shown up yet?"

Fujino crouched in the woods and glanced at the time on his phone. He frowned and muttered in confusion, "Could it be that he won't come to trade tonight?"

After waiting a while longer and seeing that nothing was happening, he sighed and prepared to go back to sleep.

But just as he was about to leave, a figure appeared in the distance.

Seeing this, Fujino quickly hid himself and aimed his camera at the figure not far away.

Under the faint moonlight, the figure gradually came into view.

It was a middle-aged man in a beige suit, wearing rimless glasses, with an honest and simple-looking face.

Clearly, this was Fujino's target for the night: Hirata Kazuaki.

Do not let that honest appearance fool you.

In reality, he was a core member of the island's drug trafficking ring.

After arriving at the community center, Hirata Kazuaki first looked around. Once he confirmed that no one was there, he entered the piano room, pulled out a bag of White Powder from his inner pocket, and placed it into the piano's hidden compartment.

After breathing a sigh of relief, he walked back out of the community center.

Only after looking around and confirming that nothing was amiss did he whistle and leave the scene as if nothing had happened.

Meanwhile, in the woods nearby, Fujino held up his phone and silently recorded everything.

Only after Hirata Kazuaki had left did he reveal himself. He strolled into the community center, opened the piano compartment, shoved his phone's camera beneath the hidden space, and filmed the entire bag of White Powder stored inside.

He turned off the camera mode on his phone.

Fujino examined the evidence he had just obtained, and a cold smile curled across his lips.

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