Conan's other me

Chapter 116 The Stranger Ten Years Later (End)
Hui Yuanai couldn't help but groaned in pain.

"Haibara, what's wrong with you?" Ayumi was a little worried. In her sight, Haibara Ai was holding her forehead, her breathing was a little heavy, and her face was a little ugly.

"It's okay..." The sudden pain came and went quickly, Hui Yuanai quickly recovered, "It's okay..."

Conan on the other side continued to discuss the case with the Megure Police Department.

"What does this line refer to?" Mumu Police Department bent down a little bit with difficulty, looking at the writing at the hand of the deceased, "I don't understand..."

"This means 'I love you' in German. Combined with what I just said, it may be related to the lover she is going to meet."

"However, if you want to leave a message of death, you should try to leave the murderer's name..." Conan continued, "Now it's like using your life to confess..."

"That--"

"I think," Conan interrupted Megure's police department, "this may be the message left by the murderer..."

"But it's even more strange, isn't it?" Mitsuhiko said, "The police already think these are suicides. Wouldn't it be superfluous to do this?"

"That's right," Meguro Police Department said, "If you look at it this way, it's more likely to be suicide..."

"A person who has multiple lovers after marriage, not only commits suicide, but also spends so much effort to express her love in German?" Conan vetoed, "What's more, from the perspective of dress, she is a very particular person."

"In addition, there are mud marks on her right heel and calf, but not on her left. Judging from the mud marks, she should be pulling a box with wheels in her right hand..."

"Where's the box?" Megure Police Department turned to look at Takagi and Sato.

"Eh?" Takagi was stunned for a moment, "No..."

"We didn't see the box when we arrived," Sato said.

"This means that there is another person at the scene, and he took the box. This may be a crimson box...It means that this is a serial killing incident..."

Hui Yuanai didn't listen.

The vague sense of déjà vu made her feel a little strange, and everything she experienced after waking up made her feel very strange.

She rubbed her temples, trying to wake herself up.In fact, she wants to find someone to talk to now...

But Kudo still squatted beside the corpse to check for clues...

Stupid reasoning maniac, go live with your reasoning for the rest of your life.

Hui Yuanai thought to himself, feeling increasingly depressed.

The on-site investigation came to an end soon.Apart from confirming that these cases are serial murders, they have made no other progress-at least the police, Ayumi and others think so.

On the way back, to Haibara's surprise, Edogawa also became extremely silent like Kudo, and even Ayumi, who took a car back with him, didn't respond to his conversation.

The group went straight back to the club classroom of the detective group.

Here, Haibara Ai has a fixed seat.But she felt that there was no place for her here - Kudo still hadn't said a word to her.

There was a moment of silence in the classroom.

Conan sat in his seat, his face darkened, and he said abruptly after a while: "I already have some ideas."

"what?"

"Really? Conan?"

Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko looked over in surprise, and Conan nodded solemnly.

Hui Yuanai lowered his head and didn't look over, but he was still listening.

"I think the thing is like this," Conan reasoned, "the murderer actually took a gun and forced the dead to take poison."

"Yes!" Mitsuhiko suddenly realized.

"So judging from the traces at the scene, the deceased took the poison themselves. The case on the side of the road was also deliberately designed. The murderer deliberately let the deceased take the poison at the place where the camera could only photograph the back of the deceased, creating a The dead are the illusion of suicide.

In addition, the deceased all died of taking poison, but no trace of poison could be found in the body. "

"I have an impression of this drug," Conan was silent for a moment, "APTX4869."

...?
Haibara Ai froze for a moment, then looked at Conan in disbelief.

Even though ten years have passed, the organization has not been destroyed. It is right not to tell people like Ayumi who have nothing to do with the organization.

But Edogawa said it here without any scruples...

Haibara Ai subconsciously looked at Fengyuan, and then looked at Ayumi and the others. What was even more surprising to her was that they didn't seem to have any special reaction to Conan's mention of the name of the drug.

"This is completely in line with the characteristics of APTX4869," Conan said. "This drug was developed ten years ago and has been used for murder many times. Except for the group of black organizations, only Huiyuan can make this kind of drug." drug."

Hearing this, Hui Yuanai couldn't help but frowned, as if this kind of rhetoric was done by himself...

"That's right. The murderer of this serial murder," Conan paused, "is you, Haibara."

"…Eh?"

"What are you talking about, Conan!"

"How is it possible!" Mitsuhiko shouted loudly, "Conan, don't make such a joke——"

"Listen to me!" Conan suddenly shouted.Some impatient Ayumi and the others froze for a moment.

He continued with everyone's confused eyes, his voice trembling slightly:

"Even if they are pointed at by a gun, no one will obediently take a poison that will kill them. But if the probability of death is only half of the poison, it is not necessarily so.

I think, Haibara, you are holding an anesthesia needle gun made by a doctor, pretending to be a real gun, forcing the dead to go to a place where no one is around, and then taking out two APTX4869 pills, telling the other party that only one of them is poisonous, you and the other party Take one of each.

As long as you tell the other party to choose, between the shooting and half the chance of survival, the deceased will choose to take the poison...

But this is actually a trick.Since you have been experimenting with the medicine all these years, APTX4869 has no effect on you for a long time, and you will be fine if you take it, so in fact, the two pills are fatal to the deceased.

The only ones who can do this trick are you and me. "

Just...me and Edogawa?

On the other side Conan went on to say:

"These days, when the case happened, Huiyuan, you have been making excuses to develop the antidote and you just happened to be away... But since five years ago, we can never go back, there is no need to continue to develop the antidote...

