Start By Becoming A Mangaka
chapter-636

Yuuki pressed the last note of this song and let out a sigh of relief. He was quite satisfied with his performance earlier but he still needed to train again.

*clap clap clap.

"Bravo!" Hans said. He is an organ tuner from Germany that is managing the organ of this concert hall.

Yuuki smiled and talked with them for a bit. He still thought that it wasn't that perfect yet in his opinion.

Domoto told him that he could practice later, this time he would show him his performance.

Yuuki nodded and walked to the audience seat. He walked toward them and he felt strange when he saw an open seat between both Reiko and Rossweisse. He saw that Rossweisse tried to stop Uomi from saying something. He didn't think much and sat there.

"Your songs are pretty good," Reiko said.

Yuuki looked at her with a weird expression.

"What?" Reiko asked.

"It feels weird when you say something like that to me," Yuuki said.

"....."

Reiko twitched her lips.

"So are you changing your impression on me?" Yuuki asked.

"No," Reiko said and turned without looking at him again.

Yuuki only shrugged his shoulders. He turned his head and saw that both Rossweisse and Uomi were still in the fight against each other. He decided to focus his attention on the stage and saw the performance of Domoto while trying to imagine himself playing there. Even though he was forced to do this job, he still would do his job seriously.

Yuuki closed his eyes while reminiscing about the piece that had been played by Domoto. He could feel that it was really nice and he had an idea to perform better later. He saw that one of his disciples who were violinists decided to perform together but the result was quite bad. He saw that the woman was quite nervous. He knew that this woman was quite nervous since she was a substitute since the real player was hurt because of the explosion before.

*cut

The string on the violin was cut suddenly, "I'm sorry, I will change it right away." She said and ran to the staff room.

"My my... I wonder if I'll even get to sing today," Reiko said and stood up. She turned toward the man who was talking with his girlfriends. She didn't think much and walked to the powder room.

"You're not going after her?" Rossweisse asked, but her expression was quite fierce.

"No, there is no way that I will do that," Yuuki shook his head.

"....."

Rossweisse and Uomi felt a bit dumbfounded.

Yuuki turned and saw that Kogorou was talking with the group of police. He also saw that Conan was trying to eavesdrop on their conversation but failed and was hit by Kogorou. He shook his head and suddenly heard someone calling him.

"Yuuki-ni!!!!"

Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayami were very excited when they met him.

"Genta, how is it? Do you still have bad luck?" Yuuki said.

"No, of course not, I'm fine right now," Genta said and looked at the organ, "But this is very huge!?"

"Yeah, it's not just big but also very beautiful," Mitsuhiko said.

"It's amazing, right?" Genya said when he saw they were amazed by the organ.

"Hey, how do pipe organs make a sound?" Ayami asked.

"The principle behind the sound production here is the same as with the recorders you play at school," Genya said and pointed his finger, "Look, there are a lot of pipes lined up together, aren't there? Just like when you blow into a recorder, the sound is produced when air passes through each of these pipes."

"Air?" Ayumi was confused.

"But there aren't any holes in those pipes like on the recorder!" Genta said.

"That's right, for a recorder, you cover the holes with your fingers in order to produce notes of different pitches, but for a pipe organ...." Genya said and showed them how to play the organ. He also showed them that each pipe would produce a different sound. He also showed them 'stops' the switch-like thing that was on the side of the organ. He showed them that when he pulled that 'stop' it would produce a different sound again, sometimes it was similar to a trumpet, flute, or saxophone.

"Organists use a combination of all these sounds to add variety to their performance," Genya said.

'Hmm,' Yuuki thought that his performance was a bit dull and thought that he could add a variety effect later.

They were amazed by this organ and asked a lot of questions.

"Your play was a bit stiff earlier," Haibara said.

"Yeah, I know that I need time to adjust my performance," Yuuki nodded and loved her straight forward personality.

They were talking to each other until suddenly.

"Now, time for the long-awaited quiz!" Agasa said while raising his finger.

"Eh?"

Everyone looked at him with an interesting expression.

Uomi and Rossweisse were also interested in his quiz.

"A certain opera singer had a sore throat and was waiting for an operation, however, they decided against the operation and got better after taking a pill they got from an old man, and now, from the following options, who was the singer?" Agasa said and added, "1. Soprano; 2. Alto; 3. Tenor; 4. Bass." He had a smug expression and waited for their answer.

They started to think about the answer with struggling expression.

"Is he always having this kind of fun quiz?" Uomi asked.

'Fun....'

Conan, Haibara, and Yuuki were a bit speechless.

"Sometimes, this is also his hobby," Haibara said.

"Can you give us a hint, professor?" Ran asked.

Agasa nodded, "Yes, how do you say 'operation' in English?"

"Operation," Haibara said and added, "We usually just say 'ope'."

"And also, it's an old man's pill, right?" Conan said.

"Yuuki, do you know the answer?" Rossweisse asked.

Yuuki nodded, "Of course...."

"Number one."

Yuuki and Reiko who suddenly joined the quiz said at the same time.

"The answer is number one: Soprano," Reiko said and added, "An opera singer who gave up on an operation, so you take away 'ope' from 'opera', leaving 'ra', a 'pill' is some medicine that's small and round, thus, the 'old man's pill' means using a small circle with the word 'sofu' (grandfather), when you combine that with the 'ra' from before.."

"Soprano," Uomi and Rossweisse nodded at the same time. Both of them thought that this quiz was quite fun for them.

Reiko smiled and said, "How stupid."

Agasa heard it couldn't help but twitch his lips, "You're right, but you didn't have to say it was stupid..."