In today's case, you happened to be away because of a cold.However, in today's case, you exposed a lot of doubts.

The deceased was wearing your favorite crimson, I think that's why you chose her as a target... and the line left by the deceased..."

"That's German. Why, it's about me, too?"

Hui Yuanai said coldly, feeling a little irritable.A strong sense of incongruity enveloped her heart, which made her feel that everything that happened was very strange.

And then, things got even weirder.

"That means 'I love you' in German. The deceased was a native Japanese, why did she use German in particular?
If you left it on purpose, it would make sense.

Haibara, Einstein is your idol, right?I remember when we were kids we went to the Kamen Rider movies and you always wanted to see Einstein's Glorious and Distressed Days.And as it happens, Einstein was German-American..."

"You call this reasoning?" Hui Yuanai interrupted coldly.

"...I have evidence."

After a moment of silence, Conan opened his tightly held hand and showed everyone what was in his hand, "A hair fell from the clothes of the deceased, Huiyuan. A slightly reddish brown hair."

"And after we arrived at the scene, you haven't been there." Conan fell silent after finishing speaking.

"Just because of this?"

"She is not necessarily the only one with this hair color!"

"That's right, Conan, you can also dye your hair! And maybe someone else framed it..."

"But the only ones who can get in touch with Huiyuan and get her hair are us and the doctor, aren't they?"

"Hey! No matter what, it's impossible for Huiyuan to—"

"enough!"

Hui Yuanai said suddenly, and the messy room fell silent instantly.She was silent for a while, then looked at Fengyuan who had been silent by the side, "Gong... Fengyuan, you just keep looking at it like this? Don't you have anything to say?"

The person in front of him didn't respond.

For a moment, it seemed that even the sound of breathing could not be heard.

A strong sense of foreboding suddenly arose in Hui Yuanai's heart.

"...Maplehara? Who is that?"

The mind went blank for a moment.Haibara Ai looked blankly at Ayumi who had just spoken, and then looked back at the place where Fengyuan was standing just now...

But there was no one there.

How could it be, he was still there just now...

"...Your hysteria strikes again, Huiyuan."

Conan broke the silence again, "It was like this ten years ago, when we met Gin's car by chance and went to Cup House Hotel to catch Pisco... That was the first time you mentioned the name of this non-existent person...

I think that's why you left 'I love you' in German on purpose because of this...you fantasize about someone who doesn't exist and fall in love with him.

But as time goes by, you feel more and more wrong...that's why this serial murder case..."

"Go and surrender, Haibara." After a pause, Conan continued to persuade.

People who don't exist at all...?
Huihara Ai looked around the classroom blankly, but there was no place to hide people here.Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko were looking at her with three-point distressed and seven-point worried eyes.

No wonder there is no trace of his life in the doctor's house...

No wonder he didn't respond to himself calling him...

No wonder I followed him into the activity room, but the door was closed tightly...

No wonder he didn't have any interaction with other people in the activity room and at the scene of the crime...

"Are you kidding..."

She turned her head and walked out of the classroom, no one stopped her.Then she walked out of the school gate and into the street.

Thunder pierced the sky.

The weather changed as soon as it changed, and thunder struck in a blink of an eye, as if it was about to rain.Pedestrians on the side of the road quickened their pace to avoid the rain, Hui Yuanai was at a loss and walked aimlessly alone.

It's like the day she went to meet Kudo Shinichi...but she still had some hope that day...

Her nose was a little sore, and tears rolled in her eyes, but she fought back.She didn't know how long she had been walking, and she didn't even feel that she was wet from the rain... When she raised her head, she noticed that she had come to a familiar place.

The lookout restaurant in the central building of Mihua City.

Compared with ten years ago, the decoration of the lookout restaurant in front of me has become a little more luxurious, but the seats don't seem to have changed much.The seat in her impression was still vacant, so she ignored the waiter at the entrance and walked over on her own.

She didn't have an appointment, and the waiter seemed to want to persuade her to leave, but Hui Yuanai ignored her, pulled out the chair and sat down.

The girl who looked like a high school student in front of her was surprisingly silent, with a hint of despair on her delicate face, which made the waiter swallow the words that wanted to persuade her to leave.

After hesitating for a while, she walked away to discuss with the manager, hoping to let the girl sit here for a while.

Hui Yuan Ai was able to sit quietly without any interruption, and couldn't help recalling the events ten years ago.

At that time, Kudo was sitting opposite her, looking at him with soft eyes, telling himself about his father's proposal to his mother...

In the end, he seemed to have changed his tone of storytelling, deliberately paused, and said that sentence to himself...

That sentence…

As that sentence surfaced in his mind, Hui Yuan Ai felt his memory churning.After waking up, the strange places flashed in my mind one by one...

The words engraved by the deceased seemed to be a reminder to her...

Hui Yuan Ai's heart seemed to be beating again, and gradually accelerated.

As if she had received some kind of revelation, she closed her eyes tightly, and then read softly:

"Ich liebe dich."

In fairy tales, as long as you read the corresponding spell, your wish will come true.

She repeated it over and over, then opened her eyes expectantly and nervously.Then, the tears that originally swirled in the eyes could no longer be restrained, and fell down.

In front of her, it was exactly the same as ten years ago, the familiar Kudo was sitting opposite her, looking at her softly.

This look was exactly the same as the way Kudo looked at her when she was lying drunk on the sofa that day, and he gave her a completely different feeling from the Kudo she saw after waking up today.

"Kudou..." Haibara Ai yelled in a low voice, so small that only she could hear it.

"I'm here."

The world suddenly shattered like a mirror.

(End of this chapter)